Rating Group: American Conservative Union

2001 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 91%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 96%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 91%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 96%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 68%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 92%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 12%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 8%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 4%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 88%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 13%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 12%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra 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 91%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 12%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 96%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 84%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 12%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 8%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 24%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 16%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 92%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 92%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 80%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 8%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 71%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 88%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 88%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 39%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 8%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 92%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 8%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 91%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 92%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 84%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 96%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 48%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 16%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 4%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 92%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 88%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 96%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 96%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 96%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 88%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 76%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 28%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 13%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 4%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 4%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 4%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 12%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 4%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 9%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 4%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 64%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 8%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 8%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 96%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 76%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 84%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 4%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 24%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 4%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 4%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 43%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 4%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 96%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 8%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 96%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 12%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 28%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 84%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 4%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 88%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 92%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 4%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 92%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 64%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 96%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 16%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 60%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 56%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 16%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 60%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 4%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 16%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 84%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 8%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 17%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 5%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 0%
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 4%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 4%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 88%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 96%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 96%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 30%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 92%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 72%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 96%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 96%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 8%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 84%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 16%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 16%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 94%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 32%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 4%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 28%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 44%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 88%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 32%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 80%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 92%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 96%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 96%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 96%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 80%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 96%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 13%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 8%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 96%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 36%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 4%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 4%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 96%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 32%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 4%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 96%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 8%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 79%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 8%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 8%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 4%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 12%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 12%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 96%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 20%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 4%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 88%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 12%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 96%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 72%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 0%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 12%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 76%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 36%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 92%
Gary Ackerman Other 4%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 13%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 96%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 96%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 24%
Brian Baird Other 12%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 96%
John Baldacci Other 4%
