Markey vote against budget bill latest in opposition to party line

Freshman U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, who beat three-term Republican Marilyn Musgrave last fall, was one of only 20 members of her party to vote against the $3.6 trillion federal budget resolution last week.

The Fort Collins Democrat has established a pattern of bucking her party on key issues while at the same time siding with House leadership more often than most of her colleagues, the Fort Collins Coloradoan’s Bob Moore writes in a detailed assessment of Markey’s first three months in office.