Rating Group: Congress of California Seniors

2005 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
CA U.S. House-1 Doug LaMalfa R 25%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 25%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 33%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 25%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 100%
CA U.S. House-35 Gloria Negrete McLeod D 83%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 100%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 33%
CA U.S. House-47 Alan Lowenthal D 100%
CA U.S. House-51 Juan Vargas D 83%
CA State Assembly-2 Wesley Chesbro D 83%
CA State Senate-2 Noreen Evans D 100%
CA State Senate-3 Lois Wolk D 92%
CA State Senate-8 Leland Yee D 100%
CA State Senate-9 Loni Hancock D 100%
CA State Senate-11 Mark Leno D 100%
CA State Senate-23 Bill Emmerson R 25%
CA State Senate-25 Carol Liu D 100%
CA State Senate-27 Fran Pavley D 100%
CA State Senate-29 Robert Huff R 33%
CA State Senate-30 Ron Calderon D 75%
CA State Senate-37 Mimi Walters R 17%
CA State Senate-38 Mark Wyland R 33%
CA Secretary of State Debra Bowen D 100%
CA Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones D 100%
CA Supervisor-2 Mark Ridley-Thomas D 100%
CA Supervisor-3 Wilma Chan D 100%
CA Supervisor-4 John Benoit Other 25%
CA Council Member-5 Paul Koretz D 100%
CA Council Member-At-Large Joe Baca, Jr. Other 92%
CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson Other 100%
CA Councilmember-At-Large David Cogdill R 25%
CA Mayor Pro Tempore-At-Large Alan Nakanishi Other 18%
Samuel Aanestad Other 25%
Richard Ackerman Other 25%
Gregory Aghazarian Other 25%
Richard Alarcón Other 83%
Elaine Alquist Other 100%
Juan Arambula Other 92%
Roy Ashburn Other 33%
James Battin Other 25%
Patty Berg Other 100%
Rudy Bermúdez Other 83%
Sam Blakeslee Other 33%
Russell Bogh Other 50%
Joseph Canciamilla Other 67%
Gilbert Cedillo Other 83%
Edward Chavez Other 73%
Rebecca Cohn Other 100%
Joe Coto Other 92%
Dave Cox Other 33%
Lynn Daucher Other 50%
Hector De La Torre Other 100%
Charles DeVore Other 17%
Denise Ducheny Other 67%
Joseph Dunn Other 90%
Robert Dutton Other 25%
Mervyn Dymally Other 100%
Martha Escutia Other 80%
Liz Figueroa Other 92%
Dean Florez Other 82%
Dario Frommer Other 100%
Bonnie Garcia Other 50%
Jackie Goldberg Other 100%
Tom Harman Other 33%
Raymond Haynes, Jr. Other 17%
Dennis Hollingsworth Other 18%
Jerome Horton Other 83%
Shirley Horton Other 58%
Guy Houston Other 42%
Betty Karnette Other 92%
Richard Keene Other 33%
Christine Kehoe Other 100%
Johan Klehs Other 100%
Sheila Kuehl Other 100%
John Laird Other 100%
Jay La Suer Other 33%
Robert Leslie Other 33%
Lloyd Levine Other 92%
Sally Lieber Other 100%
Michael Machado Other 100%
Abel Maldonado Other 50%
Bob Margett Other 36%
Barbara Matthews Other 83%
Bill Maze Other 17%
Carole Migden Other 92%
Cindy Montañez Other 92%
William Phillip Morrow Other 18%
Dennis Lee Mountjoy Other 33%
Eugene Mullin Other 92%
Kevin Murray Other 56%
Joseph Nation Other 100%
Pedro Nava Other 100%
Roger Niello Other 33%
Fabian Núñez Other 100%
Jenny Oropeza Other 82%
Deborah Ortiz Other 92%
Nicole Parra Other 75%
Don Perata Other 92%
George Plescia Other 25%
Charles Poochigian Other 33%
Keith Stuart Richman Other 58%
Gloria Romero Other 100%
George Runner, Jr. Other 27%
Sharon Runner Other 8%
Ira Ruskin Other 100%
Lori Saldaña Other 100%
Simón Salinas Other 92%
Jack Scott Other 100%
Saren Simitian Other 100%
Nell Soto Other 100%
Todd Spitzer Other 42%
Audra Strickland Other 25%
Alberto Torrico Other 92%
Van Tran Other 42%
Thomas Umberg Other 83%
Mike Villines Other 17%
Edward Vincent Other 86%

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