Where They Stand Position from 503 bills and votes, starting from a reputation prior of Left 32 — click any issue to see the reputation, the record and the shift.
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Federal budget, taxes and spending Left ▸
Business, finance and labor Left ▸
Trade and industrial policy Left ▸
Foreign policy, trade and defense Left ▸
Civil rights, gender and religion Left ▸
Elections, representation and accountability Left ▸
Federal power and civil liberties Left ▸
Energy, environment, land and agriculture Left ▸
Housing, transportation, technology and vice Left ▸
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What They Care About
How this is measured
Bubble size = how much of Maxine Waters'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 19 sponsored, 212 cosponsored, 0 statements, 61 topical tweets. Click a bubble to open what they support and the bills and tweets behind it; click it again to close.
Health care · 16% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 6 sponsored · 46 cosponsored · 0 statements · 4 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 119 party-line votes Health care 16% Federal power and civil liberties · 15% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 2 sponsored · 8 cosponsored · 0 statements · 30 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 320 party-line votes Federal power 15% Civil rights, gender and religion · 15% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 17 cosponsored · 0 statements · 22 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 54 party-line votes Civil rights 15% Business, finance and labor · 8% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 5 sponsored · 26 cosponsored · 0 statements · 7 tweets · broke with their party on 4 of 333 party-line votes Business 8% Foreign policy, trade and defense · 7% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 1 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 0 statements · 8 tweets · broke with their party on 28 of 601 party-line votes Foreign policy 7% Federal budget, taxes and spending · 6% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 25 cosponsored · 0 statements · 7 tweets · broke with their party on 36 of 1271 party-line votes Federal budget 6% Crime and justice · 6% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 6 cosponsored · 0 statements · 15 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 171 party-line votes Crime 6% Education · 6% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 2 sponsored · 8 cosponsored · 0 statements · 5 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 83 party-line votes Education 6% Energy, environment, land and agriculture · 5% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 1 sponsored · 19 cosponsored · 0 statements · 0 tweets · broke with their party on 22 of 872 party-line votes Energy 5% Immigration · 5% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 8 cosponsored · 0 statements · 8 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 59 party-line votes Immigration 5% Elections, representation and accountability · 4% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 9 cosponsored · 0 statements · 4 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 33 party-line votes Elections 4% Housing, transportation, technology and vice · 3% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 2 sponsored · 8 cosponsored · 0 statements · 0 tweets · broke with their party on 2 of 198 party-line votes Housing 3% Trade and industrial policy · 3% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 7 cosponsored · 0 statements · 2 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 14 party-line votes Trade 3% Guns · 2% of Maxine Waters's priorities · 0 sponsored · 7 cosponsored · 0 statements · 1 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 17 party-line votes Guns 2% Rarely breaks Often breaks
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Christian MoralesRepublican · challenger · Rt-lean 16 from statements5%