Rating Group: Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants

1999-2000 Positions

Issues: Crime
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 29%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 38%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 30%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 10%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 29%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 78%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 63%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 75%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 30%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 68%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 88%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 68%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 68%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 78%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 50%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 30%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 30%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 30%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 70%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 67%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 80%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 89%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 20%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 67%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 30%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 75%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 78%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 78%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 30%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 50%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 60%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 28%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 10%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 20%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 90%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 20%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 30%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 67%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 78%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 25%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 88%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 10%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 25%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 30%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 75%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 89%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 70%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 90%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 80%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 30%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 29%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 25%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 13%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 30%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 20%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 30%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 63%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 20%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 78%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 78%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 78%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 78%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 78%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 86%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 60%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 56%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 80%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 25%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 75%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 40%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 40%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 70%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 22%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 20%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 33%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 80%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 75%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 71%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 63%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 30%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 10%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 60%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 30%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 30%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 20%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 60%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 30%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 30%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 22%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 30%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 40%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 70%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 63%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 30%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 40%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 80%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 78%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 50%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 75%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 44%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 80%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 90%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 40%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 63%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 78%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 10%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 30%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 30%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 50%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 78%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 25%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 30%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 63%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 20%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 55%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 78%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 30%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 80%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 40%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 30%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 50%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 63%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 63%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 30%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 38%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 20%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 33%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 40%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 20%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 22%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 40%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 20%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 67%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 78%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 30%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 78%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 30%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 60%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 25%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 30%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 67%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 30%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 75%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 78%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 75%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 30%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 75%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 22%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 40%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 80%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 30%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 50%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 30%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 30%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 50%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 75%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 80%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 25%
