Rating Group: Campaign for Working Families

2005-2006 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 88%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 81%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 96%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 32%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 79%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 82%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 4%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 4%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 4%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 39%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 4%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 96%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 4%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 93%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 4%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 96%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 93%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 15%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 82%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 93%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 4%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 7%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 50%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 3%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 16%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 32%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 12%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 93%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 4%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 4%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 86%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 83%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 93%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 96%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 63%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 97%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 76%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 46%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 97%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 59%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 61%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 96%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 4%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 3%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 96%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 88%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 44%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 100%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 4%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 4%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 3%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 29%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 3%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 21%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 3%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 7%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 56%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 21%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 4%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 8%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 93%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 3%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 97%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 11%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 93%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 82%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 7%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 96%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 17%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 12%
NA President Barack Obama II D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 4%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 96%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 17%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 96%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 93%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 86%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 4%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 8%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 15%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 93%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 90%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 3%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 7%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 79%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 93%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 8%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 4%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 17%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 96%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 17%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 19%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 4%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 7%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 4%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 3%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 3%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 28%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 12%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 18%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 36%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 97%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 8%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 86%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 21%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 7%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 3%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 82%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 7%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 10%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 79%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 97%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 21%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 88%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 11%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 28%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 96%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 97%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 33%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 100%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 92%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 7%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 100%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 93%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 86%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 93%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 33%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 8%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 62%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 37%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 96%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 96%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 62%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 10%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 93%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 4%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 4%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 4%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 11%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 96%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 82%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 11%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 22%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 0%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 97%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 93%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 22%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 90%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 61%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 4%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 25%
Brian Baird Other 21%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 86%
Evan Bayh Other 0%
Melissa Bean Other 41%
Bob Bennett Other 92%
Shelley Berkley Other 21%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 59%
Judy Biggert Other 72%
Brian Bilbray Other 83%
Jeff Bingaman Other 4%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 77%
Dan Boren Other 83%
Leonard Boswell Other 48%
Rick Boucher Other 37%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 59%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 90%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 93%
Robert Byrd Other 48%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 46%
Russ Carnahan Other 10%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 56%
Ben Chandler III Other 62%
Hillary Clinton Other 4%
Norm Coleman Other 88%
Kent Conrad Other 32%
Jerry Costello Other 72%
Larry Craig Other 96%
Robert Cramer Other 74%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 43%
Geoff Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 93%
Thomas Davis III Other 81%
Bill Delahunt Other 7%
James DeMint Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 83%
Norm Dicks Other 3%
Chris Dodd Other 4%
Elizabeth Dole Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 92%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
Thelma Drake Other 100%
David Dreier Other 83%
Chet Edwards Other 59%
Vern Ehlers Other 83%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 93%
Philip English Other 97%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 45%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 4%
Michael Ferguson Other 93%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 93%
Barney Frank Other 3%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 54%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 4%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 97%
Bart Gordon Other 71%
Judd Gregg Other 92%
Jane Harman Other 12%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 61%
Maurice Hinchey Other 4%
David Lee Hobson Other 97%
Pete Hoekstra Other 96%
Thomas Holden Other 59%
Darlene Hooley Other 22%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 96%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 93%
Daniel Inouye Other 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 3%
William Jefferson Other 19%
Tim Johnson Other 86%
Paul Kanjorski Other 34%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 24%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 93%
Herb Kohl Other 12%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 93%
Tom Lantos Other 4%
Steve LaTourette Other 86%
Jerry Lewis Other 86%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 8%
Blanche Lincoln Other 16%
John Linder Other 97%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 96%
Dick Lugar Other 84%
Dan Lungren Other 96%
Connie Mack IV Other 90%
Don Manzullo Other 97%
Jim Marshall Other 86%
Melquiades Martinez Other 88%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 97%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 93%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 7%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 71%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Brad Miller Other 14%
Alan Mollohan Other 52%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 28%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 76%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 22%
Dave Obey Other 7%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 43%
Ron Paul Other 54%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 90%
Earl Pomeroy Other 43%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 90%
Deborah Pryce Other 86%
George Radanovich Other 96%
James Ramstad Other 83%
Ralph Regula Other 93%
Denny Rehberg Other 97%
Richard Renzi Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 31%
Thomas Reynolds Other 96%
Mike Ross Other 61%
Steve Rothman Other 7%
Ken Salazar Other 20%
Jim Saxton Other 93%
Jean Schmidt Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 96%
Christopher Shays Other 41%
Ike Skelton Other 68%
Gordon Smith Other 79%
Olympia Snowe Other 46%
Vic Snyder Other 14%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 97%
Arlen Specter Other 61%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 41%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 79%
Bart Stupak Other 39%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 92%
Tom Tancredo Other 97%
John Tanner Other 57%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 85%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 14%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 80%
James Walsh Other 93%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 88%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 7%
David Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 96%
Robert Wexler Other 3%
Heather Wilson Other 70%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 3%
Albert Wynn Other 21%

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