Rating Group: Eagle Forum

2003 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 87%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 96%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 87%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 93%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 88%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 96%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 88%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 96%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 27%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 88%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 73%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 96%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 4%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 4%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 7%
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 4%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 4%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 5%
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 4%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 85%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 69%
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 91%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez 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 81%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 4%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 76%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 4%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 16%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 4%
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 13%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 13%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 96%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 85%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 88%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 74%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 4%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 88%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 64%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 92%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 87%
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 35%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 92%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 23%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 96%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 4%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 87%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 7%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 81%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 96%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 93%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 69%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 96%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 7%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 42%
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 4%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 88%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 12%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 86%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 85%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 93%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 92%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 90%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 85%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 73%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 92%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 65%
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 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 4%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 31%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 7%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 4%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 19%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 4%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 60%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 19%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 7%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 7%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 81%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 65%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 73%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 4%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 73%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 15%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 85%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 4%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 58%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 13%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 81%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 4%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 93%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 88%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 7%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 77%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 4%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 96%
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 88%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 65%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 7%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 4%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 0%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 69%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 73%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 92%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 8%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 12%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 54%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 4%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 12%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 76%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 13%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 8%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 73%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 15%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 8%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 4%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 4%
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 4%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 12%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 12%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 5%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 4%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 73%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 96%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 81%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 19%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 80%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 83%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 23%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 93%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 96%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 76%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 7%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 58%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 29%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 96%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 8%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 8%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 62%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 88%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 31%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 96%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 81%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 4%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 7%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 23%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 33%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 93%
