The N&R’s Doug Clark takes a look at Kay Hagan’s first month in the Senate, focusing on her SCHIP vote:
“Less than a month into my service here in the U.S. Senate,” the Greensboro Democrat said in a floor speech last week, “I’m faced with a situation in which the health of millions of my state’s children are at odds with a key industry in North Carolina.”
How she resolved the dilemma may forecast Hagan’s approach to her difficult job over the next six years. …
Funny, but if you’re using the SCHIP vote as a “forecast” to Hagan’s approach to her job over the next six years, then we’re looking at symbolic opposition to party-line votes. With that in mind, note that Hagan voted to confirm Eric Holder as attorney general.
Meanwhile, Under the Dome reports that Hagan is the seventh richest freshman in Congress, with a net worth between $4.3 million and $38 million.
That’s quite a discrepancy, isn’t it?
