Rating Group: Associated General Contractors of America

2005-2006 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 87%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 87%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 62%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 80%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 77%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 80%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 80%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 50%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 80%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 62%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 60%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 40%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 50%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 70%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 62%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 50%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 37%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 40%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 33%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 40%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 70%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 40%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 44%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 40%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 55%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 33%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 80%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 40%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 40%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 80%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 37%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 44%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 40%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 40%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 70%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 40%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 80%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 42%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 60%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 60%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 80%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 80%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 40%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 60%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 30%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 40%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 70%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 50%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 40%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 62%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 62%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 77%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 80%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 40%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 80%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 71%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 40%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 40%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 80%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 75%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 75%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 80%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 80%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 40%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 70%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 80%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 60%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 80%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 87%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 80%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 80%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 87%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 50%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 80%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 40%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 60%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 50%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 50%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 40%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 80%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 44%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 30%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 80%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 87%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 80%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 75%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 75%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 80%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 87%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 80%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 80%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 80%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 40%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 40%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 40%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 40%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 50%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 50%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 50%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 70%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 40%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 40%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 40%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 37%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 80%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 90%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 80%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 40%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 80%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 50%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 50%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 80%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 40%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 90%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 80%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 70%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 50%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 87%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 80%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 75%
NA President Barack Obama II D 62%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 75%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 50%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 75%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 50%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 77%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 40%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 80%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 80%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 77%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 80%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 40%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 80%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 25%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 50%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 80%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 90%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 80%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 40%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 50%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 80%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 40%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 40%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 90%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 71%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 40%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 80%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 70%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 62%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 60%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 50%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 40%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 40%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 44%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 40%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 44%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 50%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 40%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 33%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 50%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 80%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 70%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 40%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 90%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 90%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 70%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 87%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 62%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 80%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 88%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 50%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 80%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 40%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 30%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 50%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 80%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 80%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 40%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 40%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 80%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 77%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 80%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 62%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 40%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 62%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 80%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 40%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 62%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 87%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 75%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 80%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 70%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 80%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 62%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 80%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 80%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 77%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 77%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 70%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 87%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 80%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 80%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 40%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 80%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 80%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 80%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 70%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 70%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 60%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 80%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 80%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 80%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 80%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 40%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 80%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 80%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 40%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 87%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 80%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 90%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 40%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 80%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 80%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 80%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 66%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 62%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 70%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 90%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 80%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 40%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 77%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 60%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 50%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 40%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 80%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 70%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 40%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 60%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 80%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 90%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 57%
Gary Ackerman Other 40%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 50%
Todd Akin Other 80%
Wayne Allard Other 62%
Thomas Allen Other 40%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 50%
Brian Baird Other 66%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 77%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 87%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 90%
Evan Bayh Other 62%
Melissa Bean Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 66%
Howard Berman Other 40%
Marion Berry Other 80%
Judy Biggert Other 80%
Jeff Bingaman Other 62%
Kit Bond Other 87%
Mary Bono Mack Other 80%
Dan Boren Other 90%
Leonard Boswell Other 70%
Rick Boucher Other 60%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 70%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 80%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 80%
Jim Bunning Other 87%
Dan Burton Other 80%
Steve Buyer Other 80%
Robert Byrd Other 37%
Chris Cannon Other 80%
Dennis Cardoza Other 60%
Russ Carnahan Other 40%
Julia Carson Other 33%
Mike Castle Other 70%
Ben Chandler III Other 80%
Hillary Clinton Other 50%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 62%
Jerry Costello Other 90%
Larry Craig Other 87%
Robert Cramer Other 88%
Barbara Cubin Other 77%
Artur Davis Other 70%
Geoff Davis Other 80%
Jo Ann Davis Other 75%
Lincoln Davis Other 90%
Thomas Davis III Other 70%
Bill Delahunt Other 40%
James DeMint Other 50%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 88%
Norm Dicks Other 40%
Chris Dodd Other 62%
Elizabeth Dole Other 87%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 87%
John Doolittle Other 60%
Byron Dorgan Other 37%
Thelma Drake Other 80%
David Dreier Other 80%
Chet Edwards Other 90%
Vern Ehlers Other 80%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 80%
Philip English Other 80%
John Ensign Other 62%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Terry Everett Other 80%
Tom Feeney Other 77%
Russ Feingold Other 25%
Michael Ferguson Other 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 80%
Barney Frank Other 40%
Elton Gallegly Other 77%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 77%
Paul Gillmor Other 77%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 60%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 80%
Bart Gordon Other 90%
Judd Gregg Other 62%
Jane Harman Other 80%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 80%
Robert Hayes Other 80%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 80%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 60%
Maurice Hinchey Other 40%
David Lee Hobson Other 90%
Pete Hoekstra Other 80%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 60%
Kenny Hulshof Other 80%
Duncan Hunter Other 88%
Kay Hutchison Other 62%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 70%
Daniel Inouye Other 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 40%
William Jefferson Other 60%
Tim Johnson Other 80%
Paul Kanjorski Other 40%
Ric Keller Other 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 50%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 44%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 80%
Herb Kohl Other 62%
Dennis Kucinich Other 50%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 80%
Jon Kyl Other 50%
Ray LaHood Other 87%
Tom Lantos Other 40%
Steve LaTourette Other 80%
Jerry Lewis Other 80%
Ron Lewis Other 80%
Joe Lieberman Other 62%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 80%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 87%
Dick Lugar Other 87%
Dan Lungren Other 80%
Connie Mack IV Other 80%
Don Manzullo Other 80%
Jim Marshall Other 80%
Melquiades Martinez Other 100%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 80%
James McCrery III Other 80%
John McHugh Other 80%
Michael McNulty Other 50%
Martin Meehan Other 40%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 50%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 70%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 40%
Brad Miller Other 40%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 80%
Sue Myrick Other 80%
Ben Nelson Other 87%
Jim Oberstar Other 44%
Dave Obey Other 40%
John Olver Other 40%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Ron Paul Other 60%
Donald Payne Other 44%
John Peterson Other 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 77%
Todd Platts Other 80%
Earl Pomeroy Other 44%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 80%
Deborah Pryce Other 80%
George Radanovich Other 90%
James Ramstad Other 77%
Ralph Regula Other 80%
Denny Rehberg Other 80%
Richard Renzi Other 80%
Silvestre Reyes Other 50%
Thomas Reynolds Other 80%
Mike Ross Other 60%
Steve Rothman Other 60%
Ken Salazar Other 57%
Jim Saxton Other 80%
Jean Schmidt Other 60%
John Shadegg Other 60%
Christopher Shays Other 88%
Ike Skelton Other 60%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Vic Snyder Other 70%
Hilda Solis Other 40%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 40%
Cliff Stearns Other 70%
Ted Stevens Other 87%
Bart Stupak Other 50%
John Sullivan Other 80%
John Sununu Other 42%
Tom Tancredo Other 70%
John Tanner Other 70%
Ellen Tauscher Other 60%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Craig Thomas Other 75%
Todd Tiahrt Other 70%
Ed Towns Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 40%
George Voinovich Other 87%
James Walsh Other 80%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 40%
Anthony Weiner Other 40%
David Weldon Other 80%
Gerald Weller Other 80%
Robert Wexler Other 40%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 40%
David Wu Other 60%
Albert Wynn Other 90%

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