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POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATIONS OF 23 SENATORS WHO VOTED, "NAY"

Akaka, Daniel (D-HI)
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM)
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA)
Byrd, Robert (D-WV)
Chafee, Lincoln (R-RI)
Conrad, Kent (D-ND)

Corzine, Jon (D-NJ)
Dayton, Mark (D-MN)
Durbin, Richard (D-IL)
Feingold, Russell (D-WI)
Graham, Bob (D-FL)
Inouye, Daniel (D-HI)

Jeffords, James (I-VT)
Kennedy, Edward (D-MA)
Leahy, Patrick (D-VT)
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
Mikulski, Barbara (D-MD)
Murray, Patty (D-WA)

Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Sarbanes, Paul (D-MD)
Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI)
Wellstone, Paul (D-MN) deceased
Wyden, Ron (D-OR)

SUMMARY

One Republican (about 1% of all republican Senators)
One Independent (100% of independent Senators)
Twenty-one Democrats (about 43% of all democratic Senators)

Do these numbers show the senators, as a group, are more loyal to the ideals of their party than to the ideals of their country?