Brown votes against working families

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Elizabeth Warren had some tough words for her Senate opponent on Friday, saying that Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., has voted against working families and acted as Wall Street’s favorite son.
Citing an award from Forbes magazine for his support of Wall Street, the Democratic Senate candidate said that Brown and his Republican colleagues will answer for their records come November. On the award, she joked, “I don’t think I even got nominated for that one. I’m not even in their top-100 on that.”
“All I can do is look at how he voted,” she said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “He has voted to protect the richest and most powerful among us. And he has voted against working families.”

http://news.yahoo.com/warren-brown-voted-against-working-families-073524428.html

 

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One day after U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., joined Senate Republicans in a vote against ending taxpayer subsidies for the oil industry, the Massachusetts Republican Party has come to his defense, taking aim at the chief Democratic rival in his re-election bid, Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/in_wake_of_scott_browns_vote_a.html

 

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An attempt by Senate Democrats to pass a higher tax on millionaires failed Monday night, but the legislative defeat may prove to be a political gift to Democrats eager to counter Scott Brown’s image as a bipartisan everyman.
Brown voted against the tax on millionaires, arguing that the government should not be imposing new taxes until it cuts wasteful spending.
President Obama has been leading the charge for the so-called Buffett Rule, arguing that the wealthiest generally pay lower effective tax rates than the middle class and that the situation needs to change.
The issue, pitched as a fairness argument, has received support in polls. A Gallup poll taken last week showed six in 10 voters, including independents, favor requiring those earning more than $1 million to pay a 30 percent tax rate, as the bill requires. A CNN poll released Monday put the number at seven in 10 voters.

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