Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

2001-2002 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 9%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 4%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 4%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 5%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 5%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 36%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 14%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 82%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 96%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 91%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 95%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
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 95%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 95%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 5%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 95%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 95%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 5%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 95%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 91%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 95%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 9%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 95%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 9%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 14%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 5%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 91%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 95%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 86%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 91%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 60%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 68%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 22%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 5%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 73%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 5%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 27%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 73%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 18%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 9%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 14%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 45%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 77%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 5%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 86%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 4%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 84%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 14%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 4%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 5%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 59%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 64%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 86%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 91%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 59%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 5%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 4%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 4%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 5%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 18%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 77%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 95%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 95%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 91%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 86%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 91%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 64%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 72%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 9%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 36%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 5%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 86%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 82%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 91%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 95%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 45%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 92%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 82%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 8%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 64%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 56%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 96%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 92%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 5%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 23%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 82%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 9%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 64%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 77%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 95%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 95%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 77%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 73%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 91%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 55%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 92%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 92%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 23%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 77%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 86%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 86%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 86%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 95%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 95%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 91%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 82%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 95%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 95%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 91%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 95%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 18%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 18%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 77%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 9%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 12%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 5%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 91%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 95%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 14%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 73%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 86%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 10%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 68%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 9%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 91%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 95%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 68%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 18%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 25%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 68%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 52%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 18%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 5%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 5%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 5%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 5%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 5%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 68%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 68%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 59%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 73%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 95%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 4%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 68%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 68%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 77%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 14%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 96%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 95%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 76%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 80%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 73%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 95%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 82%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 95%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 27%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 91%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 32%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 50%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 80%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 45%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 86%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 64%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 8%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 91%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 68%
Brian Baird Other 91%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 36%
Charlie Bass Other 45%
Evan Bayh Other 56%
Bob Bennett Other 4%
Douglas Bereuter Other 18%
Shelley Berkley Other 86%
Howard Berman Other 86%
Marion Berry Other 41%
Judy Biggert Other 27%
Michael Bilirakis Other 36%
Jeff Bingaman Other 64%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 68%
Kit Bond Other 8%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 9%
Leonard Boswell Other 73%
Rick Boucher Other 77%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 59%
John Breaux Other 20%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 5%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 8%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 56%
Ben Campbell Other 8%
Chris Cannon Other 9%
Brad Carson Other 32%
Julia Carson Other 91%
Mike Castle Other 64%
Hillary Clinton Other 88%
Michael Collins Other 9%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 56%
Jon Corzine Other 96%
Jerry Costello Other 59%
Christopher Cox Other 14%
Larry Craig Other 4%
Robert Cramer Other 36%
Philip Crane Other 5%
Barbara Cubin Other 5%
Randall Cunningham Other 5%
Thomas Daschle Other 68%
James Davis Other 77%
Jo Ann Davis Other 14%
Thomas Davis III Other 45%
Bill Delahunt Other 91%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 9%
Peter Deutsch Other 95%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 18%
Norm Dicks Other 77%
Chris Dodd Other 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 8%
Calvin Dooley Other 36%
John Doolittle Other 5%
Byron Dorgan Other 56%
David Dreier Other 5%
Jennifer Dunn Other 18%
John Edwards Other 68%
Chet Edwards Other 41%
Vern Ehlers Other 59%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 5%
Philip English Other 32%
John Ensign Other 36%
Bob Etheridge Other 64%
Lane Evans Other 86%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 84%
Michael Ferguson Other 59%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 52%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 23%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 73%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 27%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 68%
Elton Gallegly Other 18%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 91%
Jim Gibbons Other 9%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 36%
Paul Gillmor Other 14%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 73%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 9%
Bart Gordon Other 68%
Porter Goss Other 27%
Daniel Graham Other 64%
Mark Green Other 27%
James Greenwood Other 59%
Judd Gregg Other 44%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 5%
Jane Harman Other 91%
Melissa Hart Other 14%
Robert Hayes Other 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 14%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 45%
Maurice Hinchey Other 95%
David Lee Hobson Other 9%
Pete Hoekstra Other 32%
Thomas Holden Other 64%
Ernest Hollings Other 72%
Darlene Hooley Other 86%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 23%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 36%
Kenny Hulshof Other 5%
Duncan Hunter Other 14%
Kay Hutchison Other 4%
Henry Hyde Other 14%
Daniel Inouye Other 76%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 55%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 76%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 9%
Nancy Johnson Other 73%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 73%
Ric Keller Other 9%
Sue Kelly Other 77%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 84%
Mark Kennedy Other 32%
Patrick Kennedy Other 95%
Dale Kildee Other 86%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 82%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 64%
James Kolbe Other 9%
Dennis Kucinich Other 95%
Jon Kyl Other 8%
Ray LaHood Other 36%
Nicholas Lampson Other 50%
Tom Lantos Other 91%
Steve LaTourette Other 23%
James Leach Other 59%
Jerry Lewis Other 14%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 88%
Blanche Lincoln Other 32%
John Linder Other 5%
William Lipinski Other 36%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 12%
Don Manzullo Other 9%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 95%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 36%
Scott McInnis Other 18%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 77%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 95%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 16%
Alan Mollohan Other 41%
Dennis Moore Other 82%
Jack Murtha Other 41%
Sue Myrick Other 14%
Ben Nelson Other 28%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 23%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 9%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 9%
James Nussle Other 23%
Jim Oberstar Other 82%
Dave Obey Other 91%
John Olver Other 91%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 45%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 18%
Major Owens Other 95%
Michael Oxley Other 9%
Ron Paul Other 41%
Donald Payne Other 95%
John Peterson Other 5%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 27%
Richard Pombo Other 9%
Earl Pomeroy Other 68%
Deborah Pryce Other 18%
Jack Quinn Other 41%
George Radanovich Other 5%
James Ramstad Other 73%
Ralph Regula Other 18%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 55%
Thomas Reynolds Other 18%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 68%
Mike Ross Other 41%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 86%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 36%
Rick Santorum Other 4%
Paul Sarbanes Other 96%
Jim Saxton Other 59%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 27%
Christopher Shays Other 73%
Donald Sherwood Other 14%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 64%
Ike Skelton Other 41%
Gordon Smith Other 24%
Nick Smith Other 9%
Olympia Snowe Other 72%
Vic Snyder Other 64%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 5%
Arlen Specter Other 52%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 68%
Pete Stark Other 82%
Cliff Stearns Other 27%
Charles Stenholm Other 14%
Ted Stevens Other 8%
Ted Strickland Other 86%
Bart Stupak Other 77%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 36%
John Sweeney Other 36%
Tom Tancredo Other 14%
John Tanner Other 32%
Ellen Tauscher Other 86%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 9%
Gene Taylor Other 45%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 5%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 77%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 82%
James Turner Other 32%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 50%
Zach Wamp Other 9%
John Warner Other 16%
Diane Watson Other 95%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 23%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 50%
Gerald Weller Other 18%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 9%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 86%

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