Rating Group: Friends Committee on National Legislation

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 6%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 8%
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 13%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 13%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 7%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 20%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 75%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 13%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 27%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 69%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 88%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 94%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 87%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 87%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 87%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 93%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 87%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 13%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 93%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 14%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 87%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 93%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 93%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 93%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 93%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 93%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 93%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 13%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 87%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 20%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 14%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 80%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 93%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 93%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 93%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 93%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 93%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 81%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 13%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 13%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 87%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 20%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 87%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 20%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 14%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 13%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 47%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 60%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 88%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 13%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 7%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 6%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 20%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 20%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 81%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 40%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 73%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 93%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 7%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 87%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 67%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 6%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 13%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 6%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 7%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 7%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 63%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 7%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 80%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 93%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 93%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 93%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 81%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 80%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 60%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 73%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 87%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 93%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 38%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 87%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 75%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 81%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 7%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 20%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 80%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 7%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 87%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 92%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 13%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 93%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 27%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 81%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 13%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 73%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 7%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 13%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 80%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 63%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 75%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 6%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 88%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 8%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 20%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 80%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 60%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 7%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 21%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 80%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 80%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 27%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 53%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 93%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 87%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 33%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 87%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 93%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 7%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 88%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 87%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 20%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 73%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 67%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 80%
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 87%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 79%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 93%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 87%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 80%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 93%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 93%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 7%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 20%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 93%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 7%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 20%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 80%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 19%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 6%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 27%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 27%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 81%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 13%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 80%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 67%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 85%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 27%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 7%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 73%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 7%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 7%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 81%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 87%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 63%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 7%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 73%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 71%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 27%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 80%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 8%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 13%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 13%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 7%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 13%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 7%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 47%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 80%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 25%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 7%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 7%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 47%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 80%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 7%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 7%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 93%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 15%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 60%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 87%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 7%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 7%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 86%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 13%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 94%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 92%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 88%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 80%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 13%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 79%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 93%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 7%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 85%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 27%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 47%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 81%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 13%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 73%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 6%
Gary Ackerman Other 87%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 75%
Todd Akin Other 7%
Wayne Allard Other 6%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 80%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 67%
Brian Baird Other 93%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 7%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 7%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 27%
Charlie Bass Other 13%
Evan Bayh Other 44%
Bob Beauprez Other 7%
Bob Bennett Other 6%
Shelley Berkley Other 64%
Howard Berman Other 87%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Judy Biggert Other 20%
Michael Bilirakis Other 13%
Jeff Bingaman Other 88%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 7%
Henry Bonilla Other 7%
Mary Bono Mack Other 27%
Leonard Boswell Other 73%
Rick Boucher Other 73%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 67%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 7%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 7%
Robert Byrd Other 94%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 60%
Julia Carson Other 86%
Edward Case Other 86%
Mike Castle Other 33%
Ben Chandler III Other 67%
Chris Chocola Other 7%
Hillary Clinton Other 88%
Norm Coleman Other 6%
Kent Conrad Other 69%
Jerry Costello Other 60%
Larry Craig Other 6%
Robert Cramer Other 27%
Barbara Cubin Other 14%
Artur Davis Other 73%
James Davis Other 71%
Jo Ann Davis Other 7%
Lincoln Davis Other 36%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 87%
Thomas DeLay Other 7%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 13%
Norm Dicks Other 73%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Elizabeth Dole Other 6%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 69%
David Dreier Other 13%
Chet Edwards Other 33%
Vern Ehlers Other 60%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 8%
Philip English Other 20%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 87%
Lane Evans Other 87%
Terry Everett Other 7%
Tom Feeney Other 7%
Russ Feingold Other 81%
Michael Ferguson Other 18%
Mark Foley Other 13%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 75%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 93%
William Frist Other 6%
Elton Gallegly Other 7%
Jim Gibbons Other 7%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 33%
Paul Gillmor Other 13%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 7%
Bart Gordon Other 60%
Mark Green Other 13%
Judd Gregg Other 19%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 7%
Jane Harman Other 80%
Katherine Harris Other 13%
Melissa Hart Other 13%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 14%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 13%
Pete Hoekstra Other 7%
Thomas Holden Other 53%
Darlene Hooley Other 80%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 7%
Kenny Hulshof Other 7%
Duncan Hunter Other 7%
Kay Hutchison Other 7%
Henry Hyde Other 15%
Daniel Inouye Other 67%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 7%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 71%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 8%
Nancy Johnson Other 43%
Tim Johnson Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 67%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 27%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 94%
Mark Kennedy Other 13%
Patrick Kennedy Other 87%
Dale Kildee Other 87%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 93%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 13%
Herb Kohl Other 75%
James Kolbe Other 13%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 80%
Steve LaTourette Other 31%
James Leach Other 92%
Jerry Lewis Other 13%
Ron Lewis Other 7%
Joe Lieberman Other 64%
Blanche Lincoln Other 63%
John Linder Other 7%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 13%
Jim Marshall Other 43%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 7%
James McCrery III Other 13%
John McHugh Other 20%
Michael McNulty Other 87%
Martin Meehan Other 87%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 86%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 93%
Brad Miller Other 79%
Alan Mollohan Other 53%
Dennis Moore Other 80%
Jack Murtha Other 47%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 13%
Sue Myrick Other 7%
Ben Nelson Other 38%
Robert William Ney Other 13%
Anne Northup Other 7%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 93%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 60%
Thomas William Osborne Other 27%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 14%
Ron Paul Other 67%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 13%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 13%
Todd Platts Other 13%
Richard Pombo Other 27%
Earl Pomeroy Other 60%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 13%
Deborah Pryce Other 20%
George Radanovich Other 13%
James Ramstad Other 27%
Ralph Regula Other 7%
Denny Rehberg Other 20%
Richard Renzi Other 13%
Silvestre Reyes Other 67%
Thomas Reynolds Other 20%
Mike Ross Other 53%
Steve Rothman Other 80%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 87%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 94%
Jim Saxton Other 29%
John Shadegg Other 7%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 13%
Christopher Shays Other 53%
Donald Sherwood Other 13%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 27%
Ike Skelton Other 47%
Gordon Smith Other 13%
Olympia Snowe Other 31%
Vic Snyder Other 80%
Hilda Solis Other 93%
Mark Souder Other 14%
Arlen Specter Other 13%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 79%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 20%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 87%
Bart Stupak Other 86%
John Sullivan Other 8%
John Sununu Other 13%
John Sweeney Other 13%
James Talent Other 13%
Tom Tancredo Other 13%
John Tanner Other 53%
Ellen Tauscher Other 73%
Charles Taylor Other 7%
Gene Taylor Other 53%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 13%
Todd Tiahrt Other 7%
Ed Towns Other 93%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 86%
George Voinovich Other 13%
James Walsh Other 25%
Zach Wamp Other 13%
John Warner Other 6%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 93%
David Weldon Other 13%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 29%
Gerald Weller Other 20%
Robert Wexler Other 93%
Heather Wilson Other 13%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 93%
Albert Wynn Other 87%

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