The Institute for Legislative Analysis (ILA) recently released its Limited Government Index, in which U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) took first place in their respective legislative bodies.
The ILA boasts its Limited Government Index as the “first national scorecard created with a philosophy based solely on the limited government principles of the U.S. Constitution.” The ILA claims its scorecard contains 122 policy analyses and more unique sampled roll calls than the federal scorecards produced by over a dozen leading national advocacy groups. The ILA’s scorecard rates lawmakers with a percentage-based scoring, showing how limited government they are based on multiple factors.
The ILA’s stated mission is, “Advancing the limited government principles of the U.S. Constitution by increasing transparency within Congress and the 50 state legislatures.”
In the Senate Scorecard, Tuberville scored 91.58%, while U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) received 67.86%.
In the House, Moore leads the pack with a score of 91.75%, followed by U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover)with 83.59%. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) predictably had the lowest score of 4.66%, while U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) received the lowest Republican score in the House of Representatives with 69.11%.
With both bodies taken as a whole, Moore narrowly beats Tuberville, while Britt earned the lowest score of any of Alabama’s Republican federal lawmakers.
The scorecard did not contain a ranking for Alabama’s newest congressional member, U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures (D-Mobile), due to a lack of voting data since he only took office at the beginning of this year.
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