Citizens Against Government Waste

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) has just released our annual Congressional Ratings! After analyzing 62 votes in the Senate and 46 votes in the House of Representatives on fiscal issues in 2010, CCAGW is ready to tell you how your elected officials in Nevada stack up.

Every year, CCAGW releases our Congressional Ratings to let you, Congress, and the public at large know who is standing up for taxpayers and who is letting them down. CCAGW rates members on a 0 to 100 percent scale and categorizes them as follows: 0-19 percent Hostile; 20-39 percent Unfriendly; 40-59 percent Lukewarm; 60-79 percent Friendly; 80-99 percent Taxpayer Hero; 100 percent Taxpayer Super Hero.

The average vote rating for the entire House of Representatives during the second session of the 111th Congress was 40 percent, while the average for the Senate was 42 percent. In the House, six Representatives achieved “Taxpayer Super Heroâ€