Rating Group: American Foreign Service Association

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 45%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 94%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 80%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 45%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 88%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 55%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 79%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 55%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 81%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 81%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 71%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 65%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 81%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 59%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 88%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 81%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 81%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 81%
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 75%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 78%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 88%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 75%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 78%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 35%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 81%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 88%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 81%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 71%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 29%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 81%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 90%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 78%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 81%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 78%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 94%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 94%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 94%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 94%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 35%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 88%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 88%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 78%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 88%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 78%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 88%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 55%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 78%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 88%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 49%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 78%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 65%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 59%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 93%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 88%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 88%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 88%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 45%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 81%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 94%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 78%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 78%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 81%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 81%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 88%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 81%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 55%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 51%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 87%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 94%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 65%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 94%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 68%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 88%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 84%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 94%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 88%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 81%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 88%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 75%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 74%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 88%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 88%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 65%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 81%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 81%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 78%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 71%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 78%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 94%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 88%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 69%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 88%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 55%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 71%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 65%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 78%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 94%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 78%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 71%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 94%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 88%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 71%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 16%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 84%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 33%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 65%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 88%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 71%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 75%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 84%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 65%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 75%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 71%
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 78%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 81%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 81%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 75%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 84%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 78%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 61%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 78%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 71%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 84%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 94%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 94%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 94%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 88%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 94%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 71%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 88%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 88%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 78%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 78%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 71%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 68%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 41%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 94%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 78%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 71%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 59%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 68%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 59%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 78%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 61%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 88%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 88%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 88%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 81%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 71%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 81%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 50%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 94%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 81%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 13%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 55%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 68%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 58%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 78%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 88%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 71%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 80%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 