Area Congressional Scorecard Update: US Chamber of Commerce (with Overall Rankings Updated)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently came out with its congressional rankings for 2006. Every congressperson’s score can be found here; Senators are here.
I’m not convinced that the Chamber’s choices of 15 bills in the House and 12 in the Senate that served as the bases for the ratings were broad enough. Also, given the pork-driven tendencies of so many Members, it seems a little hard to handle that about 110 House members and 18 Senators could get perfect 100% scores, incredibly including “Waste Ted” Stevens.
Nevertheless, here are the Chamber’s rankings for locals and selected others:
Senate (OH-KY-IN) –
- DeWine (R-OH) — 100%
- McConnell (R-KY) — 100%
- Lugar (R-IN) — 100%
- Bunning (R-KY) — 91%
- Voinovich (R-OH) — 75%
- Bayh (D-IN) — 45%
Senate (selected others) –
- Hagel (R-NE) — 100%
- Specter (R-PA) — 100%
- Clinton (D-NY) — 67%
- Obama (D-IL) — 55%
- Reid (D-NV) — 50%
- Biden (D-DE) — 45%
- Lieberman (D at the time, CT) — 44%
- Dodd (D-CT) — 42%
House (local OH-KY-IN) –
- Boehner (R-OH) — 100%
- Gillmor (R-OH) — 100%
- Ney — (R-OH) — 100%
- Oxley (R-OH) — 100%
- Pence (R-IN) — 100%
- Pryce (R-OH) — 100%
- Schmidt (R-OH) — 100%
- Tiberi (R-OH) — 100%
- Chabot (R-OH) — 93%
- Davis (R-KY) — 93%
- Hobson (R-OH) — 93%
- LaTourette (R-OH) — 93%
- Sodrel (R-IN) — 93%
- Turner (R-OH) — 93%
- Regula (R-OH) — 80%
- Ryan (D-OH) — 47%
- Brown (D-OH) — 40%
- Jones (D-OH) — 40%
- Strickland (D-OH) — 40%
- Kaptur (D-OH) — 33%
- Kucinich (D-OH) — 20%
House (selected others):
- Hastert (R-IL) — 100%
- Jindal (R-LA) — 100%
- Tancredo (R-CO) — 100%
- Hunter (R-CA) — 93%
- Jefferson (D-LA) — 86%
- Paul (R-TX) — 60%
- Emanuel (D-IL) — 47%
- Conyers (D-MI) — 20%
- McKinney (D-GA) — 9%
Here are updated consolidated rankings for the locals:
See this previous post for the prior chart, how it was compiled, and references to the other scorecards.
In the Senate, the Chamber rankings caused McConnell and Bunning to reverse 1-2 positions. Meanwhile, in the House, Boehner and Schmidt to inch ahead of Chabot. When missing one item on a scorecard moves you from 1st to 3rd, as it did to Chabot, you know that the differences between the three in last year’s voting were pretty narrow.
That was last year. This year, on the three most visible votes thus far (minimum wage increase, student loan subsidy expansion, and pork for the Banks), some differences have emerged. Boehner is 3-for-3 — against min-wage, against further student loan subsidies, and against the Banks pork). Chabot is 2-for-3, having whiffed on the student loan subsidies. Schmidt is 1-for-3, missing on min-wage and, painful to report, the Banks pork (HT NixGuy and Weapons of Mass Discussion). One hopes that this is not the start of a longer-term trend for the congresswoman.
