TheSargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law has isued a scorecard for every member of Congress showing how they voted in 2009 on fifteen key bills in the fight against poverty.
It's not surprising that our Congressional delegation got straight A's, or in the case of Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch, A +.
At a time when there is much to criticize, it's important to recognize the good that our representatives in Congress do.
= vote to fight poverty 
= vote against fighting poverty
Now don’t go resting on your laurels!
From this ranking, it looks like the senior Vermont Senator supported an amendment (Amendment to Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010
S. Amdt. 2376 to H.R. 3288) that
Wonder if he got anything in return for that vote.
They’re great on VOTING to fight poverty.
But poverty has nothing to fear from these do-littles.