CPAC Releases South Dakota Legislative Scorecard, Revealing A Fractured Republican Legislature. News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC Releases South Dakota Legislative Scorecard, Revealing A Fractured Republican Legislature. CPAC Releases South Dakota Legislative Scorecard, Revealing A Fractured Republican Legislature. ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 15, 2023) — CPAC Foundation’s analysis reveals that South Dakota Republicans greatly varied in their range of scores. Some legislators scored as low as 29% and others as high as 100%. SEE THE SCORECARD HERE Several South Dakota 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 South Dakota 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: Julie Frye-Mueller (100%) Jim Stalzer (94%) Margaret Sutton (94%) House: Elizabeth May (100%) Jon Hansen (94%) Steven Haugaard (94%) Taffy Howard (94%) Kevin Jensen (94%) Phil Jensen (94%) Sam Marty (94%) Scott Odenbach (94%) Marty Overweg (94%) The following members of the South South Dakota 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: Senate: Brock Greenfield (88%) John Bolin (81%) Lee Schoenbeck (81%) Marsha Symens (81%) House: Aaron Aylward (88%) Fred Deutsch (88%) Lana Greenfield (88%) Randy Gross (88%) Chris Karr (88%) Trish Ladner (88%) John Mills (88%) Tina Mulally (88%) Tom Pischke (88%) Tony Randolph (88%) Bethany Soye (88%) Kaleb Weis (88%) Arch Beal (82%) Drew Dennert (82%) Mary Fitzgerald (82%) Rhonda Milstead (82%) Carl Perry (82%) Caleb Finck (81%) Sue Peterson (81%) The bills featured in CPAC’s 2022 Ratings of South Dakota address property rights, taxes, protecting women’s sports, Second Amendment rights, and parental rights. 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 South Dakota 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 → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

CPAC Statement Against Omnibus News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC Statement Against Omnibus Alexandria, VA — CPAC released a statement against omnibus spending bill. “It makes absolutely no sense for big spending Republican members of the Senate GOP to give President Biden and the radical Left an early Christmas present by passing their inflationary 4,155-page $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. Voters spoke up by electing a House majority to fight against diabolical inflation and the billions in wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars.“Now certain members of the Senate GOP are betraying their voting base by stuffing their stocking with pork barrel spending. The GOP should instead use this as an opportunity to reform an FBI that continues to suppress free speech, target political enemies, and label parents as domestic terrorists; reform an overpowered IRS which has been empowered to harass conservatives and religious groups; prevent a repeal of Title 42 which DHS estimates would double the illegal border crossing in the midst of a crisis.“CPAC strongly opposes the omnibus spending bill and will recommend to our sister organization, CPAC Foundation, scoring a vote in favor negatively in CPAC Foundation’s 2022 Ratings of Congress.” ### NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More View the Statement → CPAC Statement on President Trump's Signing of Trafficking Survivor's Relief Act View the Statement → Statement on Capture of Nicolás Maduro View the Statement → Statement on CPAC Mexico View the Statement → CPAC Center for Combating Human Trafficking Urges Congress to Pass a Clean Continuing Resolution View the Statement → Statement on Continuing Resolution First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

CPAC Releases Louisiana Legislative Scorecard, Foreshadowing the Conservative Session Ahead for Governor Landry. News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC Releases Louisiana Legislative Scorecard, Foreshadowing the Conservative Session Ahead for Governor Landry. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More View the Statement → CPAC Statement on President Trump's Signing of Trafficking Survivor's Relief Act View the Statement → Statement on Capture of Nicolás Maduro View the Statement → Statement on CPAC Mexico View the Statement → CPAC Center for Combating Human Trafficking Urges Congress to Pass a Clean Continuing Resolution View the Statement → Statement on Continuing Resolution First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

