Rating Group: National Journal

1999 Conservative on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 75%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 92%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 84%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 96%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 82%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 66%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 75%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 23%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 19%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 17%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 22%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 26%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 65%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 26%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 85%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 13%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 71%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 85%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 26%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 66%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 13%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 19%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 13%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 84%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 24%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 13%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 79%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 66%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 55%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 79%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 82%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 53%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 85%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 40%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 79%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 58%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 12%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 71%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 83%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 69%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 13%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 13%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 85%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 29%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 77%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 61%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 87%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 72%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 85%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 91%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 85%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 26%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 85%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 32%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 13%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 20%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 20%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 48%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 33%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 69%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 56%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 13%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 37%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 64%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 91%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 72%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 91%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 22%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 79%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 12%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 85%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 96%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 24%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 77%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 66%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 79%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 23%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 28%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 69%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 61%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 38%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 40%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 20%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 23%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 42%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 61%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 30%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 17%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 38%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 17%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 24%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 13%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 69%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 91%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 76%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 36%
OH Governor John Kasich R 76%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 52%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 97%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 76%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 90%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 12%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 55%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 17%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 17%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 58%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 47%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 91%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 13%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 44%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 79%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 60%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 28%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 79%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 91%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 90%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 79%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 96%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 72%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 61%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 69%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 27%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 72%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 46%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 19%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 96%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 91%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 20%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 72%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 31%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 82%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 31%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 69%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 26%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 82%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 59%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 0%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 48%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 94%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 59%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 20%
Wayne Allard Other 93%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Bill Archer Other 82%
Richard Armey Other 91%
John Ashcroft Other 77%
Brian Baird Other 32%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 85%
John Baldacci Other 20%
Cass Ballenger Other 66%
James Barcia Other 55%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 85%
Bill Barrett Other 72%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 85%
Charlie Bass Other 48%
Herbert Bateman Other 56%
Evan Bayh Other 36%
Bob Bennett Other 59%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 28%
Douglas Bereuter Other 56%
Shelley Berkley Other 26%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 51%
Judy Biggert Other 42%
Brian Bilbray Other 49%
Michael Bilirakis Other 79%
Jeff Bingaman Other 20%
Rod Blagojevich Other 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 85%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 36%
Kit Bond Other 72%
Henry Bonilla Other 60%
David Edward Bonior Other 33%
