[at-l] May be of interest

[Felix <AThiker@smithville.net>]

The following was sent to me by a friend. I thought some of you may be
interested in it:


The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) has released the
1999 National Environmental Scorecard, an annual rating of the
environmental voting record for every member of Congress.
Representatives and Senators were graded on how they voted on the
most important environmental votes of last year, including
opposing
mountaintop removal mining, supporting funding for the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, opposing commercial fishing in Glacier
Bay
National Park and fighting anti-environmental riders. For the
fifth
consecutive year the average score for both the House (46
percent)
and Senate (41 percent) failed to top 50 percent. This year a
RECORD
number --37-- Senators failed to cast a single positive vote on
the
environment and earned a score of zero.

Conservationists expressed concern that for the third year in a
row,
every member of the Senate majority leadership team failed to
cast
a single vote for conservation. Particularly disturbing is the
fact
that the recently elected chairman of the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee, Senator Robert Smith (R-NH), earned an
abysmal score of  zero. In contrast, the man he replaced as
chairman,
the late Senator John L. Chafee (R-RI), had a lifetime average
rating of 70.

The nonprofit League of Conservation Voters is the bipartisan
political voice for the environmental community and has published
a
National Environmental Scorecard for each Congress since 1970.

To find out your Representative's or Senators' environmental
voting
record, visit LCV's website at:
http://scorecard.lcv.org/index.cfm




--
Felix J. McGillicuddy
ME-->GA '98
"Your Move"
http://Felixhikes.tripod.com/




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