| State | Office | District | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OH | U.S. House | 1 | Steve Chabot | Republican | 97% |
| Pete Hoekstra | 97% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 39 | Ed Royce | Republican | 97% |
| KS | Governor | Sam Brownback | Republican | 94% | |
| AZ | U.S. House | 5 | Matthew Salmon | Republican | 94% |
| SC | U.S. House | 1 | Mark Sanford, Jr. | Republican | 94% |
| WI | U.S. House | 5 | Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. | Republican | 94% |
| AZ | U.S. Senate | Sr | John McCain III | Republican | 92% |
| Fred Thompson | 92% | ||||
| Stephen Largent | 91% | ||||
| Don Manzullo | 91% | ||||
| Scott McInnis | 91% | ||||
| Dan Miller | 91% | ||||
| James Ramstad | 91% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 48 | Dana Rohrabacher | Republican | 91% |
| John Shadegg | 91% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 6 | Fred Upton | Republican | 91% |
| J.D. Hayworth, Jr. | 89% | ||||
| Christopher Shays | 89% | ||||
| Edmond Spencer Abraham | 88% | ||||
| TN | U.S. House | 2 | John Duncan, Jr. | Republican | 88% |
| Rodney Grams | 88% | ||||
| Judd Gregg | 88% | ||||
| OH | Governor | John Kasich | Republican | 88% | |
| Jon Kyl | 88% | ||||
| Don Nickles | 88% | ||||
| Bob Smith | 88% | ||||
| James Talent | 88% | ||||
| Rick Santorum | 87% | ||||
| Richard Armey | 86% | ||||
| NC | U.S. House | 6 | Howard Coble | Republican | 86% |
| Christopher Cox | 86% | ||||
| Philip Crane | 86% | ||||
| Randall Cunningham | 86% | ||||
| Bob Ehrlich, Jr. | 86% | ||||
| Porter Goss | 86% | ||||
| Y. Tim Hutchinson | 86% | ||||
| GA | U.S. House | 1 | Jack Kingston | Republican | 86% |
| Sue Myrick | 86% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 6 | Tom Petri | Republican | 86% |
| Nick Smith | 86% | ||||
| Todd Tiahrt | 86% | ||||
| Robert Barr, Jr. | 85% | ||||
| OH | U.S. Senate | Jr | Rob Portman | Republican | 85% |
| Joe Scarborough | 85% | ||||
| John Ashcroft | 84% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Grassley | Republican | 84% |
| Gilbert Gutknecht | 84% | ||||
| Kay Hutchison | 84% | ||||
| OK | U.S. Senate | Sr | Jim Inhofe | Republican | 84% |
| Craig Thomas | 84% | ||||
| John Warner | 84% | ||||
| Charlie Bass | 83% | ||||
| Michael Bilirakis | 83% | ||||
| Jim Bunning | 83% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 6 | Bob Goodlatte | Republican | 83% |
| Van Hilleary | 83% | ||||
| Ernest Istook, Jr. | 83% | ||||
| Jack Metcalf | 83% | ||||
| Robert William Ney | 83% | ||||
| William Roth, Jr. | 83% | ||||
| Mark Souder | 83% | ||||
| Cliff Stearns | 83% | ||||
| Zach Wamp | 83% | ||||
| Wayne Allard | 82% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 4 | Dave Camp | Republican | 82% |
| William Phillip Gramm | 82% | ||||
| John Nathan Hostettler | 82% | ||||
| Bill Archer | 80% | ||||
| Steve Buyer | 80% | ||||
| Jay Dickey | 80% | ||||
| William Frist | 80% | ||||
| Joel Hefley | 80% | ||||
| Dick Lugar | 80% | ||||
| James Nussle | 80% | ||||
| E. Clay Shaw, Jr. | 80% | ||||
| Olympia Snowe | 80% | ||||
| Dan Burton | 79% | ||||
| Helen Chenoweth-Hage | 79% | ||||
| Barbara Cubin | 79% | ||||
| John Doolittle | 79% | ||||
| Jennifer Dunn | 79% | ||||
| John Ganske | 79% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 3 | Sam Johnson | Republican | 79% |
| David McIntosh | 79% | ||||
| John Edward Porter | 79% | ||||
| George Radanovich | 78% | ||||
| Roscoe Bartlett | 77% | ||||
| NC | U.S. Senate | Sr | Richard Burr | Republican | 77% |
| Michael Collins | 77% | ||||
| GA | Governor | Nathan Deal | Republican | 77% | |
