Rating Group: National Journal

2002 Composite Liberal Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 22%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 32%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 30%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 25%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 17%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 40%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 42%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 83%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 73%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 77%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 91%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 89%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 97%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 96%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 79%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 80%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 89%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 72%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 22%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 70%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 72%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 8%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 80%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 84%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 92%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 17%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 91%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 16%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 95%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 73%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 38%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 26%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 73%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 97%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 79%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 95%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 78%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 85%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 65%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 59%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 15%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 8%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 83%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 10%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 19%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 89%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 37%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 8%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 15%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 58%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 97%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 17%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 81%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 21%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 83%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 36%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 24%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 12%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 29%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 91%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 40%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 87%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 82%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 89%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 94%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 78%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 14%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 13%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 34%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 18%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 11%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 26%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 24%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 31%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 57%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 75%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 93%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 87%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 91%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 85%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 74%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 87%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 70%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 75%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 78%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 47%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 84%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 81%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 14%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 39%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 20%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 79%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 78%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 98%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 82%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 51%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 87%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 8%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 83%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 20%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 20%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 10%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 77%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 58%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 75%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 17%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 87%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 35%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 73%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 30%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 52%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 88%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 40%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 73%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 67%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 45%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 40%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 75%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 69%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 44%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 75%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 86%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 76%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 85%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 26%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 61%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 60%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 80%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 89%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 89%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 73%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 93%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 70%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 91%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 73%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 74%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 89%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 85%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 21%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 16%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 27%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 77%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 21%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 35%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 17%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 8%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 78%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 23%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 85%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 76%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 28%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 83%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 91%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 15%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 69%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 16%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 76%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 92%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 69%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 50%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 21%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 92%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 27%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 8%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 38%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 17%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 