Matt Schlapp on FoxNews: “The Biden gig is up” News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. Matt Schlapp on FoxNews: “The Biden gig is up” CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp penned a new op-ed for FoxNews.com that lays out the difficult road ahead for Joe Biden as his approval ratings continue to sink and his policies continue to stink. As Joe Biden ’s presidential approval numbers continue to slip, it is reasonable to ask at what point is the Biden administration politically unsalvageable. The clear evidence is that the Biden policies are not working well for most, including for Biden voters. A trend of buyer’s remorse is developing among young, independent, women (you don’t have to be a biologist to read poll numbers either), and minority voters. Tellingly, Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign pollster, John Anzalone, is lowering expectations ahead of the bloodbath by saying it is “the worst political environment” he’s seen in three decades. Democrats on the Hill have doubled down on the most radically left policy agenda including cheerleading the end of American energy independence, inflation-inducing runaway government spending and a cornucopia of perverse woke cultural oddities. Even if a voter likes the new lefty policies, the overall numbers are sobering. Read more on Foxnews.com or see more of Matt’s op-eds here . NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

Abandoning friends; Emboldening enemies News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. Abandoning friends; Emboldening enemies This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the United States’ policy in Venezuela. They discussed the heavy sanctions levied against Nicolás Maduro’s illegitimate socialist regime. Once the richest country in South America, a thriving democracy with the world’s largest crude oil reserves, Venezuela’s people are now literally starving to death. If America were to re-apply the policies of the Obama-Biden administration today, Maduro’s disastrous regime, propped up by Cuba, Russia, and Iran, would continue indefinitely. In 1982, Biden voted in opposition to the reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine. So unpopular was this stance, that he was joined by only 27 other lawmakers, and it’s easy to understand why. It broadcasts American vulnerability, not strength. The Monroe Doctrine warns against foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere. President John F. Kennedy invoked the Monroe Doctrine during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. At that time, the Soviet Union had installed ballistic missile facilities on the tiny island nation less than 100 miles from Florida. JFK’s Monroe Doctrine-based response prevented escalation into full-scale nuclear war. Fast-forward to 2013. “The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over,” said John Kerry, then serving as the Obama-Biden administration’s Secretary of State. Undoubtedly, Joe Biden concurs. Meanwhile, in 2020, Russia and China fiercely protect their respective spheres of influence. The prospect of a Biden presidency in which America returns to renouncing the Monroe Doctrine must fill our adversaries with delight. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

CPAC Releases Scorecard of Nevada Lawmakers News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC Releases Scorecard of Nevada Lawmakers The Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), a project of CPAC Foundation and the American Conservative Union Foundation, conducts an annual, in-depth analysis to rate all 8,000 lawmakers in America, revealing their positions on a wide variety of issues directly affecting our communities and families. Check out the press release below with more details and please take action ! It only takes three minutes to let your legislators know that their score from the CPAC Foundation is important to you, and you expect them to support more conservative policies. CPAC Releases Nevada Lawmaker Scorecard Analysis Reveals More Lawmakers Voting for Conservative Principles ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 3, 2022) — A greater number of Nevada state lawmakers are upholding conservative principles in their voting according to a new analysis conducted by the Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), a project of CPAC Foundation and the American Conservative Union Foundation. For the 2021 session, ten lawmakers received awards from CPAC for their conservative voting, compared to seven the previous session. To earn an award from CPAC, lawmakers must vote with the conservative position on at least 80% of the bills evaluated by the CLA. The Nevada state legislature earned a conservative rating of 34%, far below the national average (49%). The conservative rating is calculated through CPAC’s scorecards and is based on lawmaker voting across 186 policy areas ranging from cultural and life issues to tax, fiscal and regulatory policies. NEVADA SCORECARD (Web Version) NEVADA SCORECARD (PDF Version) The ratings have also been incorporated into CPAC’s new Lawmaker Comparison Tool which runs head-to-head comparisons on lawmaker’s strongest and weakest policy areas. The CLA is the first and only organization to annually publish individual ratings for all 8,000 federal and state lawmakers in America. The CLA is also home to the nation’s most comprehensive conservative policy database containing over 17,500 detailed bill analyses which span 50 years of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. For media inquiries, contact the CPAC Communications Team at comms@conservative.org or 202-347-9388. xxx Chip in to support CLA’s Ratings Our staff spends thousands of hours analyzing more than 105,000 pieces of legislation voted on by Congress and every state legislature in the country. Your support is critical to be able to provide this level of insight and transparency. Will you please make a tax-deductible donation today to support transparency and ratings of Nevada legislators? NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

