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Wiz Imp

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6. Lamb's voting record in the House wasn't any better than Fetterman's has been in the Senate
Tue Jun 16, 2026, 11:12 AM
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Pennsylvania_Politics/comments/s4rbpf/i_did_some_research_on_conor_lamb/
https://pittnews.com/article/166601/opinions/opinion-conor-lamb-cant-be-trusted-as-pas-next-senator/
Opinion | Conor Lamb can’t be trusted as PA’s next senator
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His brief tenure in the House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District has yielded indefensible votes — real gems such as voting to fund a border wall, prevent families with an undocumented parent from receiving stimulus checks and oppose marijuana decriminalization.
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Who’s to say, if he makes it out of the Democratic primary victorious, that he won’t make all of his silly centrist promises again in the general election and spend at least a year or two actually making good on them? He’s certainly done it before. Lamb voted in line with Trump’s position an inexcusable 68% of the time during the 115th Congress, which he joined in April 2018 after winning a special election.
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To repeat that last point, during Trump's first term, Lamb voted with Trump 68% of the time!!! That's not my idea of a "very good" Representative.

Fetterman has voted against Trump over 90% of the time. Also, no matter how disappointed one may be in Fetterman, he is a million times better than Dr. Oz would have been in that Senate seat. Lamb was far less likely to beat Oz.

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