{"id":253,"date":"2022-02-21T20:42:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/?p=253"},"modified":"2024-06-22T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T02:44:09","slug":"looking-up-your-representatives-voting-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Looking up your representative&#8217;s voting record"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"253\" class=\"elementor elementor-253\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-df1042e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"df1042e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0716807\" data-id=\"0716807\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa94ff2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"aa94ff2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Looking up your representative's voting record<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9b324f4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9b324f4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35d8c29\" data-id=\"35d8c29\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cc45d2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6cc45d2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Voting-Record-Lookup-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-259\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Voting-Record-Lookup-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Voting-Record-Lookup-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Voting-Record-Lookup-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Voting-Record-Lookup-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Voting-Record-Lookup.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-96b7fa7\" data-id=\"96b7fa7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d985d88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d985d88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Finding the truth about what your representative is actually doing is a tricky thing to do.&nbsp; Many times proposed legislation is mixed up with parts that have nothing to do with the title of the legislation.&nbsp; Although there are many rules that try to stop this confusion from happening, those that want to pass legislation against the will of the majority of voters will often resort to all kinds of tricks to get a law passed or killed.<\/p>\n<p>One place we have found to be helpful in researching Idaho candidates is the Idaho Freedom Foundation who publishes a <a href=\"https:\/\/idahofreedom.org\/freedom-index\/\">score-card<\/a> for every representative in the Idaho State legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to find out what your representatives are doing as opposed to what they are saying is to search out a group that is focused on an issue you care about.&nbsp; They can usually tell you who their favorite or least-favorite representatives are.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking up your representative&#8217;s voting record Finding the truth about what your representative is actually doing is a tricky thing to do.&nbsp; Many times proposed legislation is mixed up with parts that have nothing to do with the title of the legislation.&nbsp; Although there are many rules that try to stop this confusion from happening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8938,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-legislator-voting-records","category-recommendations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahocgg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}