The Best and the Worst Legislators 2003

THE WORST: Debbie Riddle

The Joseph McCarthy "Have You No Sense Of Decency?" Award

Following testimony before a House committee about health problems along the border, she told the El Paso Times, “Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell.”