88%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 81%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 81%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 94%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 48%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 78%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 87%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 90%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 88%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 92%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 68%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 88%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 94%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 81%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 81%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 65%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 94%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 94%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 78%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 58%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 78%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 78%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 71%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 88%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 78%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 84%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 19%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 61%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 81%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 65%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 55%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 93%
Gary Ackerman Other 94%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 74%
Todd Akin Other 49%
Wayne Allard Other 93%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 71%
Brian Baird Other 78%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 88%
Cass Ballenger Other 65%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 49%
Charlie Bass Other 88%
Evan Bayh Other 87%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 88%
Shelley Berkley Other 78%
Howard Berman Other 88%
Marion Berry Other 61%
Judy Biggert Other 88%
Michael Bilirakis Other 61%
Jeff Bingaman Other 87%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 88%
Kit Bond Other 93%
Henry Bonilla Other 78%
Mary Bono Mack Other 78%
Leonard Boswell Other 78%
Rick Boucher Other 94%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 71%
John Breaux Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 78%
Jim Bunning Other 87%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 49%
Steve Buyer Other 81%
Robert Byrd Other 68%
Ben Campbell Other 80%
Chris Cannon Other 51%
Brad Carson Other 78%
Julia Carson Other 81%
Mike Castle Other 88%
Hillary Clinton Other 81%
Michael Collins Other 49%
Larry Combest Other 51%
Kent Conrad Other 81%
Jon Corzine Other 81%
Jerry Costello Other 71%
Christopher Cox Other 75%
Larry Craig Other 87%
Robert Cramer Other 88%
Philip Crane Other 68%
Barbara Cubin Other 29%
Randall Cunningham Other 68%
Thomas Daschle Other 80%
James Davis Other 90%
Jo Ann Davis Other 55%
Thomas Davis III Other 94%
Bill Delahunt Other 78%
Thomas DeLay Other 55%
James DeMint Other 68%
Peter Deutsch Other 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 88%
Norm Dicks Other 78%
Chris Dodd Other 68%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 84%
John Doolittle Other 58%
Byron Dorgan Other 81%
David Dreier Other 88%
Jennifer Dunn Other 78%
John Edwards Other 94%
Chet Edwards Other 78%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 65%
Philip English Other 94%
John Ensign Other 79%
Bob Etheridge Other 84%
Lane Evans Other 78%
Terry Everett Other 33%
Russ Feingold Other 54%
Michael Ferguson Other 88%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 93%
Ernest Fletcher Other 88%
Mark Foley Other 61%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 84%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 88%
Barney Frank Other 75%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 94%
Elton Gallegly Other 78%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 78%
Jim Gibbons Other 78%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 94%
Paul Gillmor Other 81%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 94%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 26%
Bart Gordon Other 78%
Porter Goss Other 88%
Daniel Graham Other 93%
Mark Green Other 78%
James Greenwood Other 88%
Judd Gregg Other 94%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 61%
Jane Harman Other 71%
Melissa Hart Other 71%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 35%
Robert Hayes Other 71%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 61%
Joel Hefley Other 35%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 78%
Baron Hill Other 84%
Maurice Hinchey Other 61%
David Lee Hobson Other 81%
Pete Hoekstra Other 81%
Thomas Holden Other 71%
Ernest Hollings Other 81%
Darlene Hooley Other 84%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 19%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 68%
Duncan Hunter Other 71%
Kay Hutchison Other 94%
Henry Hyde Other 81%
Daniel Inouye Other 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 68%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 81%
William Jefferson Other 90%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 87%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 61%
Christopher John Other 84%
Nancy Johnson Other 84%
Tim Johnson Other 78%
Paul Kanjorski Other 88%
Ric Keller Other 68%
Sue Kelly Other 84%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 67%
Mark Kennedy Other 78%
Patrick Kennedy Other 88%
Dale Kildee Other 81%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 75%
Gerald Kleczka Other 88%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 81%
Herb Kohl Other 94%
James Kolbe Other 94%
Dennis Kucinich Other 81%
Jon Kyl Other 86%
Ray LaHood Other 81%
Nicholas Lampson Other 78%
Tom Lantos Other 81%
Steve LaTourette Other 65%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 88%
Ron Lewis Other 68%
Joe Lieberman Other 94%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 88%
William Lipinski Other 53%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 87%
Dick Lugar Other 94%
Don Manzullo Other 51%
Robert Matsui Other 71%
Karen McCarthy Other 84%
James McCrery III Other 88%
John McHugh Other 71%
Scott McInnis Other 55%
Michael McNulty Other 84%
Martin Meehan Other 84%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 75%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 75%
Dennis Moore Other 90%
Jack Murtha Other 81%
Sue Myrick Other 68%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 68%
Robert William Ney Other 58%
Don Nickles Other 93%
Anne Northup Other 88%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 39%
James Nussle Other 88%
Jim Oberstar Other 94%
Dave Obey Other 81%
John Olver Other 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 94%
Thomas William Osborne Other 78%
Doug Ose Other 78%
Major Owens Other 78%
Michael Oxley Other 88%
Ron Paul Other 23%
Donald Payne Other 75%
John Peterson Other 78%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 71%
Todd Platts Other 78%
Richard Pombo Other 29%
Earl Pomeroy Other 78%
Deborah Pryce Other 94%
Jack Quinn Other 71%
George Radanovich Other 41%
James Ramstad Other 78%
Ralph Regula Other 75%
Denny Rehberg Other 78%
Silvestre Reyes Other 61%
Thomas Reynolds Other 78%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 84%
Mike Ross Other 65%
Steve Rothman Other 81%
Jim Ryun Other 48%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 71%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 71%
Rick Santorum Other 93%
Paul Sarbanes Other 81%
Jim Saxton Other 65%
Edward Schrock Other 81%
John Shadegg Other 78%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 84%
Christopher Shays Other 94%
Donald Sherwood Other 78%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 81%
Ike Skelton Other 88%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Nick Smith Other 78%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Vic Snyder Other 81%
Hilda Solis Other 61%
Mark Souder Other 71%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 81%
Pete Stark Other 55%
Cliff Stearns Other 45%
Charles Stenholm Other 88%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 71%
Bart Stupak Other 71%
John Sununu Other 71%
John Sweeney Other 88%
Tom Tancredo Other 29%
John Tanner Other 68%
Ellen Tauscher Other 78%
William Tauzin Other 88%
Charles Taylor Other 45%
Gene Taylor Other 29%
Craig Thomas Other 86%
William Thomas Other 84%
Todd Tiahrt Other 78%
Ed Towns Other 88%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 75%
James Turner Other 78%
George Voinovich Other 87%
James Walsh Other 88%
Zach Wamp Other 61%
John Warner Other 88%
Diane Watson Other 61%
Anthony Weiner Other 94%
David Weldon Other 55%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 71%
Gerald Weller Other 78%
Robert Wexler Other 88%
Heather Wilson Other 71%
Lynn Woolsey Other 71%
David Wu Other 88%
Albert Wynn Other 88%

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