Rating Group: Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

2006 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 31%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 44%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 21%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 6%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 33%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 33%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 11%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 88%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 22%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 36%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 22%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 89%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 89%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 56%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 22%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 11%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 89%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
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-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 22%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 89%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 11%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 89%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 89%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 89%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 89%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 88%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 62%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 11%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 11%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 78%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 11%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 22%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 89%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 33%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 38%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 11%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 6%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 6%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 12%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 67%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 11%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 44%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 78%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 11%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 89%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 12%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 94%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 22%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 7%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 33%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 33%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 33%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 88%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 89%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 89%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 11%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 22%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 19%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 11%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 31%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 19%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 11%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 6%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 11%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 22%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 11%
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 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 89%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 89%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 94%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 67%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 89%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 89%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 75%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 11%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 22%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 11%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 22%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 11%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 67%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 22%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 78%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 88%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 20%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 11%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 73%
NA President Barack Obama II D 94%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 93%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 47%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 6%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 89%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 67%
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 22%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 56%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 11%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 11%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 11%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 93%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 78%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 44%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 56%
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 89%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 22%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 22%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 94%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 93%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 89%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 22%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 89%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 89%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 78%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 78%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 78%
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%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 78%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 22%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 22%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 11%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 11%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 78%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 56%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 6%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 6%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 11%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 22%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 88%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 22%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 78%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 89%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 89%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 50%
PA U.S. House-8 Mike Fitzpatrick R 56%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 11%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 89%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 14%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 22%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 89%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 94%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 27%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 11%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 89%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 12%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 19%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 78%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 11%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 6%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 11%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 22%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 11%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 12%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 11%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 89%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 22%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 11%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 11%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 78%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 89%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 11%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 11%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 11%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 11%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 56%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 89%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 89%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 12%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 14%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 19%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 12%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 56%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 38%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 11%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 11%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 78%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 44%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 22%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 11%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 33%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 67%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 89%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 22%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 89%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 22%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 67%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 67%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 89%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 11%
Wayne Allard Other 6%
George Allen Other 6%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 89%
Brian Baird Other 67%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 11%
Evan Bayh Other 88%
Melissa Bean Other 56%
Bob Beauprez Other 11%
Bob Bennett Other 31%
Shelley Berkley Other 86%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Judy Biggert Other 22%
Brian Bilbray Other 14%
Michael Bilirakis Other 22%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 6%
Henry Bonilla Other 11%
Mary Bono Mack Other 25%
Dan Boren Other 44%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 78%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 56%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 11%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 22%
Jim Bunning Other 7%
Conrad Burns Other 12%
Dan Burton Other 11%
Steve Buyer Other 22%
Robert Byrd Other 44%
Chris Cannon Other 12%
Dennis Cardoza Other 56%
Russ Carnahan Other 89%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Edward Case Other 62%
Mike Castle Other 33%
Ben Chandler III Other 67%
Chris Chocola Other 11%
Hillary Clinton Other 94%
Norm Coleman Other 44%
Kent Conrad Other 69%
Jerry Costello Other 78%
Larry Craig Other 31%
Robert Cramer Other 67%
Barbara Cubin Other 11%
Artur Davis Other 78%
Geoff Davis Other 22%
James Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 56%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 78%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 6%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 33%
Norm Dicks Other 89%
Chris Dodd Other 93%
Elizabeth Dole Other 12%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 31%
John Doolittle Other 11%
Byron Dorgan Other 69%
Thelma Drake Other 11%
David Dreier Other 11%
Chet Edwards Other 44%
Vern Ehlers Other 22%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 33%
Philip English Other 33%
John Ensign Other 6%
Bob Etheridge Other 67%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 11%
Tom Feeney Other 11%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 33%
Mark Foley Other 22%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 62%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 11%
Barney Frank Other 89%
William Frist Other 25%
Elton Gallegly Other 11%
Jim Gibbons Other 25%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 33%
Paul Gillmor Other 11%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 89%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 22%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Mark Green Other 22%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 22%
Jane Harman Other 89%
Katherine Harris Other 12%
Melissa Hart Other 11%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 22%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 11%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 67%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 22%
Pete Hoekstra Other 11%
Thomas Holden Other 75%
Darlene Hooley Other 78%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 22%
Kenny Hulshof Other 11%
Duncan Hunter Other 11%
Kay Hutchison Other 12%
Henry Hyde Other 12%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 11%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 12%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 62%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 11%
Nancy Johnson Other 22%
Tim Johnson Other 33%
Paul Kanjorski Other 88%
Ric Keller Other 12%
Sue Kelly Other 22%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 11%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 89%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 22%
Herb Kohl Other 94%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 33%
Jon Kyl Other 6%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 56%
James Leach Other 44%
Jerry Lewis Other 33%
Ron Lewis Other 22%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 69%
John Linder Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 14%
Dick Lugar Other 44%
Dan Lungren Other 33%
Connie Mack IV Other 11%
Don Manzullo Other 12%
Jim Marshall Other 67%
Melquiades Martinez Other 36%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 33%
James McCrery III Other 11%
John McHugh Other 50%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 89%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 56%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 89%
Brad Miller Other 89%
Alan Mollohan Other 67%
Dennis Moore Other 67%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 11%
Sue Myrick Other 11%
Ben Nelson Other 19%
Robert William Ney Other 50%
Anne Northup Other 17%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 11%
James Nussle Other 29%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 89%
Thomas William Osborne Other 22%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 25%
Ron Paul Other 33%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 12%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 11%
Todd Platts Other 22%
Richard Pombo Other 11%
Earl Pomeroy Other 89%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 11%
Deborah Pryce Other 22%
George Radanovich Other 11%
James Ramstad Other 44%
Ralph Regula Other 44%
Denny Rehberg Other 11%
Richard Renzi Other 22%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 11%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 11%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Ken Salazar Other 93%
Rick Santorum Other 12%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
Jean Schmidt Other 11%
John Schwarz Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 11%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 22%
Christopher Shays Other 57%
Donald Sherwood Other 25%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 67%
Ike Skelton Other 56%
Gordon Smith Other 31%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 89%
Mike Sodrel Other 11%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 11%
Arlen Specter Other 62%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 78%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 22%
Ted Stevens Other 38%
Ted Strickland Other 88%
Bart Stupak Other 89%
John Sullivan Other 22%
John Sununu Other 13%
John Sweeney Other 67%
James Talent Other 19%
Tom Tancredo Other 11%
John Tanner Other 44%
Ellen Tauscher Other 89%
Charles Taylor Other 22%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Craig Thomas Other 6%
William Thomas Other 22%
Todd Tiahrt Other 14%
Ed Towns Other 89%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 56%
James Walsh Other 56%
Zach Wamp Other 11%
John Warner Other 38%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 89%
David Weldon Other 11%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 33%
Robert Wexler Other 89%
Heather Wilson Other 56%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 67%

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