Thirteen Republican U.S. House Members Vote for Infrastructure Bill

Posted on by November 5, 2021

On the evening of November 5, the U.S. House passed the infrastructure bill that had already passed the U.S. Senate months ago. Thirteen Republicans in the House voted for the bill, bucking their party’s leadership. They are Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Andrew Gabarino of New York, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, David McKinley of West Virginia, Tom Reed of New York, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Fred Upton of Michigan, Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, and Don Young of Alaska.

There are fourteen Republicans in the U.S. House from top-two states (Washington and California). There are also five Republicans in the U.S. House from Louisiana, a state in which (like the top-two states) there are no party nominees. Over and over, we are told that partisan primaries are the evil that causes polarization. Yet none of the 19 Republicans from the states without partisan congressional primaries voted for the Infrastructure bill.

Opponents of party primaries ought to take note.

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Thirteen Republican U.S. House Members Vote for Infrastructure Bill — 26 Comments

  1. I will be contributing to the primary challengers of the 13 who voted in favor of the infrastructure bill.

  2. TOTAL ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymander systems in the USA regime since day 1 –

    H REPS
    SENATE
    EC

    1/2 or less votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL

    Super-worse primary math.
    —
    NOOOOO primaries
    EQUAL ballot access
    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  3. The Republicans in the house and Senate that voted for this infrastructure bill should be ashamed of themselves. It’s wasteful and has very little infrastructure it!!

  5. Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey voted for it because Atlantic County (much of his district) is fairly heavily Democratic (which was he party until he decided to vote against Trump impeachment so he flipped parties). Atlantic County includes Pleasantville and Atlantic City; both heavily Democratic. He’s playing both sides to stay in power. If a more “conservative” Republican gets the nomination in that district they will lose to the Democrat.

  14. I’m not a Democrat; but, I don’t see anything wrong with the infrastructure bill. It goes to pay for safety of roads, bridges, water pipes, etc.

  15. These people don’t like their jobs. We are trying to live. The president is not doing anything to help us.just helps himself. People in these states that voted for this need vote them out.

  19. California Republican David Valadao has been relatively independent, even if he doesn’t vote with this particular block of Republicans quite as often, and not on this one.
    A couple of the Washington state Republicans voted for the Trump impeachment, and sensure of Marjorie Taylor Green.
    Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy has also been relatively independent.

    Christopher Smith of New Jersey is the closest congressman we have to the economically conservative wing of the American Solidarity Party. The rest of these New York and New Jersey Republicans are just centrist on everything.

  25. Since when did fascists start posting comments on this site? I would have figured they would be busy on 8chan.

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