Rating Group: National Journal

2001 Liberal on Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 87%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 36%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 30%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 7%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 54%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 74%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 98%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 90%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 61%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 61%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 7%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 74%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 7%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 87%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 48%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 7%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 51%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 61%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 70%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 36%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 74%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 87%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 4%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 4%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 74%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 49%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 81%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 61%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 74%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 91%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 4%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 36%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 87%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 49%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 87%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 61%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 87%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 98%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 87%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 96%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 61%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 7%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 20%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 29%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 33%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 77%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 81%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 96%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 93%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 96%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 91%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 86%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 77%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 94%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 77%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 4%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 60%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 66%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 4%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 80%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 77%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 80%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 41%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 75%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 33%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 94%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 67%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 33%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 43%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 56%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 90%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 80%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 77%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 21%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 85%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 21%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 4%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 70%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 32%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 70%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 86%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 43%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 33%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 96%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 79%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 96%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 96%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 49%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 56%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 21%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 21%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 86%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 96%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 84%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 96%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 80%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 69%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 86%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 33%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 49%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 4%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 86%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 60%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 96%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 94%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 56%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 84%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 33%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 81%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 41%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 67%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 16%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 49%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 90%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 4%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 56%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 49%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 49%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 61%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 56%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 4%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 84%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 21%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 65%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 66%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 85%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 91%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 96%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 90%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 94%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 69%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 81%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 66%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 80%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 90%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 4%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 76%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 41%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 16%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 14%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 96%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 80%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 61%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 86%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 21%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 61%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 21%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 61%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 86%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 43%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 4%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 33%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 4%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 4%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 65%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 70%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 14%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 49%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 77%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 16%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 91%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 49%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 77%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 4%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 33%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 75%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 27%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 73%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 96%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 73%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 56%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 79%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 21%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 73%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 33%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 70%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 29%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 7%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 87%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 48%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 73%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 86%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 74%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 20%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 43%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 96%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 96%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 77%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 29%
