Rating Group: National Journal

2002 Conservative on Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 71%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 59%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 56%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 72%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 85%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 60%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 61%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 49%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 19%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 33%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 8%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 17%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 8%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 13%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 8%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 10%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 14%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 78%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 38%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 26%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 85%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 14%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 24%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 85%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 10%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 78%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 8%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 19%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 51%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 65%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 29%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 23%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 8%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 19%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 19%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 38%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 42%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 85%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 85%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 17%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 85%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 85%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 19%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 60%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 85%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 85%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 45%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 85%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 10%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 76%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 15%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 56%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 67%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 78%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 51%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 78%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 14%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 24%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 13%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 60%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 29%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 85%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 76%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 50%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 76%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 76%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 56%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 67%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 60%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 46%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 14%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 14%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 8%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 14%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 29%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 25%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 26%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 14%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 54%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 4%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 4%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 72%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 60%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 85%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 23%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 18%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 14%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 45%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 11%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 85%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 13%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 60%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 76%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 85%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 17%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 47%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 76%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 26%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 51%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 19%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 72%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 48%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 55%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 38%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 36%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 56%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 29%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 36%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 67%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 8%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 18%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 27%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 15%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 78%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 42%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 45%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 6%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 6%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 8%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 26%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 28%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 7%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 32%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 33%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 18%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 78%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 78%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 77%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 31%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 53%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 67%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 76%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 85%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 22%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 85%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 13%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 19%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 56%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 26%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 85%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 26%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 67%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 26%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 12%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 30%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 49%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 72%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 10%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 33%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 48%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 85%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 60%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 66%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 85%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 72%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 85%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 55%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 