Rating Group: Council for a Livable World

2009-2010 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 55%
AK U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Begich D 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
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 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 11%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 33%
AZ U.S. House-1 Ann Kirkpatrick D 33%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 83%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-3 John Garamendi D 16%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 16%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 33%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 16%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 83%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 50%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 66%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 0%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 50%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 83%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 66%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 83%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 50%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 66%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 66%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 50%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 66%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 50%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Jr Michael Bennet D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 83%
CO U.S. House-2 Jared Polis D 100%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0%
CO U.S. House-6 Michael Coffman R 16%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 83%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 50%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 83%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 83%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 83%
CT U.S. House-4 Jim Himes D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Coons D 55%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 16%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 83%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-8 Bill Posey R 16%
FL U.S. House-9 Alan Grayson D 83%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 100%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 16%
FL U.S. House-17 Thomas Rooney R 16%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-21 Ted Deutch D 33%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 66%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 22%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 50%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 16%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 50%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 0%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 16%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 16%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 50%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 33%
GA U.S. House-14 Tom Graves, Jr. R 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 83%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 11%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 100%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 83%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Jr James Risch R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 16%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 66%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 33%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 33%
IL U.S. House-5 Mike Quigley D 100%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 83%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 83%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 50%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IL U.S. House-18 Aaron Schock R 0%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 0%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 33%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 83%
IN U.S. House-3 Marlin Stutzman R 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 16%
KS U.S. House-2 Lynn Jenkins R 33%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 16%
KY U.S. House-2 Brett Guthrie R 0%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 83%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 0%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 16%
LA U.S. House-4 John Fleming, Jr. R 0%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 0%
LA U.S. House-6 Bill Cassidy R 16%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 83%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 83%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 83%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 83%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 50%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 83%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 77%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 33%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 83%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 66%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 66%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 83%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 55%
ME U.S. House-1 Chellie Pingree D 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 33%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 33%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 16%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 33%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 33%
MI U.S. House-14 Gary Peters D 66%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 100%
MN U.S. Senate-Jr Al Franken DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 83%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 0%
MN U.S. House-3 Erik Paulsen R 33%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 83%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 66%
MO U.S. House-3 Blaine Luetkemeyer R 0%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 50%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 22%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MS U.S. House-3 Gregg Harper R 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 100%
NA President Barack Obama II D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Jr Kay Hagan D 100%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 33%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 83%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 33%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Johanns R 11%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 0%
NH U.S. Senate-Sr Jeanne Shaheen D 100%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 83%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 33%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 0%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 33%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 83%
NJ U.S. House-7 Leonard Lance R 16%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 50%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 83%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Jr Martin Heinrich D 100%
NM U.S. House-3 Ben Lujan, Jr. D 83%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 0%
NV U.S. House-1 Dina Titus D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 16%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 66%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 16%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 33%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 66%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 83%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 50%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 50%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 83%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 50%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 50%
NY U.S. House-20 Paul Tonko D 66%
NY U.S. House-21 Bill Owens D 16%
NY U.S. House-23 Tom Reed II R 0%
NY U.S. House-24 Dan Maffei Other 83%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 83%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 50%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 0%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 83%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 16%
OH U.S. House-11 Marcia Fudge D 66%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 66%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 16%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 77%
OR U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Merkley D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 33%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 83%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
OR U.S. House-5 Kurt Schrader D 83%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 66%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 66%
PA U.S. House-5 G.T. Thompson, Jr. R 16%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 16%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 16%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 50%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 11%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 16%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 16%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 44%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 55%
TN U.S. House-1 Phil Roe R 16%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 50%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 16%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 83%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 16%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 16%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 33%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 16%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 16%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 0%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 16%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 66%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 50%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 16%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-22 Pete Olson R 0%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 16%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 33%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 50%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
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 0%
UT U.S. House-3 Jason Chaffetz R 33%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Warner D 100%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 66%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 16%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 83%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VA U.S. House-11 Gerry Connolly D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 16%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 16%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 83%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 16%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 16%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 66%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 50%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Manchin III D 44%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 16%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 50%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 0%
WY U.S. House-At-Large Cynthia Lummis R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 33%
John Adler Other 16%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Jason Altmire Other 50%
Michael Arcuri Other 50%
Steve Austria Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 66%
Brian Baird Other 50%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 16%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 44%
Melissa Bean Other 33%
Bob Bennett Other 55%
Shelley Berkley Other 83%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 66%
Judy Biggert Other 33%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
John Boccieri Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Sonny Bono Other 0%
Dan Boren Other 33%
Leonard Boswell Other 83%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
Bobby Bright Other 16%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Scott Brown Other 33%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 33%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Roland Burris Other 44%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 22%
Thomas Campbell Other 33%
Joseph Cao Other 0%
Walter Holden Capps Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 66%
Russ Carnahan Other 83%
Christopher Carney Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 50%
Mike Castle Other 50%
Ben Chandler III Other 33%
Travis Childers Other 33%
Hillary Clinton Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 66%
Mark Critz Other 0%
Kathy Dahlkemper Other 66%
Artur Davis Other 16%
Geoff Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 83%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Charles Djou Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 0%
Steve Driehaus Other 50%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 66%
Brad Ellsworth Other 50%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 16%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 33%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 83%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 50%
Henry Gonzalez Other 83%
Carte Goodwin Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 83%
Judd Gregg Other 33%
Parker Griffith, Jr. Other 33%
John Hall Other 66%
Debbie Halvorson Other 33%
Phil Hare Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 83%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 16%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 33%
Baron Hill Other 50%
Maurice Hinchey Other 83%
Paul Hodes Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 83%
Tim Johnson Other 83%
Steve Kagen Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 66%
Ted Kaufman Other 44%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 33%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 66%
Mary Jo Kilroy Other 83%
Paul Kirk, Jr. Other 22%
Larry Kissell Other 33%
Ron Klein Other 50%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
Suzanne Kosmas Other 33%
Frank Kratovil, Jr. Other 50%
Dennis Kucinich Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
Chris Lee Other 16%
George LeMieux Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 77%
Blanche Lincoln Other 88%
John Linder Other 16%
Dick Lugar Other 77%
Dan Lungren Other 0%
Connie Mack IV Other 16%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Betsy Markey Other 50%
Jim Marshall Other 0%
Melquiades Martinez Other 0%
Eric Massa Other 50%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 16%
John McHugh Other 16%
Michael McMahon Other 16%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 50%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 33%
Brad Miller Other 66%
Walt Minnick Other 33%
Harry Mitchell Other 66%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 33%
Patrick Murphy Other 66%
Scott Murphy Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 88%
Glenn Nye III Other 33%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 83%
Tom Perriello Other 83%
Todd Platts Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 16%
Silvestre Reyes Other 33%
Laura Richardson Other 66%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 50%
Mike Ross Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 66%
Ken Salazar Other 0%
Mark Schauer Other 66%
Jean Schmidt Other 0%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 66%
John Shadegg Other 16%
Heath Shuler Other 50%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Olympia Snowe Other 44%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Zack Space Other 16%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 83%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Bart Stupak Other 66%
John Sullivan Other 16%
Betty Sutton Other 83%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 16%
Gene Taylor Other 33%
Harry Teague Other 33%
Todd Tiahrt Other 16%
Ed Towns Other 83%
George Voinovich Other 77%
Zach Wamp Other 33%
Diane Watson Other 66%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 50%
Robert Wexler Other 50%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 66%
Lynn Woolsey Other 33%
David Wu Other 66%

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