Rating Group: Peace Action

2006 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 22%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 7%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 33%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 7%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 7%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 7%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 8%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 44%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 8%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 50%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 43%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 93%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 71%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 7%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 67%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 89%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 86%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 86%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 93%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 79%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 29%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 79%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 79%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 79%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 93%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 15%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 93%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 8%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 71%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 71%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 7%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 75%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 85%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 83%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 71%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 14%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 50%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 7%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 14%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 62%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 14%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 8%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 69%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 79%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 71%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 79%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 36%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 71%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 86%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 56%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 22%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 7%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 64%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 7%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 7%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 50%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 8%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 7%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 7%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 33%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 33%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 8%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 14%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 8%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 93%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 7%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 21%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 57%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 9%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 22%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 89%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 7%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 14%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 33%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 7%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 78%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 21%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 57%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 36%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 73%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 67%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 86%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 8%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 50%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 64%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 15%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 22%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 43%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 22%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 22%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 7%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 7%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 22%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 7%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 7%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 14%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 86%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 86%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 93%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 86%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 71%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 71%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 67%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 79%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 29%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 50%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 86%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 79%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 22%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 79%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 56%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 56%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 14%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 36%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 14%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 57%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 0%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 69%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 86%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 8%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 86%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 69%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 7%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 8%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 56%
NA President Barack Obama II D 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 44%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 44%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 63%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 33%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 64%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 64%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 71%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 36%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 7%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 79%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 25%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 14%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 78%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 64%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 21%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 43%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 39%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 71%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 79%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 7%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 93%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 86%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 56%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 44%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 77%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 7%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 50%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 57%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 43%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 93%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 86%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 86%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 71%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 50%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 93%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 54%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 79%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 86%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 50%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 79%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 14%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 7%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 67%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 7%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 7%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 71%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 43%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 33%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 56%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 7%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 93%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 86%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 50%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 79%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 33%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 79%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 64%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 29%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 29%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 7%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 67%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 71%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 33%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 71%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 78%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 22%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 44%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 43%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 7%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 22%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 21%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 8%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 14%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 14%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 21%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 7%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 64%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 7%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 8%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 7%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 36%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 71%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 7%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 7%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 0%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 21%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 43%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 71%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 8%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 86%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 25%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 36%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 50%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 14%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 7%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 7%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 64%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 14%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 89%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 86%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 56%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 67%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 7%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 8%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 15%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 79%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 93%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 7%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 64%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 93%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 31%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 50%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 7%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 57%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 44%
Gary Ackerman Other 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 89%
Todd Akin Other 7%
Wayne Allard Other 33%
Thomas Allen Other 79%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 71%
Brian Baird Other 71%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 8%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 21%
Evan Bayh Other 33%
Melissa Bean Other 29%
Bob Bennett Other 33%
Shelley Berkley Other 57%
Howard Berman Other 64%
Marion Berry Other 57%
Judy Biggert Other 14%
Brian Bilbray Other 8%
Jeff Bingaman Other 78%
Kit Bond Other 22%
Mary Bono Mack Other 8%
Dan Boren Other 15%
Leonard Boswell Other 43%
Rick Boucher Other 57%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 36%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 7%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 14%
Jim Bunning Other 33%
Dan Burton Other 8%
Steve Buyer Other 7%
Robert Byrd Other 78%
Chris Cannon Other 11%
Dennis Cardoza Other 31%
Russ Carnahan Other 57%
Julia Carson Other 79%
Mike Castle Other 14%
Ben Chandler III Other 57%
Hillary Clinton Other 56%
Norm Coleman Other 22%
Kent Conrad Other 67%
Jerry Costello Other 75%
Larry Craig Other 33%
Robert Cramer Other 23%
Barbara Cubin Other 14%
Artur Davis Other 29%
Geoff Davis Other 0%
Jo Ann Davis Other 9%
Lincoln Davis Other 29%
Thomas Davis III Other 14%
Bill Delahunt Other 71%
James DeMint Other 33%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 7%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 56%
Elizabeth Dole Other 22%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 22%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 78%
Thelma Drake Other 0%
David Dreier Other 7%
Chet Edwards Other 29%
Vern Ehlers Other 36%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 15%
Philip English Other 14%
John Ensign Other 33%
Bob Etheridge Other 57%
Terry Everett Other 7%
Tom Feeney Other 14%
Russ Feingold Other 89%
Michael Ferguson Other 14%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 7%
Barney Frank Other 79%
Elton Gallegly Other 7%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 46%
Paul Gillmor Other 7%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 54%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 36%
Bart Gordon Other 43%
Judd Gregg Other 44%
Jane Harman Other 79%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 7%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 7%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 36%
Maurice Hinchey Other 93%
David Lee Hobson Other 14%
Pete Hoekstra Other 7%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 86%
Kenny Hulshof Other 21%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 22%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 14%
Daniel Inouye Other 56%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 64%
William Jefferson Other 71%
Tim Johnson Other 7%
Paul Kanjorski Other 57%
Ric Keller Other 7%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 89%
Patrick Kennedy Other 83%
Dale Kildee Other 86%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 92%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 7%
Herb Kohl Other 56%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 7%
Jon Kyl Other 22%
Ray LaHood Other 14%
Tom Lantos Other 64%
Steve LaTourette Other 21%
Jerry Lewis Other 15%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 22%
Blanche Lincoln Other 56%
John Linder Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 22%
Dick Lugar Other 33%
Dan Lungren Other 7%
Connie Mack IV Other 7%
Don Manzullo Other 8%
Jim Marshall Other 31%
Melquiades Martinez Other 22%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 29%
James McCrery III Other 7%
John McHugh Other 8%
Michael McNulty Other 93%
Martin Meehan Other 86%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 43%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 29%
Brad Miller Other 50%
Alan Mollohan Other 29%
Dennis Moore Other 57%
Jack Murtha Other 36%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 7%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 33%
Jim Oberstar Other 86%
Dave Obey Other 86%
John Olver Other 86%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 29%
Ron Paul Other 93%
Donald Payne Other 93%
John Peterson Other 8%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 8%
Todd Platts Other 43%
Earl Pomeroy Other 57%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 29%
Deborah Pryce Other 7%
George Radanovich Other 15%
James Ramstad Other 43%
Ralph Regula Other 7%
Denny Rehberg Other 7%
Richard Renzi Other 14%
Silvestre Reyes Other 33%
Thomas Reynolds Other 14%
Mike Ross Other 57%
Steve Rothman Other 79%
Ken Salazar Other 56%
Jim Saxton Other 14%
Jean Schmidt Other 7%
John Shadegg Other 7%
Christopher Shays Other 29%
Ike Skelton Other 42%
Gordon Smith Other 33%
Olympia Snowe Other 22%
Vic Snyder Other 42%
Hilda Solis Other 93%
Mark Souder Other 7%
Arlen Specter Other 33%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 54%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 14%
Ted Stevens Other 22%
Bart Stupak Other 64%
John Sullivan Other 7%
John Sununu Other 33%
Tom Tancredo Other 21%
John Tanner Other 43%
Ellen Tauscher Other 71%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 64%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 67%
George Voinovich Other 22%
James Walsh Other 8%
Zach Wamp Other 7%
John Warner Other 33%
Diane Watson Other 92%
Anthony Weiner Other 71%
David Weldon Other 7%
Gerald Weller Other 14%
Robert Wexler Other 64%
Heather Wilson Other 23%
Lynn Woolsey Other 93%
David Wu Other 86%
Albert Wynn Other 50%

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