Rating Group: National Right to Life Committee

2009-2010 Positions

Issues: Abortion
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 66%
AK U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Begich D 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 14%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-1 Ann Kirkpatrick D 16%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-3 John Garamendi D 0%
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 0%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 16%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
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 100%
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-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 16%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Jr Michael Bennet D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO U.S. House-2 Jared Polis D 0%
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 0%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 16%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 0%
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 0%
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 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-8 Bill Posey R 100%
FL U.S. House-9 Alan Grayson D 0%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 100%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 0%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 83%
FL U.S. House-17 Thomas Rooney R 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 16%
FL U.S. House-21 Ted Deutch D 0%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 0%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 33%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 100%
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-10 Paul Broun R 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 50%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 0%
GA U.S. House-14 Tom Graves, Jr. R 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 0%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Jr James Risch R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 66%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 16%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 66%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-5 Mike Quigley D 0%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 16%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IL U.S. House-18 Aaron Schock R 100%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 83%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 0%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
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 83%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-2 Brett Guthrie R 100%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 100%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 100%
LA U.S. House-4 John Fleming, Jr. R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 100%
LA U.S. House-6 Bill Cassidy R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 16%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 0%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 0%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 16%
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 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 42%
ME U.S. House-1 Chellie Pingree D 0%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 16%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 83%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 16%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 16%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MI U.S. House-14 Gary Peters D 0%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 0%
MN U.S. Senate-Jr Al Franken DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-3 Erik Paulsen R 100%
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 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 0%
MO U.S. House-3 Blaine Luetkemeyer R 100%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 16%
MS U.S. House-3 Gregg Harper R 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Jr Kay Hagan D 0%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 16%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 16%
NE U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Johanns R 100%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 100%
NH U.S. Senate-Sr Jeanne Shaheen D 0%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 0%
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 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-7 Leonard Lance R 66%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 83%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Jr Martin Heinrich D 0%
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 100%
NV U.S. House-1 Dina Titus D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 0%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 20%
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 16%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 0%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
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 0%
NY U.S. House-20 Paul Tonko D 0%
NY U.S. House-21 Bill Owens D 33%
NY U.S. House-24 Dan Maffei Other 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 100%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 16%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-11 Marcia Fudge D 16%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 16%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Merkley D 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 83%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 0%
OR U.S. House-5 Kurt Schrader D 0%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 42%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 0%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-5 G.T. Thompson, Jr. R 100%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 16%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 66%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 16%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
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 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 100%
TN U.S. House-1 Phil Roe R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 16%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 100%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 0%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 100%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 0%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-22 Pete Olson R 100%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 16%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 0%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
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 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 100%
UT U.S. House-3 Jason Chaffetz R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Warner D 0%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 0%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VA U.S. House-11 Gerry Connolly D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 83%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 0%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 0%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 0%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 100%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 66%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 100%
WY U.S. House-At-Large Cynthia Lummis R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
John Adler Other 16%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Jason Altmire Other 50%
Michael Arcuri Other 16%
Steve Austria Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 16%
Brian Baird Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 28%
Melissa Bean Other 16%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 0%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 33%
Judy Biggert Other 83%
Brian Bilbray Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
John Boccieri Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Dan Boren Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 0%
Rick Boucher Other 16%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 16%
Bobby Bright Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Scott Brown Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Roland Burris Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 0%
Joseph Cao Other 83%
Dennis Cardoza Other 16%
Russ Carnahan Other 0%
Christopher Carney Other 33%
Mike Castle Other 33%
Ben Chandler III Other 33%
Travis Childers Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 16%
Jerry Costello Other 66%
Mark Critz Other 100%
Kathy Dahlkemper Other 80%
Artur Davis Other 50%
Geoff Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
James DeMint Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Charles Djou Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 14%
David Dreier Other 100%
Steve Driehaus Other 33%
Chet Edwards Other 16%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Brad Ellsworth Other 66%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 16%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Carte Goodwin Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 16%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Parker Griffith, Jr. Other 100%
John Hall Other 0%
Debbie Halvorson Other 0%
Phil Hare Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 33%
Baron Hill Other 60%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
Paul Hodes Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
Tim Johnson Other 100%
Steve Kagen Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 16%
Ted Kaufman Other 14%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 16%
Mary Jo Kilroy Other 0%
Paul Kirk, Jr. Other 0%
Larry Kissell Other 16%
Ron Klein Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
Suzanne Kosmas Other 0%
Frank Kratovil, Jr. Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 16%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 66%
Frank Lautenberg Other 0%
Chris Lee Other 100%
George LeMieux Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 0%
John Linder Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Dan Lungren Other 100%
Connie Mack IV Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Betsy Markey Other 16%
Jim Marshall Other 100%
Melquiades Martinez Other 100%
Eric Massa Other 25%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
John McHugh Other 0%
Michael McMahon Other 16%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 0%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 83%
Brad Miller Other 0%
Walt Minnick Other 33%
Harry Mitchell Other 33%
Alan Mollohan Other 66%
Dennis Moore Other 0%
Patrick Murphy Other 0%
Scott Murphy Other 16%
Jack Murtha Other 25%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 57%
Glenn Nye III Other 50%
Jim Oberstar Other 33%
Dave Obey Other 16%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 16%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 16%
Tom Perriello Other 16%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 16%
George Radanovich Other 100%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 16%
Laura Richardson Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 16%
Mike Ross Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Mark Schauer Other 0%
Jean Schmidt Other 100%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 83%
Heath Shuler Other 66%
Ike Skelton Other 66%
Olympia Snowe Other 42%
Vic Snyder Other 16%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Zack Space Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 16%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 33%
John Sullivan Other 100%
Betty Sutton Other 0%
John Tanner Other 33%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 100%
Harry Teague Other 33%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 50%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 0%

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