Rating Group: American Hospital Association

2009-2010 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 33%
AK U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Begich D 33%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 50%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 33%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 50%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 50%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 50%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 75%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 33%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-1 Ann Kirkpatrick D 25%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 50%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 67%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-3 John Garamendi D 0%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 75%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 50%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 50%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 25%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 25%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 50%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 25%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 25%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 50%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 25%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 50%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 25%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 25%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 75%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 75%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 67%
CO U.S. Senate-Jr Michael Bennet D 67%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 50%
CO U.S. House-2 Jared Polis D 50%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 25%
CO U.S. House-6 Michael Coffman R 50%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 25%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 50%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 50%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 50%
CT U.S. House-4 Jim Himes D 75%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 0%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 25%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 25%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 75%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-8 Bill Posey R 50%
FL U.S. House-9 Alan Grayson D 0%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 25%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 100%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 0%
FL U.S. House-17 Thomas Rooney R 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-21 Ted Deutch D 25%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 67%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 25%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 75%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 75%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 25%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 75%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 50%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 75%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 75%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 67%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 75%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 75%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 75%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 50%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Jr James Risch R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 50%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 25%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 50%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 50%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 50%
IL U.S. House-5 Mike Quigley D 50%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 50%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 25%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 50%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 50%
IL U.S. House-18 Aaron Schock R 75%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 50%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 25%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS U.S. House-2 Lynn Jenkins R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 67%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 25%
KY U.S. House-2 Brett Guthrie R 75%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 75%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 25%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 25%
LA U.S. House-4 John Fleming, Jr. R 50%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 100%
LA U.S. House-6 Bill Cassidy R 25%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 75%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 75%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 75%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 33%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 25%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 50%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 25%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 75%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 75%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
ME U.S. House-1 Chellie Pingree D 25%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 67%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 75%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 25%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 25%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 0%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 25%
MI U.S. House-14 Gary Peters D 75%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 100%
MN U.S. Senate-Jr Al Franken DFL 67%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 25%
MN U.S. House-3 Erik Paulsen R 25%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 75%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 75%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 25%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 25%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 33%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 25%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 25%
MO U.S. House-3 Blaine Luetkemeyer R 75%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 75%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 25%
MS U.S. House-3 Gregg Harper R 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 33%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 67%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 67%
NC U.S. Senate-Jr Kay Hagan D 67%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 75%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 75%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Johanns R 100%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 75%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 0%
NH U.S. Senate-Sr Jeanne Shaheen D 67%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 67%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 75%
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 25%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-7 Leonard Lance R 100%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 50%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 75%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Jr Martin Heinrich D 25%
NM U.S. House-3 Ben Lujan, Jr. D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 25%
NV U.S. House-1 Dina Titus D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 67%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 75%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 75%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 75%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 50%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 75%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 75%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 50%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-20 Paul Tonko D 75%
NY U.S. House-21 Bill Owens D 50%
NY U.S. House-24 Dan Maffei Other 75%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 75%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 67%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 0%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 25%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 75%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 25%
OH U.S. House-11 Marcia Fudge D 75%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 50%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 75%
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 50%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 50%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 67%
OR U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Merkley D 33%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 50%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 25%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 0%
OR U.S. House-5 Kurt Schrader D 75%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 75%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 75%
PA U.S. House-5 G.T. Thompson, Jr. R 75%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 75%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 25%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 50%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 75%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 67%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 33%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 67%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 67%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 33%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 0%
TN U.S. House-1 Phil Roe R 75%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 25%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 50%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 50%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 0%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 25%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 50%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 50%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 25%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 0%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 50%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 50%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 25%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 0%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 25%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 50%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 75%
TX U.S. House-22 Pete Olson R 25%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 25%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 50%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 75%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 50%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 25%
UT U.S. House-3 Jason Chaffetz R 25%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 75%
VA U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Warner D 33%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 50%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 50%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 25%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VA U.S. House-11 Gerry Connolly D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 67%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 67%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 67%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 75%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 25%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 25%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 25%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 50%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 0%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 75%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 50%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 50%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 25%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 0%
WY U.S. House-At-Large Cynthia Lummis R 25%
Gary Ackerman Other 75%
John Adler Other 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 33%
Todd Akin Other 75%
Jason Altmire Other 50%
Michael Arcuri Other 100%
Steve Austria Other 25%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 33%
Melissa Bean Other 25%
Bob Bennett Other 67%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 75%
Judy Biggert Other 75%
Brian Bilbray Other 50%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
John Boccieri Other 75%
Kit Bond Other 67%
Mary Bono Mack Other 75%
Dan Boren Other 75%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 0%
Bobby Bright Other 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 50%
Scott Brown Other 33%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 67%
Roland Burris Other 67%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 25%
Joseph Cao Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 75%
Russ Carnahan Other 75%
Christopher Carney Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 50%
Ben Chandler III Other 50%
Travis Childers Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 33%
Jerry Costello Other 75%
Kathy Dahlkemper Other 50%
Artur Davis Other 50%
Geoff Davis Other 25%
Lincoln Davis Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 25%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Byron Dorgan Other 33%
David Dreier Other 0%
Steve Driehaus Other 75%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 75%
Brad Ellsworth Other 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 75%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 75%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 50%
Bart Gordon Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Parker Griffith, Jr. Other 50%
John Hall Other 100%
Debbie Halvorson Other 50%
Phil Hare Other 50%
Jane Harman Other 75%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 50%
Baron Hill Other 50%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
Paul Hodes Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 25%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 33%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 33%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 75%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Steve Kagen Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ted Kaufman Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 75%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 50%
Mary Jo Kilroy Other 75%
Larry Kissell Other 50%
Ron Klein Other 25%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
Suzanne Kosmas Other 50%
Frank Kratovil, Jr. Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 25%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 75%
Chris Lee Other 100%
George LeMieux Other 67%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 67%
John Linder Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 33%
Dan Lungren Other 0%
Connie Mack IV Other 25%
Don Manzullo Other 75%
Betsy Markey Other 25%
Jim Marshall Other 75%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 25%
Michael McMahon Other 75%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 50%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 25%
Brad Miller Other 75%
Walt Minnick Other 25%
Harry Mitchell Other 50%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Patrick Murphy Other 50%
Scott Murphy Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 25%
Sue Myrick Other 25%
Ben Nelson Other 67%
Glenn Nye III Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 75%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 75%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 25%
Ron Paul Other 50%
Donald Payne Other 50%
Tom Perriello Other 75%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 50%
Silvestre Reyes Other 75%
Laura Richardson Other 25%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 50%
Mike Ross Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Mark Schauer Other 25%
Jean Schmidt Other 0%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 75%
John Shadegg Other 0%
Heath Shuler Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 25%
Olympia Snowe Other 67%
Vic Snyder Other 50%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Zack Space Other 75%
Arlen Specter Other 67%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 25%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 50%
Bart Stupak Other 75%
John Sullivan Other 25%
Betty Sutton Other 100%
John Tanner Other 25%
Gene Taylor Other 25%
Harry Teague Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 50%
Ed Towns Other 75%
George Voinovich Other 67%
Zach Wamp Other 25%
Diane Watson Other 25%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 75%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 75%
David Wu Other 100%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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