Senate Democrats’ Unity have banded together« Thread Started on Apr 3, 2007, 9:56pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Senate Democrats’ Unity Slightly Less Than House, Higher Than GOP’s erad at source> http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/04/03/cq_2509.htmlBy Greg Giroux, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLYPublished: April 3, 2007The Democrats and Republicans in the newly Democratic-controlled Senate have exhibited a bit less party unity on legislative votes than their counterparts in the House — but only a bit, according to a preliminary CQPolitics.com study conducted by senior reporter Greg Giroux of the lawmakers’ voting record in the three-month-old 110th Congress.CQ Politics.com reported Monday that House Democrats, in their own newfound majority status, have banded together almost unanimously in voting on legislation that has divided the two parties: The House Democrats’ “party unity” score, measuring how often members of that party voted with most of their Democratic colleagues in opposition to most Republicans, was 98 percent.