Today, the League of Conservation Voters released its 2011 National Environmental Scorecard, revealing scores for the Minnesota Congressional delegation in the first session of the 112th Congress.
While there are plenty of interesting statistics, one really stood out. Of the entire Minnesota Congressional Delegation, Rep, Michele Bachmann beat her career average by the greatest percentage. In 2011, while she campaigned for President, her score jumped fifty percent. Sadly, this only took her from a career average of 4 to a one-year score of 6 on a scale where the top score is 100, but it remains the biggest improvement as a percentage in the state's delegation. In their report which talks about the national trends on these issues, LCV says is the most anti-environmental session of the U.S. House of Representatives in history, featuring unparalleled assaults on our nation's bedrock environmental and public health safeguards. The 2011 Scorecard includes 11 Senate and a record 35 House votes on issues ranging from public health protections to clean energy to land and wildlife conservation. The House votes included in the 2011 Scorecard are many of the most significant votes taken in a year that saw the House voting more than 200 times on the environment and public health. Minnesotans with the strongest voting record on these initiatives were Senator Franken (91%) and Reps. Ellison (91%) and Walz (83%) Dishonors in the House go to Reps, Bachmann (6%), Kline (9%), Cravaack (14%) and Peterson (20%). The League of Conservation Voters has been rating members of Congress on environmental, public health and energy issues for over 40 years. The full 2011 National Environmental Scorecard can be found at www.lcv.org/scorecard
