Rating Group: National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors

2005-2006 Positions

Issues: Drugs
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 50%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 88%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 85%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 50%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 88%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 88%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 88%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 88%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 88%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 85%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 88%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 87%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 88%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 88%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 88%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 88%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 88%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 88%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 88%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 88%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 88%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 88%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 88%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 88%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 88%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 88%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 88%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 77%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 75%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 85%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 88%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 87%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 88%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 88%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 88%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 88%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 85%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 88%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 88%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 88%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 88%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 88%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 88%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 88%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 87%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 85%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 88%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 85%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 88%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 88%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 83%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 88%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 88%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 88%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 88%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 88%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 88%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 88%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 88%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 88%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 88%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 50%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 100%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 88%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 88%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 88%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 88%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 88%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 88%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 87%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 88%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 88%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 88%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100%
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 88%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 88%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 88%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 77%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 88%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 87%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 88%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 88%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 88%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 88%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA President Barack Obama II D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 88%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 88%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 88%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 88%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 88%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 88%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 88%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 85%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 88%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 88%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 88%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 88%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 88%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 88%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 88%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 88%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 88%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 88%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 88%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 88%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 88%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 88%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 87%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 88%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 88%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 88%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 88%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 88%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 88%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 88%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 88%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 85%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 88%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 85%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 87%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 88%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 88%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 88%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 88%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 85%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 87%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 88%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 50%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 50%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 88%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 100%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 88%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 88%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 77%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 88%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 88%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 88%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 77%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 75%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 88%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 100%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 88%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 88%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 88%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 88%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 87%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 88%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 88%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 88%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 88%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 71%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 50%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 87%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 88%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 88%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 88%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 88%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 88%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 88%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 88%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 77%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 88%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 88%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 88%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 88%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 88%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 77%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 88%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 88%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 88%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 88%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 88%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 88%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Melissa Bean Other 88%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 50%
Shelley Berkley Other 88%
Howard Berman Other 87%
Marion Berry Other 88%
Judy Biggert Other 88%
Michael Bilirakis Other 88%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 88%
Dan Boren Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 88%
Rick Boucher Other 88%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 87%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 88%
Dennis Cardoza Other 100%
Russ Carnahan Other 88%
Julia Carson Other 88%
Mike Castle Other 77%
Ben Chandler III Other 88%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Norm Coleman Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 88%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 80%
Artur Davis Other 88%
Geoff Davis Other 88%
Jo Ann Davis Other 88%
Lincoln Davis Other 88%
Thomas Davis III Other 88%
Bill Delahunt Other 88%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 88%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Elizabeth Dole Other 50%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 77%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
Thelma Drake Other 100%
David Dreier Other 88%
Chet Edwards Other 88%
Vern Ehlers Other 88%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 88%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 87%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 77%
Elton Gallegly Other 88%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 87%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 85%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 88%
Katherine Harris Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 11%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Christian Hefley Other 77%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 88%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 87%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 88%
Darlene Hooley Other 88%
Kenny Hulshof Other 88%
Duncan Hunter Other 77%
Kay Hutchison Other 50%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 88%
William Jefferson Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 88%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 88%
Dale Kildee Other 88%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 88%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 87%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 88%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 88%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 88%
Ron Lewis Other 88%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 85%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 50%
Dick Lugar Other 50%
Dan Lungren Other 88%
Connie Mack IV Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 88%
Jim Marshall Other 88%
Melquiades Martinez Other 0%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 75%
John McHugh Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 88%
Martin Meehan Other 88%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 88%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 88%
Brad Miller Other 88%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 88%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 88%
Ben Nelson Other 50%
Jim Oberstar Other 88%
Dave Obey Other 88%
John Olver Other 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 88%
Ron Paul Other 55%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 88%
Earl Pomeroy Other 88%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 88%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 77%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 88%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 88%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Ken Salazar Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 88%
Jean Schmidt Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 77%
Christopher Shays Other 85%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 88%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 87%
Hilda Solis Other 88%
Mark Souder Other 88%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 88%
Pete Stark Other 77%
Cliff Stearns Other 77%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 100%
Ellen Tauscher Other 88%
Gene Taylor Other 88%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 88%
Ed Towns Other 88%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 88%
George Voinovich Other 50%
James Walsh Other 88%
Zach Wamp Other 88%
John Warner Other 50%
Diane Watson Other 85%
Anthony Weiner Other 88%
David Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 88%
Robert Wexler Other 88%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 88%
David Wu Other 88%
Albert Wynn Other 88%

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