Torie
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« on: June 28, 2018, 10:24:37 AM » |
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« edited: June 28, 2018, 10:39:27 AM by Torie »
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You have a point, but both parties tend to vote in blocks these days, to go along and get along, so the voting behavior of a centrist Dem (more or less), will be somewhat to substantially different from a centrist Pub (within the Pub party, a centrist Pub being on the left wing "fringe" within the party). That is particularly true when it comes to procedural votes, which procedural votes are sometimes of critical importance, such as how legislation is framed that comes up for a vote, or whether legislation comes up for a vote at all.
A case in point would be stand alone legislation on DACA, which the Pubs refuse to let see the light of day (and the moderate Pubs in the end failed in sufficient numbers to sign a discharge petition (signing a discharge petition is the equivalent of a heresy that tends to get you put in the shunned category among your party colleagues, and most congresspeople are unwilling to dwell in the village of the shunned within their party)).
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