Rating Group: Republican Liberty Caucus

2002 Positions on Conservative Issues

Issues: Conservative
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 79
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 82
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 82
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 85
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 85
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 90
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 73
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 90
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 5
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 35
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 26
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 47
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 39
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 29
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 29
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 29
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 34
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 39
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 31
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 34
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 84
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 34
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 34
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 90
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 34
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 23
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 29
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 95
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 5
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 79
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 31
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 36
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 85
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 34
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 5
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 29
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 34
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 39
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 29
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 41
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 39
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 85
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 79
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 6
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 84
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 78
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 29
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 62
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 85
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 78
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 79
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 78
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 49
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 6
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 79
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 39
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 83
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 24
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 85
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 74
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 85
ID Governor Butch Otter R 90
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 22
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 79
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 29
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 31
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 29
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 29
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 79
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 39
IN Governor Mike Pence R 83
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 85
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 90
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 89
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 90
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 80
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 79
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 64
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 41
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 85
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 34
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 29
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 29
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 34
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 29
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 39
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 28
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 34
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 34
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 34
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 77
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 31
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 35
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 79
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 90
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 85
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 29
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 41
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 33
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 34
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 54
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 24
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 84
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 25
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 85
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 77
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 84
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 44
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 41
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 32
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 85
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 28
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 74
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 69
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 34
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 79
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 44
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 34
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 79
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 31
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 19
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 69
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 64
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 25
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 5
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 74
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 39
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 29
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 32
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 31
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 73
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 36
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 34
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 34
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 31
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 40
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 36
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 29
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 31
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 29
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 29
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 29
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 34
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 39
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 78
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 85
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 90
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 5
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 90
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 71
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 83
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 85
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 31
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 79
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 29
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 33
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 90
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 41
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 29
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 85
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 34
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 90
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 34
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 18
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 39
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 51
