Rating Group: National Journal

1999 Conservative on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 79%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 57%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 71%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 79%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 61%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 81%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 84%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 32%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 29%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 37%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 31%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 24%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 24%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 28%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 16%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 37%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 84%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 32%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 84%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 31%
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 84%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 84%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 36%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 84%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 21%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 12%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 84%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 32%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 12%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 79%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 60%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 16%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 55%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 73%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 62%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 84%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 58%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 41%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 27%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 84%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 75%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 84%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 83%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 71%
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 12%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 17%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 65%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 24%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 60%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 62%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 83%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 83%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 65%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 79%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 49%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 42%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 12%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 24%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 13%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 31%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 28%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 49%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 10%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 34%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 72%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 84%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 32%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 0%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 46%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 73%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 63%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 84%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 20%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 17%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 17%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 73%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 60%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 34%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 64%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 44%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 65%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 19%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 36%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 56%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 54%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 21%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 24%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 73%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 21%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 21%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 17%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 38%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 12%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 28%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 21%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 12%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 19%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 17%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 84%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 84%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 84%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 35%
OH Governor John Kasich R 65%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 71%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 64%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 84%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 34%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 73%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 32%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 24%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 79%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 0%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 36%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 84%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 12%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 13%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 47%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 53%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 84%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 73%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 58%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 84%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 53%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 84%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 71%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 84%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 73%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 30%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 84%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 28%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 30%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 73%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 29%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 52%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 17%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 73%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 44%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 73%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 20%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 21%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 16%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 84%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 12%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 45%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 28%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 12%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 62%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 43%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 84%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 62%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 17%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 10%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 21%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 83%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 51%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 83%
Thomas Allen Other 12%
Bill Archer Other 84%
Richard Armey Other 84%
John Ashcroft Other 83%
Brian Baird Other 19%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 84%
John Baldacci Other 12%
Cass Ballenger Other 84%
James Barcia Other 41%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 64%
Bill Barrett Other 62%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 79%
Charlie Bass Other 84%
Herbert Bateman Other 61%
Evan Bayh Other 37%
Bob Bennett Other 57%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 36%
Douglas Bereuter Other 61%
Shelley Berkley Other 27%
Howard Berman Other 11%
