Rating Group: National Association of Manufacturers

2007-2008 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 65%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 92%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 83%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 90%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 75%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 79%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 95%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 23%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 95%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 75%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 15%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 20%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 23%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 17%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 30%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 25%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 20%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 15%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 23%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 15%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 29%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 25%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 25%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 30%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 25%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 30%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 84%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 95%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 30%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 95%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 25%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 15%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 15%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 30%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 20%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 15%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 80%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 15%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 15%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 84%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 11%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 85%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 90%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 25%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 20%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 32%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 85%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 25%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 25%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 20%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 22%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 15%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 20%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 23%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 15%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 74%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 94%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 25%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 89%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 90%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 80%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 20%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 70%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 20%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 25%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 79%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 65%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 89%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 75%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 21%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 80%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 15%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 25%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 90%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 85%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 95%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 40%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 25%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 90%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 25%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 85%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 15%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 21%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 21%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 95%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 84%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 83%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 95%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 23%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 47%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 21%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 15%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 16%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 95%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 20%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 20%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 38%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 90%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 20%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 38%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 85%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 85%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 85%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 91%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 85%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 20%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 62%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 92%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 86%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 95%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 25%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 20%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 23%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 20%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 20%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 20%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 23%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 23%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 25%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 20%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 50%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 25%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 20%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 25%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 38%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 15%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 23%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 8%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 85%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 95%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 26%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 79%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 30%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 15%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 15%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 15%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 95%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 25%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 20%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 90%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 15%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 15%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 95%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 17%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 25%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 95%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 92%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 86%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 20%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 23%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 8%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 23%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 26%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 30%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 75%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 20%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 85%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 30%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 70%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 95%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 15%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 23%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 23%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 26%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 40%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 30%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 84%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 32%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 30%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 75%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 30%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 22%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 90%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 23%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 26%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 85%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 25%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 25%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 30%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 20%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 25%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 20%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 28%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 26%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 25%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 21%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 25%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 16%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 31%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 85%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 90%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 95%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 16%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 95%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 95%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 20%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 92%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 95%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 23%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 95%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 15%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 15%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 20%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 25%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 74%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 25%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 80%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 95%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 70%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 15%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 15%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 20%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 95%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 30%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 85%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 92%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 75%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 35%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 95%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 20%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 94%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 76%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 88%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 95%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 79%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 95%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 85%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 89%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 25%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 95%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 90%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 83%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 90%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 37%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 20%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 79%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 90%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 90%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 89%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 40%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 32%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 32%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 90%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 16%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 83%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 47%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 90%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 15%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 90%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 85%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 95%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 25%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 85%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 15%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 8%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 21%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 31%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 23%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 25%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 84%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 85%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 15%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 55%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 30%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 22%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 20%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 80%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 30%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 16%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 70%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 60%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 23%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 20%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 92%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 89%
Gary Ackerman Other 26%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 23%
Todd Akin Other 90%
Jason Altmire Other 15%
Michael Arcuri Other 20%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 20%
Brian Baird Other 21%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 95%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 75%
Evan Bayh Other 31%
Melissa Bean Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 25%
Howard Berman Other 25%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 85%
Brian Bilbray Other 85%
Jeff Bingaman Other 31%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 79%
Dan Boren Other 74%
Leonard Boswell Other 26%
Rick Boucher Other 15%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 42%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 95%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 88%
Jim Bunning Other 85%
Dan Burton Other 85%
Steve Buyer Other 82%
Robert Byrd Other 27%
Dennis Cardoza Other 22%
Russ Carnahan Other 20%
Christopher Carney Other 15%
Mike Castle Other 45%
Ben Chandler III Other 15%
Travis Childers Other 33%
Kent Conrad Other 33%
Jerry Costello Other 15%
Artur Davis Other 25%
Geoff Davis Other 95%
Lincoln Davis Other 25%
Bill Delahunt Other 15%
James DeMint Other 91%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 80%
Norm Dicks Other 21%
Chris Dodd Other 8%
Byron Dorgan Other 15%
David Dreier Other 95%
Chet Edwards Other 35%
Vern Ehlers Other 74%
Brad Ellsworth Other 35%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 80%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 30%
Russ Feingold Other 8%
Barney Frank Other 26%
Elton Gallegly Other 85%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 21%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 32%
Bart Gordon Other 30%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
John Hall Other 20%
Phil Hare Other 16%
Jane Harman Other 25%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 95%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 25%
Baron Hill Other 30%
Maurice Hinchey Other 15%
Paul Hodes Other 15%
Pete Hoekstra Other 95%
Thomas Holden Other 20%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 85%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 20%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Steve Kagen Other 15%
Paul Kanjorski Other 25%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 22%
Patrick Kennedy Other 21%
Dale Kildee Other 20%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 21%
Ron Klein Other 32%
Herb Kohl Other 23%
Dennis Kucinich Other 5%
Jon Kyl Other 83%
Steve LaTourette Other 60%
Jerry Lewis Other 90%
Joe Lieberman Other 31%
Blanche Lincoln Other 23%
John Linder Other 85%
Dick Lugar Other 92%
Dan Lungren Other 94%
Connie Mack IV Other 79%
Don Manzullo Other 80%
Jim Marshall Other 45%
Melquiades Martinez Other 83%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 90%
John McHugh Other 72%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 32%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 50%
Brad Miller Other 20%
Harry Mitchell Other 30%
Alan Mollohan Other 25%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Patrick Murphy Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 30%
Sue Myrick Other 94%
Ben Nelson Other 31%
Jim Oberstar Other 21%
Dave Obey Other 20%
John Olver Other 20%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 29%
Ron Paul Other 56%
Donald Payne Other 17%
Todd Platts Other 65%
Earl Pomeroy Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 89%
Denny Rehberg Other 90%
Silvestre Reyes Other 28%
Laura Richardson Other 23%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 25%
Mike Ross Other 30%
Steve Rothman Other 26%
Jean Schmidt Other 100%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 30%
John Shadegg Other 84%
Heath Shuler Other 21%
Ike Skelton Other 32%
Olympia Snowe Other 38%
Vic Snyder Other 26%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Zack Space Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 58%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 20%
Pete Stark Other 15%
Cliff Stearns Other 80%
Bart Stupak Other 15%
John Sullivan Other 90%
Betty Sutton Other 20%
John Tanner Other 42%
Ellen Tauscher Other 25%
Gene Taylor Other 30%
Todd Tiahrt Other 90%
Ed Towns Other 20%
George Voinovich Other 85%
Zach Wamp Other 84%
Diane Watson Other 21%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 23%
Anthony Weiner Other 25%
Robert Wexler Other 21%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 21%
Lynn Woolsey Other 22%
David Wu Other 15%

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