Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

2001-2002 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 18%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 25%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 38%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 25%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 58%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 38%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 75%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 82%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 88%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 88%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 75%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 88%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 88%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 75%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 88%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 88%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 88%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 13%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 75%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 88%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 13%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 88%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 86%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 13%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 88%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 88%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 88%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 13%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 25%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 63%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 88%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 75%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 88%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 88%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 75%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 83%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 20%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 25%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 25%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 25%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 38%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 25%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 25%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 75%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 88%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 25%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 83%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 25%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 17%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 25%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 25%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 25%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 88%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 17%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 38%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 18%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 17%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 25%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 38%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 38%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 25%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 88%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 86%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 88%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 88%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 92%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 88%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 92%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 25%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 88%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 88%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 57%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 83%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 25%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 86%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 42%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 25%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 88%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 75%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 25%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 25%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 88%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 38%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 63%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 25%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 75%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 88%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 50%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 13%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 88%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 88%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 92%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 92%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 38%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 63%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 88%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 88%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 75%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 75%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 88%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 88%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 88%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 88%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 25%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 13%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 25%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 88%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 25%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 42%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 27%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 25%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 83%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 25%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 88%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 88%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 14%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 13%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 88%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 92%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 75%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 58%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 38%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 92%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 13%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 25%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 25%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 25%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 25%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 25%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 25%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 63%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 88%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 25%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 25%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 88%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 17%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 33%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 25%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 25%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 86%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 25%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 92%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 75%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 25%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 88%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 75%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 88%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 88%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 25%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 86%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 13%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 38%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 83%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 38%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 88%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 17%
