Rating Group: American Shareholders Association

2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 90%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 90%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 80%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 80%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 90%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 30%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 90%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 90%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 10%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 10%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 10%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 40%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 40%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 20%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 40%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 10%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 40%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 40%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 40%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 30%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 30%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 90%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 40%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 20%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 20%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 10%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 40%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 10%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 30%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 90%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 10%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 40%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 40%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 20%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 40%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 30%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 20%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 10%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 10%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 20%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 90%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 20%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 90%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 90%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 90%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 80%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 50%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 20%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 90%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 10%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 90%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 90%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 80%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 90%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 10%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 90%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 10%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 20%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 10%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 90%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 20%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 20%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 90%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 90%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 90%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 10%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 30%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 30%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 10%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 10%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 30%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 30%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 40%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 30%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 20%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 30%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 90%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 20%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 10%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 40%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 30%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 90%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 30%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 10%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 30%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 20%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 10%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 40%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 90%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 90%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 10%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 30%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 90%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 10%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 80%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 40%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 70%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 30%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 30%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 80%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 30%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 40%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 90%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 90%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 10%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 90%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 30%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 30%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 90%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 30%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 30%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 80%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 40%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 40%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 40%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 20%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 10%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 30%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 30%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 40%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 40%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 10%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 10%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 10%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 90%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 90%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 90%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 40%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 90%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 40%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 10%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 10%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 90%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 10%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 40%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 70%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 90%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 90%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 0%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 90%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 30%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 90%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 90%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 90%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 40%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 30%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 90%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 30%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 40%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 30%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 90%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 90%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 60%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 20%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 90%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 40%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 90%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 10%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 40%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 40%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 40%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 90%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 30%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 40%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 10%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 30%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 90%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 90%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 10%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 20%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 80%
Gary Ackerman Other 40%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 90%
Thomas Allen Other 40%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 20%
Brian Baird Other 40%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 90%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 80%
Evan Bayh Other 40%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 90%
Shelley Berkley Other 40%
Howard Berman Other 30%
Marion Berry Other 10%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 90%
Jeff Bingaman Other 10%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 90%
Mary Bono Mack Other 70%
Leonard Boswell Other 40%
Rick Boucher Other 20%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 80%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Chris Cannon Other 90%
Dennis Cardoza Other 30%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Edward Case Other 30%
Mike Castle Other 90%
Ben Chandler III Other 50%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 10%
Norm Coleman Other 95%
Kent Conrad Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 40%
Jerry Costello Other 10%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 90%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 90%
Artur Davis Other 40%
James Davis Other 30%
Jo Ann Davis Other 90%
Lincoln Davis Other 50%
Thomas Davis III Other 90%
Bill Delahunt Other 20%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 90%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 90%
Norm Dicks Other 40%
Chris Dodd Other 10%
Elizabeth Dole Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 90%
John Doolittle Other 80%
Byron Dorgan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 40%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 50%
Philip English Other 80%
John Ensign Other 90%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 90%
Tom Feeney Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Michael Ferguson Other 90%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 40%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 90%
Barney Frank Other 20%
William Frist Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 90%
Paul Gillmor Other 90%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 40%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 70%
Bart Gordon Other 60%
Mark Green Other 90%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 90%
Jane Harman Other 40%
Katherine Harris Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 70%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 30%
Maurice Hinchey Other 10%
David Lee Hobson Other 90%
Pete Hoekstra Other 90%
Thomas Holden Other 40%
Darlene Hooley Other 40%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 80%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 80%
Kay Hutchison Other 90%
Henry Hyde Other 80%
Daniel Inouye Other 10%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 70%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 10%
William Jefferson Other 40%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 30%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 90%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 80%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 10%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Dale Kildee Other 10%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 30%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 90%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 80%
Dennis Kucinich Other 10%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 80%
Tom Lantos Other 20%
Steve LaTourette Other 90%
James Leach Other 70%
Jerry Lewis Other 90%
Ron Lewis Other 90%
Joe Lieberman Other 10%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 90%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Jim Marshall Other 20%
Robert Matsui Other 30%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 80%
John McHugh Other 90%
Michael McNulty Other 10%
Martin Meehan Other 30%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 40%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 30%
Brad Miller Other 30%
Alan Mollohan Other 20%
Dennis Moore Other 40%
Jack Murtha Other 30%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 90%
Ben Nelson Other 50%
Robert William Ney Other 90%
Anne Northup Other 90%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 10%
Dave Obey Other 20%
John Olver Other 20%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 40%
Thomas William Osborne Other 70%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 70%
Donald Payne Other 10%
John Peterson Other 95%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 90%
Richard Pombo Other 80%
Earl Pomeroy Other 40%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 90%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 90%
Denny Rehberg Other 90%
Richard Renzi Other 90%
Silvestre Reyes Other 40%
Thomas Reynolds Other 80%
Mike Ross Other 40%
Steve Rothman Other 20%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 10%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 10%
Jim Saxton Other 90%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 90%
Christopher Shays Other 90%
Donald Sherwood Other 90%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 90%
Ike Skelton Other 40%
Gordon Smith Other 90%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 40%
Hilda Solis Other 20%
Mark Souder Other 90%
Arlen Specter Other 70%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 10%
Pete Stark Other 10%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 10%
Bart Stupak Other 20%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 90%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 40%
Ellen Tauscher Other 40%
Charles Taylor Other 70%
Gene Taylor Other 20%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 90%
Ed Towns Other 30%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 30%
George Voinovich Other 70%
James Walsh Other 80%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 40%
Anthony Weiner Other 30%
David Weldon Other 90%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 90%
Robert Wexler Other 40%
Heather Wilson Other 80%
Lynn Woolsey Other 20%
David Wu Other 30%
Albert Wynn Other 40%

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