RSSCCAGW Releases 2008 Congressional Ratings
CAGW | November 8, 2009
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) has released its 2008 Congressional Ratings, drawing attention to the outstanding voting records of dozens of members of Congress who consistently work to protect tax dollars, as well as to the congressional bottom-dwellers whose votes were hostile to the interests of taxpayers and contributed to a tsunami of new, wasteful spending and an increasingly bloated bureaucracy. The average vote rating for the entire House of Representatives during 2008, the second session of the 110th Congress, was 35 percent, while the average for the Senate was 38 percent. In the House, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) was the sole “Taxpayer Super Hero” with a rating of 100 percent, while 59 House members (the same as in 2007) earned the moniker “Taxpayer Hero” with a rating of 80 percent or above. However, the number of representatives with a perfectly abysmal score of zero skyrocketed to 34 last year, up from only two in 2007. In the Senate, there were no “Taxpayer Super Heroes,” but 14 senators did earn “Taxpayer Hero” status. Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) posted the highest rating of 98 percent. Seventeen senators scored zero, compared to 13 in 2007. Read more about the 2008 Congressional Ratings.
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