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In the following list, House members^ are assigned liberal scores for their roll-call votes on key economic, social and foreign policy issues during 2007. The scores on each scale are given as percentiles. The composite score measures votes across all three issue areas.

You can sort the ratings from highest to lowest conservative score across all categories, or alphabetically by name.

How To Read These Ratings
A score of 78 on economic issues, for example, means that the representative was more liberal than 78 percent of his or her House colleagues on key economic votes during 2007. "*" means the member missed more than half of the rated votes. "†" denotes members who are no longer in the House. In the event of a tie, scores are ordered alphabetically first by state delegation, then by individual members' names.

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^These House members do not have scores for 2007 because they missed more than half of the rated votes in a issue area: Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who as speaker typically did not vote; Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., who died on April 22, 2007; Laura Richardson, D-Calif., who won an August 21, 2007, special election to succeed Millender-McDonald; Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., who died on February 13, 2007; Paul Broun, R-Ga., who won a July 17, 2007, special election to succeed Norwood; Martin Meehan, D-Mass., who resigned from the House on July 1, 2007; Niki Tsongas, D-Mass., who won an October 16, 2007, special election to succeed Meehan; Bob Latta, R-Ohio, who won a December 11, 2007, special election to succeed Paul Gillmor, R-Ohio; Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., who died on October 6, 2007; Robert Wittman, R-Va., who won a December 11, 2007 special election to succeed Davis; and Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., who was tending to her ailing husband.