Welcome to SenateReports.com™ a web site that brings its members voting data of the US Senate.

Unequivocally…unabatedly SenateReports.com™ has examined, focused and reported on the US Senate and its Senators because of the eternal vision the Framers had in mind while constructing our unique Republic and Constitution back in 1787. James Madison the Father of our Constitution had a very important ‘check’ for the US Senate in maintaining our republican form of government.

“It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust. In this point of view, a senate, as a second branch of the legislative assembly, distinct from, and dividing the power with, a first, must be in all cases a salutary check on the government. It doubles the security to the people, by requiring the concurrence of two distinct bodies in schemes of usurpation or perfidy, where the ambition or corruption of one would otherwise be sufficient. This is a precaution founded on such clear principles, and now so well understood in the United States, that it would be more than superfluous to enlarge on it. I will barely remark, that as the improbability of sinister combinations will be in proportion to the dissimilarity in the genius of the two bodies, it must be politic to distinguish them from each other by every circumstance which will consist with a due harmony in all proper measures, and with the genuine principles of republican government.

The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.”---James Madison

Since 1789 the US Senate has been the bulwark standing in the way of any democratically elected representative or would be tyrant who would use their popularity or extreme partisanship as a weapon to undermine the Constitution and our Republic.

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." ---Thomas Jefferson

SenateReports.com™ displays and compares voting records of US Senators in the US Senate in a partisan fashion by measuring partisanship based on current and historical Senate voting data. For example since 2005 the Democratic Senators have been and continue to be more “partisan” than the Republicans because the Democrats routinely voted in greater numbers and more often with their Party’s majority ('Party Percent' ) than the Republicans voted with their party's majority during the 2005 - 2010 congressional year time frame.  Open the Party Percent page to review the latest Party Percent Rankings.

Evoke the memory of George W. Bush’s Presidency along with the Republican controlled Senate from 2005 – 2006 and some political pundits would argue both were very 'Partisan' ...indeed...but not as partisan as today's Democrats in the Senate! The Senate data shows since 2009 President Obama has been more divisive than the GWB presidency when it comes to passing legislation thru the Senate and Obama's political ideology has made both parties in the Senate more ‘partisan’ in their voting patterns. For example under GWB between the years 2005-2008 the Senate's Democratic and Republican majorities concurred (consensus) on 559 of 1302 votes or 43% compared to Barack H. Obama’s 154 of 654 votes or 23% between 2009-2010 consensus stats. On the issue of which political party in the Senate is closer to the Constitution than the other,  consider the passage of H.R.3590 a very unconstitutional bill. The Constitution clearly does not give Congress the power to force U.S. Citizens to buy private health insurance but the Bill passed thru the Senate along party lines 60-39-1. Not one Republican Senator voted for the Bill, in fact the Democrats refuse to even debate the constitutionality of H.R. 3590 when they voted down ( Not Well Taken ) Senator Hutchison’s 'Point of Order'  39-60-1 on December 23, 2009, 03:20 PM…once again along party lines. On December 13, 2010 almost a year after H.R. 3590 was passed (12/24/2009) by a Democrat controlled Senate and then signed by President Barack H. Obama (3/23/2010) becoming Public Law No: 111-148,  H.R. 3590 has been declared 'unconstitutional' by a U.S. District Judge in Richmond Virginia. Judge Henry Hudson said that the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health-care legislation goes beyond Congress’s powers to regulate interstate commerce.

Naturally, there are plenty of political opinionated driven web sites on the Internet that are more than happy to tell you how Republicans are more partisan than the Democrats in the Senate, SenateReports.com™ will not be one of those sites because the data proves otherwise…for now! SenateReports.com is a fact driven database web site on the US Senate...not a political blog! On the issue of which political party actually has been in control of the Senate consider the 'The Gang of  20'.  Senators with over twenty years of Senate service have much more power in the Senate than Senators with less seniority and seniority has a heavy influence on which Senators are assigned to which prestigious committees. The Democrats have controlled the gang of twenty since 2005 (yes even during the Bush years) when it was 16 Democrats, 12 Republicans with over twenty years of Senate service, now under Obama its 18 Democrats, 8 Republicans, the late Robert C. Byrd had almost 54 years of Senate Service. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye from Hawaii will start his 9th term in the Senate this Janauary 2011, he is 86 years old and will have 54 years of Senate service when his 9th term ends sometime around January, 2017.  

