{"id":188,"date":"2022-09-06T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/minnesota\/press-releases\/common-cause-releases-2022-democracy-scorecard-showing-growing-support-in-congress-for-democracy-reform\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T06:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T06:00:32","slug":"common-cause-releases-2022-democracy-scorecard-showing-growing-support-in-congress-for-democracy-reform","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/minnesota\/press\/common-cause-releases-2022-democracy-scorecard-showing-growing-support-in-congress-for-democracy-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Releases 2022 \u201cDemocracy Scorecard\u201d Showing Growing Support in Congress for Democracy Reform"},"template":"","class_list":["post-188","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"ST. PAUL, MN \u2014 As constituents evaluate the performance of their members of Congress, Common Cause released its 2022 \u201cDemocracy Scorecard,\u201d a tracking resource with the positions of all members of Congress on campaign finance reform, ethics and transparency, and voting rights legislation. The fourth biennial scorecard is produced to help constituents hold their leaders in the 117th Congress accountable for passing common-sense legislation that preserves and strengthens our democracy. ","featured_image":"","press_type":145,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7871}"],"related_issues":[105,398],"related_work":false,"location":26},"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":"PAUL, MN <\/b>\u2014 As constituents evaluate the performance of their members of Congress, Common Cause released its 2022 \u201c<\/span>Democracy Scorecard<\/span><\/a>,\u201d a tracking resource with the positions of all members of Congress on campaign finance reform, ethics and transparency, and voting rights legislation. The fourth biennial scorecard is produced to help constituents hold their leaders in the 117<\/span>th<\/span> Congress accountable for passing common-sense legislation that preserves and strengthens our democracy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cOur Democracy Scorecard empowers constituents with information on where our members of Congress stand on the people\u2019s pro-democracy agenda,\u201d said <\/span>Karen Hobert Flynn, President of Common Cause<\/b>. \u201cSupport in Congress for democracy reform legislation increased significantly from 2020, when 58 members of Congress had perfect scores compared to 101 this year. It\u2019s further proof of the growing momentum for improving our government.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe 2022 Democracy Scorecard assesses U.S. Senators\u2019 votes on and co-sponsorship of 15 pieces of legislation and other actions, including confirming Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, a nonpartisan investigation into the January 6 attack on our country, the DISCLOSE Act, and reforming the filibuster to pass voting rights.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cAbsent the Jim Crow filibuster, reforms that expand the freedom to vote, reduce the influence of big money in our politics, protect our elections from racial discrimination, and curb partisan gerrymandering would be the law of the land today,\u201d Flynn said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t move forward on this legislation after an insurrection, then when?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe 2022 Democracy Scorecard graded U.S. Representatives\u2019 votes on and co-sponsorship of 18 pieces of legislation, including the impeachment of Donald Trump, the creation of the nonpartisan January 6 Select Committee, the Protecting our Democracy Act, and the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cOur democracy is strongest when constituents are informed about the job our elected leaders are doing in Washington,\u201d said <\/span>Annastacia Belladonna-Carrera, Common Cause Minnesota Executive Director.<\/b>\r\n\r\nFive of 10 members of Congress representing Minnesota earned a perfect score on this year\u2019s Democracy Scorecard, including:<\/span>\r\n