Rating Group: Arab American Institute

2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 50%
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-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 50%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 50%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 50%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 60%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 67%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 40%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 60%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 50%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 80%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 60%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 50%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 33%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 60%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 50%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 25%
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 33%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 33%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 33%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 40%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 67%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 25%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 25%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 33%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 60%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 25%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 50%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 33%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 33%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 50%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 20%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
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-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 20%
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 25%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 50%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 33%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 60%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 67%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 33%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 20%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 75%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 25%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 60%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 50%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 50%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 20%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
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%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 50%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 60%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 40%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 50%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 50%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 25%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 25%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 33%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 33%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 50%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 33%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 40%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 25%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 50%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 25%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 0%
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 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 50%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 0%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 33%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 33%
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 33%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 67%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
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 33%
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 67%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 40%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 33%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 25%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 60%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 60%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 40%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 20%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 33%
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 20%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 33%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 29%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 33%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 60%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 17%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 50%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 20%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 25%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 50%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 50%
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 50%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole 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 50%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 50%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 25%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 50%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 25%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
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 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 25%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 25%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
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 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 0%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 50%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 20%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 0%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 33%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 33%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 33%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 60%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 60%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 25%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 67%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 80%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 33%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 60%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 33%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
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 67%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 25%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 67%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 40%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 33%
Brian Baird Other 25%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 25%
Bob Beauprez Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 17%
Howard Berman Other 40%
Marion Berry Other 0%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 75%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 0%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 33%
Leonard Boswell Other 33%
Rick Boucher Other 0%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 0%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 67%
Edward Case Other 33%
Mike Castle Other 0%
Ben Chandler III Other 0%
Chris Chocola Other 0%
Hillary Clinton Other 25%
Norm Coleman Other 33%
Kent Conrad Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 60%
Jerry Costello Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 33%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 33%
Artur Davis Other 25%
James Davis Other 50%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 0%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 50%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 33%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Elizabeth Dole Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 0%
Vern Ehlers Other 33%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
John Ensign Other 33%
Bob Etheridge Other 0%
Lane Evans Other 20%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Tom Feeney Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 60%
Michael Ferguson Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 40%
William Frist Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 33%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 33%
Katherine Harris Other 0%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 0%
Maurice Hinchey Other 80%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 0%
Darlene Hooley Other 33%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 60%
William Jefferson Other 33%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Nancy Johnson Other 33%
Tim Johnson Other 20%
Paul Kanjorski Other 0%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 80%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 33%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 75%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 25%
Tom Lantos Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
James Leach Other 33%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 50%
Blanche Lincoln Other 67%
John Linder Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 0%
Robert Matsui Other 40%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Martin Meehan Other 50%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 33%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 33%
Brad Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 33%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 0%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 0%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 33%
Dave Obey Other 33%
John Olver Other 50%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 0%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Major Owens Other 43%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 75%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 0%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Richard Renzi Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 0%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Mike Ross Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 33%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 67%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 25%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 25%
Ike Skelton Other 33%
Gordon Smith Other 25%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Hilda Solis Other 50%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 25%
Bart Stupak Other 25%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 67%
John Sweeney Other 0%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 25%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 60%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 33%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 67%
Anthony Weiner Other 20%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 17%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 80%
David Wu Other 33%
Albert Wynn Other 20%

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