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For Immediate Release: February 13, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

Memo to Rest of America: Majority of Pennsylvanians DO NOT Agree with Senator Arlen Specter

(Harrisburg) – Tonight’s final 60-38 Senate vote to approve H.R. 1, the so-called ‘stimulus’ bill, was only possible because of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s lack of leadership. For this we apologize to America. According to the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide traditional values group, Senator Specter’s offices were inundated with calls from constituents asking him not to support the bill. The pressure from constituents placed on Senator Specter to vote ‘no’ on this bill was negated by the Democrats payback of $6.5 billion in medical research Specter wanted kept in the bill.

“Rather than tighten their fiscal ship, 306 elected officials in Washington, D.C. voted to strap our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with the debt to pay for their inability to control spending. Handing the largest spending bill in American history to the next several generations to pay off is immoral,” stated Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

As before all 176 House Republicans voted against the bill and only three Republican Senators (Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins) voted for it. In reality, all Senators and Congressmen who care about the future of America should have voted ‘no’ as none of them had read the entire 1,073 page bill. What future atrocities will be found hidden in its pages? How many more National Endowment for the Arts grants, federal employee cars, fish hatchery money and tax benefits for golf carts and ATVs are hidden in the bill?

“We are forgetting that it was not FDR’s government programs that got us out of the Great Depression, it was World War II. Sinking money into building roads and bridges, more food stamps and unemployment benefits will not stimulate the economy. Building and furnishing a new headquarters for Homeland Security will not fix the problem. We are in a hole and the only way to get out is to stop digging. The majority of legislators in Washington, D.C. apparently do not understand this concept,” Gramley noted.

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