Rating Group: Friends Committee on National Legislation

2001 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 8%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 8%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 21%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 38%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 29%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 79%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 85%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 92%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 64%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 79%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 93%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 93%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 93%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 79%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 86%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 93%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 79%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 14%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 43%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 71%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 14%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 92%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 86%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 83%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 92%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 14%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 86%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 43%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 7%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 31%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 43%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 79%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 93%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 71%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 79%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 85%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 77%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 14%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 79%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 14%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 21%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 79%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 8%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 14%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 14%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 14%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 43%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 93%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 7%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 8%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 92%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 27%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 15%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 29%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 14%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 29%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 93%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 79%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 93%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 86%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 29%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 54%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 8%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 21%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 8%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 8%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 14%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 7%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 29%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 85%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 14%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 86%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 93%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 79%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 86%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 79%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 85%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 64%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 62%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 79%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 38%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 92%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 14%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 36%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 21%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 71%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 57%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 86%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 29%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 23%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 79%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 29%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 8%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 14%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 71%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 54%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 92%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 23%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 14%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 71%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 29%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 14%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 43%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 50%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 21%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 21%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 64%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 57%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 21%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 79%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 71%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 92%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 77%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 7%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 50%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 64%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 93%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 86%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 92%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 86%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 71%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 86%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 83%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 93%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 79%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 14%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 14%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 14%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 64%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 7%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 71%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 23%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 8%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 14%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 92%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 21%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 92%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 71%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 21%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 71%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 93%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 20%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 57%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 14%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 71%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 92%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 57%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 62%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 7%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 79%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 77%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 31%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 7%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 14%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 7%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 7%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 21%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 14%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 14%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 54%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 71%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 14%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 43%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 93%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 7%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 71%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 57%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 86%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 21%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 14%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 64%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 7%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 86%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 92%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 57%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 15%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 93%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 57%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 79%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 85%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 21%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 71%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 8%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 29%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 79%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 85%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 14%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 64%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 33%
