Rating Group: The Cato Institute

2001-2002 Trade Subsidy Votes Score

Issues: Trade
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 25%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 0%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 71%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 29%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 43%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 43%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 57%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 57%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 29%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 43%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 14%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 29%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 57%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 57%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 14%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 67%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 29%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 14%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 14%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 43%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 43%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 29%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 57%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 29%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 43%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 67%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 43%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 29%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 50%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 25%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 43%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 57%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 14%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 14%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 0%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 29%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 14%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 14%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 25%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 14%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 50%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 29%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 25%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 43%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 29%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 29%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 43%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 43%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 14%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 43%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 75%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 14%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 75%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 43%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 14%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 71%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 71%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 50%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 25%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 57%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 14%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 75%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 25%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 25%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 14%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 29%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 14%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 0%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 0%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 14%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 25%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 43%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 75%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 25%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 29%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 29%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 14%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 14%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 43%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 71%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 71%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 43%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 57%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 43%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 71%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 57%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 29%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 25%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 50%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 29%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 43%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 43%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 29%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 57%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 71%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 57%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 14%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 43%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 17%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 43%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 67%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 71%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 43%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 14%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 43%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 43%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 25%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 71%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 57%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 71%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 29%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 29%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 43%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 57%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 57%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 50%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 57%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 14%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 25%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 14%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 86%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 14%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 0%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 14%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 71%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 75%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 29%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 14%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 43%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 14%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 29%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 71%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 29%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 43%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 25%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 25%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 43%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 29%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 86%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 43%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 71%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 100%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 86%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 25%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 14%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 14%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 75%
Gary Ackerman Other 43%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 57%
Wayne Allard Other 50%
George Allen Other 25%
Thomas Allen Other 43%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 14%
Brian Baird Other 29%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 57%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 25%
Bob Bennett Other 67%
Douglas Bereuter Other 14%
Shelley Berkley Other 29%
Howard Berman Other 71%
Marion Berry Other 0%
Judy Biggert Other 71%
Michael Bilirakis Other 57%
Jeff Bingaman Other 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 29%
Kit Bond Other 25%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 14%
Leonard Boswell Other 29%
Rick Boucher Other 14%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 0%
John Breaux Other 0%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 29%
Jim Bunning Other 75%
Conrad Burns Other 25%
Dan Burton Other 75%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 25%
Ben Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 57%
Hillary Clinton Other 25%
Michael Collins Other 29%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 25%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 14%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 50%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 14%
Randall Cunningham Other 14%
Thomas Daschle Other 25%
James Davis Other 29%
Jo Ann Davis Other 43%
Thomas Davis III Other 71%
Bill Delahunt Other 50%
Thomas DeLay Other 86%
James DeMint Other 71%
Peter Deutsch Other 57%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 17%
Chris Dodd Other 25%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 50%
Calvin Dooley Other 29%
John Doolittle Other 57%
Byron Dorgan Other 25%
David Dreier Other 57%
Jennifer Dunn Other 43%
John Edwards Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 29%
Vern Ehlers Other 43%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 29%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 0%
Lane Evans Other 14%
Terry Everett Other 14%
Russ Feingold Other 75%
Michael Ferguson Other 71%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 50%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 0%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 71%
Barney Frank Other 71%
William Frist Other 50%
Jonas Frost III Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 33%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 29%
Jim Gibbons Other 40%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 17%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 43%
Bart Gordon Other 14%
Porter Goss Other 57%
Mark Green Other 43%
James Greenwood Other 29%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 43%
Melissa Hart Other 29%
Robert Hayes Other 14%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 71%
Joel Hefley Other 71%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 17%
Baron Hill Other 0%
Maurice Hinchey Other 43%
David Lee Hobson Other 29%
Pete Hoekstra Other 86%
Thomas Holden Other 14%
Ernest Hollings Other 0%
Darlene Hooley Other 14%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 71%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 29%
Kay Hutchison Other 25%
Henry Hyde Other 14%
Daniel Inouye Other 25%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 60%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 43%
William Jefferson Other 0%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 0%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 0%
Nancy Johnson Other 71%
Tim Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 43%
Ric Keller Other 43%
Sue Kelly Other 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 50%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 29%
Dale Kildee Other 14%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 43%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 43%
Dennis Kucinich Other 57%
Jon Kyl Other 75%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 0%
Tom Lantos Other 57%
Steve LaTourette Other 29%
James Leach Other 14%
Jerry Lewis Other 17%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 25%
John Linder Other 71%
William Lipinski Other 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 25%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 29%
Robert Matsui Other 14%
Karen McCarthy Other 33%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 29%
Scott McInnis Other 86%
Michael McNulty Other 57%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 33%
Dennis Moore Other 43%
Jack Murtha Other 40%
Sue Myrick Other 43%
Ben Nelson Other 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 43%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 43%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 14%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 29%
Dave Obey Other 43%
John Olver Other 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 0%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 86%
Michael Oxley Other 14%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 43%
John Peterson Other 33%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 57%
Richard Pombo Other 14%
Earl Pomeroy Other 14%
Deborah Pryce Other 43%
Jack Quinn Other 29%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 71%
Ralph Regula Other 14%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 0%
Thomas Reynolds Other 14%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 0%
Mike Ross Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 43%
Jim Ryun Other 14%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 0%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 43%
Edward Schrock Other 57%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 57%
Christopher Shays Other 71%
Donald Sherwood Other 43%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 43%
Ike Skelton Other 0%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Nick Smith Other 43%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 14%
Hilda Solis Other 29%
Mark Souder Other 29%
Arlen Specter Other 75%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 0%
Pete Stark Other 71%
Cliff Stearns Other 71%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
Ted Strickland Other 29%
Bart Stupak Other 43%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 86%
John Sweeney Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 57%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 14%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 75%
William Thomas Other 14%
Todd Tiahrt Other 14%
Ed Towns Other 29%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 50%
James Turner Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 0%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 50%
Diane Watson Other 14%
Anthony Weiner Other 71%
David Weldon Other 14%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 17%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 14%
David Wu Other 14%
Albert Wynn Other 0%

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