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CPAC Releases West Virginia Legislative Scorecard, Revealing Increased Scores and Conservative Success CPAC Releases West Virginia Legislative Scorecard, Revealing Increased Scores and Conservative Success ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 8, 2023) — CPAC Foundation’s analysis reveals that West Virginia lawmakers increased the state’s overall conservative rating over the previous year. Both chambers took a conservative approach to legislating, raising the average percentage of times each member voted conservatively by four points from the previous session. SEE THE SCORECARD HERE “West Virginia has gone from a Democrat state to a Republican state, to now a leading conservative state,” said CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp. “Their defense of parental rights in education and protection of the unborn led to impressive scores and an overall improvement from the previous year.” Several West Virginia state legislators are recognized by CPAC for their conservative voting records based on a just-released analysis from CPAC Foundation’s Center for Legislative Accountability. The following members of the West Virginia State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Excellence for voting with the conservative position at least 90% of the time during the 2022 session: Senate: Robert L. Karnes (100%) Rollan Roberts (100%) Mike Azinger (94%) Craig Blair (94%) Donna Boley (94%) Charles H. Clements (94%) Patrick Martin (94%) Mark Maynard (94%) Chandler Swope (94%) Tom Takubo (94%) Jack Woodrum (94%) Patricia Rucker (93%) House: Jonathan Pinson (100%) Laura Kimble (96%) Chris Pritt (96%) Pat McGeehan (95%) Adam Burkhammer (91%) Todd Longanacre (91%) Roger Conley (91%) Geoff Foster (91%) Marty Gearheart (91%) Caleb Hanna (91%) Mike Honaker (91%) Gary Howell (90%) Additionally, a large number of lawmakers in the West Virginia State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Achievement for voting with the conservative position at least 80% of the time during the 2022 session. The bills featured in CPAC’s 2022 Ratings of West Virginia address election integrity, school choice, parental rights, and tax reform. These issues, coupled with our mission to protect life, liberty, property and uphold the American family, created the basis by which the CPAC Foundation rated the West Virginia legislature. The Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA) , an initiative of the CPAC Foundation, is the premier organization for holding lawmakers accountable. The CLA produces the longest-running conservative congressional scorecard and our state program is the only one in the nation that scores all 8,000 lawmakers in the 50 states across every policy area. # # # Contact: comms@conservative.org (202)-347-9388 NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Giving M E N U Home Giving

CPAC Endorses Jim Jordan CPAC Endorses Jim Jordan Alexandria, VA – The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) today announced its endorsement of Jim Jordan for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives in Ohio’s 4th congressional district. “Jim Jordan is a truly remarkable defender of conservative values and principles in our nation’s Capital,” said CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp. “During his service in Congress, Congressman Jordan has earned an unprecedented 100% ACUF Lifetime rating for his solidly conservative voting record. His sterling record with our organization demonstrates the strength of his convictions, his determination in the face of the Left’s increasing radicalism, and his courage to always stand up for what is right. Because the establishment class in Washington has made it abundantly clear that America’s founding principles are on the chopping block, our country needs Jim Jordan’s leadership now more than ever. Congressman Jordan stands strong in defending the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, rejecting government tyranny, or standing up to socialism. CPAC is proud to once again endorse my friend Jim Jordan for reelection. When Republicans recapture the House majority next year, Jim Jordan will be ready to defend the Constitution and our conservative values.” The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) is the nation’s original grass roots conservative organization. For more than fifty years, CPAC has served as an umbrella organization harnessing the collective strength of conservative organizations fighting for Americans who are concerned with liberty, personal responsibility, traditional values, strong national defense, and fighting the D.C. establishment. As one of America’s premier conservative voices, CPAC promotes a conservative vision on issues before Congress, the Executive Branch, State Legislatures, the media, political candidates, and the public. ### NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

