Rating Group: National Committee for an Effective Congress

2001 Positions

Issues: Liberal
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 4%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 6%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 3%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 4%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 4%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 86%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 82%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 98%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 89%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 97%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 96%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 94%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 93%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 87%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 84%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 96%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 86%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 90%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 94%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 94%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 98%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 95%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 96%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 83%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 1%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 1%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 83%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 96%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 94%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 6%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 90%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 93%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 73%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 90%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 1%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 98%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 1%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 96%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 4%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 1%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 2%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 68%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 2%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 77%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 5%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 2%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 4%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 1%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 1%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 97%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 10%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 91%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 98%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 96%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 99%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 3%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 84%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 3%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 4%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 6%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 2%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 6%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 1%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 51%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 76%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 3%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 94%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 99%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 96%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 96%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 93%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 96%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 87%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 90%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 94%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 26%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 99%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 94%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 1%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 7%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 3%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 94%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 87%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 96%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 96%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 67%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 99%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 4%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 96%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 4%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 16%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 1%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 93%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 51%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 6%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 96%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 4%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 2%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 86%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 3%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 72%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 94%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 4%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 86%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 83%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 9%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 6%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 91%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 87%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 9%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 83%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 93%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 94%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 93%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 3%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 83%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 73%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 94%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 94%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 96%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 90%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 87%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 86%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 93%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 91%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 97%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 99%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 99%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 1%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 3%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 85%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 1%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 93%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 11%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 1%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 3%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 86%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 4%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 85%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 96%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 2%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 93%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 94%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 87%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 3%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 87%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 87%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 37%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 4%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 89%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 84%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 4%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 6%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 3%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 23%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 1%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 3%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 85%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 96%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 80%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 97%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 1%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 80%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 4%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 63%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 94%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 1%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 3%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 82%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 98%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 96%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 95%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 96%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 81%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 95%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 74%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 91%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 93%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 3%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 81%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 3%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 3%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 87%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 96%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 3%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 66%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 98%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 98%
