2001 Congressional Scorecard

5/31/2001

Executive Summary

The PIRG Congressional Scorecard is one of the many citizenship tools used by U.S. PIRG and the state PIRGs to preserve the environment, protect consumers, and revitalize participation in our democratic process.

Going door-to-door in cities and towns across the country, U.S. PIRG and state PIRG staff are distributing this year's Scorecard to more than one million citizens. The Scorecard tells citizens which bills their elected officials cosponsored and how their elected officials voted on public interest issues ranging from the rollback of decades of environmental and public health laws to the cutting of polluter pork subsidies to the enactment of campaign reforms. The state PIRGs are nonprofit, nonpartisan advocates for the public interest. U.S. PIRG is the national lobbying office for state PIRGs across the country.