Rating Group: National Journal

2003 Conservative on Economic Policy Score

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 56%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 83%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 58%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 82%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 84%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 73%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 91%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 91%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 37%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 84%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 49%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 49%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 25%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 84%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 39%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 10%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 32%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 9%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 16%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 75%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 9%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 84%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 9%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 9%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 91%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 57%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 84%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 23%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 75%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 84%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 9%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 14%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 25%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 9%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 42%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 62%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 84%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 20%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 84%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 67%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 91%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 73%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 71%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 82%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 79%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 41%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 84%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 45%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 91%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 30%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 82%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 19%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 64%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 79%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 82%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 68%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 75%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 32%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 17%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 60%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 23%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 30%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 64%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 68%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 54%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 77%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 82%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 64%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 75%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 48%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 44%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 45%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 18%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 14%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 19%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 9%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 31%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 26%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 23%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 9%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 51%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 30%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 7%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 20%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 73%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 57%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 84%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 18%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 75%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 20%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 16%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 84%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 9%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 47%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 20%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 91%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 17%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 81%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 82%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 64%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 27%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 45%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 62%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 26%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 57%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 40%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 54%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 60%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 24%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 24%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 47%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 47%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 64%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 21%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 56%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 24%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 9%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 84%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 10%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 10%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 21%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 52%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 38%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 35%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 26%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 17%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 16%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 32%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 9%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 21%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 9%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 73%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 71%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 91%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 17%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 75%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 91%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 21%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 61%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 71%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 84%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 91%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 35%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 80%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 20%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 0%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 70%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 30%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 9%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 56%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 70%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 39%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 74%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 84%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 21%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 18%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 47%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 62%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 91%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 23%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 20%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 77%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 57%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 36%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 84%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 82%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 84%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 49%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 84%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 75%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 57%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 91%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 71%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 91%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 38%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 27%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 84%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 