Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

2003-2004 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 36%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 36%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 21%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 7%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 17%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 25%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 33%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 71%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 17%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 29%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 25%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 17%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 92%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 83%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 83%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 92%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 83%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 75%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 92%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 17%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 83%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 17%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 83%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 17%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 83%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 83%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 25%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 18%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 91%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 91%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 33%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 8%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 75%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 92%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 82%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 73%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 92%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 79%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 79%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 17%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 17%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 17%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 17%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 25%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 17%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 21%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 17%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 25%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 92%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 92%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 17%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 75%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 27%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 7%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 77%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 25%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 17%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 21%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 25%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 25%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 71%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 18%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 92%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 92%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 17%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 83%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 92%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 25%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 33%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 14%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 7%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 25%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 17%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 71%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 17%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 75%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 82%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 92%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 86%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 83%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 83%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 83%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 21%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 79%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 79%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 33%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 83%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 33%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 17%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 92%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 92%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 79%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 8%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 7%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 17%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 92%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 71%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 93%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 86%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 25%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 64%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 42%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 25%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 17%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 92%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 75%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 42%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 17%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 25%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 92%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 17%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 86%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 79%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 83%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 67%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 83%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 80%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 75%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 91%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 83%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 17%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 17%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 17%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 33%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 17%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 14%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 7%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 20%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 25%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 93%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 25%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 75%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 25%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 18%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 92%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 17%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 93%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 57%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 29%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 91%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 79%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 7%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 42%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 75%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 25%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 14%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 18%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 8%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 17%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 27%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 17%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 18%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 17%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 75%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 11%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 17%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 25%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 92%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 17%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 17%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 92%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 7%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 11%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 75%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 92%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 17%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 25%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 17%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 83%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 79%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 79%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 79%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 83%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 17%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 82%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 83%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 17%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 82%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 25%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 25%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 86%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 42%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 91%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 7%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 93%
Todd Akin Other 36%
Wayne Allard Other 8%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 92%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 17%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 42%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 17%
Charlie Bass Other 17%
Evan Bayh Other 71%
Bob Beauprez Other 17%
Bob Bennett Other 7%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 82%
Marion Berry Other 92%
Judy Biggert Other 17%
Michael Bilirakis Other 25%
Jeff Bingaman Other 79%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 14%
Henry Bonilla Other 18%
Mary Bono Mack Other 17%
Leonard Boswell Other 75%
Rick Boucher Other 92%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 67%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 25%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 9%
Jim Bunning Other 7%
Conrad Burns Other 7%
Dan Burton Other 33%
Steve Buyer Other 17%
Robert Byrd Other 93%
Chris Cannon Other 18%
Dennis Cardoza Other 92%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Edward Case Other 75%
Mike Castle Other 8%
Ben Chandler III Other 100%
Chris Chocola Other 17%
Hillary Clinton Other 79%
Norm Coleman Other 7%
Kent Conrad Other 64%
Jon Corzine Other 93%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 17%
Larry Craig Other 21%
Robert Cramer Other 64%
Barbara Cubin Other 17%
Randall Cunningham Other 17%
Artur Davis Other 75%
James Davis Other 83%
Jo Ann Davis Other 42%
Lincoln Davis Other 75%
Thomas Davis III Other 18%
Bill Delahunt Other 91%
Thomas DeLay Other 17%
James DeMint Other 27%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Norm Dicks Other 82%
Chris Dodd Other 93%
Elizabeth Dole Other 21%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 8%
John Doolittle Other 20%
Byron Dorgan Other 79%
David Dreier Other 17%
Chet Edwards Other 75%
Vern Ehlers Other 17%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 60%
Philip English Other 36%
John Ensign Other 7%
Bob Etheridge Other 83%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 25%
Tom Feeney Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 93%
Michael Ferguson Other 33%
Mark Foley Other 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 83%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 30%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 14%
Elton Gallegly Other 9%
Jim Gibbons Other 18%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 17%
Paul Gillmor Other 25%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 67%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Mark Green Other 25%
Judd Gregg Other 14%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 30%
Jane Harman Other 82%
Katherine Harris Other 17%
Melissa Hart Other 17%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 42%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 17%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 17%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 25%
Pete Hoekstra Other 36%
Thomas Holden Other 83%
Darlene Hooley Other 91%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 42%
Kenny Hulshof Other 25%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 14%
Henry Hyde Other 8%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 17%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 92%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 93%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 33%
Nancy Johnson Other 17%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 91%
Ric Keller Other 18%
Sue Kelly Other 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 93%
Mark Kennedy Other 17%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 18%
Herb Kohl Other 93%
James Kolbe Other 17%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 50%
Frank Lautenberg Other 93%
James Leach Other 67%
Jerry Lewis Other 17%
Ron Lewis Other 25%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 71%
John Linder Other 18%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 14%
Dick Lugar Other 7%
Don Manzullo Other 17%
Jim Marshall Other 92%
Robert Matsui Other 83%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 42%
James McCrery III Other 18%
John McHugh Other 55%
Michael McNulty Other 91%
Martin Meehan Other 83%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 83%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 83%
Dennis Moore Other 75%
Jack Murtha Other 92%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 18%
Ben Nelson Other 57%
Robert William Ney Other 42%
Anne Northup Other 25%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 42%
James Nussle Other 42%
Jim Oberstar Other 92%
Dave Obey Other 92%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 70%
Thomas William Osborne Other 17%
Major Owens Other 91%
Michael Oxley Other 17%
Ron Paul Other 40%
Donald Payne Other 91%
John Peterson Other 25%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 17%
Todd Platts Other 25%
Richard Pombo Other 17%
Earl Pomeroy Other 75%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 17%
Deborah Pryce Other 17%
George Radanovich Other 17%
James Ramstad Other 17%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Denny Rehberg Other 17%
Richard Renzi Other 17%
Silvestre Reyes Other 80%
Thomas Reynolds Other 17%
Mike Ross Other 91%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 25%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 92%
Rick Santorum Other 7%
Paul Sarbanes Other 93%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
John Shadegg Other 25%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 17%
Christopher Shays Other 33%
Donald Sherwood Other 17%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 50%
Ike Skelton Other 83%
Gordon Smith Other 8%
Olympia Snowe Other 57%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 17%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 92%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 18%
Ted Stevens Other 21%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 20%
John Sununu Other 14%
John Sweeney Other 58%
James Talent Other 14%
Tom Tancredo Other 33%
John Tanner Other 83%
Ellen Tauscher Other 83%
Charles Taylor Other 50%
Gene Taylor Other 83%
Craig Thomas Other 7%
William Thomas Other 17%
Todd Tiahrt Other 17%
Ed Towns Other 89%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 14%
James Walsh Other 33%
Zach Wamp Other 33%
John Warner Other 7%
Diane Watson Other 82%
Anthony Weiner Other 83%
David Weldon Other 17%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 17%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 33%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 83%
Albert Wynn Other 92%

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