Andy Harris Opposes Summer Spending Bill

Calls Legislation “Bad Policy”

SEVERNA PARK, Md. – Andy Harris spoke out Tuesday against Nancy Pelosi’s latest “stimulus” bill, which the House was summoned back to Washington to pass.

“Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats have an apparent addiction to spending and couldn’t even make it two weeks before they needed to pass more unfunded, unnecessary legislation,” said Andy Harris. “This bill is plain old bad policy, spending $26 billion the United States doesn’t have and cannot pay back. The last thing we need right now is more debt.”

Some, but not all, of the bad policies in the bill include:

$10 billion in tax increases
Breaking our promise to support Medicaid by allocating funds to the program without requiring states to spend the money on Medicaid or even health care.
$13.4 in billion reductions to the food stamp program and renewable energy projects.
Regulations on education that hinders the states’ abilities to govern and bring America one step closer to a nationalized education system.

“After spending nearly a trillion dollars on one 'stimulus' that proved to be ineffective, I can’t imagine how a single member of Congress would vote for this bill,” said Harris.

Andy Harris is a Republican candidate running for Maryland’s 1st Congressional District. Harris, a practicing physician, and his wife Cookie have five children. For more information, please visit http://andyharris.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=89d2d22042e1d9d8122535655&id=01c06e9fd4&e=1eafd646d9.