Rating Group: American Road and Transportation Builders Association

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 88%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 38%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 88%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 13%
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 50%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 88%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 50%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 50%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 50%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 50%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 50%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 50%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 50%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 50%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 50%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 50%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 50%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 50%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 50%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 50%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 50%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 50%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 50%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 50%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 50%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 50%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 88%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 50%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 50%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 50%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 50%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 50%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 50%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 50%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 38%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 50%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 50%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 50%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 50%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 50%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 50%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 50%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 50%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 86%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 50%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
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 100%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 50%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 50%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 50%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 50%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 50%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 88%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 50%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 50%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 50%
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 50%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 50%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 50%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 50%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 50%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 50%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 88%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 88%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 50%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 50%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 50%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 50%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 88%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 50%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 50%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 86%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 63%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 50%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 50%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 50%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 50%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 50%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 50%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 50%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 50%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 88%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 50%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 50%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 50%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 50%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 50%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 50%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 50%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 50%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 50%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 50%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 50%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 50%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 50%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 50%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 50%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 88%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 50%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 50%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 88%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
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 50%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 86%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 88%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 50%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 50%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 38%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 50%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 88%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 50%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 50%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 50%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 50%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 50%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 50%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 50%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 50%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 50%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 88%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 50%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 50%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 50%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 88%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 50%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 50%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 50%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 50%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 50%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 50%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 75%
Gary Ackerman Other 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 75%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 75%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 50%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 50%
Brian Baird Other 50%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 50%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 88%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 86%
Shelley Berkley Other 50%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 50%
Jeff Bingaman Other 88%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 50%
Rick Boucher Other 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 0%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 50%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 50%
Edward Case Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 50%
Ben Chandler III Other 100%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 88%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 50%
Larry Craig Other 50%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 50%
James Davis Other 0%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 50%
Thomas Davis III Other 50%
Bill Delahunt Other 50%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 50%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 75%
Elizabeth Dole Other 88%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
John Ensign Other 29%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 50%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 50%
Russ Feingold Other 25%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 50%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 50%
William Frist Other 75%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 50%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 50%
Mark Green Other 50%
Judd Gregg Other 25%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 50%
Jane Harman Other 50%
Katherine Harris Other 50%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 50%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 50%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 25%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 50%
William Jefferson Other 50%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ric Keller Other 50%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 88%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 50%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 50%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 50%
Dennis Kucinich Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 25%
Ray LaHood Other 50%
Tom Lantos Other 50%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 83%
Blanche Lincoln Other 88%
John Linder Other 50%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 88%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Jim Marshall Other 50%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 50%
Michael McNulty Other 50%
Martin Meehan Other 50%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 50%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 50%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 50%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 50%
Dave Obey Other 50%
John Olver Other 50%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Thomas William Osborne Other 100%
Major Owens Other 50%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 50%
John Peterson Other 50%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 50%
Silvestre Reyes Other 0%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 50%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 38%
Paul Sarbanes Other 88%
Jim Saxton Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 50%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 50%
Christopher Shays Other 50%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Gordon Smith Other 88%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Vic Snyder Other 50%
Hilda Solis Other 50%
Mark Souder Other 50%
Arlen Specter Other 38%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 50%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 50%
John Sununu Other 25%
John Sweeney Other 50%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 50%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 50%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 88%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 50%
George Voinovich Other 88%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 88%
Diane Watson Other 50%
Anthony Weiner Other 50%
David Weldon Other 50%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 50%
David Wu Other 50%
Albert Wynn Other 50%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

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