Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

2003-2004 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 8%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 4%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 4%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 6%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 6%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 6%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 10%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 48%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 3%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 56%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 6%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 94%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 3%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 84%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 92%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 90%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 90%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 94%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 97%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 97%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 3%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 3%
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 3%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 94%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 87%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 94%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 97%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 13%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 94%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 6%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 94%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 90%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 10%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 6%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 87%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 94%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 94%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 97%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 88%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 84%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 6%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 6%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 94%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 6%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 13%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 71%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 6%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 13%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 3%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 3%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 3%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 35%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 3%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 55%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 3%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 81%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 73%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 6%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 6%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 6%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 3%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 88%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 71%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 87%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 97%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 6%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 97%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 77%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 4%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 13%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 3%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 32%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 30%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 97%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 97%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 90%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 97%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 84%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 87%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 90%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 90%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 64%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 87%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 88%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 88%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 3%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 23%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 3%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 90%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 6%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 97%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 81%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 3%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 97%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 19%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 90%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 6%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 6%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 74%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 52%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 92%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 44%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 6%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 10%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 97%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 3%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 68%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 6%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 42%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 97%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 81%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 84%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 13%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 87%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 42%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 97%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 3%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 76%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 96%
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 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 97%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 90%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 97%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 97%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 90%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 94%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 97%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 97%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 97%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 94%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 13%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 16%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 3%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 97%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 6%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 12%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 4%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 3%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 3%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 92%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 10%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 90%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 90%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 68%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 87%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 52%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 3%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 74%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 6%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 3%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 96%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 72%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 8%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 52%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 4%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 10%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 100%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 4%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 13%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 3%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 6%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 3%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 6%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 3%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 68%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 84%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 3%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 3%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 61%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 94%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 3%
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 4%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 3%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 58%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 97%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 6%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 3%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 97%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 19%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 96%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 94%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 94%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 97%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 13%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 90%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 26%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 39%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 84%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 23%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 90%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 94%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 88%
Todd Akin Other 6%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 90%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 61%
Brian Baird Other 94%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 6%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 3%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 19%
Charlie Bass Other 39%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Bob Beauprez Other 6%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 77%
Howard Berman Other 71%
Marion Berry Other 42%
Judy Biggert Other 23%
Michael Bilirakis Other 9%
Jeff Bingaman Other 84%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 61%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 3%
Mary Bono Mack Other 13%
Leonard Boswell Other 65%
Rick Boucher Other 81%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 55%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 6%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 3%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 6%
Steve Buyer Other 6%
Robert Byrd Other 76%
Chris Cannon Other 3%
Dennis Cardoza Other 68%
Julia Carson Other 84%
Edward Case Other 94%
Mike Castle Other 71%
Ben Chandler III Other 100%
Chris Chocola Other 6%
Hillary Clinton Other 92%
Norm Coleman Other 16%
Kent Conrad Other 60%
Jon Corzine Other 88%
Jerry Costello Other 68%
Christopher Cox Other 3%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 35%
Barbara Cubin Other 3%
Randall Cunningham Other 13%
Artur Davis Other 61%
James Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 6%
Lincoln Davis Other 58%
Thomas Davis III Other 26%
Bill Delahunt Other 94%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 3%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 13%
Norm Dicks Other 94%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Elizabeth Dole Other 8%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 3%
Byron Dorgan Other 56%
David Dreier Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 35%
Vern Ehlers Other 52%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 3%
Philip English Other 19%
John Ensign Other 16%
Bob Etheridge Other 84%
Lane Evans Other 90%
Terry Everett Other 6%
Tom Feeney Other 6%
Russ Feingold Other 92%
Michael Ferguson Other 35%
Mark Foley Other 16%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 90%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 16%
Barney Frank Other 97%
William Frist Other 8%
Elton Gallegly Other 6%
Jim Gibbons Other 3%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 52%
Paul Gillmor Other 13%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 77%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 16%
Bart Gordon Other 77%
Mark Green Other 29%
Judd Gregg Other 44%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 3%
Jane Harman Other 97%
Katherine Harris Other 10%
Melissa Hart Other 3%
Robert Hayes Other 6%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 3%
Joel Hefley Other 13%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 3%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 56%
Maurice Hinchey Other 97%
David Lee Hobson Other 3%
Pete Hoekstra Other 6%
Thomas Holden Other 71%
Darlene Hooley Other 94%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 13%
Kenny Hulshof Other 3%
Duncan Hunter Other 10%
Kay Hutchison Other 8%
Henry Hyde Other 6%
Daniel Inouye Other 64%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 3%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 61%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 92%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 3%
Nancy Johnson Other 65%
Tim Johnson Other 65%
Paul Kanjorski Other 68%
Ric Keller Other 10%
Sue Kelly Other 68%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 92%
Mark Kennedy Other 16%
Patrick Kennedy Other 97%
Dale Kildee Other 94%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 84%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 6%
Herb Kohl Other 80%
James Kolbe Other 6%
Dennis Kucinich Other 90%
Jon Kyl Other 12%
Ray LaHood Other 19%
Tom Lantos Other 97%
Steve LaTourette Other 10%
Frank Lautenberg Other 92%
James Leach Other 77%
Jerry Lewis Other 6%
Ron Lewis Other 10%
Joe Lieberman Other 56%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 3%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 8%
Dick Lugar Other 4%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 58%
Robert Matsui Other 97%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 3%
James McCrery III Other 6%
John McHugh Other 13%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 97%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 68%
Brad Miller Other 97%
Alan Mollohan Other 42%
Dennis Moore Other 90%
Jack Murtha Other 55%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 3%
Sue Myrick Other 3%
Ben Nelson Other 32%
Robert William Ney Other 3%
Anne Northup Other 6%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 6%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 68%
Dave Obey Other 97%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 42%
Thomas William Osborne Other 6%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 3%
Ron Paul Other 13%
Donald Payne Other 94%
John Peterson Other 6%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 19%
Richard Pombo Other 3%
Earl Pomeroy Other 61%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 10%
Deborah Pryce Other 13%
George Radanovich Other 3%
James Ramstad Other 61%
Ralph Regula Other 3%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Richard Renzi Other 10%
Silvestre Reyes Other 52%
Thomas Reynolds Other 6%
Mike Ross Other 42%
Steve Rothman Other 97%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 97%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 88%
Jim Saxton Other 74%
John Shadegg Other 3%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 13%
Christopher Shays Other 87%
Donald Sherwood Other 6%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 68%
Ike Skelton Other 61%
Gordon Smith Other 28%
Olympia Snowe Other 68%
Vic Snyder Other 94%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 10%
Arlen Specter Other 28%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 94%
Pete Stark Other 97%
Cliff Stearns Other 10%
Ted Stevens Other 4%
Ted Strickland Other 90%
Bart Stupak Other 61%
John Sullivan Other 3%
John Sununu Other 36%
John Sweeney Other 16%
James Talent Other 4%
Tom Tancredo Other 3%
John Tanner Other 48%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 3%
Gene Taylor Other 52%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 10%
Todd Tiahrt Other 3%
Ed Towns Other 71%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 81%
George Voinovich Other 8%
James Walsh Other 32%
Zach Wamp Other 6%
John Warner Other 8%
Diane Watson Other 87%
Anthony Weiner Other 97%
David Weldon Other 6%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 32%
Gerald Weller Other 10%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 16%
Lynn Woolsey Other 97%
David Wu Other 90%
Albert Wynn Other 87%

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