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Rep. Adam Smith’s 2025-03-12 interview with Quincy Institute: a summary and response

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On March 12, 2025, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) was interviewed on a webinar with Quincy Institute of Responsible Statecraft.  As former chair and ranking member of the the House Armed Services Committee, Smith (no relation) is an important voice on military matters in Congress. Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute asked Rep. Smith why the…

U.S. Senators Visualized based on their votes

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By Donald A. Smith Using data from VoteView and software that I wrote, I made visualizations of U.S. senators based on their 2023 rollcall votes. The visualizations use Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and tsne to project their voting data to 3d. Senators who voted the same on more bills/resolutions appear close together. Votes of Senators…