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Friday, April 19
The Shriver Center has released their 2008 Poverty Scorecard, a report card that grades all 535 members of Congress on how they voted on anti-poverty legislation last year. Illinois' card is mostly positive, with over half getting A's or A+'s, but with one representative, Peter Roskam of the 6th, scoring an F.