There are 12 article(s) tagged D.C. Scorecard:

• March 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: Federal government avoids shutdown

    The D.C. Scorecard tracks how Memphis’ representatives in Washington voted in the passage of a continuing resolution and looks at past trips to or near a government shutdown.

    By Bill Dries March 14, 2025

• February 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: Trump administration is ‘cleaning house’

    Also, the TacoNGanas raid is felt in the nation’s capital, Tennessee U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty pushes back on “Face the Nation,” Mississippi U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says Secretary Pete Hegseth made a “rookie mistake” and more.

    By Bill Dries February 16, 2025

• January 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: What Memphis’ elected officials are saying ahead of Trump’s second term

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, has called on the Senate to reject several of Trump’s appointees, including Robert Kennedy Jr

    By Bill Dries January 14, 2025

• September 2024

  • D.C. Scorecard: How city’s representatives voted on funding government

    The Daily Memphian’s D.C. Scorecard tracks votes on two measure to continue temporarily federal spending into December — one that failed and the one that passed. 

    By Bill Dries September 30, 2024

• April 2024

  • D.C. Scorecard: U.S. aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan votes reveal bipartisanship limits

    The D.C. Scorecard finds some bipartisanship among the state’s House delegation to Washington. The city’s two Congressmen — one Democratic and the other Republican — voted for aid packages to Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel — although for different reasons. The state’s two Republican Senators voted against the aid.

    By Bill Dries April 24, 2024

• October 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Rep. Kustoff backs new speaker of the US House

    The Daily Memphian’s D.C. Scorecard tracks the votes of the city’s two representative in the U.S. House as a new speaker was chosen Wednesday, Oct. 25.

    By Bill Dries October 25, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: War in Gaza

    The Daily Memphian’s D.C. Scorecard finds bipartisan support for Israel among the city’s representatives in the Capitol but disagreement on what if any role the U.S. unfreezing Iranian assets may have played Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

    By Bill Dries October 09, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Ousting the House Speaker

    After agreeing on the short-term spending bill last week that lead to the Tuesday, Oct. 3, vote on ousting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Congressmen Steve Cohen and David Kustoff parted company on McCarthy’s political fate.

    By Bill Dries October 04, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Cohen, Kustoff vote for spending stop-gap while Hagerty, Blackburn vote no

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen was among the Democratic majority voting for the bill, and Rep. David Kustoff was among the 126 Republicans who voted for it.

    By Bill Dries October 02, 2023

• June 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: The Schiff censure, the Durham probe, TVA

    This D.C. Scorecard includes the censure of the Democrat who made the House’s case for former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment and a grilling of the special counsel who investigated the FBI’s handling of allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Trump’s indictment, Cohen on Amtrak; Kustoff at Le Bonheur

    The D.C. Scorecard shows partisan lines still intact among the city’s four representatives on the espionage indictment against Donald Trump. Also, Cohen talks Memphis to Nashville Amtrak service, while Kustoff talks workforce at Le Bonheur.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2023

• December 2022

  • D.C. Scorecard: Same-sex marriage, Big Tech and Brittney Griner

    The D.C. Scorecard looks at the partisan split on federal same-sex marriage recognition and the National Defense Authorization Act. 

    By Bill Dries December 09, 2022