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 13%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 87%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 15%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 92%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 93%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 96%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 85%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 83%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 96%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 92%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 73%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 85%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 17%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 92%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 92%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 15%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 4%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 96%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 96%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 4%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 93%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 88%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 38%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 96%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 92%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 96%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 0%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 69%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 13%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 12%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 14%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 13%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 12%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 88%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 4%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 10%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 8%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 4%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 88%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 4%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 88%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 92%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 7%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 58%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 38%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 93%
Gary Ackerman Other 4%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 13%
Todd Akin Other 96%
Wayne Allard Other 93%
George Allen Other 93%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 8%
Brian Baird Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 88%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 81%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 50%
Evan Bayh Other 13%
Bob Beauprez Other 85%
Chris Bell Other 8%
Bob Bennett Other 87%
Douglas Bereuter Other 50%
Shelley Berkley Other 18%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 46%
Judy Biggert Other 38%
Michael Bilirakis Other 92%
Jeff Bingaman Other 7%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 38%
Kit Bond Other 87%
Henry Bonilla Other 76%
Mary Bono Mack Other 62%
Leonard Boswell Other 31%
Rick Boucher Other 12%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 36%
John Breaux Other 47%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 88%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 92%
Jim Bunning Other 93%
Conrad Burns Other 87%
Max Burns Other 88%
Dan Burton Other 95%
Steve Buyer Other 92%
Robert Byrd Other 21%
Ben Campbell Other 80%
Chris Cannon Other 96%
Dennis Cardoza Other 23%
Brad Carson Other 33%
Julia Carson Other 4%
Edward Case Other 12%
Mike Castle Other 23%
Chris Chocola Other 85%
Hillary Clinton Other 13%
Norm Coleman Other 80%
Michael Collins Other 96%
Kent Conrad Other 20%
Jon Corzine Other 13%
Jerry Costello Other 54%
Christopher Cox Other 92%
Larry Craig Other 93%
Robert Cramer Other 56%
Philip Crane Other 96%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 88%
Thomas Daschle Other 13%
Artur Davis Other 12%
James Davis Other 4%
Jo Ann Davis Other 96%
Lincoln Davis Other 63%
Thomas Davis III Other 38%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 96%
James DeMint Other 96%
Peter Deutsch Other 15%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 7%
Elizabeth Dole Other 87%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 86%
Calvin Dooley Other 8%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 27%
David Dreier Other 57%
Jennifer Dunn Other 73%
John Edwards Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 23%
Vern Ehlers Other 62%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 84%
Philip English Other 62%
John Ensign Other 93%
Bob Etheridge Other 15%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 96%
Tom Feeney Other 96%
Russ Feingold Other 7%
Michael Ferguson Other 88%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 87%
Ernest Fletcher Other 72%
Mark Foley Other 77%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 19%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 80%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 80%
Jonas Frost III Other 4%
Elton Gallegly Other 88%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 88%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 42%
Paul Gillmor Other 69%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 96%
Bart Gordon Other 42%
Porter Goss Other 76%
Daniel Graham Other 0%
Mark Green Other 88%
James Greenwood Other 40%
Judd Gregg Other 87%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 96%
Jane Harman Other 0%
Katherine Harris Other 81%
Melissa Hart Other 73%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 96%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 95%
Joel Hefley Other 96%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 92%
Baron Hill Other 35%
Maurice Hinchey Other 4%
David Lee Hobson Other 65%
Pete Hoekstra Other 88%
Thomas Holden Other 54%
Ernest Hollings Other 29%
Darlene Hooley Other 19%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 96%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 15%
Kenny Hulshof Other 85%
Duncan Hunter Other 92%
Kay Hutchison Other 80%
Henry Hyde Other 88%
Daniel Inouye Other 13%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Janklow Other 90%
William Jefferson Other 25%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 13%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 92%
Christopher John Other 48%
Nancy Johnson Other 29%
Tim Johnson Other 65%
Paul Kanjorski Other 31%
Ric Keller Other 92%
Sue Kelly Other 56%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 7%
Mark Kennedy Other 88%
Patrick Kennedy Other 4%
Dale Kildee Other 31%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 4%
Gerald Kleczka Other 8%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 65%
Herb Kohl Other 7%
James Kolbe Other 27%
Dennis Kucinich Other 15%
Jon Kyl Other 93%
Ray LaHood Other 76%
Nicholas Lampson Other 19%
Tom Lantos Other 4%
Steve LaTourette Other 65%
James Leach Other 28%
Jerry Lewis Other 58%
Ron Lewis Other 88%
Joe Lieberman Other 8%
Blanche Lincoln Other 14%
John Linder Other 85%
William Lipinski Other 54%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 93%
Dick Lugar Other 87%
Denise Majette Other 8%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Jim Marshall Other 46%
Robert Matsui Other 4%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 85%
James McCrery III Other 75%
John McHugh Other 68%
Scott McInnis Other 92%
Michael McNulty Other 27%
Martin Meehan Other 4%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Brad Miller Other 0%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 35%
Dennis Moore Other 15%
Jack Murtha Other 31%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 96%
Ben Nelson Other 73%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 77%
Robert William Ney Other 84%
Don Nickles Other 93%
Anne Northup Other 84%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 85%
Jim Oberstar Other 28%
Dave Obey Other 13%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 27%
Thomas William Osborne Other 69%
Doug Ose Other 38%
Major Owens Other 10%
Michael Oxley Other 68%
Ron Paul Other 88%
Donald Payne Other 5%
John Peterson Other 88%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 77%
Todd Platts Other 81%
Richard Pombo Other 92%
Earl Pomeroy Other 31%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 73%
Deborah Pryce Other 46%
Jack Quinn Other 64%
George Radanovich Other 79%
James Ramstad Other 58%
Ralph Regula Other 69%
Denny Rehberg Other 81%
Richard Renzi Other 88%
Silvestre Reyes Other 15%
Thomas Reynolds Other 77%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 8%
Mike Ross Other 42%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 4%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 21%
Rick Santorum Other 87%
Paul Sarbanes Other 8%
Jim Saxton Other 73%
Edward Schrock Other 92%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 69%
Christopher Shays Other 42%
Donald Sherwood Other 81%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 31%
Ike Skelton Other 64%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Olympia Snowe Other 40%
Vic Snyder Other 5%
Hilda Solis Other 4%
Mark Souder Other 81%
Arlen Specter Other 80%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 17%
Pete Stark Other 4%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 54%
Ted Stevens Other 87%
Ted Strickland Other 12%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sullivan Other 96%
John Sununu Other 87%
John Sweeney Other 60%
James Talent Other 87%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 42%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
William Tauzin Other 77%
Charles Taylor Other 96%
Gene Taylor Other 77%
Craig Thomas Other 93%
William Thomas Other 62%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 35%
George Voinovich Other 80%
James Walsh Other 77%
Zach Wamp Other 96%
John Warner Other 80%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 8%
David Weldon Other 96%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 71%
Gerald Weller Other 80%
Robert Wexler Other 4%
Heather Wilson Other 62%
Lynn Woolsey Other 4%
David Wu Other 19%
Albert Wynn Other 19%

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