Rating Group: National Rifle Association

2002 Lifetime Score

Issues: Guns
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 92%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 92%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 92%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 92%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 17%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 92%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 92%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 92%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 92%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 92%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 0%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 92%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 92%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 92%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 17%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 92%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 92%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 17%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 92%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 92%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 50%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 92%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 33%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 92%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 92%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 92%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 83%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 92%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 92%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 92%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 92%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 92%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 17%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 92%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 92%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 92%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 92%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 92%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 92%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 92%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 92%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 0%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 75%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 92%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 67%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 92%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 0%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 92%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 92%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 92%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 92%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 92%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 92%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 92%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 92%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 92%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 92%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 92%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 0%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 83%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 25%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 92%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 17%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 8%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 92%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 17%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 0%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 0%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 0%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 0%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 92%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 92%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 92%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 0%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 67%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 92%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 92%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 92%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 92%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 92%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 50%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 92%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 0%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 92%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 92%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 42%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 92%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 92%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 92%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 92%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 50%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 92%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 92%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 92%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 58%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 92%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 92%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 92%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 92%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 92%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 92%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 92%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 92%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 92%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 92%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 17%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 92%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 92%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 92%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 92%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 75%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 92%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 92%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 92%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 0%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 75%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 58%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 92%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 67%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 92%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 17%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 92%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 83%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 92%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 92%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 92%
Wayne Allard Other 92%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 92%
Brian Baird Other 50%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 92%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 17%
Cass Ballenger Other 92%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 92%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 92%
Charlie Bass Other 92%
Bob Beauprez Other 92%
Douglas Bereuter Other 25%
Shelley Berkley Other 0%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 92%
Michael Bilirakis Other 92%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 67%
Leonard Boswell Other 92%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 92%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 92%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 92%
Max Burns Other 92%
Dan Burton Other 92%
Steve Buyer Other 92%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 17%
Jean Carnahan Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 92%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 0%
Chris Chocola Other 92%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 17%
Norm Coleman Other 92%
Michael Collins Other 92%
Larry Combest Other 92%
Jerry Costello Other 92%
Christopher Cox Other 92%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Philip Crane Other 92%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
James Davis Other 0%
Jo Ann Davis Other 92%
Lincoln Davis Other 92%
Thomas Davis III Other 42%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 92%
Peter Deutsch Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 58%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 92%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 92%
Calvin Dooley Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 100%
David Dreier Other 92%
Jennifer Dunn Other 67%
Chet Edwards Other 0%
Vern Ehlers Other 83%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 92%
Philip English Other 92%
Bob Etheridge Other 17%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 92%
Tom Feeney Other 92%
Michael Ferguson Other 0%
Ernest Fletcher Other 92%
Mark Foley Other 83%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 0%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 75%
Barney Frank Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 92%
John Ganske Other 42%
George Gekas Other 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 92%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 8%
Paul Gillmor Other 92%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 75%
Porter Goss Other 83%
Mark Green Other 92%
James Greenwood Other 25%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 92%
Jane Harman Other 0%
Katherine Harris Other 92%
Melissa Hart Other 92%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 92%
Robert Hayes Other 92%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 92%
Joel Hefley Other 92%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 92%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 92%
Pete Hoekstra Other 92%
Thomas Holden Other 92%
Darlene Hooley Other 0%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 83%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 25%
Kenny Hulshof Other 92%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 92%
Henry Hyde Other 67%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 92%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 17%
William Janklow Other 92%
William Jefferson Other 17%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 92%
Christopher John Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 17%
Tim Johnson Other 92%
Paul Kanjorski Other 92%
Ric Keller Other 92%
Sue Kelly Other 75%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 0%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 92%
James Kolbe Other 83%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 92%
Nicholas Lampson Other 92%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 92%
James Leach Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 92%
Ron Lewis Other 92%
John Linder Other 92%
William Lipinski Other 0%
William Luther Other 0%
James Maloney Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 92%
Jim Marshall Other 92%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 92%
James McCrery III Other 92%
John McHugh Other 92%
Scott McInnis Other 92%
Michael McNulty Other 0%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Brad Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 0%
Constance Morella Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 92%
Sue Myrick Other 92%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 67%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 92%
James Nussle Other 92%
Jim Oberstar Other 92%
Dave Obey Other 92%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 92%
Thomas William Osborne Other 92%
Doug Ose Other 25%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 92%
Ron Paul Other 92%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
David Phelps Other 92%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 92%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 0%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 92%
Deborah Pryce Other 42%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 92%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 83%
Denny Rehberg Other 92%
Richard Renzi Other 92%
Silvestre Reyes Other 67%
Thomas Reynolds Other 92%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 42%
Mike Ross Other 92%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 92%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 92%
Jim Saxton Other 75%
Edward Schrock Other 92%
John Shadegg Other 92%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 17%
Christopher Shays Other 0%
Donald Sherwood Other 92%
Ronnie Shows Other 92%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 92%
Ike Skelton Other 92%
Gordon Smith Other 67%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Vic Snyder Other 0%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 92%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 0%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 92%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 92%
Bart Stupak Other 50%
John Sullivan Other 92%
John Sununu Other 92%
John Sweeney Other 92%
James Talent Other 92%
Tom Tancredo Other 75%
John Tanner Other 92%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
William Tauzin Other 92%
Charles Taylor Other 92%
Gene Taylor Other 92%
William Thomas Other 92%
Karen Thurman Other 83%
Todd Tiahrt Other 92%
Ed Towns Other 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 92%
James Walsh Other 75%
Zach Wamp Other 92%
John Warner Other 17%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
David Weldon Other 92%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 75%
Gerald Weller Other 83%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 92%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 0%
Albert Wynn Other 0%

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