Cloture Ranking List
LastName	FirstName	State	Party	Yeas	Cloture	Percent	Rank
Lieberman	Joseph	Connecticut	Independent	11	11	100%	1
Manchin	Joe	West Virginia	Democratic	11	11	100%	1
Carper	Thomas	Delaware	Democratic	10	11	91%	2
Casey	Robert	Pennsylvania	Democratic	10	11	91%	2
Coons	Christopher	Delaware	Democratic	10	11	91%	2
Feinstein	Dianne	California	Democratic	10	11	91%	2
Franken	Al	Minnesota	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Gillibrand	Kirsten	New York	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Hagan	Kay	North Carolina	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Inouye	Daniel	Hawaii	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Kohl	Herbert	Wisconsin	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Lautenberg	Frank	New Jersey	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Levin	Carl	Michigan	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Menendez	Robert	New Jersey	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Mikulski	Barbara	Maryland	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Murray	Patty	Washington	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Nelson	Bill	Florida	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Pryor	Mark	Arkansas	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Reed	Jack	Rhode Island	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Rockefeller	Jay	West Virginia	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Stabenow	Debbie	Michigan	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Warner	Mark	Virginia	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Webb	James	Virginia	Democratic	10	11	91%	3
Bennet	Michael	Colorado	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Bingaman	Jeff	New Mexico	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Blumenthal	Richard	Connecticut	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Boxer	Barbara	California	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Cantwell	Maria	Washington	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Cardin	Benjamin	Maryland	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Conrad	Kent	North Dakota	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Durbin	Richard	Illinois	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Harkin	Tom	Iowa	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Johnson	Tim	South Dakota	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Kerry	John	Massachusetts	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Klobuchar	Amy	Minnesota	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Landrieu	Mary	Louisiana	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Reid	Harry	Nevada	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Schumer	Charles	New York	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Shaheen	Jeanne	New Hampshire	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Tester	Jon	Montana	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Udall	Tom	New Mexico	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Udall	Mark	Colorado	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Whitehouse	Sheldon	Rhode Island	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Wyden	Ron	Oregon	Democratic	9	11	82%	4
Akaka	Daniel	Hawaii	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
Begich	Mark	Alaska	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
Brown	Sherrod	Ohio	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
Leahy	Patrick	Vermont	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
McCaskill	Claire	Missouri	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
Merkley	Jeff	Oregon	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
Nelson	Ben	Nebraska	Democratic	8	11	73%	5
Baucus	Max	Montana	Democratic	7	11	64%	6
Collins	Susan	Maine	Republican	7	11	64%	6
McCain	John	Arizona	Republican	7	11	64%	6
Snowe	Olympia	Maine	Republican	7	11	64%	6
Sanders	Bernard	Vermont	Independent	6	11	55%	7
Alexander	Lamar	Tennessee	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Barrasso	John	Wyoming	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Boozman	John	Arkansas	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Brown	Scott	Massachusetts	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Burr	Richard	North Carolina	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Chambliss	Saxby	Georgia	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Coburn	Tom	Oklahoma	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Enzi	Micheal	Wyoming	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Graham	Lindsey	South Carolina	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Hutchison	Kay	Texas	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Isakson	Johnny	Georgia	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Kirk	Mark	Illinois	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Kyl	Jon	Arizona	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Lugar	Richard	Indiana	Republican	6	11	55%	7
McConnell	Mitch	Kentucky	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Thune	John	South Dakota	Republican	6	11	55%	7
Ayotte	Kelly	New Hampshire	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Coats	Dan	Indiana	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Corker	Bob	Tennessee	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Cornyn	John	Texas	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Grassley	Charles	Iowa	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Hatch	Orrin	Utah	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Inhofe	James	Oklahoma	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Johanns	Mike	Nebraska	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Johnson	Ron	Wisconsin	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Moran	Jerry	Kansas	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Murkowski	Lisa	Alaska	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Portman	Robert	Ohio	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Sessions	Jeff	Alabama	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Shelby	Richard	Alabama	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Toomey	Pat	Pennsylvania	Republican	5	11	45%	8
Blunt	Roy	Missouri	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Cochran	Thad	Mississippi	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Crapo	Mike	Idaho	Republican	4	11	36%	9
DeMint	Jim	South Carolina	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Hoeven	John	North Dakota	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Roberts	Pat	Kansas	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Rubio	Marco	Florida	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Wicker	Roger	Mississippi	Republican	4	11	36%	9
Lee	Mike	Utah	Republican	3	11	27%	10
Risch	Jim	Idaho	Republican	3	11	27%	10
Vitter	David	Louisiana	Republican	3	11	27%	10
Paul	Rand	Kentucky	Republican	1	11	9%	11

To qualify for a Cloture Ranking or any SenateReports.com ranking a Senator must have voted on at least 50% of the 299 roll call votes during the ranking session of the 111th 2nd Congress. The following Senators did not qualify for a SenateReports.com ranking.

Last Name	First Name	State	Party	Senate Votes
Heller	Dean	Nevada	Republican	37

The above Senator(s) were appointed by their State Governors or won a special election to fill a vacant Senate position from their State and did not muster enough votes to qualify for a ranking.

Majority Leader Harry Reid Democrat, Nevada
Senator Reid in ranked 4th (82%) on the Cloture Rankings List, he only managed to get 23 of his 53 Democrats to vote on cloture 90% of the time or above thus far this year. Last year  54 of 59 Democratic Senators voted on cloture 90% of the time or greater in support of his Democratic Leadership. There is just one cloture vote separating Democratic Senator Ben Nelson ranked 5th (73%) for Democrats and Republican Senators Collins, McCain and Snowe at 64% ranked 7th at the top for Republicans. At times having Republican Senators voting over 50% on cloture votes is like having extra Democrats supporting Senator Harry Reid's Democratic leadership and legislation.