Gary Ackerman Other 70%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 74%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 7%
George Allen Other 7%
Thomas Allen Other 85%
Richard Armey Other 16%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 56%
Brian Baird Other 96%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 4%
Cass Ballenger Other 4%
James Barcia Other 67%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 16%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 29%
Charlie Bass Other 21%
Evan Bayh Other 51%
Bob Bennett Other 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 49%
Douglas Bereuter Other 43%
Shelley Berkley Other 66%
Howard Berman Other 75%
Marion Berry Other 56%
Judy Biggert Other 43%
Michael Bilirakis Other 16%
Jeff Bingaman Other 74%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 43%
Kit Bond Other 7%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 91%
Mary Bono Mack Other 49%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 70%
Leonard Boswell Other 61%
Rick Boucher Other 67%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 54%
John Breaux Other 51%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 33%
Ed Bryant Other 19%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 7%
Dan Burton Other 20%
Steve Buyer Other 33%
Robert Byrd Other 61%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 30%
Chris Cannon Other 16%
Jean Carnahan Other 61%
Brad Carson Other 49%
Julia Carson Other 81%
Mike Castle Other 48%
Eva Clayton Other 85%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 51%
Robert Clement Other 70%
Hillary Clinton Other 61%
Michael Collins Other 33%
Larry Combest Other 48%
Gary Condit Other 61%
Kent Conrad Other 61%
John Cooksey Other 14%
Jon Corzine Other 87%
Jerry Costello Other 56%
Christopher Cox Other 27%
William Coyne Other 85%
Larry Craig Other 7%
Robert Cramer Other 56%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 27%
Thomas Daschle Other 74%
James Davis Other 54%
Jo Ann Davis Other 29%
Thomas Davis III Other 21%
Bill Delahunt Other 85%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 70%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 16%
Norm Dicks Other 61%
Chris Dodd Other 74%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 7%
Calvin Dooley Other 61%
John Doolittle Other 29%
Byron Dorgan Other 61%
David Dreier Other 4%
Jennifer Dunn Other 4%
John Edwards Other 61%
Chet Edwards Other 61%
Vern Ehlers Other 49%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 43%
Philip English Other 49%
John Ensign Other 7%
Bob Etheridge Other 49%
Lane Evans Other 81%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 60%
Michael Ferguson Other 33%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 7%
Mark Foley Other 43%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 70%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 91%
William Frist Other 7%
Jonas Frost III Other 43%
Elton Gallegly Other 43%
John Ganske Other 56%
George Gekas Other 4%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 65%
Jim Gibbons Other 4%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 43%
Paul Gillmor Other 21%
Benjamin Gilman Other 33%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 29%
Bart Gordon Other 56%
Porter Goss Other 21%
Daniel Graham Other 61%
William Phillip Gramm Other 30%
Mark Green Other 33%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 30%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 21%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 16%
Tony Hall Other 70%
James Hansen Other 21%
Jane Harman Other 73%
Melissa Hart Other 21%
Robert Hayes Other 4%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 41%
Baron Hill Other 56%
Van Hilleary Other 41%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 94%
Maurice Hinchey Other 96%
David Lee Hobson Other 4%
Pete Hoekstra Other 56%
Thomas Holden Other 49%
Ernest Hollings Other 51%
Darlene Hooley Other 79%
Stephen Horn Other 49%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 32%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 56%
Kenny Hulshof Other 32%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 36%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 21%
Daniel Inouye Other 74%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 14%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 96%
William Jefferson Other 83%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 51%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 16%
Christopher John Other 49%
Nancy Johnson Other 54%
Tim Johnson Other 43%
Paul Kanjorski Other 61%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 87%
Mark Kennedy Other 4%
Patrick Kennedy Other 70%
Brian Kerns Other 16%
Dale Kildee Other 67%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 85%
Gerald Kleczka Other 94%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 4%
Herb Kohl Other 74%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 96%
Jon Kyl Other 7%
John LaFalce Other 81%
Ray LaHood Other 43%
Nicholas Lampson Other 70%
Tom Lantos Other 77%
Steve LaTourette Other 20%
James Leach Other 75%
Jerry Lewis Other 4%
Ron Lewis Other 4%
Joe Lieberman Other 51%
Blanche Lincoln Other 58%
John Linder Other 4%
William Lipinski Other 48%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 7%
William Luther Other 91%
James Maloney Other 49%
Don Manzullo Other 41%
Frank Mascara Other 49%
Robert Matsui Other 77%
Karen McCarthy Other 86%
James McCrery III Other 4%
John McHugh Other 43%
Scott McInnis Other 27%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 96%
Michael McNulty Other 73%
Martin Meehan Other 86%
Carrie Meek Other 69%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 76%
Dan Miller Other 4%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 36%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 81%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 61%
Constance Morella Other 70%
Jack Murtha Other 61%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 36%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 29%
Robert William Ney Other 41%
Don Nickles Other 7%
Anne Northup Other 4%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 41%
James Nussle Other 49%
Jim Oberstar Other 96%
Dave Obey Other 93%
John Olver Other 94%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 21%
Thomas William Osborne Other 43%
Doug Ose Other 4%
Major Owens Other 93%
Michael Oxley Other 4%
Ron Paul Other 75%
Donald Payne Other 96%
John Peterson Other 33%
David Phelps Other 56%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 33%
Todd Platts Other 41%
Richard Pombo Other 16%
Earl Pomeroy Other 66%
Deborah Pryce Other 4%
Jack Quinn Other 27%
George Radanovich Other 19%
James Ramstad Other 43%
Ralph Regula Other 21%
Denny Rehberg Other 33%
Silvestre Reyes Other 29%
Thomas Reynolds Other 4%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 89%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 75%
Timothy Roemer Other 61%
Mike Ross Other 56%
Steve Rothman Other 61%
Marge Roukema Other 27%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 94%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 67%
Rick Santorum Other 36%
Paul Sarbanes Other 74%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
Edward Schrock Other 4%
John Shadegg Other 4%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 4%
Christopher Shays Other 61%
Donald Sherwood Other 33%
Ronnie Shows Other 49%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 33%
Joseph Skeen Other 4%
Ike Skelton Other 43%
Gordon Smith Other 47%
Nick Smith Other 29%
Bob Smith Other 30%
Olympia Snowe Other 36%
Vic Snyder Other 60%
Hilda Solis Other 84%
Mark Souder Other 21%
Arlen Specter Other 58%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 56%
Pete Stark Other 96%
Cliff Stearns Other 29%
Charles Stenholm Other 33%
Ted Stevens Other 36%
Ted Strickland Other 73%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 67%
John Sweeney Other 14%
Tom Tancredo Other 16%
John Tanner Other 49%
Ellen Tauscher Other 61%
William Tauzin Other 21%
Charles Taylor Other 16%
Gene Taylor Other 54%
Craig Thomas Other 29%
William Thomas Other 14%
Fred Thompson Other 7%
Karen Thurman Other 61%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 29%
Robert Torricelli Other 87%
Ed Towns Other 90%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 29%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 94%
James Turner Other 61%
George Voinovich Other 48%
James Walsh Other 33%
Zach Wamp Other 29%
John Warner Other 36%
Wesley Watkins Other 27%
Diane Watson Other 83%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 4%
Anthony Weiner Other 86%
David Weldon Other 33%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 55%
Gerald Weller Other 21%
Paul Wellstone Other 98%
Robert Wexler Other 66%
Heather Wilson Other 21%
Lynn Woolsey Other 96%
David Wu Other 73%
Albert Wynn Other 86%

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