Cass Ballenger Other 88%
James Barcia Other 48%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 88%
Charlie Bass Other 60%
Evan Bayh Other 32%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 24%
Douglas Bereuter Other 72%
Shelley Berkley Other 12%
Howard Berman Other 4%
Marion Berry Other 52%
Judy Biggert Other 56%
Michael Bilirakis Other 84%
Jeff Bingaman Other 29%
Rod Blagojevich Other 12%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 32%
Kit Bond Other 88%
Henry Bonilla Other 92%
David Edward Bonior Other 20%
Mary Bono Mack Other 68%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 20%
Leonard Boswell Other 24%
Rick Boucher Other 16%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 32%
John Breaux Other 48%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 92%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 96%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 96%
Robert Byrd Other 40%
Herbert Callahan Other 91%
Ben Campbell Other 92%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Jean Carnahan Other 28%
Brad Carson Other 48%
Julia Carson Other 4%
Mike Castle Other 48%
Eva Clayton Other 0%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 36%
Robert Clement Other 36%
Hillary Clinton Other 12%
Michael Collins Other 96%
Larry Combest Other 92%
Gary Condit Other 24%
Kent Conrad Other 36%
John Cooksey Other 96%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 44%
Christopher Cox Other 96%
William Coyne Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 96%
Robert Cramer Other 65%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 96%
Thomas Daschle Other 8%
James Davis Other 12%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 60%
Bill Delahunt Other 4%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 8%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 84%
Norm Dicks Other 8%
Chris Dodd Other 16%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 90%
Calvin Dooley Other 32%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 36%
David Dreier Other 84%
Jennifer Dunn Other 88%
John Edwards Other 16%
Chet Edwards Other 40%
Vern Ehlers Other 68%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 76%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 83%
Philip English Other 68%
John Ensign Other 84%
Bob Etheridge Other 36%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Michael Ferguson Other 58%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 78%
Ernest Fletcher Other 96%
Mark Foley Other 64%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 8%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 88%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 25%
Elton Gallegly Other 88%
John Ganske Other 63%
George Gekas Other 84%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 13%
Jim Gibbons Other 96%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 48%
Paul Gillmor Other 79%
Benjamin Gilman Other 36%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 4%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 96%
Bart Gordon Other 42%
Porter Goss Other 80%
Daniel Graham Other 16%
William Phillip Gramm Other 96%
Mark Green Other 88%
James Greenwood Other 48%
Judd Gregg Other 88%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 80%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 96%
Tony Hall Other 29%
James Hansen Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 20%
Melissa Hart Other 88%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 96%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 96%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 96%
Baron Hill Other 32%
Van Hilleary Other 96%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 16%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 80%
Pete Hoekstra Other 88%
Thomas Holden Other 48%
Ernest Hollings Other 29%
Darlene Hooley Other 4%
Stephen Horn Other 48%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 92%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 30%
Kenny Hulshof Other 92%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 92%
Kay Hutchison Other 96%
Henry Hyde Other 92%
Daniel Inouye Other 9%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 21%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 29%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 96%
Christopher John Other 63%
Nancy Johnson Other 32%
Tim Johnson Other 68%
Paul Kanjorski Other 36%
Ric Keller Other 96%
Sue Kelly Other 40%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 4%
Mark Kennedy Other 88%
Patrick Kennedy Other 4%
Brian Kerns Other 92%
Dale Kildee Other 32%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 4%
Gerald Kleczka Other 4%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 92%
Herb Kohl Other 16%
James Kolbe Other 60%
Dennis Kucinich Other 20%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 16%
Ray LaHood Other 72%
Nicholas Lampson Other 21%
Tom Lantos Other 8%
Steve LaTourette Other 72%
James Leach Other 25%
Jerry Lewis Other 80%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 28%
Blanche Lincoln Other 28%
John Linder Other 96%
William Lipinski Other 55%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 96%
Dick Lugar Other 92%
William Luther Other 4%
James Maloney Other 24%
Don Manzullo Other 92%
Frank Mascara Other 56%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 4%
James McCrery III Other 92%
John McHugh Other 68%
Scott McInnis Other 86%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 4%
Michael McNulty Other 24%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 9%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 4%
Dan Miller Other 78%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 60%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 4%
Alan Mollohan Other 48%
Dennis Moore Other 20%
Constance Morella Other 12%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 48%
Sue Myrick Other 96%
Ben Nelson Other 56%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 96%
Robert William Ney Other 88%
Don Nickles Other 92%
Anne Northup Other 96%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 96%
James Nussle Other 88%
Jim Oberstar Other 24%
Dave Obey Other 13%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 60%
Thomas William Osborne Other 84%
Doug Ose Other 64%
Major Owens Other 4%
Michael Oxley Other 92%
Ron Paul Other 70%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 88%
David Phelps Other 52%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 96%
Todd Platts Other 80%
Richard Pombo Other 96%
Earl Pomeroy Other 28%
Deborah Pryce Other 68%
Jack Quinn Other 70%
George Radanovich Other 92%
James Ramstad Other 52%
Ralph Regula Other 76%
Denny Rehberg Other 84%
Silvestre Reyes Other 30%
Thomas Reynolds Other 88%
Bob Riley Other 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 4%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 12%
Timothy Roemer Other 40%
Mike Ross Other 36%
Steve Rothman Other 13%
Marge Roukema Other 50%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 32%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 8%
Jim Saxton Other 64%
Edward Schrock Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 76%
Christopher Shays Other 32%
Donald Sherwood Other 88%
Ronnie Shows Other 76%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 44%
Joseph Skeen Other 96%
Ike Skelton Other 64%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 13%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 96%
Arlen Specter Other 56%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 36%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 96%
Charles Stenholm Other 64%
Ted Stevens Other 92%
Ted Strickland Other 16%
Bob Stump Other 96%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sununu Other 92%
John Sweeney Other 68%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 4%
William Tauzin Other 96%
Charles Taylor Other 92%
Gene Taylor Other 64%
Craig Thomas Other 96%
William Thomas Other 68%
Fred Thompson Other 84%
Karen Thurman Other 12%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 96%
Robert Torricelli Other 28%
Ed Towns Other 14%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 76%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 4%
James Turner Other 48%
George Voinovich Other 83%
James Walsh Other 76%
Zach Wamp Other 88%
John Warner Other 96%
Wesley Watkins Other 96%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 96%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
David Weldon Other 92%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 70%
Gerald Weller Other 92%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 4%
Heather Wilson Other 84%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 8%
Albert Wynn Other 4%

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