{"id":8154,"date":"2020-09-16T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/new-report-republican-controlled-senate-renders-116th-congress-as-least-productive-in-history\/"},"modified":"2020-09-16T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T16:00:20","slug":"un-nuevo-informe-del-senado-controlado-por-los-republicanos-considera-que-el-116o-congreso-es-el-menos-productivo-de-la-historia","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/press\/new-report-republican-controlled-senate-renders-116th-congress-as-least-productive-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuevo informe: el Senado controlado por los republicanos convierte al 116.\u00ba Congreso en el menos productivo de la historia"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8154","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The 2020 Democracy Scorecard charts the position of every Member of Congress on issues vital to the health of our democracy and shows the Senate is a \"legislative graveyard\" for democracy reform","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7855}"],"related_issues":[149,165,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Con la votaci\u00f3n por correo en marcha y la votaci\u00f3n anticipada en persona a la vuelta de la esquina en muchos estados, Common Cause public\u00f3 hoy su Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020 <\/em>to help voters evaluate the records of their members of Congress.\r\n\r\nThe Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020<\/a> <\/em>proporciona datos sobre cada miembro actual de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes y el Senado en funci\u00f3n de sus votos y copatrocinio de proyectos de ley clave para la reforma de la democracia, como el hist\u00f3rico Ley para el Pueblo (HR 1)<\/a>. If enacted, the reforms would limit the influence of big money in our elections, end gerrymandering, and make it easier and safer to vote.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhat the Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020 <\/em>\u201cLo que deja en claro es el flagrante desprecio por las reformas democr\u00e1ticas en el Senado\u201d, dijo Aaron Scherb, director de asuntos legislativos de Common Cause<\/strong>. \u201cThe House of Representatives passed nearly 10 democracy reform bills, often with bipartisan support, this session, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked debate and mark-ups on all of these bills and refused to allow a vote.\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cIn fact, the Senate\u2019s inaction has the 116th Congress on track to be the least productive in history, with just one percent of the bills becoming law,\u201d said Scherb, author of the Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020<\/em>.\r\n\r\nTo ensure all Members of Congress got a fair evaluation in the Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020<\/em>, Common Cause sent each congressional office four letters listing the bills included in this year\u2019s Scorecard to make sure every member of Congress knew which bills he or she was being evaluated on. Since these letters were sent, a combined total of more than 150 cosponsors have been added to these collective bills so voters can know what their Members of Congress are doing to protect our democracy.\r\n\r\nAccording to the Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020<\/em>M\u00e1s de 50 miembros de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes apoyaron reformas cr\u00edticas para la democracia el 100 por ciento de las veces, y 16 senadores obtuvieron al menos un 90 por ciento, lo que representa mejoras significativas con respecto a los a\u00f1os anteriores. Cuadros de mando de la democracia<\/em>.\r\n\r\nSenator Mitt Romney (R-UT) was the highest scoring Republican on the Cuadro de indicadores de la democracia 2020 <\/em>con dos votaciones relacionadas con el impeachment del presidente Trump. Entre los estados con delegaciones con una fuerte presencia democr\u00e1tica se encuentran:\r\n