Rating Group: Americans for Better Immigration

1989-2003 Lifetime Score

Issues: Immigration
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 92%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 83%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 59%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 68%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 64%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 87%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 96%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 14%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 83%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 16%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 35%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 16%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 8%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 78%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 55%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 35%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 8%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 24%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 8%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 11%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 11%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 19%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 7%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 15%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 22%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 4%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 87%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 10%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 20%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 78%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 13%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 16%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 7%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 16%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 99%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 13%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 88%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 10%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 20%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 97%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 53%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 12%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 15%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 21%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 16%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 29%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 19%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 20%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 57%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 70%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 77%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 10%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 63%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 80%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 9%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 18%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 11%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 29%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 89%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 78%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 94%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 24%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 10%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 78%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 48%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 99%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 40%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 62%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 15%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 68%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 98%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 66%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 56%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 67%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 12%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 48%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 9%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 23%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 16%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 56%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 8%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 45%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 78%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 78%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 66%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 16%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 17%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 86%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 87%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 42%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 24%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 76%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 80%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 32%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 18%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 14%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 20%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 20%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 37%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 21%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 36%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 42%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 24%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 4%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 43%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 36%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 21%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 37%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 85%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 39%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 76%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 22%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 58%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 29%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 11%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 53%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 26%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 82%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 46%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 77%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 23%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 84%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 22%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 85%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 11%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 17%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 9%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 18%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 77%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 93%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 13%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 97%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 76%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 8%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 35%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 84%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 12%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 13%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 16%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 54%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 20%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 73%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 22%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 29%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 92%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 16%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 28%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 15%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 71%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 20%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 32%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 14%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 18%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 6%
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 21%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 7%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 1%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 13%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 19%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 26%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 16%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 11%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 24%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 38%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 64%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 24%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 78%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 49%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 39%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 12%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 68%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 81%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 78%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 6%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 47%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 4%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 89%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 77%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 25%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 13%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 78%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 76%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 47%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 64%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 26%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 17%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 33%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 24%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 68%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 94%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 11%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 