Position from 510 bills and votes and 2 statements, starting from a reputation prior of Right 24 — click any issue to see the reputation, the record and the shift.
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Federal budget, taxes and spending
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Business, finance and labor
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Trade and industrial policy
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Health care
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Education
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Immigration
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Crime and justice
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Guns
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Civil rights, gender and religion
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Elections, representation and accountability
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Federal power and civil liberties
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Energy, environment, land and agriculture
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Housing, transportation, technology and vice
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How this is measured
Bubble size = how much of Derek Schmidt'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 2 sponsored, 245 cosponsored, 6 statements, 423 topical tweets. Click a bubble to open what they support and the bills and tweets behind it; click it again to close.
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Don CooverDemocrat · challenger · L·Cntr 7 from statements21%