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Mmm, Data...

There's no public policy like pro-growth public policy.  And when it comes to pro-growth policy, no one watches Congress like the Club for Growth.  Today, the Club released its Congressional rankings for 2006 and a review of the rating components confirms that this is indeed a meaningful scorecard:

The rating examines legislative actions that reflect our immediate pro-economic growth policy goals, including:

• Making the Bush tax cuts permanent
• Death tax repeal
• Cutting and limiting government spending
• Social Security reform with personal retirement accounts
• Expanding free trade
• Legal reform to end abusive lawsuits
• Replacing the current tax code
• School choice
• Regulatory reform and deregulation

The full ranking tables for both the House and Senate are available at the link above, but here's a little bonus metadata:

And finally, shocker of shockers:

Incidentally, in 2005, there was a 21-way tie for last, so those 80th place rankings were the very bottom of the barrel.  In 2006, Hillarama suddenly went from tied-for-worst to more economically conservative than 80% of their Democratic colleagues.

Now that's expedience.

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Mmm, Data...

There's no public policy like pro-growth public policy.  And when it comes to pro-growth policy, no one watches Congress like the Club for Growth.  Today, the Club released its Congressional rankings for 2006 and a review of the rating components confirms that this is indeed a meaningful scorecard:

The rating examines legislative actions that reflect our immediate pro-economic growth policy goals, including:

• Making the Bush tax cuts permanent
• Death tax repeal
• Cutting and limiting government spending
• Social Security reform with personal retirement accounts
• Expanding free trade
• Legal reform to end abusive lawsuits
• Replacing the current tax code
• School choice
• Regulatory reform and deregulation

The full ranking tables for both the House and Senate are available at the link above, but here's a little bonus metadata:

And finally, shocker of shockers:

Incidentally, in 2005, there was a 21-way tie for last, so those 80th place rankings were the very bottom of the barrel.  In 2006, Hillarama suddenly went from tied-for-worst to more economically conservative than 80% of their Democratic colleagues.

Now that's expedience.