Chris's key votes - a House built on sand?
by skeptic06, Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 02:47:07 PM EDT
Over the weekend, I've been mulling the roll call votes from the 109th House that Chris identified as the
twenty-eight votes on actual pieces of legislation where the majority position among Democrats in the House was different from the majority position among Republicans in the House.
(There's a slight hitch to be got over: there are 30 actual RCVs in the list (his #7 is not one, his #11 has four), of which all but one (his #8) involve a majority of Dems voting against, a majority of GOP for. It makes the spreadsheet a pain to leave #8 in, so I've ignored it - leaving 29 votes left to consider.)
Chris's idea in selecting these RCVs was, he said,
those twenty-eight votes provide the answer to the age-old question: how are Republicans different from Democrats?
Some of us doubted at the time whether the test chosen was capable of answering the question posed. But they're certainly important RCVs when considering the cohesion and coherence of the Dem party in the House.
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