Gary Ackerman Other 79%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 92%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 15%
George Allen Other 23%
Thomas Allen Other 77%
Richard Armey Other 7%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 50%
Brian Baird Other 71%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 14%
John Baldacci Other 71%
Cass Ballenger Other 14%
James Barcia Other 36%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 7%
Charlie Bass Other 21%
Evan Bayh Other 77%
Bob Bennett Other 8%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 50%
Douglas Bereuter Other 36%
Shelley Berkley Other 71%
Howard Berman Other 79%
Marion Berry Other 36%
Judy Biggert Other 36%
Michael Bilirakis Other 7%
Jeff Bingaman Other 83%
Rod Blagojevich Other 71%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 43%
Kit Bond Other 15%
Henry Bonilla Other 14%
David Edward Bonior Other 86%
Mary Bono Mack Other 21%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 64%
Leonard Boswell Other 57%
Rick Boucher Other 77%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 46%
John Breaux Other 31%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 21%
Ed Bryant Other 14%
Jim Bunning Other 8%
Conrad Burns Other 15%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 14%
Robert Byrd Other 77%
Herbert Callahan Other 14%
Ben Campbell Other 15%
Chris Cannon Other 7%
Jean Carnahan Other 50%
Brad Carson Other 43%
Julia Carson Other 79%
Mike Castle Other 43%
Eva Clayton Other 86%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 62%
Robert Clement Other 57%
Hillary Clinton Other 77%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 14%
Gary Condit Other 43%
Kent Conrad Other 77%
John Cooksey Other 14%
Jon Corzine Other 92%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Christopher Cox Other 7%
William Coyne Other 93%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 29%
Philip Crane Other 7%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 14%
Thomas Daschle Other 92%
James Davis Other 64%
Jo Ann Davis Other 7%
Thomas Davis III Other 36%
Bill Delahunt Other 92%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 8%
Peter Deutsch Other 71%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 8%
Norm Dicks Other 71%
Chris Dodd Other 85%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 9%
Calvin Dooley Other 43%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 77%
David Dreier Other 14%
Jennifer Dunn Other 21%
John Edwards Other 85%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 29%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 14%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 42%
Philip English Other 29%
John Ensign Other 23%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 71%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 29%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 8%
Ernest Fletcher Other 14%
Mark Foley Other 14%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 71%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 14%
Barney Frank Other 85%
William Frist Other 8%
Jonas Frost III Other 57%
Elton Gallegly Other 14%
John Ganske Other 38%
George Gekas Other 21%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 71%
Jim Gibbons Other 14%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 43%
Paul Gillmor Other 15%
Benjamin Gilman Other 21%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 79%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 50%
Porter Goss Other 21%
Daniel Graham Other 85%
William Phillip Gramm Other 15%
Mark Green Other 21%
James Greenwood Other 29%
Judd Gregg Other 8%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 21%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 21%
Tony Hall Other 64%
James Hansen Other 8%
Jane Harman Other 62%
Melissa Hart Other 7%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 20%
Robert Hayes Other 7%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 7%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 21%
Baron Hill Other 64%
Van Hilleary Other 7%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 71%
Maurice Hinchey Other 92%
David Lee Hobson Other 14%
Pete Hoekstra Other 21%
Thomas Holden Other 43%
Ernest Hollings Other 85%
Darlene Hooley Other 71%
Stephen Horn Other 29%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 7%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 57%
Kenny Hulshof Other 29%
Duncan Hunter Other 8%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 15%
Henry Hyde Other 7%
Daniel Inouye Other 83%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 7%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 93%
William Jefferson Other 79%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 69%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 7%
Christopher John Other 38%
Nancy Johnson Other 50%
Tim Johnson Other 36%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ric Keller Other 7%
Sue Kelly Other 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 92%
Mark Kennedy Other 36%
Patrick Kennedy Other 62%
Brian Kerns Other 7%
Dale Kildee Other 57%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 92%
Gerald Kleczka Other 79%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 14%
Herb Kohl Other 92%
James Kolbe Other 21%
Dennis Kucinich Other 93%
Jon Kyl Other 8%
John LaFalce Other 79%
Ray LaHood Other 36%
Nicholas Lampson Other 69%
Tom Lantos Other 64%
Steve LaTourette Other 14%
James Leach Other 57%
Jerry Lewis Other 14%
Ron Lewis Other 7%
Joe Lieberman Other 69%
Blanche Lincoln Other 69%
John Linder Other 14%
William Lipinski Other 10%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 15%
Dick Lugar Other 8%
William Luther Other 79%
James Maloney Other 36%
Don Manzullo Other 21%
Frank Mascara Other 21%
Robert Matsui Other 85%
Karen McCarthy Other 86%
James McCrery III Other 14%
John McHugh Other 31%
Scott McInnis Other 14%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 79%
Martin Meehan Other 86%
Carrie Meek Other 83%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 77%
Dan Miller Other 15%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 31%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 85%
Alan Mollohan Other 36%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Constance Morella Other 71%
Frank Murkowski Other 17%
Jack Murtha Other 36%
Sue Myrick Other 14%
Ben Nelson Other 38%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 21%
Robert William Ney Other 7%
Don Nickles Other 15%
Anne Northup Other 14%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 21%
Jim Oberstar Other 86%
Dave Obey Other 71%
John Olver Other 92%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 36%
Thomas William Osborne Other 29%
Doug Ose Other 21%
Major Owens Other 85%
Michael Oxley Other 14%
Ron Paul Other 46%
Donald Payne Other 86%
John Peterson Other 21%
David Phelps Other 21%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 7%
Todd Platts Other 21%
Richard Pombo Other 7%
Earl Pomeroy Other 79%
Deborah Pryce Other 21%
Jack Quinn Other 15%
George Radanovich Other 7%
James Ramstad Other 43%
Ralph Regula Other 14%
Denny Rehberg Other 29%
Silvestre Reyes Other 36%
Thomas Reynolds Other 21%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 75%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 86%
Timothy Roemer Other 64%
Mike Ross Other 29%
Steve Rothman Other 54%
Marge Roukema Other 29%
Jim Ryun Other 7%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 86%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 15%
Paul Sarbanes Other 85%
Jim Saxton Other 23%
Edward Schrock Other 14%
John Shadegg Other 7%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 15%
Christopher Shays Other 43%
Donald Sherwood Other 14%
Ronnie Shows Other 29%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 29%
Joseph Skeen Other 14%
Ike Skelton Other 29%
Gordon Smith Other 38%
Nick Smith Other 21%
Bob Smith Other 8%
Olympia Snowe Other 46%
Vic Snyder Other 69%
Hilda Solis Other 92%
Mark Souder Other 7%
Arlen Specter Other 54%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 38%
Pete Stark Other 85%
Cliff Stearns Other 7%
Charles Stenholm Other 36%
Ted Stevens Other 10%
Ted Strickland Other 57%
Bob Stump Other 8%
Bart Stupak Other 57%
John Sununu Other 14%
John Sweeney Other 29%
Tom Tancredo Other 7%
John Tanner Other 38%
Ellen Tauscher Other 50%
William Tauzin Other 14%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 29%
Craig Thomas Other 17%
William Thomas Other 14%
Fred Thompson Other 8%
Karen Thurman Other 71%
Strom Thurmond Other 15%
Todd Tiahrt Other 14%
Robert Torricelli Other 54%
Ed Towns Other 69%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 7%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 93%
James Turner Other 43%
George Voinovich Other 23%
James Walsh Other 29%
Zach Wamp Other 14%
John Warner Other 23%
Wesley Watkins Other 14%
Diane Watson Other 88%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 14%
Anthony Weiner Other 93%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 23%
Gerald Weller Other 14%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 71%
Heather Wilson Other 21%
Lynn Woolsey Other 86%
David Wu Other 86%
Albert Wynn Other 79%

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