Senator, North Carolina · 1973–2003
Jesse Helms
The hard right of the Senate. Against civil-rights extensions, foreign aid, and the cultural left.
Jesse Helms is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, North Carolina, 1973–2003. The placement note is: The hard right of the Senate. Against civil-rights extensions, foreign aid, and the cultural left.
The dot is economics +36 and authority +62. 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.
Said: No more apologies for a conservative South. Stop foreign aid that does not serve that view. Done: He held that line for thirty years, including against civil-rights extensions and AIDS funding he later partly relented on. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Joseph McCarthy (+28 / +64) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (+26 / +64). 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.