Platts votes for higher taxes, welfare expansion

Todd Platts voted again today to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion, which would provide welfare for middle class families while raising cigarette taxes (mostly on the poor).

Platts votes with Pelosi on big labor agenda

Todd Platts votes for a minimum wage increase, the favorite campaign issue of Nancy Pelosi and the AFL-CIO, which will raise costs on businesses and result in lost jobs.