FEW Releases Voting Record Scorecard for 110th Congress

Published on Oct 20, 2008 - 8:55:24 AM

By: Federally Employed Women

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 2008 - Federally Employed Women (FEW) released its Voting Record Scorecard for the first session of the 110th Congress. "We are honored to announce that Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15) and Rep. James Moran (VA-8) earned top scores of 90%," stated Sue Webster, FEW's National President. Another 18 House members scored an impressive 90%. On the Senate side, ten Senators scored an 80%. The complete list of the FEW Honorable Legislators can be found on page 3.

Most legislators came up short because they did not co-sponsor the FEW top legislative priority bills. "Since these bills will likely remain a ranking parameter for the next Congress, these lawmakers can boost their rankings simply by adding their names as co-sponsors to these bills," added Webster. Follow this link to view the Voting Record.
Based on votes and co-sponsor status of top legislative issues for federally employed women, legislators earned ten percentage points for supporting FEW's position on selected issues and pieces of legislation. "We want to express our sincere thanks to the FEW Honorable Legislators," stated FEW Vice President for Congressional Relations Cecelia Davis. "Through their actions and votes, they not only have shown great support for federally employed women, but also for federal workers in general."

FEW's three top legislative goals this year were the enactment of a Paid Parental Leave Act which provides four to eight weeks of paid leave for federal workers following the birth or adoption of a child; the repeal of the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) Social Security provisions (HR 82/S 206 & HR 2772/S 1647); and enactment of the Senior Executive Service Diversity Act (HR 3774/S 2148). These priorities will achieve the organization's overall goal of preparing the federal workforce for the vast numbers of projected retirements expected over the next five years.

"We remain optimistic that our Scorecard totals will increase with the 111th Congress," asserted Janet Kopenhaver, FEW's Washington Representative. "Our members are very excited about proactively working with the new Congress and are ready to become actively involved in our grassroots campaign to achieve our legislative goals next year."

For more information on these issues, visit http://www.few.org/. FEW is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1968 after Executive Order 11375 was issued that added sex discrimination to the list of prohibited discrimination in the federal government. FEW has grown into a proactive organization serving more than one million federally employed women -- both in the military and civilian workforce.

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