Rating Group: National Electrical Contractors Association

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 76%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 62%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 58%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 88%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 88%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 86%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 54%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 82%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 29%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 54%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 42%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 24%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 12%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 12%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 18%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 18%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 12%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 12%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 18%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 41%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 82%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 24%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 12%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 88%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 12%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 12%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 12%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 88%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 12%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 88%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 12%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 88%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 82%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 24%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 12%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 18%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 12%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 24%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 12%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 42%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 65%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 75%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 88%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 24%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 88%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 82%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 24%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 76%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 88%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 82%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 82%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 88%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 53%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 12%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 82%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 41%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 58%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 46%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 76%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 62%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 88%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 88%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 42%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 88%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 24%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 24%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 24%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 12%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 88%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 24%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 82%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 67%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 88%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 62%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 62%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 88%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 88%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 76%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 62%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 88%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 18%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 12%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 12%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 12%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 12%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 25%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 38%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 18%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 24%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 18%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 75%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 46%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 88%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 94%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 88%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 24%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 24%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 18%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 18%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 35%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 46%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 88%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 41%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 79%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 88%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 24%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 79%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 62%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 38%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 88%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 82%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 18%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 88%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 65%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 18%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 12%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 24%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 76%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 71%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 12%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 88%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 35%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 6%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 38%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 38%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 65%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 53%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 53%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 24%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 12%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 12%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 12%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 12%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 18%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 12%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 24%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 12%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 12%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 18%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 88%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 88%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 88%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 12%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 88%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 75%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 71%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 88%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 62%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 88%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 12%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 12%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 88%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 24%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 18%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 29%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 88%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 18%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 42%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 18%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 58%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 94%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 83%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 41%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 54%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 82%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 88%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 82%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 88%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 