AYOTTE SIDED WITH THE KOCH BROTHERS, REPEATEDLY VOTED AGAINST CLOSING TENS OF BILLIONS IN SPECIAL TAX LOOPHOLES FOR BIG OIL COMPANIES

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1 AYOTTE VOTED WITH THE KOCH BROTHERS NEARLY 90% OF THE TIME DURING HER FIRST FOUR YEARS IN OFFICE Ayotte Voted With Americans For Prosperity 89% Of The Time During The 112 th Congress. [AFP Scorecard, Accessed 9/22/16] Ayotte Voted With Americans For Prosperity 90% Of The Time During The 113 th Congress. [AFP Scorecard, Accessed 9/22/16] WMUR In November 2015: "According To The AFP Scorecard, Ayotte Has Voted With AFP's Position 88 Percent Of The Time During Her Time In Office." "According to the AFP, scorecard, Ayotte has voted with AFP s position 88 percent of the time during her term in office." [WMUR, 11/6/15] Politico: Americans For Prosperity The Main Political Arm Of The Koch Brothers. The Koch brothers main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air and data operation benefiting conservatives, according to a memo distributed to major donors and sources familiar with the group. The projected budget for Americans for Prosperity would be unprecedented. [Politico, 5/9/14] Washington Post: Americans For Prosperity The "Main Political Arm" Of The Kochs. "Billionaire Charles Koch is consolidating the array of conservative advocacy groups financed by his donor network, merging all the organizations into the mainpolitical arm, Americans for Prosperity, officials announced Friday." [Washington Post,9/16/16] KOCH INDUSTRIES IS A BIG OIL COMPANY Koch Industries An Oil Industry Giant. The Institute has also received money from the Brown Foundation, which was started by the founders of the construction and energy company Brown & Root; the Searle Freedom Trust, funded by the late conservative philanthropist Daniel Searle; and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, which is run by executives of Koch Industries, an oil industry giant. [NPR, 9/22/08] The Koch Brothers Run Koch Industries. [Bloomberg, Company Overview Of Koch Industries] AYOTTE SIDED WITH THE KOCH BROTHERS, REPEATEDLY VOTED AGAINST CLOSING TENS OF BILLIONS IN SPECIAL TAX LOOPHOLES FOR BIG OIL COMPANIES May 17, 2011: Ayotte Voted Against A Bill That Would Have Closed $21 Billion In Tax Loopholes For Five Biggest Oil Companies. [CQ, 5/17/11; S. 940, Vote 72, 5/17/11; New York Times, 5/17/11] March 29, 2012: Ayotte Voted Against Closing $24 Billion In Tax Loopholes For Five Biggest Oil Companies. [CQ, 3/29/12; S. 2204, Vote 63, 3/29/12; Boston Globe, 3/30/12] Ayotte Voted For FY 2012 Ryan Budget After AFP Urged Senators To Do So. [CQ, 5/25/11; H.Con.Res. 34, Vote 77, 5/25/11; Americans For Prosperity Press Release, 5/24/11] FY 2012 Ryan Plan Protected $40 Billion In Tax Breaks For Big Oil. Rep. Ryan s budget maintains his recent path of supporting Big Oil at the expense of the middle class. In 2011 Rep. Ryan

