Rating Group: The Club for Growth

2006 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 43%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 52%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 55%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 79%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 51%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 43%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 42%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 64%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 18%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 61%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 76%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 4%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 9%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 98%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 12%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 7%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 7%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 7%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 34%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 5%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 13%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 6%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 7%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 52%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 11%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 53%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 12%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 5%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 62%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 4%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 8%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 5%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 84%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 4%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 54%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 13%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 84%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 13%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 86%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 67%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 14%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 13%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 10%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 11%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 23%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 9%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 4%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 6%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 25%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 76%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 56%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 10%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 64%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 64%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 57%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 13%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 7%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 49%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 43%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 53%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 93%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 79%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 67%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 29%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 92%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 5%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 88%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 78%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 38%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 17%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 79%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 86%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 53%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 94%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 78%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 49%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 37%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 19%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 7%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 8%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 13%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 55%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 10%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 5%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 97%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 57%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 58%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 98%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 87%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 41%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 11%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 77%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 50%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 48%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 55%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 10%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 7%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 8%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 9%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 11%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 5%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 8%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 21%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 7%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 12%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 12%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 22%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 9%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 5%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 6%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 53%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 48%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 58%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 7%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 50%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 8%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 4%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 70%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 31%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 65%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 17%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 9%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 57%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 56%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 52%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 16%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 17%
NA President Barack Obama II D 7%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 1%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 4%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 75%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 9%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 43%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 7%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 74%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 67%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 30%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 86%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 4%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 50%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 72%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 11%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 30%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 33%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 91%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 8%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 7%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 43%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 9%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 7%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 70%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 3%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 3%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 10%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 44%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 11%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 8%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 20%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 5%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 4%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 4%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 7%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 17%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 8%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 7%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 10%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 5%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 4%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 7%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 86%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 59%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 7%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 51%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 62%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 9%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 