Rating Group: American Federation of Government Employees

2001 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 7%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 13%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 7%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 7%
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 29%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 93%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 93%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 93%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 93%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 7%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 7%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 93%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 7%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 93%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 7%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 79%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 93%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 7%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 7%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 7%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 7%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 7%
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 87%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 7%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 93%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 93%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 13%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 7%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 13%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 93%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 13%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 13%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 13%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 7%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 7%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 53%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 71%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 87%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 93%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 7%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 20%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 7%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
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 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 79%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 93%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 7%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 7%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 13%
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 73%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 93%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 93%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 7%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 20%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 7%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 73%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 93%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 33%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 33%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 93%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 93%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 13%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 93%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 93%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 93%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
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 7%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 13%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 13%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 13%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 93%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 7%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
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 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 18%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 93%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 33%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 13%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 93%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 80%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 20%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 13%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 27%
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 87%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 93%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 93%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 7%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 7%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 87%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 7%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 86%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 20%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 93%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 93%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 93%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 7%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 7%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 13%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 93%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 20%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 7%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 93%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 93%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 7%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 7%
Charlie Bass Other 7%
Evan Bayh Other 87%
Bob Bennett Other 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 87%
Douglas Bereuter Other 14%
Shelley Berkley Other 87%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 87%
Judy Biggert Other 7%
Michael Bilirakis Other 13%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 93%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 13%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 7%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 87%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 93%
John Breaux Other 60%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 7%
Conrad Burns Other 13%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 7%
Robert Byrd Other 73%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 21%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Jean Carnahan Other 86%
Brad Carson Other 80%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 20%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 87%
Robert Clement Other 80%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 7%
Larry Combest Other 7%
Gary Condit Other 73%
Kent Conrad Other 93%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 93%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 7%
Robert Cramer Other 47%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 7%
Thomas Daschle Other 93%
James Davis Other 93%
Jo Ann Davis Other 7%
Thomas Davis III Other 7%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 93%
Chris Dodd Other 87%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 7%
Calvin Dooley Other 73%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 93%
David Dreier Other 7%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 13%
Philip English Other 13%
John Ensign Other 7%
Bob Etheridge Other 87%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 80%
Michael Ferguson Other 20%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 27%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 13%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 7%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 93%
Elton Gallegly Other 7%
John Ganske Other 33%
George Gekas Other 7%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 7%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 7%
Paul Gillmor Other 14%
Benjamin Gilman Other 33%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 93%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 13%
Bart Gordon Other 79%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 87%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 7%
James Greenwood Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 7%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 7%
Tony Hall Other 93%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 87%
Melissa Hart Other 7%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 14%
Jesse Helms Other 7%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 86%
Van Hilleary Other 7%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 7%
Pete Hoekstra Other 13%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 87%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 20%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 14%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 20%
Kenny Hulshof Other 7%
Duncan Hunter Other 7%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 13%
Kay Hutchison Other 7%
Henry Hyde Other 13%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 93%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 53%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 71%
Nancy Johnson Other 27%
Tim Johnson Other 13%
Paul Kanjorski Other 93%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 13%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 93%
Mark Kennedy Other 7%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Brian Kerns Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 87%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 93%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 21%
James Leach Other 33%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 7%
Joe Lieberman Other 87%
Blanche Lincoln Other 73%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 86%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 7%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 100%
James Maloney Other 93%
Don Manzullo Other 13%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 29%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 93%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 0%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 36%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 87%
Dennis Moore Other 86%
Constance Morella Other 53%
Frank Murkowski Other 14%
Jack Murtha Other 87%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 67%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 13%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 13%
James Nussle Other 7%
Jim Oberstar Other 93%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 80%
Thomas William Osborne Other 7%
Doug Ose Other 7%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 31%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 87%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 7%
Todd Platts Other 7%
Richard Pombo Other 13%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 7%
Jack Quinn Other 29%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 13%
Ralph Regula Other 13%
Denny Rehberg Other 7%
Silvestre Reyes Other 93%
Thomas Reynolds Other 7%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 93%
Mike Ross Other 93%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 29%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 87%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 93%
Rick Santorum Other 7%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 20%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 7%
Christopher Shays Other 13%
Donald Sherwood Other 7%
Ronnie Shows Other 77%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 20%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 64%
Gordon Smith Other 27%
Nick Smith Other 7%
Bob Smith Other 13%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 93%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 13%
Arlen Specter Other 60%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 93%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 7%
Charles Stenholm Other 73%
Ted Stevens Other 14%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 7%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 7%
Tom Tancredo Other 7%
John Tanner Other 79%
Ellen Tauscher Other 93%
William Tauzin Other 7%
Charles Taylor Other 7%
Gene Taylor Other 73%
Craig Thomas Other 13%
William Thomas Other 7%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 87%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 33%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 87%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 7%
Zach Wamp Other 13%
John Warner Other 13%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 7%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 27%
Gerald Weller Other 7%
Paul Wellstone Other 93%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 7%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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