Easy Senate Score Chart 2006

Best score in 2006: Russ Feingold

Best scores in 2005:

Key to Chart:  (range is +550 to -550).     Barbara Boxer had the highest score (+152.5). 
Mark Dayton, Frank Lautenberg and Edward Kennedy tied for 2nd place (+132.5) .

This year everyone started over.
This year there will be two scores: a vote score and a human rights percentage.

IN 2006, RUSS FEINGOLD (+280, 73%)  OF WISCONSIN IS IN FIRST PLACE.  ALL OTHER SENATORS ARE BELOW 70%
COMPARE THIS WITH DENNIS KUCINICH'S 100% SCORE ON THE HOUSE CHART.
ANYONE WITH A SCORE BELOW 50% IS NO FRIEND OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

How the score is calculated:

Home Run (HRUN):  This Senator took a stand for the American people. +10 points

AWOL: This Senator was AWOL when the American people needed him/her to take a stand.  – 5 points. This does not apply to cloture votes. 

NH: This stands for no harm.  Those who fail to vote against cloture don't have the courage of those who do take a stand but their votes counts with the "nay" votes in a cloture motion.  Therefore, unless a home run requires a vote for cloture on an issue, NH counts as 0.

STR for Strike: This Senator voted or agreed to an outcome harmful to the American people, freedom and/or democracy. -10 points

F: This stands for Fraud.  This applies to Senators who vote one way when it matters and another way when it makes no difference. An example is when they vote for cloture on a bill or nomination and then vote against the nomination in circumstances where the only chance to stop a bill or nominee was through a fillibuster.  In an election year, Senators like to argue meaningless votes and mislead their public into fogetting that they voted the other way when it mattered.  An F will be placed after the total of all Senators who do this on the chart that contains the vote wherein they pull this.  The Fs will also be counted on the final total of the final chart at the end of the year..

Total Score: The accumulated points to date on major votes/consents.

Human Rights Percentage or HR%: Current percentage of Senator from bottom to top of chart, rounded to the nearest whole number.

The vote descriptions link to the top of the chart, and each column header and footer links back to the description for that date.

Prior score charts:   (01/06/05-04/21/05B)   (04/28/05-06/09/05B)   (06/14/05-07/01/05)   (07/14/05-07/29/05B)   (09/13/05-10/07/05)  (10/27/05A-11/15/05A)  (11/15/05B-12/21/05)  (1/30/06-3/16/06A)  (3/16/06B-5/8/06B)  (5/11/06-6/7/06)  (6/8/06-6/22/06C)  (6/27/06-8/3/06B)

Votes/Consents counted this page:
8/3/06C:   Roll Call 230 was the passage of HR4 the Pension Destruction Act.
9/5/06:  Roll Call 231 was the approval of right-wing, anti-human rights judge Kimberly Ann Moore to be a Circuit Judge.
9/7/06:  Roll Call 239 was provide more funding to continue the war in Iraq.
9/19/06: Roll Call 250 was the passage of the United States-Oman Cut Jobs for American Workers Trade Implementation Act.  This and similar bills perpetuate the use of child slave labor and  the undercutting of the environment while sending US jobs to forieign low-cost labor.
9/28/06: Roll Call 259 was the passage of S3920, the Military Commissions Act, throwing away the Constitutional rights of both American citizens and foreigners and allowing Amricans and others to be detained and tortured indefinitely.
9/29/06A: Roll Call 261 was the the agreement to the conference reporte for appropriations for war, HR 5631.
9/29/06B:  Roll Call 263 was the cloture vote on  S403, the Kill Teenaged Girls Act, designed to keep minors from leaving the state to exercise choice over their own bodies.  Cloture failed.
11/16/06:  Roll Call 270 was the passage of HR 5682, a bill to exempt the United States-India Nuclear Proliferation Act from requirements of the Atomeic Energy Act of 1954.
12/06/06:  Roll Call 272 was the vote to confirm pro-war Robert M. Gates to be Secretary of Defense.  A number of Senators just wanted Rumsfeld gone and were willing to approve anyone to replace him.  They are getting a strike because they should have been more picky about who would replace him.
12/07/06:  Roll Call 273 was cloture on  the confirmation of Andrew Von Eschenbach to be Commissioner of the FDA.  The problem with Eschenbach is that (like Crawford)  he favors lower standards for food, which will endanger the lives of millions of Americans.  Those who voted for cloture and against the confirmation got an F after their STR on this vote.


