Rating Group: National Journal

2003 Conservative on Foreign Policy Score

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 54%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 69%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 62%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 78%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 80%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 89%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 71%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 89%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 35%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 71%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 54%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 55%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 16%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 22%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 21%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 27%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 25%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 14%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 80%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 19%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 79%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 35%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 12%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 77%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 6%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 14%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 16%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 8%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 80%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 11%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 80%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 25%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 48%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 62%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 37%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 31%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 35%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 8%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 17%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 41%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 35%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 80%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 89%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 11%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 89%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 89%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 27%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 89%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 80%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 79%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 52%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 80%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 27%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 89%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 37%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 71%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 78%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 58%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 89%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 54%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 80%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 48%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 14%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 54%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 8%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 6%
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 71%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 27%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 21%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 80%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 68%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 52%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 54%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 78%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 70%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 71%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 48%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 32%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 47%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 21%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 8%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 8%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 17%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 25%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 32%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 39%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 42%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 13%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 32%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 48%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 21%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 14%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 28%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 63%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 51%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 80%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 32%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 80%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 20%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 80%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 48%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 80%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 11%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 62%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 78%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 80%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 6%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 26%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 35%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 68%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 35%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 57%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 44%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 8%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 71%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 65%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 10%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 32%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 32%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 57%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 58%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 80%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 21%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 37%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 65%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 14%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 10%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 26%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 21%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 65%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 39%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 21%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 21%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 16%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 21%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 21%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 32%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 11%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 37%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 39%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 13%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 71%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 58%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 80%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 20%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 80%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 60%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 6%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 68%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 68%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 80%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 80%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 51%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 14%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 8%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 52%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 11%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 8%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 65%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 77%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 80%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 80%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 17%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 17%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 44%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 52%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 63%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 6%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 0%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 78%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 46%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 42%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 89%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 78%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 89%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 52%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 89%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 89%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 89%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 71%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 65%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 