CPAC sends letter demanding AT&T not consider January 6 committee legitimate under Congressional rules News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC sends letter demanding AT&T not consider January 6 committee legitimate under Congressional rules Download a PDF version of the letter here . December 16, 2021 John T. Stankey Whitacre Tower 208 S. Akard St. Dallas, TX 75201 Dear Mr. Stankey, The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, better known as AT&T, has picked a side in the fight between those who stand for America versus the Socialist Left, which is determined to destroy our freedoms and values. And it has picked the wrong side, the side that created an invalid, hyper-politicized “committee” to harm Republicans while hiding Nancy Pelosi’s grave culpability in the January 6 debacle. In doing so AT&T turned on its own customers and foisted on them the burden to battle against the insatiable effort by radicals in Congress to get their hands on private data that actually requires a court order to obtain. This is wrong and AT&T must fix its wrong-headed choices. Nancy Pelosi’s so-called “January 6 Committee” is illegitimate, and its work is invalid. In forming the committee, Pelosi brazenly discarded the rules of the House of Representatives – rules she wrote – that apply to every other Member of Congress. She refused to accept the appointments of the House Republican Leader and substituted her own shills to guarantee the outcome she wants. Yes, Pelosi picked the Republicans on the panel. Who did she sub in to guarantee her desired result? Future former Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, two people who are actively turning their backs on conservative principles. In doing so, she claims the so-called “select committee” is bipartisan, because two of her “Never-Trump” Republicans-in-Name-Only are participating. The House Rules give the Republican leadership the power to appoint Republicans to committees. Pelosi broke this rule, ignored the selections of the Republican Leader, and stacked the deck. This makes a mockery of the Rule of Law. Any work of the committee – including the issuance of subpoenas — is invalid. Turning private information over to this illegitimate committee is akin to turning the information over to the Democrat National Committee. The limited scope of the committee investigation makes clear that it is little more than the venue for a partisan witch hunt. Pelosi ordered the committee members not to explore why she refused the assistance of the National Guard to provide security at the Capitol. Reports show that the former Capitol Police Chief, along with the White House, urged use of the National Guard in anticipation of a planned large gathering who were going to march near the Capitol. There were more than 10 requests in advance of, and during, the ugly events of January 6. But Nancy Pelosi, who as Speaker of the House has political appointees in place to oversee the Capitol Police, turned down these requests until too much harm had already been caused. Why? Perhaps AT&T should turn over Pelosi’s records and we’d have a better understanding about her irresponsible actions. The breadth of the subpoenas that have been issued is just as illuminating, and alarming. Pelosi’s’ minions are demanding that AT&T turn over information that most of us would be covered by an expectation of privacy, including the contents of all text messages, other short message service communications, and emails associated with each account. It is one thing to demand location data and call logs from a mobile carrier. No one expects that information to be protected. It is quite another to peer into the substance of private communications without a court order. This committee is further demonstrating its illegitimacy to make headlines and bankrupt Republicans in its treatment of Mark Meadows, a man known as one of the most decent people in Washington. The panel just voted to hold the president’s former Chief of Staff, and former House colleague, in contempt simply for following the time-honored process surrounding Executive Privilege. Meadows had been cooperating with the committee. Rather than turning over information that may be covered by Executive Privilege (and thus, not his to share), Meadows asked the US District Court to clarify what he is required to disclose to Pelosi’s kangaroo court. Rather than waiting for a decision by an unbiased legal authority, Pelosi is seeking to have him prosecuted. Every single American should be outraged by this obscene abuse of power. In an awkward attempt to defend AT&T’s actions, its trade association, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA), actually indicated what AT&T should have done in response to this unlawful panel’s demands. In a press release, CTIA offered that “wireless carriers are compelled to comply with valid subpoenas and do so every day.” Any litigant can issue a subpoena. But to compel compliance requires a court of competent jurisdiction to issue an order. Rather than protecting its customers by requiring a valid court order, AT&T flippantly informed its own customers that the company was going to turn over the requested information. If they want to challenge the legitimacy of the subpoenas, customers must do their own legal work at their own expense to protect their own privacy. This is not how a company that values its customers ought to act. Never in our nation’s history has a company collapsed so gracelessly in response to a fake committee’s invalid subpoenas. We are rarely complimentary of Apple, but in this context, the company serves its customers’ interests by requiring a court order when a questionable subpoena is served. According to the New York Times, Apple challenged 238 demands from the government for its customers’ account data in the first six months of 2020. Why does AT&T not live up to that standard now? The board members of AT&T may not be aware of the betrayal of its own customers, but they must be aware of the other ways the company has contributed to the hyper-partisanship in America. For example, the company openly voted with its market power when it removed advertising from One America News, a media outlet that President Trump included in White House briefings. It also voted with its shareholder’s profits when it doled out large amounts of cash to the self- proclaimed Marxists who founded Black Lives Matter, Inc., an organization directly responsible for much of the mayhem that destroyed lives and neighborhoods across America last summer. And here the facts are revealing about the real purpose of the “January 6 Committee.” The summer of 2020 saw an unprecedented assault on America by the Socialist Left: well over 500 riots across the country resulted in dozens of American deaths and over $2 billion in property damage; 2,000 police officers were injured, attacked, shot and stabbed; federal and state court houses and police precincts were burned to the ground. Despite an initial arrest of 14,000 rioters, almost all were immediately released and their respective criminal charges were dropped. Yet Nancy Pelosi refused to investigate this crime wave or condemn the violence and instead pushed for an “investigation” of one of the rare instances where supporters of President Trump were accused of wrongdoing. AT&T has announced that it will cave to Pelosi’s unlawful committee and its invalid subpoena. This betrays its customers and creates a precedent that must be reversed. The democratic process is dying in plain sight, and AT&T is abetting its demise. It is time for AT&T to take “Telegraph” out and put “America” back in its name and stand for what is right. CPAC The Conservative Political Action Coalition NEWS & RELEASES . 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First anniversary of the overturning of Roe V Wade News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. First anniversary of the overturning of Roe V Wade NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