| David Dreier | 77% | ||||
| Philip English | 77% | ||||
| William Goodling | 77% | ||||
| SC | U.S. Senate | Sr | Lindsey Graham | Republican | 77% |
| Wally Herger, Jr. | 77% | ||||
| David Lee Hobson | 77% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 2 | Frank LoBiondo | Republican | 77% |
| FL | U.S. House | 7 | John Mica | Republican | 77% |
| Deborah Pryce | 77% | ||||
| Bob Stump | 77% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 6 | Joe Barton | Republican | 76% |
| ID | U.S. Senate | Sr | Mike Crapo | Republican | 76% |
| Thomas DeLay | 76% | ||||
| OH | Attorney General | Michael DeWine | Republican | 76% | |
| NJ | U.S. House | 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 76% |
| W. Curtis Weldon | 75% | ||||
| AL | U.S. House | 6 | Spencer Bachus | Republican | 74% |
| Bill Barrett | 74% | ||||
| OH | U.S. House | 8 | John Boehner | Republican | 74% |
| GA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Saxby Chambliss | Republican | 74% |
| OK | U.S. Senate | Jr | Thomas Coburn | Republican | 74% |
| Mark Foley | 74% | ||||
| Robert Franks | 74% | ||||
| Duncan Hunter | 74% | ||||
| NC | U.S. House | 3 | Walter Jones, Jr. | Republican | 74% |
| James Kolbe | 74% | ||||
| Charles Norwood, Jr. | 74% | ||||
| Richard Pombo | 74% | ||||
| E.G. Shuster | 74% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 13 | Mac Thornberry | Republican | 74% |
| Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. | 74% | ||||
| Gerald Weller | 74% | ||||
| Elton Gallegly | 73% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 21 | Lamar Smith | Republican | 73% |
| FL | U.S. House | 13 | Bill Young | Republican | 73% |
| Cass Ballenger | 71% | ||||
| Ed Bryant | 71% | ||||
| Larry Combest | 71% | ||||
| Thomas Ewing | 71% | ||||
| George Gekas | 71% | ||||
| James Hansen | 71% | ||||
| J. Dennis Hastert | 71% | ||||
| WA | U.S. House | 4 | Doc Hastings | Republican | 71% |
| IA | U.S. House | 3 | Tom Latham | Republican | 71% |
| Bill McCollum | 71% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 25 | Buck McKeon | Republican | 71% |
| Jim Saxton | 71% | ||||
| Floyd Spence | 71% | ||||
| AK | U.S. House | At-Large | Don Young | Republican | 71% |
| Tillie Fowler | 70% | ||||
| Frank Murkowski | 70% | ||||
| Charles Taylor | 70% | ||||
| Brian Bilbray | 69% | ||||
| Terry Everett | 69% | ||||
| Paul Gillmor | 69% | ||||
| Ron Lewis | 69% | ||||
| OK | U.S. House | 3 | Frank Lucas | Republican | 69% |
| John McHugh | 69% | ||||
| George Nethercutt, Jr. | 69% | ||||
| David Weldon | 69% | ||||
| KY | U.S. House | 1 | Ed Whitfield | Republican | 69% |
| MS | U.S. Senate | Jr | Roger Wicker | Republican | 69% |
| VA | U.S. House | 10 | Frank Wolf | Republican | 69% |
| Paul Coverdell | 68% | ||||
| Larry Craig | 68% | ||||
| Jesse Helms | 68% | ||||
| Henry Bonilla | 67% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 27 | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Republican | 67% |
| William Tauzin | 67% | ||||
| Douglas Bereuter | 66% | ||||
| Thomas Bliley, Jr. | 66% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 42 | Ken Calvert | Republican | 66% |
| FL | Justice of the Supreme Court | Charles Canady | 66% | ||
| Henry Hyde | 66% | ||||
| Sue Kelly | 66% | ||||
| Michael Oxley | 66% | ||||
| Ronald Packard | 66% | ||||
| KS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Pat Roberts | Republican | 66% |
| Michael Patrick Forbes | 65% | ||||
| Pete Domenici, Jr. | 64% | ||||
| UT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Orrin Hatch | Republican | 64% |
| Herbert Callahan | 63% | ||||
