NETWORK Lobby Releases Annual Catholic Social Justice Scorecard for Congress

For Immediate Release: February 12, 2019
Contact: Lee Morrow, lmorrow@networklobby.org, 202-601-7871
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NETWORK Lobby Releases Annual Catholic Social Justice Scorecard for Congress
Sr. Simone: “The second year of the Republican-led 115th Congress was another year of chaos and struggle.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice announced the release of its 2018 Catholic Social Justice Voting Record. This annual scorecard reflects how Members of Congress voted in accordance with Catholic Social Justice and evaluates if they worked to mend the gaps in economic and wealth inequality.

From Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice:

“The second year of the Republican-led 115^th Congress was another year of chaos and struggle. The Trump administration doubled down on tax breaks for the wealthy, cuts to human needs programs, and relentless attacks on immigrants and asylum seekers. Catholic Sisters and activists struggled tirelessly against these proposals. The Republicans in Congress decided to follow the President’s lead and support this barrage on the common good, and they paid the price on Election Day.

“The voters rejected incumbents and embraced those who defend the common good. These defenders of the common good are reflected in our 2018 Catholic Social Justice Voting Record.

“2019 brings great change for Congress, and we at NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice are especially excited to work with the new Democrat-led House of Representatives. The Catholic Sisters and activists of NETWORK Lobby will work to undo the damage that the Trump presidency has inflicted on our nation, and we will support a visionary agenda that supports the 100%.”

In 2018, NETWORK Lobby prioritized the most important votes from the past year that fit with its 2020 policy vision to Mend the Gaps. NETWORK Lobby scored 15 votes, eight in the Senate and seven in the House. We recommended nine ‘No’ votes on bills that attacked immigrants, cut healthcare and food assistance, and doubled down on the harmful effects of the 2017 GOP Tax Law. NETWORK Lobby recommended six ‘Yes’ votes on bills that protected Dreamers, ensured food security, and took the first steps toward broad criminal justice reform.

Last year, seven state delegations received perfect Catholic Social Justice voting scores: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Every single House and Senate member from these states voted 100% of the time with in accordance with NETWORK Lobby’s Catholic Social Justice values.

There were also four states that had their entire delegations fail on their Catholic Social Justice Scorecards, receiving scores below 70% in 2018. Every single member of the Arkansas, Kansas, Utah, and West Virginia delegations consistently voted against the recommendation of the Catholic Sisters and activists of NETWORK Lobby.

NETWORK Lobby members will be contacting their members regarding their 2018 Catholic Social Justice Scores.

The voting records and each member’s score is online at https://networklobby.org/votingrecord2018pdf

Below is the list of 100% voters from the House and Senate:

Alabama
Sen. Doug Jones (AL)
Rep. Terri A. Sewell (AL-7)

Arizona
Rep. Tom O’Halleran (AZ-1)
Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (AZ-3)
Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-7)

California
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA)
Sen. Kamala Harris (CA)
Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-2)
Rep. John Garamendi (CA-3)
Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5)
Rep. Doris Matsui (CA-6)
Rep. Ami Bera (CA-7)
Rep. Jerry McNerney (CA-9)
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-12)
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13)
Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-14)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15)
Rep. Jim Costa (CA-16)
Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17)
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)
Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20)
Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24)
Rep. Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27)
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (CA-28)
Rep. Tony Cárdenas (CA-29)
Rep. Brad Sherman (CA-30)
Rep. Pete Aguilar (CA-31)
Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (CA-32)
Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-33)
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34)
Rep. Norma J. Torres (CA-35)
Rep. Raul Ruiz (CA-36)
Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37)
Rep. Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38)
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40)
Rep. Mark Takano (CA-41)
Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43)
Rep. Nanette Barragán (CA-44)
Rep. Lou Correa (CA-46)
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (CA-47)
Rep. Juan C. Vargas (CA-51)
Rep. Scott Peters (CA-52)
Rep. Susan A. Davis (CA-53)

Colorado
Sen. Michael Bennet (CO)
Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1)
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-7)

Connecticut
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT)
Sen. Chris Murphy (CT)
Rep. John B. Larson (CT-1)
Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-2)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)
Rep. Jim Himes (CT-4)

Delaware
Sen. Tom Carper (DE)
Sen. Christopher Coons (DE)
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE at Large)

Florida
Rep. Al Lawson Jr. (FL-5)
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (FL-7)
Rep. Darren Soto (FL-9)
Rep. Val B. Demings (FL-10)
Rep. Charlie Crist (FL-13)
Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14)
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (FL-20)
Rep. Lois Frankel (FL-21)
Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-22)
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)
Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (FL-24)

Georgia
Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (GA-2)
Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-4)
Rep. John Lewis (GA-5)
Rep. David Scott (GA-13)

Hawaii
Sen. Brian Schatz (HI)
Sen. Mazie Hirono (HI)
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2)

Illinois
Sen. Dick Durbin (IL)
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (IL)
Rep. Bobby L. Rush (IL-1)
Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-2)
Rep. Daniel Lipinski (IL-3)
Rep. Mike Quigley (IL-5)
Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL-7)
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-8)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)
Rep. Brad Schneider (IL-10)
Rep. Bill Foster (IL-11)
Rep. Cheri Bustos (IL-17)

