Senator, Massachusetts · 1962–2009
Edward M. Kennedy
The liberal lion. Health care, labor, immigration, and a long unsuccessful fight for universal coverage.
Edward M. Kennedy is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Massachusetts, 1962–2009. The placement note is: The liberal lion. Health care, labor, immigration, and a long unsuccessful fight for universal coverage.
The dot is economics -50 and authority -18. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits toward liberty. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Health care is a right, and the liberal agenda does not need a president named Kennedy to move. Done: SCHIP, ADA negotiations, and immigration bills. Universal coverage was not passed in his lifetime. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Paul Wellstone (-52 / -16) and Shirley Chisholm (-48 / -22). 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.