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Congress isn’t actually more partisan
Casey Burgat for the R Street Institute: Most laws, including landmark legislation, are passed with strong bipartisan support. Contrary to expectations, there is no clear trend line of decreased minority support in Congress from 1973 to 2014. On all bills that became law during that period, more than 60 percent of minority lawmakers voted in favor of passage on average, and in many Congresses more than 80 percent of the minority voted yes. In fact, in the most recent Congresses where polarization is most intense, we find the percentage of minority support is even higher than in less-partisan Congresses of previous decades.
On landmark laws we see more variation in minority support across Congresses, but still find that, on average, more than 65 percent of minority lawmakers vote in favor of these laws. …
Only rarely does the majority pass laws over the opposition of a majority of the minority party, known as “getting rolled.” On average, the minority roll rates were less than 15 percent for all laws passed during the period under study. In only a handful of Congresses did the roll rate rise above 25 percent, with the 103rd Congress showing the highest roll rate of more than 30 percent. Again, we see no upward trend in roll rates despite stronger parties and increased centralized power in leadership offices.