Indiana
Rep. Peter J. Visclosky (IN-1)
Rep. André Carson (IN-7)

Iowa
Rep. Dave Loebsack (IA-2)

Kentucky
Rep. John Yarmuth (KY-3)

Louisiana
Rep. Cedric L. Richmond (LA-2)

Maine
Sen. Angus King (ME)
Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-1)

Maryland
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (MD)
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (MD)
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger III (MD-2)
Rep. John Sarbanes (MD-3)
Rep. Anthony G. Brown (MD-4)
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (MD-5)
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (MD-7)
Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8)

Massachusetts
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA)
Sen. Edward Markey (MA)
Rep. Richard E. Neal (MA-1)
Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-2)
Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III (MA-4)
Rep. Katherine M. Clark (MA-5)
Rep. Seth Moulton (MA-6)
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (MA-8)
Rep. William Keating (MA-9)

Michigan
Sen. Gary Peters (MI)
Rep. Dan Kildee (MI-5)
Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI-12)
Rep. Brenda Lawrence (MI-14)

Minnesota
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Sen. Tina Smith (MN)
Rep. Betty McCollum (MN-4)
Rep. Collin C. Peterson (MN-7)

Mississippi
Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS-2)

Missouri
Rep. William Lacy Clay (MO-1)
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (MO-5)

Montana
Sen. Jon Tester (MT)

Nevada
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Rep. Dina Titus (NV-1)

New Hampshire
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (NH)
Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (NH-2)

New Jersey
Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ)
Sen. Cory Booker (NJ)
Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ-1)
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5)
Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ-6)
Rep. Albio Sires (NJ-8)
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (NJ-9)
Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. (NJ-10)
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)

New Mexico
Sen. Tom Udall (NM)
Sen. Martin Heinrich (NM)
Rep. Ben Ray Luján (NM-3)

New York
Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY-3)
Rep. Kathleen Rice (NY-4)
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (NY-5)
Rep. Grace Meng (NY-6)
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-7)
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8)
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (NY-9)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-10)
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12)
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13)
Rep. Jose E. Serrano (NY-15)
Rep. Eliot L. Engel (NY-16)
Rep. Nita M. Lowey (NY-17)
Rep. Sean P. Maloney (NY-18)
Rep. Paul Tonko (NY-20)
Rep. Joseph D. Morelle (NY-25)
Rep. Brian Higgins (NY-26)

North Carolina
Rep. G.K. Butterfield Jr. (NC-1)
Rep. David E. Price (NC-4)
Rep. Alma Adams (NC-12)

Ohio
Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH)
Rep. Joyce Beatty (OH-3)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH-9)
Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Rep. Tim Ryan (OH-13)

Oregon
Sen. Ron Wyden (OR)
Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR)
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1)
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (OR-4)
Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR-5)

Pennsylvania
Sen. Robert Casey (PA)
Rep. Dwight Evans (PA-3)
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-7)
Rep. Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13)
Rep. Mike Doyle (PA-14)
Rep. Susan Wild (PA-15)
Rep. Matt Cartwright (PA-17)

Rhode Island
Sen. Jack Reed (RI)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
Rep. David Cicilline (RI-1)
Rep. Jim Langevin (RI-2)

South Carolina
Rep. James E. Clyburn (SC-6)

Tennessee
Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-5)
Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-9)

Texas
Rep. Al Green (TX-9)
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)
Rep. Joaquín Castro (TX-20)
Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Rep. Marc Veasey (TX-33)
Rep. Filemon Vela (TX-34)

Vermont
Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT)
Rep. Peter Welch (VT at Large)

Virginia
Sen. Mark Warner (VA)
Sen. Tim Kaine (VA)
Rep. Robert C. Scott (VA-3)
Rep. A. Donald McEachin (VA-4)
Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr. (VA-8)
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11)

Washington
Sen. Patty Murray (WA)
Sen. Maria Cantwell (WA)
Rep. Suzuan DelBene (WA-1)
Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-2)
Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-6)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-7)
Rep. Adam Smith (WA-9)
Rep. Denny Heck (WA-10)

Wisconsin
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-2)
Rep. Gwen Moore (WI-4)

No Longer in Congress
Former Colorado Rep. Jared Polis (CO-2)
Former Connecticut Rep. Elizabeth Esty (CT-5)
Former Florida Sen. Bill Nelson (FL)
Former Hawaii Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (HI-1)
Former Illinois Rep. Luis V Gutiérrez (IL-4)
Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney (MD-6)
Former Massachusetts Rep. Niki Tsongas (MA-3)
Former Massachusetts Rep. Michael E. Capuano (MA-7)
Former Michigan Rep. Sander M. Levin (MI-9)
Former Michigan Rep. Brenda Jones (MI-13)
Former Minnesota Rep. Tim Walz (MN-1)
Former Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-5)
Former Minnesota Rep. Rick Nolan (MN-8)
Former Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen (NV-4)
Former New Hampshire Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-1)
Former New Mexico Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-1)
Former New York Rep. Joseph Crowley (NY-14)
Former Pennsylvania Rep. Robert A. Brady (PA-1)
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke (TX-16)
Former Texas Rep. Gene Green (TX-29)

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