Rating Group: Americans for Better Immigration

1989-2001 Lifetime Score

Issues: Immigration
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 86%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 83%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 48%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 78%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 95%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 85%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 81%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 7%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 65%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 40%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 0%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 26%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 4%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 9%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 14%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 21%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 8%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 17%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 87%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 14%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 12%
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 16%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 7%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 98%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 13%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 87%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 7%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 88%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 36%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 14%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 13%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 13%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 17%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 78%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 14%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 18%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 28%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 85%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 85%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 34%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 83%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 7%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 6%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 63%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 87%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 85%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 26%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 4%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 99%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 40%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 18%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 64%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 74%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 52%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 71%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 17%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 36%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 7%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 8%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 17%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 78%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 41%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 85%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 74%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 78%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 22%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 23%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 82%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 76%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 48%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 26%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 77%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 29%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 5%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 10%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 5%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 42%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 20%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 14%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 17%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 43%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 24%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 60%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 84%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 40%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 85%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 20%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 22%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 5%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 14%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 80%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 90%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 85%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 29%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 80%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 8%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 43%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 22%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 20%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 75%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 91%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 10%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 96%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 62%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 7%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 14%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 12%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 15%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 52%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 18%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 91%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 16%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 74%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 26%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 11%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 36%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 10%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 16%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 8%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 7%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 24%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 4%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 0%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 13%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 13%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 24%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 12%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 8%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 21%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 35%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 55%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 22%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 42%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 30%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 21%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 50%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 79%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 8%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 85%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 70%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 75%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 16%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 11%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 85%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 35%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 78%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 17%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 36%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 28%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 73%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 8%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 29%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 78%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 99%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 93%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 96%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 97%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 85%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 69%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 65%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 5%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 6%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 82%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 8%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 25%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 98%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 10%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 25%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 24%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 11%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 85%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 96%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 85%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 14%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 89%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 20%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 8%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 15%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 14%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 75%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 3%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 8%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 17%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 16%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 24%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 56%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 86%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 72%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 46%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 25%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 85%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 21%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 32%
