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The Vote Ledger

Social Welfare

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Social Welfare. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Social Welfare

Member0%50%100%With Dems · votes
DDaniel Kahikina Akaka99% · 104 votesDEdward John Markey98.9% · 87 votesDBarbara Boxer95.5% · 88 votesDClaiborne de Borda Pell94.4% · 107 votesDPaul Spyros Sarbanes94% · 100 votesDDaniel Ken Inouye93.9% · 98 votesDByron Leslie Dorgan93.2% · 88 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.92.9% · 84 votesDChristopher John Dodd92.5% · 93 votesDCarl Levin92% · 87 votesDBarbara Ann Mikulski91.9% · 86 votesDEdward Moore (Ted) Kennedy91.1% · 101 votesDPatrick Joseph Leahy89.5% · 105 votesDWendell Hampton Ford88.8% · 98 votesDJoseph Robinette (Joe) Biden Jr.86.8% · 106 votesDDale Bumpers86.7% · 90 votesDJohn Herschel Glenn Jr.86.6% · 97 votesDDaniel Patrick Moynihan85.3% · 95 votesDJohn Bennett Johnston Jr.85.1% · 101 votesDRobert Carlyle Byrd78.2% · 110 votesDJohn Berlinger Breaux76.5% · 85 votesDErnest Frederick (Fritz) Hollings73.5% · 102 votesDMax Sieben Baucus72.2% · 97 votesDHowell Thomas Heflin66.3% · 83 votesDSamuel Augustus Nunn59.6% · 99 votesR→IJames Merrill Jeffords51.4% · 105 votesRJohn Hubbard Chafee37% · 92 votesROlympia Jean Snowe36.8% · 95 votesRWilliam Sebastian Cohen36.6% · 93 votesRMark Odom Hatfield32.7% · 101 votesRLarry Lee Pressler20.4% · 93 votesRTheodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens18.9% · 106 votesRWilliam Thad Cochran18.3% · 93 votesRRichard Green Lugar17.3% · 98 votesRPete Vichi Domenici15.5% · 110 votesRDonald Edwin Young11.9% · 84 votesRJohn William Warner11.5% · 87 votesRJesse Helms11.2% · 107 votesRMichael DeWine10.1% · 89 votesRConnie Mack III9.2% · 87 votesRDaniel Ray Coats9.1% · 88 votesRWilliam Victor Roth Jr.7.6% · 105 votesROrrin Grant Hatch7.5% · 93 votesD→RJames Strom Thurmond7.5% · 107 votesRCharles Ernest Grassley5% · 100 votesRGeorge Hanks (Hank) Brown4.5% · 88 votesRJudd Alan Gregg3.4% · 88 votesRLarry Edwin Craig1.1% · 91 votesRChester Trent Lott0.9% · 107 votesRRobert C. Smith0% · 84 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Social Welfare votes, of 2,432 who have cast one and 1,525 with enough to score. A further 107 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 Social Welfare breaks from the rest of the record

vs. all legislation
All legislationSocial Welfare
John Bennett Johnston Jr.+24.5 pts
John Berlinger Breaux+17.7 pts
Mark Odom Hatfield−16.8 pts
Wendell Hampton Ford+15.0 pts

John Bennett Johnston Jr. sided with Democrats 24 points more often on Social Welfare than on legislation overall. Mark Odom Hatfield went the other way by 16.

Policy areas

Social Welfare

Contested roll calls on bills the Library of Congress files under Social Welfare. Each member's score here is their whole-career share of those votes that sided with the Democratic majority.

Members on Social Welfare

MemberWith Dems · votes
DDaniel Kahikina Akaka99% · 104 votesDEdward John Markey98.9% · 87 votesDBarbara Boxer95.5% · 88 votesDClaiborne de Borda Pell94.4% · 107 votesDPaul Spyros Sarbanes94% · 100 votesDDaniel Ken Inouye93.9% · 98 votesDByron Leslie Dorgan93.2% · 88 votesDJohn David Dingell Jr.92.9% · 84 votesDChristopher John Dodd92.5% · 93 votesDCarl Levin92% · 87 votesDBarbara Ann Mikulski91.9% · 86 votesDEdward Moore (Ted) Kennedy91.1% · 101 votesDPatrick Joseph Leahy89.5% · 105 votesDWendell Hampton Ford88.8% · 98 votesDJoseph Robinette (Joe) Biden Jr.86.8% · 106 votesDDale Bumpers86.7% · 90 votesDJohn Herschel Glenn Jr.86.6% · 97 votesDDaniel Patrick Moynihan85.3% · 95 votesDJohn Bennett Johnston Jr.85.1% · 101 votesDRobert Carlyle Byrd78.2% · 110 votesDJohn Berlinger Breaux76.5% · 85 votesDErnest Frederick (Fritz) Hollings73.5% · 102 votesDMax Sieben Baucus72.2% · 97 votesDHowell Thomas Heflin66.3% · 83 votesDSamuel Augustus Nunn59.6% · 99 votesR→IJames Merrill Jeffords51.4% · 105 votesRJohn Hubbard Chafee37% · 92 votesROlympia Jean Snowe36.8% · 95 votesRWilliam Sebastian Cohen36.6% · 93 votesRMark Odom Hatfield32.7% · 101 votesRLarry Lee Pressler20.4% · 93 votesRTheodore Fulton (Ted) Stevens18.9% · 106 votesRWilliam Thad Cochran18.3% · 93 votesRRichard Green Lugar17.3% · 98 votesRPete Vichi Domenici15.5% · 110 votesRDonald Edwin Young11.9% · 84 votesRJohn William Warner11.5% · 87 votesRJesse Helms11.2% · 107 votesRMichael DeWine10.1% · 89 votesRConnie Mack III9.2% · 87 votesRDaniel Ray Coats9.1% · 88 votesRWilliam Victor Roth Jr.7.6% · 105 votesROrrin Grant Hatch7.5% · 93 votesD→RJames Strom Thurmond7.5% · 107 votesRCharles Ernest Grassley5% · 100 votesRGeorge Hanks (Hank) Brown4.5% · 88 votesRJudd Alan Gregg3.4% · 88 votesRLarry Edwin Craig1.1% · 91 votesRChester Trent Lott0.9% · 107 votesRRobert C. Smith0% · 84 votes

The 50 members with the most contested Social Welfare votes, of 2,432 who have cast one and 1,525 with enough to score. A further 107 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 Social Welfare breaks from the rest of the record

All legislationSocial Welfare
John Bennett Johnston Jr.+24.5 pts
John Berlinger Breaux+17.7 pts
Mark Odom Hatfield−16.8 pts
Wendell Hampton Ford+15.0 pts

John Bennett Johnston Jr. sided with Democrats 24 points more often on Social Welfare than on legislation overall. Mark Odom Hatfield went the other way by 16.

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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