Rating Group: National Journal

2000 Liberal on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 69%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 14%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 47%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 60%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 70%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 18%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 18%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 32%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 90%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 14%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 90%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 14%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 6%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 68%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 6%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 84%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 85%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 48%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 78%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 6%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 6%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 80%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 6%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 92%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 92%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 84%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 84%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 90%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 29%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 25%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 96%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 71%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 34%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 82%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 81%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 76%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 92%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 78%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 33%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 25%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 29%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 75%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 65%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 90%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 92%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 81%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 78%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 76%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 81%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 61%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 18%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 75%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 92%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 95%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 90%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 95%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 95%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 62%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 90%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 78%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 85%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 85%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 18%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 33%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 85%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 34%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 55%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 95%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 25%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 29%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 95%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 95%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 95%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 80%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 34%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 75%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 17%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 18%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 78%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 95%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 95%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 78%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 95%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 75%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 95%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 18%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 41%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 78%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 70%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 84%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 57%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 75%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 68%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 6%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 63%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 40%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 53%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 65%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 39%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 66%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 50%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 51%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 78%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 70%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 45%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 60%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 49%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 57%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 81%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 81%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 81%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 73%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 92%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 74%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 95%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 81%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 74%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 78%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 6%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 69%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 15%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 29%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 90%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 71%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 80%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 92%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 64%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 25%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 60%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 18%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 29%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 25%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 6%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 15%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 6%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 84%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 95%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 68%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 80%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 6%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 92%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 81%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 60%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 34%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 6%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 89%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 66%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 18%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 77%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 6%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 41%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 68%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 6%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 66%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 27%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 55%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 62%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 85%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 45%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 84%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 48%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 95%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 95%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 85%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 28%
