The Information Technology Industry Council has issued a congressional scorecard that ranks Sen. Jim DeMint as the worst senator on five key technology votes. The group claims to include members like Adobe, Cisco, Dell, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and a few others who must not have a cool commercial because we don’t recognize them at all.

The key votes were on the America COMPETES Act, the U.S.-Peru Trade Agreement, comprehensive energy legislation, the tax extenders package that included renewal of the research and development tax, and the Wall Street bailout package. In each case, ITI urged a “yes” vote.

To be fair, several senators got 100 percent even though they missed some of the votes. Sen. John McCain missed all but one, but still got a top ranking. But DeMint was not only at the bottom — he was far behind any of the other senators.

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., had the lowest mark on ITI’s scorecard with a 25 percent ranking. DeMint voted “yes” on the trade agreement, skipped the tax extenders package and voted “no” on the America COMPETES Act, energy reform and the financial bailout. Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., scored 40 percent to follow DeMint.

All that said, Ron Paul scored a 0 in a similar survey for the U.S. House, so we’re sure there are some readers who would welcome a low rating from this group.

 

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