Todd Akin Other 1%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 8%
Thomas Allen Other 96%
Richard Armey Other 2%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 88%
Brian Baird Other 85%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 93%
Cass Ballenger Other 1%
James Barcia Other 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 3%
Charlie Bass Other 6%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 2%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 80%
Douglas Bereuter Other 9%
Shelley Berkley Other 84%
Howard Berman Other 91%
Marion Berry Other 66%
Judy Biggert Other 9%
Michael Bilirakis Other 4%
Jeff Bingaman Other 89%
Rod Blagojevich Other 90%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 16%
Kit Bond Other 2%
Henry Bonilla Other 1%
David Edward Bonior Other 96%
Mary Bono Mack Other 3%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 85%
Leonard Boswell Other 76%
Rick Boucher Other 82%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 73%
John Breaux Other 45%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 1%
Ed Bryant Other 1%
Jim Bunning Other 2%
Conrad Burns Other 2%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 87%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 9%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 79%
Julia Carson Other 94%
Mike Castle Other 16%
Eva Clayton Other 96%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 67%
Robert Clement Other 67%
Hillary Clinton Other 98%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 61%
Kent Conrad Other 91%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 98%
Jerry Costello Other 72%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 98%
Larry Craig Other 2%
Robert Cramer Other 57%
Philip Crane Other 1%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 1%
Thomas Daschle Other 98%
James Davis Other 81%
Jo Ann Davis Other 4%
Thomas Davis III Other 9%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 1%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 90%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 3%
Norm Dicks Other 81%
Chris Dodd Other 98%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 9%
Calvin Dooley Other 69%
John Doolittle Other 1%
Byron Dorgan Other 92%
David Dreier Other 3%
Jennifer Dunn Other 3%
John Edwards Other 90%
Chet Edwards Other 80%
Vern Ehlers Other 3%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 4%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 8%
Philip English Other 7%
John Ensign Other 12%
Bob Etheridge Other 77%
Lane Evans Other 93%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 89%
Michael Ferguson Other 6%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 15%
Ernest Fletcher Other 1%
Mark Foley Other 6%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 77%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 1%
Barney Frank Other 97%
William Frist Other 1%
Jonas Frost III Other 85%
Elton Gallegly Other 1%
John Ganske Other 6%
George Gekas Other 3%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 97%
Jim Gibbons Other 1%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 6%
Paul Gillmor Other 4%
Benjamin Gilman Other 18%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 90%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 3%
Bart Gordon Other 56%
Porter Goss Other 1%
Daniel Graham Other 93%
William Phillip Gramm Other 2%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 6%
Judd Gregg Other 1%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 4%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 4%
Tony Hall Other 78%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 76%
Melissa Hart Other 1%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 1%
Joel Hefley Other 6%
Jesse Helms Other 2%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 77%
Van Hilleary Other 3%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 97%
Maurice Hinchey Other 96%
David Lee Hobson Other 4%
Pete Hoekstra Other 3%
Thomas Holden Other 75%
Ernest Hollings Other 94%
Darlene Hooley Other 84%
Stephen Horn Other 12%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 6%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 18%
Kenny Hulshof Other 4%
Duncan Hunter Other 2%
Asa Hutchinson Other 3%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 6%
Kay Hutchison Other 9%
Henry Hyde Other 3%
Daniel Inouye Other 98%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 3%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 88%
William Jefferson Other 96%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 40%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 61%
Nancy Johnson Other 19%
Tim Johnson Other 7%
Paul Kanjorski Other 80%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 13%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 98%
Mark Kennedy Other 4%
Patrick Kennedy Other 91%
Brian Kerns Other 1%
Dale Kildee Other 83%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 97%
Gerald Kleczka Other 81%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 82%
James Kolbe Other 7%
Dennis Kucinich Other 81%
Jon Kyl Other 3%
John LaFalce Other 93%
Ray LaHood Other 3%
Nicholas Lampson Other 87%
Tom Lantos Other 91%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 4%
James Leach Other 12%
Jerry Lewis Other 2%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 94%
Blanche Lincoln Other 73%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 45%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 3%
Dick Lugar Other 9%
William Luther Other 91%
James Maloney Other 74%
Don Manzullo Other 4%
Frank Mascara Other 80%
Robert Matsui Other 94%
Karen McCarthy Other 91%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 9%
Scott McInnis Other 1%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 87%
Michael McNulty Other 91%
Martin Meehan Other 96%
Carrie Meek Other 95%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 96%
Dan Miller Other 1%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 24%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 97%
Alan Mollohan Other 70%
Dennis Moore Other 71%
Constance Morella Other 29%
Frank Murkowski Other 5%
Jack Murtha Other 73%
Sue Myrick Other 1%
Ben Nelson Other 40%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 7%
Don Nickles Other 2%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 1%
Jim Oberstar Other 93%
Dave Obey Other 93%
John Olver Other 99%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 74%
Thomas William Osborne Other 4%
Doug Ose Other 10%
Major Owens Other 97%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 12%
Donald Payne Other 96%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 74%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 3%
Todd Platts Other 4%
Richard Pombo Other 4%
Earl Pomeroy Other 87%
Deborah Pryce Other 7%
Jack Quinn Other 9%
George Radanovich Other 3%
James Ramstad Other 11%
Ralph Regula Other 3%
Denny Rehberg Other 3%
Silvestre Reyes Other 84%
Thomas Reynolds Other 3%
Bob Riley Other 3%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 79%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 88%
Timothy Roemer Other 61%
Mike Ross Other 71%
Steve Rothman Other 93%
Marge Roukema Other 12%
Jim Ryun Other 3%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 94%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 76%
Rick Santorum Other 2%
Paul Sarbanes Other 99%
Jim Saxton Other 6%
Joe Scarborough Other 5%
Edward Schrock Other 1%
John Shadegg Other 3%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 6%
Christopher Shays Other 9%
Donald Sherwood Other 1%
Ronnie Shows Other 43%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 7%
Joseph Skeen Other 3%
Ike Skelton Other 61%
Gordon Smith Other 11%
Nick Smith Other 6%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 25%
Vic Snyder Other 76%
Hilda Solis Other 96%
Mark Souder Other 4%
Arlen Specter Other 33%
Floyd Spence Other 1%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 81%
Pete Stark Other 97%
Cliff Stearns Other 4%
Charles Stenholm Other 66%
Ted Stevens Other 13%
Ted Strickland Other 85%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 89%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 9%
Tom Tancredo Other 4%
John Tanner Other 71%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 57%
Craig Thomas Other 1%
William Thomas Other 7%
Fred Thompson Other 10%
Karen Thurman Other 87%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 1%
Robert Torricelli Other 71%
Ed Towns Other 89%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 7%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 97%
James Turner Other 70%
George Voinovich Other 6%
James Walsh Other 6%
Zach Wamp Other 4%
John Warner Other 13%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 96%
David Weldon Other 1%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 6%
Gerald Weller Other 3%
Paul Wellstone Other 99%
Robert Wexler Other 97%
Heather Wilson Other 3%
Lynn Woolsey Other 97%
David Wu Other 79%
Albert Wynn Other 85%

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