Wednesday, May 14, 2014

RINOs lies....again!---------Does tea party favorite Justin Amash vote more often with Democrats or Republicans?

Does tea party favorite Justin Amash vote more often with Democrats or Republicans? | PolitiFact:
So where does Rogers’ claim come from?
Rogers spokeswoman had no response but forwarded our request to Amash’s challenger Ellis. They noted that in 2012, a Congressional Quarterly analysis found Amash’s votes put him on the same side of President Barack Obama 51 percent of the time.
It’s an interesting tidbit, but it won’t help Rogers on the Truth-O-Meter.
The analysis only looked at 61 votes that year where Obama had a stated position.
It includes many consequential bills, but it’s just a fraction of the total votes taken in 2012. Further, in 2011 and 2013, Amash was opposite Obama 75 percent of the time.
But it did help us find a few interesting examples of Amash voting with Obama’s favored positions.
For example, Amash voted "no" on a GOP bill in 2012 that would have extended lower rates for student loans and pay for it with cuts to Obamacare. It passed the House despite a veto threat from Obama.
On his Facebook page, Amash said he sided against it because he didn’t believe the cuts covered the cost of lowering student loan rates.
Also in 2012, he voted against Republicans on a bill to replace across-the-board spending cuts (the so-called "sequester") with other more targeted cuts, while lifting spending caps on the military. Obama, instead, wanted to replace the sequester with tax increases and cut in other ways; Amash said he opposed the Republican proposal because it increased spending.

More recently, Amash was one of just three Republicans (and 20 lawmakers in total) not to vote for more sanctions against Iran last July.
At the time, the Obama administration was asking for some leeway from Congress to approach the newly elected Iranian regime with alternatives.
Amash later said of his vote: "If our goal is peaceful reform within Iran, it would be wise to give the new president an opportunity to talk before turning to new threats."
But again, these are a relatively small number of high-profile votes.
Congressional Quarterly found Amash never voted with his party less than 85 percent of the time in a given year.
Our ruling
Rogers said Amash "votes more with the Democrats than with the Republicans." Rogers didn’t back up his claim, but we found two sources that showed that Amash has sided with Republicans upward of 80 percent of the time. That may be lower than many of his colleagues, and we found found a few high-profile examples of his voting against his own party. But by the numbers, he votes far more often with Republicans than Democrats.
We rate Rogers’ statement False.

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