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NARFE Releases 113th Congress Voting Scorecard

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Jessica Klement
September 30, 2014 703-838-7760
  jklement@narfe.org

 
Alexandria, VA – The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) today released its voting scorecard for the 113th Congress.

Out of 1,121 House and 547 Senate roll-call votes cast between January 3, 2013, and August 1, 2014, NARFE identified nine House and three Senate votes where federal employee and retiree interests were most clearly at stake. The House votes, the most ever selected, include those dealing with federal pay, budget resolutions, contracting-out and whether to end the government shutdown. Four budget resolution votes are shown because each targeted federal employees and retirees for sacrifice not asked of others or was not balanced as recommended by formal and informal fiscal commissions. The NARFE Scorecard found that, as with nearly all action and inaction on Capitol Hill, voting on these issues is more polarized than ever.

This feature, which appears in the October issue of narfe magazine in even-numbered years, is the longest-running in the publication. The vote scoring serves many purposes, but endorsement is not among them. NARFE does not endorse candidates but rather seeks to empower federal employees and retirees to be informed voters and their own best advocates.

Please click here to see a short description of each vote, and the full voting scorecard by state.

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The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE), one of America’s oldest and largest associations, was founded in 1921 with the mission of protecting the earned rights and benefits of America’s active and retired federal workers. The largest federal employee/retiree organization, NARFE represents the interests of nearly five million current and future federal annuitants, spouses and survivors.