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 79
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 85
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 31
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 39
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 79
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 90
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 69
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 84
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 90
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 90
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 74
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 85
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 34
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 29
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 83
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 5
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 34
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 85
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 29
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 80
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 49
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 34
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 90
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 85
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 85
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 34
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 79
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 22
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 36
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 31
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 31
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 49
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 85
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 36
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 47
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 39
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 31
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 85
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 39
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 85
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 69
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 31
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 64
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 49
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 85
Gary Ackerman Other 25
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 24
Todd Akin Other 90
Wayne Allard Other 83
George Allen Other 80
Thomas Allen Other 34
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 49
Brian Baird Other 44
Richard Hugh Baker Other 77
Cass Ballenger Other 79
Roscoe Bartlett Other 80
Charlie Bass Other 85
Evan Bayh Other 37
Bob Bennett Other 79
Douglas Bereuter Other 64
Shelley Berkley Other 25
Howard Berman Other 31
Marion Berry Other 44
Judy Biggert Other 79
Michael Bilirakis Other 83
Jeff Bingaman Other 36
Sherwood Boehlert Other 59
Kit Bond Other 71
Henry Bonilla Other 79
Leonard Boswell Other 44
Rick Boucher Other 34
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 49
John Breaux Other 36
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 79
Jim Bunning Other 90
Conrad Burns Other 83
Dan Burton Other 93
Steve Buyer Other 73
Robert Byrd Other 31
Ben Campbell Other 75
Chris Cannon Other 88
Brad Carson Other 49
Julia Carson Other 31
Mike Castle Other 79
Hillary Clinton Other 31
Michael Collins Other 89
Kent Conrad Other 39
Jon Corzine Other 22
Jerry Costello Other 44
Christopher Cox Other 82
Larry Craig Other 88
Robert Cramer Other 54
Philip Crane Other 89
Barbara Cubin Other 85
Randall Cunningham Other 78
Thomas Daschle Other 29
James Davis Other 25
Jo Ann Davis Other 79
Thomas Davis III Other 71
Bill Delahunt Other 33
Thomas DeLay Other 89
James DeMint Other 85
Peter Deutsch Other 26
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 69
Norm Dicks Other 39
Chris Dodd Other 39
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 88
Calvin Dooley Other 49
John Doolittle Other 89
Byron Dorgan Other 44
David Dreier Other 79
Jennifer Dunn Other 79
John Edwards Other 35
Chet Edwards Other 57
Vern Ehlers Other 69
Jo Ann Emerson Other 88
Philip English Other 69
John Ensign Other 89
Bob Etheridge Other 34
Lane Evans Other 36
Terry Everett Other 83
Russ Feingold Other 31
Michael Ferguson Other 68
Peter Fitzgerald Other 77
Mark Foley Other 85
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 49
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 78
Barney Frank Other 47
William Frist Other 85
Jonas Frost III Other 34
Elton Gallegly Other 85
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 20
Jim Gibbons Other 90
Wayne Gilchrest Other 74
Paul Gillmor Other 77
Charlie Gonzalez Other 34
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 85
Bart Gordon Other 39
Porter Goss Other 79
Daniel Graham Other 39
Mark Green Other 79
James Greenwood Other 69
Judd Gregg Other 78
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 79
Jane Harman Other 39
Melissa Hart Other 78
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0
Robert Hayes Other 74
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 90
Joel Hefley Other 90
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 90
Baron Hill Other 54
Maurice Hinchey Other 39
David Lee Hobson Other 85
Pete Hoekstra Other 90
Thomas Holden Other 44
Ernest Hollings Other 5
Darlene Hooley Other 39
John Nathan Hostettler Other 80
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 64
Kenny Hulshof Other 79
Duncan Hunter Other 64
Kay Hutchison Other 82
Henry Hyde Other 79
Daniel Inouye Other 24
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 89
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 34
William Jefferson Other 34
James Merrill Jeffords Other 19
William Lewis Jenkins Other 84
Christopher John Other 46
Nancy Johnson Other 64
Tim Johnson Other 74
Paul Kanjorski Other 47
Ric Keller Other 83
Sue Kelly Other 64
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 18
Mark Kennedy Other 74
Patrick Kennedy Other 25
Dale Kildee Other 44
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 39
Gerald Kleczka Other 34
Joseph Knollenberg Other 79
Herb Kohl Other 31
James Kolbe Other 90
Dennis Kucinich Other 29
Jon Kyl Other 90
Ray LaHood Other 71
Nicholas Lampson Other 44
Tom Lantos Other 36
Steve LaTourette Other 74
James Leach Other 59
Jerry Lewis Other 74
Ron Lewis Other 79
Joe Lieberman Other 19
Blanche Lincoln Other 46
John Linder Other 90
William Lipinski Other 38
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 90
Dick Lugar Other 85
Don Manzullo Other 89
Robert Matsui Other 36
Karen McCarthy Other 34
James McCrery III Other 84
John McHugh Other 74
Scott McInnis Other 83
Michael McNulty Other 39
Martin Meehan Other 34
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 23
Zell Bryan Miller Other 48
Alan Mollohan Other 49
Dennis Moore Other 34
Jack Murtha Other 52
Sue Myrick Other 79
Ben Nelson Other 56
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 82
Robert William Ney Other 85
Don Nickles Other 89
Anne Northup Other 83
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 82
James Nussle Other 90
Jim Oberstar Other 29
Dave Obey Other 34
John Olver Other 44
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 47
Thomas William Osborne Other 90
Doug Ose Other 79
Major Owens Other 47
Michael Oxley Other 84
Ron Paul Other 90
Donald Payne Other 29
John Peterson Other 84
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 85
Todd Platts Other 54
Richard Pombo Other 84
Earl Pomeroy Other 49
Deborah Pryce Other 89
Jack Quinn Other 64
George Radanovich Other 84
James Ramstad Other 79
Ralph Regula Other 73
Denny Rehberg Other 90
Silvestre Reyes Other 46
Thomas Reynolds Other 85
Ciro Rodriguez Other 39
Mike Ross Other 44
Steve Rothman Other 29
Jim Ryun Other 89
Martin Olav Sabo Other 29
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 49
Rick Santorum Other 95
Paul Sarbanes Other 22
Jim Saxton Other 69
Edward Schrock Other 85
John Shadegg Other 90
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 74
Christopher Shays Other 85
Donald Sherwood Other 79
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 62
Ike Skelton Other 44
Gordon Smith Other 69
Nick Smith Other 79
Olympia Snowe Other 83
Vic Snyder Other 41
Hilda Solis Other 5
Mark Souder Other 85
Arlen Specter Other 75
John Spratt, Jr. Other 34
Pete Stark Other 34
Cliff Stearns Other 83
Charles Stenholm Other 49
Ted Stevens Other 88
Ted Strickland Other 49
Bart Stupak Other 49
John Sullivan Other 89
John Sununu Other 79
John Sweeney Other 69
Tom Tancredo Other 84
John Tanner Other 49
Ellen Tauscher Other 29
William Tauzin Other 85
Charles Taylor Other 79
Gene Taylor Other 59
Craig Thomas Other 88
William Thomas Other 74
Todd Tiahrt Other 85
Ed Towns Other 36
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 27
James Turner Other 54
George Voinovich Other 75
James Walsh Other 68
Zach Wamp Other 74
John Warner Other 77
Diane Watson Other 23
Anthony Weiner Other 29
David Weldon Other 79
W. Curtis Weldon Other 62
Gerald Weller Other 79
Robert Wexler Other 16
Heather Wilson Other 85
Lynn Woolsey Other 29
David Wu Other 49
Albert Wynn Other 39

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

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