Speaker of the House · 1977–1987
Tip O’Neill
New Deal Democrat from Massachusetts. Speaker opposite Reagan, and a dealmaker when the votes required it.
Tip O’Neill is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Speaker of the House, 1977–1987. The placement note is: New Deal Democrat from Massachusetts. Speaker opposite Reagan, and a dealmaker when the votes required it.
The dot is economics -36 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: All politics is local, and the New Deal is not over. Done: He protected Social Security in public fights with Reagan and cut deals when the votes required them. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Robert F. Wagner (-36 / +8) and Claude Pepper (-28 / +4). 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.