Rating Group: National Journal

2006 Liberal on Foreign Policy Score

Issues: Liberal
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 26%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 40%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 6%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 38%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 30%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 15%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 57%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 40%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 52%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 95%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 75%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 17%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 98%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 88%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 88%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 95%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 92%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 95%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 58%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 92%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 83%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 83%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 95%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 14%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 80%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 17%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 77%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 74%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 17%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 91%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 82%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 95%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 83%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 38%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 75%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 33%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 88%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 6%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 70%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 17%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 15%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 70%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 92%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 77%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 92%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 59%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 95%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 67%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 58%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 17%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 73%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 17%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 6%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 61%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 67%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 29%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 37%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 6%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 16%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 16%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 47%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 95%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 17%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 30%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 52%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 64%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 27%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 92%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 26%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 92%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 17%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 17%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 8%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 33%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 95%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 43%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 88%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 62%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 90%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 91%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 92%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 17%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 67%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 83%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 34%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 56%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 34%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 8%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 6%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 6%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 55%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 8%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 17%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 17%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 92%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 92%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 95%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 92%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 83%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 64%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 83%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 59%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 65%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 80%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 83%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 51%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 70%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 79%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 66%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 38%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 17%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 77%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 0%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 59%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 95%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 17%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 92%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 53%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 17%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 83%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 77%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 36%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 16%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 70%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 71%
NA President Barack Obama II D 85%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 65%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 18%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 72%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 42%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 73%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 57%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 77%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 17%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 38%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 57%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 17%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 92%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 38%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 6%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 84%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 66%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 49%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 53%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 45%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 75%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 70%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 17%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 87%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 88%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 6%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 79%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 67%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 82%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 17%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 66%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 70%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 67%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 95%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 87%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 70%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 83%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 67%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 88%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 65%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 75%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 88%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 59%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 70%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 30%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 17%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 70%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 17%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 47%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 77%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 18%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 6%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 17%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 79%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 17%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 95%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 88%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 70%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 92%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 50%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 14%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 77%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 49%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 42%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 6%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 88%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 65%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 6%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 77%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 79%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 15%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 26%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 58%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 62%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 38%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 47%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 6%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 6%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 27%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 77%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 30%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 17%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 17%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 63%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 72%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 27%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 14%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 17%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 43%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 60%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 28%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 95%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 26%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 16%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 53%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 80%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 30%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 6%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 17%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 77%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 94%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 87%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 76%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 75%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 64%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 6%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 6%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 88%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 45%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 65%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 83%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 95%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 42%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 75%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 87%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 47%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 60%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 6%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 67%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 18%
Gary Ackerman Other 75%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 95%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 77%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 72%
Brian Baird Other 67%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 17%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 51%
Evan Bayh Other 62%
Melissa Bean Other 56%
Bob Bennett Other 42%
Shelley Berkley Other 62%
Howard Berman Other 69%
Marion Berry Other 69%
Judy Biggert Other 43%
Jeff Bingaman Other 85%
Kit Bond Other 18%
Mary Bono Mack Other 29%
Dan Boren Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 63%
Rick Boucher Other 66%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 55%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 17%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 17%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 15%
Robert Byrd Other 92%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 57%
Russ Carnahan Other 69%
Julia Carson Other 83%
Mike Castle Other 43%
Ben Chandler III Other 54%
Hillary Clinton Other 62%
Norm Coleman Other 47%
Kent Conrad Other 77%
Jerry Costello Other 80%
Larry Craig Other 8%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 27%
Artur Davis Other 56%
Geoff Davis Other 6%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 58%
Thomas Davis III Other 29%
Bill Delahunt Other 75%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 17%
Norm Dicks Other 62%
Chris Dodd Other 72%
Elizabeth Dole Other 33%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 8%
John Doolittle Other 6%
Byron Dorgan Other 95%
Thelma Drake Other 6%
David Dreier Other 17%
Chet Edwards Other 51%
Vern Ehlers Other 55%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 33%
Philip English Other 38%
John Ensign Other 36%
Bob Etheridge Other 58%
Terry Everett Other 33%
Tom Feeney Other 38%
Russ Feingold Other 88%
Michael Ferguson Other 43%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 17%
Barney Frank Other 92%
Elton Gallegly Other 30%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 56%
Paul Gillmor Other 30%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 42%
Bart Gordon Other 64%
Judd Gregg Other 46%
Jane Harman Other 73%
Robert Hayes Other 17%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 6%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 58%
Maurice Hinchey Other 80%
David Lee Hobson Other 33%
Pete Hoekstra Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 61%
Darlene Hooley Other 80%
Kenny Hulshof Other 46%
Duncan Hunter Other 16%
Kay Hutchison Other 26%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 46%
Daniel Inouye Other 74%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 92%
William Jefferson Other 77%
Tim Johnson Other 38%
Paul Kanjorski Other 67%
Ric Keller Other 28%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 98%
Patrick Kennedy Other 65%
Dale Kildee Other 80%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 86%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 17%
Herb Kohl Other 67%
Dennis Kucinich Other 88%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 17%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 47%
Tom Lantos Other 77%
Steve LaTourette Other 54%
Jerry Lewis Other 28%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 54%
Blanche Lincoln Other 62%
John Linder Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 18%
Dick Lugar Other 42%
Dan Lungren Other 33%
Connie Mack IV Other 17%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 45%
Melquiades Martinez Other 8%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 45%
James McCrery III Other 6%
John McHugh Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 80%
Martin Meehan Other 91%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 62%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 53%
Brad Miller Other 67%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 60%
Jack Murtha Other 59%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 17%
Sue Myrick Other 6%
Ben Nelson Other 51%
Jim Oberstar Other 95%
Dave Obey Other 88%
John Olver Other 92%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 58%
Ron Paul Other 77%
Donald Payne Other 95%
John Peterson Other 29%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 14%
Todd Platts Other 52%
Earl Pomeroy Other 62%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 38%
Deborah Pryce Other 17%
George Radanovich Other 41%
James Ramstad Other 55%
Ralph Regula Other 17%
Denny Rehberg Other 6%
Richard Renzi Other 42%
Silvestre Reyes Other 70%
Thomas Reynolds Other 33%
Mike Ross Other 62%
Steve Rothman Other 87%
Ken Salazar Other 61%
Jim Saxton Other 6%
Jean Schmidt Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 30%
Christopher Shays Other 52%
Ike Skelton Other 54%
Gordon Smith Other 51%
Olympia Snowe Other 56%
Vic Snyder Other 61%
Hilda Solis Other 95%
Mark Souder Other 30%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 57%
Pete Stark Other 95%
Cliff Stearns Other 41%
Ted Stevens Other 24%
Bart Stupak Other 73%
John Sullivan Other 6%
John Sununu Other 47%
Tom Tancredo Other 47%
John Tanner Other 55%
Ellen Tauscher Other 73%
Gene Taylor Other 52%
Todd Tiahrt Other 30%
Ed Towns Other 83%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 82%
George Voinovich Other 26%
James Walsh Other 33%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 42%
Diane Watson Other 95%
Anthony Weiner Other 73%
David Weldon Other 6%
Gerald Weller Other 33%
Robert Wexler Other 64%
Heather Wilson Other 45%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
David Wu Other 69%
Albert Wynn Other 75%

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