8%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 14%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 15%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 21%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 66%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 94%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 21%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 70%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 8%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 86%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 24%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 62%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 86%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 17%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 15%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 10%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 67%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 34%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 91%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 91%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 75%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 76%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 66%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 12%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 96%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 64%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 78%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 94%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 34%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 70%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 45%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 77%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 44%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 67%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 17%
Gary Ackerman Other 78%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 84%
Todd Akin Other 8%
Wayne Allard Other 15%
George Allen Other 27%
Thomas Allen Other 77%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 73%
Brian Baird Other 73%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 13%
Cass Ballenger Other 19%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 32%
Charlie Bass Other 42%
Evan Bayh Other 59%
Bob Bennett Other 17%
Douglas Bereuter Other 41%
Shelley Berkley Other 68%
Howard Berman Other 84%
Marion Berry Other 57%
Judy Biggert Other 35%
Michael Bilirakis Other 19%
Jeff Bingaman Other 77%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 48%
Kit Bond Other 23%
Henry Bonilla Other 14%
Mary Bono Mack Other 44%
Leonard Boswell Other 60%
Rick Boucher Other 67%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 53%
John Breaux Other 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 21%
Jim Bunning Other 23%
Conrad Burns Other 24%
Dan Burton Other 30%
Steve Buyer Other 27%
Robert Byrd Other 63%
Ben Campbell Other 31%
Chris Cannon Other 25%
Brad Carson Other 55%
Julia Carson Other 88%
Mike Castle Other 45%
Hillary Clinton Other 87%
Michael Collins Other 21%
Larry Combest Other 19%
Kent Conrad Other 76%
Jon Corzine Other 87%
Jerry Costello Other 56%
Christopher Cox Other 33%
Larry Craig Other 17%
Robert Cramer Other 51%
Philip Crane Other 14%
Barbara Cubin Other 11%
Randall Cunningham Other 22%
Thomas Daschle Other 69%
James Davis Other 61%
Jo Ann Davis Other 23%
Thomas Davis III Other 31%
Bill Delahunt Other 85%
Thomas DeLay Other 12%
Peter Deutsch Other 66%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 37%
Norm Dicks Other 71%
Chris Dodd Other 81%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 20%
Calvin Dooley Other 63%
John Doolittle Other 17%
Byron Dorgan Other 64%
David Dreier Other 40%
Jennifer Dunn Other 32%
John Edwards Other 63%
Chet Edwards Other 59%
Vern Ehlers Other 40%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 34%
Philip English Other 29%
John Ensign Other 26%
Bob Etheridge Other 62%
Lane Evans Other 90%
Terry Everett Other 18%
Russ Feingold Other 85%
Michael Ferguson Other 40%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 33%
Mark Foley Other 35%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 64%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 30%
Barney Frank Other 86%
William Frist Other 13%
Jonas Frost III Other 75%
Elton Gallegly Other 29%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 76%
Jim Gibbons Other 24%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 49%
Paul Gillmor Other 28%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 82%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 31%
Bart Gordon Other 56%
Porter Goss Other 29%
Daniel Graham Other 62%
Mark Green Other 28%
James Greenwood Other 45%
Judd Gregg Other 29%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 38%
Jane Harman Other 59%
Melissa Hart Other 18%
Robert Hayes Other 21%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 8%
Joel Hefley Other 17%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 18%
Baron Hill Other 62%
Maurice Hinchey Other 91%
David Lee Hobson Other 27%
Pete Hoekstra Other 34%
Thomas Holden Other 52%
Ernest Hollings Other 62%
Darlene Hooley Other 70%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 43%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 53%
Kenny Hulshof Other 27%
Duncan Hunter Other 30%
Kay Hutchison Other 15%
Henry Hyde Other 21%
Daniel Inouye Other 73%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 19%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 91%
William Jefferson Other 66%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 81%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 15%
Christopher John Other 51%
Nancy Johnson Other 55%
Tim Johnson Other 44%
Paul Kanjorski Other 66%
Ric Keller Other 11%
Sue Kelly Other 36%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 89%
Mark Kennedy Other 20%
Patrick Kennedy Other 72%
Dale Kildee Other 70%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 83%
Gerald Kleczka Other 78%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 22%
Herb Kohl Other 65%
James Kolbe Other 35%
Dennis Kucinich Other 85%
Jon Kyl Other 11%
Ray LaHood Other 35%
Nicholas Lampson Other 64%
Tom Lantos Other 74%
Steve LaTourette Other 44%
James Leach Other 57%
Jerry Lewis Other 31%
Ron Lewis Other 13%
Joe Lieberman Other 78%
Blanche Lincoln Other 53%
John Linder Other 8%
William Lipinski Other 53%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 13%
Dick Lugar Other 22%
Don Manzullo Other 30%
Robert Matsui Other 82%
Karen McCarthy Other 77%
James McCrery III Other 21%
John McHugh Other 28%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
Michael McNulty Other 77%
Martin Meehan Other 77%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 79%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 37%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 64%
Jack Murtha Other 58%
Sue Myrick Other 15%
Ben Nelson Other 48%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 22%
Robert William Ney Other 20%
Don Nickles Other 11%
Anne Northup Other 27%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 18%
James Nussle Other 34%
Jim Oberstar Other 80%
Dave Obey Other 75%
John Olver Other 92%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 58%
Thomas William Osborne Other 34%
Doug Ose Other 39%
Major Owens Other 91%
Michael Oxley Other 17%
Ron Paul Other 52%
Donald Payne Other 95%
John Peterson Other 28%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 20%
Todd Platts Other 40%
Richard Pombo Other 10%
Earl Pomeroy Other 55%
Deborah Pryce Other 33%
Jack Quinn Other 42%
George Radanovich Other 30%
James Ramstad Other 42%
Ralph Regula Other 28%
Denny Rehberg Other 23%
Silvestre Reyes Other 63%
Thomas Reynolds Other 24%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 80%
Mike Ross Other 56%
Steve Rothman Other 68%
Jim Ryun Other 13%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 86%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 58%
Rick Santorum Other 20%
Paul Sarbanes Other 92%
Jim Saxton Other 28%
Edward Schrock Other 13%
John Shadegg Other 13%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 31%
Christopher Shays Other 51%
Donald Sherwood Other 15%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 52%
Ike Skelton Other 57%
Gordon Smith Other 46%
Nick Smith Other 42%
Olympia Snowe Other 45%
Vic Snyder Other 63%
Hilda Solis Other 95%
Mark Souder Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 49%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 67%
Pete Stark Other 98%
Cliff Stearns Other 23%
Charles Stenholm Other 49%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Ted Strickland Other 66%
Bart Stupak Other 68%
John Sullivan Other 17%
John Sweeney Other 31%
Tom Tancredo Other 28%
John Tanner Other 54%
Ellen Tauscher Other 66%
William Tauzin Other 12%
Charles Taylor Other 27%
Gene Taylor Other 49%
Craig Thomas Other 11%
William Thomas Other 41%
Todd Tiahrt Other 18%
Ed Towns Other 86%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 93%
James Turner Other 57%
George Voinovich Other 39%
James Walsh Other 41%
Zach Wamp Other 28%
John Warner Other 31%
Diane Watson Other 93%
Anthony Weiner Other 79%
David Weldon Other 17%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 48%
Gerald Weller Other 12%
Robert Wexler Other 74%
Heather Wilson Other 37%
Lynn Woolsey Other 94%
David Wu Other 70%
Albert Wynn Other 74%

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