Welcome to the PA Indivisible Legislative Scorecard!

 We will score votes in the U.S. Congress that relate to issues of importance to the Indivisible organization. The Indivisible movement is focused on four key principles - equality, justice, compassion and inclusion. Those values are reflected in legislation on:

• Ballot access, voting rights, campaign finance and ethics
• Civil rights, equality under the law and addressing systemic inequities
• Reinforcing and strengthening democratic norms, processes, and oversight
• Addressing economic inequality

Not all bills are equal, though. After deciding which bills to score, we also assign them a multiplier value of 1, 2, or 3. Bills that are central to the Indivisible movement - like H.R. 1, the For the People Act - are weighted more heavily than simple resolutions, which are often only an expression of sentiments and do not lead to any actual change. Deeds are valued above words.

​Lawmakers with low scores are opposed to Indivisible's goals, and those with high scores are allies!

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Current Scores
for 2021

Lawmaker	Score
🔵 Senator Bob Casey	100%
🔴 Senator Pat Toomey	21.7%
🔴 PA-01’s Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick	40.6%
🔵 PA-02’s Rep. Brendan Boyle	​100%
🔵 PA-03’s Rep. Dwight Evans	​100%
🔵 PA-04’s Rep. Madeleine Dean	​​100%
🔵 PA-05’s Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon	​100%
🔵 PA-06’s Rep. Chrissy Houlahan	​​100%
🔵 PA-07’s Rep. Susan Wild	​100%
🔵 PA-08’s Rep. Matt Cartwright	​100%
🔴 PA-09’s Rep. Dan Meuser	3.0%
🔴 PA-10’s Rep. Scott Perry	0%
🔴 PA-11’s Rep. Lloyd Smucker	7.2%
🔴 PA-12’s Rep. Fred Keller	2.9%
🔴 PA-13’s Rep. John Joyce	2.9%
🔴 PA-14’s Rep. Guy Reschenthaler	2.9%
🔴 PA-15’s Rep. Glenn Thompson	7.5%
🔴 PA-16’s Rep. Mike Kelly	2.9%
🔵 PA-17’s Rep. Conor Lamb	​100%
​🔵 PA-18’s Rep. Mike Doyle	​100%

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These House scores include the votes these measures from this 117th Congress:

1. The Build Back Better Act, the social program that includes most of the items that Joe Biden campaigned on
2. The censure of Arizona Republican Paul Gosar
3. The bill to raise the debt limit
4. The bill to protect reproductive freedoms federally
5. The legislation to raise the debt limit and avoid a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution
6. The resolution in the House to advance BOTH the bipartisan and Democrats-only infrastructure packages
7. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
8. The creation of a January 6th House Select Committee
9. The vote on the Inspector Generals Independence and Empowerment Act
10. The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act
11. The reversal of a Trump-era rule that allowed lenders to evade state interest laws
12. The vote to create a January 6th Commission
13. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
14. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
15. The DC Statehood Bill
16. The bill that would stop future presidents from enacting immigration actions like the Muslim ban
17. The Access to Counsel Act, which ensure people undergoing immigration actions have legal representation
18. The Motion to Table the censure resolution against Rep. Maxine Waters
19. The Paycheck Fairness Act, which addresses gender disparity for equal work
20. The American Dream and Promise Act, which provides a path to citizenship for Dreamers and TPS recipients
21. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which provides a path to citizenship for agricultural workers
22. The PRO Act, a package of worker and organized labor protections 
23. The final House vote on the American Rescue Plan
24. The For the People Act, a campaign finance and ethics reform, and voter access package
25. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
26. The House Impeachment 2 vote
27. Stripping Qanon MoC Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments
28. The initial House vote on the American Rescue Plan COVID Relief package
29. HR 5 - the Equality Act

Links will take you to our MoCTrack write up of the legislation and vote.

