Rating Group: American Security Council Foundation

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 89%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 20%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 80%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 10%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 10%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 20%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 11%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 10%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 20%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 10%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 10%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 50%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 11%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 10%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 10%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 30%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 40%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 10%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 40%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 30%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 10%
DC U.S. House-Delegate Eleanor Norton D 0%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 50%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 90%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 89%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 70%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
GU U.S. House-Delegate Madeleine Bordallo D 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 90%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 90%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 20%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 90%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 10%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 40%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 90%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 90%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 40%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 90%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 22%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 30%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 50%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 67%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 50%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 10%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 20%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 40%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 20%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 20%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 90%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 30%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 50%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 10%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 90%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 22%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 22%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 30%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 29%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 78%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 40%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 80%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 90%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 10%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 40%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 60%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 90%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 11%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 44%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 10%
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 10%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 10%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 60%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 60%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 60%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 10%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 10%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 25%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 40%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 67%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 14%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 63%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 30%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 80%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 10%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 60%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 20%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 40%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 20%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 60%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 60%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 20%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 70%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 50%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 90%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 50%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 10%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 90%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 60%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 11%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 22%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 10%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 40%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VI U.S. House-Delegate Donna Christensen D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 10%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 20%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 20%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 30%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 40%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 60%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 90%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 90%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 20%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 40%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 10%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 20%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 30%
Brian Baird Other 30%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 70%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 20%
Howard Berman Other 20%
Marion Berry Other 40%
Judy Biggert Other 90%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 20%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 86%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 90%
Rick Boucher Other 60%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 80%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Chris Cannon Other 90%
Dennis Cardoza Other 60%
Julia Carson Other 25%
Edward Case Other 60%
Mike Castle Other 100%
Ben Chandler III Other 63%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 20%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 40%
Jon Corzine Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 70%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 89%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 90%
Artur Davis Other 67%
James Davis Other 44%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 90%
Thomas Davis III Other 90%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 89%
Norm Dicks Other 40%
Chris Dodd Other 30%
Elizabeth Dole Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 30%
David Dreier Other 80%
Chet Edwards Other 90%
Vern Ehlers Other 56%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 60%
Lane Evans Other 50%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 38%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 90%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 40%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 70%
Mark Green Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 40%
Katherine Harris Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 90%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 90%
Thomas Holden Other 70%
Darlene Hooley Other 60%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 90%
Daniel Inouye Other 44%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 10%
William Jefferson Other 33%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 0%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 89%
Tim Johnson Other 80%
Paul Kanjorski Other 40%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Dale Kildee Other 30%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 20%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 90%
Herb Kohl Other 33%
James Kolbe Other 80%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 90%
Tom Lantos Other 22%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
James Leach Other 88%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
Blanche Lincoln Other 30%
John Linder Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 90%
Jim Marshall Other 100%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 60%
Martin Meehan Other 22%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Brad Miller Other 60%
Alan Mollohan Other 22%
Dennis Moore Other 70%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 11%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 71%
Thomas William Osborne Other 100%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 29%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 90%
Earl Pomeroy Other 90%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 56%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 60%
Steve Rothman Other 40%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 20%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 89%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 80%
Ike Skelton Other 80%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 90%
Vic Snyder Other 60%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 89%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 70%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 20%
Bart Stupak Other 30%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 100%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 67%
Ellen Tauscher Other 40%
Charles Taylor Other 89%
Gene Taylor Other 70%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 29%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 89%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 20%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 90%
Robert Wexler Other 40%
Heather Wilson Other 70%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 70%
Albert Wynn Other 20%

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