Reid’s leadership is responsible for 14 of 26 (54%) successful pieces of Democratic Party legislation, of which no Bills went on to be passed without the support of the Republican majority of votes. Bipartisanship...maybe?

Assistant Majority Leader (Democratic Whip) Richard Durbin, Illinois is mainly responible for assisting the Majority Leader in his duties to carry out the legislation program of the Senate. Senator Durbin's leadership position has made him one of the most influential progressive democrats in the Senate. Senator Durbin is tied with 20 other Democratic Senators at 4th (82%) place on the Cloture Ranking List this year, last year he was tied for 3rd place with 14 other Democrats with 96% and in 2009 he had a 97% Cloture Ranking Percentage.  Ever since the Democrats took control of the Senate in 2007 Senator Durbin's Cloture Percent was never lower than 92%. When the Republicans controlled the Senate between 2005 -2006 Senator Durbin maintained Cloture Percentages of 35% and 51% in support of the Republican leadership in the Senate. 

Senator Durbin has been an outstanding progressive democrat since 2005 as the 'Progressive Voting Percentage' table demonstrates.

Progressive Voting Percentage
LastName	Year	Percent
Durbin	2005	98%
Obama	2005	97%
Lieberman	2005	88%
Durbin	2006	100%
Obama	2006	100%
Lieberman	2006	91%
Durbin	2007	98%
Lieberman	2007	79%
Durbin	2008	100%
Lieberman	2008	75%
Durbin	2009	100%
Lieberman	2009	91%
Durbin	2010	99%
Lieberman	2010	87%
Durbin	2011	96%
Lieberman	2011	88%

To most progressive and very liberal democrats Senator Joseph Lieberman has been a thorn in the Democratic Party ever since he ran as an 'Independent' and supported John McCain for President in 2008. These stout-timbered ideologues refuse to review Senator Lieberman's overall voting record since 2005 objectively and judge him soley on one or two highly political issues. Political dogma most of the time can't stand up to common sense and logic.

Since 2005 Senator Lieberman has voted with the Democratic Party Majority 84.2% of the time, the Democratic Party Majority's Party Percent Average over five years has been 84.9%. IRAQ has been one of the key issues where Senator Lieberman has been at odds with the Democratic Party Leadership, Lieberman has voted 38 of 55 (69%) times against his Party's Majority since 2005 on key legislation concerning IRAQ.

Senator Lieberman has voted with Progressive roll call votes 74% of the time since 2005, not even close to hard core progressives like Senators Barbara Boxer, Sherrod Brown, Richard Durbin, Al Franken, Kirsten Gillibrand, Charles Schumer, and democratic socialist Bernard Sanders that have progressive ranking percentages in the high 90's.  The last three years at least 48 Democrats have had Progessive Ranking Percentages at or above 90%, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid from Nevada has a 87% Progressive Ranking Percentage, averaged over 7 years since 2005. Senator Reid's worst year voting with Progressive roll call votes determined by the Democratic Majority was in 2008 when he voted only 71% of the time on key progressive roll call votes, the same year Senator Lieberman voted only 63%.  Election years have a tendency to make most career politicians become more bipartisan or partisan in their voting patterns depending on their State or District political stances.

In 2009 there were 11 Bills passed by the Democratic Majority that did not have any Republican majority of votes or support. Since 2009 there have been 19 of 39 (49%) Bills signed into law by President H. Obama that did not have any Republican majority support, a record number of partisan Bills since 2005.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Republican, Kentucky 
Due to the lack of Republican partisan support and very little Democratic support Senator McConnell only managed to get 4 of 32 (13%) successful pieces of legislation thru the Democratic controlled Senate this year, that's half of last year's stats. Worse Senator McConnell has not been able to get one Republican sponsored Bill passed thru the Democratic controlled Senate without the support of the Democratic majority of votes. Senator McConnell has sponsored 15 pieces of legislation since 2005, 8 were approved and 2 were signed into public law by George W. Bush S.3930 the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and S.1927 the Protect America Act of 2007. Under the Democrat controlled Senate Senator McConnell has only 5 pieces of sponsored legislation, only one has been approved S.Amdt.1136; an Amendment to limit the release of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pending a report on the prisoner population at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. By Contrast Senator Harry Reid had 5 of 15 pieces of sponsored legislation while President George W. Bush was in office, he had 10 pieces of sponsored legislation that made it to the floor of the Senate, 7 were approved, and none were signed into pubic law while President Obama has been in the White House. But one piece S.Res.159; a resolution honoring the members of the military and intelligence community who carried out the mission that killed Osama bin Laden is note worthy.

Senator McConnell is voting 6 of 11 (55%) on cloture votes with the Democratic leadership and is ranked number 7 in support of the Democratic leadership, 19 of his fellow Republican Senators have been voting with that leadership 50% of the time or greater this year. Not something to brag about...for sure...but the winner and champion of the Constitution is no doubt Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky who voted 1 of 11 (9%) with the Democratic leadership on cloture roll call votes and is ranked at the bottom of the Cloture Ranking List with a 11 ranking. Ranked at 8 is the most conservative women Senator of 2011, Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte from New Hampshire. Being ranked at the bottom on the Cloture Rankings List is something I'm sure both Senators Paul and Ayotte would be proud of considering the socialistic tendencies of the Democrat controlled Senate.