Biden Scores Low on Fiscal Policy Test
August 27th, 2008
Sen. Joe Biden’s (D-DE) foreign policy experience may have led to his selection as Barack Obama’s running mate, but his fiscal record is less than stellar.
Biden has received “F” grades on the National Taxpayers Union’s past 10 Ratings of Congress, which analyze every Roll Call vote affecting fiscal policy and assign members of Congress a “Taxpayer Score” and letter grade. (Most recently, Biden received a Taxpayer Score of 4%, ranking him 94th out of 100 Senators.)
Since NTU began assigning letter grades for its Rating in 1992, Biden has received “F” grades 81 percent of the time and no “A” grades (his highest grade was a C- for the 1996 Rating).
If all the bills Biden introduced in 2007 became law, the annual federal budget would increase by $65.8 billion, according to the NTU Foundation’s most recent BillTally report, which assigns a “net annual agenda cost” for each member of Congress based on individual sponsorships of legislation.
On a positive note, Biden was one of just 11 Senate Democrats who voted in favor of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution in March 1997.
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