Rating Group: The Humane Society Legislative Fund

2003 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 11%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 11%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 11%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 11%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 22%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 60%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 11%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 11%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 89%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 44%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 22%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 89%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 89%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 89%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 11%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 89%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 11%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 11%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 67%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 89%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 44%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 89%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 22%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 67%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 89%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 22%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 11%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 89%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 78%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 89%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 89%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 40%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 80%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 22%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 11%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 22%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 22%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 78%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 22%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 44%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 11%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 33%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 11%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 22%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 22%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 22%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 80%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 11%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 11%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 11%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 11%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 89%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 67%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 67%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 56%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 33%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 89%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 67%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 22%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 22%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 67%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 11%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 44%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 11%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 89%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 89%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 89%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 78%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 67%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 89%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 89%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 78%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 11%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 78%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 11%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 89%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 11%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 44%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 67%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 11%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 89%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 33%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 11%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 67%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 11%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 22%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 67%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 60%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 20%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 11%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 56%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 89%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 22%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 22%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 67%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 22%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 44%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 78%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 89%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 89%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 11%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 67%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 78%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 11%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 78%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 33%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 89%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 89%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 78%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 89%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 89%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 67%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 89%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 11%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 44%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 11%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 89%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 11%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 33%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 89%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 60%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 11%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 11%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 11%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 22%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 56%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 89%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 78%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 11%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 11%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 11%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 80%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 11%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 89%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 60%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 11%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 44%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 11%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 11%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 22%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 11%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 11%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 11%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 11%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 11%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 11%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 22%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 78%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 11%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 11%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 11%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 78%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 89%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 11%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 11%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 22%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 33%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 67%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 11%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 11%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 11%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 78%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 56%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 80%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 11%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 89%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 78%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 22%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 44%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 44%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 40%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 56%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 60%
Todd Akin Other 22%
Wayne Allard Other 40%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 78%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 44%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 11%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 56%
Cass Ballenger Other 11%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 11%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 89%
Charlie Bass Other 78%
Evan Bayh Other 60%
Bob Beauprez Other 11%
Chris Bell Other 67%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Douglas Bereuter Other 22%
Shelley Berkley Other 56%
Howard Berman Other 78%
Marion Berry Other 11%
Judy Biggert Other 67%
Michael Bilirakis Other 67%
Jeff Bingaman Other 40%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 78%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 11%
Mary Bono Mack Other 33%
Leonard Boswell Other 44%
Rick Boucher Other 67%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 11%
John Breaux Other 20%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 11%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 44%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Max Burns Other 11%
Dan Burton Other 22%
Steve Buyer Other 11%
Robert Byrd Other 40%
Ben Campbell Other 40%
Chris Cannon Other 11%
Dennis Cardoza Other 33%
Brad Carson Other 11%
Julia Carson Other 78%
Edward Case Other 78%
Mike Castle Other 78%
Chris Chocola Other 11%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Norm Coleman Other 40%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 80%
Jon Corzine Other 80%
Jerry Costello Other 89%
Christopher Cox Other 11%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 22%
Philip Crane Other 11%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 11%
Thomas Daschle Other 80%
Artur Davis Other 56%
James Davis Other 67%
Jo Ann Davis Other 44%
Lincoln Davis Other 11%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 11%
James DeMint Other 22%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 11%
Norm Dicks Other 89%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Elizabeth Dole Other 40%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 56%
John Doolittle Other 11%
Byron Dorgan Other 60%
David Dreier Other 11%
Jennifer Dunn Other 33%
John Edwards Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 11%
Vern Ehlers Other 78%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 11%
Philip English Other 56%
John Ensign Other 40%
Bob Etheridge Other 56%
Lane Evans Other 89%
Terry Everett Other 11%
Tom Feeney Other 22%
Russ Feingold Other 80%
Michael Ferguson Other 78%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 80%
Mark Foley Other 33%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 89%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 56%
Elton Gallegly Other 78%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 33%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 44%
Paul Gillmor Other 11%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 67%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 22%
Bart Gordon Other 44%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 80%
Mark Green Other 78%
James Greenwood Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 11%
Jane Harman Other 78%
Katherine Harris Other 11%
Melissa Hart Other 11%
Robert Hayes Other 11%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 22%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 11%
Baron Hill Other 33%
Maurice Hinchey Other 78%
David Lee Hobson Other 11%
Pete Hoekstra Other 22%
Thomas Holden Other 44%
Ernest Hollings Other 40%
Darlene Hooley Other 78%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 22%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 56%
Kenny Hulshof Other 22%
Duncan Hunter Other 22%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 22%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 11%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 89%
William Janklow Other 11%
William Jefferson Other 22%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 80%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 11%
Christopher John Other 11%
Nancy Johnson Other 78%
Tim Johnson Other 44%
Paul Kanjorski Other 44%
Ric Keller Other 11%
Sue Kelly Other 67%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 22%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 89%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 89%
Gerald Kleczka Other 78%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 11%
Herb Kohl Other 80%
James Kolbe Other 44%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 20%
Ray LaHood Other 11%
Nicholas Lampson Other 56%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 56%
James Leach Other 78%
Jerry Lewis Other 11%
Ron Lewis Other 22%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 56%
William Lipinski Other 67%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 20%
Denise Majette Other 89%
Don Manzullo Other 11%
Jim Marshall Other 22%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 89%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 22%
James McCrery III Other 22%
John McHugh Other 22%
Scott McInnis Other 11%
Michael McNulty Other 89%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 56%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 44%
Brad Miller Other 89%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 22%
Dennis Moore Other 78%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 11%
Sue Myrick Other 11%
Ben Nelson Other 60%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 11%
Robert William Ney Other 33%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 44%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 11%
James Nussle Other 11%
Jim Oberstar Other 78%
Dave Obey Other 44%
John Olver Other 89%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 22%
Thomas William Osborne Other 11%
Doug Ose Other 11%
Major Owens Other 78%
Michael Oxley Other 22%
Ron Paul Other 11%
Donald Payne Other 78%
John Peterson Other 11%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 22%
Todd Platts Other 67%
Richard Pombo Other 11%
Earl Pomeroy Other 56%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 33%
Deborah Pryce Other 44%
Jack Quinn Other 22%
George Radanovich Other 11%
James Ramstad Other 78%
Ralph Regula Other 44%
Denny Rehberg Other 11%
Richard Renzi Other 22%
Silvestre Reyes Other 22%
Thomas Reynolds Other 22%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 33%
Mike Ross Other 11%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 11%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 78%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 22%
Rick Santorum Other 40%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 67%
Edward Schrock Other 11%
John Shadegg Other 22%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 56%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 11%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 11%
Gordon Smith Other 40%
Nick Smith Other 11%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 78%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 11%
Arlen Specter Other 80%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 67%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Charles Stenholm Other 11%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 56%
Bart Stupak Other 44%
John Sullivan Other 11%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 56%
James Talent Other 20%
Tom Tancredo Other 44%
John Tanner Other 11%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 11%
Charles Taylor Other 11%
Gene Taylor Other 44%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 11%
Todd Tiahrt Other 11%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 78%
James Turner Other 11%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 22%
Zach Wamp Other 22%
John Warner Other 40%
Diane Watson Other 67%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 22%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 56%
Gerald Weller Other 56%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 22%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 89%

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