88%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 82%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 88%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 88%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 35%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 18%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 88%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 24%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 24%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 82%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 6%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 71%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 47%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 12%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 78%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 88%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 88%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 24%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 94%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 46%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 12%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 46%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 47%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 88%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 12%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 24%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 18%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 12%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 88%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 6%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 88%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 76%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 38%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 94%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 12%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 50%
Gary Ackerman Other 12%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Todd Akin Other 88%
Wayne Allard Other 71%
George Allen Other 62%
Thomas Allen Other 18%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 24%
Brian Baird Other 29%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 82%
Cass Ballenger Other 82%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 88%
Charlie Bass Other 94%
Evan Bayh Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 71%
Douglas Bereuter Other 71%
Shelley Berkley Other 41%
Howard Berman Other 12%
Marion Berry Other 41%
Judy Biggert Other 88%
Michael Bilirakis Other 82%
Jeff Bingaman Other 43%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 76%
Kit Bond Other 67%
Henry Bonilla Other 88%
Mary Bono Mack Other 88%
Leonard Boswell Other 41%
Rick Boucher Other 41%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 35%
John Breaux Other 75%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 82%
Jim Bunning Other 67%
Conrad Burns Other 62%
Dan Burton Other 82%
Steve Buyer Other 82%
Robert Byrd Other 54%
Ben Campbell Other 58%
Chris Cannon Other 82%
Brad Carson Other 59%
Julia Carson Other 24%
Mike Castle Other 82%
Hillary Clinton Other 42%
Michael Collins Other 88%
Kent Conrad Other 50%
Jon Corzine Other 38%
Jerry Costello Other 47%
Christopher Cox Other 88%
Larry Craig Other 62%
Robert Cramer Other 88%
Philip Crane Other 82%
Barbara Cubin Other 65%
Randall Cunningham Other 88%
Thomas Daschle Other 38%
James Davis Other 24%
Jo Ann Davis Other 88%
Thomas Davis III Other 82%
Bill Delahunt Other 18%
Thomas DeLay Other 88%
James DeMint Other 88%
Peter Deutsch Other 24%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 88%
Norm Dicks Other 18%
Chris Dodd Other 38%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 71%
Calvin Dooley Other 53%
John Doolittle Other 88%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 88%
Jennifer Dunn Other 88%
John Edwards Other 54%
Chet Edwards Other 35%
Vern Ehlers Other 82%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 82%
Philip English Other 82%
John Ensign Other 50%
Bob Etheridge Other 35%
Lane Evans Other 12%
Terry Everett Other 82%
Russ Feingold Other 50%
Michael Ferguson Other 76%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 79%
Mark Foley Other 94%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 41%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 82%
Barney Frank Other 12%
William Frist Other 67%
Jonas Frost III Other 18%
Elton Gallegly Other 82%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 18%
Jim Gibbons Other 82%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 82%
Paul Gillmor Other 76%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 6%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 88%
Bart Gordon Other 76%
Porter Goss Other 88%
Daniel Graham Other 42%
Mark Green Other 88%
James Greenwood Other 88%
Judd Gregg Other 58%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 88%
Jane Harman Other 41%
Melissa Hart Other 88%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 91%
Robert Hayes Other 88%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 88%
Joel Hefley Other 71%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 88%
Baron Hill Other 24%
Maurice Hinchey Other 12%
David Lee Hobson Other 88%
Pete Hoekstra Other 88%
Thomas Holden Other 35%
Ernest Hollings Other 46%
Darlene Hooley Other 41%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 88%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 71%
Kenny Hulshof Other 88%
Duncan Hunter Other 88%
Kay Hutchison Other 50%
Henry Hyde Other 82%
Daniel Inouye Other 33%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 88%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 12%
William Jefferson Other 35%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 71%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 82%
Christopher John Other 82%
Nancy Johnson Other 88%
Tim Johnson Other 88%
Paul Kanjorski Other 24%
Ric Keller Other 88%
Sue Kelly Other 76%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 38%
Mark Kennedy Other 88%
Patrick Kennedy Other 12%
Dale Kildee Other 24%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 24%
Gerald Kleczka Other 12%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 88%
Herb Kohl Other 54%
James Kolbe Other 88%
Dennis Kucinich Other 12%
Jon Kyl Other 58%
Ray LaHood Other 82%
Nicholas Lampson Other 35%
Tom Lantos Other 12%
Steve LaTourette Other 82%
James Leach Other 76%
Jerry Lewis Other 82%
Ron Lewis Other 88%
Joe Lieberman Other 38%
Blanche Lincoln Other 83%
John Linder Other 88%
William Lipinski Other 41%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 67%
Dick Lugar Other 71%
Don Manzullo Other 88%
Robert Matsui Other 12%
Karen McCarthy Other 12%
James McCrery III Other 88%
John McHugh Other 82%
Scott McInnis Other 76%
Michael McNulty Other 12%
Martin Meehan Other 12%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 12%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 79%
Alan Mollohan Other 12%
Dennis Moore Other 29%
Jack Murtha Other 18%
Sue Myrick Other 88%
Ben Nelson Other 79%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 88%
Robert William Ney Other 88%
Don Nickles Other 58%
Anne Northup Other 88%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 82%
James Nussle Other 88%
Jim Oberstar Other 12%
Dave Obey Other 18%
John Olver Other 18%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 24%
Thomas William Osborne Other 94%
Doug Ose Other 88%
Major Owens Other 18%
Michael Oxley Other 71%
Ron Paul Other 76%
Donald Payne Other 18%
John Peterson Other 88%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 88%
Todd Platts Other 82%
Richard Pombo Other 82%
Earl Pomeroy Other 24%
Deborah Pryce Other 88%
Jack Quinn Other 71%
George Radanovich Other 82%
James Ramstad Other 88%
Ralph Regula Other 88%
Denny Rehberg Other 88%
Silvestre Reyes Other 18%
Thomas Reynolds Other 82%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 24%
Mike Ross Other 47%
Steve Rothman Other 12%
Jim Ryun Other 88%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 12%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 47%
Rick Santorum Other 58%
Paul Sarbanes Other 42%
Jim Saxton Other 71%
Edward Schrock Other 82%
John Shadegg Other 88%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 88%
Christopher Shays Other 88%
Donald Sherwood Other 88%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 94%
Ike Skelton Other 59%
Gordon Smith Other 83%
Nick Smith Other 94%
Olympia Snowe Other 75%
Vic Snyder Other 12%
Hilda Solis Other 12%
Mark Souder Other 82%
Arlen Specter Other 71%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 35%
Pete Stark Other 12%
Cliff Stearns Other 82%
Charles Stenholm Other 41%
Ted Stevens Other 54%
Ted Strickland Other 24%
Bart Stupak Other 24%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 88%
John Sweeney Other 88%
Tom Tancredo Other 82%
John Tanner Other 53%
Ellen Tauscher Other 35%
William Tauzin Other 88%
Charles Taylor Other 76%
Gene Taylor Other 35%
Craig Thomas Other 50%
William Thomas Other 88%
Todd Tiahrt Other 88%
Ed Towns Other 41%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 24%
James Turner Other 47%
George Voinovich Other 67%
James Walsh Other 88%
Zach Wamp Other 94%
John Warner Other 71%
Diane Watson Other 22%
Anthony Weiner Other 12%
David Weldon Other 88%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 65%
Gerald Weller Other 88%
Robert Wexler Other 12%
Heather Wilson Other 88%
Lynn Woolsey Other 12%
David Wu Other 12%
Albert Wynn Other 29%

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