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Republican Joseph Cao voted for Obama, against his own party often in 2010
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jan 06, 2011 02:27am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 4, 2011 02:35:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | No other House Republican supported President Barack Obama or voted against the majority of his own party as often as Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-New Orleans, according to a survey of votes cast in 2010, by the Capitol Hill magazine CQ.
But that wasn't enough to stop the president from endorsing Cao's Democratic opponent, Cedric Richmond, who easily defeated the incumbent Nov. 2. Richmond moved into his new office Monday and will be sworn in Wednesday, along with the other 434 members in the new GOP-controlled House.
The CQ survey shows that the 111th Congress, which adjourned just before Christmas after a rare bipartisan vote to extend the George W. Bush tax cuts for two more years, was a body where the two parties most often were at loggerheads.
Louisiana's two senators reflected the split, with Democrat Mary Landrieu voting in support of the president's position 98 percent of the time and Republican David Vitter opposing Obama on 63 percent of the 64 votes surveyed by CQ. |
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