VOTE DESCRIPTION
United States Senate
1. Support Davis - Bacon Prevailing Wage law • 2. Support TSA Employee
Collective Bargaining rights • 3. Support EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gas
emissions under Clean Air Act • 4. Funding to implement the 2010 Health Care
Reform law • 5. Support Federal Funding for Health Care Services offered by
Planned Parenthood • 6. Support Edward Chen’s Judicial Nomination •7. Support
Goodwin Liu’s Judicial Nomination • 8. Oppose Mean-spirited Budget Blueprint for
Fiscal Year 2012 • 9. Support Omnibus Job Creation legislation • 10. Support the
Creation of a National Blue Ribbon Commission to Review our Federal Criminal
Justice System • 11. Support Public Employee Job Creation • 12. Support
Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Job Creation •13. Support EPA Efforts
to Regulate Cross-State Air Pollution Under the Clean Air Act • 14. Support
Nomination of Richard Cordray to Serve as the Director of the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau • 15. Oppose a Balanced Budget Amendment of the
Constitution • 16. Union Election Rules • 17. Collective Bargaining •
18. Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act •19. Low Interest Student
Loans • 20. Equal Pay for Equal Work • 21. Food Stamp eligibility • 22. Rural
Broadband Access •223. Employee Wages • 24. Campaign Financial Disclosure
• 25. Tax Fairness • 26. Veterans’ Job Training
U.S. House of Representatives
1. Support 2010 Health Care Reform Law • 2. Oppose Federal Funding of private
school vouchers for a few students • 3. Support EPA efforts to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions under Clean Air Act • 4. Support the Prevention and
Public Health Fund as Established by the 2010 Health Care Reform Law •
5. Support Funding for the 2010 Health Care Reform Law • 6. Support Federal
Funding for Health Care Services offered by Planned Parenthood • 7. Support the
Congressional Black Caucus Budget Blueprint for Fiscal Year 2012 • 8. Oppose
Mean-spirited Budget Blueprint for Fiscal Year 2012 • 9. Support State Health
Insurance Exchanges as Established by the 2010 Health Care Reform Law •
10. Support School-Based Health Centers as Established by the 2010 Health
Care Reform Law • 11. Support Small Businesses Owned by Women and Socially
and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals • 12. Support Project Labor
Agreements • 13. Support TSA Employee Collective Bargaining rights •
14. Support Funding for the Special Supplemental Assistance Program for
Women, Infants and Children • 15. Support Continued Funding to settle the
“Pigford II” racial discrimination lawsuit between the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and Black Farmers • 16. Support the Election Assistance Commission
17. Support Davis - Bacon Prevailing Wage law • 18. Support the National Labor
Relations Board • 19. Support Deaths In Custody Reporting • 20. Oppose a
Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution • 21. CBC Budget Alternative
22. Draconian Budget Resolution for FY ’03 • 23. Low Interest rate Student Loans
and Repeal of Health Care • 24. State anti-immigrant laws • 25. Secret Ballot
Union Elections • 26. Photo IDD requirements for voters • 27. The American
Community Survey • 28. Limited English Proficiency • 29. Fair Housing
Enforcement • 30. Tax Fairness • EH: Contempt resolution against US Attorney
General Eric Holder
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
HOW
CONGRESS
VOTED
112TH
CONGRESS
2011 – 2012
FINAL
NAACP
FEDERAL
MISSISSIPPI
LEGISLATIVE
ROSLYN M. BROCK
CIVIL RIGHTS
REPORT CARD
Chairman, Board of Directors
BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS
President & CEO
HILARY SHELTON
Director, NAACP Washington Bureau &
Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy
NAACP Washington Bureau
1156 15 Street, NW •Suite 915 • Washington, DC 20005
(202) 463-2940 (phone) • (202) 463-2953 (fax)
[email protected]
www.naacp.org
th
VOTE KEY
MISSISSIPPI
= voted in support of the
NAACP position
= voted against NAACP
position
? = did not vote
P = voted “present”
v = Congressional seat was
vacant
NAACP CIVIL RIGHTS FEDERAL
LEGISLATIVE REPORT CARD
112th Congress,
2011 - 2012
*
= Did not vote in protest
italics = Republican
United States Senate
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25
%
26
Grade
MISSISSIPPI
Cochran
F
Wicker
F
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4%
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4
U.S. House of Representatives
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%
EH
Grade
MISSISSIPPI
1
Nunnelee
F
2
Thompson, Bennie
A
3
Harper
F
4
Palazzo
F
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7%
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97%
*
                             
13%
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                             
7%
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                           
GRADING SCALE
A = 100% - 90%
B = 89% - 80%
C = 79% - 70% D = 69% - 60%
F = 59% - 0% I = Incomplete
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