ACU Foundation Releases Latest Scores of North Carolina General Assembly News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. ACU Foundation Releases Latest Scores of North Carolina General Assembly NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

CPAC Releases Iowa Legislative Scorecard, Revealing a State Committed to Advancing Conservative Principles. News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC Releases Iowa Legislative Scorecard, Revealing a State Committed to Advancing Conservative Principles. NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title Read More Add a Title First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

ACU Endorses Fiona McFarland News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. ACU Endorses Fiona McFarland NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More View the Statement → CPAC Statement on President Trump's Signing of Trafficking Survivor's Relief Act View the Statement → Statement on Capture of Nicolás Maduro View the Statement → Statement on CPAC Mexico View the Statement → CPAC Center for Combating Human Trafficking Urges Congress to Pass a Clean Continuing Resolution View the Statement → Statement on Continuing Resolution First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last

CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp supports Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s agenda News & Releases Explore the latest updates, news, and product releases to stay informed and ahead of the curve. CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp supports Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s agenda NEWS & RELEASES . Read More → View More → News & Release View More → View More View the Statement → CPAC Statement on President Trump's Signing of Trafficking Survivor's Relief Act View the Statement → Statement on Capture of Nicolás Maduro View the Statement → Statement on CPAC Mexico View the Statement → CPAC Center for Combating Human Trafficking Urges Congress to Pass a Clean Continuing Resolution View the Statement → Statement on Continuing Resolution First Previous 1 Page 1 Next Last