Blake Curd Disappointed in House Vote to Increase Debt Limit

SIOUX FALLS – Blake Curd, Republican candidate for South Dakota’s lone congressional seat, voiced his disappointment today with the House vote to increase our nation’s debt limit by an additional $1.9 trillion dollars.

"With this vote today, Rep. Herseth Sandlin and the Democrats in Congress voted to add another $6,000 worth of debt for every man, woman and child on top of $40,016 per person we already have. Past Republican majorities spent too much of the taxpayer dollars, but Rep. Herseth Sandlin and her colleagues have taken reckless spending to a whole new level," said Curd.

"Rep. Herseth Sandlin claims to be concerned with fiscal responsibility, but the reality is she has supported every major spending bill Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat majority have put forward including the $787 billion stimulus, major appropriations bills, and budget resolutions," said Curd, who is a veteran and doctor in Sioux Falls.

"If elected to Congress, I will look for waste, fraud and abuse and question assumptions about spending just like I’ve done in the State Legislature in Pierre," said Curd, who is a first term State Representative representing portions of Lincoln and Minnehaha Counties.

Rep. Herseth Sandlin has voted for every major budget and spending bill since Democrats have been in the majority:

H.Con.Res 99, Roll Call Vote #212, 3/29/07 (FY08 Budget Resolution)

H.R. 2764, Roll Call Vote #1171, 12/17/07 (FY08 Consolidated Appropriations Bill)

H.Con.Res. 312, Roll Call Vote #141, 3/13/08 (FY09 Budget Resolution)

H.R. 1, Roll Call Vote #70, 2/13/09 (Stimulus Bill)

H.R. 1105, Roll Call Vote #86, 2/25/09 (FY09 Consolidated Appropriations Bill)

H.Con.Res 85, Roll Call Vote #192, 4/2/09 (FY10 Budget Resolution)

H.R. 3288, Roll Call Vote #949, 12/10/09 (FY10 Consolidated Appropriations Bill)