Rating Group: Americans for Better Immigration

1989-2002 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 57%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 95%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 57%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 58%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 56%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 40%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 14%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 27%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 5%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 10%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 1%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 22%
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 12%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 87%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 21%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 18%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 61%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 4%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 17%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
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 10%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 11%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 89%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 37%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 21%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 14%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 21%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 22%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 18%
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 57%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 55%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 10%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 59%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 81%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 8%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 7%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 53%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 86%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 60%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 92%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 27%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 6%
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 63%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 74%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 41%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 53%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 15%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 33%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 8%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 21%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 4%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 55%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 41%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 60%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 74%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 52%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 18%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 23%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 81%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 87%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 37%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 26%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 56%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 30%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 12%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 12%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 15%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 13%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 36%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 42%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 21%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 15%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 21%
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 82%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 39%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 55%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 21%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 24%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 8%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 21%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 81%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 60%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 16%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 66%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 29%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 79%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 10%
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 24%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 20%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 74%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 91%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 12%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 96%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 46%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 7%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 18%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 13%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 16%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 52%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 19%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 19%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 88%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 8%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 23%
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 12%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 16%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 18%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 10%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 11%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 25%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 4%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 13%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 14%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 15%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 25%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 13%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 11%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 22%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 37%
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 38%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 18%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 50%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 78%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 8%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 60%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 11%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 79%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 55%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 22%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 13%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 55%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 35%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 52%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 14%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 17%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 33%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 56%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 83%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 10%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 29%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 99%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 94%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 95%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 94%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 64%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 49%
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 9%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 82%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 10%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 26%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 98%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 12%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 21%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 27%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 15%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 66%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 96%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 93%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 43%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 88%
