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.

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Rhode Island Plunges in 50 State Conservative Rankings – 3rd Most Liberal 

CPAC Presents 52 Lawmakers “Coalition of Radical Left” Awards

ALEXANDRIA, VA (October 18, 2022) — The voting of Rhode Island’s state lawmakers has become much more progressive, placing the legislature as the 3rd most liberal in America according to a new 50 state analysis conducted by the Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), a project of CPAC Foundation and the American Conservative Union Foundation.

In CPAC’s analysis of all 7,400 state lawmakers in America, the Rhode Island legislature earned a conservative rating of a mere 20% (a significant drop from 24% in 2020). Rhode Island now only trails Hawaii (19%) and Massachusetts (15%) as most liberal in America. 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. Each year the CLA tallies over 320,000 votes to generate the scores.

Only 6 Rhode Island Republican lawmakers earned awards from CPAC for earning conservative ratings of 80% and above. However, an astounding 52 lawmakers earned CPAC’s “Coalition of the Radical Left” award for conservative ratings of 10% or below.

RHODE ISLAND SCORECARD (Web Version)

RHODE ISLAND 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 19,000 detailed bill analyses which span 50 years of Congress and all 50 state legislatures.

For media inquiries, contact the CPAC Communications Team at [email protected] or 202-347-9388.

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