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Fred McGrath

The Institute for Legislative Analysis has just released themost expansivestudy on U.S. Congressional voting trends nearly 65,000 votes finding Republican lawmakers voted for the conservative position on cultural and social issues 97.33% of the time, but for the limited government position on tax and fiscal issues just 50.63% of the time.

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The study found more than half of Republicans (146 of 275) voted for the progressive position on fiscal issues more often than the conservative. But on cultural issues (abortion, LGBTQ and gender ideology, and race) all but 23 Republicans voted at least 90% of the time for the conservative position.

The data confirms what many have suspected the Tea Party movement is officially dead. The Republican party is in a new movement grounded on populism and focused on winning the culture wars, said Ryan McGowan, CEO of the Institute for Legislative Analysis. The recent bankruptcy of FreedomWorks coupled with significant ideological shifts within major conservative institutions will likely further gravitate Republican lawmakers to this new policy agenda.

The55-page congressional studyalso found the following:

Fred McGrath is the president of the Institute for Legislative Analysis.

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Culture wars replacing fiscal discipline as calling card of today's GOP - Villages-News