As it turns out SenateReports.com™ also displays how female Senators voted regardless of party affiliation. There are 17 Female Senators, 12 Democrats and 5 Republicans, you can decide for yourself if there is such a thing as a 'Female Voting Bloc' .  Track, chart and compare the voting patterns of the most 'Progressive' Democrats in the Senate, Senators Barbara Boxer, Al Franken and the self-described 'Democratic-Socialist' Bernard Sanders against the most Constitutional Republican Senators Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn, Jeff Sessions and of course John Thune. The most progressive Republican Senator is no doubt Olympia Snowe from Maine who in 2008 voted 73.5% with Senator Bernard Sanders compared to only 39% of the time with Senator Jim DeMint. Senator Snowe has voted with Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's legislation 58% of the time compared to Jim Demint's 15% between 2005-2010 and President Obama' legislation 87% of the time compared to Jim DeMint's 15% between the years 2009-2010. The most 'Conservative' Democratic Senator in 2010 based on voting with the Democratic Majority is Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska who has voted only 60% of the time with the Democratic Majority in the Senate. Between the years 2005-2008 Senator Nelson voted 96% of the time with President Bush's signed legislation compared to Senator Boxer's 74% and voted with Republican Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell legislation 62% of the time compared to Senator Boxer's 31%. 

Open the Cloture Rankings page to review how the Senators supported "Cloture" and study the rankings with the Democratic Party Leadership in the Senate.  The Ideology Rankings for 2010 are completed, the results may be shocking!  Senator John Thune from South Dakota is the most conservative senator for 2010 (2 years in a row) and John McCain is ranked number two (tie) as the most conservative senator while Al Franken is ranked as the number one progressive in the U.S. Senate for 2010. Check out how your Senator ranked against their fellow Senators, I'm sure you will be surprised.

The SENATE of the One Hundred and Twelfth Congress Second Session will CONVENE AT 9:30 A.M. Thursday January 26, 2012. PENDING BUSINESS H.R. 2354 (ORDER NO. 157) An act making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, and for other purposes.

October 11, 2011 the Senate 'Rejected' a 'Cloture Motion' on vote number 1121160 to 'Proceed'to S.1660 (President Obama's 'Job Bill') on a 'Roll Call Vote' of 50-49-1, a 3/5 Majority was needed to 'Proceed'; Not one Republican Senator voted 'Yea' to 'Proceed', all but three Democrats voted 'Yea'. Senators Ben Nelson, Jon Tester and the Senate Majority Leader himself Harry Reid voted 'Nay'with the Republicans. S.1660 was a bill to provide tax relief for American workers and businesses, to put workers back on the job while rebuilding and modernizing America, and to provide pathways back to work for Americans looking for jobs. Senator Olympia Snowe sponsored S.Admt.390 a bill to reform the regulatory process to ensure that small businesses are free to compete and to create jobs, and for other purposes this 'Jobs Bill' was ‘Rejected’ by 44 Democrats on June 9, 2011. Senator Snowe’s Amendment needed a 3/5th majority to pass, only 6 Democrats voted for Senator Snowe’s Job Bill. In these times of high unemployment one can’t seem to fathom. What Democratic sensibilities were offended by Senator Snowe’s Amendment? Of course all of the Republican Senators voted for S.Amdt.390 because the Amendment relies on the 'Private' vice 'Public' sector to create jobs.

If you have any questions about how or why a US Senator voted click the link to their official United States Senate web site, find their mailing address, write them a letter and ask them WHY? You can also call the US Capitol Main Switchboard at (202) 224-3121, the switchboard operator will connect you to your Senator's office. Check out the Senate Review page to review the latest senate data reports on featured Senators, these reports are just one small example of what is within the database portion of SenateReports.com that is only available to registered members. This week's report is comparing the most 'moderate' Progressive and Conservative Senators in the Senate, Ben Nelson and Olympia Snowe.

Exciting, insightful, logical and to the point describes SenateReports.com, plus invaluable when using inference techniques to determine your political point of view. Get the facts, not the conjecture. Listed below are some of these exciting features within the database portion of SenateReports.com™:

• Search a range of votes between various Congressional Sessions.
• Save your displayed data from the web page as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
• Print your displayed data from the web page to your printer.
• Compare any two Senators voting records (did the Senators vote alike or not alike on one or a range of votes) and print that data to your printer or save the data as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
• Review and print historical charts on the United States Senate Senators voting patterns.
• Review and print how a Senator voted on a particular Senator's Senate legislation.
• Rank the Senators on how they voted "Yea" and "Nay" on such issues as "ABORTION", "BORDER", "DRUGS", "EARMARK", "ECONOMY", "EDUCATION", "ENVIRONMENT", "ENVIRONMENTAL", "FUNDING", "HEALTH", "IMMIGRATION", "IRAN", "IRAQ", "JUDGE", "MARRIAGE", "PATRIOT ACT", "SIGNED", "SOCIAL SECURITY", "STEM CELL", "TAXES", "TRADE", "VETERANS" OR "VISA".
• Rank the Senators on how they voted "Yea" and "Nay" on a particular Senator's legislation.
• Rank the Senators on how they voted with their Party's majority "Party Line'
• Rank the Senators on how they voted with the President's legislation signed into Law!
• Obtain Senators' Washington D.C. office phone numbers (give them a call sometime) and links to their Senate.gov home page.

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