HE HAS one of the biggest electorates in the country, and a coveted role as Deputy Speaker, but Maranoa MP Bruce Scott still attends almost every vote in parliament.

Mr Scott is also among the vast majority of federal politicians who never cross the floor, faithfully toeing the party line in Canberra.

His voting record on online political database theyvoteforyou.org.au shows he attended 92% of all votes in the Houses since 2006.

That compares with his political neighbour, Industry Minister and Member for Groom Ian Macfarlane, who similarly attended 91% of all votes in the same period.

APN asked both politicians about three budget bills, all of which have failed to pass the Senate and could affect thousands of regional residents: cuts to pension increases, a $5 increase to government-subsidised medicines, and the government's plan for "asset recycling" to invest mainly in national roads.

While Mr Scott was unable to respond to questions about his voting record, Mr Macfarlane did respond, saying his position on key budget bills had not changed.

Mr Macfarlane said the "most important" point to remember was that the government's spending trajectory was "simply unsustainable over the long term".

But he said his position on a six-month wait for young jobseekers to receive welfare had not changed and "we support policies to encourage people into work and to then keep them in work".

While figures from the University of Adelaide show the Toowoomba region has at least 18,562 full or part-time pensioners, Mr Macfarlane said the government "understands the pressures facing pensioners".

He said a change, originally proposed by Labor, to lower "deeming rates" on assets tested to be eligible for the pension, would give pensioners more money.

But Mr Macfarlane would not say whether he still supported the stalled budget measure cutting the growth of the pension that he voted for last year.

On road funding, he said he hope to engage on the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing with the State Government as soon as tenders closed later this month on the major project.

But he would not comment on the government's specific policy on selling off public assets to fund new major infrastructure projects.

Mr Macfarlane said that "there are challenges ahead" but "only the Coalition" had an economic strategy to grow the economy, despite many of the 2014 budget measures failing to pass less than three months out from the next budget.