Voting with the RI House Leadership, 1999-2000

Voting with the RI House Leadership, 1999-2000 (posted July 15, 2000)

In order to determine the extent to which on major contested votes in the House over the past two year, legislators voted for or against the leadership, we compiled House votes in 1999 and 2000. For the session which just ended, the individuals most likely to vote with the House leadership were: Farrell (100%), Caprio (98%), Martineau (97%), Winfield (95%), Menard (95%), Barr (94%), Dennigan (92%), Giannini (92%), Garvey (92%), Pires (92%), Schadone (91%), Sherlock (91%), Kennedy (91%), McCauley (91%), Crowley (90%), McNamara (90%), and Lally (90%).

Those least likely to vote with the leadership were: Gorham (38%), Scott (38%), Pisaturo (40%), DeSimone (41%), C. Levesque (41%), G. Levesque (42%), Wasylyk (44%), Watson (43%), Smith (46%), Kelley (47%), and Mumford (47%).

In 2000, the average House legislator voted with the leadership 74% of the time on major contested votes, the same as in 1999. This is in contrast to the Senate where in 2000, the average Senator voted with the leadership 67%, which was down from 73% in 1999.

The methodology employed in this study was to take major contested votes in the House over the past two years, identify the position of Harwood and his top supporters, and tabulate whether other members voted for or against the leadership. A list of votes included in the leadership agreement score can be found on the website www.InsidePolitics.org under Billtracker (How They Voted in the RI House).

House	1999	2000
Abdullah-Odiase	71%	72%
Aiken	68	85
Ajello	54	66
Almeida	74	75
Amaral	52	51
Anderson M.	46	56
Anderson S.	75	78
Barr	87	94
Benoit	78	84
Benson	88	59
Bramley	55	55
Burlingame	46	60
Callahan	48	60
Cambio	88	79
Caprio	NA	98
Carpenter	84	84
Carroll	51	59
Carter	96	77
Cicilline	67	65
Coderre	92	84
Coelho	88	74
Corvese	94	87
Costantino	78	68
Crowley	86	90
Dennigan	77	92
DeSimone	42	41
Faria	94	82
Farrell	96	100
Ferguson	90	92
Flaherty	98	84
Fleury	64	70
Fox	88	76
Garabedian	64	79
Garvey	87	92
George	71	70
Giannini	92	92
Ginaitt	84	88
Gorham	43	38
Heffner	79	65
Henseler	98	84
Hetherington	70	77
Hogan	76	82
Inman	98	87
Iwuc	89	83
Jacquard	77	75
Kelley	58	47
Kelso	85	NA
Kennedy	92	91
Kilmartin	75	80
Knickle	73	77
Lally	92	90
Lanzi	63	62
Larisa	83	NA
Levesque C.	50	41
Levesque G.	48	42
Lewiss	78	81
Lima	61	53
Long	47	56
Lopes	75	82
Lowe	68	74
Maher	79	76
Malik	82	85
Martineau	98	97
McCauley	92	91
McNamara	71	90
Menard	95	95
Millard	52	62
Montanaro	49	48
Moran	NA	77
Moura	84	87
Mumford	66	47
Munschy	92	79
Murphy	69	83
Naughton	90	84
Palangino	92	86
Palumbo	87	73
Picard	72	70
Pires	83	92
Pisaturo	40	40
Quick	74	58
Rabideau	33	53
Reilly	84	78
Rose	80	85
Russo	82	73
San Bento	96	78
Savage	33	59
Schadone	94	91
Scott	35	38
Shavers	87	80
Sherlock	91	91
Simonian	81	72
Slater	82	77
Smith	38	46
Sullivan	86	71
Thompson	80	82
Vieira	84	84
Voccola	71	75
Wasylyk	45	44
Watson	49	43
Williams	56	69
Williamson	68	87
Winfield	95	95