Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Conservative on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 67%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 88%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 88%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 90%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 72%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 69%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 88%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 25%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 26%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 7%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 21%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 16%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 21%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 67%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 23%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 11%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 10%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 75%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 13%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 64%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 25%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 64%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 11%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 76%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 11%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 13%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 62%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 79%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 56%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 90%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 90%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 44%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 16%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 79%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 97%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 14%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 14%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 15%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 75%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 37%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 79%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 67%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 79%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 88%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 67%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 76%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 26%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 32%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 7%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 13%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 24%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 23%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 25%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 41%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 25%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 67%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 52%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 16%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 31%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 57%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 72%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 58%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 90%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 30%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 37%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 26%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 79%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 76%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 81%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 28%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 90%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 53%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 28%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 28%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 60%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 64%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 28%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 34%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 41%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 48%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 64%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 25%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 16%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 11%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 16%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 12%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 19%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 19%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 72%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 90%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 90%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 41%
OH Governor John Kasich R 90%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 16%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 63%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 88%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 97%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 90%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 26%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 14%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 21%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 47%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 81%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 81%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 69%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 15%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 26%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 90%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 90%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 88%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 90%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 88%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 80%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 55%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 76%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 28%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 7%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 81%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 28%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 97%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 16%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 55%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 81%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 27%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 69%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 38%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 90%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 7%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 28%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 32%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 81%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 71%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 23%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 45%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 79%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 79%
Gary Ackerman Other 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 88%
Thomas Allen Other 7%
Bill Archer Other 89%
Richard Armey Other 90%
John Ashcroft Other 88%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 76%
John Baldacci Other 25%
Cass Ballenger Other 71%
James Barcia Other 51%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 86%
Bill Barrett Other 64%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 72%
Charlie Bass Other 48%
Herbert Bateman Other 74%
Bob Bennett Other 53%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 28%
Douglas Bereuter Other 58%
Howard Berman Other 11%
Marion Berry Other 52%
Brian Bilbray Other 54%
Michael Bilirakis Other 81%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
Rod Blagojevich Other 30%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 69%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 31%