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 21%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 75%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 5%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 12%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 18%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 27%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 27%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 42%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 87%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 76%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 25%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 55%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 23%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 32%
Gary Ackerman Other 13%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 25%
Todd Akin Other 60%
Wayne Allard Other 28%
George Allen Other 80%
Thomas Allen Other 37%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 5%
Brian Baird Other 14%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 95%
Cass Ballenger Other 91%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 95%
Charlie Bass Other 85%
Evan Bayh Other 35%
Bob Bennett Other 18%
Douglas Bereuter Other 95%
Shelley Berkley Other 13%
Howard Berman Other 14%
Marion Berry Other 23%
Judy Biggert Other 37%
Michael Bilirakis Other 94%
Jeff Bingaman Other 21%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 26%
Kit Bond Other 33%
Henry Bonilla Other 48%
Mary Bono Mack Other 34%
Leonard Boswell Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 52%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 83%
John Breaux Other 60%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 59%
Jim Bunning Other 82%
Conrad Burns Other 51%
Dan Burton Other 98%
Steve Buyer Other 71%
Robert Byrd Other 95%
Ben Campbell Other 30%
Chris Cannon Other 25%
Brad Carson Other 57%
Julia Carson Other 31%
Mike Castle Other 61%
Hillary Clinton Other 34%
Michael Collins Other 92%
Larry Combest Other 95%
Kent Conrad Other 52%
Jon Corzine Other 78%
Jerry Costello Other 18%
Christopher Cox Other 91%
Larry Craig Other 68%
Robert Cramer Other 62%
Philip Crane Other 77%
Barbara Cubin Other 91%
Randall Cunningham Other 90%
Thomas Daschle Other 15%
James Davis Other 12%
Jo Ann Davis Other 93%
Thomas Davis III Other 21%
Bill Delahunt Other 19%
Thomas DeLay Other 71%
James DeMint Other 63%
Peter Deutsch Other 14%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 11%
Norm Dicks Other 20%
Chris Dodd Other 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 24%
Calvin Dooley Other 8%
John Doolittle Other 94%
Byron Dorgan Other 25%
David Dreier Other 75%
Jennifer Dunn Other 60%
John Edwards Other 17%
Chet Edwards Other 24%
Vern Ehlers Other 55%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 99%
Philip English Other 21%
John Ensign Other 25%
Bob Etheridge Other 46%
Lane Evans Other 6%
Terry Everett Other 96%
Russ Feingold Other 23%
Michael Ferguson Other 55%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 59%
Ernest Fletcher Other 37%
Mark Foley Other 84%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 37%
Barney Frank Other 12%
William Frist Other 23%
Jonas Frost III Other 11%
Elton Gallegly Other 95%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 16%
Jim Gibbons Other 78%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 82%
Paul Gillmor Other 72%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 5%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 99%
Bart Gordon Other 35%
Porter Goss Other 91%
Daniel Graham Other 5%
Mark Green Other 47%
James Greenwood Other 91%
Judd Gregg Other 27%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 78%
Jane Harman Other 52%
Melissa Hart Other 33%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 94%
Robert Hayes Other 91%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 30%
Joel Hefley Other 96%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 96%
Baron Hill Other 19%
Maurice Hinchey Other 55%
David Lee Hobson Other 67%
Pete Hoekstra Other 52%
Thomas Holden Other 70%
Ernest Hollings Other 79%
Darlene Hooley Other 35%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 86%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 43%
Kenny Hulshof Other 57%
Duncan Hunter Other 96%
Kay Hutchison Other 26%
Henry Hyde Other 50%
Daniel Inouye Other 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 76%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 10%
William Jefferson Other 10%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 57%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 66%
Christopher John Other 35%
Nancy Johnson Other 34%
Tim Johnson Other 20%
Paul Kanjorski Other 32%
Ric Keller Other 94%
Sue Kelly Other 39%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 17%
Mark Kennedy Other 33%
Patrick Kennedy Other 15%
Dale Kildee Other 20%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 23%
Gerald Kleczka Other 32%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 29%
Herb Kohl Other 23%
James Kolbe Other 66%
Dennis Kucinich Other 23%
Jon Kyl Other 69%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Nicholas Lampson Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 22%
Steve LaTourette Other 23%
Frank Lautenberg Other 16%
James Leach Other 56%
Jerry Lewis Other 54%
Ron Lewis Other 88%
Joe Lieberman Other 31%
Blanche Lincoln Other 63%
John Linder Other 84%
William Lipinski Other 76%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 32%
Dick Lugar Other 24%
Don Manzullo Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 5%
Karen McCarthy Other 38%
James McCrery III Other 90%
John McHugh Other 19%
Scott McInnis Other 34%
Michael McNulty Other 14%
Martin Meehan Other 15%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 20%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 80%
Alan Mollohan Other 21%
Dennis Moore Other 47%
Jack Murtha Other 29%
Sue Myrick Other 30%
Ben Nelson Other 70%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 75%
Robert William Ney Other 71%
Don Nickles Other 24%
Anne Northup Other 54%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 95%
James Nussle Other 63%
Jim Oberstar Other 6%
Dave Obey Other 56%
John Olver Other 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 4%
Thomas William Osborne Other 21%
Doug Ose Other 18%
Major Owens Other 5%
Michael Oxley Other 62%
Ron Paul Other 53%
Donald Payne Other 6%
John Peterson Other 85%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 83%
Todd Platts Other 55%
Richard Pombo Other 78%
Earl Pomeroy Other 63%
Deborah Pryce Other 27%
Jack Quinn Other 28%
George Radanovich Other 69%
James Ramstad Other 81%
Ralph Regula Other 74%
Denny Rehberg Other 55%
Silvestre Reyes Other 6%
Thomas Reynolds Other 37%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 10%
Mike Ross Other 21%
Steve Rothman Other 26%
Jim Ryun Other 55%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 12%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 14%
Rick Santorum Other 24%
Paul Sarbanes Other 22%
Jim Saxton Other 93%
Edward Schrock Other 70%
John Shadegg Other 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 87%
Christopher Shays Other 73%
Donald Sherwood Other 62%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 33%
Ike Skelton Other 26%
Gordon Smith Other 32%
Nick Smith Other 29%
Olympia Snowe Other 30%
Vic Snyder Other 12%
Hilda Solis Other 4%
Mark Souder Other 14%
Arlen Specter Other 25%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 43%
Pete Stark Other 2%
Cliff Stearns Other 94%
Charles Stenholm Other 93%
Ted Stevens Other 31%
Ted Strickland Other 40%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sullivan Other 91%
John Sununu Other 56%
John Sweeney Other 50%
James Talent Other 85%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 85%
Ellen Tauscher Other 16%
William Tauzin Other 85%
Charles Taylor Other 93%
Gene Taylor Other 93%
Craig Thomas Other 72%
William Thomas Other 51%
Todd Tiahrt Other 42%
Ed Towns Other 6%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 20%
James Turner Other 19%
George Voinovich Other 64%
James Walsh Other 18%
Zach Wamp Other 94%
John Warner Other 23%
Diane Watson Other 29%
Anthony Weiner Other 28%
David Weldon Other 69%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 66%
Gerald Weller Other 72%
Robert Wexler Other 24%
Heather Wilson Other 24%
Lynn Woolsey Other 8%
David Wu Other 18%
Albert Wynn Other 13%

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