| Thomas Campbell | 63% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 11 | Rodney Frelinghuysen | Republican | 63% |
| NY | U.S. House | 2 | Pete King | Republican | 63% |
| Steve LaTourette | 63% | ||||
| KY | U.S. House | 5 | Hal Rogers | Republican | 63% |
| Jo Ann Emerson | 62% | ||||
| Rick Lazio | 62% | ||||
| Connie Mack | 61% | ||||
| Mike Castle | 60% | ||||
| John Chafee | 60% | ||||
| James Greenwood | 60% | ||||
| Herb Kohl | 60% | ||||
| Ray LaHood | 60% | ||||
| Trent Lott, Sr. | 60% | ||||
| KY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Mitch McConnell | Republican | 60% |
| Ralph Regula | 60% | ||||
| Arlen Specter | 60% | ||||
| William Thomas | 60% | ||||
| Richard Hugh Baker | 59% | ||||
| James McCrery III | 58% | ||||
| AL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Richard Shelby | Republican | 58% |
| Gary Condit | 57% | ||||
| Thomas Davis III | 57% | ||||
| Wayne Gilchrest | 57% | ||||
| Joseph Knollenberg | 57% | ||||
| Conrad Burns | 56% | ||||
| Russ Feingold | 56% | ||||
| Slade Gorton | 56% | ||||
| Marge Roukema | 56% | ||||
| Strom Thurmond | 56% | ||||
| Sherwood Boehlert | 54% | ||||
| Joseph Skeen | 54% | ||||
| Lincoln Diaz-Balart | 53% | ||||
| Stephen Horn | 53% | ||||
| Kit Bond | 52% | ||||
| James Leach | 51% | ||||
| Timothy Roemer | 51% | ||||
| Gene Taylor | 51% | ||||
| Bob Bennett | 50% | ||||
| MN | U.S. House | 7 | Collin Peterson | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 50% |
| Jack Quinn | 50% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 1 | Rob Andrews | Democratic | 49% |
| Herbert Bateman | 49% | ||||
| Patsy Ann Danner | 49% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 4 | Ralph Hall | Republican | 49% |
| William Lipinski | 49% | ||||
| William Luther | 49% | ||||
| David Minge | 49% | ||||
| Ben Campbell | 48% | ||||
| MS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Thad Cochran | Republican | 48% |
| Jerry Lewis | 48% | ||||
| Ted Stevens | 48% | ||||
| Vern Ehlers | 47% | ||||
| Thomas Holden | 47% | ||||
| IN | U.S. House | 1 | Pete Visclosky | Democratic | 46% |
| MT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Max Baucus | Democratic | 44% |
| NA | Vice President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 44% | |
| WI | Mayor | At-Large | Tom Barrett | Democratic | 43% |
| Benjamin Gilman | 43% | ||||
| Amory Houghton, Jr. | 41% | ||||
| Constance Morella | 41% | ||||
| PA | U.S. House | 14 | Mike Doyle, Jr. | Democratic | 40% |
| James Merrill Jeffords | 40% | ||||
| Nancy Johnson | 40% | ||||
| James Walsh | 40% | ||||
| Martin Meehan | 39% | ||||
| RI | U.S. Senate | Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 37% |
| James Traficant, Jr. | 37% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Tom Harkin | Democratic | 36% |
| NA | U.S. Secretary of State | John Kerry | Democratic | 36% | |
| Bart Gordon | 34% | ||||
| Gerald Kleczka | 34% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 11 | George Miller | Democratic | 34% |
| CA | U.S. House | 18 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 33% |
| Richard Bryan | 32% | ||||
| NY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 32% |
| James Barcia | 31% | ||||
| Jerry Costello | 31% | ||||
| Frank Mascara | 31% | ||||
| Dave Obey | 31% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 31% |
| OH | U.S. Senate | Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 29% |
| OR | U.S. House | 4 | Peter DeFazio | Democratic | 29% |
| Peter Deutsch | 29% | ||||
| Barney Frank | 29% | ||||
| Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 29% | ||||
