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Common Cause Scorecard Charts Lawmaker Support for Pro-Democracy Bills in 117th Congress

As 2022 congressional races ramp up, Common Cause is again tracking the positions of every Member of Congress on issues vital to the health of our democracy. Members of the House and Senate have received letters asking them to co-sponsor and support at least 15 democracy reform bills and informing them that their voting and co-sponsorship record will be published in Common Cause’s “Democracy Scorecard,” which will be distributed to our 1.5 million members, as well as to state and national media, during the lead-up to Election Day.

As 2022 congressional races ramp up, Common Cause is again tracking the positions of every Member of Congress on issues vital to the health of our democracy. Members of the House and Senate have received letters asking them to co-sponsor and support at least 15 democracy reform bills and informing them that their voting and co-sponsorship record will be published in Common Cause’s “Democracy Scorecard,” which will be distributed to our 1.5 million members, as well as to state and national media, during the lead-up to Election Day.

“Americans deserve to know where their representatives in Washington stand on congressional efforts to protect and strengthen our democracy, and at Common Cause we are keeping track of their votes on these issues,” said Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn. “We have seen almost unprecedented threats to our democracy during this Congress, and there have been votes that have put Members on the right side and the wrong side of history. Many of the votes stemmed from the January 6th insurrection and its aftermath – including the impeachment of then-President Trump, congressional efforts to launch investigations of those responsible for the ransacking of the Capitol, and contempt votes for witnesses who refused to comply with congressional subpoenas related to the investigation.”

“A number of the votes we tracked related to former-President Trump’s “Big Lie” about the 2020 election and efforts to turn back a new generation of Jim Crow laws his lies inspired that make it harder for many Americans to vote – particularly in Black and Brown communities,” said Aaron Scherb, Common Cause’s senior director of legislative affairs. “Despite continued Republican blockades of popular pro-democracy legislation on Capitol Hill, reforms similar to the bills on the Scorecard are being enacted across the country at the state and local level. Members would be wise to take note of this groundswell of public support for reform in the states.”

Các dự luật được đưa vào Bảng điểm dân chủ phản ánh chương trình cải cách toàn diện mà nghiên cứu dư luận cho thấy luôn nhận được mức ủng hộ cao trên toàn bộ quang phổ tư tưởng.

The Scorecard includes:

Votes

  • Impeachment and conviction
  • Đạo luật vì nhân dân
  • Tiểu bang DC
  • Independent commission to investigate January 6th insurrection
  • Resolution creating January 6th Select Committee
  • Đạo luật thúc đẩy quyền bỏ phiếu của John R. Lewis
  • Steve Bannon criminal contempt resolution
  • Đạo luật bảo vệ nền dân chủ của chúng ta
  • Mark Meadows criminal contempt resolution
  • Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act

Bills to cosponsor

  • Đạo luật TIẾT LỘ
  • Supreme Court Ethics Act
  • Frank Harrison, Elizabeth Peratrovich, and Miguel Trujillo Native American Voting Rights Act
  • Tu chính án Dân chủ cho Tất cả

If Congress votes to reform congressional stock trading laws, the Electoral Count Act, or other democracy issues, we may include those votes as well.

Scorecard sẽ không 'đánh giá' các ứng cử viên. Thay vào đó, nó sẽ làm nổi bật các phiếu bầu và những người đồng bảo trợ cho luật pháp sẽ bảo vệ các cuộc bầu cử của chúng ta, nâng cao tiếng nói của tất cả người Mỹ trong chính trị và chính phủ, giúp việc bỏ phiếu dễ tiếp cận hơn, chấm dứt việc phân chia khu vực bầu cử theo đảng phái để mọi người Mỹ đều có cơ hội công bằng để bầu ra những đại diện mà họ lựa chọn và thúc đẩy các tiêu chuẩn đạo đức cao cho các viên chức được bầu và bổ nhiệm.

Common Cause trước đây đã ban hành “Bảng điểm dân chủ” trong 2016, 2018, Và 2020 based on the votes and cosponsorship of between 15-18 key democracy reform bills.

 

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