Rating Group: The Cato Institute

2001-2002 Trade Barrier Votes Score

Issues: Trade
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 50%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 43%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 45%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 64%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 90%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 55%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 43%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 13%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 45%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 36%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 30%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 36%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 45%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 55%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 50%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 55%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 45%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 73%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 36%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 27%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 64%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 45%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 50%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 45%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 36%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 36%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 55%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 45%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 20%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 27%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 80%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 45%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 36%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 45%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 40%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 50%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 38%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 50%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 55%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 20%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 55%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 50%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 20%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 30%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 50%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 55%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 73%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 55%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 45%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 30%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 36%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 36%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 25%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 91%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 88%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 73%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 91%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 13%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 55%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 36%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 20%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 27%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 36%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 40%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 73%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 30%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 73%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 82%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 73%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 45%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 64%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 63%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 73%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 55%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 55%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 36%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 36%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 36%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 50%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 13%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 36%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 36%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 45%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 63%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 13%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 13%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 64%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 73%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 55%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 55%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 36%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 44%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 36%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 44%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 25%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 70%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 45%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 91%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 55%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 40%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 88%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 38%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 55%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 50%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 9%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 55%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 18%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 27%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 45%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 82%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 18%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 18%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 9%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 18%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 64%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 45%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 36%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 13%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 13%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 45%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 55%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 45%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 45%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 36%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 45%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 55%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 55%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 60%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 20%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 45%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 36%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 27%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 64%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 45%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 73%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 36%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 82%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 64%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 38%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 64%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 50%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 73%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 36%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 36%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 64%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 45%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 64%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 45%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 13%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 36%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 88%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 18%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 40%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 45%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 13%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 73%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 9%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 64%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 64%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 55%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 82%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 