Rating Group: Heritage Action for America

2011 Positions (House Only)

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 72%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 52%
AL U.S. House-2 Martha Roby R 71%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 52%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 70%
AL U.S. House-5 Mo Brooks R 81%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 65%
AL U.S. House-7 Terri Sewell D 5%
AR U.S. House-1 Rick Crawford R 52%
AR U.S. House-2 Tim Griffin R 81%
AR U.S. House-3 Steve Womack R 52%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-4 Paul Gosar R 86%
AZ U.S. House-6 David Schweikert R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. House-3 John Garamendi D 5%
CA U.S. House-4 Tom McClintock R 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 0%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 0%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 5%
CA U.S. House-10 Jeff Denham R 90%
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 10%
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 5%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 5%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 86%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 86%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 57%
CA U.S. House-27 Judy Chu D 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 0%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 81%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-37 Karen Bass D 5%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 10%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 57%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 10%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 86%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 90%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO U.S. House-2 Jared Polis D 5%
CO U.S. House-3 Scott Tipton R 81%
CO U.S. House-4 Cory Gardner R 95%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 100%
CO U.S. House-6 Michael Coffman R 100%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 5%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 5%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 0%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 0%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
CT U.S. House-4 Jim Himes D 24%
DE U.S. House-At-Large John Carney, Jr. D 20%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-2 Steve Southerland R 90%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 50%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 5%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 71%
FL U.S. House-8 Bill Posey R 86%
FL U.S. House-10 Daniel Webster R 95%
FL U.S. House-11 Rich Nugent R 95%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 90%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 38%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 5%
FL U.S. House-15 Dennis Ross R 90%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 81%
FL U.S. House-17 Thomas Rooney R 67%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-21 Ted Deutch D 0%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 10%
FL U.S. House-24 Frederica Wilson D 5%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 30%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 48%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 86%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 0%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 90%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 0%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 100%
GA U.S. House-7 Rob Woodall R 100%
GA U.S. House-8 Austin Scott R 100%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 81%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 33%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 5%
GA U.S. House-14 Tom Graves, Jr. R 100%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 0%
HI U.S. House-1 Colleen Hanabusa D 0%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 0%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 5%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 43%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 95%
ID U.S. House-1 Raúl Labrador R 86%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 29%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 14%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-5 Mike Quigley D 5%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 81%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 5%
IL U.S. House-14 Randy Hultgren R 62%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 67%
IL U.S. House-16 Adam Kinzinger R 38%
IL U.S. House-18 Aaron Schock R 57%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 24%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 10%
IN U.S. House-3 Marlin Stutzman R 95%
IN U.S. House-4 Todd Rokita R 100%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 0%
IN U.S. House-8 Larry Bucshon R 81%
IN U.S. House-9 Todd Young R 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. House-1 Tim Huelskamp R 100%
KS U.S. House-2 Lynn Jenkins R 100%
KS U.S. House-3 Kevin Yoder R 90%
KS U.S. House-4 Mike Pompeo R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 50%
KY U.S. House-2 Brett Guthrie R 76%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 10%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 52%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 100%
LA U.S. House-2 Cedric Richmond D 5%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 86%
LA U.S. House-4 John Fleming, Jr. R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 50%
LA U.S. House-6 Bill Cassidy R 67%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 0%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 5%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 5%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 5%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 5%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 10%
MA U.S. House-9 Bill Keating D 15%
MD U.S. House-1 Andy Harris R 90%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 0%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 5%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 5%
ME U.S. House-1 Chellie Pingree D 0%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 5%
MI U.S. House-1 Dan Benishek R 95%
MI U.S. House-2 Bill Huizenga R 100%
MI U.S. House-3 Justin Amash R 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 67%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 71%
MI U.S. House-7 Tim Walberg R 86%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 86%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 0%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 76%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 10%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MI U.S. House-14 Gary Peters D 45%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 10%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 71%
MN U.S. House-3 Erik Paulsen R 62%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 43%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 0%
MO U.S. House-3 Blaine Luetkemeyer R 90%
MO U.S. House-4 Vicky Hartzler R 76%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 95%
MO U.S. House-7 Billy Long R 90%
MS U.S. House-1 Alan Nunnelee R 57%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MS U.S. House-3 Gregg Harper R 76%
MS U.S. House-4 Steven Palazzo R 71%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 5%
NC U.S. House-2 Renee Ellmers R 95%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 76%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 90%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 95%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 25%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 5%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 43%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 71%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 95%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 5%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 52%
