Rating Group: National Journal

2001 Liberal on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 82%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 7%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 45%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 28%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 59%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 74%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 59%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 71%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 93%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 28%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 88%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 46%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 36%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 7%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 56%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 82%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 77%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 47%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 86%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 82%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 15%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 30%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 15%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 55%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 72%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 74%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 79%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 95%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 15%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 17%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 74%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 93%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 57%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 28%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 92%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 95%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 70%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 79%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 80%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 88%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 17%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 20%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 27%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 19%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 72%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 70%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 95%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 94%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 88%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 86%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 83%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 83%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 83%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 65%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 19%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 60%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 68%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 94%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 95%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 95%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 13%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 93%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 19%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 76%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 62%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 7%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 22%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 67%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 87%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 66%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 88%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 22%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 83%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 39%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 83%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 40%
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 20%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 28%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 82%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 90%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 83%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 88%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 36%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 76%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 22%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 22%
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 95%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 95%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 72%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 94%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 15%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 45%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 36%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 88%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 77%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 83%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 88%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 61%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 80%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 28%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 72%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 27%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 70%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 15%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 56%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 95%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 7%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 60%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 49%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 52%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 79%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 79%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 45%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 70%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 41%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 59%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 60%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 76%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 88%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 95%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 91%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 93%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 68%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 78%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 80%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 93%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 95%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 22%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 7%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 69%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 22%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 28%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 86%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 95%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 72%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 79%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 77%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 65%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 46%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 39%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 7%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 7%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 7%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 7%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 64%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 94%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 15%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 67%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 76%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 55%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 83%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 64%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 27%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 58%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 12%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 82%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 58%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 22%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 70%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 22%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 47%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 39%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 66%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 68%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 7%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 7%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 93%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 53%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 80%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 42%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 93%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 28%