CPAC Releases Ohio Legislative Scorecard, Revealing a Relatively Uninspiring Year-Long Session. CPAC Releases Ohio Legislative Scorecard, Revealing a Relatively Uninspiring Year-Long Session. ALEXANDRIA, VA (March 5, 2024) — CPAC Foundation’s analysis reveals that the Ohio state legislature passed few strong conservative bills compared to previous sessions and relative to other red states. Of the two conservative bills scored by CPAC that eventually became law, one was vetoed by Governor Mike DeWine and had to be overridden. SEE SCORECARD HERE “Voters in Ohio have entrusted the Republican’s to control their legislature and their Governor’s mansion. However, conservative legislation often fails to get across the finish line, and even worse, in the case of defending minors from radical gender surgeries, the bill tragically met the veto pen of ‘moderate’ Governor Mike DeWine before being overridden,” said CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp. The following members of the Ohio State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Excellence for voting with the conservative position at least 90% of the time during the 2023 session: Darrell Kick (100%) Riordan McClain (100%) Derek Merrin (100%) Jena Powell (100%) Reggie Stoltzfus (100%)   Additionally, some lawmakers in the Ohio State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Achievement for voting with the conservative position at least 80% of the time during the 2023 session. Their names can be found highlighted in silver on the scorecard. The bills featured in CPAC’s 2023 Ratings of Ohio address radical gender ideology, Second Amendment freedoms, and election fraud. These issues, coupled with our mission to protect life, liberty, property and uphold the American family, created the basis by which the CPAC Foundation rated the Ohio legislature. The Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), an initiative of the CPAC Foundation, is the premier organization for holding lawmakers accountable. The CLA produces the longest-running conservative congressional scorecard and our state program is the only one in the nation that scores all 8,000 lawmakers in the 50 states across every policy area. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

Statement on Continuing Resolution Statement on Continuing Resolution The Socialist Democrats are addicted to big government spending and massive deficits. While they are fighting for wasteful spending on illegals, President Trump is fighting to protect Americans' hard-earned tax dollars and American citizens. Republicans need to embrace the Trump standard of actually fighting and drawing a line in the sand on the Socialist Democrats’ radical policies. As CPAC has consistently said, "shut downs" that only shut down 17% of the federal government, while allowing 83% of government functions to continue, are NOT full shutdowns. It only underscores the bloated nature of our federal spending and the urgent need to get things under control. We cannot let unfounded panic deter us from curbing wasteful spending of tax payer dollars. Going forward, Republican budget and appropriation committee members need to honor the mandate given to President Trump almost a year ago. We will never have a law-based immigration process if our government continues to subsidize illegal and unwanted immigration. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

Breitbart: Matt Schlapp on SCOTUS Breitbart: Matt Schlapp on SCOTUS “Ronald Reagan was 50-50 on his picks,” Schlapp said while examining the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade . “George H.W. Bush was 50-50 on his picks. George W. [Bush] was 50-50 on his picks.” https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/matt-schlapp-june-30-2022?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fbreitbart%252Fmatt-schlapp-june-30-2022 NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Giving M E N U Home Giving

Destroying union jobs Destroying union jobs The logjam has finally given way. Progress on the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline—a project which will bring oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas—has finally resumed. On August 4, Calgary-based TC Energy signed agreements with four labor unions to start building the Alberta-to-Nebraska section. The project will reportedly create 42,000 U.S. jobs, 10,000 of which are in high-paying construction. According to Keystone XL, the project will inject $3.4 billion into the U.S. GDP and boost Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska’s local economies by $55 million in the first year of operation. On top of the boon for US jobs and GDP, the project will create a “multi-million dollar training program for [the] renewable energy sector” via establishing a unique “Green Jobs Training Program” for its union member workers. This should tick any decent politician’s boxes for a great project. Good for jobs Good for the economy Good for the environment But Joe Biden isn’t just any politician. Though he doesn’t call it the “Green New Deal,” Joe Biden’s policies mimic it. In a Joe Biden administration, there would be no Keystone XL pipeline, nor the jobs that go with it. In May, his campaign policy director promised that Biden would “ stop it for good by rescinding the Keystone XL pipeline permit .” Joe Biden talks a good game when it comes to creating millions of fictional energy jobs. But that’s all it is—talk. In reality, where it counts, his first act will be to please his radical, Left-wing puppeteers by destroying thousands of high-paying, climate-friendly Keystone XL union jobs. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

CPAC Endorses Ken Paxton CPAC Endorses Ken Paxton The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) announced its endorsement of Ken Paxton for re-election as Texas Attorney General. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

