Senator, Minnesota · 1991–2002
Paul Wellstone
Progressive organizer in the Senate. Labor, health care, and anti-war votes until he died in a plane crash.
Paul Wellstone is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Senator, Minnesota, 1991–2002. The placement note is: Progressive organizer in the Senate. Labor, health care, and anti-war votes until he died in a plane crash.
The dot is economics -52 and authority -16. 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: A Democrat from the Democratic wing: labor, health care, and against the Iraq authorization. Done: He voted that way until he died. The agenda remained a minority inside his own party. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Edward M. Kennedy (-50 / -18) 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.