Gary Ackerman Other 89%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 94%
Wayne Allard Other 14%
Thomas Allen Other 92%
Richard Armey Other 6%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 67%
Brian Baird Other 64%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 18%
John Baldacci Other 80%
Cass Ballenger Other 6%
James Barcia Other 54%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 6%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 42%
Evan Bayh Other 64%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 75%
Douglas Bereuter Other 45%
Shelley Berkley Other 57%
Howard Berman Other 92%
Marion Berry Other 58%
Judy Biggert Other 36%
Michael Bilirakis Other 29%
Jeff Bingaman Other 66%
Rod Blagojevich Other 63%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 52%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 95%
Mary Bono Mack Other 18%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 84%
Leonard Boswell Other 56%
Rick Boucher Other 60%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 56%
John Breaux Other 53%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 44%
Dan Burton Other 6%
Steve Buyer Other 6%
Robert Byrd Other 59%
Herbert Callahan Other 36%
Ben Campbell Other 41%
Chris Cannon Other 6%
Julia Carson Other 71%
Mike Castle Other 46%
Eva Clayton Other 64%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 57%
Robert Clement Other 54%
Michael Collins Other 6%
Larry Combest Other 18%
Gary Condit Other 52%
Kent Conrad Other 70%
John Cooksey Other 33%
Jerry Costello Other 61%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 92%
Larry Craig Other 14%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Philip Crane Other 18%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 15%
Thomas Daschle Other 75%
James Davis Other 77%
Thomas Davis III Other 39%
Bill Delahunt Other 70%
Thomas DeLay Other 15%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 67%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 44%
Norm Dicks Other 85%
Chris Dodd Other 89%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 40%
Calvin Dooley Other 54%
John Doolittle Other 29%
Byron Dorgan Other 72%
David Dreier Other 29%
Jennifer Dunn Other 18%
John Edwards Other 90%
Chet Edwards Other 68%
Vern Ehlers Other 46%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 41%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 18%
Philip English Other 48%
Bob Etheridge Other 58%
Lane Evans Other 77%
Terry Everett Other 17%
Russ Feingold Other 94%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 50%
Ernest Fletcher Other 18%
Mark Foley Other 34%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 63%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 29%
Barney Frank Other 73%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 73%
Elton Gallegly Other 29%
John Ganske Other 49%
George Gekas Other 6%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 84%
Jim Gibbons Other 41%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 46%
Paul Gillmor Other 36%
Benjamin Gilman Other 53%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 85%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 53%
Porter Goss Other 34%
Daniel Graham Other 76%
William Phillip Gramm Other 41%
Mark Green Other 18%
James Greenwood Other 43%
Judd Gregg Other 37%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 29%
Tony Hall Other 69%
James Hansen Other 18%
Robert Hayes Other 18%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 6%
Jesse Helms Other 25%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 72%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 74%
Maurice Hinchey Other 95%
David Lee Hobson Other 29%
Pete Hoekstra Other 29%
Thomas Holden Other 62%
Ernest Hollings Other 67%
Darlene Hooley Other 63%
Stephen Horn Other 51%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 44%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 45%
Kenny Hulshof Other 6%
Duncan Hunter Other 29%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 32%
Henry Hyde Other 42%
Daniel Inouye Other 73%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 40%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 95%
William Jefferson Other 67%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 52%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 24%
Christopher John Other 53%
Nancy Johnson Other 49%
Paul Kanjorski Other 78%
Sue Kelly Other 44%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 96%
Patrick Kennedy Other 85%
Dale Kildee Other 81%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 81%
Gerald Kleczka Other 85%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 6%
Herb Kohl Other 61%
James Kolbe Other 25%
Dennis Kucinich Other 81%
Jon Kyl Other 32%
John LaFalce Other 85%
Ray LaHood Other 44%
Nicholas Lampson Other 61%
Tom Lantos Other 78%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 39%
James Leach Other 46%
Jerry Lewis Other 37%
Ron Lewis Other 6%
Joe Lieberman Other 63%
Blanche Lincoln Other 57%
John Linder Other 6%
William Lipinski Other 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 36%
Dick Lugar Other 27%
William Luther Other 70%
James Maloney Other 55%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 65%
Robert Matsui Other 85%
Karen McCarthy Other 92%
James McCrery III Other 18%
John McHugh Other 44%
Scott McInnis Other 40%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 73%
Michael McNulty Other 68%
Martin Meehan Other 90%
Carrie Meek Other 85%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 92%
Dan Miller Other 29%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 67%
Alan Mollohan Other 63%
Dennis Moore Other 58%
Constance Morella Other 56%
Frank Murkowski Other 14%
Jack Murtha Other 67%
Sue Myrick Other 18%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 29%
Robert William Ney Other 39%
Don Nickles Other 27%
Anne Northup Other 18%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 29%
James Nussle Other 28%
Jim Oberstar Other 90%
Dave Obey Other 85%
John Olver Other 85%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 73%
Doug Ose Other 6%
Major Owens Other 95%
Michael Oxley Other 6%
Ron Paul Other 49%
Donald Payne Other 95%
John Peterson Other 15%
David Phelps Other 59%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 6%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 85%
Deborah Pryce Other 18%
Jack Quinn Other 52%
George Radanovich Other 18%
James Ramstad Other 42%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 85%
Thomas Reynolds Other 18%
Bob Riley Other 6%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 90%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 78%
Timothy Roemer Other 55%
Steve Rothman Other 81%
Marge Roukema Other 42%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 75%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 56%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 96%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
John Shadegg Other 25%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 40%
Christopher Shays Other 48%
Donald Sherwood Other 38%
Ronnie Shows Other 52%
Joseph Skeen Other 18%
Ike Skelton Other 59%
Gordon Smith Other 32%
Nick Smith Other 33%
Bob Smith Other 14%
Olympia Snowe Other 48%
Vic Snyder Other 77%
Mark Souder Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 54%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 58%
Pete Stark Other 80%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 56%
Ted Stevens Other 14%
Ted Strickland Other 73%
Bob Stump Other 25%
Bart Stupak Other 70%
John Sununu Other 34%
John Sweeney Other 29%
Tom Tancredo Other 6%
John Tanner Other 55%
Ellen Tauscher Other 60%
William Tauzin Other 15%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 58%
Craig Thomas Other 14%
William Thomas Other 6%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 81%
Strom Thurmond Other 27%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 56%
Ed Towns Other 90%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 53%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 92%
James Turner Other 61%
George Voinovich Other 51%
James Walsh Other 48%
Zach Wamp Other 15%
John Warner Other 27%
Wesley Watkins Other 15%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 6%
Anthony Weiner Other 75%
David Weldon Other 6%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 46%
Gerald Weller Other 46%
Paul Wellstone Other 96%
Robert Wexler Other 71%
Heather Wilson Other 34%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
David Wu Other 65%
Albert Wynn Other 72%

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