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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 2006. "*" means the member missed more than half of the rated votes. "†" denotes members who have left their seat. The designations "E" and "S" and "F" in the results display refer to the "economic" and "social" and "foreign" policy votes used to determine overall ratings.

	Liberal Ratings			Conserv. Ratings			Composite Score	Composite Score
Results from the Senate	E	S	F	E	S	F	Liberal	Conservative
Dodd, Christopher, D-Conn.	83	93	72	13	5	26	84	16
Lieberman, Joe, ID-Conn.	73	74	54	26	25	45	67.5	32.5
Results from the House	E	S	F	E	S	F	Liberal	Conservative
Sort by district							Sort	Sort
Larson, John, D-Conn.-1	94	83	83	0	16	14	88.3	11.7
Simmons, Rob, R-Conn.-2 *	53	55	51	47	44	49	53.2	46.8
DeLauro, Rosa, D-Conn.-3	94	89	95	0	10	0	94.7	5.3
Shays, Christopher, R-Conn.-4	54	60	52	45	40	47	55.7	44.3
Johnson, Nancy, R-Conn.-5 *	50	52	46	50	48	53	49.5	50.5