Rating Group: Center for Reclaiming America

2003 Positions

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

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