Rating Group: Information Technology Industry Council

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 92%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 67%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 83%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 90%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 90%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 67%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 90%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 92%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 90%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 90%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 30%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 38%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 90%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 67%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 90%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 33%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 70%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 30%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 40%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 78%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 60%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 50%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 60%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 90%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 70%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 30%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 90%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 40%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 40%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 70%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 22%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 80%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 40%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 89%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 20%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 50%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 40%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 70%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 33%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 80%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 60%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 40%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 40%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 67%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 64%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 90%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 90%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 40%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 67%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 80%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 78%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 82%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 88%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 60%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 30%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 89%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 70%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 70%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 30%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 90%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 83%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 80%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 90%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 58%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 78%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 30%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 30%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 60%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 20%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 90%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 60%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 20%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 89%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 78%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
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 90%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 83%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 90%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 56%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 50%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 30%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 30%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 44%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 67%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 60%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 50%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 60%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 20%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 60%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 92%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 58%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 92%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 78%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 90%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 90%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 40%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 33%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 90%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 40%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 60%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 33%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 90%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 92%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 90%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 45%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 44%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 90%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 70%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 60%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 80%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 70%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 55%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 56%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 30%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 70%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 90%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 90%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 40%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 90%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 40%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 40%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 58%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 83%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 40%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 80%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 70%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 60%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 80%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 40%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 30%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 60%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 67%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 80%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 30%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 50%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 60%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 22%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 90%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 20%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 90%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 90%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 20%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 92%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 78%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 78%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 75%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 70%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 20%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 20%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 90%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 90%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 40%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 90%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 42%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 44%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 83%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 70%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 40%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 36%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 92%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 70%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 100%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 90%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 90%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 89%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 90%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 90%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 78%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 20%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 90%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 60%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 90%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 56%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 75%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 30%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 90%
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 80%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 70%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 73%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 90%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 44%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 88%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 80%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 30%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 90%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 67%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 60%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 90%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 42%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 30%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 92%
Gary Ackerman Other 56%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 42%
Todd Akin Other 70%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 50%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 40%
Brian Baird Other 70%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 90%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 70%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 70%
Charlie Bass Other 50%
Evan Bayh Other 92%
Bob Beauprez Other 90%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 75%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 22%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 90%
Jeff Bingaman Other 58%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 90%
Leonard Boswell Other 90%
Rick Boucher Other 67%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 90%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 80%
Steve Buyer Other 90%
Robert Byrd Other 42%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 40%
Julia Carson Other 12%
Edward Case Other 70%
Mike Castle Other 67%
Ben Chandler III Other 100%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 67%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 58%
Jon Corzine Other 67%
Jerry Costello Other 10%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 83%
Robert Cramer Other 89%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 90%
James Davis Other 80%
Jo Ann Davis Other 60%
Lincoln Davis Other 89%
Thomas Davis III Other 89%
Bill Delahunt Other 40%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 90%
Norm Dicks Other 70%
Chris Dodd Other 50%
Elizabeth Dole Other 92%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 89%
Byron Dorgan Other 36%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 89%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 78%
Philip English Other 80%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 90%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 78%
Tom Feeney Other 90%
Russ Feingold Other 42%
Michael Ferguson Other 89%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 89%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 90%
Barney Frank Other 30%
William Frist Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 89%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 78%
Paul Gillmor Other 67%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 50%
Bart Gordon Other 78%
Mark Green Other 70%
Judd Gregg Other 83%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 89%
Jane Harman Other 80%
Katherine Harris Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 60%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 90%
Joel Hefley Other 56%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 75%
Maurice Hinchey Other 20%
David Lee Hobson Other 90%
Pete Hoekstra Other 70%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 78%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 60%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 60%
Kay Hutchison Other 92%
Henry Hyde Other 90%
Daniel Inouye Other 45%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 88%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 20%
William Jefferson Other 90%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 75%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 90%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 80%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Ric Keller Other 90%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 42%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 50%
Dale Kildee Other 20%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 44%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 36%
James Kolbe Other 90%
Dennis Kucinich Other 11%
Jon Kyl Other 92%
Ray LaHood Other 80%
Tom Lantos Other 12%
Steve LaTourette Other 89%
James Leach Other 90%
Jerry Lewis Other 90%
Ron Lewis Other 90%
Joe Lieberman Other 80%
Blanche Lincoln Other 92%
John Linder Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 90%
Jim Marshall Other 40%
Robert Matsui Other 60%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 90%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 67%
Michael McNulty Other 20%
Martin Meehan Other 56%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 44%
Brad Miller Other 70%
Alan Mollohan Other 30%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 30%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 90%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 90%
Anne Northup Other 89%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 62%
James Nussle Other 90%
Jim Oberstar Other 20%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 40%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 67%
Thomas William Osborne Other 80%
Major Owens Other 30%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 44%
Donald Payne Other 20%
John Peterson Other 90%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 90%
Todd Platts Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 80%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 90%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 90%
Denny Rehberg Other 80%
Richard Renzi Other 90%
Silvestre Reyes Other 70%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 60%
Steve Rothman Other 20%
Jim Ryun Other 90%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 20%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 42%
Jim Saxton Other 90%
John Shadegg Other 90%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 90%
Christopher Shays Other 80%
Donald Sherwood Other 90%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 80%
Ike Skelton Other 70%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 92%
Vic Snyder Other 90%
Hilda Solis Other 40%
Mark Souder Other 90%
Arlen Specter Other 91%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 40%
Pete Stark Other 11%
Cliff Stearns Other 78%
Ted Stevens Other 92%
Ted Strickland Other 10%
Bart Stupak Other 11%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 91%
John Sweeney Other 80%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 60%
John Tanner Other 90%
Ellen Tauscher Other 70%
Charles Taylor Other 60%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 88%
Ed Towns Other 44%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 40%
George Voinovich Other 83%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 89%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 67%
Anthony Weiner Other 60%
David Weldon Other 90%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 89%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 50%
Heather Wilson Other 80%
Lynn Woolsey Other 22%
David Wu Other 70%
Albert Wynn Other 40%

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