Rating Group: NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

2002 Positions

Issues: Social
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 12%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 33%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 12%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 75%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 33%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 75%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 88%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 88%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 88%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 88%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 62%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 62%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 62%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 12%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 88%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 25%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 12%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 62%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 88%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 88%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 88%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 88%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 33%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 25%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 62%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 12%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 67%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 12%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 88%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 88%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 88%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 12%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 12%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 88%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 75%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 88%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 75%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 75%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 62%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 12%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 75%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 88%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 88%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 88%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 75%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 33%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 67%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 33%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 25%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 75%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 12%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 88%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 88%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 62%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 25%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 12%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 62%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 12%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 75%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 67%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 67%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 62%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 62%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 75%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 62%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 62%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 62%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 62%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 88%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 12%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 88%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 67%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 75%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 88%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 75%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 62%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 88%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 67%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 25%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 12%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 38%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 12%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 62%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 62%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 75%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 75%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 12%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 67%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 33%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 62%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 62%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 88%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 12%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 75%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 12%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 12%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 67%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 25%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 88%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 62%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 67%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 75%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 75%
Brian Baird Other 88%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 12%
Charlie Bass Other 12%
Evan Bayh Other 33%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Douglas Bereuter Other 12%
Shelley Berkley Other 62%
Howard Berman Other 62%
Marion Berry Other 75%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 67%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 12%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 12%
Leonard Boswell Other 75%
Rick Boucher Other 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 62%
John Breaux Other 0%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 33%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 12%
Hillary Clinton Other 67%
Michael Collins Other 12%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 88%
Christopher Cox Other 12%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 38%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 33%
James Davis Other 62%
Jo Ann Davis Other 12%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 88%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 62%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 12%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 33%
Calvin Dooley Other 62%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 67%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 67%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 75%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 12%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 33%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 12%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 62%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 88%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 62%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 75%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 12%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 75%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 25%
Bart Gordon Other 62%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 67%
Mark Green Other 12%
James Greenwood Other 12%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 12%
Jane Harman Other 62%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 12%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 62%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 12%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Ernest Hollings Other 67%
Darlene Hooley Other 75%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 38%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 25%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 12%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 88%
William Jefferson Other 62%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 67%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 50%
Nancy Johnson Other 12%
Tim Johnson Other 12%
Paul Kanjorski Other 62%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 62%
Dale Kildee Other 75%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 88%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 33%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 88%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 38%
Tom Lantos Other 75%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
James Leach Other 25%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 33%
Blanche Lincoln Other 33%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 50%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 33%
Don Manzullo Other 12%
Robert Matsui Other 88%
Karen McCarthy Other 88%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 25%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 62%
Martin Meehan Other 62%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 88%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 33%
Alan Mollohan Other 62%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 25%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 25%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 88%
Dave Obey Other 88%
John Olver Other 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 62%
Thomas William Osborne Other 12%
Doug Ose Other 12%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 50%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 12%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 12%
Ralph Regula Other 12%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 75%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 75%
Mike Ross Other 62%
Steve Rothman Other 62%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 88%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 12%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 25%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 25%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 75%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 33%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 75%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 12%
Charles Stenholm Other 62%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 75%
Bart Stupak Other 88%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 38%
Ellen Tauscher Other 75%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 12%
Gene Taylor Other 62%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 88%
James Turner Other 62%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 25%
Zach Wamp Other 12%
John Warner Other 33%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 62%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 25%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 75%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 62%
Albert Wynn Other 75%

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