Rating Group: Campaign for Working Families

2001-2002 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 92%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 95%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 92%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 93%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 73%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 92%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 7%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 5%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 5%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 5%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 5%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 5%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 3%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 3%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 5%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 14%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 84%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 19%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 16%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 97%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 5%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 6%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 3%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 97%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 6%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 87%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 5%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 19%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 95%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 84%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 13%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 3%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 8%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 3%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 5%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 3%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 13%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 20%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 92%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 97%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 89%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 9%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 91%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 95%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 97%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 84%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 95%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 44%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 6%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 97%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 19%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 87%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 7%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 83%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 92%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 82%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 9%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 11%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 5%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 5%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 92%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 97%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 89%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 97%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 89%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 84%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 97%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 14%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 5%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 11%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 5%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 8%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 36%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 8%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 11%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 8%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 92%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 84%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 87%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 3%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 14%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 3%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 61%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 92%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 14%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 89%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 97%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 14%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 13%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 7%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 95%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 3%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 97%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 79%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 3%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 92%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 16%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 24%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 87%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 87%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 29%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 66%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 11%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 8%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 13%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 13%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 92%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 18%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 26%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 6%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 6%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 3%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 13%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 3%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 12%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 5%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 3%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 8%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 89%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 92%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 84%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 29%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 89%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 89%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 20%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 82%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 3%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 14%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 97%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 5%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 90%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 42%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 97%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 8%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 42%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 13%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 97%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 14%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 13%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 95%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 97%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 95%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 95%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 95%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 92%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 84%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 95%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 8%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 8%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 91%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 26%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 95%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 11%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 34%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 5%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 96%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 95%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 95%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 0%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 95%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 11%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 7%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 7%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 13%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 89%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 3%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 18%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 5%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 5%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 87%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 8%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 89%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 79%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 7%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 82%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 45%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 93%
