Rating Group: National Journal

2001 Liberal on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 81%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 22%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 34%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 70%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 90%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 81%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 70%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 95%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 31%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 60%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 58%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 29%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 22%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 59%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 81%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 83%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 53%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 95%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 94%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 22%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 60%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 65%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 79%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 70%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 70%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 83%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 20%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 70%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 20%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 81%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 53%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 70%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 71%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 81%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 95%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 90%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 69%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 20%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 32%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 90%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 68%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 90%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 83%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 90%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 90%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 72%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 83%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 74%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 35%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 72%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 74%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 82%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 83%
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 90%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 20%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 79%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 74%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 42%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 38%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 83%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 90%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 74%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 83%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 74%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 20%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 90%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 48%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 60%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 90%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 20%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 20%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 80%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 74%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 90%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 90%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 70%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 20%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 65%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 83%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 79%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 90%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 79%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 81%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 83%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 20%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 43%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 38%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 83%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 68%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 90%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 83%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 54%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 83%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 20%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 72%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 20%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 41%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 90%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 35%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 74%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 38%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 35%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 74%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 64%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 54%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 72%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 43%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 72%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 70%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 90%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 90%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 90%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 83%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 79%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 65%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 90%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 81%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 83%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 83%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 20%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 68%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 20%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 43%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 90%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 78%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 83%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 81%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 34%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 54%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 58%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 68%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 35%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 43%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 20%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 69%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 90%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 62%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 90%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 35%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 90%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 57%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 90%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
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 72%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 68%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 20%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 90%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 64%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 65%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 34%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 43%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 51%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 78%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 35%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 33%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 95%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 55%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 83%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 43%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 33%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 81%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 20%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 90%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 90%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 83%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 81%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 29%
Thomas Allen Other 83%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 69%
Brian Baird Other 62%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 20%
Cass Ballenger Other 41%
James Barcia Other 52%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 58%
Evan Bayh Other 60%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 70%
Douglas Bereuter Other 35%
Shelley Berkley Other 74%
Howard Berman Other 83%
Marion Berry Other 47%
Judy Biggert Other 58%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 65%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 60%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 20%
David Edward Bonior Other 65%
Mary Bono Mack Other 49%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 57%
Leonard Boswell Other 65%
Rick Boucher Other 71%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 56%
John Breaux Other 46%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 20%
Robert Byrd Other 47%
Herbert Callahan Other 32%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Jean Carnahan Other 55%
Brad Carson Other 58%
Julia Carson Other 83%
Mike Castle Other 54%
Eva Clayton Other 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 70%
Robert Clement Other 50%
Hillary Clinton Other 70%
Michael Collins Other 20%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 62%
Kent Conrad Other 48%
John Cooksey Other 32%
Jon Corzine Other 95%
Jerry Costello Other 49%
Christopher Cox Other 32%
William Coyne Other 90%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 46%
Philip Crane Other 20%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 20%
Thomas Daschle Other 81%
James Davis Other 65%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Thomas Davis III Other 49%
Bill Delahunt Other 90%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 74%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 43%
Norm Dicks Other 68%
Chris Dodd Other 70%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 42%
Calvin Dooley Other 69%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 48%
David Dreier Other 46%
Jennifer Dunn Other 47%
John Edwards Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 60%
Vern Ehlers Other 41%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 20%
Philip English Other 43%
John Ensign Other 31%
Bob Etheridge Other 65%
Lane Evans Other 83%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 65%
Michael Ferguson Other 46%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 33%
Mark Foley Other 52%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 70%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 38%
Barney Frank Other 90%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 70%
Elton Gallegly Other 20%
John Ganske Other 35%
George Gekas Other 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 81%
Jim Gibbons Other 20%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 51%
Paul Gillmor Other 38%
Benjamin Gilman Other 64%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 54%
Porter Goss Other 20%
Daniel Graham Other 70%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 59%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 46%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 46%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 72%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 20%
Baron Hill Other 59%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 72%
Maurice Hinchey Other 90%
David Lee Hobson Other 43%
Pete Hoekstra Other 35%
Thomas Holden Other 43%
Ernest Hollings Other 65%
Darlene Hooley Other 81%
Stephen Horn Other 62%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 61%
Kenny Hulshof Other 20%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 33%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 81%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 90%
William Jefferson Other 79%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 58%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 38%
Nancy Johnson Other 60%
Tim Johnson Other 41%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 54%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 81%
Mark Kennedy Other 20%
Patrick Kennedy Other 83%
Brian Kerns Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 58%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 90%
Gerald Kleczka Other 79%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 20%
Herb Kohl Other 81%
James Kolbe Other 56%
Dennis Kucinich Other 59%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 54%
Ray LaHood Other 46%
Nicholas Lampson Other 62%
Tom Lantos Other 74%
Steve LaTourette Other 38%
James Leach Other 62%
Jerry Lewis Other 40%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 70%
Blanche Lincoln Other 60%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 51%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 28%
Dick Lugar Other 22%
William Luther Other 74%
James Maloney Other 65%
Don Manzullo Other 41%
Frank Mascara Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 83%
Karen McCarthy Other 83%
James McCrery III Other 38%
John McHugh Other 43%
Scott McInnis Other 34%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 78%
Michael McNulty Other 58%
Martin Meehan Other 83%
Carrie Meek Other 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 81%
Dan Miller Other 49%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 33%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 79%
Alan Mollohan Other 48%
Dennis Moore Other 72%
Constance Morella Other 74%
Jack Murtha Other 52%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 51%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 20%
Robert William Ney Other 20%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 20%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 20%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 57%
Dave Obey Other 65%
John Olver Other 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 52%
Thomas William Osborne Other 20%
Doug Ose Other 52%
Major Owens Other 90%
Michael Oxley Other 20%
Ron Paul Other 50%
Donald Payne Other 90%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 20%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 60%
Deborah Pryce Other 54%
Jack Quinn Other 48%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Ralph Regula Other 38%
Denny Rehberg Other 32%
Silvestre Reyes Other 68%
Thomas Reynolds Other 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 90%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 74%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
Mike Ross Other 54%
Steve Rothman Other 74%
Marge Roukema Other 56%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 65%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 81%
Jim Saxton Other 20%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 34%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 43%
Christopher Shays Other 63%
Donald Sherwood Other 32%
Ronnie Shows Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 60%
Joseph Skeen Other 20%
Ike Skelton Other 38%
Gordon Smith Other 43%
Nick Smith Other 20%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 51%
Vic Snyder Other 62%
Hilda Solis Other 90%
Mark Souder Other 35%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 54%
Pete Stark Other 90%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 43%
Ted Stevens Other 22%
Ted Strickland Other 64%
Bob Stump Other 35%
Bart Stupak Other 50%
John Sweeney Other 47%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 54%
Ellen Tauscher Other 83%
William Tauzin Other 20%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 35%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 52%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 60%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 65%
Ed Towns Other 81%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 20%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 78%
James Turner Other 52%
George Voinovich Other 43%
James Walsh Other 38%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 33%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 90%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 83%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 41%
Gerald Weller Other 20%
Paul Wellstone Other 95%
Robert Wexler Other 83%
Heather Wilson Other 20%
Lynn Woolsey Other 90%
David Wu Other 67%
Albert Wynn Other 65%

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