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Heritage Foundation Launches Election Integrity Scorecard Ranking States on Election
Laws <[link removed]> – The Heritage Foundation today released its Election Integrity Scorecard <[link removed]>, a new interactive tool that analyzes the election laws of all 50 states and the District of Columbia and grades each state on how well it protects the security and integrity of the election process. The Election Integrity Scorecard gives states a clear picture of where their laws and regulations meet the best practices, where vulnerabilities exist, and how to fix them. The right to free and fair elections and to having every legal vote count is one of the most basic civil rights in our republic. Americans should be able to have complete confidence in the security of the electoral process, and that their vote will not be lost, stolen, altered, or negated by fraud. This scorecard on the states’ election laws is a vital roadmap to restoring and strengthening that confidence. Heritage Experts: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]> and John Malcolm <[link removed]>
Durbin cuts off witness from conservative group during Chicago gun violence hearing <[link removed]> – "Sen. Durbin held a hearing on Chicago-specific violence, then cut me off when my explanation was too Chicago-specific," Swearer said on
Twitter <[link removed]> Monday. "The story he didn't want you to hear? Police arrested 5 men who fired over 70 rounds at a Chicago home. Prosecutors released all of them without a single charge. "Perpetrators of gun violence in Chicago reasonably believe they can light up a neighborhood on Friday, and then be released on Monday without facing a single meaningful consequence," she continued, adding that Durbin "believes it's inappropriate to mention this at a hearing on Chicago gun violence."
Heritage Expert: Amy Swearer <[link removed]>
 
Middle Class Will Get Stuck With Bill for Biden’s Spending, Rep. Bryan Steil Says <[link removed]> – As Americans experience inflation at a rate not felt in four decades, the Biden administration continues to promote a multitrillion-dollar social spending package. “Our spending is
already out of control,” Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., says, adding that “new government spending is only going to exacerbate [inflation] and make it worse.” In an effort to get spending under control and inflation rates down, the second-term congressman says, lawmakers should “completely kill this bill.” The House passed the multitrillion-dollar spending package in November and Senate
Democrats are working to gain the votes needed to pass it before the end of the year. Heritage Expert: Joel Griffith <[link removed]>

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