Rating Group: The John Birch Society

2001 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 72%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 90%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 80%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 60%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 60%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 65%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 15%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 25%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 20%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 10%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 10%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 5%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 10%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 25%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 60%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 30%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 15%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 70%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 5%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 5%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 6%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 83%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 5%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 60%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 11%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 20%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 80%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 70%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 25%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 15%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 16%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 5%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 21%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 10%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 20%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 65%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 10%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 65%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 60%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 43%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 68%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 65%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 53%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 72%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 42%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 5%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 68%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 30%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 50%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 85%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 60%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 75%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 5%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 5%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 10%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 5%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 70%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 89%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 90%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 75%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 85%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 80%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 55%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 63%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 42%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 75%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 10%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 5%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 10%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 5%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 5%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 11%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 10%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 75%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 5%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 15%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 70%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 60%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 65%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 5%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 15%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 15%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 5%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 37%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 75%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 20%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 60%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 75%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 60%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 15%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 42%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 85%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 5%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 60%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 84%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 15%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 75%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 58%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 70%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 25%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 25%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 55%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 55%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 15%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 55%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 20%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 5%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 5%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 20%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 53%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 30%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 30%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 15%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 11%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 0%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 10%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 5%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 5%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 5%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 5%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 68%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 75%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 65%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 21%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 70%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 11%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 95%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 75%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 25%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 55%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 11%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 20%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 75%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 11%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 5%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 30%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 80%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 5%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 35%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 55%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 70%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 70%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 21%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 25%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 58%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 80%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 80%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 70%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 75%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 75%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 70%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 60%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 72%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 11%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 68%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 25%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 11%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 75%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 5%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 85%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 35%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 15%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 65%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 75%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 15%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 60%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 11%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 16%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 10%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 30%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 65%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 11%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 25%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 16%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 5%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 75%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 15%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 82%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 60%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 15%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 5%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 61%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 26%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 89%
