Rating Group: The John Birch Society

2000 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 63%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 70%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 78%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 64%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 56%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 67%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 18%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 16%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 13%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 19%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 27%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 22%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 26%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 20%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 27%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 15%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 24%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 57%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 20%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 59%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 18%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 17%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 18%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 79%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 17%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 57%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 21%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 26%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 87%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 20%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 29%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 23%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 80%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 20%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 21%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 20%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 58%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 53%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 21%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 54%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 55%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 42%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 67%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 30%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 27%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 68%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 27%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 72%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 11%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 60%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 76%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 63%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 11%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 16%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 21%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 20%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 23%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 55%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 70%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 66%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 75%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 66%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 56%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 60%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 41%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 10%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 53%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 18%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 19%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 21%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 25%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 22%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 16%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 18%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 19%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 21%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 58%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 55%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 17%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 21%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 23%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 54%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 64%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 21%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 64%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 58%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 24%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 13%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 18%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 67%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 12%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 63%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 79%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 20%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 69%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 45%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 18%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 61%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 22%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 22%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 48%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 24%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 37%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 31%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 26%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 13%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 16%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 44%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 24%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 14%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 23%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 19%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 22%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 13%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 24%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 21%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 19%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 15%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 27%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 51%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 74%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 59%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 33%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 16%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 62%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 82%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 68%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 12%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 50%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 16%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 32%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 59%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 21%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 19%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 32%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 67%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 21%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 15%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 31%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 66%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 19%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 11%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 56%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 78%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 71%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 71%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 73%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 62%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 53%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 57%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 16%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 22%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 61%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 26%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 14%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 65%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 24%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 63%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 20%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 68%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 23%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 54%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 11%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 27%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 11%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 63%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 25%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 20%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 35%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 31%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 56%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 21%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 84%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 60%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 22%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 8%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 32%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 82%
