Senator, New York · 1977–2001
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Scholar-senator. Welfare realist, U.N. ambassador, a Democrat who distrusted his party’s fashions.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, New York, 1977–2001. The placement note is: Scholar-senator. Welfare realist, U.N. ambassador, a Democrat who distrusted his party’s fashions.
The dot is economics -8 and authority +4. That is near the middle 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 family and the welfare system were in trouble, and a Democrat should be allowed to say so. Done: He said so, served at the U.N., and voted as a liberal senator who embarrassed his caucus on purpose. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Thaddeus Stevens (-4 / +8) and J. William Fulbright (-4 / +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.