| Patrick Kennedy | 29% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. Senate | Sr | Frank Lautenberg | Democratic | 29% |
| NY | U.S. House | 12 | Carolyn Maloney | Democratic | 29% |
| VA | U.S. House | 8 | Jim Moran, Jr. | Democratic | 29% |
| Byron Dorgan | 28% | ||||
| Tony Hall | 28% | ||||
| Blanche Lincoln | 28% | ||||
| Pete Stark | 28% | ||||
| Paul Wellstone | 28% | ||||
| OR | U.S. Senate | Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 28% |
| MD | U.S. Senate | Jr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 26% |
| Robert Clement | 26% | ||||
| Robert Cramer | 26% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 35 | Lloyd Doggett | Democratic | 26% |
| SD | U.S. Senate | Sr | Timothy Johnson | Democratic | 26% |
| CA | U.S. House | 19 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 26% |
| NY | U.S. House | 25 | Louise Slaughter | Democratic | 26% |
| Charles Stenholm | 26% | ||||
| John Tanner | 26% | ||||
| Bruce Vento | 26% | ||||
| MD | U.S. House | 7 | Elijah Cummings | Democratic | 24% |
| IL | U.S. House | 4 | Luis Gutierrez | Democratic | 24% |
| Tom Lantos | 24% | ||||
| MI | U.S. Senate | Sr | Carl Levin | Democratic | 24% |
| MA | U.S. House | 5 | Ed Markey | Democratic | 24% |
| Major Owens | 24% | ||||
| NV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Harry Reid | Democratic | 24% |
| Ike Skelton | 24% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 24% |
| Ronald Klink | 23% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 17 | Nita Lowey | Democratic | 23% |
| Juanita Millender-McDonald | 23% | ||||
| MA | U.S. House | 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 23% |
| John Olver | 23% | ||||
| Lynn Nancy Rivers | 23% | ||||
| Bart Stupak | 23% | ||||
| Michael McNulty | 22% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 10 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 22% |
| NJ | U.S. Senate | Jr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 21% |
| Patrick Moynihan | 21% | ||||
| Robert Torricelli | 21% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 33 | Henry Waxman | Democratic | 21% |
| Howard Berman | 20% | ||||
| CA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 20% |
| Robert Byrd | 20% | ||||
| William Clay, Sr. | 20% | ||||
| Kent Conrad | 20% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 13 | John Conyers, Jr. | Democratic | 20% |
| William Coyne | 20% | ||||
| CT | U.S. House | 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 20% |
| Maurice Hinchey | 20% | ||||
| OH | U.S. House | 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 20% |
| Dale Kildee | 20% | ||||
| John LaFalce | 20% | ||||
| Karen McCarthy | 20% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 12 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 20% |
| Charles Robb | 20% | ||||
| John Spratt, Jr. | 20% | ||||
| John Moakley | 19% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 13 | Charlie Rangel | Democratic | 19% |
| Calvin Dooley | 18% | ||||
| Donald Payne | 18% | ||||
| Earl Pomeroy | 18% | ||||
| Norman Sisisky | 18% | ||||
| Ed Towns | 18% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 18% |
| John Breaux | 17% | ||||
| IL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 17% |
| Sam Gejdenson | 17% | ||||
| Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 17% | ||||
| Paul Kanjorski | 17% | ||||
| Bob Kerrey | 17% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 9 | Sandy Levin | Democratic | 17% |
| Owen Pickett | 17% | ||||