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 70%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 70%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 33%
Gary Ackerman Other 93%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 71%
Todd Akin Other 7%
Wayne Allard Other 30%
George Allen Other 17%
Thomas Allen Other 91%
Richard Armey Other 15%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 74%
Brian Baird Other 66%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 7%
Cass Ballenger Other 20%
James Barcia Other 58%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 7%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 28%
Charlie Bass Other 43%
Evan Bayh Other 61%
Bob Bennett Other 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 64%
Douglas Bereuter Other 43%
Shelley Berkley Other 62%
Howard Berman Other 91%
Marion Berry Other 57%
Judy Biggert Other 28%
Michael Bilirakis Other 43%
Jeff Bingaman Other 68%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 30%
Henry Bonilla Other 15%
David Edward Bonior Other 88%
Mary Bono Mack Other 7%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 74%
Leonard Boswell Other 57%
Rick Boucher Other 62%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 57%
John Breaux Other 47%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 22%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 7%
Conrad Burns Other 17%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 22%
Robert Byrd Other 64%
Herbert Callahan Other 21%
Ben Campbell Other 24%
Chris Cannon Other 7%
Jean Carnahan Other 58%
Brad Carson Other 56%
Julia Carson Other 80%
Mike Castle Other 49%
Eva Clayton Other 95%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 61%
Robert Clement Other 54%
Hillary Clinton Other 87%
Michael Collins Other 33%
Larry Combest Other 7%
Gary Condit Other 54%
Kent Conrad Other 68%
John Cooksey Other 22%
Jon Corzine Other 93%
Jerry Costello Other 63%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 95%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 52%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 15%
Thomas Daschle Other 82%
James Davis Other 62%
Jo Ann Davis Other 32%
Thomas Davis III Other 41%
Bill Delahunt Other 95%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 77%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 33%
Norm Dicks Other 74%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 41%
Calvin Dooley Other 53%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 67%
David Dreier Other 28%
Jennifer Dunn Other 36%
John Edwards Other 74%
Chet Edwards Other 63%
Vern Ehlers Other 39%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 46%
Philip English Other 46%
John Ensign Other 35%
Bob Etheridge Other 60%
Lane Evans Other 77%
Terry Everett Other 19%
Russ Feingold Other 79%
Michael Ferguson Other 50%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 44%
Mark Foley Other 36%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 58%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 95%
William Frist Other 15%
Jonas Frost III Other 74%
Elton Gallegly Other 32%
John Ganske Other 51%
George Gekas Other 33%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 93%
Jim Gibbons Other 32%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 43%
Paul Gillmor Other 41%
Benjamin Gilman Other 51%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 12%
Bart Gordon Other 54%
Porter Goss Other 28%
Daniel Graham Other 74%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 33%
James Greenwood Other 41%
Judd Gregg Other 35%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 41%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Tony Hall Other 66%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 57%
Melissa Hart Other 36%
Robert Hayes Other 15%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 7%
Joel Hefley Other 39%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 64%
Van Hilleary Other 22%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 88%
Maurice Hinchey Other 95%
David Lee Hobson Other 28%
Pete Hoekstra Other 28%
Thomas Holden Other 63%
Ernest Hollings Other 66%
Darlene Hooley Other 62%
Stephen Horn Other 48%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 36%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 49%
Kenny Hulshof Other 28%
Duncan Hunter Other 7%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 17%
Kay Hutchison Other 26%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 78%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 76%
William Jefferson Other 68%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 47%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 22%
Christopher John Other 52%
Nancy Johnson Other 49%
Tim Johnson Other 47%
Paul Kanjorski Other 74%
Ric Keller Other 27%
Sue Kelly Other 51%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 88%
Mark Kennedy Other 39%
Patrick Kennedy Other 70%
Brian Kerns Other 22%
Dale Kildee Other 80%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 91%
Gerald Kleczka Other 79%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 7%
Herb Kohl Other 64%
James Kolbe Other 15%
Dennis Kucinich Other 88%
Jon Kyl Other 7%
John LaFalce Other 80%
Ray LaHood Other 48%
Nicholas Lampson Other 66%
Tom Lantos Other 91%
Steve LaTourette Other 43%
James Leach Other 52%
Jerry Lewis Other 13%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 71%
Blanche Lincoln Other 54%
John Linder Other 15%
William Lipinski Other 55%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 26%
William Luther Other 77%
James Maloney Other 58%
Don Manzullo Other 15%
Frank Mascara Other 67%
Robert Matsui Other 88%
Karen McCarthy Other 74%
James McCrery III Other 13%
John McHugh Other 45%
Scott McInnis Other 38%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 87%
Michael McNulty Other 95%
Martin Meehan Other 86%
Carrie Meek Other 82%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 93%
Dan Miller Other 28%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 43%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 90%
Alan Mollohan Other 62%
Dennis Moore Other 58%
Constance Morella Other 53%
Jack Murtha Other 72%
Sue Myrick Other 19%
Ben Nelson Other 47%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 7%
Robert William Ney Other 39%
Don Nickles Other 17%
Anne Northup Other 15%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 7%
Jim Oberstar Other 86%
Dave Obey Other 80%
John Olver Other 94%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 63%
Thomas William Osborne Other 28%
Doug Ose Other 36%
Major Owens Other 83%
Michael Oxley Other 21%
Ron Paul Other 49%
Donald Payne Other 95%
John Peterson Other 22%
David Phelps Other 60%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 22%
Todd Platts Other 47%
Richard Pombo Other 22%
Earl Pomeroy Other 67%
Deborah Pryce Other 28%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 7%
James Ramstad Other 47%
Ralph Regula Other 33%
Denny Rehberg Other 36%
Silvestre Reyes Other 70%
Thomas Reynolds Other 33%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 74%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 72%
Timothy Roemer Other 60%
Mike Ross Other 56%
Steve Rothman Other 92%
Marge Roukema Other 47%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 87%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 54%
Rick Santorum Other 7%
Paul Sarbanes Other 93%
Jim Saxton Other 49%
Edward Schrock Other 7%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 41%
Christopher Shays Other 45%
Donald Sherwood Other 22%
Ronnie Shows Other 53%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 43%
Joseph Skeen Other 15%
Ike Skelton Other 56%
Gordon Smith Other 39%
Nick Smith Other 41%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 46%
Vic Snyder Other 68%
Hilda Solis Other 91%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 52%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 65%
Pete Stark Other 95%
Cliff Stearns Other 36%
Charles Stenholm Other 53%
Ted Stevens Other 40%
Ted Strickland Other 68%
Bob Stump Other 13%
Bart Stupak Other 82%
John Sweeney Other 43%
Tom Tancredo Other 28%
John Tanner Other 55%
Ellen Tauscher Other 58%
William Tauzin Other 15%
Charles Taylor Other 13%
Gene Taylor Other 54%
Craig Thomas Other 24%
William Thomas Other 35%
Fred Thompson Other 35%
Karen Thurman Other 80%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 61%
Ed Towns Other 60%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 41%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 83%
James Turner Other 57%
George Voinovich Other 30%
James Walsh Other 38%
Zach Wamp Other 41%
John Warner Other 35%
Wesley Watkins Other 22%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 20%
Anthony Weiner Other 88%
David Weldon Other 22%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 51%
Gerald Weller Other 28%
Paul Wellstone Other 93%
Robert Wexler Other 95%
Heather Wilson Other 28%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
David Wu Other 70%
Albert Wynn Other 68%

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