Gary Ackerman Other 86%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 91%
Todd Akin Other 25%
Wayne Allard Other 9%
George Allen Other 17%
Thomas Allen Other 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 75%
Brian Baird Other 88%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 25%
Cass Ballenger Other 14%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 38%
Charlie Bass Other 25%
Evan Bayh Other 75%
Bob Bennett Other 17%
Douglas Bereuter Other 25%
Shelley Berkley Other 75%
Howard Berman Other 88%
Marion Berry Other 88%
Judy Biggert Other 25%
Michael Bilirakis Other 25%
Jeff Bingaman Other 83%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 38%
Kit Bond Other 17%
Henry Bonilla Other 25%
Mary Bono Mack Other 25%
Leonard Boswell Other 63%
Rick Boucher Other 88%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 75%
John Breaux Other 67%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 25%
Jim Bunning Other 17%
Conrad Burns Other 18%
Dan Burton Other 14%
Steve Buyer Other 25%
Robert Byrd Other 83%
Ben Campbell Other 45%
Chris Cannon Other 38%
Brad Carson Other 63%
Julia Carson Other 88%
Mike Castle Other 25%
Hillary Clinton Other 92%
Michael Collins Other 38%
Larry Combest Other 25%
Kent Conrad Other 92%
Jon Corzine Other 91%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 13%
Larry Craig Other 17%
Robert Cramer Other 57%
Philip Crane Other 14%
Barbara Cubin Other 29%
Randall Cunningham Other 25%
Thomas Daschle Other 83%
James Davis Other 75%
Jo Ann Davis Other 25%
Thomas Davis III Other 13%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 13%
James DeMint Other 13%
Peter Deutsch Other 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Norm Dicks Other 75%
Chris Dodd Other 91%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 30%
Calvin Dooley Other 63%
John Doolittle Other 25%
Byron Dorgan Other 92%
David Dreier Other 25%
Jennifer Dunn Other 25%
John Edwards Other 83%
Chet Edwards Other 88%
Vern Ehlers Other 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 38%
Philip English Other 25%
John Ensign Other 36%
Bob Etheridge Other 75%
Lane Evans Other 88%
Terry Everett Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 83%
Michael Ferguson Other 38%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 33%
Ernest Fletcher Other 25%
Mark Foley Other 38%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 25%
Barney Frank Other 86%
William Frist Other 17%
Jonas Frost III Other 75%
Elton Gallegly Other 13%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 88%
Jim Gibbons Other 13%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 25%
Paul Gillmor Other 25%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 86%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 38%
Bart Gordon Other 75%
Porter Goss Other 25%
Daniel Graham Other 92%
Mark Green Other 25%
James Greenwood Other 25%
Judd Gregg Other 18%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 38%
Jane Harman Other 75%
Melissa Hart Other 25%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 17%
Robert Hayes Other 25%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 25%
Joel Hefley Other 13%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 13%
Baron Hill Other 71%
Maurice Hinchey Other 88%
David Lee Hobson Other 25%
Pete Hoekstra Other 25%
Thomas Holden Other 88%
Ernest Hollings Other 92%
Darlene Hooley Other 86%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 57%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 29%
Kenny Hulshof Other 25%
Duncan Hunter Other 25%
Kay Hutchison Other 25%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 91%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 38%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 88%
William Jefferson Other 71%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 67%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 25%
Christopher John Other 63%
Nancy Johnson Other 25%
Tim Johnson Other 25%
Paul Kanjorski Other 88%
Ric Keller Other 25%
Sue Kelly Other 13%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 82%
Mark Kennedy Other 25%
Patrick Kennedy Other 75%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 88%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 25%
Herb Kohl Other 83%
James Kolbe Other 13%
Dennis Kucinich Other 88%
Jon Kyl Other 8%
Ray LaHood Other 38%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 88%
Steve LaTourette Other 38%
James Leach Other 29%
Jerry Lewis Other 13%
Ron Lewis Other 25%
Joe Lieberman Other 73%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 25%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 9%
Dick Lugar Other 17%
Don Manzullo Other 38%
Robert Matsui Other 88%
Karen McCarthy Other 88%
James McCrery III Other 25%
John McHugh Other 50%
Scott McInnis Other 25%
Michael McNulty Other 88%
Martin Meehan Other 88%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 75%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 58%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 63%
Jack Murtha Other 88%
Sue Myrick Other 13%
Ben Nelson Other 83%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 25%
Robert William Ney Other 25%
Don Nickles Other 17%
Anne Northup Other 25%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 38%
James Nussle Other 25%
Jim Oberstar Other 88%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 63%
Thomas William Osborne Other 25%
Doug Ose Other 14%
Major Owens Other 88%
Michael Oxley Other 17%
Ron Paul Other 29%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 25%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 25%
Todd Platts Other 25%
Richard Pombo Other 13%
Earl Pomeroy Other 88%
Deborah Pryce Other 25%
Jack Quinn Other 57%
George Radanovich Other 13%
James Ramstad Other 25%
Ralph Regula Other 38%
Denny Rehberg Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 75%
Thomas Reynolds Other 25%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 88%
Mike Ross Other 88%
Steve Rothman Other 75%
Jim Ryun Other 25%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 88%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 88%
Rick Santorum Other 17%
Paul Sarbanes Other 83%
Jim Saxton Other 38%
Edward Schrock Other 25%
John Shadegg Other 13%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 25%
Christopher Shays Other 13%
Donald Sherwood Other 25%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 38%
Ike Skelton Other 57%
Gordon Smith Other 42%
Nick Smith Other 38%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 88%
Hilda Solis Other 88%
Mark Souder Other 13%
Arlen Specter Other 75%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 75%
Pete Stark Other 86%
Cliff Stearns Other 25%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Ted Strickland Other 88%
Bart Stupak Other 83%
John Sullivan Other 33%
John Sununu Other 13%
John Sweeney Other 25%
Tom Tancredo Other 13%
John Tanner Other 63%
Ellen Tauscher Other 88%
William Tauzin Other 25%
Charles Taylor Other 38%
Gene Taylor Other 63%
Craig Thomas Other 8%
William Thomas Other 13%
Todd Tiahrt Other 25%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 75%
George Voinovich Other 27%
James Walsh Other 38%
Zach Wamp Other 25%
John Warner Other 33%
Diane Watson Other 80%
Anthony Weiner Other 88%
David Weldon Other 13%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 43%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Robert Wexler Other 88%
Heather Wilson Other 25%
Lynn Woolsey Other 88%
David Wu Other 75%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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