73%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 82%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 90%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 27%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 64%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 9%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 50%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 64%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 55%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 88%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 73%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 36%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 64%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 64%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 73%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 73%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 36%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 13%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 27%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 50%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 64%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 64%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 55%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 73%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 64%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 36%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 82%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 64%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 45%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 73%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 13%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 27%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 36%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 86%
Gary Ackerman Other 36%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 14%
Todd Akin Other 64%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 88%
Thomas Allen Other 55%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 36%
Brian Baird Other 45%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 73%
Cass Ballenger Other 55%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 45%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 36%
Charlie Bass Other 82%
Evan Bayh Other 38%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 82%
Shelley Berkley Other 27%
Howard Berman Other 55%
Marion Berry Other 36%
Judy Biggert Other 91%
Brian Bilbray Other 36%
Michael Bilirakis Other 36%
Jeff Bingaman Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 64%
Mary Bono Mack Other 70%
Leonard Boswell Other 55%
Rick Boucher Other 45%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 45%
John Breaux Other 88%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 64%
Jim Bunning Other 75%
Conrad Burns Other 71%
Dan Burton Other 50%
Steve Buyer Other 50%
Robert Byrd Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 38%
Chris Cannon Other 73%
Brad Carson Other 73%
Mike Castle Other 64%
Hillary Clinton Other 13%
Michael Collins Other 45%
Larry Combest Other 70%
Kent Conrad Other 13%
Jon Corzine Other 13%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Christopher Cox Other 55%
Larry Craig Other 88%
Robert Cramer Other 55%
Philip Crane Other 73%
Barbara Cubin Other 56%
Randall Cunningham Other 45%
Thomas Daschle Other 38%
James Davis Other 55%
Jo Ann Davis Other 18%
Bill Delahunt Other 45%
Thomas DeLay Other 67%
James DeMint Other 73%
Peter Deutsch Other 27%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 45%
Norm Dicks Other 73%
Chris Dodd Other 13%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 91%
John Doolittle Other 55%
Byron Dorgan Other 13%
David Dreier Other 82%
Jennifer Dunn Other 73%
John Edwards Other 25%
Chet Edwards Other 64%
Vern Ehlers Other 73%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 82%
Philip English Other 64%
John Ensign Other 88%
Bob Etheridge Other 64%
Lane Evans Other 36%
Terry Everett Other 40%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Michael Ferguson Other 55%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 88%
Ernest Fletcher Other 73%
Mark Foley Other 45%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 55%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 50%
Barney Frank Other 36%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 45%
Elton Gallegly Other 64%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 18%
Jim Gibbons Other 60%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 90%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 64%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Porter Goss Other 64%
Mark Green Other 55%
James Greenwood Other 82%
Judd Gregg Other 88%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 55%
Jane Harman Other 55%
Melissa Hart Other 45%
Robert Hayes Other 36%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 40%
Joel Hefley Other 27%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 82%
Baron Hill Other 64%
Maurice Hinchey Other 36%
David Lee Hobson Other 55%
Pete Hoekstra Other 36%
Thomas Holden Other 27%
Ernest Hollings Other 13%
Darlene Hooley Other 45%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 60%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 70%
Kenny Hulshof Other 73%
Duncan Hunter Other 20%
Kay Hutchison Other 88%
Henry Hyde Other 45%
Daniel Inouye Other 40%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 64%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 36%
William Jefferson Other 73%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 38%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 40%
Christopher John Other 73%
Nancy Johnson Other 82%
Tim Johnson Other 82%
Paul Kanjorski Other 45%
Ric Keller Other 73%
Sue Kelly Other 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 13%
Mark Kennedy Other 73%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 36%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 40%
Gerald Kleczka Other 45%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 73%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 91%
Dennis Kucinich Other 27%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 73%
Nicholas Lampson Other 55%
Tom Lantos Other 40%
Steve LaTourette Other 50%
James Leach Other 82%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Ron Lewis Other 73%
Joe Lieberman Other 57%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 64%
William Lipinski Other 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 88%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 82%
Robert Matsui Other 55%
James McCrery III Other 73%
John McHugh Other 27%
Scott McInnis Other 64%
Michael McNulty Other 36%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 40%
Jack Murtha Other 40%
Sue Myrick Other 64%
Ben Nelson Other 75%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 82%
Robert William Ney Other 64%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 9%
James Nussle Other 82%
Jim Oberstar Other 45%
Dave Obey Other 27%
John Olver Other 40%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 73%
Thomas William Osborne Other 91%
Doug Ose Other 73%
Major Owens Other 36%
Ron Paul Other 64%
Donald Payne Other 36%
John Peterson Other 91%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 36%
Todd Platts Other 70%
Richard Pombo Other 45%
Earl Pomeroy Other 55%
Deborah Pryce Other 60%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 55%
James Ramstad Other 91%
Ralph Regula Other 36%
Denny Rehberg Other 82%
Silvestre Reyes Other 45%
Thomas Reynolds Other 73%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 55%
Mike Ross Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 9%
Jim Ryun Other 73%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 45%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 36%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
Edward Schrock Other 73%
John Shadegg Other 64%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 64%
Christopher Shays Other 73%
Donald Sherwood Other 64%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 55%
Ike Skelton Other 55%
Gordon Smith Other 63%
Nick Smith Other 82%
Olympia Snowe Other 63%
Vic Snyder Other 73%
Hilda Solis Other 36%
Mark Souder Other 45%
Arlen Specter Other 75%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 27%
Pete Stark Other 36%
Cliff Stearns Other 25%
Charles Stenholm Other 82%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 27%
Bart Stupak Other 36%
John Sullivan Other 60%
John Sununu Other 82%
John Sweeney Other 67%
Tom Tancredo Other 36%
John Tanner Other 82%
Ellen Tauscher Other 64%
William Tauzin Other 55%
Charles Taylor Other 18%
Gene Taylor Other 27%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 64%
Todd Tiahrt Other 82%
Ed Towns Other 36%
James Turner Other 45%
James Walsh Other 55%
Zach Wamp Other 45%
John Warner Other 71%
Diane Watson Other 27%
Anthony Weiner Other 45%
David Weldon Other 36%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 45%
Gerald Weller Other 64%
Robert Wexler Other 30%
Heather Wilson Other 82%
Lynn Woolsey Other 36%
David Wu Other 27%
Albert Wynn Other 45%

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