Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

2007-2008 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 25%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 45%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 37%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 13%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 13%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 22%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 31%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 22%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 13%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 16%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 9%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 94%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 93%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 9%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 87%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 96%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 87%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 95%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 93%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 95%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 91%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 95%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 95%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 80%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 82%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 88%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 10%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 87%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 14%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 88%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 91%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 14%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 96%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 91%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 92%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 97%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 10%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 94%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 14%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 98%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 90%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 12%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 13%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 19%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 80%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 92%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 86%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 86%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 83%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 85%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 92%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 90%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 92%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 95%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 86%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 86%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 11%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 15%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 96%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 25%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 16%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 100%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 33%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 97%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 95%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 29%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 47%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 15%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 14%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 15%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 22%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 88%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 10%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 92%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 5%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 13%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 95%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 83%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 29%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 97%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 93%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 100%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 22%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 9%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 11%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 23%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 95%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 32%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 96%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 97%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 33%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 94%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 98%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 38%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 90%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 92%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 10%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 13%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 28%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 8%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 12%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 29%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 24%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 81%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 24%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 0%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 21%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 42%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 94%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 92%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 93%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 92%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 92%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 95%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 94%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 97%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 100%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 100%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 93%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 96%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 91%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 43%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 97%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 93%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 97%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 12%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 28%
MI U.S. House-7 Tim Walberg R 16%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 19%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 95%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 40%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 94%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 94%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 97%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 95%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 9%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 96%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 95%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 77%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 93%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 9%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 97%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 23%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 14%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 20%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 96%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 76%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 93%
NA President Barack Obama II D 98%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 86%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 14%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 91%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 15%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 37%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 85%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 10%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 19%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 81%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 15%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 97%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 22%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 12%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 5%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 93%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 91%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 70%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 69%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 16%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 94%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 94%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 22%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 91%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 96%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 13%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 89%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 18%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 94%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 97%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 45%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 85%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 90%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 84%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 93%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 98%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 94%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 93%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 86%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 92%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 97%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 92%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 96%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 95%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 9%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 0%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 7%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 94%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 44%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 30%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 