Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

2002 Positions

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

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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