Marion Berry Other 45%
Judy Biggert Other 73%
Brian Bilbray Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 61%
Jeff Bingaman Other 36%
Rod Blagojevich Other 21%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 84%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 48%
Kit Bond Other 75%
Henry Bonilla Other 84%
David Edward Bonior Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 73%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 17%
Leonard Boswell Other 40%
Rick Boucher Other 38%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 48%
John Breaux Other 44%
Richard Bryan Other 25%
Ed Bryant Other 79%
Jim Bunning Other 83%
Conrad Burns Other 75%
Dan Burton Other 77%
Steve Buyer Other 79%
Robert Byrd Other 25%
Herbert Callahan Other 65%
Ben Campbell Other 56%
Thomas Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 65%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 55%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 58%
William Clay, Sr. Other 0%
Eva Clayton Other 17%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 13%
Robert Clement Other 42%
Michael Collins Other 79%
Larry Combest Other 84%
Gary Condit Other 48%
Kent Conrad Other 29%
Merrill Cook Other 65%
John Cooksey Other 72%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Paul Coverdell Other 83%
Christopher Cox Other 84%
William Coyne Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 83%
Robert Cramer Other 47%
Philip Crane Other 84%
Barbara Cubin Other 84%
Randall Cunningham Other 84%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 45%
Thomas Daschle Other 0%
James Davis Other 39%
Thomas Davis III Other 62%
Bill Delahunt Other 24%
Thomas DeLay Other 84%
James DeMint Other 84%
Peter Deutsch Other 31%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 51%
Jay Dickey Other 65%
Norm Dicks Other 30%
Julian Dixon Other 19%
Chris Dodd Other 28%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 75%
Calvin Dooley Other 46%
John Doolittle Other 58%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
David Dreier Other 65%
Jennifer Dunn Other 84%
John Edwards Other 41%
Chet Edwards Other 34%
Vern Ehlers Other 84%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 78%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 65%
Philip English Other 52%
Bob Etheridge Other 40%
Lane Evans Other 12%
Terry Everett Other 79%
Thomas Ewing Other 79%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 65%
Ernest Fletcher Other 84%
Mark Foley Other 61%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 47%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 28%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 72%
Tillie Fowler Other 84%
Barney Frank Other 21%
Robert Franks Other 65%
William Frist Other 68%
Jonas Frost III Other 27%
Elton Gallegly Other 65%
John Ganske Other 48%
Sam Gejdenson Other 12%
George Gekas Other 78%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 16%
Jim Gibbons Other 58%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 52%
Paul Gillmor Other 79%
Benjamin Gilman Other 49%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 19%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 65%
William Goodling Other 65%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Slade Gorton Other 75%
Porter Goss Other 84%
Daniel Graham Other 10%
William Phillip Gramm Other 83%
Rodney Grams Other 83%
Mark Green Other 84%
James Greenwood Other 54%
Judd Gregg Other 68%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 79%
Tony Hall Other 34%
James Hansen Other 79%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 64%
Robert Hayes Other 79%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 84%
Joel Hefley Other 65%
Jesse Helms Other 75%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 84%
Baron Hill Other 39%
Rick Hill Other 65%
Van Hilleary Other 79%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 0%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 65%
Pete Hoekstra Other 84%
Thomas Holden Other 43%
Ernest Hollings Other 32%
Darlene Hooley Other 35%
Stephen Horn Other 52%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 58%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 54%
Kenny Hulshof Other 73%
Duncan Hunter Other 64%
Asa Hutchinson Other 73%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 71%
Kay Hutchison Other 57%
Henry Hyde Other 57%
Daniel Inouye Other 32%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 55%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 12%
William Jefferson Other 40%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 48%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 65%
Christopher John Other 46%
Nancy Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 36%
Sue Kelly Other 53%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 29%
Bob Kerrey Other 37%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 19%
Gerald Kleczka Other 24%
Ronald Klink Other 34%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 84%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 58%
Dennis Kucinich Other 24%
Steven Kuykendall Other 56%
Jon Kyl Other 83%
John LaFalce Other 24%
Ray LaHood Other 51%
Nicholas Lampson Other 21%
Tom Lantos Other 30%
Stephen Largent Other 57%
Steve LaTourette Other 55%
Frank Lautenberg Other 0%
Rick Lazio Other 58%
James Leach Other 52%
Jerry Lewis Other 53%
Ron Lewis Other 79%
Joe Lieberman Other 37%
Blanche Lincoln Other 42%
John Linder Other 54%
William Lipinski Other 47%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 83%
Dick Lugar Other 70%
William Luther Other 33%
Connie Mack Other 74%
James Maloney Other 39%
Don Manzullo Other 73%
Matthew Martinez Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 24%
Robert Matsui Other 21%
Karen McCarthy Other 32%
Bill McCollum Other 72%
James McCrery III Other 84%
John McHugh Other 51%
Scott McInnis Other 79%
David McIntosh Other 65%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 12%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 0%
Jack Metcalf Other 78%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 73%
David Minge Other 32%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 17%
John Moakley Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 41%
Dennis Moore Other 39%
Constance Morella Other 44%
Patrick Moynihan Other 29%
Frank Murkowski Other 82%
Jack Murtha Other 38%
Sue Myrick Other 84%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 65%
Robert William Ney Other 58%
Don Nickles Other 83%
Anne Northup Other 84%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 58%
James Nussle Other 79%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 24%
Doug Ose Other 84%
Major Owens Other 17%
Michael Oxley Other 84%
Ronald Packard Other 84%
Ron Paul Other 52%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Edward Pease Other 65%
John Peterson Other 77%
David Phelps Other 32%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 84%
Owen Pickett Other 44%
Richard Pombo Other 79%
Earl Pomeroy Other 41%
John Edward Porter Other 57%
Deborah Pryce Other 84%
Jack Quinn Other 49%
George Radanovich Other 84%
James Ramstad Other 62%
Ralph Regula Other 65%
Silvestre Reyes Other 21%
Thomas Reynolds Other 73%
Bob Riley Other 78%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 39%
Charles Robb Other 35%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 12%
Timothy Roemer Other 45%
James Rogan Other 79%
William Roth, Jr. Other 60%
Steve Rothman Other 24%
Marge Roukema Other 54%
Jim Ryun Other 84%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 30%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 42%
Rick Santorum Other 54%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
Joe Scarborough Other 71%
John Shadegg Other 84%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 61%
Christopher Shays Other 56%
Donald Sherwood Other 65%
Ronnie Shows Other 43%
E.G. Shuster Other 77%
Norman Sisisky Other 45%
Joseph Skeen Other 78%
Ike Skelton Other 42%
Gordon Smith Other 52%
Nick Smith Other 84%
Bob Smith Other 83%
Olympia Snowe Other 46%
Vic Snyder Other 38%
Mark Souder Other 79%
Arlen Specter Other 45%
Floyd Spence Other 73%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 36%
Pete Stark Other 19%
Cliff Stearns Other 79%
Charles Stenholm Other 47%
Ted Stevens Other 65%
Ted Strickland Other 24%
Bob Stump Other 84%
Bart Stupak Other 0%
John Sununu Other 84%
John Sweeney Other 55%
James Talent Other 84%
Tom Tancredo Other 84%
John Tanner Other 46%
Ellen Tauscher Other 42%
William Tauzin Other 84%
Charles Taylor Other 84%
Gene Taylor Other 48%
Craig Thomas Other 83%
William Thomas Other 65%
Fred Thompson Other 60%
Karen Thurman Other 21%
Strom Thurmond Other 63%
Todd Tiahrt Other 84%
Robert Torricelli Other 37%
Ed Towns Other 17%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 41%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 42%
Bruce Vento Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 55%
James Walsh Other 58%
Zach Wamp Other 61%
John Warner Other 65%
Wesley Watkins Other 84%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 84%
Anthony Weiner Other 12%
David Weldon Other 73%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 54%
Gerald Weller Other 62%
Paul Wellstone Other 25%
Robert Wexler Other 12%
Bob Weygand Other 39%
Heather Wilson Other 62%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 34%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 24%
Albert Wynn Other 16%

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