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Writing:Percentage vote with party (congress)
- Main article: Congress Project writing guidelines
The website Open Congress tracks all votes made by members of Congress. The organization then creates pages that detail the percentage of times that incumbent voted with the majority of the chamber caucus.
The percentage vote with party section should be placed in the following format:
==Analysis== ===Voting with party=== ====YEAR====
Usage
When adding this content section, first visit the appropriate site below, based on the chamber and political party of the elected official. There are four specific URLs.
Option 1
Copy this text into the appropriate subheading:
- The website ''Open Congress'' tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus. According to the website, LAST NAME votes with the PARTY '''INSERT FIGURE%''' of the time. This ranked XXXXXX among the XXXXX Senate Democrats in INSERT YEAR.<ref>[INSERT LINK ''Open Congress'' "Voting With Party," Accessed DATE]</ref>
Replace all XXXX or ALL CAPS with the appropriate information.
A completed example is:
- The website ''Open Congress'' tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus. According to the website, Kerry votes with the Democratic Party '''97.2%''' of the time. This ranked 6th among the 51 Senate Democrats in November 2011.<ref>[http://www.opencongress.org/people/votes_with_party/senate/democrat ''Open Congress'' "Voting With Party," Accessed October 5, 2011]</ref>
Option 2 for usage
A template can be used instead. This text below would be copied into the space under:
Analysis
{{Congress vote percent
|name=
|party=
|percent=
|rank=
|total=
|chamber=
|year=
|DHouse=Y
}}
Here is an explanation of what would be placed next to each section.
|name= Name of the member of Congress |party= Enter either '''Democratic''' or '''Republican''' |percent= The % as listed on the Open Congress site |rank= The rank along the left side |total= The total number of members of that party at the time of viewing the site in the chamber |chamber= '''House''' or '''Senate''' |year= '''November 2011''' or '''February 2012''' or whenever it is viewed |DHouse=Y....Change to either "DHouse" or "RHouse" or "RSen" or "DSen" based on party/chamber.
For example, the text below...
{{Congress vote percent
|name=Mark Amodei
|party=Republican
|percent=96.8%
|rank=4th
|total=242
|chamber=House
|year=2011
|DSen=Y
}}
would generate the following: The website Open Congress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus. According to the website, Mark Amodei voted with the Republican Party 96.8% of the time, which ranked 4th among the 242 House Republican members in 2011.[1]
