Barrow Votes Against Deficit Reduction; Supports Medicaid For Illegal Aliens

November-18, 2005

Barrow Votes Against Deficit Reduction; Supports Medicaid For Illegal Aliens

(SYLVANIA, GA) -- After months of keeping a scoreboard outside his congressional office with daily updates on the rising federal debt, Athens Congressman John Barrow voted against reducing the federal budget deficit in a key House vote early this morning. ?

Max Burns, candidate for Georgia's New 12th District, blasted Barrow for failing to live up to his promises to reduce government spending, and called on Barrow to explain his opposition to the bill and for voting against legislation that would protect Georgia Medicaid funding from theft by illegal aliens.

"The federal budget is in dire trouble, and every single person I've spoken to in our district, Democrat and Republican, is urging that Congress enact immediate spending reductions, which is precisely what John Barrow has been promising the voters," said Burns. "Yet here was nearly $50 billion in savings, including new protections for Georgia Medicaid against fraud by illegal aliens, and John Barrow votes against it. This is just one more in a long line of Barrow flip-flops on the issues, and is prime evidence of why we need honest, southeast Georgia representation in Congress."

Burns has committed to holding the line on taxes and working to reduce the federal deficit when he returns to Congress. The former 12th District Congressman has specifically pledged to sponsor and vote for new constitutional amendments to create a line-item veto, and to legally mandate a balanced federal budget.

"John Barrow needs to explain why he says one thing in Georgia, but does another while in Washington," said Burns. "John Barrow campaigned on restoring fiscal sanity in Washington and even bragged that his first speech before the House would be on deficit reduction, but when the time came to fight, he instead chose his party leadership over the people of his district, voting in lock-step with his boss, liberal San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi."

"Southeast Georgians simply deserve to know how John Barrow -- who is now planning a move to Savannah to run in our new Congressional district -- can claim to be fiscally responsible when he stands with Washington liberals and opposes efforts to cut spending in a bloated, federal budget," says Burns.

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