A Note From Our Friends At National Taxpayer's Union
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 06:25PM
Subject: The Spending Proposed by New Hampshire's Congressional Delegation
to:
Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers
Not sure if this was the best email address to use, but it was all I was able to find on your website.
I thought you might be interested in the latest BillTally findings on New Hampshire’s delegation from our analysis of the 112th Congress. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the net cost of all of the spending and savings bills sponsored or cosponsored by each Member of Congress. We cross-index our database of cost estimates with each bill supported by each Member to calculate their net spending agenda (excluding overlapping/duplicate measures).
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Name
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Party
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Increases
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Decreases
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Net Spending Agenda
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# of Increases
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# of Decreases
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R
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$8,196
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($234,655)
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($226,459)
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15
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25
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D
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$31,992
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($647)
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$31,345
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48
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6
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R
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$3,121
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($34,656)
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($31,535)
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13
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8
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R
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$2,909
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($355,636)
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($352,727)
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14
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17
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Notes: The links in the names will open a detailed report of that Member’s sponsored bills that had cost estimates. Dollar figures are in millions.
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Among the states and territories, New Hampshire’s House delegation proposed, on net, to cut federal spending by an average of $192 billion. That was higher than all but 3 other House delegations in the country. Focusing exclusively on Republican delegations in the House, New Hampshire’s two Representatives proposed the 13th largest budget-reducing agendas. Both of New Hampshire’s House Representatives were “net cutters,” meaning that the legislation they sponsored would, on net, decrease federal spending if passed.
Congressman Frank Guinta’s net budget-cutting agenda of nearly $353 billion ranked as the 23rdhighest out of all U.S. Representatives, and the 35th highest out of the entire 112th Congress.New Hampshire’s Senate contingency proposed a net average cut agenda of just less than $98 billion, almost exactly matching the Senate-wide average. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s $31 billion in proposed spending increases was less than the $39 billion agenda supported by the average Senate Democrat. Her Republican colleague, Senator Kelly Ayotte, proposed just over $226 billion in budget cuts, which was less than the average Senate Republican agenda of $273 billion in cuts.
The full report contains lots of other data points, including the cost of all bills introduced in each Chamber and a look at fiscally-related member caucuses such as the Tea Party Caucus.
http://www.ntu.org/ntuf/52813_112th-congress-billtally-spending-report.html
http://www.ntu.org/on-capitol-hill/billtally/
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Demian Brady
Director of Research
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

