Rating Group: Concerned Women for America

2003 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 89%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 92%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 33%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 92%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 15%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 15%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
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 25%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 17%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 17%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 11%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 8%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 8%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 92%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 17%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 8%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 15%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 8%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 17%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 9%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 92%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 92%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 8%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 18%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 15%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 10%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 15%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 25%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 11%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 92%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 27%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 92%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 8%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 91%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 69%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 38%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 83%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 67%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 8%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 15%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 8%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 8%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 38%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 92%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 22%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 92%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 23%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 8%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 54%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 17%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 54%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 15%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 17%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 8%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 44%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 46%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 92%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 92%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 15%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 92%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 46%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 83%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 8%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 8%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 17%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 92%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 23%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 92%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 92%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 15%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 8%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 92%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 23%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 46%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 69%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 15%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 23%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 33%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 23%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 85%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 33%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 15%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 8%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 25%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 23%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 38%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 27%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 23%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 31%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 25%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 23%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 92%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 54%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 83%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 54%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 77%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 18%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 23%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 85%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 69%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 25%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 62%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 44%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 92%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 17%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 22%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 38%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 92%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 58%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 8%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 31%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 15%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 23%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 92%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 77%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 15%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 85%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 22%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 23%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 25%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 8%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 11%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 15%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 15%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 0%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 85%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 92%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 85%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 8%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 8%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 17%
Brian Baird Other 8%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 69%
Evan Bayh Other 22%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Chris Bell Other 23%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 92%
Shelley Berkley Other 10%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 85%
Judy Biggert Other 62%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 54%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 92%
Mary Bono Mack Other 92%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 31%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 73%
John Breaux Other 67%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Max Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 25%
Ben Campbell Other 78%
Chris Cannon Other 92%
Dennis Cardoza Other 38%
Brad Carson Other 64%
Julia Carson Other 27%
Edward Case Other 23%
Mike Castle Other 46%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 0%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 22%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 92%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 83%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 22%
Artur Davis Other 46%
James Davis Other 31%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 83%
Thomas Davis III Other 69%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 31%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 92%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 15%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 22%
David Dreier Other 73%
Jennifer Dunn Other 92%
John Edwards Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 31%
Vern Ehlers Other 92%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 85%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 46%
Lane Evans Other 8%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 92%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 56%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 91%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 17%
Elton Gallegly Other 92%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 54%
Paul Gillmor Other 92%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 15%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 69%
Porter Goss Other 100%
Daniel Graham Other 0%
Mark Green Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 42%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 9%
Katherine Harris Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 92%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 67%
Maurice Hinchey Other 8%
David Lee Hobson Other 85%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 85%
Ernest Hollings Other 25%
Darlene Hooley Other 38%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 36%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 88%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 8%
William Janklow Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 50%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 11%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Christopher John Other 92%
Nancy Johnson Other 25%
Tim Johnson Other 92%
Paul Kanjorski Other 62%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 77%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 15%
Dale Kildee Other 62%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 8%
Gerald Kleczka Other 31%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 92%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 38%
Dennis Kucinich Other 25%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Nicholas Lampson Other 54%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 92%
Frank Lautenberg Other 0%
James Leach Other 50%
Jerry Lewis Other 77%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 22%
John Linder Other 92%
William Lipinski Other 83%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Denise Majette Other 15%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Jim Marshall Other 69%
Robert Matsui Other 15%
Karen McCarthy Other 10%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 92%
John McHugh Other 92%
Scott McInnis Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 62%
Martin Meehan Other 8%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 18%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 20%
Brad Miller Other 15%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 77%
Dennis Moore Other 38%
Jack Murtha Other 69%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 92%
Robert William Ney Other 83%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 42%
Dave Obey Other 30%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 73%
Thomas William Osborne Other 92%
Doug Ose Other 62%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 85%
Ron Paul Other 77%
Donald Payne Other 9%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 92%
Todd Platts Other 85%
Richard Pombo Other 92%
Earl Pomeroy Other 54%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 85%
Deborah Pryce Other 69%
Jack Quinn Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 69%
Ralph Regula Other 92%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 38%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 23%
Mike Ross Other 77%
Steve Rothman Other 10%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 8%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 67%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 92%
Edward Schrock Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 85%
Christopher Shays Other 54%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 38%
Ike Skelton Other 92%
Gordon Smith Other 89%
Nick Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 44%
Vic Snyder Other 9%
Hilda Solis Other 8%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 89%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 38%
Pete Stark Other 8%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 85%
Ted Stevens Other 89%
Ted Strickland Other 38%
Bart Stupak Other 69%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 69%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 77%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
William Tauzin Other 92%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 92%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 77%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 8%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 69%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 78%
Diane Watson Other 8%
Anthony Weiner Other 15%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 92%
Robert Wexler Other 17%
Heather Wilson Other 85%
Lynn Woolsey Other 8%
David Wu Other 31%
Albert Wynn Other 46%

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