Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

2003 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 50%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 76%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 60%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 80%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 68%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 68%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 70%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 78%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 12%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 68%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 80%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 92%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 13%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 11%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 89%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 12%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 16%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 14%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 11%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 11%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 13%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 19%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 17%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 16%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 73%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 11%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 54%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 11%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 14%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 89%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 8%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 14%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 11%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 11%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 92%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 11%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 65%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 8%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 16%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 92%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 66%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 8%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 11%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 22%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 17%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 13%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 11%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 24%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 16%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 95%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 66%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 14%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 76%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 59%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 14%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 87%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 61%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 71%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 72%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 87%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 68%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 18%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 11%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 74%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 24%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 89%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 13%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 72%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 9%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 63%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 74%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 71%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 62%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 89%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 8%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 68%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 19%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 16%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 13%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 79%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 13%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 13%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 89%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 68%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 66%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 76%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 68%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 73%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 68%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 47%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 16%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 73%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 32%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 14%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 11%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 13%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 16%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 26%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 11%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 16%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 16%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 18%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 13%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 12%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 11%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 64%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 11%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 24%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 28%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 71%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 66%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 74%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 13%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 65%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 16%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 18%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 70%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 13%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 45%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 24%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 76%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 18%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 84%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 64%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 63%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 13%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 17%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 33%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 77%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 22%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 70%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 82%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 13%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 84%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 32%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 13%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 89%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 68%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 13%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 14%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 50%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 47%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 89%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 11%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 14%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 53%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 13%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 16%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 74%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 13%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 16%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 13%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 54%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 21%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 21%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 16%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 15%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 8%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 13%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 13%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 13%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 9%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 13%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 11%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 8%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 14%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 61%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 95%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 68%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 8%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 65%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 96%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 11%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 72%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 72%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 66%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 68%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 28%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 66%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 13%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 21%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 95%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 5%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 55%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 68%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 11%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 92%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 66%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 8%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 16%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 11%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 40%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 88%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 84%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 16%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 