Want to know how liberal your Senator or Congressional Representative is compared to other members of Congress? National Journal has an interactive tool that rates lawmakers, on a conservative-to-liberal scale, based upon their Congressional voting record throughout 2009. Lawmakers are assigned scores for each of their roll-call votes on leading economic, social and foreign-policy issues.
The magazine determined that “long-standing ideological divides have persisted – and even deepened – in President Obama’s Washington.” That’s stating the obvious.
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