Rating Group: The Retired Enlisted Association

2004 Positions

Issues: Veterans
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 33%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 33%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 33%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 33%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 33%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 17%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 33%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 33%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 33%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 33%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 17%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 33%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 33%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 33%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 33%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 33%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 33%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 17%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 33%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 33%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 33%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 33%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 33%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 33%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 17%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 33%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 17%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 33%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 33%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 33%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 33%
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 33%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 33%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 17%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 33%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 33%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 17%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 33%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 17%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 33%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 33%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 33%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 33%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 33%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 33%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 33%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 33%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 33%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 33%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 33%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 33%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 17%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 33%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 33%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 33%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 33%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 33%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 33%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 33%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 33%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 17%
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 33%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 33%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 33%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 33%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 33%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 0%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 33%
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 33%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 33%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 33%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 33%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 33%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 33%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 33%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 33%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 33%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 33%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 17%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 33%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 33%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 17%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 33%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 17%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 33%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 33%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 33%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 17%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 33%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 33%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 33%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 33%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 33%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 33%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 33%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 33%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 33%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 33%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 33%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 33%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 17%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 33%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 17%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 17%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 33%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 17%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 33%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 33%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 33%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 17%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 17%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 33%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 33%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 17%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 33%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 17%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 33%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 33%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 33%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 33%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 17%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 33%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 33%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 17%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 33%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 17%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 33%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 33%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 0%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 17%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 33%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 33%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 17%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 33%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 33%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 33%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 33%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 33%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 33%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 17%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 33%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 33%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 33%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 33%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 17%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 33%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 33%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 33%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 17%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 33%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 33%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 33%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 33%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 33%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 33%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 33%
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 17%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 33%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 33%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 17%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 33%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 33%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 33%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 33%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 33%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 33%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 33%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 33%
Brian Baird Other 40%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 33%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 33%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 33%
Charlie Bass Other 33%
Evan Bayh Other 0%
Bob Beauprez Other 33%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 33%
Howard Berman Other 33%
Marion Berry Other 33%
Judy Biggert Other 33%
Michael Bilirakis Other 33%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 17%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 33%
Mary Bono Mack Other 33%
Leonard Boswell Other 33%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 33%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 33%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 33%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 17%
Steve Buyer Other 33%
Robert Byrd Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 33%
Dennis Cardoza Other 33%
Julia Carson Other 33%
Edward Case Other 33%
Mike Castle Other 33%
Ben Chandler III Other 33%
Chris Chocola Other 33%
Hillary Clinton Other 0%
Norm Coleman Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 33%
Christopher Cox Other 33%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 33%
Barbara Cubin Other 33%
Randall Cunningham Other 33%
Artur Davis Other 33%
James Davis Other 33%
Jo Ann Davis Other 33%
Lincoln Davis Other 33%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 33%
Thomas DeLay Other 33%
James DeMint Other 33%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 33%
Norm Dicks Other 33%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 33%
Chet Edwards Other 33%
Vern Ehlers Other 33%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 33%
Philip English Other 33%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 33%
Lane Evans Other 33%
Terry Everett Other 33%
Tom Feeney Other 33%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Michael Ferguson Other 33%
Mark Foley Other 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 17%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 17%
William Frist Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 17%
Jim Gibbons Other 33%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 33%
Paul Gillmor Other 33%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 33%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 33%
Bart Gordon Other 33%
Mark Green Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Jane Harman Other 33%
Katherine Harris Other 33%
Melissa Hart Other 33%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 50%
Robert Hayes Other 33%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 33%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 33%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 20%
Maurice Hinchey Other 17%
David Lee Hobson Other 17%
Pete Hoekstra Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 33%
Darlene Hooley Other 33%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 33%
Kenny Hulshof Other 33%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 17%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 33%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 0%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 33%
Nancy Johnson Other 33%
Tim Johnson Other 33%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Ric Keller Other 33%
Sue Kelly Other 33%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 33%
Patrick Kennedy Other 33%
Dale Kildee Other 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 33%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 17%
Tom Lantos Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 33%
James Leach Other 17%
Jerry Lewis Other 33%
Ron Lewis Other 33%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 0%
John Linder Other 33%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 33%
Jim Marshall Other 33%
Robert Matsui Other 17%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 33%
James McCrery III Other 33%
John McHugh Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 33%
Martin Meehan Other 17%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 17%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 33%
Brad Miller Other 33%
Alan Mollohan Other 33%
Dennis Moore Other 33%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 33%
Ben Nelson Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 17%
Anne Northup Other 33%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 17%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 33%
John Olver Other 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 17%
Thomas William Osborne Other 33%
Major Owens Other 17%
Michael Oxley Other 17%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 17%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 33%
Todd Platts Other 33%
Richard Pombo Other 33%
Earl Pomeroy Other 33%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 33%
Deborah Pryce Other 33%
George Radanovich Other 33%
James Ramstad Other 33%
Ralph Regula Other 33%
Denny Rehberg Other 33%
Richard Renzi Other 33%
Silvestre Reyes Other 33%
Thomas Reynolds Other 33%
Mike Ross Other 33%
Steve Rothman Other 33%
Jim Ryun Other 33%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 33%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 33%
Christopher Shays Other 33%
Donald Sherwood Other 33%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 33%
Ike Skelton Other 33%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 0%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Hilda Solis Other 33%
Mark Souder Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 33%
Bart Stupak Other 17%
John Sullivan Other 33%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 33%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 33%
John Tanner Other 33%
Ellen Tauscher Other 33%
Charles Taylor Other 33%
Gene Taylor Other 33%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 33%
Todd Tiahrt Other 17%
Ed Towns Other 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 17%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 33%
John Warner Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 17%
Anthony Weiner Other 17%
David Weldon Other 33%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 33%
Robert Wexler Other 33%
Heather Wilson Other 33%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 17%
Albert Wynn Other 33%

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