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Links Republican Party of Pennsylvania Republican Party of Centre County Toomey Videos Watch Video of Rep. Toomey urging his colleagues to support banning partial birth abortions. (October 2, 2003) Watch Video of Rep. Toomey addressing the importance of School Choice. (Sept. 5, 2003) Watch Video of Rep. Toomey introducing his taxpayer-friendly amendment to reduce federal spending. (July 25, 2003) Watch Video of Rep. Toomey introducing his amendment to eliminate funding to ridiculous federal projects. (July 10, 2003)
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Pat Toomey's voting record consistently reflects his strong conservative values, in stark contrast to his liberal opponent. Below is Pat's voting record during his time in the House of Representatives. For full clarification of Pat's stance on these issues and more, visit his website at www.PatToomey.org. On Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life Congressman
Pat Toomey believes that the most fundamental responsibility of government
is to defend and protect innocent human life—including the lives of
unborn children. Pat Toomey is pro-life and as a United States Senator, he
will continue to support pro-life legislation. Congressman Toomey has the
full support of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and the National
Right to Life.
On Conservative American Values
On Energy Policy
On Taxes Since he first arrived in
Congress, Pat Toomey has been one of the House of Representatives’
most consistent, articulate and effective advocates for reducing the
federal tax burden. Congressman Toomey believes our taxes are too
high—because the government spends too much. That is why Congressman
Toomey has never voted for a tax increase but has—at every
opportunity—voted to cut taxes. Congressman Toomey has not
settled for just voting to lower our taxes. As the Chairman of the
conservative Republican Study Committee’s Budget, Tax and
Appropriations Task Force, he has led the efforts in the House of
Representatives to expand and accelerate the implementation of President
Bush’s tax cuts. In fact, Congressman Toomey introduced a bill, H.R.
1018, which would have made the President’s tax cuts effective
immediately and would have lowered the tax on capital gains too.
Congressman Toomey’s leadership in pushing for larger tax cuts helped
to counter the liberals who wanted less. In the end, most of the
President’s requested tax relief was enacted. In addition to tax
relief, Congressman Toomey has worked for fundamental tax reform. He has
cosponsored H.R. 1040, the “Freedom and Fairness Restoration Act.”
This legislation scraps the entire current income tax code and would
require Congress to implement an honest, fair and simple flat tax or
national sales tax. Congressman Toomey’s lifetime grade with the
National Taxpayer Union is “A. ”
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On Health Care and Malpractice Reform Congressman Pat Toomey understands that the legal system
in many states is doing great harm to our healthcare system. Nowhere is
this more true than in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is losing hundreds of
wonderful doctors—most of whom have never lost a legal case—because
medical malpractice insurance has become unaffordable for almost all
doctors. Huge increases in the number of frivolous lawsuits, the total
number of awards, and the size of many awards have driven most
malpractice insurers out of our state while the rest have had to raise
their premiums exorbitantly. Medical facilities in the worst-hit areas
are closing their doors. We are already facing a full-blown crisis.
Congressman Toomey has been actively responding to this crisis. He was
the first member of congress in both the 107th and 108th (current)
Congress to introduce comprehensive medical malpractice reform
legislation. Based on the highly successful legislation California has
had for over 25 years, Congressman Toomey’s bill would, among other
things, impose reasonable caps on non-economic damages (pain and
suffering) in medical malpractice cases and it would limit a
defendant’s payment obligation to that share of an award determined by
the jury to be the defendant’s responsibility.
On National Defense Congressman Toomey believes that the first responsibility of the federal government is to protect the American people from foreign and domestic threats to our security. Without a secure society America could no longer be a free society. Therefore, Congressman Toomey is a strong supporter of increased spending on national defense and homeland security measures. Congressman Toomey has continually voted for and been a vocal supporter for a Ballistic Missile Defense system to defend Americans in their home from a rogue nation or terrorist missile attack. In addition, Congressman Toomey has been a great supporter of our men and women in uniform, pushing for pay raises and better facilities. He has taken a keen interest in making sure that veterans, such as his own father, get the benefits that they have been promised. As a member of the Budget Committee, Congressman Toomey sat on the Task Force on Concurrent Receipts, which developed a strategy to allow veterans to collect both their retirement benefit and any disability benefit that they are entitled.
On Social Security Congressman Pat Toomey recognizes
that Social Security is the largest, and one of the most important,
programs in the history of the United States federal government. He
understands that this program is too important to allow it to collapse.
That’s why Congressman Toomey has been urging his colleagues to reform
Social Security now—so that it will still be there when the baby
boomers and their children retire. The reforms Congressman Toomey
advocates would have no affect on those close to, or already in, their
retirement. People who played by the rules and paid into the system
their whole working lives simply must get all the benefits they were
promised—no ifs, ands, or buts—and Congressman Toomey is dedicated
to honoring the commitment made to America’s seniors. At the
same time, because the number of retirees collecting benefits is growing
far more rapidly than the number of taxpayers paying for those benefits,
Social Security is simply not sustainable in its current form.
Congressman Toomey wants to fix this problem by giving younger workers
the opportunity—on a voluntary basis—to place a portion of the
payroll taxes they are currently paying into personal investment
accounts which the individual worker would own and control. These
accounts would grow into very substantial savings over the 40-plus years
the average person works and they would provide a far more generous
retirement benefit than what Social Security currently promises—and
can’t deliver. The accounts would be professionally managed by
government-approved financial institutions that the individual worker
could select. The accounts would be diversified by asset class as well
as by sector, industry and company. Best of all, since individual
workers would own their own accounts, no politician could ever spend
that money on anything else. Unlike the current system, workers would
also be free to pass on some or all of their savings to their children.
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