Rating Group: American Conservative Union

2002 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 86%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 89%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 90%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 92%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 96%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 78%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 96%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 5%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 8%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 4%
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 12%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 88%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 8%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 4%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 5%
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 92%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 4%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 96%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 96%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 8%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 4%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 0%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 25%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 30%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 96%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 96%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 96%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 88%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 96%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 96%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 96%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 40%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 12%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 95%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 15%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 88%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 94%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 92%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 96%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 76%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 12%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 96%
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 88%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 84%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 35%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 4%
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 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 4%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 13%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 4%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 55%
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 96%
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 0%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 4%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 4%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 48%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 11%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 4%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 90%
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 37%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 95%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 20%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 96%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 96%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 92%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 48%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 4%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 8%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 8%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 80%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 80%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 4%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 12%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 80%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 8%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 10%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 10%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 83%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 32%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 32%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 4%
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 4%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 8%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 12%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 4%
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 92%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 96%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 88%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 18%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 96%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 95%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 96%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 15%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 96%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 4%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 12%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 4%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 96%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 8%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 4%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 8%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 53%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 83%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 92%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 15%
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 88%
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 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 96%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 92%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
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 16%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
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 95%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 40%
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 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 21%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 92%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 25%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 24%
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 23%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 4%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 96%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 8%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 92%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 80%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 15%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 76%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 24%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 4%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 84%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 13%
Brian Baird Other 12%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 96%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 96%
Charlie Bass Other 80%
Evan Bayh Other 30%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 72%
Shelley Berkley Other 16%
Howard Berman Other 10%
Marion Berry Other 32%
Judy Biggert Other 84%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 17%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 64%
Kit Bond Other 84%
Henry Bonilla Other 92%
Mary Bono Mack Other 71%
Leonard Boswell Other 32%
Rick Boucher Other 21%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 40%
John Breaux Other 42%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 96%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 91%
Robert Byrd Other 15%
Ben Campbell Other 88%
Chris Cannon Other 95%
Brad Carson Other 40%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 76%
Hillary Clinton Other 10%
Michael Collins Other 100%
Larry Combest Other 94%
Kent Conrad Other 10%
Jon Corzine Other 5%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Christopher Cox Other 96%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 56%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 96%
Thomas Daschle Other 22%
James Davis Other 24%
Jo Ann Davis Other 96%
Thomas Davis III Other 88%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 92%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 12%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 88%
Norm Dicks Other 13%
Chris Dodd Other 5%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 88%
Calvin Dooley Other 24%
John Doolittle Other 91%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
David Dreier Other 84%
Jennifer Dunn Other 92%
John Edwards Other 30%
Chet Edwards Other 36%
Vern Ehlers Other 80%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 96%
Philip English Other 92%
John Ensign Other 85%
Bob Etheridge Other 24%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 5%
Michael Ferguson Other 84%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 85%
Ernest Fletcher Other 92%
Mark Foley Other 92%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 24%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 92%
Barney Frank Other 8%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 4%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 8%
Jim Gibbons Other 92%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 78%
Paul Gillmor Other 88%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 96%
Bart Gordon Other 40%
Porter Goss Other 84%
Daniel Graham Other 20%
Mark Green Other 88%
James Greenwood Other 78%
Judd Gregg Other 85%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 36%
Melissa Hart Other 96%
Robert Hayes Other 96%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 28%
Maurice Hinchey Other 4%
David Lee Hobson Other 88%
Pete Hoekstra Other 92%
Thomas Holden Other 40%
Ernest Hollings Other 15%
Darlene Hooley Other 12%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 84%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 62%
Kenny Hulshof Other 96%
Duncan Hunter Other 88%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 88%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 92%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 20%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 6%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Christopher John Other 46%
Nancy Johnson Other 56%
Tim Johnson Other 76%
Paul Kanjorski Other 24%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 88%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 96%
Patrick Kennedy Other 8%
Dale Kildee Other 8%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 4%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 88%
Herb Kohl Other 15%
James Kolbe Other 80%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 92%
Nicholas Lampson Other 21%
Tom Lantos Other 4%
Steve LaTourette Other 76%
James Leach Other 56%
Jerry Lewis Other 88%
Ron Lewis Other 96%
Joe Lieberman Other 20%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 32%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 90%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 92%
John McHugh Other 79%
Scott McInnis Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 12%
Martin Meehan Other 9%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 47%
Alan Mollohan Other 24%
Dennis Moore Other 20%
Jack Murtha Other 32%
Sue Myrick Other 96%
Ben Nelson Other 55%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 92%
Robert William Ney Other 92%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 88%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 96%
James Nussle Other 92%
Jim Oberstar Other 4%
Dave Obey Other 8%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 25%
Thomas William Osborne Other 80%
Doug Ose Other 84%
Major Owens Other 4%
Michael Oxley Other 96%
Ron Paul Other 76%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 88%
Richard Pombo Other 96%
Earl Pomeroy Other 32%
Deborah Pryce Other 88%
Jack Quinn Other 64%
George Radanovich Other 88%
James Ramstad Other 92%
Ralph Regula Other 88%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 19%
Thomas Reynolds Other 92%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 0%
Mike Ross Other 32%
Steve Rothman Other 12%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 40%
Rick Santorum Other 95%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 92%
Edward Schrock Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 88%
Christopher Shays Other 76%
Donald Sherwood Other 96%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 68%
Ike Skelton Other 32%
Gordon Smith Other 75%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Olympia Snowe Other 65%
Vic Snyder Other 12%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 88%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 16%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 96%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 83%
Ted Strickland Other 12%
Bart Stupak Other 16%
John Sununu Other 92%
John Sweeney Other 88%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 39%
Ellen Tauscher Other 8%
William Tauzin Other 96%
Charles Taylor Other 96%
Gene Taylor Other 48%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 80%
Todd Tiahrt Other 96%
Ed Towns Other 4%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 32%
George Voinovich Other 90%
James Walsh Other 75%
Zach Wamp Other 96%
John Warner Other 79%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 8%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 79%
Gerald Weller Other 92%
Robert Wexler Other 9%
Heather Wilson Other 84%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 16%
Albert Wynn Other 8%

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