The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

U.S. Senate

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-2.8: Bartels analyzed Senate roll calls from 1989 to 1994 and reported responsiveness to constituents in the middle and upper income thirds and no evidence of responsiveness to the bottom third. His abstract reports that the bottom fifth receives little or no weight, especially from Republican senators.
  • POL-2.9: Lax, Phillips and Zelizer analyzed 49 Senate roll-call votes from 2001 to 2015 and found that affluent influence is overstated and depends on partisanship. The poor get what they want more often from Democrats, and the rich more often from Republicans, but only if Republican constituents side with the rich.
  • POL-5.13: The Senate failed to reach cloture on the DISCLOSE Act on 27 July 2010 (57 to 41), 23 September 2010 (59 to 39), 16 July 2012 (51 to 44), 17 July 2012 (53 to 45) and 22 September 2022 (49 to 49). In each vote every Republican voting voted nay, and every Democrat and independent voting voted yea except one Democrat in July 2010 and one in July 2012.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 701 November 2019. Jeffrey R. Lax, Justin H. Phillips and Adam Zelizer, American Political Science Review 113(4), pp. 917-940: The Party or the Purse? Unequal Representation in the US Senate
  • Exhibit 704 January 2006. Larry M. Bartels, PS: Political Science & Politics, January 2006, pp. 39-42: Is the Water Rising? Reflections on Inequality and American Democracy
  • Exhibit 705 2005. Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University, for the Russell Sage Foundation: Economic Inequality and Political Representation (Russell Sage Foundation working paper abstract; basis of a chapter of Unequal Democracy, 2008)
  • Exhibit 907 27 July 2010. U.S. Senate (Secretary of the Senate roll call data): Senate roll call 220, S. 3628 (DISCLOSE Act), cloture on motion to proceed
  • Exhibit 908 23 September 2010. U.S. Senate (Secretary of the Senate roll call data): Senate roll call 240, S. 3628, cloture on reconsideration
  • Exhibit 909 16 July 2012. U.S. Senate (Secretary of the Senate roll call data): Senate roll call 179, S. 3369 (DISCLOSE Act of 2012), cloture on motion to proceed
  • Exhibit 910 17 July 2012. U.S. Senate (Secretary of the Senate roll call data): Senate roll call 180, S. 3369, cloture on reconsideration
  • Exhibit 911 22 September 2022. U.S. Senate (Secretary of the Senate roll call data): Senate roll call 346, S. 4822 (DISCLOSE Act of 2022), cloture on motion to proceed
  • Exhibit 912 16 July 2012. U.S. Senate: Congressional Record, 16 July 2012, S4985-S4988 (Sen. McConnell on the DISCLOSE Act)
  • Exhibit 913 16 July 2012. U.S. Senate: Congressional Record, 16 July 2012, S5003 et seq. (Sen. Schumer on the DISCLOSE Act)