Rating Group: National Journal

2004 Conservative on Foreign Policy Score

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 67%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 61%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 67%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 67%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 96%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 78%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 93%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 68%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 31%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 63%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 49%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 51%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 9%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 93%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 36%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 16%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 16%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 18%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 13%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 20%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 14%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 9%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 77%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 10%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 78%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 36%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 28%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 86%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 14%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 11%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 12%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 16%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 78%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 18%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 68%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 22%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 68%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 63%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 27%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 3%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 29%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 10%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 4%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 12%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 34%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 43%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 91%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 86%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 27%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 78%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 83%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 26%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 78%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 53%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 78%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 67%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 96%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 43%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 6%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 86%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 36%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 84%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 7%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 61%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 8%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 51%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 86%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 67%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 78%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 48%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 1%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 55%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 7%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 11%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 10%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 2%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 54%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 14%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 93%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 67%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 51%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 67%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 67%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 63%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 68%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 42%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 48%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 16%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 4%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 7%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 4%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 17%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 30%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 19%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 38%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 33%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 28%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 9%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 18%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 54%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 30%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 19%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 16%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 59%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 54%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 86%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 20%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 78%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 28%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 3%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 86%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 4%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 44%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 8%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 86%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 15%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 51%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 67%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 76%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 20%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 39%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 29%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 51%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 66%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 34%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 58%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 51%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 7%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 63%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 59%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 1%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 30%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 36%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 63%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 57%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 93%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 30%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 66%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 23%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 20%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 68%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 8%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 19%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 36%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 92%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 38%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 40%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 16%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 4%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 12%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 7%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 27%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 2%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 35%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 39%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 19%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 18%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 67%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 78%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 96%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 20%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 68%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 57%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 16%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 51%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 67%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 68%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 68%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 19%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 63%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 7%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 35%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 22%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 13%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 68%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 78%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 25%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 