Rating Group: FreedomWorks

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 79%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 45%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 57%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 93%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 55%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 45%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 64%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 64%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 21%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 64%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 57%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 9%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 9%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 91%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 7%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 27%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 9%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 9%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 18%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 9%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 9%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 9%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 18%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 64%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 9%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 55%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 9%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 18%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 73%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 9%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 18%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 9%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 9%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 82%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 9%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 55%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 9%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 9%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 91%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 64%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 9%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 18%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 18%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 9%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 18%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 18%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 7%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 14%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 55%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 9%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 64%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 55%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 18%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 73%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 55%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 64%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 79%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 64%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 73%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 27%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 18%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 64%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 27%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 82%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 18%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 79%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 7%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 55%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 64%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 86%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 45%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 82%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 55%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 9%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 9%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 18%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 73%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 18%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 9%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 82%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 79%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 64%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 86%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 86%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 45%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 64%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 21%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 64%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 36%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 9%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 18%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 9%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 18%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 27%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 9%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 7%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 9%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 18%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 9%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 9%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 18%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 57%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 27%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 21%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 7%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 64%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 64%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 55%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 18%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 64%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 9%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 18%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 64%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 9%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 27%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 7%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 73%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 18%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 45%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 86%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 55%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 18%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 29%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 79%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 55%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 82%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 9%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 73%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 27%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 9%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 82%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 64%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 7%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 9%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 18%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 36%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 45%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 91%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 55%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 9%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 9%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 64%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 7%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 9%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 45%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 18%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 27%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 9%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 9%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 18%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 9%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 9%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 9%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 9%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 9%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 9%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 18%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 9%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 55%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 91%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 64%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 18%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 55%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 55%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 18%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 79%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 86%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 55%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 55%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 14%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 55%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 18%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 18%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 9%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 9%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 55%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 55%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 18%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 73%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 