Gary Ackerman Other 12%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 25%
Todd Akin Other 85%
Wayne Allard Other 28%
George Allen Other 80%
Thomas Allen Other 43%
Richard Armey Other 36%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 95%
John Baldacci Other 35%
Cass Ballenger Other 91%
James Barcia Other 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 96%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 94%
Charlie Bass Other 88%
Evan Bayh Other 35%
Bob Bennett Other 18%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 38%
Douglas Bereuter Other 95%
Shelley Berkley Other 0%
Howard Berman Other 13%
Marion Berry Other 17%
Judy Biggert Other 48%
Michael Bilirakis Other 94%
Jeff Bingaman Other 21%
Rod Blagojevich Other 17%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Kit Bond Other 33%
Henry Bonilla Other 48%
David Edward Bonior Other 4%
Mary Bono Mack Other 41%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 21%
Leonard Boswell Other 23%
Rick Boucher Other 51%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 78%
John Breaux Other 60%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 85%
Ed Bryant Other 88%
Jim Bunning Other 82%
Conrad Burns Other 51%
Dan Burton Other 97%
Steve Buyer Other 71%
Robert Byrd Other 95%
Herbert Callahan Other 93%
Ben Campbell Other 30%
Chris Cannon Other 19%
Jean Carnahan Other 100%
Brad Carson Other 16%
Julia Carson Other 37%
Mike Castle Other 62%
Eva Clayton Other 7%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 12%
Robert Clement Other 77%
Hillary Clinton Other 78%
Michael Collins Other 94%
Larry Combest Other 95%
Gary Condit Other 42%
Kent Conrad Other 52%
John Cooksey Other 97%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 17%
Christopher Cox Other 91%
William Coyne Other 8%
Larry Craig Other 68%
Robert Cramer Other 63%
Philip Crane Other 78%
Barbara Cubin Other 91%
Randall Cunningham Other 91%
Thomas Daschle Other 22%
James Davis Other 8%
Jo Ann Davis Other 95%
Thomas Davis III Other 20%
Bill Delahunt Other 12%
Thomas DeLay Other 72%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 13%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 9%
Norm Dicks Other 18%
Chris Dodd Other 22%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 24%
Calvin Dooley Other 8%
John Doolittle Other 94%
Byron Dorgan Other 25%
David Dreier Other 76%
Jennifer Dunn Other 61%
John Edwards Other 30%
Chet Edwards Other 23%
Vern Ehlers Other 55%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 82%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 99%
Philip English Other 21%
John Ensign Other 25%
Bob Etheridge Other 62%
Lane Evans Other 4%
Terry Everett Other 96%
Russ Feingold Other 23%
Michael Ferguson Other 85%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 59%
Ernest Fletcher Other 48%
Mark Foley Other 84%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 24%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 42%
Barney Frank Other 12%
William Frist Other 23%
Jonas Frost III Other 11%
Elton Gallegly Other 97%
John Ganske Other 81%
George Gekas Other 87%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 16%
Jim Gibbons Other 78%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 83%
Paul Gillmor Other 72%
Benjamin Gilman Other 19%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 99%
Bart Gordon Other 34%
Porter Goss Other 92%
Daniel Graham Other 8%
William Phillip Gramm Other 38%
Mark Green Other 63%
James Greenwood Other 92%
Judd Gregg Other 27%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 42%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 77%
Tony Hall Other 23%
James Hansen Other 90%
Jane Harman Other 52%
Melissa Hart Other 24%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 94%
Robert Hayes Other 90%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 31%
Joel Hefley Other 96%
Jesse Helms Other 65%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 96%
Baron Hill Other 14%
Van Hilleary Other 80%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 47%
Maurice Hinchey Other 55%
David Lee Hobson Other 68%
Pete Hoekstra Other 54%
Thomas Holden Other 43%
Ernest Hollings Other 79%
Darlene Hooley Other 41%
Stephen Horn Other 97%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 86%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 43%
Kenny Hulshof Other 78%
Duncan Hunter Other 96%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 53%
Kay Hutchison Other 26%
Henry Hyde Other 50%
Daniel Inouye Other 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 79%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 9%
William Jefferson Other 8%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 57%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 38%
Christopher John Other 46%
Nancy Johnson Other 34%
Tim Johnson Other 29%
Paul Kanjorski Other 31%
Ric Keller Other 85%
Sue Kelly Other 39%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 20%
Mark Kennedy Other 36%
Patrick Kennedy Other 13%
Brian Kerns Other 96%
Dale Kildee Other 19%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 21%
Gerald Kleczka Other 31%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 29%
Herb Kohl Other 23%
James Kolbe Other 67%
Dennis Kucinich Other 21%
Jon Kyl Other 69%
John LaFalce Other 16%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Nicholas Lampson Other 17%
Tom Lantos Other 22%
Steve LaTourette Other 23%
James Leach Other 56%
Jerry Lewis Other 55%
Ron Lewis Other 90%
Joe Lieberman Other 31%
Blanche Lincoln Other 63%
John Linder Other 86%
William Lipinski Other 76%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 32%
Dick Lugar Other 24%
William Luther Other 40%
James Maloney Other 34%
Don Manzullo Other 50%
Frank Mascara Other 39%
Robert Matsui Other 3%
Karen McCarthy Other 38%
James McCrery III Other 92%
John McHugh Other 18%
Scott McInnis Other 36%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 15%
Michael McNulty Other 13%
Martin Meehan Other 13%
Carrie Meek Other 8%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 17%
Dan Miller Other 36%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 12%
Alan Mollohan Other 19%
Dennis Moore Other 14%
Constance Morella Other 4%
Frank Murkowski Other 24%
Jack Murtha Other 29%
Sue Myrick Other 31%
Ben Nelson Other 70%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 74%
Robert William Ney Other 71%
Don Nickles Other 24%
Anne Northup Other 71%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 95%
James Nussle Other 64%
Jim Oberstar Other 4%
Dave Obey Other 55%
John Olver Other 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 3%
Thomas William Osborne Other 14%
Doug Ose Other 14%
Major Owens Other 4%
Michael Oxley Other 62%
Ron Paul Other 67%
Donald Payne Other 4%
John Peterson Other 78%
David Phelps Other 30%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 78%
Todd Platts Other 85%
Richard Pombo Other 80%
Earl Pomeroy Other 64%
Deborah Pryce Other 27%
Jack Quinn Other 28%
George Radanovich Other 69%
James Ramstad Other 81%
Ralph Regula Other 75%
Denny Rehberg Other 85%
Silvestre Reyes Other 5%
Thomas Reynolds Other 48%
Bob Riley Other 67%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 42%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 16%
Timothy Roemer Other 38%
Mike Ross Other 14%
Steve Rothman Other 24%
Marge Roukema Other 97%
Jim Ryun Other 78%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 11%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 12%
Rick Santorum Other 24%
Paul Sarbanes Other 22%
Jim Saxton Other 92%
Edward Schrock Other 96%
John Shadegg Other 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 88%
Christopher Shays Other 73%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Ronnie Shows Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 36%
Joseph Skeen Other 86%
Ike Skelton Other 25%
Gordon Smith Other 32%
Nick Smith Other 30%
Bob Smith Other 48%
Olympia Snowe Other 30%
Vic Snyder Other 0%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 13%
Arlen Specter Other 25%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 43%
Pete Stark Other 1%
Cliff Stearns Other 94%
Charles Stenholm Other 93%
Ted Stevens Other 31%
Ted Strickland Other 49%
Bob Stump Other 96%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 58%
John Sweeney Other 80%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 86%
Ellen Tauscher Other 10%
William Tauzin Other 85%
Charles Taylor Other 94%
Gene Taylor Other 92%
Craig Thomas Other 72%
William Thomas Other 22%
Fred Thompson Other 20%
Karen Thurman Other 24%
Strom Thurmond Other 25%
Todd Tiahrt Other 42%
Robert Torricelli Other 27%
Ed Towns Other 4%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 98%
James Turner Other 12%
George Voinovich Other 64%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 93%
John Warner Other 23%
Wesley Watkins Other 92%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 75%
Anthony Weiner Other 15%
David Weldon Other 56%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 44%
Gerald Weller Other 73%
Paul Wellstone Other 23%
Robert Wexler Other 19%
Heather Wilson Other 19%
Lynn Woolsey Other 7%
David Wu Other 14%
Albert Wynn Other 11%

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