California senator and Vice-Presidential nominee Kamala Harris is considered to be the most liberal senator of 2019, according to an analysis by GovTrack.
GovTrack is a nonpartisan organization that was founded by Josh Tauberer in 2004. The group tracks U.S. Congress members and their legislative records, using year end statistics.
The 2019 report looked at the members who served throughout the legislative year (Jan 3, 2019-Dec 31.2019).
In the report card for U.S. senators, each one was given a score from 1 to 100, where number one is most conservative and number 100 is most liberal.
“Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.” GovTrack’s website states.
“The score can be interpreted as a conservative-liberal scale, although of course it only takes into account a small aspect of reality,” GovTrack added.
Regarding Sen. Harris, D-CA., she was ranked as the “most liberal” out of all the U.S. Senators. Coming in second is Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., followed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, as the third most liberal, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OR., as the fourth most liberal.
On the other hand, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN., was scored as the most conservative senator. Blackburn is followed by Sens. Joni Ernst,…
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