A Caution from Heritage Concerning Nan Hayworth

Last week, the House of Representatives passed a measure to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year and cut $61 billion in the process.

The bill was considered under an open amendment process, and there were hundreds of amendments offered and over a hundred votes cast over the span of a week.

This after-action report will look solely at the Congressional appetite to cut spending.

Heritage Action compiled all of the votes on the amendments that proposed to cut non-security spending.

Allow me to interrupt in order to reiterate: I believe we need to cut "security" spending as well as "social" spending."

We excluded amendments that proposed to shift spending from one program to another or sought to block various Obama policies - whether it be the many amendments to defund ObamaCare or turn off the EPA’s rule making authority.

For this exercise, we chose to look solely at the unambiguous spending cuts and to see how Congress did.

Key takeaways:

Forty-seven Members (all Republicans) showed a rock-solid willingness to cut spending by voting for every spending cut:

Amash, Bachmann, Broun, Campbell, Chabot, Chaffetz, Coffman, Duncan (TN), Duncan (SC), Flake, Fleming, Franks, Garrett, Gowdy, Graves (GA), Heller, Hensarling, Herger, Huelskamp, Huizenga, Hurt, Jenkins, Jordan, Lamborn, Mack, McClintock, McHenry, Miller (FL), Mulvaney, Myrick, Neugebauer, Paul, Pence, Pompeo, Price (GA), Ribble, Rokita, Royce, Scalise, Schweikert, Scott (GA), Scott (SC), Sessions, Walsh, Wilson, Woodall, and Young (IN).

Notice whose name is not on this list, folks...

(*SIGH*)

The following were the most reluctant Republicans to cut spending in descending order:

Reichert, LaTourette, Biggert, Gerlach, Simpson, Diaz-Balart, Smith (NJ), Bass, Frelinghuysen, Wolf, Wittman, Dent, Dold, Grimm, Kinzinger, Meehan, Stivers, and Young (FL).

As for Congresswoman Dr. Nan Hayworth (NY-19)...

According to Heritage Action, Dr. Hayworth presently has a rating of 86% with regard to unambiguous spending cuts.

Eighty-six percent ain't bad... it's a "B"... but a "B" ain't an "A."

Nan. You can do better. I expect you to do better!