We live at a time when our federal government routinely
usurps powers not granted to it by the Constitution. This is leading to an
increasingly totalitarian government that routinely infringes on our basic
rights.
The solution is for more and more voters to hold their
representatives and senators in Congress accountable to the Constitution.
Fortunately, The New American newsmagazine has been publishing "The
Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution"
for nearly 30 years. "The Freedom Index" provides scorecards for
every member of Congress on ten key votes four times every two-year session of
Congress.
You can help return our federal government to its
constitutional moorings by using the "Freedom Index" to learn how
constitutionally your representative and two senators are voting, taking the
appropriate actions to influence them to vote constitutionally, and then
spreading the word to others in your sphere of influence about how to use the
"Freedom Index" to hold their congressmen accountable to the
Constitution.
You can access the online "Freedom Index" by
clicking on "Voting Index" in the menu bar on TheNewAmerican.com, or
by clicking on the graphic at left. Clicking on an individual congressman's
name takes you to a page with a photo of the congressman along with his average
"Freedom Index" score for each Congress he has served in, all the
vote descriptions for each vote cast from the original print "Freedom
Indexes," and a link for each vote description to a page showing how all
the members of the House or Senate voted on that roll call vote.
Once you're on the "Freedom Index" page a single
click on the "Past Members" menu item takes you to a similar
"Freedom Index" page with cumulative scores for past members of
Congress who have served fairly recently. Clicking on one of these past
members' names gives you a new page with all the same details described in the
previous paragraph.
Our latest online "Freedom Index" includes the
first report on the 114th Congress (which appeared in the print version of The
New American for July 20, 2015) with ten votes scored for the House and ten for
the Senate. These will be the first ten votes you see when you click on an
individual congressman's name in the online "Freedom Index" and
scroll down to see the detailed voting record.
Please contact your senators and representative and bring
their online "Freedom Index" voting record to their attention along
with thanking them when appropriate and asking for explanations when
appropriate. Remember that it is your responsibility as a voter to hold your
senators and representative accountable to the Constitution.
We recommend that you first go to the online "Freedom
Index" and look at how your senators and representative have been voting
so that you can personalize your email message to them with questions about
their actual votes. Be aware that the one email message goes to both of your
senators and your representative, so you'll need to add something like
"Attn: Rep. Blank" somewhere near the beginning of your email message
in order to direct a question to your representative. Ditto for your senators.
Source: The John Birch Society, JBS.org.
Comments
Also see the other websites that offer scorecards on US
Legislators: Conservative Review, The
Club for Growth, Heritage Action, Numbers USA and New American Freedom
Index. For Georgia Legislator scores
see: electtherightcandidate.us.
You will be amazed how low these scores are and how many
Legislators receive a grade F.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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