Representative, Texas · 1985–2006
Tom DeLay
The Hammer. Republican whip and majority leader, then a resignation under indictment.
Tom DeLay is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Representative, Texas, 1985–2006. The placement note is: The Hammer. Republican whip and majority leader, then a resignation under indictment.
The dot is economics +44 and authority +34. That is right of center 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 Newt Gingrich (+46 / +36) and Dick Cheney (+42 / +38). 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.