Gary Ackerman Other 8%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 7%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 3%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 19%
Brian Baird Other 11%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 95%
Cass Ballenger Other 89%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 97%
Charlie Bass Other 53%
Evan Bayh Other 27%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 71%
Shelley Berkley Other 26%
Howard Berman Other 8%
Marion Berry Other 61%
Judy Biggert Other 42%
Michael Bilirakis Other 97%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 32%
Kit Bond Other 93%
Henry Bonilla Other 86%
Mary Bono Mack Other 58%
Leonard Boswell Other 29%
Rick Boucher Other 16%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 35%
John Breaux Other 29%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 89%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 93%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 89%
Robert Byrd Other 40%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 92%
Brad Carson Other 34%
Julia Carson Other 8%
Mike Castle Other 47%
Hillary Clinton Other 7%
Michael Collins Other 97%
Larry Combest Other 91%
Kent Conrad Other 13%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 58%
Christopher Cox Other 91%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 62%
Philip Crane Other 95%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 95%
Thomas Daschle Other 13%
James Davis Other 16%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 70%
Bill Delahunt Other 9%
Thomas DeLay Other 92%
James DeMint Other 97%
Peter Deutsch Other 14%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 94%
Norm Dicks Other 5%
Chris Dodd Other 13%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 93%
Calvin Dooley Other 16%
John Doolittle Other 94%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
David Dreier Other 74%
Jennifer Dunn Other 78%
John Edwards Other 7%
Chet Edwards Other 34%
Vern Ehlers Other 76%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 86%
Philip English Other 82%
John Ensign Other 93%
Bob Etheridge Other 29%
Lane Evans Other 5%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 13%
Michael Ferguson Other 84%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 93%
Ernest Fletcher Other 89%
Mark Foley Other 68%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 19%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 86%
Barney Frank Other 5%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 13%
Elton Gallegly Other 95%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 14%
Jim Gibbons Other 87%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 49%
Paul Gillmor Other 81%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 53%
Porter Goss Other 82%
Daniel Graham Other 7%
Mark Green Other 87%
James Greenwood Other 45%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 97%
Jane Harman Other 29%
Melissa Hart Other 95%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 88%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 92%
Baron Hill Other 26%
Maurice Hinchey Other 5%
David Lee Hobson Other 82%
Pete Hoekstra Other 95%
Thomas Holden Other 55%
Ernest Hollings Other 20%
Darlene Hooley Other 11%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 87%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 21%
Kenny Hulshof Other 89%
Duncan Hunter Other 97%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 89%
Daniel Inouye Other 14%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 95%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 5%
William Jefferson Other 19%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 14%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 97%
Christopher John Other 61%
Nancy Johnson Other 32%
Tim Johnson Other 74%
Paul Kanjorski Other 45%
Ric Keller Other 95%
Sue Kelly Other 47%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 7%
Mark Kennedy Other 89%
Patrick Kennedy Other 11%
Dale Kildee Other 39%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 8%
Gerald Kleczka Other 8%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 84%
Herb Kohl Other 7%
James Kolbe Other 51%
Dennis Kucinich Other 27%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 82%
Nicholas Lampson Other 19%
Tom Lantos Other 14%
Steve LaTourette Other 78%
James Leach Other 38%
Jerry Lewis Other 82%
Ron Lewis Other 95%
Joe Lieberman Other 20%
Blanche Lincoln Other 27%
John Linder Other 95%
William Lipinski Other 61%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 92%
Robert Matsui Other 3%
Karen McCarthy Other 3%
James McCrery III Other 89%
John McHugh Other 79%
Scott McInnis Other 91%
Michael McNulty Other 34%
Martin Meehan Other 5%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 8%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 85%
Alan Mollohan Other 49%
Dennis Moore Other 16%
Jack Murtha Other 49%
Sue Myrick Other 95%
Ben Nelson Other 47%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 86%
Robert William Ney Other 89%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 87%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 84%
Jim Oberstar Other 32%
Dave Obey Other 16%
John Olver Other 5%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Thomas William Osborne Other 84%
Doug Ose Other 59%
Major Owens Other 6%
Michael Oxley Other 89%
Ron Paul Other 70%
Donald Payne Other 5%
John Peterson Other 89%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 89%
Richard Pombo Other 95%
Earl Pomeroy Other 29%
Deborah Pryce Other 59%
Jack Quinn Other 78%
George Radanovich Other 89%
James Ramstad Other 68%
Ralph Regula Other 84%
Denny Rehberg Other 92%
Silvestre Reyes Other 26%
Thomas Reynolds Other 87%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 8%
Mike Ross Other 53%
Steve Rothman Other 14%
Jim Ryun Other 97%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 5%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 37%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 7%
Jim Saxton Other 89%
Edward Schrock Other 95%
John Shadegg Other 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 76%
Christopher Shays Other 42%
Donald Sherwood Other 89%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 45%
Ike Skelton Other 65%
Gordon Smith Other 73%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 8%
Hilda Solis Other 5%
Mark Souder Other 95%
Arlen Specter Other 67%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 27%
Pete Stark Other 6%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 58%
Ted Stevens Other 93%
Ted Strickland Other 13%
Bart Stupak Other 43%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 92%
John Sweeney Other 70%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 46%
Ellen Tauscher Other 11%
William Tauzin Other 95%
Charles Taylor Other 97%
Gene Taylor Other 76%
Craig Thomas Other 93%
William Thomas Other 55%
Todd Tiahrt Other 92%
Ed Towns Other 15%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 6%
James Turner Other 39%
George Voinovich Other 87%
James Walsh Other 79%
Zach Wamp Other 97%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 9%
Anthony Weiner Other 5%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 89%
Gerald Weller Other 92%
Robert Wexler Other 11%
Heather Wilson Other 76%
Lynn Woolsey Other 5%
David Wu Other 16%
Albert Wynn Other 16%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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