Rating Group: National Council of Senior Citizens

2000 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 20%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 20%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 10%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 22%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 90%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 90%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 80%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 80%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 80%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 90%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 90%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 11%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 10%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 90%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 10%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 90%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 22%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 10%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 90%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 10%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 10%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 80%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 10%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 10%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 10%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 10%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
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 20%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 90%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 11%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
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 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 80%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 90%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 10%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 10%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 20%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 89%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 10%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 10%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 10%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 90%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 10%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 80%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 90%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 90%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 20%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 20%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 90%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 10%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 80%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 20%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 80%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 90%
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 89%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 10%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 90%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 10%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 90%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 10%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 90%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 10%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 90%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 80%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 10%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 20%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 10%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 60%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 90%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 10%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 80%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 10%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 78%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 90%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 75%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 60%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 10%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 80%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 88%
Brian Baird Other 80%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 10%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 10%
Charlie Bass Other 10%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 80%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 80%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 80%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 10%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 90%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 20%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 11%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 63%
Rick Boucher Other 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
John Breaux Other 60%
Ed Bryant Other 10%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 10%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 10%
Eva Clayton Other 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 90%
Robert Clement Other 90%
Michael Collins Other 10%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 90%
Kent Conrad Other 89%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 80%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 70%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 10%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 90%
Thomas Davis III Other 10%
Bill Delahunt Other 90%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 90%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 20%
Norm Dicks Other 90%
Chris Dodd Other 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 70%
John Doolittle Other 10%
Byron Dorgan Other 90%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 89%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 10%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 10%
Philip English Other 20%
Bob Etheridge Other 90%
Lane Evans Other 90%
Terry Everett Other 10%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 30%
Ernest Fletcher Other 10%
Mark Foley Other 10%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 90%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 10%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 10%
John Ganske Other 30%
George Gekas Other 10%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 10%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 20%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 25%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 90%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 10%
Bart Gordon Other 90%
Porter Goss Other 10%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 10%
James Greenwood Other 11%
Judd Gregg Other 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 10%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 25%
Robert Hayes Other 10%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 10%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 10%
Baron Hill Other 70%
Van Hilleary Other 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 10%
Pete Hoekstra Other 10%
Thomas Holden Other 80%
Ernest Hollings Other 90%
Darlene Hooley Other 90%
Stephen Horn Other 20%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 20%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 10%
Asa Hutchinson Other 10%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 20%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 11%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 90%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 50%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 11%
Christopher John Other 70%
Nancy Johnson Other 10%
Paul Kanjorski Other 90%
Sue Kelly Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Nicholas Lampson Other 90%
Tom Lantos Other 90%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 10%
James Leach Other 20%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 10%
Joe Lieberman Other 90%
Blanche Lincoln Other 90%
John Linder Other 10%
William Lipinski Other 70%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 90%
James Maloney Other 50%
Don Manzullo Other 10%
Frank Mascara Other 90%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 22%
Scott McInnis Other 10%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 89%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 10%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 80%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 70%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Constance Morella Other 30%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 80%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 20%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 10%
James Nussle Other 10%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 30%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 10%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 80%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 22%
George Radanovich Other 10%
James Ramstad Other 10%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 80%
Steve Rothman Other 90%
Marge Roukema Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 80%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 20%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 10%
Christopher Shays Other 20%
Donald Sherwood Other 20%
Ronnie Shows Other 70%
Norman Sisisky Other 80%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 80%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 11%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 20%
Vic Snyder Other 90%
Mark Souder Other 10%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
Floyd Spence Other 11%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 90%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 70%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 10%
Tom Tancredo Other 10%
John Tanner Other 80%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 70%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 90%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 78%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 30%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 90%
George Voinovich Other 40%
James Walsh Other 20%
Zach Wamp Other 10%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 10%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 22%
Gerald Weller Other 20%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 20%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 89%

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