Dole a Middling Conservative, According to His Voting Record: American Conservative Union Gives Senator 87 out of 100
As co-manager of the self-proclaimed Republican revolution in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole had a voting record squarely in the middle of the party's ideological spectrum.
The American Conservative Union released a study yesterday of 23 House votes and 22 Senate votes in 1995 to measure the conservative records of every member of Congress. Mr. Dole, of Kansas, earned a rating of 87 on a scale where 100 denotes perfect agreement with the ACU's legislative agenda.
Mr. Dole scored higher than 25 Republican senators and lower than 28 Republican senators.
Seven Senate Republicans registered scores of 100, among them Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, whom Mr. …
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