Dan Lungren Voting Records, Corruption Findings, Earmarking Tendencies

Dan Lungren Voting Records in Congress

Corruption in Congress or Ethical "Challenges"

Earmarking Tendencies

State: California Party: Republican Former Occupation: Lawyer Representative Since: 2005 Next Election: 2010

(Note: all corruption will not be listed. Since "corrupt" is a yes/no descriptor, further investigations become redundant after one incident is uncovered.)

Dan Lungren Results of Corruption Investigation and/or Ethical Problems:

Paybacks: Taxpayer financed rewards for campaign donors... In 2008 Dan Lungren earmarked $2 Million for Technikon, a $5100 donator and $4 Million for the Federal Technology Center whose executives donated $3300 in 12 regular (reminding) increments. (ref: Seattle Times)

Dan Lungren Voting or Legislative History in Congress:

• Tort Reform - Medical Malpractice Reform S11 7/03:

  Yes, Representative Lungren supports reform to punish frivolous filers and to stem “lottery type” payouts

• Balanced Budget Amendment:

  No, Lungren has not supported requiring Congress to spend within government means.

• Oil Drilling in US - ANWR (Alaska) HouseVote#831 8/07, Offshore HR4761 6/06:

  Yes, Dan Lungren supports energy independence including drilling for US oil supplies.

• Cap and Trade HR 2454 6/09:

  No, Lungren opposes increased taxes and surcharges on US production of goods and energy.

• Amnesty/Citizenship for Illegal Border Crossers S2611 5/06:

  No, Dan Lungren supports border control and citizenship only for those following legal guidelines.

• Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act HR 4173 12/09:

  No, Dan Lungren opposes federal government expansion of involvement and control over private industry.

• Auto Company Bailouts HR 7005 12/08:

  No, does not support taxpayer bailouts of private industry

• Bank Bailouts -TARP HR1424 10/08:

  Yes, Lungren supports taxpayer bailouts for financial institutions that gamble and lose

• 2009 Stimulus Bill HR1 2/09:

  No, Opposed the $787 Billion spending plan

• 2009 Omnibus HR1105 3/09:

  No, Representative Lungren opposed the 9000+ earmark, 8.3% government expansion bill

• Health Care HR3590 12/09:

  No, Dan Lungren opposed laying groundwork for federal takeover of Healthcare delivery

Dan Lungren Earmarking Tendencies:

• Medium Compared to Colleagues in House of Representatives

  • $13,284,500 of taxpayer money requested by Dan Lungren in 2009 budget specifically for entities and projects not considered worthy of financing through transparent means in the official federal budget.(Ref: Center for Responsive Politics and Taxpayers for Common Sense)

Charted Comparison of House Colleagues to Dan Lungren Voting Records

Charted Comparison Corruption Investigations for House of Representatives Colleagues of Lungren