Senator, West Virginia · 1959–2010
Robert C. Byrd
Longest-serving senator. A former Klansman who became the Senate’s rules man and an appropriations power.
Robert C. Byrd is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, West Virginia, 1959–2010. The placement note is: Longest-serving senator. A former Klansman who became the Senate’s rules man and an appropriations power.
The dot is economics -14 and authority +28. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
No separate “said, then did” note is on file. The career sentence above is the whole of the written placement. It names the public fact the dot is built from, and it stops there.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Henry M. Jackson (-12 / +24) and Sam Rayburn (-12 / +14). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.