Rating Group: National Association of Counties

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 71%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 78%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 89%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 86%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 86%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 67%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 50%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 57%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 78%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 78%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 71%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 50%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 64%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 50%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 57%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 64%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 64%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 57%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 71%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 79%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 71%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 64%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 79%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 71%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 57%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 64%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 71%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 71%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 79%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 57%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 64%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 86%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 71%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 71%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 64%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 64%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 57%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 64%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 71%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 67%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 89%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 90%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 86%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 64%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 79%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 86%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 79%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 86%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 86%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 86%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 86%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 71%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 57%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 79%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 64%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 67%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 79%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 78%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 86%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 71%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 78%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 71%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 64%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 64%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 50%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 64%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 86%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 57%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 86%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 78%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 79%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 78%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 89%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 86%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 86%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 86%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 78%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 86%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 71%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 64%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 64%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 57%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 50%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 78%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 71%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 64%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 57%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 78%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 78%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 86%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 93%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 86%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 64%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 64%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 50%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 64%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 57%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 78%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 79%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 64%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 86%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 89%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 86%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 64%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 78%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 78%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 86%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 86%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 79%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 86%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 71%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 64%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 71%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 71%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 71%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 79%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 86%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 64%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 79%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 86%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 64%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 64%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 89%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 78%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 71%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 79%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 57%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 64%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 64%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 79%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 71%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 64%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 57%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 79%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 71%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 71%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 57%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 79%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 71%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 71%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 64%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 79%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 56%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 78%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 86%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 89%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 86%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 57%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 57%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 86%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 71%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 64%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 93%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 64%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 86%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 79%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 67%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 71%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 78%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 86%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 79%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 71%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 79%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 86%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 86%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 79%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 71%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 