Forward Kentucky: These KY Repubs voted AGAINST their state. Don't let them claim otherwise later.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Not surprisingly, these naysayers to the infrastructure bill are among the most anti-labor members of Congress. The AFL-CIO issues a legislative scorecard which shows how often a lawmaker votes in support of "issues important to working families." Legislators are rated on a scale of 0 to 100 percent. Here's how these five score: Barr, 10 percent since he's been in Congress; Comer, 12; Guthrie, 12; Massie, 20: Rogers, 16. Rep. John Yarmuth, Kentucky's sole Democrat on Capitol Hill, scores 98 percent. (Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul each score a 12.)
By BRUCE MAPLES
We’ve seen this movie before: Republicans vote AGAINST a bill to help their state, then show up in the state claiming credit for the great stuff their state is receiving.
Here we go again.
The U.S. House finally passed the first of the two infrastructure bills that make up the bulk of President Biden's legislative agenda. This was the “hard infrastructure” bill, with programs for roads and bridges, rural broadband, and lots of other good stuff. All the Dems in the House voted for it, along with a number of Republicans.