Rating Group: National Journal

2001 Conservative on Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 54%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 65%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 69%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 60%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 72%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 47%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 22%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 18%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 7%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 8%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 12%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 22%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 7%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 22%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 87%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 40%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 34%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 87%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 20%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 22%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 20%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 58%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 25%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 60%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 7%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 32%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 60%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 53%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 41%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 10%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 10%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 69%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 20%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 22%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 27%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 27%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 74%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 15%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 74%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 87%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 28%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 69%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 80%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 97%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 31%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 12%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 60%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 28%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 72%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 14%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 58%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 72%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 60%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 69%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 3%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 60%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 21%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 47%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 41%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 97%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 72%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 53%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 72%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 72%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 74%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 74%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 53%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 43%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 85%
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 16%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 27%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 28%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 31%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 12%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 54%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 14%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 3%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 60%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 47%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 87%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 12%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 40%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 7%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 45%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 3%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 87%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 16%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 60%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 94%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 87%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 18%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 14%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 3%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 72%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 14%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 85%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 58%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 32%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 82%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 47%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 87%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 47%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 41%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 47%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 47%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 36%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 41%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 87%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 16%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 18%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 27%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 14%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 74%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 36%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 34%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 15%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 8%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 31%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 18%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 34%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 20%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 8%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 87%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 60%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 87%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 24%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 58%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 12%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 65%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 54%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 82%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 3%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 85%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 21%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 47%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 36%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 12%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 36%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 74%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 22%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 3%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 36%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 51%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 12%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 27%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 53%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 97%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 60%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 97%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 87%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 60%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 87%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 87%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 35%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 31%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 85%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 47%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 22%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 82%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 8%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 94%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 47%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 22%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 87%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 60%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 25%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 72%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 3%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 3%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 26%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 97%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 26%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 26%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 41%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 21%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 60%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 74%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 0%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 27%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 60%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 26%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 72%
