The voting record for the legislators of the Democratic and Republican parties was recently released, and the results are shocking . The records showed that most of the Democrats voted for things like funding education, disaster relief, racial equality, LGBT rights, public health, humane immigration policy, women’s rights and gun control. Most of the Republicans voted against those things. Check out the data here.
Most of the Democrats are for poverty amelioration. They support funding for programs that help reduce poverty. Most of the Republicans voted against that.
Interestingly, many of the things the Republicans voted for a lot of the things that the Democrats voted against. For example, the Republicans voted for big business and Hawkish foreign policy. Only about 30 percent of the Democrats voted for taxing the middle class. Approximately 70 percent of the Republicans voted for taxing the middle class.
Republicans are known for being against big government. However, they are for big business. Almost all of the Republicans voted for big business. The voting record has received some interesting comments. One person stated that they did not believe the results of the voting record. They stated that the data is old, and the Republicans and Democrats have different ideals now.