33%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 78%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 40%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 13%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 85%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 35%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 14%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 85%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 85%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 85%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 33%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 30%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 36%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 31%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 78%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 39%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 19%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 56%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 23%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 60%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 55%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 15%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 56%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 25%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 67%
Gary Ackerman Other 35%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 7%
Todd Akin Other 85%
Wayne Allard Other 76%
George Allen Other 67%
Thomas Allen Other 23%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 26%
Brian Baird Other 26%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 85%
Cass Ballenger Other 85%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 53%
Charlie Bass Other 72%
Evan Bayh Other 38%
Bob Bennett Other 76%
Douglas Bereuter Other 72%
Shelley Berkley Other 35%
Howard Berman Other 31%
Marion Berry Other 39%
Judy Biggert Other 56%
Michael Bilirakis Other 85%
Jeff Bingaman Other 24%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 67%
Kit Bond Other 76%
Henry Bonilla Other 78%
Mary Bono Mack Other 56%
Leonard Boswell Other 36%
Rick Boucher Other 32%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
John Breaux Other 52%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 72%
Jim Bunning Other 67%
Conrad Burns Other 60%
Dan Burton Other 56%
Steve Buyer Other 60%
Robert Byrd Other 22%
Ben Campbell Other 53%
Chris Cannon Other 59%
Brad Carson Other 48%
Julia Carson Other 10%
Mike Castle Other 67%
Hillary Clinton Other 27%
Michael Collins Other 72%
Larry Combest Other 60%
Kent Conrad Other 12%
Jon Corzine Other 6%
Jerry Costello Other 43%
Christopher Cox Other 65%
Larry Craig Other 67%
Robert Cramer Other 49%
Philip Crane Other 85%
Barbara Cubin Other 85%
Randall Cunningham Other 78%
Thomas Daschle Other 38%
James Davis Other 45%
Jo Ann Davis Other 72%
Thomas Davis III Other 77%
Bill Delahunt Other 10%
Thomas DeLay Other 78%
Peter Deutsch Other 42%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 60%
Norm Dicks Other 38%
Chris Dodd Other 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 76%
Calvin Dooley Other 42%
John Doolittle Other 85%
Byron Dorgan Other 24%
David Dreier Other 60%
Jennifer Dunn Other 78%
John Edwards Other 36%
Chet Edwards Other 41%
Vern Ehlers Other 46%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 60%
Philip English Other 67%
John Ensign Other 67%
Bob Etheridge Other 40%
Lane Evans Other 14%
Terry Everett Other 72%
Russ Feingold Other 12%
Michael Ferguson Other 67%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 61%
Mark Foley Other 78%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 35%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 78%
Barney Frank Other 23%
William Frist Other 76%
Jonas Frost III Other 30%
Elton Gallegly Other 72%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 30%
Jim Gibbons Other 78%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 54%
Paul Gillmor Other 78%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 19%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 53%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Porter Goss Other 78%
Daniel Graham Other 41%
Mark Green Other 78%
James Greenwood Other 71%
Judd Gregg Other 67%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 55%
Jane Harman Other 44%
Melissa Hart Other 78%
Robert Hayes Other 72%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 85%
Joel Hefley Other 85%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 60%
Baron Hill Other 38%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 78%
Pete Hoekstra Other 53%
Thomas Holden Other 46%
Ernest Hollings Other 33%
Darlene Hooley Other 19%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 49%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 49%
Kenny Hulshof Other 67%
Duncan Hunter Other 56%
Kay Hutchison Other 76%
Henry Hyde Other 78%
Daniel Inouye Other 19%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 85%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 10%
William Jefferson Other 30%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 21%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 85%
Christopher John Other 47%
Nancy Johnson Other 48%
Tim Johnson Other 56%
Paul Kanjorski Other 39%
Ric Keller Other 85%
Sue Kelly Other 78%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 10%
Mark Kennedy Other 76%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Dale Kildee Other 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 10%
Gerald Kleczka Other 10%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 77%
Herb Kohl Other 30%
James Kolbe Other 55%
Dennis Kucinich Other 8%
Jon Kyl Other 76%
Ray LaHood Other 60%
Nicholas Lampson Other 31%
Tom Lantos Other 31%
Steve LaTourette Other 51%
James Leach Other 33%
Jerry Lewis Other 78%
Ron Lewis Other 85%
Joe Lieberman Other 44%
Blanche Lincoln Other 45%
John Linder Other 85%
William Lipinski Other 48%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 76%
Dick Lugar Other 76%
Don Manzullo Other 60%
Robert Matsui Other 19%
Karen McCarthy Other 23%
James McCrery III Other 85%
John McHugh Other 67%
Scott McInnis Other 85%
Michael McNulty Other 19%
Martin Meehan Other 29%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 19%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 76%
Alan Mollohan Other 36%
Dennis Moore Other 38%
Jack Murtha Other 44%
Sue Myrick Other 85%
Ben Nelson Other 49%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 50%
Robert William Ney Other 67%
Don Nickles Other 76%
Anne Northup Other 77%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 72%
James Nussle Other 56%
Jim Oberstar Other 6%
Dave Obey Other 25%
John Olver Other 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 44%
Thomas William Osborne Other 56%
Doug Ose Other 76%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 78%
Ron Paul Other 42%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 60%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 85%
Todd Platts Other 72%
Richard Pombo Other 85%
Earl Pomeroy Other 42%
Deborah Pryce Other 65%
Jack Quinn Other 67%
George Radanovich Other 60%
James Ramstad Other 60%
Ralph Regula Other 67%
Denny Rehberg Other 60%
Silvestre Reyes Other 36%
Thomas Reynolds Other 78%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 19%
Mike Ross Other 36%
Steve Rothman Other 43%
Jim Ryun Other 85%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 44%
Rick Santorum Other 76%
Paul Sarbanes Other 8%
Jim Saxton Other 85%
Edward Schrock Other 85%
John Shadegg Other 85%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 78%
Christopher Shays Other 51%
Donald Sherwood Other 85%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 51%
Ike Skelton Other 39%
Gordon Smith Other 54%
Nick Smith Other 56%
Olympia Snowe Other 58%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Hilda Solis Other 8%
Mark Souder Other 60%
Arlen Specter Other 47%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 42%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 71%
Charles Stenholm Other 51%
Ted Stevens Other 76%
Ted Strickland Other 31%
Bart Stupak Other 25%
John Sullivan Other 85%
John Sweeney Other 85%
Tom Tancredo Other 56%
John Tanner Other 46%
Ellen Tauscher Other 39%
William Tauzin Other 78%
Charles Taylor Other 60%
Gene Taylor Other 48%
Craig Thomas Other 76%
William Thomas Other 65%
Todd Tiahrt Other 67%
Ed Towns Other 6%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 46%
George Voinovich Other 61%
James Walsh Other 67%
Zach Wamp Other 85%
John Warner Other 65%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 26%
David Weldon Other 85%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 53%
Gerald Weller Other 78%
Robert Wexler Other 43%
Heather Wilson Other 55%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 19%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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