Gary Ackerman Other 12%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 10%
Wayne Allard Other 78%
Thomas Allen Other 17%
Richard Armey Other 63%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 30%
Brian Baird Other 27%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 59%
John Baldacci Other 20%
Cass Ballenger Other 59%
James Barcia Other 43%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 79%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 75%
Charlie Bass Other 45%
Evan Bayh Other 10%
Bob Bennett Other 67%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 15%
Douglas Bereuter Other 44%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
Howard Berman Other 15%
Marion Berry Other 37%
Judy Biggert Other 43%
Michael Bilirakis Other 58%
Jeff Bingaman Other 12%
Rod Blagojevich Other 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 26%
Kit Bond Other 68%
Henry Bonilla Other 63%
David Edward Bonior Other 24%
Mary Bono Mack Other 47%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 29%
Leonard Boswell Other 30%
Rick Boucher Other 28%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 25%
John Breaux Other 18%
Ed Bryant Other 62%
Jim Bunning Other 84%
Conrad Burns Other 70%
Dan Burton Other 75%
Steve Buyer Other 60%
Robert Byrd Other 31%
Herbert Callahan Other 56%
Ben Campbell Other 68%
Chris Cannon Other 70%
Julia Carson Other 18%
Mike Castle Other 32%
Eva Clayton Other 16%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 16%
Robert Clement Other 32%
Michael Collins Other 74%
Larry Combest Other 68%
Gary Condit Other 42%
Kent Conrad Other 20%
John Cooksey Other 54%
Jerry Costello Other 41%
Christopher Cox Other 71%
William Coyne Other 21%
Larry Craig Other 77%
Robert Cramer Other 31%
Philip Crane Other 69%
Barbara Cubin Other 68%
Randall Cunningham Other 62%
Thomas Daschle Other 10%
James Davis Other 20%
Thomas Davis III Other 41%
Bill Delahunt Other 22%
Thomas DeLay Other 68%
James DeMint Other 65%
Peter Deutsch Other 22%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 46%
Norm Dicks Other 18%
Chris Dodd Other 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 70%
Calvin Dooley Other 22%
John Doolittle Other 80%
Byron Dorgan Other 16%
David Dreier Other 53%
Jennifer Dunn Other 51%
John Edwards Other 13%
Chet Edwards Other 20%
Vern Ehlers Other 53%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 49%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 57%
Philip English Other 47%
Bob Etheridge Other 28%
Lane Evans Other 20%
Terry Everett Other 68%
Russ Feingold Other 33%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 68%
Ernest Fletcher Other 51%
Mark Foley Other 37%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 20%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 57%
Barney Frank Other 24%
William Frist Other 68%
Jonas Frost III Other 17%
Elton Gallegly Other 48%
John Ganske Other 48%
George Gekas Other 53%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 22%
Jim Gibbons Other 65%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 35%
Paul Gillmor Other 42%
Benjamin Gilman Other 33%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 21%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 76%
Bart Gordon Other 32%
Porter Goss Other 52%
Daniel Graham Other 13%
William Phillip Gramm Other 80%
Mark Green Other 55%
James Greenwood Other 32%
Judd Gregg Other 79%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 65%
Tony Hall Other 31%
James Hansen Other 62%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 60%
Robert Hayes Other 59%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 72%
Joel Hefley Other 81%
Jesse Helms Other 84%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 67%
Baron Hill Other 28%
Van Hilleary Other 70%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 16%
Maurice Hinchey Other 20%
David Lee Hobson Other 53%
Pete Hoekstra Other 66%
Thomas Holden Other 35%
Ernest Hollings Other 20%
Darlene Hooley Other 25%
Stephen Horn Other 36%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 81%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 27%
Kenny Hulshof Other 61%
Duncan Hunter Other 63%
Asa Hutchinson Other 56%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 80%
Kay Hutchison Other 70%
Henry Hyde Other 52%
Daniel Inouye Other 9%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 72%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 26%
William Jefferson Other 19%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 41%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 60%
Christopher John Other 35%
Nancy Johnson Other 38%
Paul Kanjorski Other 26%
Sue Kelly Other 32%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 14%
Patrick Kennedy Other 28%
Dale Kildee Other 32%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 20%
Gerald Kleczka Other 28%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 53%
Herb Kohl Other 18%
James Kolbe Other 48%
Dennis Kucinich Other 40%
Jon Kyl Other 79%
John LaFalce Other 27%
Ray LaHood Other 56%
Nicholas Lampson Other 25%
Tom Lantos Other 21%
Stephen Largent Other 68%
Steve LaTourette Other 46%
James Leach Other 42%
Jerry Lewis Other 53%
Ron Lewis Other 65%
Joe Lieberman Other 14%
Blanche Lincoln Other 10%
John Linder Other 63%
William Lipinski Other 39%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 71%
Dick Lugar Other 58%
William Luther Other 22%
James Maloney Other 29%
Don Manzullo Other 72%
Frank Mascara Other 35%
Robert Matsui Other 18%
Karen McCarthy Other 17%
James McCrery III Other 53%
John McHugh Other 43%
Scott McInnis Other 68%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 38%
Michael McNulty Other 26%
Martin Meehan Other 18%
Carrie Meek Other 19%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 17%
Dan Miller Other 53%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 31%
John Moakley Other 22%
Alan Mollohan Other 32%
Dennis Moore Other 30%
Constance Morella Other 20%
Frank Murkowski Other 68%
Jack Murtha Other 30%
Sue Myrick Other 61%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 60%
Robert William Ney Other 62%
Don Nickles Other 83%
Anne Northup Other 50%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 67%
James Nussle Other 58%
Jim Oberstar Other 26%
Dave Obey Other 29%
John Olver Other 18%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 25%
Doug Ose Other 47%
Major Owens Other 19%
Michael Oxley Other 54%
Ron Paul Other 95%
Donald Payne Other 22%
John Peterson Other 63%
David Phelps Other 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 62%
Richard Pombo Other 81%
Earl Pomeroy Other 17%
Deborah Pryce Other 45%
Jack Quinn Other 38%
George Radanovich Other 63%
James Ramstad Other 45%
Ralph Regula Other 49%
Silvestre Reyes Other 15%
Thomas Reynolds Other 50%
Bob Riley Other 65%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 36%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 17%
Timothy Roemer Other 38%
Steve Rothman Other 22%
Marge Roukema Other 40%
Jim Ryun Other 67%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 21%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 30%
Rick Santorum Other 73%
Paul Sarbanes Other 16%
Jim Saxton Other 48%
Joe Scarborough Other 72%
John Shadegg Other 76%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 41%
Christopher Shays Other 39%
Donald Sherwood Other 50%
Ronnie Shows Other 43%
Norman Sisisky Other 31%
Joseph Skeen Other 56%
Ike Skelton Other 34%
Gordon Smith Other 55%
Nick Smith Other 56%
Bob Smith Other 95%
Olympia Snowe Other 52%
Vic Snyder Other 16%
Mark Souder Other 60%
Arlen Specter Other 48%
Floyd Spence Other 64%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 26%
Pete Stark Other 32%
Cliff Stearns Other 76%
Charles Stenholm Other 47%
Ted Stevens Other 62%
Ted Strickland Other 28%
Bob Stump Other 72%
Bart Stupak Other 36%
John Sununu Other 68%
John Sweeney Other 52%
Tom Tancredo Other 72%
John Tanner Other 30%
Ellen Tauscher Other 26%
William Tauzin Other 53%
Charles Taylor Other 73%
Gene Taylor Other 52%
Craig Thomas Other 75%
William Thomas Other 52%
Fred Thompson Other 74%
Karen Thurman Other 21%
Strom Thurmond Other 73%
Todd Tiahrt Other 70%
Robert Torricelli Other 26%
Ed Towns Other 18%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 19%
James Turner Other 25%
George Voinovich Other 72%
James Walsh Other 46%
Zach Wamp Other 71%
John Warner Other 60%
Wesley Watkins Other 64%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 59%
Anthony Weiner Other 13%
David Weldon Other 66%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 44%
Gerald Weller Other 48%
Paul Wellstone Other 17%
Robert Wexler Other 21%
Heather Wilson Other 47%
Lynn Woolsey Other 20%
David Wu Other 32%
Albert Wynn Other 19%

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