Delay Rankings - Methodology

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:28:21 +0000

The DeLay Rankings measure how close a member of Congress is to Tom DeLay by adding together values from six different measurements. The perfect score is ten points—the closer to 10 points a representative receives, the closer he or she is to Tom DeLay. Each of the measurements is described below.

Here’s an example. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Florida, ranks #1 on the DeLay Rankings because he has taken a lot of money from Tom DeLay’s PAC ($10,000), for which he gets three points, given money to DeLay’s legal defense fund ($5,000), for which he receives two points; voted with DeLay 97.4% of the time (which we double on a two point scale), for which he gets 1.95 points; and so on. While other members of Congress have received more contributions from DeLay’s PAC, given more to DeLay’slegal defense, or voted more frequently the way DeLay does, Feeney is high up on enough of these categories to be ranked number one when all the elements are added together.

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Delay Rankings - Methodology