NAME

 PRIOR SCORE 8/3/06C
 		9/05/06
 		9/7/06
 		9/19/06
 		9/28/06
 		9/29/06A
 		9/29/06B
 		11/16/06
 		12/6/06
 		12/7/06
 		FINAL SCORE HR%

Akaka (D-HI)     

+60FF
 STR
 STR
 STR AWOL
 HRUN
 STR HRUN
 HRUN
 STR
 STR
 +25FF
 52

Alexander (R- TN)

 -380
 STR STR STR STR
 STR
 STR STR
 STR
 STR STR -480
 10

Allard (R-CO)

 -320
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -420
 15

Allen (R-VA

 -320
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -420
 15

Baucus (D-MT)

 -125F
 AWOL
 STR STR STR HRUN STR HRUN STR STR HRUN
 -160F
 37

Bayh (D-IN)

 +20F
 STR STR STR AWOL HRUN STR HRUN STR AWOL
 STR -30F
 48

Bennett (R-UT)

 -360
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -460
 12

Biden (D-DE)

 -5
 STR AWOL
 STR HRUN
 HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR -40
 47

Bingaman (D-NM)

 +85
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN HRUN AWOL
 AWOL
 +75F
 56

Bond (R-MO)

 -420
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -520
 7

Boxer (D-CA)

 +90
 HRUN
 STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN HRUN STR STR +90
 58

Brownback (R-KS)

 -365
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STRF -465
 11

Bunning (R-KY)

 -375
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR HRUN
 STR -455
 12

Burns (R-MT),

 -385
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -485
 10

Burr (R-NC)

 -360
 HRUN STR STR HRUN STR STR STR STR STR STR -420
 15

Byrd (D-WV)

 -25
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR STR HRUN STR STR -25
 48

Cantwell (D-WA)

 +65F
 STR STR STR STR HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR +25F
 52

Carper (D-DE)

 -100
 STR STR STR HRUN STR STR HRUN STR STR STR -160
 37

Chafee (R-RI)

 -155F
 STR STR AWOL
 STR HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR -210F
 33

Chambliss (R-GA)

 +420
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -520
 7

Clinton (D-NY)

 +60
 STR STR STR STR HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR 0
 50

Coburn (R-OK)

-365
 HRUN STR STR HRUN STR STR STR STR STR STR -425
 15

Cochran (R-MS)

 -340
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -440
 13

Coleman (R-MN)

 -320
 STR STR STR AWOL STR STR STR STR STR STR -415
 15

Collins (R-ME)

 -240
 STR STR STR HRUN STR STR HRUN STR STR STR -300
 25

Conrad (D-ND)

 -90
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN HRUN STR STR -110
 41

Cornyn (R-TX)

 -440
 HRUN STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -520
 7

Craig (R-ID)

 -400
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -500
 8

Crapo (R-ID)

 -395
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -495
 9

Dayton (D-MN)

 +100
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN HRUN STR STR +80
 57

DeMint (R-SC)

 -395
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STRF -495
 9

DeWine (R-OH)

 -360
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR HRUN -460
 12

Dodd (D-CT)

 +85
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR +45
 54

Dole (R-NC)

 -425
 STR STR STR HRUN STR STR STR STR AWOL
 STR -500
 8

Domenici (R-NM)

 -450
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -550
 4

Dorgan (D-ND)

 +20F
 STR STR STR STR HRUN STR HRUN HRUN STR STR -20F
 48

Durbin (D-IL)

 +60
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR 0
 50

Ensign (R-NV)

 -305
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -405
 80

Enzi (R-WY)

 -425
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -525
 6

Feingold (D-WI)

 +280
 HRUN STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN HRUN STR STR +280
 73

Feinstein (D-CA)

 -50F
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR -90F
 43

Frist (R-TN)

 -400
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -500
 8

Graham (R-SC),

 -360
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -460
 12

Grassley (R-IA),

 -320
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR HRUN -400
 17

Gregg (R-NH)

 -330
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -430
 14

Hagel (R-NE)

 -285
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -385
 18

Harkin (D-IA)

 +180
 STR STR STR AWOL HRUN STR HRUN HRUN STR STR +145
 68

Hatch (R-UT),

 -350
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR AWOL -445
 13

Hutchison (R-TX),

 -360
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -460
 12

Inhofe (R-OK)

 -285
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR AWOL
 STR STRF -380
 18

Inouye (D-HI)

 +25F
 STR AWOL STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR -10F
 49

Isakson (R-GA)

 -340
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -440
 13

Jeffords(I-VT)

 +75
 STR STR STR STR HRUN STR HRUN AWOL
 STR AWOL +30
 53

Johnson (D-SD)

 -55
 STR STR STR HRUN STR STR STR HRUN STR STR -115
 40

Kennedy (D-MA)

 +80
 STR STR STR AWOL HRUN STR AWOL
 HRUN STR AWOL +35
 53

Kerry (D-MA)

 +145
 STR STR STR STR HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR +85
 57

Kohl (D-WI)

 -80FF
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR HRUN STR STR STR -120FF
 40

Kyl (R-AZ)

 -340
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -440
 13

Landrieu (D-LA)

 -175F
 STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR STR -275F
 27

Lautenberg (D-NJ)

 +45
 STR AWOL AWOL
 HRUN STR STR HRUN STR STR STR -5
 50

Leahy (D-VT)

 +60
 STR STR STR HRUN HRUN STR