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California Fact Sheet Unfortunately, for the past decade support for commonsense environmen- California tal legislation has split mostly along Overall score: 86% party lines. In the US House, Democratic lawmakers from California had an California Democrats: 99% average score of 99%. Their Republican counterparts only averaged 5%, with the California Republicans: 5% majority earning a 0 for their anti-envi- ronmental votes. GOOD BAD SENATOR VOTES VOTES SCORE In the Senate, both Senator Harris and Dianne Feinstein D 5 0 100% Senator Feinstein scored 100%. Kamala Harris D 3 0 100% California legislators are leading the way. • Representative Grace Napolitano partnered with REPRESENTATIVE GOOD BAD SCORE Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) to introduce the VOTES VOTES Clean Water for All Act*, a bill that will repeal Trump’s Dirty Doug LaMalfa R 1 0 17 0% Water Rule, in May. Jared Huffman D 2 17 0 100% • Representative Jared Huffman introduced the Oil and John Garamendi D 3 17 0 100% Water Don’t Mix Act*, legislation that will protect our Tom McClintock R 4 2 15 12% water from oil and gas pollution by closing loopholes and Mike Thompson D 5 17 0 100% strengthening the landmark Safe Drinking Water Act. Doris Matsui D 6 17 0 100% • Senator Kamala Harris, introduced the Water Justice Act* Ami Bera D 7 17 0 100% which would invest $250 million to upgrade our water infra- Paul Cook R 8 2 15 12% structure. The bill will ensure that the nation’s water supply Jerry McNerney D 9 17 0 100% is safe, affordable and sustainable. It would also provide Josh Harder D 10 17 0 100% assistance for families struggling with their water bills. Mark DeSaulnier D 11 17 0 100% *These pieces of legislation are not scored because neither the Senate Nancy Pelosi D 12 4 0 100% or House has voted on them yet. Barbara Lee D 13 17 0 100% Jackie Speier D 14 17 0 100% GOOD BAD REPRESENTATIVE VOTES VOTES SCORE Eric Swalwell D 15 13 0 100% Tony Cárdenas D 29 17 0 100% Jim Costa D 16 15 2 88% Brad Sherman D 30 17 0 100% Ro Khanna D 17 17 0 100% Pete Aguilar D 31 17 0 100% Anna G. Eshoo D 18 17 0 100% Grace F. Napolitano D 32 17 0 100% Zoe Lofgren D 19 17 0 100% Ted Lieu D 33 17 0 100% Jimmy Panetta D 20 17 0 100% Jimmy Gomez D 34 17 0 100% TJ Cox D 21 16 1 94% Norma Torres D 35 17 0 100% Devin Nunes R 22 0 17 0% Raul Ruiz D 36 17 0 100% Kevin McCarthy R 23 0 17 0% Karen Bass D 37 17 0 100% Salud Carbajal D 24 17 0 100% Linda T. Sánchez D 38 17 0 100% Katie Hill D 25 12 0 100% Gilbert Cisneros D 39 17 0 100% Mike Garcia R 25 0 3 0% Lucille Roybal-Allard D 40 17 0 100% Julia Brownley D 26 17 0 100% Mark Takano D 41 17 0 100% Judy Chu D 27 17 0 100% Ken Calvert R 42 2 15 12% Adam B. Schiff D 28 17 0 100% Maxine Waters D 43 17 0 100% Nanette Barragán D 44 17 0 100% Katie Porter D 45 17 0 100% J. Luis Correa D 46 16 0 100% Alan Lowenthal D 47 17 0 100% Harley Rouda D 48 16 0 100% Mike Levin D 49 17 0 100% Duncan D. Hunter R 50 0 12 0% Juan Vargas D 51 16 0 100% Scott Peters D 52 17 0 100% Susan A. Davis D 53 16 1 94% www.cleanwater.org/CA.
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