Rating Group: Grassroots Netroots Alliance

2007-2008 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 20%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 28%
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 15%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 23%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 23%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 16%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 40%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 15%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 7%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 61%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 58%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 7%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 75%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 61%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 53%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 53%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 53%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 61%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 46%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 61%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 50%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 53%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 61%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 8%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 7%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 61%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 7%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 53%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 61%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 9%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 61%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 53%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 50%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 53%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 7%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 61%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 9%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 61%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 7%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 53%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 15%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 7%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 46%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 61%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 53%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 53%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 61%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 46%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 46%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 50%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 53%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 53%
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 15%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 16%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 53%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 15%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 23%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 53%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 30%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 53%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 23%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 30%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 7%
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 7%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 46%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 61%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 61%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 7%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 14%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 7%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 30%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 46%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 7%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 61%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 61%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 80%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 61%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 58%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 15%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 7%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 15%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 25%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 61%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 53%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 61%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 15%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 61%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 61%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 23%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 38%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 53%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 23%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 23%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 58%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 23%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 7%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 23%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 53%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 58%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 53%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 61%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 61%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 46%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 80%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 46%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 53%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 53%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 61%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 53%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 60%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 61%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 8%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 23%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 30%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 46%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 54%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 80%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 46%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 7%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 61%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 61%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 7%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 46%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 7%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 53%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 15%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 15%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 53%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 60%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 80%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 20%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 58%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 38%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 61%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 7%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 38%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 8%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 61%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 23%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 15%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 15%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 61%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 80%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 50%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 46%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 30%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 7%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 58%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 53%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 61%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 15%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 61%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 53%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 7%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 58%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 53%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 23%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 53%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 46%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 61%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 61%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 53%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 61%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 53%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 61%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 61%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 53%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 53%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 61%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 53%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 7%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 8%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 61%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 23%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 7%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 20%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 8%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 7%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 7%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 23%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 53%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 61%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 50%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 46%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 30%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 16%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 46%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 61%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 30%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 7%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 23%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 80%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 80%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 53%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 53%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 20%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 40%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 23%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 33%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 7%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 61%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 7%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 15%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 7%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 7%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 61%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 15%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 7%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 7%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 7%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 46%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 61%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 8%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 15%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 8%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 7%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 53%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 61%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 53%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 7%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 7%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 58%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 20%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 7%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 38%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 61%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 15%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 23%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 8%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 61%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 30%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 61%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 80%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 80%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 53%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 15%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 15%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 61%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 30%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 46%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 61%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 61%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 7%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 53%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 58%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 7%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 38%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 38%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 53%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 53%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 80%
Todd Akin Other 7%
Jason Altmire Other 46%
Michael Arcuri Other 46%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 61%
Brian Baird Other 46%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 7%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 15%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Melissa Bean Other 53%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 50%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 53%
Judy Biggert Other 23%
Brian Bilbray Other 15%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 20%
Mary Bono Mack Other 16%
Dan Boren Other 16%
Leonard Boswell Other 53%
Rick Boucher Other 46%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 46%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 7%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 37%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 25%
Steve Buyer Other 11%
Robert Byrd Other 60%
Dennis Cardoza Other 46%
Russ Carnahan Other 46%
Christopher Carney Other 38%
Mike Castle Other 30%
Ben Chandler III Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 60%
Jerry Costello Other 53%
Artur Davis Other 46%
Geoff Davis Other 15%
Lincoln Davis Other 46%
Bill Delahunt Other 53%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 23%
Norm Dicks Other 53%
Chris Dodd Other 80%
Byron Dorgan Other 80%
David Dreier Other 7%
Chet Edwards Other 46%
Vern Ehlers Other 30%
Brad Ellsworth Other 30%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 46%
John Ensign Other 20%
Bob Etheridge Other 38%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 53%
Elton Gallegly Other 15%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 46%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 53%
Bart Gordon Other 53%
Judd Gregg Other 40%
John Hall Other 53%
Phil Hare Other 61%
Jane Harman Other 46%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 7%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 53%
Baron Hill Other 46%
Maurice Hinchey Other 61%
Paul Hodes Other 61%
Pete Hoekstra Other 7%
Thomas Holden Other 41%
Kay Hutchison Other 20%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 15%
Daniel Inouye Other 80%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 61%
Tim Johnson Other 30%
Steve Kagen Other 53%
Paul Kanjorski Other 53%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 80%
Patrick Kennedy Other 87%
Dale Kildee Other 53%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 61%
Ron Klein Other 53%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 53%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 30%
Jerry Lewis Other 15%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
Blanche Lincoln Other 80%
John Linder Other 7%
Dick Lugar Other 40%
Dan Lungren Other 7%
Connie Mack IV Other 7%
Don Manzullo Other 7%
Jim Marshall Other 23%
Melquiades Martinez Other 0%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 23%
John McHugh Other 33%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 53%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 53%
Brad Miller Other 61%
Harry Mitchell Other 46%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 53%
Patrick Murphy Other 46%
Jack Murtha Other 46%
Sue Myrick Other 7%
Ben Nelson Other 40%
Jim Oberstar Other 58%
Dave Obey Other 53%
John Olver Other 53%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 53%
Ron Paul Other 8%
Donald Payne Other 58%
Todd Platts Other 38%
Earl Pomeroy Other 53%
George Radanovich Other 8%
Denny Rehberg Other 15%
Silvestre Reyes Other 46%
Laura Richardson Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 53%
Mike Ross Other 46%
Steve Rothman Other 53%
Jean Schmidt Other 23%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 53%
John Shadegg Other 7%
Heath Shuler Other 38%
Ike Skelton Other 46%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 38%
Mark Souder Other 7%
Zack Space Other 53%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 46%
Pete Stark Other 61%
Cliff Stearns Other 15%
Bart Stupak Other 53%
John Sullivan Other 7%
Betty Sutton Other 61%
John Tanner Other 46%
Ellen Tauscher Other 46%
Gene Taylor Other 30%
Todd Tiahrt Other 7%
Ed Towns Other 58%
George Voinovich Other 20%
Zach Wamp Other 23%
Diane Watson Other 61%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 80%
Anthony Weiner Other 61%
Robert Wexler Other 61%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 46%
Lynn Woolsey Other 61%
David Wu Other 61%

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