79%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 86%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 57%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 64%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 86%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 79%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 43%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 71%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 57%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 89%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 79%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 57%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 79%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 86%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 86%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 64%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 79%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 89%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 64%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 89%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 89%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 64%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 86%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 50%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 64%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 71%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 57%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 79%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 64%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 64%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 57%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 67%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 93%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 57%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 78%
Gary Ackerman Other 57%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 78%
Todd Akin Other 79%
Wayne Allard Other 89%
George Allen Other 89%
Thomas Allen Other 71%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 79%
Brian Baird Other 79%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 86%
Cass Ballenger Other 86%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 86%
Charlie Bass Other 71%
Evan Bayh Other 78%
Bob Bennett Other 89%
Douglas Bereuter Other 93%
Shelley Berkley Other 79%
Howard Berman Other 64%
Marion Berry Other 71%
Judy Biggert Other 79%
Michael Bilirakis Other 86%
Jeff Bingaman Other 78%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 86%
Kit Bond Other 89%
Henry Bonilla Other 86%
Mary Bono Mack Other 79%
Leonard Boswell Other 71%
Rick Boucher Other 71%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 79%
John Breaux Other 78%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 93%
Jim Bunning Other 89%
Conrad Burns Other 89%
Dan Burton Other 57%
Steve Buyer Other 79%
Robert Byrd Other 67%
Ben Campbell Other 89%
Chris Cannon Other 64%
Brad Carson Other 79%
Julia Carson Other 64%
Mike Castle Other 71%
Hillary Clinton Other 67%
Michael Collins Other 64%
Larry Combest Other 79%
Kent Conrad Other 67%
Jon Corzine Other 89%
Jerry Costello Other 57%
Christopher Cox Other 79%
Larry Craig Other 78%
Robert Cramer Other 86%
Philip Crane Other 79%
Barbara Cubin Other 64%
Randall Cunningham Other 86%
Thomas Daschle Other 67%
James Davis Other 71%
Jo Ann Davis Other 86%
Thomas Davis III Other 71%
Bill Delahunt Other 50%
Thomas DeLay Other 79%
James DeMint Other 86%
Peter Deutsch Other 64%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 79%
Norm Dicks Other 79%
Chris Dodd Other 89%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 89%
Calvin Dooley Other 79%
John Doolittle Other 79%
Byron Dorgan Other 67%
David Dreier Other 79%
Jennifer Dunn Other 71%
John Edwards Other 78%
Chet Edwards Other 79%
Vern Ehlers Other 93%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 79%
Philip English Other 93%
John Ensign Other 89%
Bob Etheridge Other 71%
Lane Evans Other 64%
Terry Everett Other 86%
Russ Feingold Other 22%
Michael Ferguson Other 86%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 67%
Ernest Fletcher Other 86%
Mark Foley Other 86%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 71%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 86%
Barney Frank Other 50%
William Frist Other 78%
Jonas Frost III Other 71%
Elton Gallegly Other 79%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 64%
Jim Gibbons Other 79%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 93%
Paul Gillmor Other 86%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 57%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 79%
Bart Gordon Other 79%
Porter Goss Other 79%
Daniel Graham Other 67%
Mark Green Other 79%
James Greenwood Other 93%
Judd Gregg Other 89%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 86%
Jane Harman Other 71%
Melissa Hart Other 93%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 86%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 86%
Joel Hefley Other 86%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 93%
Baron Hill Other 57%
Maurice Hinchey Other 71%
David Lee Hobson Other 86%
Pete Hoekstra Other 79%
Thomas Holden Other 79%
Ernest Hollings Other 67%
Darlene Hooley Other 79%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 71%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 79%
Kenny Hulshof Other 86%
Duncan Hunter Other 79%
Kay Hutchison Other 78%
Henry Hyde Other 86%
Daniel Inouye Other 78%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 86%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 71%
William Jefferson Other 79%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 67%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 93%
Christopher John Other 79%
Nancy Johnson Other 79%
Tim Johnson Other 79%
Paul Kanjorski Other 86%
Ric Keller Other 86%
Sue Kelly Other 93%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 67%
Mark Kennedy Other 79%
Patrick Kennedy Other 71%
Dale Kildee Other 71%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 57%
Gerald Kleczka Other 64%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 86%
Herb Kohl Other 89%
James Kolbe Other 79%
Dennis Kucinich Other 43%
Jon Kyl Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 86%
Nicholas Lampson Other 71%
Tom Lantos Other 57%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
James Leach Other 79%
Jerry Lewis Other 71%
Ron Lewis Other 86%
Joe Lieberman Other 89%
Blanche Lincoln Other 67%
John Linder Other 79%
William Lipinski Other 64%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 78%
Dick Lugar Other 89%
Don Manzullo Other 79%
Robert Matsui Other 64%
Karen McCarthy Other 64%
James McCrery III Other 86%
John McHugh Other 93%
Scott McInnis Other 86%
Michael McNulty Other 71%
Martin Meehan Other 64%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 71%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 89%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 71%
Jack Murtha Other 57%
Sue Myrick Other 79%
Ben Nelson Other 67%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 86%
Robert William Ney Other 79%
Don Nickles Other 78%
Anne Northup Other 79%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 79%
James Nussle Other 86%
Jim Oberstar Other 64%
Dave Obey Other 64%
John Olver Other 57%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 86%
Thomas William Osborne Other 86%
Doug Ose Other 86%
Major Owens Other 50%
Michael Oxley Other 79%
Ron Paul Other 29%
Donald Payne Other 50%
John Peterson Other 93%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 86%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 79%
Earl Pomeroy Other 71%
Deborah Pryce Other 79%
Jack Quinn Other 93%
George Radanovich Other 86%
James Ramstad Other 79%
Ralph Regula Other 93%
Denny Rehberg Other 86%
Silvestre Reyes Other 71%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 57%
Mike Ross Other 79%
Steve Rothman Other 64%
Jim Ryun Other 79%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 64%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 93%
Rick Santorum Other 56%
Paul Sarbanes Other 67%
Jim Saxton Other 79%
Edward Schrock Other 79%
John Shadegg Other 64%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 79%
Christopher Shays Other 79%
Donald Sherwood Other 93%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 79%
Ike Skelton Other 71%
Gordon Smith Other 78%
Nick Smith Other 79%
Olympia Snowe Other 89%
Vic Snyder Other 71%
Hilda Solis Other 71%
Mark Souder Other 86%
Arlen Specter Other 78%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 71%
Pete Stark Other 43%
Cliff Stearns Other 71%
Charles Stenholm Other 71%
Ted Stevens Other 89%
Ted Strickland Other 71%
Bart Stupak Other 64%
John Sullivan Other 86%
John Sununu Other 86%
John Sweeney Other 71%
Tom Tancredo Other 64%
John Tanner Other 71%
Ellen Tauscher Other 71%
William Tauzin Other 86%
Charles Taylor Other 71%
Gene Taylor Other 79%
Craig Thomas Other 56%
William Thomas Other 79%
Todd Tiahrt Other 86%
Ed Towns Other 79%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 50%
James Turner Other 86%
George Voinovich Other 56%
James Walsh Other 86%
Zach Wamp Other 79%
John Warner Other 89%
Diane Watson Other 57%
Anthony Weiner Other 64%
David Weldon Other 86%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 86%
Robert Wexler Other 71%
Heather Wilson Other 93%
Lynn Woolsey Other 64%
David Wu Other 71%
Albert Wynn Other 71%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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