Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Releases 2023 Congressional Ratings
September 10 2024 - 4:40PM
Business Wire
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today
released its 2023 Congressional Ratings, highlighting the voting
records of all 535 members of Congress on 66 votes in the House of
Representatives and 16 votes in the Senate during the first session
of the 118th Congress. The report, which CCAGW has issued since
1989, identifies members whose voting records helped protect
taxpayers, as well as those who consistently voted against their
interests.
CCAGW 2023 Congressional Ratings
Facts:
CCAGW rates members on a 0 to 100 percent scale. Members are
placed in the following categories:
- Hostile: 0-19 percent.
- Unfriendly: 20-39 percent.
- Lukewarm: 40-59 percent.
- Friendly: 60-79 percent.
- Taxpayer Hero: 80-99 percent.
- Taxpayer Super Hero: 100 percent.
- Nine senators earned the coveted title of “Taxpayer
Super Hero” with a perfect score of 100 percent.
- Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike
Braun (R-Ind.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.),
Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Eric Schmitt
(R-Mo.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).
- In 2022, 36 senators earned “Taxpayer Super Hero” status.
- Two representatives earned perfect scores of 100 percent
as a “Taxpayer Super Hero.”
- Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Tom McClintock (R-Calif.).
- In 2022, 138 representatives earned 100 percent.
- At the other end of the spectrum, 40 senators and 34
representatives earned an abysmal score of zero in 2023.
CCAGW President Tom Schatz said in a
statement:
“We applaud the Taxpayer Super Heroes for their votes to cut
wasteful spending and defend the interests of taxpayers in the face
of pressure to continue funding programs that no longer have a
useful purpose. In the face of an increasing national debt, the
actions of these members are an encouraging sign, and their
constituents should congratulate them. But there remain far too
many lawmakers who supported expanding the federal bureaucratic
state at taxpayer expense in 2023. Hopefully, these reckless
spenders will change their views in 2024 and vote to eliminate the
extensive waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement that still plagues
the Washington swamp.”
The Council for Citizens Against Government
Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, the
nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to
eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in
government.
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Alexandra Abrams (202) 467-5310 aabrams@cagw.org