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Augut 6th, 2020

 

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Zeldin Named One of Top Bipartisan Members of Congress

 

The Fulcrum
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Sara Swann

August 5, 2020

 

Younger House members are more likely to work across the aisle than their
older colleagues, a new study shows.

 

Bipartisanship is extraordinarily hard to come by on Capitol Hill, one of the
main reasons why the legislative branch has devolved into near-total
dysfunction and further hobbled the regular operations of democracy. The report
provides a glimmer of hope the next generation of lawmaker leaders may be
willing to change that.

 

The findings <[link removed]> were released
this week by theMillennial Action Project
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champion young legislators committed to bipartisanship, and the Lugar Center, a
think tank promoting civility and collaboration across party lines.

 

For the study, researchers created a formula to quantify the bipartisan
tendencies of every current House member. It was based on how often in this
term they have signed on to bills introduced by someone of the opposite party,
and how many of their own proposals have attracted sponsorship from across the
aisle. (The numbers are one of the few ways to quantify behavior that often
manifests itself in subjective acts of behind-closed-doors cooperation.)

 

The results were compared to how members of Congress behaved from 1993 to
2018, a period when partisan loyalties soared while collaborative legislating
fell into disfavor and disuse each year more than the last. High scores
identified members acting in a more bipartisan way than the average of the
previous quarter-century…

 

Steven Olikara, who runs the Millennial Action Project, said this study
affirms that "the next generation of leaders is already redefining how we
govern."

 

Younger members with the highest bipartisanship scores:

1. Democrat Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey

2. Republican Lee Zeldin of New York

3. Republican Elise Stefanik of New York

4. Democrat Joe Cunningham of South Carolina

5. Democrat Abigail Spanberger of Virginia

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Lee Zeldin is an Army veteran, Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve, former
prosecutor, husband, father of 13-year-old twin girls, and former NY State
Senator who currently represents New York’s 1st Congressional District, where
he has served since 2015. Learn more about Lee, who was born and raised on Long
Island, here: [link removed].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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