Rating Group: Arab American Institute

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
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 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 83%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 40%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 50%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 80%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 71%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 71%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 50%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 60%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 83%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 71%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 43%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 50%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 43%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 75%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 33%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 67%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 80%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 71%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 67%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 71%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 20%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 67%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 80%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 67%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 75%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 50%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 67%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 67%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 50%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 40%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 75%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 60%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 60%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 25%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 67%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 40%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 75%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 33%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 60%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 63%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 60%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 25%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 75%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 20%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 75%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 60%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 40%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 40%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 75%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 60%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 33%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 33%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 43%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 43%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 80%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 33%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 33%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 75%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 71%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 20%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 40%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 43%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 33%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 20%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 57%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 40%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 43%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 60%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 63%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 20%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 43%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 57%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 75%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 57%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 43%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 60%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 33%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 83%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 33%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 20%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 25%
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 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 88%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 67%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 50%
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 50%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 83%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 50%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 25%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 20%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 43%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 67%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 67%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 25%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson 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 33%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 88%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 25%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 67%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 50%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 50%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 67%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 33%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 83%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 25%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 50%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 33%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 25%
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 80%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 25%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 25%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 80%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 50%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 0%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 43%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 67%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 33%
Richard Armey Other 17%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 60%
Brian Baird Other 40%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 67%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 33%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 50%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 20%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 33%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 40%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 33%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 0%
Judy Biggert Other 60%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 75%
Rod Blagojevich Other 50%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 40%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 25%
Leonard Boswell Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 0%
John Breaux Other 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 50%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 33%
Jean Carnahan Other 40%
Brad Carson Other 20%
Julia Carson Other 60%
Mike Castle Other 0%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 33%
Robert Clement Other 50%
Hillary Clinton Other 50%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 67%
Kent Conrad Other 0%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 60%
Jerry Costello Other 40%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 80%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Philip Crane Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 67%
James Davis Other 40%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Thomas Davis III Other 25%
Bill Delahunt Other 71%
Thomas DeLay Other 25%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 20%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 20%
Norm Dicks Other 25%
Chris Dodd Other 75%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 50%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 33%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 0%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 20%
John Ensign Other 50%
Bob Etheridge Other 20%
Lane Evans Other 20%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 60%
Michael Ferguson Other 33%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 50%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 57%
William Frist Other 50%
Jonas Frost III Other 50%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
John Ganske Other 0%
George Gekas Other 40%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 43%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 17%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 57%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 75%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 33%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 40%
Melissa Hart Other 20%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 70%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 0%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 33%
Stephen Horn Other 57%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 60%
Kenny Hulshof Other 33%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 20%
Daniel Inouye Other 67%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 67%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 75%
Nancy Johnson Other 50%
Tim Johnson Other 25%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 80%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Brian Kerns Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 71%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 80%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 20%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 50%
Ray LaHood Other 50%
Nicholas Lampson Other 33%
Tom Lantos Other 50%
Stephen Largent Other 20%
Steve LaTourette Other 20%
James Leach Other 60%
Jerry Lewis Other 33%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
Blanche Lincoln Other 67%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 50%
William Luther Other 25%
James Maloney Other 50%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 33%
Robert Matsui Other 20%
Karen McCarthy Other 67%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 20%
Martin Meehan Other 50%
Carrie Meek Other 60%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 75%
Dan Miller Other 33%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 40%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 40%
Constance Morella Other 43%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 0%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 67%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 67%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 75%
John Olver Other 83%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 33%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 25%
Major Owens Other 71%
Michael Oxley Other 50%
Ron Paul Other 80%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 20%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 25%
Deborah Pryce Other 20%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 50%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 89%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 43%
Timothy Roemer Other 0%
Mike Ross Other 25%
Steve Rothman Other 43%
Marge Roukema Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 40%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 50%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 57%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Ronnie Shows Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 40%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 25%
Gordon Smith Other 33%
Nick Smith Other 50%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 50%
Hilda Solis Other 83%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 60%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 40%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 20%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 50%
John Sweeney Other 20%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 40%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 67%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 40%
Ed Towns Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 50%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 80%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 17%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Paul Wellstone Other 80%
Robert Wexler Other 43%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 89%
David Wu Other 67%
Albert Wynn Other 40%

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