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Bruce Mehlman's avatar

You are right, Bill. I reversed my colors in the initially-published chart. Just fixed in the online version. Good catch... thanks!

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Beth's avatar

I was concerned that the last chart was incorrect but it appears it’s already been caught

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Greg Schuckman's avatar

Bruce, Senate HELP has new chair and ranking as well (they switched places).

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Bruce Mehlman's avatar

We struggled to decide which Senate Chairs were "new".

Technically they're all new vis-à-vis last Congress, when Dems held the Chairs.

We decided to count folks who had never before been Chairs of Senate Committees.

Somewhat arbitrary approach for sure, or at least not intuitive!!

I suppose we might have picked Chairs who hadn’t been ranking members immediately before?

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Fan Jiang's avatar

The exchange with Mark Halperin was extremely enlightening and thought provocative. Thank you Bruce for organizing and sharing with us.

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Gordon Hensley's avatar

excellent interview 👍👍👍

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bill o'grady's avatar

Is the legend in your last chart correct?

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