Rating Group: National Journal

2006 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 85%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 58%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 92%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 86%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 59%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 67%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 84%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 42%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 67%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 58%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 47%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 23%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 73%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 10%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 10%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 5%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 41%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 5%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 14%
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 85%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 18%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 83%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 20%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 25%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 73%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 9%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 17%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 14%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 59%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 23%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 63%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 10%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 86%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 28%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 73%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 84%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 28%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 5%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 20%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 5%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 40%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 14%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 29%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 41%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 94%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 73%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 26%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 73%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 86%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 39%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 31%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 71%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 62%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 86%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 82%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 82%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 94%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 51%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 94%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 73%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 67%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 47%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 35%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 73%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 5%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 6%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 73%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 73%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 85%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 63%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 2%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 55%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 37%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 9%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 5%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 73%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 31%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 14%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 94%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 64%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 43%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 64%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 85%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 86%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 86%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 44%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 85%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 73%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 73%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 63%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 5%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 5%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 5%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 14%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 35%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 8%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 14%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 40%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 34%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 18%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 14%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 46%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 28%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 16%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 33%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 59%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 49%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 73%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 20%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 94%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 41%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 73%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 5%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 46%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 83%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 14%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 23%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 94%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 60%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 83%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 28%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 28%
NA President Barack Obama II D 12%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 34%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 76%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 26%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 54%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 26%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 42%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 20%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 73%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 59%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 43%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 73%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 5%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 62%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 86%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 29%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 15%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 33%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 50%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 46%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 55%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 23%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 28%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 73%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 12%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 10%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 86%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 16%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 29%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 17%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 73%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 28%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 31%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 13%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 28%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 14%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 31%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 35%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 23%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 10%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 40%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 28%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 67%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 73%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 28%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 73%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 51%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 20%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 92%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 76%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 86%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 73%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 16%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 73%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 10%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 28%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 5%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 50%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 85%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 20%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 14%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 50%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 57%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 86%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 8%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 34%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 92%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 86%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 16%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 84%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 67%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 42%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 38%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 94%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 92%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 59%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 63%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 94%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 51%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 86%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 86%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 94%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 72%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 20%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 67%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 94%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 73%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 73%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 36%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 27%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 94%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 72%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 85%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 73%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 55%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 39%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 14%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 71%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 94%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 84%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 46%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 18%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 67%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 86%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 73%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 20%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 63%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 5%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 12%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 23%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 24%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 35%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 86%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 86%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 10%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 54%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 34%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 14%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 57%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 23%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 13%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 51%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 39%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 86%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 31%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 76%
Gary Ackerman Other 23%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 2%
Todd Akin Other 94%
Wayne Allard Other 92%
Thomas Allen Other 20%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 27%
Brian Baird Other 31%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 94%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 73%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 48%
Evan Bayh Other 35%
Melissa Bean Other 43%
Bob Bennett Other 54%
Shelley Berkley Other 37%
Howard Berman Other 30%
Marion Berry Other 30%
Judy Biggert Other 55%
Jeff Bingaman Other 12%
Kit Bond Other 76%
Mary Bono Mack Other 70%
Dan Boren Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 36%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 45%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 73%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 73%
Jim Bunning Other 92%
Dan Burton Other 94%
Steve Buyer Other 84%
Robert Byrd Other 6%
Chris Cannon Other 94%
Dennis Cardoza Other 43%
Russ Carnahan Other 30%
Julia Carson Other 14%
Mike Castle Other 57%
Ben Chandler III Other 45%
Hillary Clinton Other 35%
Norm Coleman Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 21%
Jerry Costello Other 18%
Larry Craig Other 85%
Robert Cramer Other 49%
Barbara Cubin Other 72%
Artur Davis Other 43%
Geoff Davis Other 86%
Jo Ann Davis Other 94%
Lincoln Davis Other 41%
Thomas Davis III Other 71%
Bill Delahunt Other 23%
James DeMint Other 92%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 73%
Norm Dicks Other 37%
Chris Dodd Other 26%
Elizabeth Dole Other 66%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 85%
John Doolittle Other 86%
Byron Dorgan Other 2%
Thelma Drake Other 86%
David Dreier Other 73%
Chet Edwards Other 48%
Vern Ehlers Other 44%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 63%
Philip English Other 59%
John Ensign Other 60%
Bob Etheridge Other 41%
Terry Everett Other 63%
Tom Feeney Other 59%
Russ Feingold Other 8%
Michael Ferguson Other 55%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 73%
Barney Frank Other 5%
Elton Gallegly Other 67%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 44%
Paul Gillmor Other 67%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 28%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 57%
Bart Gordon Other 35%
Judd Gregg Other 53%
Jane Harman Other 26%
Robert Hayes Other 73%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 86%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 41%
Maurice Hinchey Other 18%
David Lee Hobson Other 63%
Pete Hoekstra Other 63%
Thomas Holden Other 38%
Darlene Hooley Other 18%
Kenny Hulshof Other 53%
Duncan Hunter Other 84%
Kay Hutchison Other 67%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 53%
Daniel Inouye Other 25%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 5%
William Jefferson Other 20%
Tim Johnson Other 59%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Ric Keller Other 71%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 35%
Dale Kildee Other 18%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 13%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 73%
Herb Kohl Other 29%
Dennis Kucinich Other 10%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 73%
Jon Kyl Other 92%
Ray LaHood Other 51%
Tom Lantos Other 20%
Steve LaTourette Other 45%
Jerry Lewis Other 71%
Ron Lewis Other 94%
Joe Lieberman Other 45%
Blanche Lincoln Other 35%
John Linder Other 94%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 76%
Dick Lugar Other 54%
Dan Lungren Other 63%
Connie Mack IV Other 73%
Don Manzullo Other 94%
Jim Marshall Other 54%
Melquiades Martinez Other 85%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 54%
James McCrery III Other 86%
John McHugh Other 63%
Michael McNulty Other 18%
Martin Meehan Other 8%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 37%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 46%
Brad Miller Other 33%
Alan Mollohan Other 39%
Dennis Moore Other 39%
Jack Murtha Other 40%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 73%
Sue Myrick Other 86%
Ben Nelson Other 46%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 10%
John Olver Other 5%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 41%
Ron Paul Other 20%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 70%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 86%
Todd Platts Other 48%
Earl Pomeroy Other 37%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 59%
Deborah Pryce Other 73%
George Radanovich Other 58%
James Ramstad Other 44%
Ralph Regula Other 73%
Denny Rehberg Other 86%
Richard Renzi Other 57%
Silvestre Reyes Other 30%
Thomas Reynolds Other 67%
Mike Ross Other 38%
Steve Rothman Other 13%
Ken Salazar Other 38%
Jim Saxton Other 86%
Jean Schmidt Other 94%
John Shadegg Other 67%
Christopher Shays Other 47%
Ike Skelton Other 46%
Gordon Smith Other 46%
Olympia Snowe Other 43%
Vic Snyder Other 39%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 67%
Arlen Specter Other 49%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 42%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 59%
Ted Stevens Other 74%
Bart Stupak Other 26%
John Sullivan Other 86%
John Sununu Other 50%
Tom Tancredo Other 51%
John Tanner Other 44%
Ellen Tauscher Other 26%
Gene Taylor Other 47%
Todd Tiahrt Other 67%
Ed Towns Other 14%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 18%
George Voinovich Other 67%
James Walsh Other 63%
Zach Wamp Other 94%
John Warner Other 54%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 26%
David Weldon Other 86%
Gerald Weller Other 63%
Robert Wexler Other 36%
Heather Wilson Other 54%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 30%
Albert Wynn Other 25%

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