Wednesday October 01, 2008
(North Conway, NH) – Shaheen for Senate responded to John Sununu's statements in this morning's debate in North Conway that "we balance budgets by controlling spending" and that he supports cutting spending.
"John Sununu talking about cutting spending is like Popeye talking about eating less spinach," said Kate Bedingfield, communications director for Jeanne Shaheen for Senate. "During his years in Congress, John Sununu has supported reckless spending, voting for every single Bush budget and doubling our national debt to almost $10 trillion dollars. He has voted to giveaway billions of taxpayer dollars to Big Oil – companies that are making the biggest profits in the history of business. He has voted for billions in tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. If we want real fiscal responsibility and accountability in Washington, we need a new Senator."
The Real Sununu Spending Record
Sununu Voted For All 6 of George Bush's Budgets, Doubling our National Debt to Almost $10 Trillion. [House Vote #104, 5/9/01; House Vote #79, 3/20/02; Senate Vote #108, 3/26/03; Senate Vote #58, 3/12/04; Senate Vote #81, 3/17/05; Senate Vote #74, 3/16/06]
Sununu Voted Four Times Against Allowing Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices that Could Save Taxpayers $30 Billion A Year. [Senate Vote #132, 4/18/07; Senate Vote #50, 3/15/06; Senate Vote #302, 11/3/05; Senate Vote #60, 3/17/05; Institute for America's Future, The Waste and Inefficiency of the Bush Prescription Drug Plan, 4/4/2007]
Sununu Voted for $45 Billion in Tax Breaks for Companies that Outsource Jobs. [Senate Vote #63, 3/17/05; Senate Vote #90, 5/11/2004]
Sununu Voted Against Cutting $17 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil and Gas to Fund Renewable Energy Research. [Senate Vote #146, 6/10/08]
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