I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

As of 2012 Baldwin's voting record placed her as one of the most liberal in Congress. Baldwin was endorsed by the editorial board of The Capital Times who wrote that "Baldwin's fresh ideas on issues ranging from job creation to health care reform along with her proven record of working across lines of partisanship and ideology and her grace under pressure mark her as precisely the right choice to replace retiring U. S.

S. Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11 1962) is the junior United States Senator from Wisconsin and a member of the Democratic Party.