FEW Releases Scorecard for 112th Congress Second Session; McGovern named Federal Worker Champion
Federally Employed Women (FEW) has released the results of its scorecard for the second session of the 112th Congress and is happy to report that it reflects a large number of perfect and 90% scores. -It is because of the hard work of the grassroots advocacy efforts that we were able to keep our numbers high for a second year in a row of federal worker supporters on Capitol Hill,- wrote Michelle Crockett, FEW's National President in her message to members. -However, we are far from out of the woods - especially considering the lame-duck session after the November elections - and we need to keep up the pressure,- Crockett warned.
In addition, it is clear from these scores that federal worker and women's issues continue to be, for the most part, partisan. -The vast majority of scores were either 30% or 90% or 100% broken down by party and very similar to last year's scores,- explained Janet Kopenhaver, FEW's Washington Representative. -This means we still have a lot of work to do to change the scores of legislators' views whose ratings did not improve at all this year,- Kopenhaver added.
This year, 45 legislators in the House and 3 in the Senate earned perfect scores and an impressive 99 House members scored 90% and 7 did so in the Senate. In addition, FEW wants to extend a special thank-you to several -Federal Worker Champions- who have made the top list for four, five and six consecutive years. In the House, they are: Reps. Stephen Cohen (TN-9), Elijah Cummings (MD-7) and John Sarbanes (MD-3) who made the list for six years; Reps. Jim McGovern (MA-3), Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-1) and Allyson Schwartz (PA-13) for five years; and Reps. Janice Schakowsky (IL-9); Tammy Baldwin (WI-2) and Gerry Connolly (VA-11) for four years. In the Senate, the Champions are Sen. Frank Lautenberg (NJ) who achieved top status for five consecutive years; and Sens. Barbara Boxer (CA) and Robert Menendez (NJ) who made the list for four consecutive years.
To view the entire list of Honorable Legislators and rankings of all legislators, click here -
