Position from 712 bills and votes and 17 statements, starting from a reputation prior of Left 25 — click any issue to see the reputation, the record and the shift.
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Overall
23
Left
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Federal budget, taxes and spending
27
Left
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Business, finance and labor
27
Left
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Trade and industrial policy
15
L-lean
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Foreign policy, trade and defense
21
L-lean
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Health care
26
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Education
21
L-lean
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Immigration
22
L-lean
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Crime and justice
17
L-lean
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Guns
27
Left
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Civil rights, gender and religion
23
Left
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Elections, representation and accountability
25
Left
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Federal power and civil liberties
26
Left
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Energy, environment, land and agriculture
25
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Housing, transportation, technology and vice
25
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What They Care About
How this is measured
Bubble size = how much of Richard Blumenthal's sponsored bills, cosponsorships, campaign statements and tweets go to each domain. Votes are left out because they follow committee seats; domains a member's committees handle are discounted a little. Anything from the last 6 months counts double, so a topic they are on about right now grows. Darker = they have broken with their own party more often on that topic: the share of party-line votes since 2009 where they voted against their party's majority (gray = fewer than 8 such votes). Based on 48 sponsored, 498 cosponsored, 57 statements, 528 topical tweets. Click a bubble to open what they support and the bills and tweets behind it; click it again to close.