Mary Bono Mack Other 53%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 42%
Leonard Boswell Other 43%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 42%
John Breaux Other 47%
Richard Bryan Other 12%
Ed Bryant Other 91%
Jim Bunning Other 88%
Conrad Burns Other 94%
Dan Burton Other 84%
Steve Buyer Other 91%
Robert Byrd Other 38%
Herbert Callahan Other 85%
Ben Campbell Other 64%
Thomas Campbell Other 36%
Chris Cannon Other 72%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 35%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 84%
William Clay, Sr. Other 13%
Eva Clayton Other 0%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 28%
Robert Clement Other 47%
Michael Collins Other 91%
Larry Combest Other 96%
Gary Condit Other 39%
Kent Conrad Other 42%
Merrill Cook Other 66%
John Cooksey Other 52%
Jerry Costello Other 54%
Paul Coverdell Other 84%
Christopher Cox Other 71%
William Coyne Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 79%
Robert Cramer Other 52%
Philip Crane Other 85%
Barbara Cubin Other 78%
Randall Cunningham Other 85%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 55%
Thomas Daschle Other 31%
James Davis Other 34%
Thomas Davis III Other 49%
Bill Delahunt Other 17%
Thomas DeLay Other 91%
James DeMint Other 91%
Peter Deutsch Other 28%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 55%
Jay Dickey Other 76%
Norm Dicks Other 22%
Julian Dixon Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 12%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 59%
Calvin Dooley Other 31%
John Doolittle Other 64%
Byron Dorgan Other 41%
David Dreier Other 64%
Jennifer Dunn Other 56%
John Edwards Other 12%
Chet Edwards Other 37%
Vern Ehlers Other 54%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 47%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 91%
Philip English Other 72%
Bob Etheridge Other 40%
Lane Evans Other 24%
Terry Everett Other 96%
Thomas Ewing Other 61%
Russ Feingold Other 28%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 51%
Ernest Fletcher Other 78%
Mark Foley Other 43%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 51%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 28%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 56%
Tillie Fowler Other 52%
Barney Frank Other 0%
Robert Franks Other 46%
William Frist Other 59%
Jonas Frost III Other 30%
Elton Gallegly Other 64%
John Ganske Other 49%
Sam Gejdenson Other 0%
George Gekas Other 66%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 21%
Jim Gibbons Other 61%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 45%
Paul Gillmor Other 72%
Benjamin Gilman Other 40%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 19%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 85%
William Goodling Other 60%
Bart Gordon Other 51%
Slade Gorton Other 55%
Porter Goss Other 64%
Daniel Graham Other 20%
William Phillip Gramm Other 97%
Rodney Grams Other 88%
Mark Green Other 69%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 68%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 91%
Tony Hall Other 50%
James Hansen Other 91%
Robert Hayes Other 91%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 85%
Joel Hefley Other 82%
Jesse Helms Other 88%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 96%
Baron Hill Other 44%
Rick Hill Other 82%
Van Hilleary Other 91%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 32%
Maurice Hinchey Other 22%
David Lee Hobson Other 59%
Pete Hoekstra Other 60%
Thomas Holden Other 53%
Ernest Hollings Other 25%
Darlene Hooley Other 30%
Stephen Horn Other 37%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 76%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 30%
Kenny Hulshof Other 66%
Duncan Hunter Other 96%
Asa Hutchinson Other 64%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 72%
Kay Hutchison Other 64%
Henry Hyde Other 66%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 96%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 25%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 45%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 91%
Christopher John Other 63%
Nancy Johnson Other 38%
Paul Kanjorski Other 44%
Sue Kelly Other 44%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 19%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Bob Kerrey Other 20%
Dale Kildee Other 44%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 32%
Ronald Klink Other 40%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 72%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
James Kolbe Other 45%
Dennis Kucinich Other 40%
Steven Kuykendall Other 40%
Jon Kyl Other 69%
John LaFalce Other 42%
Ray LaHood Other 59%
Nicholas Lampson Other 39%
Tom Lantos Other 23%
Stephen Largent Other 91%
Steve LaTourette Other 52%
Frank Lautenberg Other 0%
Rick Lazio Other 49%
James Leach Other 45%
Jerry Lewis Other 59%
Ron Lewis Other 96%
Joe Lieberman Other 31%
Blanche Lincoln Other 36%
John Linder Other 75%
William Lipinski Other 53%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 79%
Dick Lugar Other 55%
William Luther Other 36%
Connie Mack Other 82%
James Maloney Other 35%
Don Manzullo Other 66%
Matthew Martinez Other 28%
Frank Mascara Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 13%
Karen McCarthy Other 13%
Bill McCollum Other 58%
James McCrery III Other 82%
John McHugh Other 66%
Scott McInnis Other 79%
David McIntosh Other 85%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 13%
Michael McNulty Other 42%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 0%
Jack Metcalf Other 72%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 48%
David Minge Other 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 0%
John Moakley Other 36%
Alan Mollohan Other 52%
Dennis Moore Other 33%
Constance Morella Other 23%
Patrick Moynihan Other 27%
Frank Murkowski Other 71%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Sue Myrick Other 78%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 61%
Robert William Ney Other 79%
Don Nickles Other 84%
Anne Northup Other 56%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 91%
James Nussle Other 69%
Jim Oberstar Other 43%
Dave Obey Other 34%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 54%
Doug Ose Other 46%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 72%
Ronald Packard Other 96%
Ron Paul Other 53%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Edward Pease Other 61%
John Peterson Other 96%
David Phelps Other 59%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 96%
Owen Pickett Other 36%
Richard Pombo Other 72%
Earl Pomeroy Other 42%
John Edward Porter Other 37%
Deborah Pryce Other 47%
Jack Quinn Other 59%
George Radanovich Other 96%
James Ramstad Other 48%
Ralph Regula Other 58%
Silvestre Reyes Other 39%
Thomas Reynolds Other 82%
Bob Riley Other 96%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 18%
Charles Robb Other 31%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 28%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
James Rogan Other 64%
William Roth, Jr. Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 31%
Marge Roukema Other 48%
Jim Ryun Other 91%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 45%
Rick Santorum Other 72%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 78%
Joe Scarborough Other 63%
John Shadegg Other 85%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 51%
Christopher Shays Other 34%
Donald Sherwood Other 81%
Ronnie Shows Other 76%
E.G. Shuster Other 72%
Norman Sisisky Other 35%
Joseph Skeen Other 69%
Ike Skelton Other 68%
Gordon Smith Other 59%
Nick Smith Other 61%
Bob Smith Other 97%
Olympia Snowe Other 49%
Vic Snyder Other 25%
Mark Souder Other 79%
Arlen Specter Other 46%
Floyd Spence Other 91%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 39%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 85%
Charles Stenholm Other 75%
Ted Stevens Other 52%
Ted Strickland Other 35%
Bob Stump Other 85%
Bart Stupak Other 44%
John Sununu Other 69%
John Sweeney Other 58%
James Talent Other 82%
Tom Tancredo Other 85%
John Tanner Other 46%
Ellen Tauscher Other 26%
William Tauzin Other 72%
Charles Taylor Other 96%
Gene Taylor Other 85%
Craig Thomas Other 94%
William Thomas Other 58%
Fred Thompson Other 88%
Karen Thurman Other 31%
Strom Thurmond Other 69%
Todd Tiahrt Other 79%
Robert Torricelli Other 31%
Ed Towns Other 17%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 66%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 56%
Bruce Vento Other 19%
George Voinovich Other 55%
James Walsh Other 64%
Zach Wamp Other 76%
John Warner Other 54%
Wesley Watkins Other 96%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 96%
Anthony Weiner Other 22%
David Weldon Other 85%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 66%
Gerald Weller Other 72%
Paul Wellstone Other 12%
Robert Wexler Other 20%
Bob Weygand Other 39%
Heather Wilson Other 54%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 40%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 29%
Albert Wynn Other 25%

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