| WV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Jay Rockefeller IV | Democratic | 17% |
| VT | U.S. Senate | Jr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 17% |
| Karen Thurman | 17% | ||||
| Jeff Bingaman | 16% | ||||
| OR | U.S. House | 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 16% |
| CA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 16% |
| Daniel Graham | 16% | ||||
| VT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Patrick Leahy | Democratic | 16% |
| Joe Lieberman | 16% | ||||
| Gary Ackerman | 15% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 16 | Eliot Engel | Democratic | 15% |
| NC | U.S. House | 12 | Mel Watt | Democratic | 15% |
| GA | U.S. House | 2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | Democratic | 14% |
| Lane Evans | 14% | ||||
| GA | U.S. House | 5 | John Lewis | Democratic | 14% |
| WA | U.S. House | 7 | Jim McDermott | Democratic | 14% |
| Patsy Takemoto Mink | 14% | ||||
| OH | State Senate | 28 | Thomas Sawyer | Democratic | 14% |
| NY | U.S. House | 15 | José Serrano | Democratic | 14% |
| Lynn Woolsey | 14% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 34 | Xavier Becerra | Democratic | 13% |
| TX | U.S. House | 29 | Gene Green | Democratic | 13% |
| Cynthia Ann McKinney | 13% | ||||
| Ernest Hollings | 12% | ||||
| Robert Matsui | 12% | ||||
| MD | U.S. Senate | Sr | Barbara Mikulski | Democratic | 12% |
| WA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 12% |
| Jack Murtha | 12% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 40 | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Democratic | 12% |
| IL | U.S. House | 1 | Bobby Rush | Democratic | 12% |
| Martin Olav Sabo | 12% | ||||
| Albert Wynn | 12% | ||||
| David Edward Bonior | 11% | ||||
| Robert Borski, Jr. | 11% | ||||
| Rick Boucher | 11% | ||||
| Chet Edwards | 11% | ||||
| Richard Andrew Gephardt | 10% | ||||
| John Baldacci | 9% | ||||
| Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. | 9% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 12 | John Dingell | Democratic | 9% |
| Julian Dixon | 9% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 20 | Sam Farr | Democratic | 9% |
| CA | Mayor | At-Large | Bob Filner | Democratic | 9% |
| FL | U.S. House | 20 | Alcee Hastings, Sr. | Democratic | 9% |
| MD | U.S. House | 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 9% |
| William Jefferson | 9% | ||||
| Matthew Martinez | 9% | ||||
| Jim Oberstar | 9% | ||||
| Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | 9% | ||||
| AZ | U.S. House | 7 | Ed Pastor | Democratic | 9% |
| WV | U.S. House | 3 | Nick Rahall II | Democratic | 9% |
| Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 8% | ||||
| Thomas Daschle | 8% | ||||
| Chris Dodd | 8% | ||||
| Paul Sarbanes | 8% | ||||
| HI | Governor | Neil Abercrombie | Democratic | 6% | |
| FL | U.S. House | 5 | Corrine Brown | Democratic | 6% |
| Eva Clayton | 6% | ||||
| Norm Dicks | 6% | ||||
| PA | U.S. House | 2 | Chaka Fattah, Sr. | Democratic | 6% |
| TX | U.S. House | 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 6% |
| Carrie Meek | 6% | ||||
| Bob Wise, Jr. | 6% | ||||
| Daniel Inouye | 4% | ||||
| SC | U.S. House | 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 3% |
| Jonas Frost III | 3% | ||||
| Earl Hilliard, Jr. | 3% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 30 | Eddie Johnson | Democratic | 3% |
| VA | U.S. House | 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 3% |
| MS | U.S. House | 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 3% |
| Alan Mollohan | 0% |
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