Rating Group: American Federation of Government Employees

2002 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 15%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 25%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 13%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
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 13%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 8%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 92%
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 92%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 92%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 92%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 92%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
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 85%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 92%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 15%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 92%
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 92%
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 88%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 75%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 8%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 15%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 8%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 8%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 15%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 85%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 92%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 92%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 8%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 92%
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 15%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
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 8%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 23%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
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 92%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 92%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 85%
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 13%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
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 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 92%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 54%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 85%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 8%
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 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 88%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 8%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 15%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 8%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 85%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 92%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 92%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 23%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 23%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 92%
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 85%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 15%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 77%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 77%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 92%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 92%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 92%
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 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 8%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 8%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 13%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 75%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
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 0%
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 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 25%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 8%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 8%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 8%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 31%
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 8%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 77%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 8%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 69%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 8%
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 92%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 15%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
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 85%
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 69%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 8%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 15%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 23%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 88%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 92%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 8%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 8%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 75%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Douglas Bereuter Other 23%
Shelley Berkley Other 85%
Howard Berman Other 85%
Marion Berry Other 85%
Judy Biggert Other 8%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 88%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 23%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Leonard Boswell Other 77%
Rick Boucher Other 92%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 85%
John Breaux Other 63%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 13%
Conrad Burns Other 13%
Dan Burton Other 8%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 88%
Ben Campbell Other 25%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 77%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 8%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 8%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 92%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 62%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 88%
James Davis Other 85%
Jo Ann Davis Other 23%
Thomas Davis III Other 15%
Bill Delahunt Other 92%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 8%
Norm Dicks Other 85%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 69%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 8%
Jennifer Dunn Other 8%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 92%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 15%
Philip English Other 15%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 85%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 15%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 13%
Ernest Fletcher Other 15%
Mark Foley Other 8%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 69%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 8%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 8%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 8%
Paul Gillmor Other 15%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 8%
Bart Gordon Other 85%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 75%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 15%
Jane Harman Other 46%
Melissa Hart Other 15%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 23%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 77%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 8%
Pete Hoekstra Other 15%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 92%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 31%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 8%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 23%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 8%
Daniel Inouye Other 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 8%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 77%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 75%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 8%
Christopher John Other 69%
Nancy Johnson Other 23%
Tim Johnson Other 8%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Ric Keller Other 8%
Sue Kelly Other 8%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 8%
Herb Kohl Other 88%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 15%
Nicholas Lampson Other 92%
Tom Lantos Other 92%
Steve LaTourette Other 23%
James Leach Other 15%
Jerry Lewis Other 8%
Ron Lewis Other 8%
Joe Lieberman Other 88%
Blanche Lincoln Other 63%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 85%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 13%
Don Manzullo Other 8%
Robert Matsui Other 92%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 23%
Scott McInnis Other 8%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 69%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 92%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 50%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 85%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 8%
Ben Nelson Other 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 8%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 8%
James Nussle Other 8%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 92%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 15%
Major Owens Other 92%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 15%
Donald Payne Other 85%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 8%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 92%
Deborah Pryce Other 8%
Jack Quinn Other 23%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 23%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 92%
Thomas Reynolds Other 8%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 85%
Mike Ross Other 77%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 85%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 15%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 15%
Christopher Shays Other 8%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 15%
Ike Skelton Other 85%
Gordon Smith Other 25%
Nick Smith Other 23%
Olympia Snowe Other 13%
Vic Snyder Other 85%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 38%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 92%
Cliff Stearns Other 8%
Charles Stenholm Other 62%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 15%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 69%
Ellen Tauscher Other 77%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 8%
Gene Taylor Other 77%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 8%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 85%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 92%
James Turner Other 92%
George Voinovich Other 25%
James Walsh Other 23%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 13%
Diane Watson Other 92%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 23%
Gerald Weller Other 8%
Robert Wexler Other 92%
Heather Wilson Other 8%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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