Kit Bond Other 61%
Henry Bonilla Other 58%
David Edward Bonior Other 32%
Mary Bono Mack Other 56%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 38%
Leonard Boswell Other 37%
Rick Boucher Other 27%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 36%
John Breaux Other 46%
George Brown, Jr. Other 7%
Richard Bryan Other 26%
Ed Bryant Other 81%
Conrad Burns Other 73%
Dan Burton Other 76%
Steve Buyer Other 66%
Robert Byrd Other 43%
Herbert Callahan Other 97%
Ben Campbell Other 64%
Thomas Campbell Other 37%
Chris Cannon Other 79%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 41%
John Chafee Other 26%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 97%
William Clay, Sr. Other 0%
Eva Clayton Other 13%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 0%
Robert Clement Other 43%
Michael Collins Other 90%
Larry Combest Other 81%
Gary Condit Other 46%
Kent Conrad Other 45%
Merrill Cook Other 59%
John Cooksey Other 58%
Jerry Costello Other 52%
Paul Coverdell Other 76%
Christopher Cox Other 66%
William Coyne Other 7%
Larry Craig Other 79%
Robert Cramer Other 51%
Philip Crane Other 89%
Barbara Cubin Other 89%
Randall Cunningham Other 79%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 45%
Thomas Daschle Other 26%
James Davis Other 38%
Thomas Davis III Other 47%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 75%
Peter Deutsch Other 23%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 55%
Jay Dickey Other 71%
Norm Dicks Other 28%
Julian Dixon Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 51%
Calvin Dooley Other 23%
John Doolittle Other 88%
Byron Dorgan Other 43%
David Dreier Other 63%
Jennifer Dunn Other 72%
Chet Edwards Other 32%
Vern Ehlers Other 53%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 50%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 90%
Philip English Other 53%
Bob Etheridge Other 38%
Lane Evans Other 14%
Terry Everett Other 97%
Thomas Ewing Other 75%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 46%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 54%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 97%
Tillie Fowler Other 55%
Barney Frank Other 7%
Robert Franks Other 43%
William Frist Other 64%
Jonas Frost III Other 30%
Elton Gallegly Other 60%
John Ganske Other 49%
Sam Gejdenson Other 11%
George Gekas Other 64%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 31%
Jim Gibbons Other 60%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 40%
Paul Gillmor Other 67%
Benjamin Gilman Other 34%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 60%
William Goodling Other 75%
Bart Gordon Other 49%
Slade Gorton Other 54%
Porter Goss Other 64%
Daniel Graham Other 0%
William Phillip Gramm Other 88%
Rodney Grams Other 79%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 69%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 76%
Tony Hall Other 51%
James Hansen Other 87%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 81%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 81%
Joel Hefley Other 81%
Jesse Helms Other 77%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 97%
Rick Hill Other 86%
Van Hilleary Other 81%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 16%
Maurice Hinchey Other 11%
David Lee Hobson Other 56%
Pete Hoekstra Other 69%
Thomas Holden Other 48%
Ernest Hollings Other 62%
Darlene Hooley Other 16%
Stephen Horn Other 38%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 72%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 35%
Kenny Hulshof Other 81%
Duncan Hunter Other 90%
Asa Hutchinson Other 87%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 88%
Kay Hutchison Other 78%
Henry Hyde Other 88%
Daniel Inouye Other 26%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 81%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 33%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 38%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 81%
Christopher John Other 59%
Nancy Johnson Other 28%
Paul Kanjorski Other 44%
Sue Kelly Other 38%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 16%
Bob Kerrey Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 44%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 38%
Ronald Klink Other 43%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 69%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 42%
Dennis Kucinich Other 41%
Jon Kyl Other 88%
John LaFalce Other 45%
Ray LaHood Other 59%
Nicholas Lampson Other 34%
Tom Lantos Other 19%
Stephen Largent Other 81%
Steve LaTourette Other 50%
Rick Lazio Other 47%
James Leach Other 38%
Jerry Lewis Other 53%
Ron Lewis Other 90%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
John Linder Other 90%
William Lipinski Other 63%
Robert Livingston Other 90%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 88%
Dick Lugar Other 58%
William Luther Other 23%
Connie Mack Other 55%
James Maloney Other 31%
Don Manzullo Other 90%
Matthew Martinez Other 22%
Frank Mascara Other 48%
Robert Matsui Other 27%
Karen McCarthy Other 22%
Bill McCollum Other 60%
James McCrery III Other 66%
John McHugh Other 64%
Scott McInnis Other 60%
David McIntosh Other 97%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 7%
Michael McNulty Other 42%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 19%
Jack Metcalf Other 81%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 55%
David Minge Other 35%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 7%
John Moakley Other 34%
Alan Mollohan Other 47%
Constance Morella Other 25%
Patrick Moynihan Other 26%
Frank Murkowski Other 64%
Jack Murtha Other 48%
Sue Myrick Other 72%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 72%
Robert William Ney Other 76%
Don Nickles Other 79%
Anne Northup Other 69%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 80%
James Nussle Other 81%
Jim Oberstar Other 35%
Dave Obey Other 31%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 49%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 60%
Ronald Packard Other 87%
Ron Paul Other 56%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Edward Pease Other 90%
John Peterson Other 71%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 97%
Owen Pickett Other 40%
Richard Pombo Other 76%
Earl Pomeroy Other 38%
John Edward Porter Other 42%
Deborah Pryce Other 50%
Jack Quinn Other 56%
George Radanovich Other 86%
James Ramstad Other 51%
Ralph Regula Other 60%
Silvestre Reyes Other 37%
Bob Riley Other 90%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 16%
Charles Robb Other 26%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 27%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
James Rogan Other 88%
William Roth, Jr. Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 23%
Marge Roukema Other 55%
Jim Ryun Other 97%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 21%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 42%
Rick Santorum Other 73%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 53%
Joe Scarborough Other 90%
John Shadegg Other 97%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 50%
Christopher Shays Other 34%
E.G. Shuster Other 69%
Norman Sisisky Other 41%
Joseph Skeen Other 58%
Ike Skelton Other 57%
Gordon Smith Other 58%
Nick Smith Other 60%
Bob Smith Other 88%
Olympia Snowe Other 48%
Vic Snyder Other 35%
Mark Souder Other 69%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
Floyd Spence Other 81%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 40%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
Charles Stenholm Other 63%
Ted Stevens Other 46%
Ted Strickland Other 36%
Bob Stump Other 76%
Bart Stupak Other 46%
John Sununu Other 72%
James Talent Other 72%
John Tanner Other 52%
Ellen Tauscher Other 25%
William Tauzin Other 69%
Charles Taylor Other 81%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Craig Thomas Other 73%
William Thomas Other 48%
Fred Thompson Other 71%
Karen Thurman Other 25%
Strom Thurmond Other 64%
Todd Tiahrt Other 97%
Robert Torricelli Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 16%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 58%
James Turner Other 51%
Bruce Vento Other 21%
James Walsh Other 56%
Zach Wamp Other 76%
John Warner Other 57%
Wesley Watkins Other 76%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 60%
David Weldon Other 81%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 63%
Gerald Weller Other 71%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 19%
Bob Weygand Other 37%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 22%
Lynn Woolsey Other 15%
Albert Wynn Other 20%

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