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Article: Sen. Simon Would Have Earned 95 Percent
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 4, 1987
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While I applaud The Post's continuing series on the presidential
candidates, the front-page piece on Sen. Paul Simon {Nov. 23}
misrepresented his voting record. In describing Sen. Simon's voting
record as evaluated by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action,
the writer implied that the senator had deliberately voted more
conservatively in 1984, the year of his most recent election. His
ADA rating that year was only 40 percent; the following year, he
earned a 95 percent. The impression left is that Sen. Simon casts
his votes according to the prevailing political winds. Nothing could
be further from the truth.
In its tabulation of the voting rec-ords of members of Congress,
ADA ...