2 joined all House Republicans and 13 Democrats in his vote to keep Big Oil tax loopholes as part of the FY 2011 spending bill while cutting funds for education, medical research, and clean-tech investments. His subsequent FY 2012 budget left $40 billion in Big Oil tax breaks untouched, too, though it cut $30 billion from Medicare. [Center For American Progress, 3/20/12] Ayotte Voted For FY 2013 Ryan Budget Plan After Americans For Prosperity Urged Senators To FY 2013: Ryan Budget Would Protected $40 Billion In Tax Breaks For Oil Companies. American families have been plagued by higher oil and gasoline prices over the past several years despite a significant increase in domestic oil production and rigs, and decline in consumption. But while high prices threaten the economy and family budgets, they enrich American oil companies with huge profits. Yet it appears that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan s (R-WI) proposed FY 2013 budget resolution would retain a decade s worth of oil tax breaks worth $40 billion. [Center for American Progress, 3/20/12] AYOTTE HAS REPEATEDLY SIDED WITH HER SPECIAL INTEREST BACKERS THE KOCH BROTHERS TO GIVE BIG CORPORATIONS A TAX BREAK Ayotte Voted For FY 2012 Ryan Budget After AFP Urged Senators To Do So. [CQ, 5/25/11; H.Con.Res. 34, Vote 77, 5/25/11; Americans For Prosperity Press Release, 5/24/11] Washington Post: FY 2012 Ryan Budget Cut Corporate Rates To 25%. On taxes, Ryan s budget would consolidate brackets and lower tax rates; the top individual and corporate rates would drop to 25 percent. [Washington Post, 4/4/11] Ayotte Voted For FY 2013 Ryan Budget Plan After Americans For Prosperity Urged Senators To FY 2013 Ryan Budget Cut Corporate Income Tax Rate 10 Percent. Ryan's proposed budget takes a number of other dramatic steps, such as creating just two income tax brackets at 10 and 25 percent, as well as bringing the corporate tax rate down from 35 percent to 25 percent. [CBS News, 3/20/12] AYOTTE REPEATEDLY SIDED WITH THE KOCH BROTHERS IN VOTING FOR RYAN BUDGETS THAT WOULD CUT MEDICARE, TURN IT INTO A VOUCHER PROGRAM AND INCREASE OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS Ayotte Voted For FY 2013 Ryan Budget Plan After The Koch Brothers AFP Urged Senators To Ayotte Voted For FY 2012 Ryan Budget Plan After The Koch Brothers AFP Urged Senators To Do So. [CQ, 5/25/11; H.Con.Res. 34, Vote 77, 5/25/11; Americans For Prosperity Press Release, 5/24/11] AARP: Ryan Plan Would Remove Medicare s Promise Of Secure Health Coverage, Increase Costs For Medicare Beneficiaries. This proposal simply shifts these high costs onto Medicare beneficiaries, and shifts the even higher costs of increased uninsured care onto everyone else. By creating a premium

3 support system for future Medicare beneficiaries, the proposal will increase costs for beneficiaries while removing Medicare s promise of secure health coverage a guarantee that future seniors have contributed to through a lifetime of hard work. [AARP, 4/6/11] Ryan Budget Would Have Cut Medicare. The spot, provided first to CQ Roll Call, ties the state House speaker to Rep. Paul D. Ryan's 2012 budget proposal, which would have cut spending on Medicare and used a voucher-like system. [Roll Call, 9/26/14] AYOTTE VOTED FOR THE EXTREME REPUBLICAN CUT, CAP AND BALANCE PLAN AFTER AFP URGED SENATORS TO DO SO THAT WOULD HAVE FORCED DEEP CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY Ayotte Voted For Cut, Cap And Balance After AFP Urged Senators To Do So. [Vote 116, 7/22/11; Americans For Prosperity Press Release, 3/31/11; Politico, 5/9/14] Boston Herald: Cut, Cap, And Balance Would Have Required Cuts Into Programs Such As Medicare And Social Security. The plan would have raised the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion, but it would have required cuts into programs such as Medicare and Social Security while capping future federal spending. [The Boston Herald, 7/23/11] CBPP: Cut, Cap And Balance Bill Would Necessitate Deep Cuts To Social Security And Medicare, Big Cuts To Social Security And Medicare Would Be Inevitable. The legislation would inexorably subject Social Security and Medicare to deep reductions Reaching and maintaining a balanced budget in the decade ahead while barring any tax increases would necessitate deep cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. After all, by 2021, total expenditures for these three programs will be nearly 45 percent greater than expenditures for all other programs (except interest payments) combined. Big cuts in these programs would be inevitable. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 7/16/11] AARP Opposed Cut, Cap And Balance Because It Did Not Shield Social Security and Medicare From Arbitrary Reductions. In addition, the Cut, Cap and Balance Act requires that a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution be transmitted to the states as a pre-condition of increasing the debt ceiling. Social Security and Medicare, which are not excluded under the balanced budget amendment, would therefore be at risk for arbitrary reductions under the constitutional amendment, and as such, AARP is opposed. [AARP Letter, 7/21/11] AYOTTE COSPONSORED THE CAP ACT THAT AARP SAID WOULD HAVE SLASHED SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE Kelly Ayotte Cosponsored The Commitment To American Prosperity (CAP) Act Of On May 10, 2011, Kelly Ayotte cosponsored S. 245, the Commitment to American Prosperity Act of [Library Of Congress, S. 245, Cosponsors] AARP Expressed Strong Opposition To The CAP Act For Imposing Across-The-Board Spending Cuts, Including Cuts To Medicare And Social Security. LeaMond expressed the Association s strong opposition to the bill s arbitrary spending cuts that could jeopardize the earned benefits that allow people to live independently and with dignity as they grow older. The legislation would impose across-the-board spending cuts, including cuts to Medicare and Social Security, to enforce spending limits to confront the nation s debt. [, AARP, 5/23/11]

