Rating Group: Born Free USA

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 25%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 33%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 75%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 78%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 88%
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 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 33%
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 33%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 83%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 33%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 86%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 33%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 67%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 33%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 89%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 83%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 67%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 88%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 50%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 60%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 67%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 50%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 63%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 40%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 88%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 25%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 89%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 33%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 83%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 33%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 89%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 67%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 86%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 89%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 67%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 60%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 67%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 63%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 25%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 89%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 89%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 50%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 67%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 80%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 89%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 86%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 71%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 71%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 67%
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 25%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 88%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 57%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 89%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 89%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 33%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 50%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 86%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 89%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 89%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
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 88%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 89%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 33%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 86%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 80%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 89%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 89%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 89%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 67%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 88%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 88%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 88%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 33%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 60%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 33%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 80%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 71%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 86%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 71%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 80%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 71%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 33%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 89%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 67%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 75%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 33%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 33%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 33%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 33%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 88%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 75%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 86%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 50%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 25%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 86%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 89%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 60%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 78%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 86%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 89%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 33%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 100%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 67%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 75%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 50%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 75%
Todd Akin Other 50%
Wayne Allard Other 40%
George Allen Other 33%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 89%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 67%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 67%
Bob Bennett Other 33%
Douglas Bereuter Other 25%
Shelley Berkley Other 78%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 0%
Judy Biggert Other 83%
Michael Bilirakis Other 83%
Jeff Bingaman Other 83%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 86%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 0%
John Breaux Other 25%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 50%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 80%
Ben Campbell Other 25%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 86%
Mike Castle Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 86%
Michael Collins Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 75%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 78%
Christopher Cox Other 33%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Philip Crane Other 33%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 75%
James Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 40%
Thomas Davis III Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 33%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Norm Dicks Other 88%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 50%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 80%
David Dreier Other 33%
Jennifer Dunn Other 67%
John Edwards Other 71%
Chet Edwards Other 0%
Vern Ehlers Other 75%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 57%
John Ensign Other 83%
Bob Etheridge Other 33%
Lane Evans Other 78%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 75%
Ernest Fletcher Other 25%
Mark Foley Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 60%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 67%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 25%
Jonas Frost III Other 33%
Elton Gallegly Other 78%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 67%
Jim Gibbons Other 75%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 83%
Paul Gillmor Other 25%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 75%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 60%
Porter Goss Other 50%
Daniel Graham Other 83%
Mark Green Other 71%
James Greenwood Other 88%
Judd Gregg Other 83%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 50%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 33%
Joel Hefley Other 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 33%
Maurice Hinchey Other 88%
David Lee Hobson Other 71%
Pete Hoekstra Other 67%
Thomas Holden Other 67%
Ernest Hollings Other 75%
Darlene Hooley Other 88%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 67%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 50%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 86%
William Jefferson Other 50%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 86%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 0%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Ric Keller Other 25%
Sue Kelly Other 86%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 89%
Mark Kennedy Other 33%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 89%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 83%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 83%
James Kolbe Other 86%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 60%
Ray LaHood Other 60%
Nicholas Lampson Other 67%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 75%
James Leach Other 75%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 86%
Blanche Lincoln Other 50%
John Linder Other 33%
William Lipinski Other 75%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 83%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 86%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 33%
Scott McInnis Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 80%
Martin Meehan Other 89%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 25%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Sue Myrick Other 50%
Ben Nelson Other 60%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 25%
Robert William Ney Other 33%
Don Nickles Other 33%
Anne Northup Other 67%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 25%
Jim Oberstar Other 60%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 86%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 0%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 25%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 60%
Ron Paul Other 33%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 50%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
Deborah Pryce Other 83%
Jack Quinn Other 33%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 40%
Thomas Reynolds Other 33%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 33%
Mike Ross Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 33%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 71%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 0%
Rick Santorum Other 86%
Paul Sarbanes Other 88%
Jim Saxton Other 100%
Edward Schrock Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 86%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 33%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 86%
Ike Skelton Other 0%
Gordon Smith Other 71%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 83%
Vic Snyder Other 60%
Hilda Solis Other 89%
Mark Souder Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 83%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 33%
Ted Strickland Other 67%
Bart Stupak Other 67%
John Sununu Other 80%
John Sweeney Other 67%
Tom Tancredo Other 71%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 25%
Craig Thomas Other 33%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 78%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 75%
James Turner Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 33%
James Walsh Other 67%
Zach Wamp Other 33%
John Warner Other 75%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 25%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 67%
Gerald Weller Other 40%
Robert Wexler Other 89%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 89%
David Wu Other 89%
Albert Wynn Other 89%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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