Gary Ackerman Other 78%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 75%
Wayne Allard Other 13%
Thomas Allen Other 60%
Richard Armey Other 30%
Brian Baird Other 50%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 30%
John Baldacci Other 70%
Cass Ballenger Other 20%
James Barcia Other 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 30%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 30%
Charlie Bass Other 30%
Evan Bayh Other 63%
Bob Bennett Other 25%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 60%
Douglas Bereuter Other 40%
Shelley Berkley Other 70%
Howard Berman Other 71%
Marion Berry Other 40%
Judy Biggert Other 30%
Michael Bilirakis Other 30%
Jeff Bingaman Other 75%
Rod Blagojevich Other 30%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 30%
Kit Bond Other 25%
Henry Bonilla Other 40%
David Edward Bonior Other 44%
Mary Bono Mack Other 30%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 44%
Leonard Boswell Other 0%
Rick Boucher Other 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 30%
John Breaux Other 63%
Ed Bryant Other 10%
Jim Bunning Other 13%
Conrad Burns Other 25%
Dan Burton Other 30%
Steve Buyer Other 20%
Robert Byrd Other 75%
Herbert Callahan Other 30%
Ben Campbell Other 13%
Chris Cannon Other 25%
Julia Carson Other 80%
Mike Castle Other 40%
Eva Clayton Other 89%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 63%
Robert Clement Other 50%
Michael Collins Other 10%
Larry Combest Other 30%
Gary Condit Other 30%
Kent Conrad Other 63%
John Cooksey Other 30%
Jerry Costello Other 14%
Christopher Cox Other 30%
William Coyne Other 67%
Larry Craig Other 13%
Robert Cramer Other 30%
Philip Crane Other 30%
Barbara Cubin Other 10%
Randall Cunningham Other 30%
Thomas Daschle Other 63%
James Davis Other 60%
Thomas Davis III Other 40%
Bill Delahunt Other 78%
Thomas DeLay Other 30%
James DeMint Other 30%
Peter Deutsch Other 22%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 33%
Norm Dicks Other 60%
Julian Dixon Other 62%
Chris Dodd Other 75%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 13%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 30%
Byron Dorgan Other 88%
David Dreier Other 33%
Jennifer Dunn Other 30%
John Edwards Other 63%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 20%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 30%
Philip English Other 40%
Bob Etheridge Other 20%
Lane Evans Other 60%
Terry Everett Other 30%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 13%
Ernest Fletcher Other 30%
Mark Foley Other 60%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 78%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 30%
Barney Frank Other 89%
William Frist Other 13%
Jonas Frost III Other 70%
Elton Gallegly Other 30%
John Ganske Other 40%
George Gekas Other 10%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 56%
Jim Gibbons Other 30%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 38%
Paul Gillmor Other 40%
Benjamin Gilman Other 30%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 60%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 40%
Bart Gordon Other 44%
Porter Goss Other 20%
Daniel Graham Other 63%
William Phillip Gramm Other 14%
Mark Green Other 10%
James Greenwood Other 50%
Judd Gregg Other 25%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 30%
Tony Hall Other 44%
James Hansen Other 30%
Robert Hayes Other 10%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 30%
Joel Hefley Other 30%
Jesse Helms Other 13%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 20%
Baron Hill Other 30%
Van Hilleary Other 20%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 90%
Maurice Hinchey Other 80%
David Lee Hobson Other 30%
Pete Hoekstra Other 40%
Thomas Holden Other 38%
Ernest Hollings Other 75%
Darlene Hooley Other 55%
Stephen Horn Other 30%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 43%
Kenny Hulshof Other 20%
Duncan Hunter Other 30%
Asa Hutchinson Other 30%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 13%
Kay Hutchison Other 13%
Henry Hyde Other 30%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 40%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 78%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 57%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 30%
Christopher John Other 10%
Nancy Johnson Other 30%
Paul Kanjorski Other 44%
Sue Kelly Other 30%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 57%
Patrick Kennedy Other 70%
Brian Kerns Other 30%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 50%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 20%
Herb Kohl Other 63%
James Kolbe Other 44%
Dennis Kucinich Other 80%
Jon Kyl Other 25%
John LaFalce Other 78%
Ray LaHood Other 50%
Nicholas Lampson Other 60%
Tom Lantos Other 75%
Stephen Largent Other 22%
Steve LaTourette Other 40%
James Leach Other 40%
Jerry Lewis Other 33%
Ron Lewis Other 30%
Joe Lieberman Other 50%
Blanche Lincoln Other 63%
John Linder Other 30%
William Lipinski Other 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 13%
Dick Lugar Other 25%
William Luther Other 40%
James Maloney Other 20%
Don Manzullo Other 40%
Frank Mascara Other 40%
Robert Matsui Other 60%
Karen McCarthy Other 67%
James McCrery III Other 10%
John McHugh Other 20%
Scott McInnis Other 25%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 80%
Michael McNulty Other 50%
Martin Meehan Other 78%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 78%
Dan Miller Other 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 90%
John Moakley Other 78%
Alan Mollohan Other 38%
Dennis Moore Other 40%
Constance Morella Other 60%
Frank Murkowski Other 13%
Jack Murtha Other 22%
Sue Myrick Other 11%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 40%
Robert William Ney Other 30%
Don Nickles Other 13%
Anne Northup Other 40%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 20%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 78%
Dave Obey Other 78%
John Olver Other 80%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 55%
Doug Ose Other 20%
Major Owens Other 90%
Michael Oxley Other 20%
Ron Paul Other 60%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 43%
David Phelps Other 30%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 10%
Richard Pombo Other 30%
Earl Pomeroy Other 30%
Deborah Pryce Other 22%
Jack Quinn Other 30%
George Radanovich Other 30%
James Ramstad Other 10%
Ralph Regula Other 20%
Silvestre Reyes Other 25%
Thomas Reynolds Other 10%
Bob Riley Other 30%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 56%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 80%
Timothy Roemer Other 22%
Steve Rothman Other 33%
Marge Roukema Other 10%
Jim Ryun Other 30%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 78%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 25%
Paul Sarbanes Other 63%
Jim Saxton Other 20%
Joe Scarborough Other 30%
John Shadegg Other 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 20%
Christopher Shays Other 40%
Donald Sherwood Other 30%
Ronnie Shows Other 10%
Norman Sisisky Other 44%
Joseph Skeen Other 30%
Ike Skelton Other 56%
Gordon Smith Other 25%
Nick Smith Other 30%
Bob Smith Other 13%
Olympia Snowe Other 38%
Vic Snyder Other 78%
Mark Souder Other 20%
Arlen Specter Other 63%
Floyd Spence Other 30%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 78%
Cliff Stearns Other 20%
Charles Stenholm Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Ted Strickland Other 60%
Bob Stump Other 30%
Bart Stupak Other 60%
John Sununu Other 38%
John Sweeney Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 30%
John Tanner Other 30%
Ellen Tauscher Other 56%
William Tauzin Other 30%
Charles Taylor Other 30%
Gene Taylor Other 10%
Craig Thomas Other 13%
William Thomas Other 29%
Fred Thompson Other 25%
Karen Thurman Other 50%
Strom Thurmond Other 13%
Todd Tiahrt Other 30%
Robert Torricelli Other 63%
Ed Towns Other 78%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 30%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 88%
James Turner Other 30%
George Voinovich Other 13%
James Walsh Other 30%
Zach Wamp Other 30%
John Warner Other 13%
Wesley Watkins Other 30%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 50%
Anthony Weiner Other 50%
David Weldon Other 10%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 30%
Gerald Weller Other 30%
Paul Wellstone Other 88%
Robert Wexler Other 67%
Heather Wilson Other 50%
Lynn Woolsey Other 78%
David Wu Other 30%
Albert Wynn Other 78%

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