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Government transparency site pulls page naming Kamala Harris 'most liberal' senator


WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus May 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 17: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus May 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Government transparency site GovTrack removed a 2019 page naming Vice President Kamala Harris as that year’s “most liberal” senator, site operators told The National Desk (TND) Thursday.

The now-deleted page compiled data from Harris’s time in the Senate and assigned a ranking relative to other senators. GovTrack found Harris was the least likely to cosign on bipartisan legislation, held the fewest committee positions and was the third most absent senator, missing 61.9% of votes.

“Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress,” GovTrack wrote beneath its ranking of Harris as the “most liberal compared to all senators.”

The link shows a “page not found” error as of Thursday morning.

GovTrack founder Joshua Tauberer told TND the link is based on statistics from a single congressional session, which site owners decided to discontinue after determining this data “not sufficient to create a reliable portrait of the activity of legislators.”

“One of GovTrack.us's foundational principles it to enable the American public to make data driven decisions based on the best information we can provide,” Tauberer said. “The page that you are referring to was based on a single calendar year. Several years ago we discontinued creating new single-calendar-year ‘report cards’”

Tauberer also directed TND to its current page for Harris, which lists her as the fourth most liberal senator behind Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. He also pointed to GovTrack’s 2020 report card naming Harris the second most liberal senator that year behind Sen. Sanders.

The news comes as Axios is taking heat for writing Harris “never actually had” the title of border czar, a claim which contradicts its own reporting on the topic. It acknowledged this in an editor’s note in a Wednesday article.

“This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ back in 2021,” it wrote.

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