The Senate scores include these votes:

1. The vote on the new voting rights bill, the Freedom to Vote Act
2. The vote to raise the debt limit through December.
3. The first vote on the Reconciliation budget package that contains the bulk of President Biden's Build back Better human infrastructure provisions
4. The cloture vote on the Paycheck Protection Act (filibuster)
5. The cloture vote on the January 6th Commission (filibuster)
6. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act
7. The confirmation of Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Rachel Levine
8. The 2021 Impeachment vote
9. The COVID Relief bill
10. The confirmation of Interior Secretary Debra Haaland

Q. Why do we share this boring weighting data?
A. The fine folks at 538 Politics built a tracker that helped readers assess how often their MoCs voted with bills where former President Trump expressed an opinion. It was an amazing tool. But they weighted votes invisibly, and that was frustrating for close observers. There were weeks when no votes were taken, but scorecard numbers would fluctuate.  We hope to avoid that confusion by providing complete transparency on how we weight votes.

​Notes regarding how we use a multiplier to weigh bills:

• 11.21.21 - the House vote on the transformative Build Back Better Act was given maximum weight (3); the censure of Congressman Paul Gosar was given minimum weight (1)
• 10.24.21 - the Senate filibuster of Joe Machin's negotiated version of a voting rights bill was given maximum weight (3)
• 10.10.21 - the Senate debt limit vote was given maximum weight (3)
• 10.03.21 - like last week, this week's vote on the debt-limit increase was given maximum weight (3) for the same reasons.
• 09.26.21 - the reproductive freedom bill was given medium weight, because it is an important bill, but in the absence of the elimination of the filibuster, it is mostly symbolic (2); while the debt-limit increase was given maximum weight (3), as any tanking of the world economy will be felt most strongly by those who can afford it the least.
• 08.29.21 - both the Voting Rights bill and the infrastructure resolutions were given the highest weight (3).
• 08.15.21 - the Reconciliation budget vote was given maximum weight for its extreme impact on wages, education and other human infrastructure provisions (3)
• 07.04.21 - both the Inspectors General protection bill and the creation of the January 6th Select Committee received moderate weight (2)
• 06.27.21 - in the House, both the lending rule reversal and the older worker protection bill received a moderate weight (2). The Senate filibuster of the For the People Act received the maximum weight (3).
• 05.30.21 - the January 6th Commission Cloture vote was given maximum weight(3), but it did not affect the scores, as Senator Toomey was not present for the vote, and Senator Casey was already at 100%.
• 05.23.21 - the COVID Hate Crimes act vote was given medium weight (20) while the January 6th Commission vote was given maximum weight(3).
• 05.16.21 - The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act received medium weighting (2) as it addresses discrimination and worker protections for a significant but small group.
• 04.25.21 - The DC statehood bill received the highest weighting (3) as it is a bill that is central to Indivisible's democracy strengthening agenda; the COVID Hate crimes Senate bill, and the pair of immigration actions received moderate weight (2) and the tabling of the Waters censure received the lowest eight (1).​
• 04.18.21 - the Paycheck Fairness legislation was scored with a moderate weight (2). The same weighting was applied in June for the Senate filibuster of this bill.
• 03.28.21 - The confirmation of Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine was scored with a moderate weight (2).
• 03.21.21 - For House scoring, both immigration bills provide solutions that will affect millions of people, and they received the maximum weight (3). For the Senate votes, impeachment was weighted heavily (3), while the COVID Relief vote and Secretary Haaland Interior confirmation both received moderate weight (2).
• 03.14.21 - The final vote on the COVID relief package received a moderate weighting (2) for the broad applicability, but short term effect, while the PRO Act of organized worker protections received the maximum weight, for it's broad application and equity effects for low income working people.
• 03.07.21 - Both HR 1 and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are bills with broad application and both are major steps towards equity. Both get maximum weight (3).
• 02.28.21 - The votes on impeachment and the Equality Act were weighted the most heavily (3), with their long term implications and broad application. The COVID relief package received a moderate weighting (2) for the broad applicability, but short term effect (this would be different if the minimum wage had a chance of staying in the final bill, as that has major equity implications). And the Taylor Greene resolution received the lowest weight (1), as it is more a statement of principles than anything else.

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