Rating Group: American Immigration Lawyers Association

2007-2008 Positions

Issues: Immigration
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 60%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 40%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 20%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 40%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 60%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 50%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 60%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 50%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 80%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 60%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 60%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 60%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 60%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 60%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 60%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 60%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 60%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 60%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 60%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 60%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 40%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 60%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 20%
NA President Barack Obama II D 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 50%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 60%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 60%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 60%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 75%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 60%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 60%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 60%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 50%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 60%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 60%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 60%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 60%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 60%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 60%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 60%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 60%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 60%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 40%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 60%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 60%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 60%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 60%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 66%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 60%
Wayne Allard Other 60%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 60%
Kit Bond Other 80%
Jim Bunning Other 60%
Robert Byrd Other 20%
Hillary Clinton Other 50%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 25%
Larry Craig Other 100%
James DeMint Other 60%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 80%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
John Ensign Other 80%
Russ Feingold Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 80%
Kay Hutchison Other 80%
Daniel Inouye Other 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 50%
Herb Kohl Other 60%
Jon Kyl Other 60%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
Blanche Lincoln Other 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 80%
Melquiades Martinez Other 80%
Ben Nelson Other 80%
Ken Salazar Other 60%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
John Sununu Other 60%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 40%
John Warner Other 80%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 60%

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