Gary Ackerman Other 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 11%
Todd Akin Other 90%
Wayne Allard Other 89%
George Allen Other 80%
Thomas Allen Other 5%
Richard Armey Other 65%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 26%
Brian Baird Other 26%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 65%
John Baldacci Other 5%
Cass Ballenger Other 60%
James Barcia Other 45%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 75%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 80%
Charlie Bass Other 55%
Evan Bayh Other 30%
Bob Bennett Other 95%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 21%
Douglas Bereuter Other 60%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
Howard Berman Other 5%
Marion Berry Other 45%
Judy Biggert Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 65%
Jeff Bingaman Other 11%
Rod Blagojevich Other 15%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 45%
Kit Bond Other 85%
Henry Bonilla Other 63%
David Edward Bonior Other 10%
Mary Bono Mack Other 65%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 16%
Leonard Boswell Other 30%
Rick Boucher Other 26%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 37%
John Breaux Other 55%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 60%
Ed Bryant Other 70%
Jim Bunning Other 90%
Conrad Burns Other 89%
Dan Burton Other 82%
Steve Buyer Other 60%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Herbert Callahan Other 60%
Ben Campbell Other 85%
Chris Cannon Other 68%
Jean Carnahan Other 40%
Brad Carson Other 40%
Julia Carson Other 10%
Mike Castle Other 45%
Eva Clayton Other 5%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 45%
Robert Clement Other 40%
Hillary Clinton Other 5%
Michael Collins Other 70%
Larry Combest Other 70%
Gary Condit Other 45%
Kent Conrad Other 15%
John Cooksey Other 65%
Jon Corzine Other 5%
Jerry Costello Other 40%
Christopher Cox Other 70%
William Coyne Other 5%
Larry Craig Other 85%
Robert Cramer Other 47%
Philip Crane Other 75%
Randall Cunningham Other 63%
Thomas Daschle Other 5%
James Davis Other 20%
Jo Ann Davis Other 75%
Thomas Davis III Other 50%
Bill Delahunt Other 5%
Thomas DeLay Other 68%
James DeMint Other 75%
Peter Deutsch Other 15%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 56%
Norm Dicks Other 20%
Chris Dodd Other 5%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 84%
Calvin Dooley Other 30%
John Doolittle Other 85%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
David Dreier Other 65%
Jennifer Dunn Other 58%
John Edwards Other 20%
Chet Edwards Other 25%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 58%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 59%
Philip English Other 55%
John Ensign Other 80%
Bob Etheridge Other 30%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 70%
Russ Feingold Other 25%
Michael Ferguson Other 58%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 83%
Ernest Fletcher Other 60%
Mark Foley Other 63%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 20%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 63%
Barney Frank Other 10%
William Frist Other 90%
Jonas Frost III Other 25%
Elton Gallegly Other 60%
John Ganske Other 60%
George Gekas Other 60%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 11%
Jim Gibbons Other 65%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 63%
Paul Gillmor Other 58%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 15%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 85%
Bart Gordon Other 47%
Porter Goss Other 55%
Daniel Graham Other 15%
William Phillip Gramm Other 90%
Mark Green Other 60%
James Greenwood Other 50%
Judd Gregg Other 85%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 55%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 70%
Tony Hall Other 11%
James Hansen Other 74%
Jane Harman Other 25%
Melissa Hart Other 60%
Robert Hayes Other 60%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 70%
Joel Hefley Other 85%
Jesse Helms Other 95%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 80%
Baron Hill Other 30%
Van Hilleary Other 60%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 10%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 60%
Pete Hoekstra Other 80%
Thomas Holden Other 35%
Ernest Hollings Other 20%
Darlene Hooley Other 32%
Stephen Horn Other 42%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 95%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 32%
Kenny Hulshof Other 65%
Duncan Hunter Other 65%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 85%
Kay Hutchison Other 80%
Henry Hyde Other 65%
Daniel Inouye Other 6%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 83%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 11%
William Jefferson Other 15%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 60%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 60%
Christopher John Other 45%
Nancy Johnson Other 45%
Tim Johnson Other 60%
Paul Kanjorski Other 20%
Ric Keller Other 65%
Sue Kelly Other 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 5%
Mark Kennedy Other 70%
Patrick Kennedy Other 11%
Brian Kerns Other 85%
Dale Kildee Other 20%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 10%
Gerald Kleczka Other 20%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 70%
Herb Kohl Other 26%
James Kolbe Other 45%
Dennis Kucinich Other 10%
Jon Kyl Other 95%
John LaFalce Other 15%
Ray LaHood Other 70%
Nicholas Lampson Other 18%
Tom Lantos Other 10%
Steve LaTourette Other 60%
James Leach Other 40%
Jerry Lewis Other 72%
Ron Lewis Other 75%
Joe Lieberman Other 10%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 65%
William Lipinski Other 42%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 80%
Dick Lugar Other 80%
William Luther Other 15%
James Maloney Other 35%
Don Manzullo Other 75%
Frank Mascara Other 30%
Robert Matsui Other 10%
Karen McCarthy Other 15%
James McCrery III Other 65%
John McHugh Other 50%
Scott McInnis Other 70%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 16%
Michael McNulty Other 5%
Martin Meehan Other 5%
Carrie Meek Other 13%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 60%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 70%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 6%
Alan Mollohan Other 35%
Dennis Moore Other 35%
Constance Morella Other 35%
Frank Murkowski Other 90%
Jack Murtha Other 20%
Sue Myrick Other 75%
Ben Nelson Other 55%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 65%
Robert William Ney Other 60%
Don Nickles Other 90%
Anne Northup Other 60%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 68%
James Nussle Other 65%
Jim Oberstar Other 11%
Dave Obey Other 10%
John Olver Other 5%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 39%
Thomas William Osborne Other 60%
Doug Ose Other 55%
Major Owens Other 5%
Michael Oxley Other 58%
Ron Paul Other 95%
Donald Payne Other 15%
John Peterson Other 60%
David Phelps Other 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 65%
Todd Platts Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 85%
Earl Pomeroy Other 10%
Deborah Pryce Other 50%
Jack Quinn Other 47%
George Radanovich Other 65%
James Ramstad Other 65%
Ralph Regula Other 60%
Denny Rehberg Other 60%
Silvestre Reyes Other 25%
Thomas Reynolds Other 65%
Bob Riley Other 70%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 24%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 16%
Timothy Roemer Other 40%
Mike Ross Other 40%
Steve Rothman Other 13%
Marge Roukema Other 50%
Jim Ryun Other 80%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 16%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 30%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 55%
Edward Schrock Other 65%
John Shadegg Other 85%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 56%
Christopher Shays Other 45%
Donald Sherwood Other 60%
Ronnie Shows Other 60%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 55%
Joseph Skeen Other 60%
Ike Skelton Other 47%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Nick Smith Other 60%
Bob Smith Other 90%
Olympia Snowe Other 75%
Vic Snyder Other 5%
Hilda Solis Other 15%
Mark Souder Other 79%
Arlen Specter Other 65%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 25%
Pete Stark Other 5%
Cliff Stearns Other 85%
Charles Stenholm Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 72%
Ted Strickland Other 20%
Bob Stump Other 71%
Bart Stupak Other 28%
John Sununu Other 70%
John Sweeney Other 50%
Tom Tancredo Other 95%
John Tanner Other 37%
Ellen Tauscher Other 35%
William Tauzin Other 60%
Charles Taylor Other 65%
Gene Taylor Other 45%
Craig Thomas Other 90%
William Thomas Other 50%
Fred Thompson Other 80%
Karen Thurman Other 15%
Strom Thurmond Other 90%
Todd Tiahrt Other 75%
Robert Torricelli Other 35%
Ed Towns Other 19%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 55%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 10%
James Turner Other 35%
George Voinovich Other 90%
James Walsh Other 50%
Zach Wamp Other 60%
John Warner Other 80%
Wesley Watkins Other 72%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 60%
Anthony Weiner Other 5%
David Weldon Other 80%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 53%
Gerald Weller Other 60%
Paul Wellstone Other 5%
Robert Wexler Other 5%
Heather Wilson Other 60%
Lynn Woolsey Other 5%
David Wu Other 15%
Albert Wynn Other 16%

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