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Despite mostly being [[liberal]]-leaning,<ref name="Thomas H. Kuchel: A Featured Biography"/><ref name="Thomas H. Kuchel Dies at 84; Ex-Republican Whip in Senate"/> Kuchel did not join the [[Moderate Republicans]] and Democrats who voted to censure [[Joseph McCarthy]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/83-1954/s271 S. RES. 301. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved April 23, 2021.</ref> a [[Wisconsin]] Republican who investigated and exposed [[communist]] infiltration of the United States government.
Despite mostly being [[liberal]]-leaning,<ref name="Thomas H. Kuchel: A Featured Biography"/><ref name="Thomas H. Kuchel Dies at 84; Ex-Republican Whip in Senate"/> Kuchel did not join the [[Moderate Republicans]] and Democrats who voted to censure [[Joseph McCarthy]],<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/83-1954/s271 S. RES. 301. PASSAGE.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved April 23, 2021.</ref> a [[Wisconsin]] Republican who investigated and exposed [[communist]] infiltration of the United States government.
Kuchel voted in favor of enacting [[Medicare]].<ref name="Thomas H. Kuchel Dies at 84; Ex-Republican Whip in Senate"/>
While running for reelection, Kuchel did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which established open housing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1968/s346|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN SALE OR RENTAL OF HOUSING, AND TO PROHIBIT RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON EXERCISING HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.}}</ref> He sought a third full term but lost the Republican [[primary]] to the strongly [[conservative]] Maxwell Lewis "Max" Rafferty, Jr. (1917–1982), the then California superintendent of public instruction. Rafferty, however, was defeated by the staunchly liberal [[Alan Cranston]], who like Kuchel was a former state controller.
While running for reelection, Kuchel did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which established open housing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1968/s346|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN SALE OR RENTAL OF HOUSING, AND TO PROHIBIT RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON EXERCISING HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.}}</ref> He sought a third full term but lost the Republican [[primary]] to the strongly [[conservative]] Maxwell Lewis "Max" Rafferty, Jr. (1917–1982), the then California superintendent of public instruction. Rafferty, however, was defeated by the staunchly liberal [[Alan Cranston]], who like Kuchel was a former state controller.