Rating Group: American Conservative Union

2000 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 73%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 88%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 88%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 81%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 91%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 28%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 4%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 8%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 12%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 8%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 4%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 8%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 4%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 8%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 16%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 92%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 20%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 4%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 4%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 8%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 84%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 17%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 96%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 12%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 8%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 12%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 8%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 9%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 88%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 72%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 4%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 64%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 84%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 91%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 72%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 43%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 4%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 96%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 12%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 96%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 4%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 88%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 88%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 4%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 4%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 4%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 80%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 12%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 92%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 87%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 80%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 60%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 16%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 88%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 8%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 4%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 4%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 8%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 8%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 12%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 4%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 76%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 12%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 16%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 84%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 60%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 8%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 16%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 32%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 96%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 92%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 84%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 8%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 16%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 16%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 12%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 88%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 96%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 4%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 86%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 48%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 8%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 96%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 4%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 8%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 64%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 64%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 12%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 56%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 16%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 9%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 12%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 12%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 64%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 24%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 8%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 4%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 4%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 12%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 4%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 20%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 22%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 9%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 4%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 4%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 87%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 87%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 18%
OH Governor John Kasich R 92%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 4%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 95%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 91%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 8%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 88%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 8%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 95%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 12%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 8%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 44%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 12%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 77%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 8%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 16%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 76%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 84%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 88%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 84%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 88%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 8%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 4%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 96%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 20%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 9%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 96%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 12%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 95%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 4%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 12%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 72%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 8%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 4%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 8%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 92%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 21%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 28%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 4%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 88%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 8%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 88%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 84%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 8%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 4%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 28%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 92%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 92%
Gary Ackerman Other 13%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 12%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 4%
Bill Archer Other 95%
Richard Armey Other 92%
John Ashcroft Other 96%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 16%
Brian Baird Other 12%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 75%
John Baldacci Other 8%
Cass Ballenger Other 91%
James Barcia Other 56%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 100%
Bill Barrett Other 87%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 75%
Herbert Bateman Other 82%
Evan Bayh Other 16%