55%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 7%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 9%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 36%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 86%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 64%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 9%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 7%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 79%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 82%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 18%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 82%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 93%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 82%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 64%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 73%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 73%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 91%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 73%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 64%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 64%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 18%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 9%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 57%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 64%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 73%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 9%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 9%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 73%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 73%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 27%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 86%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 73%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 36%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 9%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 64%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 64%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 73%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 18%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 55%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 18%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 7%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 27%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 64%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 18%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 27%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 18%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 18%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 91%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 18%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 91%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 82%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 7%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 55%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 18%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 93%
Gary Ackerman Other 9%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 7%
Todd Akin Other 91%
Wayne Allard Other 93%
George Allen Other 86%
Thomas Allen Other 9%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 18%
Brian Baird Other 9%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 64%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 91%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 82%
Charlie Bass Other 73%
Evan Bayh Other 14%
Bob Beauprez Other 82%
Bob Bennett Other 79%
Shelley Berkley Other 18%
Howard Berman Other 18%
Marion Berry Other 27%
Judy Biggert Other 45%
Michael Bilirakis Other 64%
Jeff Bingaman Other 7%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 45%
Kit Bond Other 79%
Henry Bonilla Other 64%
Mary Bono Mack Other 55%
Leonard Boswell Other 18%
Rick Boucher Other 18%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 27%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 55%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 55%
Jim Bunning Other 86%
Conrad Burns Other 79%
Dan Burton Other 73%
Steve Buyer Other 73%
Robert Byrd Other 14%
Chris Cannon Other 82%
Dennis Cardoza Other 27%
Julia Carson Other 9%
Edward Case Other 18%
Mike Castle Other 36%
Chris Chocola Other 55%
Hillary Clinton Other 7%
Norm Coleman Other 79%
Kent Conrad Other 14%
Jon Corzine Other 7%
Jerry Costello Other 18%
Christopher Cox Other 91%
Larry Craig Other 86%
Robert Cramer Other 45%
Barbara Cubin Other 55%
Randall Cunningham Other 73%
Artur Davis Other 18%
James Davis Other 9%
Jo Ann Davis Other 73%
Lincoln Davis Other 27%
Thomas Davis III Other 73%
Bill Delahunt Other 18%
Thomas DeLay Other 73%
James DeMint Other 91%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 55%
Norm Dicks Other 9%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 79%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 79%
John Doolittle Other 55%
Byron Dorgan Other 14%
David Dreier Other 73%
Chet Edwards Other 36%
Vern Ehlers Other 55%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 64%
Philip English Other 36%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 18%
Lane Evans Other 9%
Terry Everett Other 55%
Tom Feeney Other 82%
Russ Feingold Other 7%
Michael Ferguson Other 36%
Mark Foley Other 45%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 36%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 73%
Barney Frank Other 18%
William Frist Other 79%
Elton Gallegly Other 55%
Jim Gibbons Other 64%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 55%
Paul Gillmor Other 64%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 9%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 64%
Bart Gordon Other 36%
Mark Green Other 82%
Judd Gregg Other 79%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 73%
Jane Harman Other 18%
Katherine Harris Other 64%
Melissa Hart Other 55%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 75%
Robert Hayes Other 55%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 82%
Joel Hefley Other 82%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 82%
Maurice Hinchey Other 9%
David Lee Hobson Other 55%
Pete Hoekstra Other 73%
Thomas Holden Other 36%
Darlene Hooley Other 18%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 64%
Kenny Hulshof Other 64%
Duncan Hunter Other 73%
Kay Hutchison Other 79%
Henry Hyde Other 64%
Daniel Inouye Other 7%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 73%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 9%
William Jefferson Other 9%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 14%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 73%
Nancy Johnson Other 36%
Tim Johnson Other 36%
Paul Kanjorski Other 9%
Ric Keller Other 64%
Sue Kelly Other 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 64%
Patrick Kennedy Other 18%
Dale Kildee Other 9%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 18%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 55%
Herb Kohl Other 21%
James Kolbe Other 55%
Dennis Kucinich Other 18%
Jon Kyl Other 93%
Ray LaHood Other 36%
Tom Lantos Other 9%
Steve LaTourette Other 55%
James Leach Other 18%
Jerry Lewis Other 55%
Ron Lewis Other 64%
Joe Lieberman Other 7%
Blanche Lincoln Other 36%
John Linder Other 82%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 93%
Dick Lugar Other 71%
Don Manzullo Other 82%
Jim Marshall Other 18%
Robert Matsui Other 9%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 64%
James McCrery III Other 55%
John McHugh Other 36%
Michael McNulty Other 9%
Martin Meehan Other 18%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 9%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 9%
Brad Miller Other 9%
Alan Mollohan Other 18%
Dennis Moore Other 18%
Jack Murtha Other 18%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 82%
Sue Myrick Other 64%
Ben Nelson Other 43%
Robert William Ney Other 45%
Anne Northup Other 55%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 91%
James Nussle Other 64%
Jim Oberstar Other 18%
Dave Obey Other 18%
John Olver Other 18%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 18%
Thomas William Osborne Other 64%
Major Owens Other 9%
Michael Oxley Other 64%
Ron Paul Other 73%
Donald Payne Other 9%
John Peterson Other 64%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 45%
Todd Platts Other 45%
Richard Pombo Other 73%
Earl Pomeroy Other 18%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 55%
Deborah Pryce Other 55%
George Radanovich Other 64%
James Ramstad Other 64%
Ralph Regula Other 55%
Denny Rehberg Other 64%
Richard Renzi Other 55%
Silvestre Reyes Other 9%
Thomas Reynolds Other 55%
Mike Ross Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 18%
Jim Ryun Other 82%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 9%
Rick Santorum Other 86%
Paul Sarbanes Other 14%
Jim Saxton Other 36%
John Shadegg Other 91%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 55%
Christopher Shays Other 73%
Donald Sherwood Other 64%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 36%
Ike Skelton Other 27%
Gordon Smith Other 79%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 9%
Hilda Solis Other 9%
Mark Souder Other 55%
Arlen Specter Other 79%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 18%
Pete Stark Other 18%
Cliff Stearns Other 82%
Ted Stevens Other 79%
Ted Strickland Other 18%
Bart Stupak Other 18%
John Sullivan Other 64%
John Sununu Other 86%
John Sweeney Other 55%
James Talent Other 79%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 36%
Ellen Tauscher Other 9%
Charles Taylor Other 73%
Gene Taylor Other 64%
Craig Thomas Other 86%
William Thomas Other 55%
Todd Tiahrt Other 55%
Ed Towns Other 9%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 18%
George Voinovich Other 86%
James Walsh Other 55%
Zach Wamp Other 73%
John Warner Other 79%
Diane Watson Other 18%
Anthony Weiner Other 9%
David Weldon Other 64%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 45%
Gerald Weller Other 73%
Robert Wexler Other 18%
Heather Wilson Other 55%
Lynn Woolsey Other 9%
David Wu Other 18%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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