REPUBLICAN CONGRESS DISSES MIDDLE CLASS IN 2003

Middle Class 2003: How Congress Voted

Among the findings:

The Senate, overall, earned a B grade, but the average obscures disparities: while 96 percent of Democratic senators got an A, a quarter of Republicans got an F "for their failure to support the middle class."
The House, says the report, "did a poor job of voting with the middle class," rating a C overall. Here, too, there were big disparities: 36 percent of House members received an failing grade, while 21 percent got an A. The former group was almost entirely Republican, the latter entirely Democratic.