Rating Group: American Coalition for Ethanol

2002 Positions

Issues: Energy
State Office Name Party Rating
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 67%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 33%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 67%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 67%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 33%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 33%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 67%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 33%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 33%
Jeff Bingaman Other 67%
Kit Bond Other 100%
John Breaux Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 67%
Ben Campbell Other 67%
Hillary Clinton Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 67%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
John Edwards Other 100%
John Ensign Other 33%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 100%
William Frist Other 100%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 67%
Ernest Hollings Other 67%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 33%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 67%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 67%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 67%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Craig Thomas Other 33%
George Voinovich Other 100%
John Warner Other 0%

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