80%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 34%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 11%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 71%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 89%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 80%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 21%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 6%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 89%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 8%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 78%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 89%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 39%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 7%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 77%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 71%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 80%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 32%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 14%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 28%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 32%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 39%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 71%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 17%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 41%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 25%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 8%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 60%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 32%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 51%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 49%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 31%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 58%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 27%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 68%
Gary Ackerman Other 39%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 14%
Todd Akin Other 71%
Wayne Allard Other 54%
George Allen Other 78%
Thomas Allen Other 25%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 21%
Brian Baird Other 14%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 89%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 20%
Cass Ballenger Other 89%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 63%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 65%
Charlie Bass Other 52%
Evan Bayh Other 44%
Bob Beauprez Other 65%
Chris Bell Other 20%
Bob Bennett Other 68%
Douglas Bereuter Other 55%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
Howard Berman Other 36%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 52%
Michael Bilirakis Other 77%
Jeff Bingaman Other 32%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 51%
Kit Bond Other 78%
Henry Bonilla Other 69%
Mary Bono Mack Other 57%
Leonard Boswell Other 32%
Rick Boucher Other 17%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 41%
John Breaux Other 42%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 89%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 64%
Jim Bunning Other 78%
Conrad Burns Other 78%
Max Burns Other 89%
Dan Burton Other 65%
Steve Buyer Other 64%
Robert Byrd Other 30%
Ben Campbell Other 49%
Chris Cannon Other 80%
Dennis Cardoza Other 39%
Brad Carson Other 44%
Julia Carson Other 11%
Edward Case Other 43%
Mike Castle Other 52%
Chris Chocola Other 89%
Hillary Clinton Other 14%
Norm Coleman Other 78%
Michael Collins Other 89%
Kent Conrad Other 35%
Jon Corzine Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 37%
Christopher Cox Other 89%
Larry Craig Other 54%
Robert Cramer Other 47%
Philip Crane Other 80%
Barbara Cubin Other 80%
Randall Cunningham Other 89%
Thomas Daschle Other 14%
Artur Davis Other 27%
James Davis Other 45%
Jo Ann Davis Other 60%
Lincoln Davis Other 44%
Thomas Davis III Other 56%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 89%
Peter Deutsch Other 27%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 80%
Norm Dicks Other 42%
Chris Dodd Other 22%
Elizabeth Dole Other 65%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 78%
Calvin Dooley Other 45%
John Doolittle Other 89%
Byron Dorgan Other 22%
David Dreier Other 62%
Jennifer Dunn Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 37%
Vern Ehlers Other 49%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 79%
Philip English Other 80%
John Ensign Other 62%
Bob Etheridge Other 37%
Lane Evans Other 17%
Terry Everett Other 71%
Tom Feeney Other 77%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Michael Ferguson Other 64%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 54%
Mark Foley Other 55%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 34%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 65%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 78%
Jonas Frost III Other 31%
Elton Gallegly Other 65%
Jim Gibbons Other 89%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 52%
Paul Gillmor Other 71%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 27%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 57%
Bart Gordon Other 31%
Porter Goss Other 80%
Daniel Graham Other 40%
Mark Green Other 65%
James Greenwood Other 56%
Judd Gregg Other 78%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 77%
Jane Harman Other 27%
Katherine Harris Other 80%
Melissa Hart Other 80%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 89%
Robert Hayes Other 71%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 64%
Joel Hefley Other 55%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 70%
Baron Hill Other 35%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 60%
Pete Hoekstra Other 69%
Thomas Holden Other 39%
Ernest Hollings Other 21%
Darlene Hooley Other 27%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 48%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 49%
Kenny Hulshof Other 58%
Duncan Hunter Other 71%
Kay Hutchison Other 68%
Henry Hyde Other 89%
Daniel Inouye Other 43%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 77%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Janklow Other 89%
William Jefferson Other 20%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 22%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 77%
Christopher John Other 48%
Nancy Johnson Other 52%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 27%
Ric Keller Other 89%
Sue Kelly Other 58%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 89%
Patrick Kennedy Other 21%
Dale Kildee Other 32%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 14%
Gerald Kleczka Other 8%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 69%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 49%
Dennis Kucinich Other 14%
Jon Kyl Other 78%
Ray LaHood Other 58%
Nicholas Lampson Other 21%
Tom Lantos Other 35%
Steve LaTourette Other 58%
James Leach Other 45%
Jerry Lewis Other 65%
Ron Lewis Other 89%
Blanche Lincoln Other 35%
John Linder Other 89%
William Lipinski Other 43%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 78%
Dick Lugar Other 78%
Denise Majette Other 27%
Don Manzullo Other 55%
Jim Marshall Other 43%
Robert Matsui Other 21%
Karen McCarthy Other 13%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 65%
James McCrery III Other 80%
John McHugh Other 54%
Scott McInnis Other 89%
Michael McNulty Other 36%
Martin Meehan Other 17%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 34%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 13%
Brad Miller Other 31%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 61%
Alan Mollohan Other 46%
Dennis Moore Other 37%
Jack Murtha Other 46%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 89%
Sue Myrick Other 89%
Ben Nelson Other 46%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 63%
Robert William Ney Other 71%
Don Nickles Other 78%
Anne Northup Other 89%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 71%
James Nussle Other 71%
Jim Oberstar Other 13%
Dave Obey Other 16%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 44%
Thomas William Osborne Other 58%
Doug Ose Other 52%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 70%
Ron Paul Other 25%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 71%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 60%
Todd Platts Other 63%
Richard Pombo Other 71%
Earl Pomeroy Other 39%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 71%
Deborah Pryce Other 65%
Jack Quinn Other 56%
George Radanovich Other 71%
James Ramstad Other 46%
Ralph Regula Other 71%
Denny Rehberg Other 71%
Richard Renzi Other 65%
Silvestre Reyes Other 36%
Thomas Reynolds Other 89%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 21%
Mike Ross Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 36%
Jim Ryun Other 89%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 27%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 39%
Rick Santorum Other 78%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 80%
Edward Schrock Other 89%
John Shadegg Other 89%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 58%
Christopher Shays Other 45%
Donald Sherwood Other 80%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 47%
Ike Skelton Other 47%
Gordon Smith Other 62%
Nick Smith Other 60%
Olympia Snowe Other 49%
Vic Snyder Other 44%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 65%
Arlen Specter Other 47%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 25%
Pete Stark Other 17%
Cliff Stearns Other 50%
Charles Stenholm Other 46%
Ted Stevens Other 68%
Ted Strickland Other 17%
Bart Stupak Other 27%
John Sullivan Other 89%
John Sununu Other 65%
John Sweeney Other 52%
James Talent Other 68%
Tom Tancredo Other 52%
John Tanner Other 36%
Ellen Tauscher Other 42%
William Tauzin Other 80%
Charles Taylor Other 71%
Gene Taylor Other 42%
Craig Thomas Other 78%
William Thomas Other 60%
Todd Tiahrt Other 89%
Ed Towns Other 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 8%
James Turner Other 39%
George Voinovich Other 65%
James Walsh Other 71%
Zach Wamp Other 71%
John Warner Other 68%
Diane Watson Other 14%
Anthony Weiner Other 21%
David Weldon Other 80%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 63%
Gerald Weller Other 71%
Robert Wexler Other 17%
Heather Wilson Other 55%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 25%
Albert Wynn Other 7%

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