Howard McKeon

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Rep. Howard 'Buck' McKeon, born in Los Angeles on September 9, 1938, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993. McKeon serves the 25th District of California.

McKeon graduated from Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, Los Angeles, CA. Educated at Brigham Young University, and was a business owner and member of the Santa Clarita Valley City Council before entering the House.

1 Committees
2 Voting Record
3 Fun Facts!
4 GovTrack link
5 External Links
6 Related areas

Committees

Ranking Member, House Committee on Education and Labor
Member, House Committee on Armed Services
- Member, House Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
- Member, House Subcommittee on Readiness

Voting Record

HOW MCKEON RESPONDS TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES

Rep. McKeon voted against cracking down on the oil and gas industries price gouging.
Rep. McKeon voted for the GOP energy bill that gave billions to oil, gas and nuclear industries.
Big oil and gas industries have given Rep. McKeon $17,500. Any surprise?

REP. MCKEON PUTS BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF AMERICAN WORKERS

Rep. McKeon voted to strip overtime protection from millions of workers.
Rep. McKeon voted to allow federal loans to American companies that have escaped paying U.S. taxes by moving offshore.

GOP "HEALTH CARE"

Big drug interests have given $23,850 to McKeon over the Representative's career. They know who their friends are.
Rep. McKeon voted for the GOP Medicare Prescription Drug Bill that will give billions to businesses and the health care industry, while forcing seniors to accept annual increases in premiums and deductibles and a growing gap in coverage for the prescription drugs they buy.

TIES WITH THE GOP LEADERSHIP

McKeon voted with President Bush 92% of the time.
McKeon voted the GOP party line 96% of the time.

TIES WITH TOM DELAY

McKeon has:

Voted to weaken House ethics rules when DeLay proposed doing so as GOP Majority Leader.
Voted to allow the GOP House Leader to continue to serve after an indictment, an apparent tactic to protect DeLay.
Voted with Tom DeLay 93% of the time (through 3/31/2006)

SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS

Rep. McKeon voted to continue awarding contracts to Halliburton even if the Pentagon's own audit processes found that more than $100 million of their contractor's costs in Iraq were unreasonable.
Rep. McKeon opposed expanding access to the military's TRICARE health insurance program to thousands of Reservist and National Guard members, even though 20 percent of all Reservists do not have health insurance, and 40 percent of Reservists aged 19 to 35 lack health coverage.

THE ENVIRONMENT

1,861 water systems in 29 states have been contaminated with MTBE, exposing as many as 45 million Americans to this potential carcinogen, but Rep. McKeon voted to protect the companies responsible from lawsuits by communities that need their help to clean up these systems.
Rep. McKeon voted against bipartisan reform of the Endangered Species Act.
Rep. McKeon voted for a massive sell off of public lands to mining interests.

HOW DOES MCKEON SUPPORT HIGHER EDUCATION?

While tuition costs are rising for ordinary Americans, Rep. McKeon voted to cut Federal student aid by $12.7 billion -- the biggest such cuts in history.

SOURCES

Vote on price gouging: HR 3402, Vote #500, 9/28/2005 No
Vote on GOP energy bill: HR 6, Vote #445, 7/28/2005 Yes
Contributions from oil and gas industries: www.opensecrets.org $17,500
Vote to strip overtime protection: HR 2660 , Vote #351, 7/10/2003 No
Vote to prevent federal loans to American companies that have relocated offshore for U.S. tax avoidance: HR 4818, Vote 386, 7/15/2004 No
Contributions from drug interests: www.opensecrets.org $23,850
Vote on GOP Medicare Prescription Drug Bill: HR 1, Vote #669, 11/22/2003 Yes
Voting percentage with Pres. Bush: calculated through: www.cq.com 92%
Voting percentage with GOP caucus: calculated through: www.cq.com 96%
Vote to weaken ethics rules: H Res. 5, Roll Call #6, 1/4/05 YES
Closed door indictment rule vote: http://www.pcactionfund.org/votecount/dr.htm YES
Voting percentage with DeLay: calculated through 3/31/2006: www.cq.com 93%
Vote to stop contracts to corporations that overcharge: HR 4939, Vote #60, 3/16/2006 No
Vote to expand access to TRICARE: HR 1815 , Vote #221, 5/25/2005 No
Vote to hold MTBE producers accountable: HR 6, Vote #373, 7/14/2005 No
Vote on Endangered Species Act reform: HR 3824, Vote #505, 9/29/2005 No
Vote to sell off public lands: HR 4241,Vote #601, 11/18/2005 Yes
Vote to cut Federal student aid: S 1932 , Vote #670, 12/19/2005 Yes

SOURCE FOR THE ABOVE: http://www.dccc.org/gopauctionhouse/members/Howard%20BuckMcKeonCA-25.html

Fun Facts!

In 1996, co-sponsored a fundraiser to pay the legal bills of Laurence Powell, a Los Angeles police officer convicted for his role in the 1991 beating of Rodney King (Reference: Roll Call, 2/22/96)

GovTrack link

GovTrack: Rep. Howard McKeon

External Links

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