Below are summaries of some significant votes during the last obstructionist Congress that provide some revealing information. There are summaries of the legislation in each site.
February
22, 2013
Council
for a Livable World’s PeacePAC has just released its 2011-12 House of Representatives Voting
Record.
The
Voting Record covers 12 important votes on national security issues such as the
war in Afghanistan, nuclear weapons, military spending and national missile
defense. Check to find out if your Representative is one of the 46 who scored
100%, one of the 78 who scored a 0% or where they fall in between.
If
you’re not sure who your Representative in Congress is, you can look them up here.
Be
an informed voter! The PeacePAC voting record is an important tool for holding
our elected officials accountable.
And
if your U.S. Representative has a good voting record, consider writing a letter
of congratulations to him or her.
Sincerely,
John Isaacs & Guy Stevens
Did you get a chance to check out our new
National Environmental Scorecard website yet? We’ve made it as easy as
possible for you to see how your members of Congress have been voting on the
environment. We also have some cool maps and charts you can use to get a better
idea of how your state compares to the rest of the country on the most important
environmental issues.
And if you can help with one more
step, please take a moment to help us spread the word about the
Scorecard.
If you are on Facebook, share the Scorecard on your wall here
If you prefer to use Twitter, send a tweet about the Scorecard here
Thanks again,
Vanessa
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Today is a big day for us. Not only
are we releasing the 2012 National Environmental Scorecard, but we're
also unveiling a completely new, interactive Scorecard website, where
you can see all the votes we've scored going back more than 40 years.
Right now, I'm about to jump on a
call to share this news with the national press, but I wanted to make sure that
LCV members like you got an exclusive look at our new site before anyone else
lays eyes on it.
Find out where your members of Congress stood on the most important environmental votes of the year. Explore LCV's 2012 National Environmental Scorecard on our new website here >>
Find out where your members of Congress stood on the most important environmental votes of the year. Explore LCV's 2012 National Environmental Scorecard on our new website here >>
Unfortunately the best thing that can
be said about this session of the 112th Congress is that it's over.
This was hands down, the most
anti-environmental House of Representatives ever. Continuing their bad
record from 2011, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor
(R-VA) forced through radical bills attacking cornerstone environmental laws
such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. They pushed to drill off our
shores and in the Arctic Refuge, tried to approve the harmful Keystone XL tar
sands pipeline, and attacked protections for our national parks, forests, and
wildlife.
If it wasn't for our champions in the
U.S. Senate and the Obama Administration, many of the environmental and public
health safeguards we rely on would have been lost.
Want to know if your members
of Congress stood with people or polluters last year? Take a look at the 2012 National Environmental Scorecard
here.
The good news is: if we can educate
the public about anti-environmental legislators' records, we can build the
public pressure to hold them accountable and improve our environmental policies
in the years to come.
So that's why we've completely
overhauled our Scorecard website to make it easier for you to access
and share the information not just from this year, but every year since the
National Environmental Scorecard was first released in 1971.
On our new website you can not only
read about the votes and check out the scores for your members of Congress, but
you can also see how your state's congressional delegation has voted compared to
the rest of the country using interactive charts and maps. You can look at votes
taken over the years on just one issue like clean energy or climate change. And
we've built in share features that make it easy to spread the word on social
media or send a message to your members of Congress to thank or reprimand them
depending on their vote history.
I hope you'll take a moment
to explore and share our new National Environmental Scorecard website
today at: scorecard.lcv.org
Thanks for helping us make a major
splash with this release by getting the word out today.
Best,
Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters
Best,
Gene Karpinski
President
League of Conservation Voters
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