GovTrack offered an excuse for abruptly deleting its scorecard that ranked Vice President Kamala Harris as the #1 most liberal senator in 2019, claiming the data was, suddenly, “not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators.”
Breitbart News covered GovTrack’s 2019 scorecard on Monday, which ranked Harris as the most liberal U.S. senator in 2019 based on “legislative behavior,” or an analysis of legislation that she sponsored or co-sponsored in the allotted time frame.
The 2019 ranking put Harris, who has been coronated as the Democrat nominee by high-ranking Democrats — not Democrat voters — behind socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who came in 99th place.
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The page explained that the score “can be interpreted as a left–right scale measuring the dominant ideological difference or differences among Members of Congress, although of course it only takes into account a small aspect of reality.”
Despite this explanation, GovTrack opted to delete the page completely after news of Harris ranking as the most liberal senator that year went, seemingly, viral.
The page now reads, “Page Not Found. There is no page at the address you visited. Go back to GovTrack’s home page.”
GovTrack founder Joshua Tauberer provided an explanation for scrubbing the page to the National Desk on Thursday, explaining that the data reflected her activity from a specific congressional session, which they have suddenly decided is “not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators.” That comes despite the fact that the original page contained a disclaimer of sorts explaining exactly that, stating that the snapshot “only takes into account a small aspect of reality.”
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“One of GovTrack.us’s foundational principles it to enable the American public to make data driven decisions based on the best information we can provide,” Tauberer said.
“The page that you are referring to was based on a single calendar year. Several years ago we discontinued creating new single-calendar-year ‘report cards,’” he claimed.
This week was not the first time Breitbart News covered Harris’s GovTrack record, highlighting her ranking as the #4 most liberal U.S. senator in 2018 and #1 most liberal senator in an article published August 11, 2020.
According to GovTrack, Kamala Harris was the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate in 2019.
Even more liberal than Bernie Sanders.
The takeover of Joe Biden by the extreme left is now complete.
Link: https://t.co/BKpgp6lRsP pic.twitter.com/yWeRA5hIye
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) August 11, 2020
Harris has been confronted by the establishment media on her 2019 rating in the past, as well:
CBS: “You’re considered the most liberal United States senator.”
KAMALA: “I— somebody said that, and it was actually Mike Pence on the debate stage…”
CBS: “Actually, nonpartisan GovTrack has rated you as the most liberal senator.”
KAMALA: *blank stare* pic.twitter.com/rmcz43aNNb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 24, 2024
Coinciding with this reality — deleted or not — is the fact that Harris was one of the first senators to offer support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal.
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As Breitbart News explained at the time:
The bill released by Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is a socialist wish list. It calls for moving the U.S. to 100% renewable energy within ten years — while at the same time creating a government-guaranteed job for every American. The bill proposes phasing out air travel, “upgrading all existing buildings in the United States,” and other radical proposals — without any plan to pay for the “transformation” of the entire American economy.
The proposal would require the federal government to ignore deficits and, critics note, to print new money. And according to talking points Ocasio-Cortez is distributing, the Green New Deal will also provide “[e]conomic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” (emphasis added).
I’m proud to co-sponsor @AOC and @EdMarkey‘s Green New Deal. We must aggressively tackle climate change which poses an existential threat to our nation.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 7, 2019
Harris also has openly supported socialism, pushing a video explaining the difference between “equality” and “equity” days ahead of the election in 2020.
