Who are the top five most bi-partisan members of the Senate today--and why?
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In the case of the members of the Senate of the 111th Congress one would think the most bipartisan individual would be Senator Arlen Spector (PA) who has crossed the aisle and become a member of the party he opposed when he ran as a candidate. This is however not true. Sen. Spector while with the Republicans voted with the party 31.9% prompting him to switch. Since donning the vestments of the Democratic party he has voted with his party a total of 54.2% of the time, a decrease in agreement than that of before the switch. While this brings his voting even I would call his behavior non-partisan before I would call it bipartisan.
As for members of the Senate who are bipartisan, the top five are:
1. Susan Collins (R-ME) - Voted with the majority of her party 62.6% of the time.
2. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) - Voted with the majority of her party 63.3% of the time.
3. George Voinovich (R-OH) - Voted with the majority of his party 67.3% of the time.
4. Evan Bayh (D-IN) - Voted with the majority of his party 71.4% of the time.
5. Ben Nelson (D-NE) - Voted with the majority of his party 73.4% of the time.
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M$Sen. Susan Collins-R
Sen. Olympia Snowe-R
Sen. Edward Kennedy-D
Sen. Tom Carper-D
This is according to an article in which every senators was surveyed. The survey by The Hill newspaper asked who are the least partisan and most enjoyable senators to work with, from the opposite party.
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That's a good source as your argument. However, Sen Kennedy has since died.
Thanks, colecchi, for bringing that to our attention. Here is the original article from The Hill, which doesn't have the Utah-centric focus and also is more even-handed about treating Dems and Repubs more equally. http://thehill.com/homenews/news/19275-ranking-senate-partisans
BTW, I can predict with some certainty that, if The Hill repeats this next month, Arizona's John McCain will be nowhere near the top (he was the Repub's 5th-least partisan member). He has had to tack hard right the past several months as it became more and more obvious that the Tea Partiers were going to put J.D. Hayworth up against him. (He wasn't as centrist as he was cracked up to be before, but he certainly isn't now.)
My bad... Sen. Evan Bayh-D is also on the list.
I definitely agree about McCain. Thanks for the original article, hopefully they will be doing it again this year.
I was glad to see both my Senators make the list: Bayh and Lugar. Given that both regularly do things that make me mad, I believe it! (And they also both regularly do things that please me).
2. Senator Barrasso
3.Senator Lincoln
4.Senator Graham
5.Senator Mc cain
All these Senators are bi-partisan because they all give a little and take a little to attain a common goal.
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M$Brown (MA)
Hatch (UT)
Snowe (ME)
Feinstein (CA)
They're in touch with their constituents, regardless of party.
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Not trying to make anyone (including myself) perfect. He asked me why I voted uninteresting, so I answered the question. Since you made the comment I went and researched more thoroughly the philosophical concept behind the uninteresting vote and realize now I should not have been so succinct in my reply. Sorry to colecchi for that. Nothing more was meant by the reply than the passing of the information requested. Also, I didn't think of everything when I hit the submit button the first time, so I completed the answer in a second reply. (A-ha! I'm not perfect.) Well, sorry again and hope this clears it up.
I don't think it's reasonable to make any assumptions about Brown, given that he's been in Congress for a month.
It does look like he'll be fairly bi-partisan so far (voted for the jobs bill, I know), but it's too small of a sample size to make any assumptions.
He probably will be, though, if he wants to get reelected because MA is so blue that they wouldn't vote for him in 3 years if he votes with the GOP on every bill.
Question included the word "today."
Was there any particular reason mine was unhelpful? or did you just want to keep my votes down?
With a human powered search engine, you have to expect a little bit of human error. Where is your proof/sources of your information?
He has a bi-partisan state record too.
Sen Kennedy is not a senator (any longer).
Source:
http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/02/26/4645962.htm
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