Scorecard puts Roe second from bottom on environmental issues
By Hank Hayes
U.S. Rep. Phil Roe tied for having the second-lowest score in the Tennessee congressional delegation in an environmental advocacy group’s national ranking on selected votes involving conservation issues.
Tennessee Conservation Voters joined the Washington, D.C.-based League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Monday in an e-mailed release of the 2009 National Environmental Scorecard.
The scorecard examined 11 Senate and 13 House votes dominated by clean energy and climate change but also encompassing other environmental issues such as public lands, water and wildlife conservation.
Roe, R-1st District, got 7 percent out of a possible score of 100 percent. He got those points for voting for a clean water funding measure in March 2009. He got zero points for voting against House climate change legislation, a homeland security bill to protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, and an appropriations bill for environmental funding.
Roe tied with U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan, R-2nd District.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-7th District, received a zero score, while U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-3rd District, a Tennessee gubernatorial candidate, got a 14 percent score.
Tennessee GOP U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker received 27 percent and 9 percent, respectively.
U.S. Reps. Steve Cohen, D-9th District, and Bart Gordon, D-6th District, both received 100 percent scores.
The bills and the congressional votes can be found online at www.lcv.org/scorecard.
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Yep, a handshake for one of his loyal followers. Atlanta, April 2007
This is the G-Funk from Brentwood, Tennessee. My "far-left" blog is back! As critiquing the Right-wing has proven to be one hell of a task, I'm going to try and focus on my some of my REAL favorites, especially my congressman, Marsha Blackburn. However, you never know who might show up, so stay tuned!
About the G-Funk
- G-Funk
- Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em
ARE YOU A LIBERAL?
"If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal,' then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal.'
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
CONFUSION
Blackburn remarks on the amazing condition of our economy...
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
List of Reps I'd rather have for TN-07
- 1. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
- 2. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-20)
- 3. John Yarmuth (KY-3)
- 4. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)
- 5. Jim McDermott (WA-7)
- 6. John Lewis (GA-05)
- 7. David Price (NC-4)
- 8. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)
- 9. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Yep, a handshake for one of his loyal followers. Atlanta, April 2007