Who Are The 70 Republicans Who Voted To Reward The FBI With Lavish New Headquarters?

Despite recently spying on Christians and conservatives, and a selection process blasted by Democrats and Republicans as politically tainted, 70 House Republicans voted against an amendment removing any funding for the FBI’s new headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland from a Justice Department spending bill.  The amendment failed on a vote of 145 to 273.

Conservative leaders blasted the vote, noting the once-respected agency is now being used as a political tool against conservatives.

Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, wrote:

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been a cesspool of political corruption for almost a decade, and 70 House Republicans voted today, along with their Democrat colleagues, to reward them by funding a new massive headquarters in Greenbelt, Maryland.  

The same House GOP which set up the Judiciary Committee to investigate the weaponization of government just voted to give the face of the weaponization a new dream castle.  The same House GOP which has raised countless dollars and garnered hundreds of thousands of hours of airtime attacking the FBI’s knowing pursuit of false Russiagate allegations against President Trump, just voted to fund a palace for their punishment.  The same FBI that lied to the FISA Court repeatedly to subpoena Trump campaign officials.  The same FBI that spied on congressional staff investigating the FBI.  The same FBI that could not recognize Antifa as a terrorist group, but targeted parents attending school board meetings and Latin mass saying Catholic churches gets a new home that will make their Defense Department colleagues green with envy.  

“Yep, that is the FBI that seventy Republican House members couldn’t wait to give a massive upgrade.

“The House has the power of the purse.  It is their major power to control an out-of-control executive branch.  And today, 70 House Republicans sent the strongest message possible to the FBI, that they have nothing to fear from any investigations, because no matter what, they will get their money.  This is the true story of the swamp, where what members do on obscure votes on Friday afternoons matters far more than what they say on the Sunday news shows and in the evenings on Fox News. What a bunch of frauds.”

Americans are also viewing the FBI with increased skepticism.  An August 2022 Rasmussen Reports poll found 53 percent of Americans agreed with the statement “a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.”  

That is a stunning finding, given Nazi comparisons are generally poorly accepted, and the FBI has long enjoyed a high public approval rating.

Some legislators also opposed the selection process itself, which they claim passed over a more qualified site in Virginia – a state that recently elected a Republican governor.

Virginia’s Democrat and Republican congressional delegation issued a statement blasting what they called “political interference in the independent, agency-run site selection process for a new FBI headquarters,” adding the “process has been irrevocably undermined and tainted, and this decision must now be reversed.”

The 70 Republicans who voted with the FBI are:

Bacon Nebraska

Barr – Kentucky

Bentz – Oregon

Bice – Oklahoma

Bost – Illinois

Buchanan – Florida

Buck – Colorado

Calvert – California

Carey – Ohio

Carter – Texas

Chavez-DeRemer – Oregon

Cole – Oklahoma

D’Esposito – New York

Diaz-Balart – Florida

Duarte – California

Edwards – North Carolina

Ellzey – Texas

Feenstra – Iowa

Ferguson – Georgia

Fitzpatrick – Pennsylvania

Flood – Nebraska

Garbarino – New York

Gonzales, Tony – Texas

González-Colón – Puerto Rico

Granger – Texas

Graves – Missouri

Guthrie – Kentucky

Hinson Iowa

Joyce – Ohio

Kean – New Jersey

Kelly – Pennsylvania

Kiley – California

Kim – California

Kustoff – Tennessee

LaHood – Illinois

LaLota – New York

Lamborn – Colorado

Lawler – New York

Lee – Florida

Letlow – Louisiana

Lucas – Oklahoma

Luetkemeyer – Missouri

Malliotakis – New York

McCormick – Georgia

McHenry – North Carolina

Meuser – Pennsylvania

Miller – Ohio

Moore – Utah

Moylan – Guam

Murphy – North Carolina

Newhouse – Washington

Nunn – Iowa

Obernolte – California

Rogers – Alabama

Rogers – Kentucky

Salazar – Florida

Scott, Austin – Georgia

Sessions – Texas

Simpson – Idaho

Smith – Missouri

Smith – New Jersey

Smucker – Pennsylvania

Strong – Alabama

Thompson – Pennsylvania

Turner – Ohio

Valadao – California

Van Orden – Wisconsin

Wagner – Missouri

Wenstrup – Ohio

Womack – Arkansas

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