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House and Senate Concurrence with Presidents: Eisenhower - Obama
"Vote concurrence is measured by the number of times a majority of members of Congress vote with the president's position on roll call votes. Member concurrence is the percentage of members who agree with the president's position on a roll call vote. Unlike the usual scholarly focus on success or support, the concurrence measures acknowledge that it is impossible to judge who influenced whom." -- Ragsdale, Vital Statistics on the Presidency
Citation: "House and Senate Concurrence with Presidents." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2016.
Available from the World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/concurrence.php.
Notes:
* On June 6, 2001, Senator Jim Jeffords (NH) left the Republican Party and became an independent. He chose to caucus with the Democrats and therefore made the Democratic Party the majority party in the Senate. Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) became the majority leader.
Data Sources:
• Lyn Ragsdale, "Vital Statistics on the Presidency." CQ Press (various editions)
• Harold Stanley and Richard Niemi, "Vital Statistics on American Politics." CQ Press (various editions)
• "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report" (various editions)
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