‘Pelosi Index’ synchs Mitchell with Pelosi 67%

The new Pelosi Index website has ranked Congressman Harry Mitchell with a score of 67% on nine critical votes. When it comes to all votes as the “Pelosi Unity Team,” Mitchell has actually voted 80.8% of the time with Nancy Pelosi. The most egregious votes (as recorded by the Pelosi Index) are listed here:

HR 1 – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – 2/13/2009:
The massive $787 billion so called “Stimulus Bill” was rushed through both chambers of Congress before anyone had an opportunity to read it. A bill that was designed to spur economic recovery through shovel ready projects has done nothing but grow the government. The legislation passed without any GOP support. – Mitchell Voted YES

HR 2 – S-CHIP – 1/14/2009:
This $33 billion bill is a massive expansion of government run health insurance which goes far beyond the original scope of the program. Originally this program created in 1997 was implemented to help poor children. This legislation would expand its reach, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), to 50% higher-income children and massively increases the number of adults eligible. Additionally it will open the program to illegal immigrants. This government run healthcare bill imposes a 61-cent tax increase on tobacco products, which disproportionately impacts poor working families and is declining source of revenue. – Mitchell Voted YES

HR 11 – Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – 1/9/2009:
This Act hands a major victory to trial lawyers by allowing pay discrimination lawsuits to proceed years or even decades after any alleged discrimination took place. This hand out to the plaintiffs bar will result in higher labor cost, lower wages and loss jobs. The legislation creates a new litigious business model of trolling for decades old employee complaints. The bill also redefined “discrimination” and opens businesses up to lawsuits beyond outright discrimination and covers even unintentional acts. – Mitchell Voted YES

Stupak Anti-Funding of Abortion Amendment – 11/7/2009:
The Stupak amendment was added to the Pelosi’s government takeover of Health Care legislation (HR-3962) to ban federal funds from being used for abortions. Pelosi and her liberal allies fought hard against this amendment and lost. The amendment passed despite 194 Democrats including Pelosi voting against its passage. Speaker Pelosi allowed the amendment to be offered on the House floor because it was the only way she could muster enough votes to pass her version of Obamacare. Despite this amendment passing, it is likely that it will be stripped out through legislative maneuvers before going final. – Mitchell Voted NO

HR 3962 – Affordable Health Care for America Act – 11/7/2009:
The Pelosi version of Obamacare represents a $1.3 trillion government takeover of the health care system that will raise insurance premiums, increase the overall cost of healthcare and raise taxes. The legislation includes more than $729 billion in new taxes and is riddled with budget gimmicks that attempt to mask the true fiscal impact on the American people. The legislation is falsely touted to lower health care costs. Even the Obama Administration has reported that this legislation actually increases costs by $289 billion over the next decade. – Mitchell Voted YES

HR 3961 – Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 – 12/19/2009:
The legislation known as the “doctor fix” is nothing more than a budgetary gimmick being used to lower the over all price of Pelosi’s government run healthcare package (HR-3962). The legislation will add more than $200 billion to the federal deficit and debt. Speaker Pelosi chose to remove the cost of this bill from the Obamacare package passed by the House to cosmetically lessen its overall cost. This is pure and simple a $200 billion legislative hoodwink that will be added to the American taxpayer’s tab. – Mitchell Voted YES