| |  Republican Representative Mark Amodei of NevadaRep. Amodei's Liberal Action Score: 0 The Liberal Action Score is calculated by compiling a series of measured liberal actions (both roll call voting and bill cosponsorship) in the 112th Congress and comparing Mark Amodei's behavior against a liberal standard:
- Respect for constitutional protections of American civil liberty
- Transparency and public access in government
- Equal treatment of people under law
- The respect and pursuit of empirical knowledge through support for science and education
- Protection of the Earth's environmental richness
- Strengthening of economic opportunity for all
- Pursuit of peaceful solutions and opposition to militarism in policy
A score of 0 means that Representative Amodei has participated in 0% of our slate of liberal actions in the 112th Congress.
Representative Amodei has failed to take any of the slate of liberal actions we have identified for the 112th Congress.
Liberal Bills Congressman Amodei has failed to support through cosponsorship:
Rep. Mark Amodei has not taken any conservative action on the That's My Congress scorecard during the 112th Congress.
| | | Recent legislative news in which Mark Amodei plays a part:
Kate Marshall Cash Advantage Slashed By National Republican Intervention
There's a congressional election coming up soon - not in 2012, but in just a little over two weeks. In Nevada's 2nd district on September 12, voters will choose a replacement for Dean Heller, who left the seat when he was appointed to Nevada's junior U.S. Senate seat.
Not long ago, Democratic Party candidate Kate Marshall bragged about her superior fundraising, saying that she had raised $100,000 more than her Republican opponent, Mark Amodei. Yesterday, however, that advantage was seriously diminished as a result of the spending of just one organization.
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Republicans Won Special Elections To Congress With Mystery Money
The Associated Press says of the victory for Bob Turner in yesterday's special congressional election in New York's 9th congressional district that "It sounded improbable on the surface that a New York City congressional district where Democrats have a 3-1 registration edge and have held office for nearly a century could even come close to electing a Republican to the US House."
Improbable? The victory of Bob Turner over Democrat David Weprin only sounds improbable if you haven't heard about the growing power of independent expenditures in elections to the federal government. Thanks to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, corporations now legally can form organizations that funnel unlimited amounts of money into elections... [more]
Democrat Slammed By Independent Expenditures In Nevada Special Election To Congress
Part of me wants to admire Kate Marshall, the Democratic candidate in September 12th's special congressional election, for her optimism. She trumpets her campaign's "hefty $200k in the bank" as sign of her campaign's strength.
$200,000 certainly sounds hefty, until one considers the $742,567 in independent expenditures... [more]
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