Rating Group: Americans for the Arts Action Fund

2006 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 25%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 38%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 44%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 82%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 6%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 82%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 94%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 88%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 88%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 88%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 94%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 94%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 91%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 91%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 44%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 94%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 69%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 88%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 82%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 94%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 82%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 44%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 88%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 88%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 6%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 72%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 94%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 25%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 31%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 91%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 38%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 63%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 94%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 38%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 57%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 91%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 85%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 19%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 72%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 50%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 31%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 94%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 19%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 43%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 44%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 82%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 88%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 63%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 75%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 88%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 94%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 88%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 94%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 57%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 94%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 82%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 82%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 82%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 82%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 44%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 94%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 38%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 94%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 88%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 94%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 85%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 88%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 97%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 94%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 82%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 88%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 38%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 94%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 63%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 94%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 94%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 75%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 9%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 94%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 85%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 6%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 25%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 91%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 63%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 6%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 38%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 88%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 88%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 63%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 57%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 91%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 75%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 82%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 94%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 82%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 91%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 44%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 91%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 57%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 94%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 94%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 94%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 94%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 94%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 94%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 91%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 94%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 98%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 82%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 94%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 88%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 63%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 88%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 91%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 25%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 19%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 76%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 94%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 56%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 85%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 94%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 82%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 88%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 94%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 91%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 82%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 94%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 6%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 85%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 76%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 91%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 0%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 25%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 38%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 6%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 94%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 38%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 38%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 63%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 88%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 56%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 63%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 9%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 0%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 82%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 94%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 44%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 94%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 88%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 19%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 19%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 94%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 82%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 6%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 94%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 82%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 94%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 94%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 6%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 91%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 88%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 19%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 88%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 94%
Gary Ackerman Other 94%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 85%
Brian Baird Other 94%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 44%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Melissa Bean Other 82%
Shelley Berkley Other 75%
Howard Berman Other 94%
Marion Berry Other 82%
Judy Biggert Other 88%
Mary Bono Mack Other 88%
Dan Boren Other 63%
Leonard Boswell Other 94%
Rick Boucher Other 94%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 63%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 63%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 19%
Dan Burton Other 6%
Steve Buyer Other 6%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 82%
Russ Carnahan Other 91%
Julia Carson Other 94%
Mike Castle Other 91%
Ben Chandler III Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 91%
Robert Cramer Other 88%
Barbara Cubin Other 19%
Artur Davis Other 82%
Geoff Davis Other 63%
Jo Ann Davis Other 25%
Lincoln Davis Other 82%
Thomas Davis III Other 69%
Bill Delahunt Other 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 57%
Norm Dicks Other 91%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Thelma Drake Other 76%
David Dreier Other 25%
Chet Edwards Other 82%
Vern Ehlers Other 88%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 25%
Philip English Other 85%
Bob Etheridge Other 94%
Terry Everett Other 44%
Tom Feeney Other 0%
Michael Ferguson Other 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 82%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 25%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 82%
Paul Gillmor Other 82%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 88%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 6%
Bart Gordon Other 97%
Jane Harman Other 34%
Robert Hayes Other 6%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 25%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 56%
Maurice Hinchey Other 91%
David Lee Hobson Other 63%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 94%
Darlene Hooley Other 88%
Kenny Hulshof Other 25%
Duncan Hunter Other 6%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 76%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 82%
William Jefferson Other 88%
Tim Johnson Other 94%
Paul Kanjorski Other 82%
Ric Keller Other 19%
Patrick Kennedy Other 72%
Dale Kildee Other 91%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 88%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 63%
Dennis Kucinich Other 94%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 38%
Ray LaHood Other 94%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 44%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Ron Lewis Other 25%
John Linder Other 0%
Dan Lungren Other 0%
Connie Mack IV Other 38%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 94%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 91%
James McCrery III Other 63%
John McHugh Other 88%
Michael McNulty Other 91%
Martin Meehan Other 91%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 75%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 79%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 56%
Brad Miller Other 94%
Alan Mollohan Other 88%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 82%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 0%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 94%
Dave Obey Other 92%
John Olver Other 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 88%
Ron Paul Other 19%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 82%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 44%
Todd Platts Other 94%
Earl Pomeroy Other 66%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 66%
Deborah Pryce Other 82%
George Radanovich Other 19%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 63%
Denny Rehberg Other 63%
Richard Renzi Other 44%
Silvestre Reyes Other 91%
Thomas Reynolds Other 57%
Mike Ross Other 94%
Steve Rothman Other 94%
Jim Saxton Other 72%
John Shadegg Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 92%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 94%
Hilda Solis Other 94%
Mark Souder Other 25%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 94%
Pete Stark Other 94%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 81%
John Sullivan Other 19%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 63%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 25%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 91%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 94%
James Walsh Other 82%
Zach Wamp Other 76%
Diane Watson Other 94%
Anthony Weiner Other 94%
David Weldon Other 6%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 94%
Heather Wilson Other 12%
Lynn Woolsey Other 94%
David Wu Other 94%
Albert Wynn Other 94%

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