January 6 Committee’s Zoe Lofgren Questioned Voting Machines in 2004 January 6 Committee’s Zoe Lofgren Questioned Voting Machines in 2004 From Breitbart.com : Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) — who took a leading role in the January 6 Select Committee’s second hearing on Monday focusing on former President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election — once questioned the integrity of voting machines in the 2004 presidential election. Reaction in The Washington Times : “This is more evidence of the double standard imposed by socialist Democrats,” Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference and the American Conservative Union said in a statement. “The same people that questioned election results will call you treasonous for doing just that.” NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

Statement on Capture of Nicolás Maduro Statement on Capture of Nicolás Maduro Freedom is on the rise throughout the Americas, and today, we stand with the long-suffering people of Venezuela. Their country, once a prosperous jewel of the hemisphere, was destroyed by illegitimately elected leaders’ poisonous commitment to communism and hostility toward America. Maduro was NOT the legitimate leader of Venezuela, was given ample opportunity to relinquish control of his nation, and was indicted by a US court in a lawful process. Maduro, who illegitimately claimed to be the leader of Venezuela, was indicted in a lawful process before a United States Federal Court. The socialist dictator has been charged with conspiring to traffic illegal drugs into our country and using his power as the leader of a drug cartel in Venezuela to pose an ongoing threat to the United States. Thanks to the decisive actions of President Trump a bright future is possible. America has to walk a careful line when confronting murderous dictators. She should always stand for human rights, but we also cannot intervene without patient examination of the equities involved. We also cannot assume that the past Venezuelan prosperity will be easy to recapture. There is a long road ahead, and it will be up to Venezuelans including the exhile community to ensure their future. CPAC has stood by President Trump through thick and thin including endorsing him before primary voting started in 2024 and defending him during the evils of Biden’s lawfare. CPAC is appreciative for President Trump’s bold rhetoric and actions to counter Islamic extremism and nuclear risk in Iran, Islamic terrorism in and around Israel, Christian persecution in Nigeria, and Cartels in Latin America. A new Trump Doctrine is emerging, but all of it is at risk if the woke Marxism we battle abroad takes power in our Congress. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

The radical left will do whatever it takes to stop President Trump. The radical left will do whatever it takes to stop President Trump. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

CPAC Endorses John James CPAC Endorses John James The Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) announced its endorsement of John James for Congress (MI-10). NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home

Low-income families hung out to dry Low-income families hung out to dry Joe Biden may talk a good game when it comes to support for low-income housing, but the devil is in the details. A closer look at his actual votes and policies clearly demonstrates that he is no friend to the poor. Biden’s 110-page unity statement with Bernie Sanders includes a promise to “repair and rehabilitate public housing through a major investment in the refurbishment of housing facilities.” That sounds pretty good on the surface. Clearly, no one wants poor citizens relegated to living in broken down, rat-infested crime dens. But when you dig a little deeper, Biden’s promises rapidly lose their luster. Government red tape and outdated laws have long stymied efforts to improve the availability and condition of low-income housing. Sadly, Biden’s votes made a bad situation even worse. In 1990, Biden voted against an amendment to the National Affordable Housing Act exempting low-income housing projects from the Davis-Bacon Act. A relic from the 1930s, the Davis-Bacon Act forces contractors to pay the highest prevailing local wage—typically the union wage—for work on public contracts. The bill says those workers must receive that high wage regardless of their individual skill or the nature of the job they are performing. The more tax-payer dollars unnecessarily spent on wages, the less that’s available to invest in the housing projects themselves. Between 2018 and 2026, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates the constraints of the Davis-Bacon Act will cost the federal government $13 billion . That is $13 billion that could be invested in improving the availability and condition of low income housing and other worthwhile projects. When it comes down to a choice between bolstering the bottom line of his rich, left-wing, union-connected buddies and helping low-inco me citizens with affordable housing, Biden will choose his cronies every time. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → Menu Close Home Giving Centers Nolan Center for Justice Center for Legislative Accountability Center for Combating Human Trafficking Center for Regulatory Freedom Coalition Against Socialized Medicine Get Involved About Home Home Home Home Home Home M E N U Home Home Home Home Home Home