New Ratings Show Cheney, Murkowski Vote to the Left of Their Dads
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
By John Gizzi
Friday, 23 April 2021 08:02 AM
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The 50th annual ratings of Congress by the venerable American Conservative Union Foundation Union Foundation (ACUF) show that Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. has now moved considerably to the left of her father Dick Cheney, who held the same at-large House seat from 1978-89.
Liz Cheney, in fact, is less conservative than the four Republicans who preceded her as the Cowboy State’s lone U.S. Representative.
Long considered the ''gold standard'' for rating the conservatism of members of Congress, the ACUF ratings showed a similar leftward drift for Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski from the conservative record of her senator father.
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