13%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 18%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 14%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 19%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 89%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 24%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 93%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 94%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 97%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 44%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 17%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 97%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 97%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 43%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 5%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 48%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 97%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 97%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 11%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 11%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 97%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 91%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 22%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 13%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 20%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 19%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 70%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 6%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 7%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 11%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 22%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 8%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 30%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 6%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 8%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 16%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 16%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 11%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 5%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 16%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 13%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 82%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 94%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 7%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 14%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 11%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 16%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 65%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 93%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 92%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 9%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 10%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 88%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 12%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 11%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 70%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 94%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 21%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 22%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 13%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 82%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 22%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 88%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 89%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 90%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 7%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 14%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 94%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 42%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 86%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 87%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 99%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 16%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 89%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 96%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 10%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 21%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 91%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 48%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 93%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 9%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 5%
Gary Ackerman Other 95%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 94%
Todd Akin Other 10%
Wayne Allard Other 7%
Thomas Allen Other 92%
Jason Altmire Other 97%
Michael Arcuri Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 89%
Brian Baird Other 91%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 7%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 7%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 17%
Evan Bayh Other 92%
Melissa Bean Other 90%
Bob Bennett Other 9%
Shelley Berkley Other 90%
Howard Berman Other 88%
Marion Berry Other 84%
Judy Biggert Other 25%
Brian Bilbray Other 14%
Jeff Bingaman Other 85%
Kit Bond Other 18%
Mary Bono Mack Other 22%
Dan Boren Other 53%
Leonard Boswell Other 83%
Rick Boucher Other 87%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 66%
Nancy Boyda Other 83%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 10%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 16%
Jim Bunning Other 12%
Dan Burton Other 13%
Steve Buyer Other 21%
Robert Byrd Other 79%
Chris Cannon Other 14%
Dennis Cardoza Other 97%
Russ Carnahan Other 97%
Christopher Carney Other 95%
Julia Carson Other 92%
Mike Castle Other 32%
Donald Cazayoux, Jr. Other 100%
Ben Chandler III Other 91%
Travis Childers Other 83%
William Clay, Sr. Other 97%
Hillary Clinton Other 94%
Norm Coleman Other 37%
Kent Conrad Other 86%
Jerry Costello Other 97%
Larry Craig Other 13%
Robert Cramer Other 75%
Barbara Cubin Other 8%
Artur Davis Other 95%
David Davis Other 11%
Geoff Davis Other 15%
Jo Ann Davis Other 43%
Lincoln Davis Other 81%
Thomas Davis III Other 20%
Bill Delahunt Other 92%
James DeMint Other 12%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 61%
Norm Dicks Other 86%
Chris Dodd Other 92%
Elizabeth Dole Other 25%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 21%
John Doolittle Other 8%
Byron Dorgan Other 91%
Thelma Drake Other 10%
David Dreier Other 4%
Chet Edwards Other 76%
Vern Ehlers Other 18%
Brad Ellsworth Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 37%
Philip English Other 41%
John Ensign Other 12%
Bob Etheridge Other 92%
Terry Everett Other 27%
Tom Feeney Other 13%
Russ Feingold Other 95%
Michael Ferguson Other 41%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 36%
Barney Frank Other 94%
Elton Gallegly Other 14%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 24%
Paul Gillmor Other 21%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 86%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 42%
Bart Gordon Other 82%
Judd Gregg Other 4%
John Hall Other 100%
Phil Hare Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 79%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 9%
Robert Hayes Other 32%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 8%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 86%
Baron Hill Other 86%
Maurice Hinchey Other 93%
David Lee Hobson Other 19%
Paul Hodes Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 12%
Thomas Holden Other 93%
Darlene Hooley Other 89%
Kenny Hulshof Other 14%
Kay Hutchison Other 11%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 10%
Daniel Inouye Other 91%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 91%
William Jefferson Other 92%
Tim Johnson Other 48%
Steve Kagen Other 95%
Paul Kanjorski Other 94%
Ric Keller Other 18%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 93%
Patrick Kennedy Other 98%
Dale Kildee Other 96%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 98%
Ron Klein Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 11%
Herb Kohl Other 83%
Dennis Kucinich Other 93%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 3%
Ray LaHood Other 45%
Nicholas Lampson Other 89%
Tom Lantos Other 96%
Steve LaTourette Other 55%
Frank Lautenberg Other 91%
Jerry Lewis Other 14%
Ron Lewis Other 19%
Joe Lieberman Other 84%
Blanche Lincoln Other 82%
John Linder Other 16%
Dick Lugar Other 11%
Dan Lungren Other 5%
Connie Mack IV Other 5%
Tim Mahoney Other 83%
Don Manzullo Other 14%
Jim Marshall Other 94%
Melquiades Martinez Other 15%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 40%
James McCrery III Other 7%
John McHugh Other 60%
Michael McNulty Other 90%
Martin Meehan Other 87%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 91%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 84%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 86%
Brad Miller Other 97%
Harry Mitchell Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 95%
Dennis Moore Other 79%
Patrick Murphy Other 92%
Jack Murtha Other 91%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 16%
Sue Myrick Other 13%
Ben Nelson Other 74%
Jim Oberstar Other 95%
Dave Obey Other 91%
John Olver Other 96%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 82%
Ron Paul Other 27%
Donald Payne Other 98%
John Peterson Other 15%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 14%
Todd Platts Other 35%
Earl Pomeroy Other 87%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 34%
Deborah Pryce Other 20%
David Pryor Other 85%
George Radanovich Other 12%
James Ramstad Other 24%
Ralph Regula Other 37%
Denny Rehberg Other 23%
Richard Renzi Other 36%
Silvestre Reyes Other 85%
Thomas Reynolds Other 23%
Laura Richardson Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 95%
Mike Ross Other 92%
Steve Rothman Other 92%
Ken Salazar Other 85%
William Sali Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 45%
Jean Schmidt Other 31%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 97%
John Shadegg Other 13%
Christopher Shays Other 43%
Heath Shuler Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 74%
Gordon Smith Other 28%
Olympia Snowe Other 48%
Vic Snyder Other 86%
Hilda Solis Other 95%
Mark Souder Other 21%
Zack Space Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 61%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 81%
Pete Stark Other 92%
Cliff Stearns Other 13%
Ted Stevens Other 36%
Bart Stupak Other 98%
John Sullivan Other 10%
John Sununu Other 14%
Betty Sutton Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 27%
John Tanner Other 68%
Ellen Tauscher Other 82%
Gene Taylor Other 57%
Todd Tiahrt Other 19%
Ed Towns Other 95%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 96%
George Voinovich Other 28%
James Walsh Other 45%
Zach Wamp Other 13%
John Warner Other 17%
Diane Watson Other 89%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 87%
David Weldon Other 13%
Gerald Weller Other 50%
Robert Wexler Other 97%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 27%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
David Wu Other 92%
Albert Wynn Other 97%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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