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Posted on 01/16/2003 6:16:39 AM PST by Theodore R.
January 15, 2003 Wyoming, Utah Senators Most in Harmony During Last Session The Senate duo from Wyoming was the chamber's most agreeable pair in 2002. Republican Sens. Craig Thomas and Michael B. Enzi voted the same way on 225 of 234 roll call votes in which both participated, an agreement rate of 96.2 percent, CQ research shows. They edged by one-tenth of a percentage point past the Republican senators from neighboring Utah, Robert F. Bennett and Orrin G. Hatch, who voted alike on 224 of 233 votes. The typical Senate pair agreed on 87.5 percent of votes last year, and none concurred less than 55 percent of the time. The two delegations that tied for the most disputes were Nevada (Democrat Harry Reid and Republican John Ensign) and North Carolina (Democrat John Edwards and Republican Jesse Helms), who saw eye to eye on just 55.8 percent of their votes. In Republican Strom Thurmond's final year in the Senate, he and fellow South Carolinian Ernest F. Hollings, a Democrat, agreed on 60.2 percent of votes. That was a reversal from 2001, when the two disagreed on six of every ten votes. In an election year, as members of both parties edged toward the center, most split delegations raised their level of agreement from 2001. Missouri Democrat Jean Carnahan voted the same way as that state's Republican Christopher S. Bond on 60.7 percent of votes in 2002, up from 49.6 percent in 2001. The split delegation with the highest level of agreement hailed from Arkansas, where Democrat Blanche Lincoln and Republican Tim Hutchinson concurred on 75.1 percent of votes, up from 57.9 percent in 2001. Hutchinson lost his bid for a second term to Democrat Mark Pryor. Most delegations with two Democrats or two Republicans saw high levels of agreement. Wisconsin's two Democrats, Herb Kohl and Russell D. Feingold, had the lowest score: 72.7 percent. Minnesota's senators, who agreed most often in 2001, slipped to third place in 2002, but the death of Democrat Paul Wellstone means the harmony of the past two years won't continue for Democrat Mark Dayton. Still, Dayton and freshman Republican Norm Coleman are likely to find more in common than Wellstone and former Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., who in 2000 agreed just 36.9 percent of the time, the lowest score that year. --Derek Willis, CQ Staff Writer
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