94%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 47%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 61%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 52%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 14%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 13%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 18%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 11%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 30%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 58%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 15%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 14%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 54%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 79%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 48%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 10%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 86%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 67%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 9%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 3%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 80%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 78%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 82%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 19%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 88%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 87%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 86%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 66%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 78%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 49%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 71%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 61%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 72%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 18%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 55%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 69%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 50%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 78%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 29%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 18%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 92%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 51%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 69%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 50%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 48%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 13%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 18%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 57%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 86%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 13%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 66%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 59%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 47%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 7%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 66%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 67%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 72%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 18%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 36%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 8%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 4%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 6%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 22%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 50%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 77%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 11%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 39%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 25%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 9%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 84%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 17%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 7%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 75%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 73%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 6%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 47%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 20%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 99%
Gary Ackerman Other 14%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 84%
Wayne Allard Other 90%
Thomas Allen Other 7%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 13%
Brian Baird Other 18%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 67%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 78%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 67%
Evan Bayh Other 1%
Melissa Bean Other 47%
Bob Bennett Other 71%
Shelley Berkley Other 11%
Howard Berman Other 9%
Marion Berry Other 26%
Judy Biggert Other 54%
Jeff Bingaman Other 1%
Kit Bond Other 56%
Mary Bono Mack Other 44%
Dan Boren Other 52%
Leonard Boswell Other 24%
Rick Boucher Other 18%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 38%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 52%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 71%
Jim Bunning Other 94%
Dan Burton Other 67%
Steve Buyer Other 67%
Robert Byrd Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 79%
Dennis Cardoza Other 28%
Russ Carnahan Other 12%
Julia Carson Other 4%
Mike Castle Other 48%
Ben Chandler III Other 15%
Hillary Clinton Other 8%
Norm Coleman Other 44%
Kent Conrad Other 15%
Jerry Costello Other 10%
Larry Craig Other 87%
Robert Cramer Other 47%
Barbara Cubin Other 64%
Artur Davis Other 25%
Geoff Davis Other 55%
Jo Ann Davis Other 46%
Lincoln Davis Other 40%
Thomas Davis III Other 47%
Bill Delahunt Other 9%
James DeMint Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 47%
Norm Dicks Other 13%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 54%
John Doolittle Other 46%
Byron Dorgan Other 5%
Thelma Drake Other 56%
David Dreier Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 38%
Vern Ehlers Other 49%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 37%
Philip English Other 53%
John Ensign Other 94%
Bob Etheridge Other 17%
Terry Everett Other 51%
Tom Feeney Other 84%
Russ Feingold Other 1%
Michael Ferguson Other 44%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 71%
Barney Frank Other 9%
Elton Gallegly Other 49%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 40%
Paul Gillmor Other 56%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 20%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 43%
Bart Gordon Other 29%
Judd Gregg Other 92%
Jane Harman Other 13%
Robert Hayes Other 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 75%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 30%
Maurice Hinchey Other 5%
David Lee Hobson Other 49%
Pete Hoekstra Other 79%
Thomas Holden Other 18%
Darlene Hooley Other 11%
Kenny Hulshof Other 53%
Duncan Hunter Other 63%
Kay Hutchison Other 58%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 81%
Daniel Inouye Other 2%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 7%
William Jefferson Other 42%
Tim Johnson Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 15%
Ric Keller Other 68%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 7%
Dale Kildee Other 4%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 7%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 57%
Herb Kohl Other 6%
Dennis Kucinich Other 7%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 58%
Jon Kyl Other 94%
Ray LaHood Other 39%
Tom Lantos Other 5%
Steve LaTourette Other 39%
Jerry Lewis Other 49%
Ron Lewis Other 67%
Joe Lieberman Other 1%
Blanche Lincoln Other 12%
John Linder Other 85%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 71%
Dick Lugar Other 52%
Dan Lungren Other 78%
Connie Mack IV Other 75%
Don Manzullo Other 67%
Jim Marshall Other 27%
Melquiades Martinez Other 75%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 44%
James McCrery III Other 55%
John McHugh Other 36%
Michael McNulty Other 7%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 13%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 42%
Brad Miller Other 4%
Alan Mollohan Other 21%
Dennis Moore Other 17%
Jack Murtha Other 14%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 85%
Sue Myrick Other 81%
Ben Nelson Other 49%
Jim Oberstar Other 4%
Dave Obey Other 6%
John Olver Other 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 24%
Ron Paul Other 83%
Donald Payne Other 5%
John Peterson Other 53%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 52%
Todd Platts Other 47%
Earl Pomeroy Other 18%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 50%
Deborah Pryce Other 55%
George Radanovich Other 66%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Ralph Regula Other 35%
Denny Rehberg Other 52%
Richard Renzi Other 51%
Silvestre Reyes Other 18%
Thomas Reynolds Other 52%
Mike Ross Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 4%
Ken Salazar Other 4%
Jim Saxton Other 31%
Jean Schmidt Other 54%
John Shadegg Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 31%
Ike Skelton Other 35%
Gordon Smith Other 48%
Olympia Snowe Other 9%
Vic Snyder Other 14%
Hilda Solis Other 4%
Mark Souder Other 54%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 13%
Pete Stark Other 8%
Cliff Stearns Other 85%
Ted Stevens Other 47%
Bart Stupak Other 5%
John Sullivan Other 80%
John Sununu Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 80%
John Tanner Other 33%
Ellen Tauscher Other 16%
Gene Taylor Other 21%
Todd Tiahrt Other 50%
Ed Towns Other 12%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 7%
George Voinovich Other 40%
James Walsh Other 30%
Zach Wamp Other 53%
John Warner Other 56%
Diane Watson Other 1%
Anthony Weiner Other 10%
David Weldon Other 54%
Gerald Weller Other 52%
Robert Wexler Other 7%
Heather Wilson Other 39%
Lynn Woolsey Other 5%
David Wu Other 0%
Albert Wynn Other 16%

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