Download a PDF of this report here. How does your legislator stack up? What is their grade? Here is the good news about your State Representative, Terri Lynn Weaver. Serving district 40 since 2009, she has been a mighty warrior for conservative values. This year she is the highest scoring member of the entire Tennessee […]

Download a PDF of this report here. How does your legislator stack up? What is their grade? Here is the bad news about your State Senator, Jack Johnson. First elected to the State Senate in 2006, Johnson has never had an opponent in the Republican primary, and his extremely low score of 62 reflects that […]

This article was compiled by multiple people who spent countless hours and days in committee meetings, the halls of the statehouse and legislators’ offices. Pay special attention to the “procedural ruses” listed below. An ongoing goal of Tennessee Rising is transparency and accountability, and that requires knowing how the sausage is made. Before or after […]

By Jackie Archer, leader of the Tennessee Legislative Report Card project. You can search for your Tennessee legislators from the home page here. You will notice some interesting contradictions between individual member’s vote scores and their leadership grades this year. There is a simple explanation. It is the difference between voting on very few divisive […]

Notice:  A score has been revised for one of our distinguished members of the Tennessee House of Representatives.  Chairman Cameron Sexton received an incorrect vote score.  His corrected vote score is 98%, raising his Leadership Grade to a B+.  We regret the error and ask our readers to share this important revision.   For scoring and grading […]

Like most political action committees (PAC), the Tennessee Highway Contractors PAC contributes money to state legislators’ campaign accounts.  But would it surprise you to know that those contributions to State House members peaked in 2017, when the gas-tax and registration-fee increasing IMPROVE Act was voted on and passed by the Tennessee General Assembly? The image […]