The Republican Liberty Caucus has published its 2023 liberty-focused scorecard for the U.S. Senate.

The Liberty Index scores Republican Senators on 20 pivotal bills/votes from 2023 that either advance liberty or diminish liberty. For information on the bills selected, see the bill explanations on pages three and four of the document.

The Liberty Score is obtained by calculating the percentage that a Senator votes in line with the RLC. For example, the highest possible Liberty Score is 100. This is achieved if a Senator voted with the RLC 100% of the time.

A high score on this scorecard does not equate to an automatic endorsement from the RLC. This scorecard simply evaluates the voting record of each Republican Senator during the 2023 calendar year.

The Top Defenders of Liberty demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the principles of individual liberty, limited government and free markets. This means they voted against wasteful spending, they stood up for our constitutional rights, they voted to repeal unneeded laws/regulations, and they supported a non-interventionist foreign policy that keeps American troops out of undeclared wars.

Senator Rand Paul was the only Senator who earned a perfect score of 100. Other top scorers were Mike Braun (95) and Mike Lee (90). J.D. Vance was the highest scoring freshman Senator (85).

Liberty Index 2023 – RLC Sc… by RepublicanLibertyCaucus

MELBOURNE, FL – Congressional leaders in both parties are preparing to ram through a Christmas gift most Americans would prefer not to receive: another massively wasteful $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that will lock in spending until September of next year.

The Republican Liberty Caucus vehemently opposes this reckless fiscal insanity and condemns every legislator in Congress who votes for this bill – especially the Republicans.

Last month, Americans sent a loud message to Washington, D.C., when they voted to give Republicans control of the House. Surging inflation and soaring interest rates are crushing the American household, and the American people spoke out. Congress should listen, acknowledge reality and get its fiscal House in order. Instead, it’s doubling down on stupid.

To the Republicans working with Democratic leadership to pass this bipartisan boondoggle: you should be ashamed. The idea of voting on a 4,155-page bill without giving representatives time to read it is anathema to how our system of representation is supposed to work.

Republicans were rightly outraged when Pelosi famously said of Obamacare, “we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.” When Senate Democrats did an end run around the normal process to get Obamacare passed, Republicans were livid. Yet today, we have Republican leaders using the “pass it to see what’s in it” strategy and similar tactics to help the Democrats pass a spending bill without discussion or debate.

The United States is drowning in $31 trillion of debt, but the federal government, enabled by the Federal Reserve’s ability to print money at will, continues to spend American tax dollars at unprecedented levels with breakneck speed. If not stopped immediately, the result will be the complete collapse of the US dollar. The American economy and way of life will follow.

Republicans in Congress should reject the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill as dead on arrival and wait until January so the House can do its job and pass an actual budget. Failure by Congress to do so is a grave disservice to the American people and a slap in the face to the tens of millions of Republicans that voted for fiscal restraint.