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Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Member0%50%100%With Dems · votes
DEdward John Markey100% · 71 votesDRonald Lee Wyden100% · 65 votesDCharles B. Rangel100% · 60 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.100% · 59 votesDNancy Pelosi98.5% · 68 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio98.5% · 66 votesDFrank Pallone Jr.98.4% · 64 votesDSander Martin Levin98.4% · 64 votesDRichard Edmund Neal98.4% · 61 votesDGeorge Miller98.3% · 60 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman98.3% · 60 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.98.3% · 59 votesDBenjamin Louis Cardin96.8% · 62 votesDDaniel Patrick Moynihan96.6% · 59 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer96.3% · 82 votesDMax Sieben Baucus95.6% · 68 votesDCharles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer95.3% · 64 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur95.1% · 82 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.95.1% · 61 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks94.9% · 59 votesDPatrick Joseph Leahy94.1% · 68 votesDPeter Visclosky93.8% · 65 votesDDale Edward Kildee92.1% · 63 votesDClaiborne de Borda Pell90% · 60 votesDCarl Levin89.6% · 67 votesDDavid Eugene Price88.7% · 62 votesDRichard Joseph Durbin88.7% · 62 votesDJames Hayes Shofner Cooper84.4% · 64 votesDRobert Carlyle Byrd84.3% · 70 votesDDale Bumpers73.3% · 60 votesRMark Odom Hatfield67.8% · 59 votesDJohn Bennett Johnston Jr.62.7% · 59 votesRWilliam Sebastian Cohen47.5% · 61 votesRJohn Claggett Danforth33.9% · 59 votesRTheodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens33.9% · 59 votesRChristopher Henry Smith32.1% · 84 votesROrrin Grant Hatch30% · 70 votesRRalph Straus Regula23.7% · 59 votesRRichard Green Lugar23.2% · 69 votesRDonald Edwin Young21.4% · 70 votesRJohn William Warner20.3% · 59 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton15.5% · 71 votesRThomas Evert Petri15.3% · 59 votesRFrank Rudolph Wolf13.6% · 59 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young11.3% · 62 votesRWilliam Thad Cochran10.1% · 69 votesD→RJames Strom Thurmond6.7% · 60 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.6% · 67 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers2.5% · 79 votesRJesse Helms1.7% · 59 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues votes, of 2,272 who have cast one and 1,411 with enough to score. A further 78 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues breaks from the rest of the record

vs. all legislation
All legislationCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Orrin Grant Hatch+22.2 pts
Mark Odom Hatfield+18.3 pts
Max Sieben Baucus+14.5 pts
Theodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens+12.0 pts

Orrin Grant Hatch sided with Democrats 22 points more often on Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues than on legislation overall.

Policy areas

Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

MemberWith Dems · votes
DEdward John Markey100% · 71 votesDRonald Lee Wyden100% · 65 votesDCharles B. Rangel100% · 60 votesDJohn Conyers Jr.100% · 59 votesDNancy Pelosi98.5% · 68 votesDPeter Anthony DeFazio98.5% · 66 votesDFrank Pallone Jr.98.4% · 64 votesDSander Martin Levin98.4% · 64 votesDRichard Edmund Neal98.4% · 61 votesDGeorge Miller98.3% · 60 votesDHenry Arnold Waxman98.3% · 60 votesDFortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr.98.3% · 59 votesDBenjamin Louis Cardin96.8% · 62 votesDDaniel Patrick Moynihan96.6% · 59 votesDSteny Hamilton Hoyer96.3% · 82 votesDMax Sieben Baucus95.6% · 68 votesDCharles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer95.3% · 64 votesDMarcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur95.1% · 82 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.95.1% · 61 votesDNorman DeValois Dicks94.9% · 59 votesDPatrick Joseph Leahy94.1% · 68 votesDPeter Visclosky93.8% · 65 votesDDale Edward Kildee92.1% · 63 votesDClaiborne de Borda Pell90% · 60 votesDCarl Levin89.6% · 67 votesDDavid Eugene Price88.7% · 62 votesDRichard Joseph Durbin88.7% · 62 votesDJames Hayes Shofner Cooper84.4% · 64 votesDRobert Carlyle Byrd84.3% · 70 votesDDale Bumpers73.3% · 60 votesRMark Odom Hatfield67.8% · 59 votesDJohn Bennett Johnston Jr.62.7% · 59 votesRWilliam Sebastian Cohen47.5% · 61 votesRJohn Claggett Danforth33.9% · 59 votesRTheodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens33.9% · 59 votesRChristopher Henry Smith32.1% · 84 votesROrrin Grant Hatch30% · 70 votesRRalph Straus Regula23.7% · 59 votesRRichard Green Lugar23.2% · 69 votesRDonald Edwin Young21.4% · 70 votesRJohn William Warner20.3% · 59 votesRFrederick Stephen Upton15.5% · 71 votesRThomas Evert Petri15.3% · 59 votesRFrank Rudolph Wolf13.6% · 59 votesRCharles William (Bill) Young11.3% · 62 votesRWilliam Thad Cochran10.1% · 69 votesD→RJames Strom Thurmond6.7% · 60 votesRFrank James Sensenbrenner Jr.6% · 67 votesRHarold Dallas (Hal) Rogers2.5% · 79 votesRJesse Helms1.7% · 59 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues votes, of 2,272 who have cast one and 1,411 with enough to score. A further 78 voted in the area but never on a contested question. Blue bars sided with the Democratic majority more often than not; red bars with the Republican majority.

Where Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues breaks from the rest of the record

All legislationCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Orrin Grant Hatch+22.2 pts
Mark Odom Hatfield+18.3 pts
Max Sieben Baucus+14.5 pts
Theodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens+12.0 pts

Orrin Grant Hatch sided with Democrats 22 points more often on Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues than on legislation overall.

How areas work

1Each bill's area comes from the Library of Congress subject terms.
2Only contested votes count, as everywhere else.
3A member with too few votes in an area is listed with the count, not hidden — "too few to score" and "no contested votes" are different claims.
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