Specter Opposed Reagan More Often Than Not--Survey
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) voted against the White House more often than any other Senate Republican in 1986, a survey released today showed.
A survey by Congressional Quarterly magazine said Specter, who is running for reelection against Democratic Rep. Bob Edgar, opposed President Reagan’s position twice as often as he supported it.
The survey, based on 80 recorded Senate votes on which Reagan took a clear position, found that Specter voted against the President on 65% of them while supporting him on 33%.
After Specter, the Republican senator who opposed Reagan most often was Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon, who voted against the White House on 45% of the votes.
Twenty-one of the Senate’s Democrats supported Reagan more often than Specter, the survey found.
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