4 According To AARP-Commissioned Study, The CAP Act Would Cut $1.3 Trillion From Social Security, $859 Billion From Medicare. The Lewin Group analysis found that the CAP Act would cut $4.2 trillion from federal spending between 2013 and This will greatly impact those programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that serve a growing aging population and those who have been adversely impacted by the economic downturn. Specifically, cuts for major programs over this period would be: $1.3 trillion in Social Security; $859 billion under Medicare. [AARP, 6/22/11] THE KOCH BROTHERS AND THEIR DARK MONEY DONOR NETWORK HAVE SPENT MILLIONS TO BOOST AYOTTE S POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS Koch PAC And Koch Family Members Have Donated More Than $50,000 To Ayotte s Campaign Committees. Koch Family Members Have Donated $22,800 To Ayotte s Campaign. [FEC, Accessed 9/22/16] 2016 Cycle: Koch PAC Donated $6,500 To Ayotte s Campaign. [Center For Responsive 2014 Cycle: Koch PAC Donated $3,500 To Ayotte s Campaign. [Center For Responsive 2010 Cycle: Koch PAC Donated $10,000 To Ayotte s Campaign. [Center For Responsive 2014 Cycle: Koch PAC Donated $10,000 To Ayotte s Leadership PAC. [Center For Responsive Groups Linked To The Kochs Network Have Spent $3 Million Boosting Ayotte. Americans For Prosperity Spent $1.2 Million Attacking Hassan. The conservative issues group Americans for Prosperity on Monday will begin a more than $1 million, 20-day television advertising buy to criticize Gov. Maggie Hassan. [WMUR, 8/6/15] May 2013: American Future Fund Spent $1.3 Million Defending Ayotte s Vote Against Background Check Legislation. American Future Fund has now spent over $1 million defending Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), thanks to a new $452, 000 ad buy in New Hampshire and Boston. The buy is part of an ongoing air war over Ayotte's opposition to expanded background checks for gun buyers. Ayotte was the only senator in the Northeast to vote against the legislation. [Washington Post, 5/21/13] o American Future Fund Linked To Charles And David Koch. The Iowa-based American Future Fund is a conservative nonprofit linked to the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch that since 2010 has inundated federal and state races with tens of millions of dollars. [Center For Public Integrity, 1/28/16] o Headline: Koch-Linked Group Blasts Kasich In Ad Buy. [Yahoo News, 1/28/16] Judicial Crisis Network Spent $750,000 To Prop Up Ayotte. The new JCN ads will appear for three weeks, primarily on New Hampshire broadcast networks and cable networks, with some

5 digital advertising, at a total cost of about $500,000. That brings JCN s total spending on advertising in New Hampshire to about $750,000. [WMUR, 3/21/16] o Judicial Crisis Network Relied On Funding From Koch-Founded Nonprofit. According to Open Secrets, To fill its own coffers, JCN has increasingly relied on funding to the tune of nearly $4 million, according to IRS documents from another non-disclosing group, the Wellspring Committee, that s run by Corkery and was founded seven years ago with the help of conservative donors in the network led by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. [OpenSecrets.org, 3/23/15]