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Who is the most powerful member of Congress?
Guess. This metric offers a clear first pick.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 7, 2008 at 06:43 PM in Political Science | Permalink
Comments
LOL -- I can't believe they left the independents off :p
Posted by: Kian Wilcox at Mar 7, 2008 9:15:23 PM
It'd be nice if their methodology or metric were described, rather than just hinted at. I can't get anything out of this beyond "we used data, and did something with it."
Posted by: celeriac at Mar 7, 2008 11:57:47 PM
There seems to be a senator missing -- Mississippi?
Posted by: DC at Mar 8, 2008 3:08:22 AM
Having lived in Alaska, it's hard to believe Ted Stevens is so low given his success at diverting your tax money to fund our local projects. Though I guess it counts for something that he was never able to get ANWR oil drilling off the ground.
Posted by: Sean at Mar 8, 2008 4:57:32 AM
Slight nit-pick: The chart displays a ranked list of "power" in the Senate, not of Congress. If it were for Congress, Nancy Pelosi should be neck and neck with Senator Reid and I'd expect half a dozen House committee chairmen ahead of Sen. Kennedy, just on the basis of the power of the purse.
I am strongly in agreement with some of the other commenters here... a methodology would be very nice.
DC is correct, Senator Roger Wicker of MS appears to be missing. However, both independents (Lieberman (I-CT) and Sanders(I-VT))are present, Kian Wilcox.
Posted by: apikoros at Mar 8, 2008 1:25:30 PM
The independents were not originally on the list. It was fixed.
Posted by: Sideways at Mar 8, 2008 3:05:02 PM
