Representative, Texas · 1973–1979
Barbara Jordan
Constitutional lawyer of the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate. A liberal with institutional gravity.
Barbara Jordan is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Representative, Texas, 1973–1979. The placement note is: Constitutional lawyer of the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate. A liberal with institutional gravity.
The dot is economics -28 and authority -6. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits near the middle. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: The Constitution is not a suggestion, including for a president. Done: The Watergate statement is the record. She left the House rather than build a long machine. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Robert F. Kennedy (-30 / -6) and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (-30 / -8). 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.