so now ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and related agencies, Transportation and related agencies. He belongs to selected caucus and special organization memberships like Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Congressional Urban Caucus. All these assignments, in one way or another, relate to the character of his state and district that he represents. Serrano fights strongly against republican proposed budget measures. Serrano’s fighting to help poor working families, children, the ill, the elderly, and immigrants reflect why he is on the assignments that he is.Based on information gathered I think Serrano is liberal. Not only because Serrano is a Democrat and most democrats tend to be liberal, but also because Serrano has one of the most liberal voting records in the House. In six years Serrano has voted 579 times. Out of these 579 votes only 40 of these votes supported Conservative coalition. Therefore more than 85% of his votes were liberal. In New York politics, Serrano has taken many stubborn liberal positions. An example of his strong liberal position was when He fought vehemently the amendment to channel bilingual education money to programs that teach English. Working to better the future for minorities not only in his own district has been very satisfying for Serrano.Now for Serrano’s electoral history, he first won the special election against Simeon Golar (R) by a count of 26, 928 to 2,079. Then in the primary election in 1990 he ran and won against Ismael Betancourt Jr. (D) by a count of 17,983 to 2,468. Then came the general election in 1990 where he ran against Joseph Chiavaro (R), Mary Rivera (NA), Anna Johnson (C) and won be getting 93.0% of the votes. Then in the1992 primaries he went unopposed, and then beat Michael Walters (R, C) in the general election by a count of 85,222 to 7,975. In 1994 he was unopposed in the primaries and won against Michael W...
