
How Mae Flexer votes
A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.
Each dot is one member of the Senate, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. Mae Flexer is circled.
3 of 251 party-line votes.
Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.
Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.
Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (51 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.
Bills Mae Flexer was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.
For comparison, the median Democratic member of the Senate has 0 bills that became law this session.
Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.
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