68%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 39%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 23%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 75%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 84%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 13%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 82%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 91%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 45%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 9%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 84%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 79%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 91%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 32%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 64%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 18%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 14%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 26%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 10%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 32%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 84%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 14%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 37%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 18%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 9%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 75%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 27%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 51%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 51%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 57%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 32%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 77%
Gary Ackerman Other 8%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Todd Akin Other 68%
Wayne Allard Other 77%
George Allen Other 82%
Thomas Allen Other 20%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 39%
Brian Baird Other 27%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 81%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 16%
Cass Ballenger Other 84%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 70%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 60%
Charlie Bass Other 60%
Evan Bayh Other 40%
Bob Beauprez Other 91%
Chris Bell Other 43%
Bob Bennett Other 82%
Douglas Bereuter Other 53%
Shelley Berkley Other 31%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 41%
Judy Biggert Other 71%
Michael Bilirakis Other 59%
Jeff Bingaman Other 26%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 47%
Kit Bond Other 73%
Henry Bonilla Other 70%
Mary Bono Mack Other 64%
Leonard Boswell Other 38%
Rick Boucher Other 41%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 43%
John Breaux Other 46%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 75%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 81%
Jim Bunning Other 82%
Conrad Burns Other 82%
Max Burns Other 71%
Dan Burton Other 55%
Steve Buyer Other 61%
Robert Byrd Other 25%
Ben Campbell Other 54%
Chris Cannon Other 91%
Dennis Cardoza Other 40%
Brad Carson Other 44%
Julia Carson Other 25%
Edward Case Other 35%
Mike Castle Other 47%
Chris Chocola Other 84%
Hillary Clinton Other 7%
Norm Coleman Other 58%
Michael Collins Other 67%
Kent Conrad Other 38%
Jon Corzine Other 26%
Jerry Costello Other 37%
Christopher Cox Other 81%
Larry Craig Other 82%
Robert Cramer Other 49%
Philip Crane Other 91%
Barbara Cubin Other 91%
Randall Cunningham Other 71%
Thomas Daschle Other 10%
Artur Davis Other 40%
James Davis Other 24%
Jo Ann Davis Other 64%
Lincoln Davis Other 44%
Thomas Davis III Other 64%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 91%
Peter Deutsch Other 27%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 64%
Norm Dicks Other 32%
Chris Dodd Other 30%
Elizabeth Dole Other 68%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 71%
Calvin Dooley Other 46%
John Doolittle Other 63%
Byron Dorgan Other 36%
David Dreier Other 75%
Jennifer Dunn Other 91%
John Edwards Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 43%
Vern Ehlers Other 59%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 63%
Philip English Other 56%
John Ensign Other 68%
Bob Etheridge Other 25%
Lane Evans Other 18%
Terry Everett Other 80%
Tom Feeney Other 73%
Russ Feingold Other 7%
Michael Ferguson Other 59%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 57%
Mark Foley Other 71%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 31%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 69%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 82%
Jonas Frost III Other 37%
Elton Gallegly Other 81%
Jim Gibbons Other 81%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 54%
Paul Gillmor Other 70%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 37%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 68%
Bart Gordon Other 42%
Porter Goss Other 81%
Daniel Graham Other 0%
Mark Green Other 57%
James Greenwood Other 68%
Judd Gregg Other 52%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 49%
Jane Harman Other 34%
Katherine Harris Other 81%
Melissa Hart Other 84%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 91%
Robert Hayes Other 75%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 91%
Joel Hefley Other 51%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 91%
Baron Hill Other 34%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 75%
Pete Hoekstra Other 91%
Thomas Holden Other 42%
Ernest Hollings Other 32%
Darlene Hooley Other 35%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 51%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 52%
Kenny Hulshof Other 81%
Duncan Hunter Other 75%
Kay Hutchison Other 62%
Henry Hyde Other 91%
Daniel Inouye Other 34%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 73%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 9%
William Janklow Other 80%
William Jefferson Other 27%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 41%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 56%
Christopher John Other 46%
Nancy Johnson Other 51%
Tim Johnson Other 48%
Paul Kanjorski Other 35%
Ric Keller Other 91%
Sue Kelly Other 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 20%
Mark Kennedy Other 84%
Patrick Kennedy Other 19%
Dale Kildee Other 26%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 9%
Gerald Kleczka Other 18%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 81%
Herb Kohl Other 26%
James Kolbe Other 84%
Dennis Kucinich Other 15%
Jon Kyl Other 73%
Ray LaHood Other 55%
Nicholas Lampson Other 37%
Tom Lantos Other 20%
Steve LaTourette Other 53%
Frank Lautenberg Other 10%
James Leach Other 46%
Jerry Lewis Other 84%
Ron Lewis Other 64%
Joe Lieberman Other 33%
Blanche Lincoln Other 42%
John Linder Other 91%
William Lipinski Other 40%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 67%
Dick Lugar Other 82%
Denise Majette Other 21%
Don Manzullo Other 91%
Jim Marshall Other 41%
Robert Matsui Other 9%
Karen McCarthy Other 25%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 75%
James McCrery III Other 81%
John McHugh Other 50%
Scott McInnis Other 63%
Michael McNulty Other 8%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 27%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 14%
Brad Miller Other 18%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 76%
Alan Mollohan Other 41%
Dennis Moore Other 36%
Jack Murtha Other 44%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 57%
Sue Myrick Other 91%
Ben Nelson Other 48%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 81%
Robert William Ney Other 64%
Don Nickles Other 77%
Anne Northup Other 73%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 57%
James Nussle Other 64%
Jim Oberstar Other 26%
Dave Obey Other 25%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 39%
Thomas William Osborne Other 84%
Doug Ose Other 60%
Major Owens Other 14%
Michael Oxley Other 75%
Ron Paul Other 47%
Donald Payne Other 15%
John Peterson Other 75%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 84%
Todd Platts Other 55%
Richard Pombo Other 91%
Earl Pomeroy Other 44%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 84%
Deborah Pryce Other 84%
Jack Quinn Other 52%
George Radanovich Other 91%
James Ramstad Other 60%
Ralph Regula Other 75%
Denny Rehberg Other 91%
Richard Renzi Other 64%
Silvestre Reyes Other 36%
Thomas Reynolds Other 74%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 34%
Mike Ross Other 42%
Steve Rothman Other 32%
Jim Ryun Other 62%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 27%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 42%
Rick Santorum Other 82%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 48%
Edward Schrock Other 91%
John Shadegg Other 62%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 71%
Christopher Shays Other 51%
Donald Sherwood Other 79%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 53%
Ike Skelton Other 43%
Gordon Smith Other 60%
Nick Smith Other 59%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 36%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 80%
Arlen Specter Other 53%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 30%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 62%
Charles Stenholm Other 46%
Ted Stevens Other 73%
Ted Strickland Other 34%
Bart Stupak Other 32%
John Sullivan Other 91%
John Sununu Other 55%
John Sweeney Other 53%
James Talent Other 62%
Tom Tancredo Other 54%
John Tanner Other 39%
Ellen Tauscher Other 27%
William Tauzin Other 84%
Charles Taylor Other 67%
Gene Taylor Other 45%
Craig Thomas Other 82%
William Thomas Other 84%
Todd Tiahrt Other 91%
Ed Towns Other 29%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 9%
James Turner Other 45%
George Voinovich Other 62%
James Walsh Other 68%
Zach Wamp Other 54%
John Warner Other 82%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 8%
David Weldon Other 84%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 55%
Gerald Weller Other 91%
Robert Wexler Other 19%
Heather Wilson Other 64%
Lynn Woolsey Other 15%
David Wu Other 31%
Albert Wynn Other 35%

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