Rating Group: Population Connection

2000 Positions

Issues: Social
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 13%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 91%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 9%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 10%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 9%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 9%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 10%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 18%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 80%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 91%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 13%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 13%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 27%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 91%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 13%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 13%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 88%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 45%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 91%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 91%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 91%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 9%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 91%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 13%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 88%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 13%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 9%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 9%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 10%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 9%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 73%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 90%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 13%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 14%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 45%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 27%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 27%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 88%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 91%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 9%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 64%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 9%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 18%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 91%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 91%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 14%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 86%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 80%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 10%
James Barcia Other 9%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 75%
Bob Bennett Other 13%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 45%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 36%
Judy Biggert Other 91%
Michael Bilirakis Other 9%
Jeff Bingaman Other 88%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 13%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 91%
Mary Bono Mack Other 27%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 45%
Leonard Boswell Other 91%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 91%
John Breaux Other 13%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 88%
Herbert Callahan Other 9%
Ben Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 91%
Mike Castle Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 91%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 75%
John Cooksey Other 40%
Jerry Costello Other 9%
Christopher Cox Other 9%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 13%
Robert Cramer Other 91%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 88%
James Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 64%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 18%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 13%
Calvin Dooley Other 91%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 75%
David Dreier Other 9%
Jennifer Dunn Other 36%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 91%
Vern Ehlers Other 18%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 82%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 14%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 82%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 10%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 13%
Jonas Frost III Other 90%
Elton Gallegly Other 36%
John Ganske Other 70%
George Gekas Other 9%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 73%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 18%
Benjamin Gilman Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 90%
Porter Goss Other 18%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 9%
Tony Hall Other 18%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 90%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 45%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 10%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 91%
Kenny Hulshof Other 10%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 13%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 9%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 45%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 9%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 90%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 9%
Herb Kohl Other 88%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 27%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 18%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 91%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 40%
James Leach Other 82%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 13%
Dick Lugar Other 25%
William Luther Other 100%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 9%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 18%
Scott McInnis Other 18%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 71%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 73%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 70%
Alan Mollohan Other 0%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 14%
Jack Murtha Other 18%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 18%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 9%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 9%
Jim Oberstar Other 45%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 10%
Doug Ose Other 91%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 9%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 88%
Jack Quinn Other 10%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 27%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 91%
Timothy Roemer Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 91%
Rick Santorum Other 13%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 9%
Joe Scarborough Other 10%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 64%
Christopher Shays Other 90%
Donald Sherwood Other 9%
Ronnie Shows Other 0%
Norman Sisisky Other 91%
Joseph Skeen Other 18%
Ike Skelton Other 11%
Gordon Smith Other 25%
Nick Smith Other 27%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 88%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 90%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 9%
Ted Stevens Other 38%
Ted Strickland Other 91%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 10%
John Sununu Other 18%
John Sweeney Other 73%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 90%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 9%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 9%
Craig Thomas Other 13%
William Thomas Other 64%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 13%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 9%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 80%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 18%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 29%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 9%
Gerald Weller Other 9%
Paul Wellstone Other 88%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 45%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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