Bob Bennett Other 95%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 8%
Douglas Bereuter Other 64%
Shelley Berkley Other 28%
Howard Berman Other 4%
Marion Berry Other 48%
Judy Biggert Other 68%
Brian Bilbray Other 68%
Michael Bilirakis Other 80%
Jeff Bingaman Other 16%
Rod Blagojevich Other 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 82%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 92%
Henry Bonilla Other 82%
David Edward Bonior Other 8%
Mary Bono Mack Other 68%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 16%
Leonard Boswell Other 41%
Rick Boucher Other 29%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 40%
John Breaux Other 40%
Richard Bryan Other 16%
Ed Bryant Other 95%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 87%
Dan Burton Other 91%
Steve Buyer Other 84%
Robert Byrd Other 28%
Herbert Callahan Other 69%
Ben Campbell Other 96%
Thomas Campbell Other 64%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 4%
Mike Castle Other 68%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 95%
William Clay, Sr. Other 5%
Eva Clayton Other 16%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 24%
Robert Clement Other 40%
Michael Collins Other 96%
Larry Combest Other 88%
Gary Condit Other 44%
Kent Conrad Other 29%
Merrill Cook Other 90%
John Cooksey Other 73%
Jerry Costello Other 33%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
William Coyne Other 8%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 40%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 92%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 56%
Thomas Daschle Other 8%
James Davis Other 16%
Thomas Davis III Other 70%
Bill Delahunt Other 8%
Thomas DeLay Other 88%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 28%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 56%
Jay Dickey Other 92%
Norm Dicks Other 8%
Julian Dixon Other 9%
Chris Dodd Other 13%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 95%
Calvin Dooley Other 20%
John Doolittle Other 88%
Byron Dorgan Other 16%
David Dreier Other 92%
Jennifer Dunn Other 88%
John Edwards Other 12%
Chet Edwards Other 8%
Vern Ehlers Other 64%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 88%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 80%
Philip English Other 56%
Bob Etheridge Other 28%
Lane Evans Other 8%
Terry Everett Other 90%
Thomas Ewing Other 91%
Russ Feingold Other 8%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 95%
Ernest Fletcher Other 84%
Mark Foley Other 68%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 45%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 24%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 80%
Tillie Fowler Other 84%
Barney Frank Other 12%
Robert Franks Other 68%
William Frist Other 92%
Jonas Frost III Other 12%
Elton Gallegly Other 72%
John Ganske Other 73%
Sam Gejdenson Other 12%
George Gekas Other 87%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 13%
Jim Gibbons Other 88%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 58%
Paul Gillmor Other 76%
Benjamin Gilman Other 43%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 8%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
William Goodling Other 88%
Bart Gordon Other 44%
Slade Gorton Other 96%
Porter Goss Other 96%
Daniel Graham Other 16%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 100%
Mark Green Other 84%
James Greenwood Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 92%
Tony Hall Other 21%
James Hansen Other 95%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 76%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 95%
Baron Hill Other 16%
Rick Hill Other 92%
Van Hilleary Other 92%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 12%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 72%
Pete Hoekstra Other 88%
Thomas Holden Other 32%
Ernest Hollings Other 20%
Darlene Hooley Other 16%
Stephen Horn Other 56%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 88%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 52%
Kenny Hulshof Other 96%
Duncan Hunter Other 76%
Asa Hutchinson Other 83%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 91%
Kay Hutchison Other 96%
Henry Hyde Other 76%
Daniel Inouye Other 23%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 90%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 4%
William Jefferson Other 13%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 36%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 91%
Christopher John Other 41%
Nancy Johnson Other 56%
Paul Kanjorski Other 16%
Sue Kelly Other 56%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 12%
Patrick Kennedy Other 16%
Bob Kerrey Other 16%
Dale Kildee Other 20%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 8%
Gerald Kleczka Other 20%
Ronald Klink Other 20%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 80%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
James Kolbe Other 68%
Dennis Kucinich Other 16%
Steven Kuykendall Other 60%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 12%
Ray LaHood Other 72%
Nicholas Lampson Other 24%
Tom Lantos Other 4%
Stephen Largent Other 95%
Steve LaTourette Other 68%
Rick Lazio Other 63%
James Leach Other 58%
Jerry Lewis Other 64%
Ron Lewis Other 96%
Joe Lieberman Other 20%
Blanche Lincoln Other 20%
John Linder Other 87%
William Lipinski Other 37%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 84%
William Luther Other 16%
Connie Mack Other 92%
James Maloney Other 36%
Don Manzullo Other 95%
Matthew Martinez Other 76%
Frank Mascara Other 28%
Robert Matsui Other 4%
Karen McCarthy Other 4%
Bill McCollum Other 87%
James McCrery III Other 83%
John McHugh Other 73%
Scott McInnis Other 95%
David McIntosh Other 88%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 12%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Martin Meehan Other 12%
Carrie Meek Other 8%
Jack Metcalf Other 86%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 8%
Dan Miller Other 88%
David Minge Other 20%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 16%
John Moakley Other 16%
Alan Mollohan Other 28%
Dennis Moore Other 24%
Constance Morella Other 29%
Patrick Moynihan Other 22%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 24%
Sue Myrick Other 95%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 88%
Robert William Ney Other 83%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 72%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 84%
Jim Oberstar Other 8%
Dave Obey Other 4%
John Olver Other 4%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 24%
Doug Ose Other 76%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 81%
Ronald Packard Other 84%
Ron Paul Other 76%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Edward Pease Other 84%
John Peterson Other 96%
David Phelps Other 32%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Owen Pickett Other 24%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 8%
John Edward Porter Other 52%
Deborah Pryce Other 80%
Jack Quinn Other 70%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 68%
Ralph Regula Other 76%
Silvestre Reyes Other 16%
Thomas Reynolds Other 84%
Bob Riley Other 91%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 8%
Charles Robb Other 16%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 12%
Timothy Roemer Other 37%
James Rogan Other 88%
William Roth, Jr. Other 86%
Steve Rothman Other 12%
Marge Roukema Other 68%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 33%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 12%
Jim Saxton Other 56%
Joe Scarborough Other 95%
John Shadegg Other 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 68%
Christopher Shays Other 60%
Donald Sherwood Other 75%
Ronnie Shows Other 69%
E.G. Shuster Other 82%
Norman Sisisky Other 44%
Joseph Skeen Other 84%
Ike Skelton Other 40%
Gordon Smith Other 84%
Nick Smith Other 91%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 4%
Mark Souder Other 88%
Arlen Specter Other 62%
Floyd Spence Other 85%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 20%
Pete Stark Other 4%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 52%
Ted Stevens Other 92%
Ted Strickland Other 12%
Bob Stump Other 92%
Bart Stupak Other 22%
John Sununu Other 96%
John Sweeney Other 72%
James Talent Other 91%
Tom Tancredo Other 96%
John Tanner Other 36%
Ellen Tauscher Other 20%
William Tauzin Other 84%
Charles Taylor Other 92%
Gene Taylor Other 56%
Craig Thomas Other 92%
William Thomas Other 80%
Fred Thompson Other 92%
Karen Thurman Other 20%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 91%
Robert Torricelli Other 29%
Ed Towns Other 4%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 60%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 29%
Bruce Vento Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 64%
James Walsh Other 56%
Zach Wamp Other 87%
John Warner Other 92%
Wesley Watkins Other 87%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 88%
Anthony Weiner Other 8%
David Weldon Other 92%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 76%
Gerald Weller Other 66%
Paul Wellstone Other 4%
Robert Wexler Other 17%
Bob Weygand Other 16%
Heather Wilson Other 80%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 27%
Lynn Woolsey Other 8%
David Wu Other 20%
Albert Wynn Other 12%

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