61%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 99%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 32%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 81%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 96%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 96%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 60%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 87%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 99%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 79%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 69%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 70%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 2%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 9%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 58%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 94%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 78%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 11%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 27%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 81%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 98%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 11%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 15%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 80%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 30%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 14%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 85%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 97%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 85%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 40%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 87%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 15%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 9%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 11%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 38%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 13%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 77%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 9%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 5%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 12%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 29%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 26%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 42%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 85%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 75%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 24%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 76%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 27%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 19%
Gary Ackerman Other 16%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 23%
Todd Akin Other 91%
Wayne Allard Other 28%
George Allen Other 80%
Thomas Allen Other 39%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 13%
Brian Baird Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 96%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 20%
Cass Ballenger Other 91%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 95%
Charlie Bass Other 88%
Evan Bayh Other 22%
Bob Beauprez Other 64%
Chris Bell Other 28%
Bob Bennett Other 18%
Douglas Bereuter Other 95%
Shelley Berkley Other 5%
Howard Berman Other 14%
Marion Berry Other 28%
Judy Biggert Other 45%
Michael Bilirakis Other 95%
Jeff Bingaman Other 18%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 27%
Kit Bond Other 33%
Henry Bonilla Other 56%
Mary Bono Mack Other 34%
Leonard Boswell Other 22%
Rick Boucher Other 63%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 83%
John Breaux Other 56%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 60%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 86%
Jim Bunning Other 90%
Conrad Burns Other 45%
Max Burns Other 76%
Dan Burton Other 96%
Steve Buyer Other 72%
Robert Byrd Other 95%
Ben Campbell Other 23%
Chris Cannon Other 22%
Dennis Cardoza Other 65%
Brad Carson Other 63%
Julia Carson Other 28%
Edward Case Other 60%
Mike Castle Other 78%
Chris Chocola Other 58%
Hillary Clinton Other 17%
Norm Coleman Other 14%
Michael Collins Other 93%
Kent Conrad Other 52%
Jon Corzine Other 29%
Jerry Costello Other 25%
Christopher Cox Other 91%
Larry Craig Other 59%
Robert Cramer Other 64%
Philip Crane Other 78%
Barbara Cubin Other 93%
Randall Cunningham Other 92%
Thomas Daschle Other 12%
Artur Davis Other 20%
James Davis Other 5%
Jo Ann Davis Other 95%
Lincoln Davis Other 78%
Thomas Davis III Other 16%
Bill Delahunt Other 19%
Thomas DeLay Other 68%
James DeMint Other 80%
Peter Deutsch Other 14%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 11%
Norm Dicks Other 21%
Chris Dodd Other 14%
Elizabeth Dole Other 14%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 19%
Calvin Dooley Other 6%
John Doolittle Other 95%
Byron Dorgan Other 25%
David Dreier Other 61%
Jennifer Dunn Other 62%
John Edwards Other 12%
Chet Edwards Other 21%
Vern Ehlers Other 59%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 99%
Philip English Other 21%
John Ensign Other 42%
Bob Etheridge Other 55%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 97%
Tom Feeney Other 78%
Russ Feingold Other 18%
Michael Ferguson Other 76%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 24%
Mark Foley Other 83%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 49%
Barney Frank Other 14%
William Frist Other 23%
Jonas Frost III Other 14%
Elton Gallegly Other 95%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 18%
Jim Gibbons Other 80%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 84%
Paul Gillmor Other 68%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 5%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 99%
Bart Gordon Other 25%
Porter Goss Other 88%
Daniel Graham Other 4%
Mark Green Other 72%
James Greenwood Other 93%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 90%
Jane Harman Other 47%
Katherine Harris Other 78%
Melissa Hart Other 47%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 94%
Robert Hayes Other 95%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 46%
Joel Hefley Other 98%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 91%
Baron Hill Other 18%
Maurice Hinchey Other 59%
David Lee Hobson Other 72%
Pete Hoekstra Other 70%
Thomas Holden Other 71%
Ernest Hollings Other 79%
Darlene Hooley Other 31%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 91%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 26%
Kenny Hulshof Other 78%
Duncan Hunter Other 99%
Kay Hutchison Other 26%
Henry Hyde Other 66%
Daniel Inouye Other 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 91%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 11%
William Janklow Other 38%
William Jefferson Other 9%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 57%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 76%
Christopher John Other 54%
Nancy Johnson Other 32%
Tim Johnson Other 78%
Paul Kanjorski Other 34%
Ric Keller Other 83%
Sue Kelly Other 41%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 14%
Mark Kennedy Other 49%
Patrick Kennedy Other 14%
Dale Kildee Other 22%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 27%
Gerald Kleczka Other 30%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 29%
Herb Kohl Other 19%
James Kolbe Other 50%
Dennis Kucinich Other 26%
Jon Kyl Other 66%
Ray LaHood Other 23%
Nicholas Lampson Other 24%
Tom Lantos Other 23%
Steve LaTourette Other 22%
James Leach Other 65%
Jerry Lewis Other 42%
Ron Lewis Other 90%
Joe Lieberman Other 24%
Blanche Lincoln Other 64%
John Linder Other 86%
William Lipinski Other 79%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 27%
Dick Lugar Other 22%
Denise Majette Other 32%
Don Manzullo Other 52%
Jim Marshall Other 80%
Robert Matsui Other 6%
Karen McCarthy Other 35%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 78%
James McCrery III Other 90%
John McHugh Other 23%
Scott McInnis Other 23%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Martin Meehan Other 14%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 4%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 16%
Brad Miller Other 36%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 25%
Dennis Moore Other 36%
Jack Murtha Other 32%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 78%
Sue Myrick Other 36%
Ben Nelson Other 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 76%
Robert William Ney Other 77%
Don Nickles Other 24%
Anne Northup Other 71%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 96%
James Nussle Other 69%
Jim Oberstar Other 10%
Dave Obey Other 63%
John Olver Other 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 6%
Thomas William Osborne Other 43%
Doug Ose Other 30%
Major Owens Other 11%
Michael Oxley Other 59%
Ron Paul Other 73%
Donald Payne Other 10%
John Peterson Other 92%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 85%
Todd Platts Other 82%
Richard Pombo Other 81%
Earl Pomeroy Other 68%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 60%
Deborah Pryce Other 26%
Jack Quinn Other 19%
George Radanovich Other 69%
James Ramstad Other 85%
Ralph Regula Other 78%
Denny Rehberg Other 49%
Richard Renzi Other 35%
Silvestre Reyes Other 4%
Thomas Reynolds Other 38%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 11%
Mike Ross Other 51%
Steve Rothman Other 30%
Jim Ryun Other 76%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 14%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 8%
Rick Santorum Other 24%
Paul Sarbanes Other 19%
Jim Saxton Other 94%
Edward Schrock Other 88%
John Shadegg Other 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 85%
Christopher Shays Other 81%
Donald Sherwood Other 79%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 57%
Ike Skelton Other 16%
Gordon Smith Other 19%
Nick Smith Other 33%
Olympia Snowe Other 25%
Vic Snyder Other 4%
Hilda Solis Other 13%
Mark Souder Other 17%
Arlen Specter Other 16%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 35%
Pete Stark Other 6%
Cliff Stearns Other 95%
Charles Stenholm Other 92%
Ted Stevens Other 31%
Ted Strickland Other 54%
Bart Stupak Other 37%
John Sullivan Other 97%
John Sununu Other 37%
John Sweeney Other 42%
James Talent Other 89%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 86%
Ellen Tauscher Other 10%
William Tauzin Other 82%
Charles Taylor Other 95%
Gene Taylor Other 95%
Craig Thomas Other 77%
William Thomas Other 58%
Todd Tiahrt Other 38%
Ed Towns Other 10%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 41%
James Turner Other 13%
George Voinovich Other 30%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 95%
John Warner Other 23%
Diane Watson Other 16%
Anthony Weiner Other 23%
David Weldon Other 71%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 74%
Gerald Weller Other 72%
Robert Wexler Other 25%
Heather Wilson Other 26%
Lynn Woolsey Other 10%
David Wu Other 31%
Albert Wynn Other 13%

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