Rating Group: National Breast Cancer Coalition

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 40%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
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 40%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
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-17 Mike Honda D 80%
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 80%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 20%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 20%
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 80%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 20%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 80%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 80%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 20%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100%
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 80%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 40%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 60%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 20%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 60%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 80%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 80%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 40%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 40%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 20%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 80%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 60%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 40%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 80%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 40%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 20%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 20%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 80%
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 40%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 40%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 20%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 20%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 40%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 60%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 40%
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 80%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 80%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 60%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 80%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 40%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 40%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 40%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 20%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 80%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 80%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 60%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 20%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 40%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 60%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 80%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 60%
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 40%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 20%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 60%
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 60%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 60%
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 40%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 80%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 60%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 80%
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 100%
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 80%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 40%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 20%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 40%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 20%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 20%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 40%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 20%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 80%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 80%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 20%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
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 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 80%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 20%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 20%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 80%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 80%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 40%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 40%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 20%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 20%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 20%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 80%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 20%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 40%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 60%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 40%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 80%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 80%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 20%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 40%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 20%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 40%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 80%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 80%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 80%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 60%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 80%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 40%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 80%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 20%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 40%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 80%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 20%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 60%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 40%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 60%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 40%
Cass Ballenger Other 20%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 20%
Charlie Bass Other 80%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 20%
Douglas Bereuter Other 20%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 60%
Judy Biggert Other 80%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 20%
Henry Bonilla Other 60%
Mary Bono Mack Other 20%
Leonard Boswell Other 80%
Rick Boucher Other 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 60%
John Breaux Other 40%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 20%
Dan Burton Other 60%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 20%
Ben Campbell Other 25%
Chris Cannon Other 20%
Brad Carson Other 80%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 40%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 20%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 20%
Robert Cramer Other 60%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 20%
Randall Cunningham Other 20%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 80%
Jo Ann Davis Other 60%
Thomas Davis III Other 60%
Bill Delahunt Other 80%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 20%
Peter Deutsch Other 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 60%
Norm Dicks Other 60%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 25%
Calvin Dooley Other 80%
John Doolittle Other 20%
Byron Dorgan Other 60%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 20%
John Edwards Other 80%
Chet Edwards Other 60%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 20%
Philip English Other 40%
John Ensign Other 20%
Bob Etheridge Other 80%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 80%
Michael Ferguson Other 80%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 80%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 40%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 60%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 20%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 60%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 60%
Jim Gibbons Other 40%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 60%
Paul Gillmor Other 20%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 20%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 40%
Mark Green Other 60%
James Greenwood Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 60%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 40%
Joel Hefley Other 60%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 40%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 20%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 40%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 20%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 20%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 20%
Kay Hutchison Other 20%
Henry Hyde Other 40%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 60%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 40%
Christopher John Other 40%
Nancy Johnson Other 20%
Tim Johnson Other 60%
Paul Kanjorski Other 40%
Ric Keller Other 20%
Sue Kelly Other 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 60%
Gerald Kleczka Other 80%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 20%
Herb Kohl Other 60%
James Kolbe Other 40%
Dennis Kucinich Other 80%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 60%
Nicholas Lampson Other 60%
Tom Lantos Other 80%
Steve LaTourette Other 40%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 60%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 40%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 80%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 20%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 40%
Alan Mollohan Other 40%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 80%
Sue Myrick Other 60%
Ben Nelson Other 80%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 20%
Robert William Ney Other 40%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 20%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 40%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 40%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 60%
Thomas William Osborne Other 60%
Doug Ose Other 40%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 20%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 40%
Todd Platts Other 80%
Richard Pombo Other 20%
Earl Pomeroy Other 60%
Deborah Pryce Other 20%
Jack Quinn Other 80%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 40%
Ralph Regula Other 40%
Denny Rehberg Other 20%
Silvestre Reyes Other 80%
Thomas Reynolds Other 40%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 40%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 20%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 60%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 80%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 80%
Jim Saxton Other 60%
Edward Schrock Other 40%
John Shadegg Other 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 40%
Christopher Shays Other 80%
Donald Sherwood Other 20%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 80%
Ike Skelton Other 80%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 80%
Hilda Solis Other 80%
Mark Souder Other 40%
Arlen Specter Other 60%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 40%
Pete Stark Other 80%
Cliff Stearns Other 20%
Charles Stenholm Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 20%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 60%
John Sweeney Other 80%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 80%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 20%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Craig Thomas Other 20%
William Thomas Other 20%
Todd Tiahrt Other 40%
Ed Towns Other 40%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 80%
George Voinovich Other 20%
James Walsh Other 80%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
John Warner Other 80%
Diane Watson Other 60%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 20%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 40%
Gerald Weller Other 40%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 80%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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