93%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 96%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 1%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 34%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 54%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 54%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 68%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 25%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 8%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 58%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 59%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 29%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 86%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 61%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 84%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 59%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 96%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 84%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 96%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 86%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 67%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 68%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 30%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 14%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 68%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 78%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 76%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 40%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 24%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 86%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 76%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 19%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 77%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 46%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 7%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 78%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 78%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 96%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 13%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 68%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 7%
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 26%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 27%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 96%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 7%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 24%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 16%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 10%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 54%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 39%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 57%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 57%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 31%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 68%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 67%
Gary Ackerman Other 29%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 93%
Wayne Allard Other 67%
George Allen Other 67%
Thomas Allen Other 18%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 21%
Brian Baird Other 33%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 78%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 86%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 59%
Charlie Bass Other 51%
Evan Bayh Other 46%
Bob Beauprez Other 68%
Bob Bennett Other 67%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
Howard Berman Other 25%
Marion Berry Other 30%
Judy Biggert Other 44%
Michael Bilirakis Other 86%
Jeff Bingaman Other 15%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 53%
Kit Bond Other 67%
Henry Bonilla Other 86%
Mary Bono Mack Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 46%
Rick Boucher Other 40%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 56%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 86%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 78%
Jim Bunning Other 67%
Conrad Burns Other 67%
Dan Burton Other 63%
Steve Buyer Other 91%
Robert Byrd Other 36%
Chris Cannon Other 96%
Dennis Cardoza Other 29%
Edward Case Other 42%
Mike Castle Other 54%
Ben Chandler III Other 48%
Chris Chocola Other 93%
Hillary Clinton Other 41%
Norm Coleman Other 61%
Kent Conrad Other 26%
Jon Corzine Other 5%
Jerry Costello Other 33%
Christopher Cox Other 92%
Larry Craig Other 67%
Robert Cramer Other 45%
Barbara Cubin Other 58%
Randall Cunningham Other 66%
Artur Davis Other 33%
James Davis Other 36%
Jo Ann Davis Other 77%
Lincoln Davis Other 46%
Thomas Davis III Other 62%
Bill Delahunt Other 4%
Thomas DeLay Other 96%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 62%
Norm Dicks Other 22%
Chris Dodd Other 25%
Elizabeth Dole Other 67%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 67%
John Doolittle Other 93%
Byron Dorgan Other 19%
David Dreier Other 54%
Chet Edwards Other 42%
Vern Ehlers Other 46%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 48%
Philip English Other 59%
John Ensign Other 61%
Bob Etheridge Other 46%
Lane Evans Other 12%
Terry Everett Other 68%
Tom Feeney Other 93%
Russ Feingold Other 8%
Michael Ferguson Other 63%
Mark Foley Other 68%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 92%
Barney Frank Other 7%
William Frist Other 67%
Elton Gallegly Other 59%
Jim Gibbons Other 86%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 54%
Paul Gillmor Other 68%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 29%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 63%
Bart Gordon Other 35%
Mark Green Other 63%
Judd Gregg Other 61%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 63%
Jane Harman Other 26%
Katherine Harris Other 68%
Melissa Hart Other 96%
Robert Hayes Other 66%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 76%
Joel Hefley Other 67%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 68%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 39%
Maurice Hinchey Other 6%
David Lee Hobson Other 67%
Pete Hoekstra Other 84%
Thomas Holden Other 47%
Darlene Hooley Other 42%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 54%
Kenny Hulshof Other 86%
Duncan Hunter Other 85%
Kay Hutchison Other 67%
Henry Hyde Other 93%
Daniel Inouye Other 34%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 93%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 2%
William Jefferson Other 21%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 14%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 91%
Nancy Johnson Other 50%
Tim Johnson Other 48%
Paul Kanjorski Other 22%
Ric Keller Other 86%
Sue Kelly Other 68%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 5%
Mark Kennedy Other 78%
Patrick Kennedy Other 41%
Dale Kildee Other 30%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 11%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 63%
Herb Kohl Other 19%
James Kolbe Other 44%
Dennis Kucinich Other 3%
Jon Kyl Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 48%
Tom Lantos Other 24%
Steve LaTourette Other 68%
James Leach Other 39%
Jerry Lewis Other 78%
Ron Lewis Other 93%
Joe Lieberman Other 43%
Blanche Lincoln Other 36%
John Linder Other 86%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 61%
Dick Lugar Other 67%
Don Manzullo Other 66%
Jim Marshall Other 46%
Robert Matsui Other 36%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 78%
James McCrery III Other 96%
John McHugh Other 59%
Michael McNulty Other 34%
Martin Meehan Other 9%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 27%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 14%
Brad Miller Other 40%
Alan Mollohan Other 12%
Dennis Moore Other 40%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 93%
Sue Myrick Other 86%
Ben Nelson Other 45%
Robert William Ney Other 59%
Anne Northup Other 68%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 75%
James Nussle Other 59%
Jim Oberstar Other 2%
Dave Obey Other 10%
John Olver Other 4%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 44%
Thomas William Osborne Other 50%
Major Owens Other 2%
Michael Oxley Other 86%
Ron Paul Other 20%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 53%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 68%
Todd Platts Other 78%
Richard Pombo Other 68%
Earl Pomeroy Other 42%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 63%
Deborah Pryce Other 76%
George Radanovich Other 96%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Ralph Regula Other 68%
Denny Rehberg Other 57%
Richard Renzi Other 68%
Silvestre Reyes Other 34%
Thomas Reynolds Other 85%
Mike Ross Other 42%
Steve Rothman Other 32%
Jim Ryun Other 91%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Rick Santorum Other 60%
Paul Sarbanes Other 8%
Jim Saxton Other 68%
John Shadegg Other 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 68%
Christopher Shays Other 44%
Donald Sherwood Other 62%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 56%
Ike Skelton Other 47%
Gordon Smith Other 67%
Olympia Snowe Other 47%
Vic Snyder Other 35%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 68%
Arlen Specter Other 48%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 40%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 78%
Ted Stevens Other 67%
Ted Strickland Other 15%
Bart Stupak Other 22%
John Sullivan Other 86%
John Sununu Other 58%
John Sweeney Other 68%
James Talent Other 67%
Tom Tancredo Other 85%
John Tanner Other 41%
Ellen Tauscher Other 20%
Charles Taylor Other 57%
Gene Taylor Other 41%
Craig Thomas Other 67%
William Thomas Other 76%
Todd Tiahrt Other 93%
Ed Towns Other 9%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 23%
George Voinovich Other 57%
James Walsh Other 56%
Zach Wamp Other 59%
John Warner Other 67%
Diane Watson Other 17%
Anthony Weiner Other 24%
David Weldon Other 96%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 53%
Gerald Weller Other 59%
Robert Wexler Other 33%
Heather Wilson Other 48%
Lynn Woolsey Other 4%
David Wu Other 44%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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