Rating Group: National Journal

2000 Liberal on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
Gary Ackerman Other 91%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 79%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 91%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 57%
Brian Baird Other 86%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 23%
John Baldacci Other 70%
Cass Ballenger Other 34%
James Barcia Other 37%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 21%
Charlie Bass Other 53%
Evan Bayh Other 66%
Bob Bennett Other 44%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 72%
Douglas Bereuter Other 43%
Shelley Berkley Other 76%
Howard Berman Other 83%
Marion Berry Other 42%
Judy Biggert Other 53%
Michael Bilirakis Other 23%
Jeff Bingaman Other 66%
Rod Blagojevich Other 71%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 66%
Kit Bond Other 22%
Henry Bonilla Other 40%
David Edward Bonior Other 66%
Mary Bono Mack Other 43%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 54%
Leonard Boswell Other 59%
Rick Boucher Other 62%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 52%
John Breaux Other 49%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 35%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 57%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 94%
Mike Castle Other 61%
Eva Clayton Other 94%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 61%
Robert Clement Other 52%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 62%
Kent Conrad Other 57%
John Cooksey Other 36%
Jerry Costello Other 43%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 90%
Larry Craig Other 10%
Robert Cramer Other 49%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 26%
Thomas Daschle Other 79%
James Davis Other 66%
Thomas Davis III Other 48%
Bill Delahunt Other 84%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 72%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 41%
Norm Dicks Other 77%
Chris Dodd Other 79%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 36%
Calvin Dooley Other 79%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 57%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 47%
John Edwards Other 66%
Chet Edwards Other 66%
Vern Ehlers Other 49%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 47%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 37%
Bob Etheridge Other 60%
Lane Evans Other 72%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 66%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 45%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 60%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 68%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 39%
Barney Frank Other 94%
William Frist Other 30%
Jonas Frost III Other 74%
Elton Gallegly Other 43%
John Ganske Other 47%
George Gekas Other 22%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 68%
Jim Gibbons Other 42%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 56%
Paul Gillmor Other 45%
Benjamin Gilman Other 64%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 77%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 55%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 66%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 65%
Judd Gregg Other 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 50%
James Hansen Other 36%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 55%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 70%
Maurice Hinchey Other 94%
David Lee Hobson Other 40%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 79%
Pete Hoekstra Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 40%
Ernest Hollings Other 66%
Darlene Hooley Other 76%
Stephen Horn Other 68%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 59%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 22%
Henry Hyde Other 39%
Daniel Inouye Other 79%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 26%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 94%
William Jefferson Other 68%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 54%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 26%
Christopher John Other 23%
Nancy Johnson Other 66%
Paul Kanjorski Other 52%
Sue Kelly Other 57%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 79%
Patrick Kennedy Other 79%
Dale Kildee Other 56%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 89%
Gerald Kleczka Other 65%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 23%
Herb Kohl Other 64%
James Kolbe Other 54%
Dennis Kucinich Other 56%
Jon Kyl Other 22%
John LaFalce Other 59%
Ray LaHood Other 43%
Nicholas Lampson Other 58%
Tom Lantos Other 79%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 41%
James Leach Other 55%
Jerry Lewis Other 29%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 66%
Blanche Lincoln Other 61%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 43%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 10%
Dick Lugar Other 47%
William Luther Other 72%
James Maloney Other 68%
Don Manzullo Other 26%
Frank Mascara Other 43%
Robert Matsui Other 84%
Karen McCarthy Other 86%
James McCrery III Other 32%
John McHugh Other 43%
Scott McInnis Other 36%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 79%
Michael McNulty Other 56%
Martin Meehan Other 79%
Carrie Meek Other 91%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 94%
Dan Miller Other 47%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 86%
Alan Mollohan Other 45%
Dennis Moore Other 65%
Constance Morella Other 79%
Frank Murkowski Other 10%
Jack Murtha Other 45%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 37%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 20%
Anne Northup Other 43%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 62%
Dave Obey Other 74%
John Olver Other 94%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 39%
Doug Ose Other 49%
Major Owens Other 94%
Michael Oxley Other 32%
Ron Paul Other 40%
Donald Payne Other 84%
John Peterson Other 30%
David Phelps Other 30%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 64%
Deborah Pryce Other 53%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 54%
Ralph Regula Other 43%
Silvestre Reyes Other 63%
Thomas Reynolds Other 26%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 86%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 71%
Timothy Roemer Other 51%
Steve Rothman Other 72%
Marge Roukema Other 57%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 94%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 59%
Rick Santorum Other 30%
Paul Sarbanes Other 79%
Jim Saxton Other 47%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 48%
Christopher Shays Other 62%
Donald Sherwood Other 35%
Ronnie Shows Other 29%
Joseph Skeen Other 23%
Ike Skelton Other 39%
Gordon Smith Other 48%
Nick Smith Other 35%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 49%
Vic Snyder Other 70%
Mark Souder Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 49%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 58%
Pete Stark Other 94%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 30%
Ted Stevens Other 46%
Ted Strickland Other 62%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 57%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 50%
Tom Tancredo Other 30%
John Tanner Other 51%
Ellen Tauscher Other 74%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 26%
Craig Thomas Other 10%
William Thomas Other 51%
Fred Thompson Other 38%
Karen Thurman Other 70%
Strom Thurmond Other 27%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 79%
Ed Towns Other 94%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 33%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 77%
James Turner Other 53%
George Voinovich Other 38%
James Walsh Other 49%
Zach Wamp Other 23%
John Warner Other 40%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 79%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 30%
Gerald Weller Other 45%
Paul Wellstone Other 79%
Robert Wexler Other 85%
Heather Wilson Other 43%
Lynn Woolsey Other 94%
David Wu Other 72%
Albert Wynn Other 83%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 86%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 70%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 86%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 74%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 56%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 88%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 79%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 58%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 85%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 79%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 86%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 90%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 68%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 94%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 94%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 83%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 79%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 94%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 63%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 94%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 94%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 74%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 74%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 79%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 59%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 91%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 52%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 79%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 88%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 78%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 91%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 84%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 66%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 94%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 60%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 79%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 94%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 69%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 77%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 91%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 77%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 68%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 91%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 57%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 66%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 66%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 74%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 61%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 79%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 65%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 94%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 79%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 91%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 90%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 85%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 91%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 79%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 84%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 74%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 91%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 91%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 35%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 84%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 72%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 79%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 91%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 70%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 66%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 91%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 72%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 64%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 72%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 66%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 77%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 94%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 70%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 50%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 94%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 79%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 54%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 66%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 88%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 83%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 89%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 91%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 94%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 79%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 79%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 94%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 79%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 90%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 65%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 79%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 68%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 94%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 74%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 67%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 79%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 61%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 79%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 84%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 89%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 66%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 30%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 79%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 94%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 26%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 23%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 34%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 10%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 49%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 10%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 26%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 34%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 34%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 61%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 40%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 22%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 43%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 19%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 46%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 42%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 47%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 32%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 22%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 23%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 23%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 26%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 23%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 40%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 23%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 23%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 21%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 27%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 37%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 30%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 45%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 30%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 21%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 33%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 34%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 53%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 38%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 26%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 23%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 37%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 26%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 29%

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