NJ U.S. House-3 Jon Runyan R 57%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 30%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-7 Leonard Lance R 52%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 10%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 33%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 5%
NM U.S. Senate-Jr Martin Heinrich D 5%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 81%
NM U.S. House-3 Ben Lujan, Jr. D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 100%
NV U.S. House-3 Joe Heck, Jr. R 62%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 10%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 52%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 14%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 19%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 5%
NY U.S. House-11 Michael Grimm R 38%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 0%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 5%
NY U.S. House-19 Chris Gibson R 57%
NY U.S. House-20 Paul Tonko D 0%
NY U.S. House-21 Bill Owens D 35%
NY U.S. House-22 Richard Hanna R 48%
NY U.S. House-23 Tom Reed II R 57%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 100%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 90%
OH U.S. House-6 Bill Johnson R 86%
OH U.S. House-7 Bob Gibbs R 90%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 5%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 57%
OH U.S. House-11 Marcia Fudge D 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 71%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 0%
OH U.S. House-15 Steve Stivers R 38%
OH U.S. House-16 Jim Renacci R 90%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 52%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 57%
OK U.S. House-5 James Lankford R 90%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 57%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 14%
OR U.S. House-5 Kurt Schrader D 29%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 0%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-3 Mike Kelly R 57%
PA U.S. House-5 G.T. Thompson, Jr. R 48%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 29%
PA U.S. House-7 Pat Meehan R 38%
PA U.S. House-8 Mike Fitzpatrick R 52%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 65%
PA U.S. House-10 Tom Marino R 71%
PA U.S. House-11 Lou Barletta R 48%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 10%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 38%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 90%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 71%
RI U.S. House-1 David Cicilline D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Jr Tim Scott R 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-3 Jeff Duncan R 100%
SC U.S. House-4 Trey Gowdy R 100%
SC U.S. House-5 Michael Mulvaney R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 5%
SD U.S. House-At-Large Kristi Noem R 71%
TN U.S. House-1 Phil Roe R 81%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-3 Chuck Fleischmann R 81%
TN U.S. House-4 Scott DesJarlais R 90%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 19%
TN U.S. House-6 Diane Black R 76%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 85%
TN U.S. House-8 Stephen Fincher R 81%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 10%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 85%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 95%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 81%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 80%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 76%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 81%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 95%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 10%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 76%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 90%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 67%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 90%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 0%
TX U.S. House-17 Bill Flores R 81%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 71%
TX U.S. House-22 Pete Olson R 76%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 85%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 90%
TX U.S. House-27 Blake Farenthold R 52%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 33%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 5%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 76%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 10%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 89%
UT U.S. House-3 Jason Chaffetz R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 18%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 36%
VA U.S. House-2 Scott Rigell R 67%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 67%
VA U.S. House-5 Robert Hurt R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 95%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 90%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 0%
VA U.S. House-9 Morgan Griffith R 95%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
VA U.S. House-11 Gerry Connolly D 10%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 10%
WA U.S. House-3 Jaime Herrera Beutler R 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 86%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 90%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 5%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 19%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 5%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 14%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 95%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 14%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 5%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 86%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 86%
WI U.S. House-7 Sean Duffy R 86%
WI U.S. House-8 Reid Ribble R 100%
WV U.S. House-1 David McKinley R 52%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 57%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 19%
WY U.S. House-At-Large Cynthia Lummis R 90%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Sandy Adams Other 86%
Todd Akin Other 95%
Jason Altmire Other 38%
Steve Austria Other 81%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 5%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 95%
Charlie Bass Other 33%
Rick Berg Other 62%
Shelley Berkley Other 0%
Howard Berman Other 5%
Judy Biggert Other 25%
Brian Bilbray Other 71%
Mary Bono Mack Other 81%
Dan Boren Other 43%
Leonard Boswell Other 10%
Ann Marie Buerkle Other 95%
Dan Burton Other 95%
Francisco Canseco Other 86%
Dennis Cardoza Other 38%
Russ Carnahan Other 5%
Ben Chandler III Other 24%
Hansen Clarke Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 29%
Chip Cravaack Other 62%
Mark Critz Other 0%
Geoff Davis Other 52%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Robert Dold Other 38%
David Dreier Other 86%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 52%
Barney Frank Other 5%
Elton Gallegly Other 67%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Frank Guinta Other 76%
Jane Harman Other 11%
Nan Hayworth Other 86%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 43%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
Tim Johnson Other 76%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Larry Kissell Other 24%
Dennis Kucinich Other 5%
Jeff Landry Other 95%
Steve LaTourette Other 24%
Chris Lee Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 45%
Dan Lungren Other 57%
Connie Mack IV Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 95%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 86%
Brad Miller Other 0%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
John Olver Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 52%
Ben Quayle Other 95%
Denny Rehberg Other 71%
Silvestre Reyes Other 0%
Laura Richardson Other 0%
David Rivera Other 52%
Mike Ross Other 33%
Steve Rothman Other 5%
Bobby Schilling Other 57%
Jean Schmidt Other 86%
Heath Shuler Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 5%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
John Sullivan Other 75%
Betty Sutton Other 5%
Ed Towns Other 0%
Joe Walsh Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 5%
Allen West Other 76%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 0%

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