12%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 76%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 87%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 24%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 92%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 76%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 89%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 66%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 84%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 89%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 74%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 84%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 68%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 76%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 13%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 70%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 71%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 81%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 18%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 13%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 71%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 89%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 22%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 72%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 73%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 34%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 11%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 76%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 76%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 74%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 21%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 61%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 24%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 13%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 24%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 20%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 16%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 68%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 14%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 47%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 13%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 13%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 95%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 18%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 89%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 89%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 16%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 55%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 16%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 76%
Gary Ackerman Other 11%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 16%
Todd Akin Other 95%
Wayne Allard Other 80%
George Allen Other 76%
Thomas Allen Other 8%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 13%
Brian Baird Other 13%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 86%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 13%
Cass Ballenger Other 69%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 95%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 87%
Charlie Bass Other 76%
Evan Bayh Other 36%
Bob Beauprez Other 87%
Chris Bell Other 16%
Bob Bennett Other 63%
Douglas Bereuter Other 43%
Shelley Berkley Other 14%
Howard Berman Other 14%
Marion Berry Other 26%
Judy Biggert Other 55%
Michael Bilirakis Other 84%
Jeff Bingaman Other 24%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 45%
Kit Bond Other 58%
Henry Bonilla Other 64%
Mary Bono Mack Other 57%
Leonard Boswell Other 24%
Rick Boucher Other 11%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 32%
John Breaux Other 21%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 66%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 76%
Jim Bunning Other 80%
Conrad Burns Other 56%
Max Burns Other 68%
Dan Burton Other 81%
Steve Buyer Other 86%
Robert Byrd Other 16%
Ben Campbell Other 54%
Chris Cannon Other 89%
Dennis Cardoza Other 24%
Brad Carson Other 28%
Julia Carson Other 14%
Edward Case Other 21%
Mike Castle Other 53%
Chris Chocola Other 82%
Hillary Clinton Other 16%
Norm Coleman Other 72%
Michael Collins Other 87%
Kent Conrad Other 8%
Jon Corzine Other 20%
Jerry Costello Other 25%
Christopher Cox Other 94%
Larry Craig Other 72%
Robert Cramer Other 35%
Philip Crane Other 89%
Barbara Cubin Other 76%
Randall Cunningham Other 79%
Thomas Daschle Other 4%
Artur Davis Other 16%
James Davis Other 13%
Jo Ann Davis Other 79%
Lincoln Davis Other 50%
Thomas Davis III Other 62%
Bill Delahunt Other 13%
Thomas DeLay Other 77%
James DeMint Other 95%
Peter Deutsch Other 21%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 58%
Norm Dicks Other 8%
Chris Dodd Other 16%
Elizabeth Dole Other 72%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 58%
Calvin Dooley Other 37%
John Doolittle Other 68%
Byron Dorgan Other 4%
David Dreier Other 68%
Jennifer Dunn Other 68%
John Edwards Other 13%
Chet Edwards Other 27%
Vern Ehlers Other 54%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 71%
Philip English Other 47%
John Ensign Other 88%
Bob Etheridge Other 16%
Lane Evans Other 11%
Terry Everett Other 81%
Tom Feeney Other 92%
Russ Feingold Other 44%
Michael Ferguson Other 70%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 80%
Mark Foley Other 65%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 15%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 87%
Barney Frank Other 13%
William Frist Other 68%
Jonas Frost III Other 11%
Elton Gallegly Other 68%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 43%
Jim Gibbons Other 87%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 54%
Paul Gillmor Other 63%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 16%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 71%
Bart Gordon Other 24%
Porter Goss Other 64%
Daniel Graham Other 25%
Mark Green Other 95%
James Greenwood Other 53%
Judd Gregg Other 60%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 84%
Jane Harman Other 17%
Melissa Hart Other 66%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 67%
Robert Hayes Other 76%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 78%
Joel Hefley Other 82%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 89%
Baron Hill Other 24%
Maurice Hinchey Other 13%
David Lee Hobson Other 63%
Pete Hoekstra Other 82%
Thomas Holden Other 26%
Ernest Hollings Other 13%
Darlene Hooley Other 18%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 71%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 50%
Kenny Hulshof Other 76%
Duncan Hunter Other 82%
Kay Hutchison Other 72%
Henry Hyde Other 70%
Daniel Inouye Other 10%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 72%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 13%
William Jefferson Other 24%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 25%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 81%
Christopher John Other 36%
Nancy Johnson Other 46%
Tim Johnson Other 42%
Paul Kanjorski Other 11%
Ric Keller Other 81%
Sue Kelly Other 57%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 8%
Mark Kennedy Other 79%
Patrick Kennedy Other 11%
Dale Kildee Other 13%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 13%
Gerald Kleczka Other 11%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 59%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
James Kolbe Other 55%
Dennis Kucinich Other 16%
Jon Kyl Other 88%
Ray LaHood Other 58%
Nicholas Lampson Other 8%
Tom Lantos Other 6%
Steve LaTourette Other 54%
Frank Lautenberg Other 16%
James Leach Other 41%
Jerry Lewis Other 61%
Ron Lewis Other 76%
Joe Lieberman Other 14%
Blanche Lincoln Other 24%
John Linder Other 89%
William Lipinski Other 26%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 72%
Dick Lugar Other 71%
Denise Majette Other 16%
Don Manzullo Other 82%
Jim Marshall Other 24%
Robert Matsui Other 16%
Karen McCarthy Other 17%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 82%
James McCrery III Other 66%
John McHugh Other 52%
Scott McInnis Other 72%
Michael McNulty Other 11%
Martin Meehan Other 13%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 14%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 13%
Brad Miller Other 11%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 71%
Alan Mollohan Other 14%
Dennis Moore Other 19%
Jack Murtha Other 16%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 89%
Sue Myrick Other 81%
Ben Nelson Other 28%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 65%
Robert William Ney Other 66%
Don Nickles Other 88%
Anne Northup Other 68%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 88%
James Nussle Other 68%
Jim Oberstar Other 11%
Dave Obey Other 13%
John Olver Other 11%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 8%
Thomas William Osborne Other 61%
Doug Ose Other 66%
Major Owens Other 11%
Michael Oxley Other 74%
Ron Paul Other 79%
Donald Payne Other 15%
John Peterson Other 71%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 64%
Todd Platts Other 58%
Richard Pombo Other 74%
Earl Pomeroy Other 38%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 66%
Deborah Pryce Other 61%
Jack Quinn Other 56%
George Radanovich Other 76%
James Ramstad Other 74%
Ralph Regula Other 63%
Denny Rehberg Other 68%
Richard Renzi Other 66%
Silvestre Reyes Other 11%
Thomas Reynolds Other 64%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 11%
Mike Ross Other 21%
Steve Rothman Other 16%
Jim Ryun Other 89%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 17%
Rick Santorum Other 76%
Paul Sarbanes Other 8%
Jim Saxton Other 53%
Edward Schrock Other 81%
John Shadegg Other 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 61%
Christopher Shays Other 61%
Donald Sherwood Other 63%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 50%
Ike Skelton Other 32%
Gordon Smith Other 71%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Olympia Snowe Other 44%
Vic Snyder Other 17%
Hilda Solis Other 11%
Mark Souder Other 65%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 8%
Pete Stark Other 13%
Cliff Stearns Other 89%
Charles Stenholm Other 45%
Ted Stevens Other 56%
Ted Strickland Other 13%
Bart Stupak Other 14%
John Sullivan Other 78%
John Sununu Other 88%
John Sweeney Other 51%
James Talent Other 68%
Tom Tancredo Other 92%
John Tanner Other 42%
Ellen Tauscher Other 16%
William Tauzin Other 68%
Charles Taylor Other 82%
Gene Taylor Other 63%
Craig Thomas Other 80%
William Thomas Other 63%
Todd Tiahrt Other 73%
Ed Towns Other 18%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 19%
James Turner Other 39%
George Voinovich Other 74%
James Walsh Other 62%
Zach Wamp Other 74%
John Warner Other 64%
Diane Watson Other 16%
Anthony Weiner Other 13%
David Weldon Other 71%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 52%
Gerald Weller Other 68%
Robert Wexler Other 11%
Heather Wilson Other 55%
Lynn Woolsey Other 14%
David Wu Other 13%
Albert Wynn Other 13%

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