Bipartisanship' is a dirty word for Senate Republicans
Bipartisanship' is a dirty word for Senate Republicans
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 6:31 PM ET, Fri May 7, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/bipartisanship-republicans-democrats/index.html
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(CNN)There was a time when the most liberal Republican in the Senate was to the ideological left of the chamber's most conservative Democrat.
This is not that time. And, judging from the latest bipartisan rankings from CQ Roll Call, we aren't going back there -- for a very long time.
The bipartisan scores, based on how often members of Congress voted with or against their party's majority in 2020, reveal, well, very little bipartisanship.
That dearth is particularly noticeable among Senate Republicans, where the most bipartisan senator (meaning the highest percentage of votes against the party's majority) is Maine's Susan Collins, who voted against the GOP majority 21.6% of the time last year.
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