Gary Ackerman Other 28%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 14%
Todd Akin Other 97%
Wayne Allard Other 72%
George Allen Other 72%
Thomas Allen Other 15%
Richard Armey Other 82%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 41%
Brian Baird Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 87%
Cass Ballenger Other 87%
James Barcia Other 34%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 82%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 69%
Charlie Bass Other 74%
Evan Bayh Other 43%
Bob Bennett Other 72%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 47%
Douglas Bereuter Other 53%
Shelley Berkley Other 34%
Howard Berman Other 25%
Marion Berry Other 41%
Judy Biggert Other 53%
Michael Bilirakis Other 82%
Jeff Bingaman Other 14%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 53%
Kit Bond Other 72%
Henry Bonilla Other 97%
David Edward Bonior Other 8%
Mary Bono Mack Other 47%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 28%
Leonard Boswell Other 36%
Rick Boucher Other 32%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 46%
John Breaux Other 43%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 60%
Ed Bryant Other 81%
Jim Bunning Other 94%
Conrad Burns Other 72%
Dan Burton Other 81%
Steve Buyer Other 60%
Robert Byrd Other 27%
Herbert Callahan Other 97%
Ben Campbell Other 65%
Chris Cannon Other 82%
Jean Carnahan Other 27%
Brad Carson Other 47%
Julia Carson Other 18%
Mike Castle Other 53%
Eva Clayton Other 15%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 43%
Robert Clement Other 28%
Hillary Clinton Other 27%
Michael Collins Other 60%
Larry Combest Other 53%
Gary Condit Other 36%
Kent Conrad Other 27%
John Cooksey Other 85%
Jon Corzine Other 3%
Jerry Costello Other 41%
Christopher Cox Other 74%
William Coyne Other 15%
Larry Craig Other 72%
Robert Cramer Other 41%
Philip Crane Other 97%
Barbara Cubin Other 97%
Randall Cunningham Other 72%
Thomas Daschle Other 14%
James Davis Other 46%
Jo Ann Davis Other 69%
Thomas Davis III Other 74%
Bill Delahunt Other 16%
Thomas DeLay Other 97%
Peter Deutsch Other 28%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 85%
Norm Dicks Other 36%
Chris Dodd Other 14%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 72%
Calvin Dooley Other 36%
John Doolittle Other 69%
Byron Dorgan Other 27%
David Dreier Other 87%
Jennifer Dunn Other 87%
John Edwards Other 27%
Chet Edwards Other 36%
Vern Ehlers Other 47%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 58%
Philip English Other 47%
John Ensign Other 72%
Bob Etheridge Other 47%
Lane Evans Other 18%
Terry Everett Other 97%
Russ Feingold Other 40%
Michael Ferguson Other 60%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 72%
Mark Foley Other 53%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 28%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 60%
Barney Frank Other 8%
William Frist Other 72%
Jonas Frost III Other 53%
Elton Gallegly Other 53%
John Ganske Other 41%
George Gekas Other 87%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 36%
Jim Gibbons Other 87%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 53%
Paul Gillmor Other 74%
Benjamin Gilman Other 60%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 28%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 69%
Bart Gordon Other 41%
Porter Goss Other 74%
Daniel Graham Other 27%
William Phillip Gramm Other 65%
Mark Green Other 60%
James Greenwood Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 65%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 74%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 82%
Tony Hall Other 28%
James Hansen Other 74%
Jane Harman Other 28%
Melissa Hart Other 74%
Robert Hayes Other 87%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 97%
Joel Hefley Other 60%
Jesse Helms Other 94%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 60%
Baron Hill Other 41%
Van Hilleary Other 58%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 5%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 87%
Pete Hoekstra Other 41%
Thomas Holden Other 47%
Ernest Hollings Other 43%
Darlene Hooley Other 21%
Stephen Horn Other 47%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 68%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 45%
Kenny Hulshof Other 69%
Duncan Hunter Other 60%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 54%
Kay Hutchison Other 94%
Henry Hyde Other 74%
Daniel Inouye Other 14%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 85%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 18%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 43%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 82%
Christopher John Other 47%
Nancy Johnson Other 46%
Tim Johnson Other 53%
Paul Kanjorski Other 36%
Ric Keller Other 97%
Sue Kelly Other 53%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 3%
Mark Kennedy Other 87%
Patrick Kennedy Other 28%
Brian Kerns Other 82%
Dale Kildee Other 32%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 15%
Gerald Kleczka Other 7%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 87%
Herb Kohl Other 14%
James Kolbe Other 60%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 72%
John LaFalce Other 18%
Ray LaHood Other 53%
Nicholas Lampson Other 28%
Tom Lantos Other 22%
Steve LaTourette Other 81%
James Leach Other 25%
Jerry Lewis Other 87%
Ron Lewis Other 87%
Joe Lieberman Other 43%
Blanche Lincoln Other 41%
John Linder Other 87%
William Lipinski Other 52%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 94%
Dick Lugar Other 72%
William Luther Other 8%
James Maloney Other 47%
Don Manzullo Other 58%
Frank Mascara Other 47%
Robert Matsui Other 22%
Karen McCarthy Other 12%
James McCrery III Other 87%
John McHugh Other 53%
Scott McInnis Other 72%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 26%
Martin Meehan Other 12%
Carrie Meek Other 31%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 24%
Dan Miller Other 87%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 18%
Alan Mollohan Other 40%
Dennis Moore Other 36%
Constance Morella Other 28%
Jack Murtha Other 36%
Sue Myrick Other 97%
Ben Nelson Other 54%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 69%
Robert William Ney Other 58%
Don Nickles Other 72%
Anne Northup Other 87%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 58%
James Nussle Other 47%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 7%
John Olver Other 5%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 74%
Thomas William Osborne Other 53%
Doug Ose Other 87%
Major Owens Other 7%
Michael Oxley Other 87%
Ron Paul Other 26%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 60%
David Phelps Other 41%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 60%
Todd Platts Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 82%
Earl Pomeroy Other 34%
Deborah Pryce Other 87%
Jack Quinn Other 72%
George Radanovich Other 81%
James Ramstad Other 53%
Ralph Regula Other 74%
Denny Rehberg Other 60%
Silvestre Reyes Other 72%
Thomas Reynolds Other 87%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 11%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 25%
Timothy Roemer Other 36%
Mike Ross Other 41%
Steve Rothman Other 36%
Marge Roukema Other 72%
Jim Ryun Other 97%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 5%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 32%
Rick Santorum Other 54%
Paul Sarbanes Other 14%
Jim Saxton Other 60%
Edward Schrock Other 87%
John Shadegg Other 87%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 87%
Christopher Shays Other 40%
Donald Sherwood Other 60%
Ronnie Shows Other 47%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 60%
Joseph Skeen Other 87%
Ike Skelton Other 53%
Gordon Smith Other 53%
Nick Smith Other 69%
Bob Smith Other 65%
Olympia Snowe Other 54%
Vic Snyder Other 41%
Hilda Solis Other 16%
Mark Souder Other 74%
Arlen Specter Other 41%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 41%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 69%
Charles Stenholm Other 60%
Ted Stevens Other 54%
Ted Strickland Other 26%
Bob Stump Other 97%
Bart Stupak Other 32%
John Sweeney Other 85%
Tom Tancredo Other 82%
John Tanner Other 47%
Ellen Tauscher Other 36%
William Tauzin Other 74%
Charles Taylor Other 82%
Gene Taylor Other 46%
Craig Thomas Other 71%
William Thomas Other 85%
Fred Thompson Other 72%
Karen Thurman Other 36%
Strom Thurmond Other 94%
Todd Tiahrt Other 69%
Robert Torricelli Other 3%
Ed Towns Other 10%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 69%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 5%
James Turner Other 36%
George Voinovich Other 51%
James Walsh Other 60%
Zach Wamp Other 69%
John Warner Other 54%
Wesley Watkins Other 72%
Diane Watson Other 17%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 87%
Anthony Weiner Other 12%
David Weldon Other 60%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 45%
Gerald Weller Other 74%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 34%
Heather Wilson Other 74%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 26%
Albert Wynn Other 12%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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