Voting Scorecard: McCain Missing in Action for Middle Class
19th March 2008
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Yet another voting record shows the two Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, voted to help those caught in the middle-class squeeze of stagnant wages and rising prices every chance they got, while Republican John McCain was missing in action for the middle class. The AFL-CIO earlier this month released the final 2007 U.S. House and Senate Voting Records, which tracks 19 Senate votes and 24 House votes from the first session of the 110th Congress.
The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) last week released its TheMiddleClass.org 2007 Congressional Scorecard, which evaluates members of Congress on their votes on key legislation that affects the middle class. According to DMI, Clinton and Obama each received an “A+” rating. But McCain was the only member of the Senate to receive an “incomplete” because he missed a majority of the graded votes.