Rating Group: The Humane Society of the United States

2007 Positions on Animal Protection

Issues: Animals and Wildlife
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 25
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 0
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 17
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 34
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 17
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 25
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 34
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 25
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100+
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 67
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 34
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100+
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 83
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100+
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 83
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 17
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 83
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-22 Devin Nunes R 17
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 17
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 34
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 17
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 67
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 67
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 34
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 83
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 67
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 67
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 100
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 17
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 34
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 83
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 67
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 83
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 34
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 17
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 67
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 100
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100+
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 25
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 50
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 17
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 67
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 67
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 34
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 50
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 67
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 50
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 67
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 67
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 83
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 34
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 67
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 17
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 25
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 17
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 17
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 67
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 17
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 17
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 17
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 67
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 34
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 100
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 83
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 75
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 67
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 67
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 17
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 17
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 100
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 34
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 100
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 83
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 50
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100+
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 50
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 83
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 34
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 50
IN Governor Mike Pence R 17
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 25
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 17
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 83
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 50
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 75
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 17
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 17
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 83
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 83
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 75
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 50
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 83
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 83
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 50
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100+
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100+
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 67
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100+
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 75
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 17
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 67
MI U.S. House-7 Tim Walberg R 17
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 67
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 83
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 17
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 17
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100+
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 25
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 50
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 34
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 83
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 17
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 17
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 75
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 83
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 100
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 50
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 17
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 0
NA President Barack Obama II D 75
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 75
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 25
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100+
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 25
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 50
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 83
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 17
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 17
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 34
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 17
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 50
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 17
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 17
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 0
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 100
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100+
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 83
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100+
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100+
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 17
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100+
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 100
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 83
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 83
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 50
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 17
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 34
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 75
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 67
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 83
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100+
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 34
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 83
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 83
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 67
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 83
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 83
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100+
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 83
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 83
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100+
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 67
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 17
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 34
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 34
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 83
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 17
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 17
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 75
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 17
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100+
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100+
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 50
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 83
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 83
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 83
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100+
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 34
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 67
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 34
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100+
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 75
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 25
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 83
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 34
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 50
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 0
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 34
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 50
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 17
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 100+
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 0
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 0
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 34
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 17
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 83
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 17
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 17
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 17
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 17
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 83
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 17
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 34
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 34
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 17
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 67
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 17
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 17
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 67
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 17
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 17
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 50
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 34
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 17
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 67
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 75
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 75
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 83
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 25
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100+
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 50
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 17
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 17
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 83
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 83
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 67
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100+
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 17
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 17
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 100
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 17
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 25
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 34
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0
Gary Ackerman Other 100+
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100
Todd Akin Other 17
Wayne Allard Other 50
Thomas Allen Other 83
Jason Altmire Other 67
Michael Arcuri Other 100
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 34
Brian Baird Other 67
J. Gresham Barrett Other 50
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100
Evan Bayh Other 75
Melissa Bean Other 67
Bob Bennett Other 50
Shelley Berkley Other 100
Howard Berman Other 100
Marion Berry Other 34
Judy Biggert Other 100
Brian Bilbray Other 50
Jeff Bingaman Other 25
Kit Bond Other 0
Mary Bono Mack Other 100
Dan Boren Other 0
Leonard Boswell Other 17
Rick Boucher Other 83
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 17
Nancy Boyda Other 34
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 50
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 17
Jim Bunning Other 0
Dan Burton Other 67
Steve Buyer Other 17
Robert Byrd Other 75
Chris Cannon Other 0
Dennis Cardoza Other 0
Russ Carnahan Other 67
Christopher Carney Other 34
Mike Castle Other 100
Ben Chandler III Other 83
Hillary Clinton Other 75
Norm Coleman Other 50
Kent Conrad Other 25
Jerry Costello Other 34
Larry Craig Other 0
Robert Cramer Other 17
Barbara Cubin Other 34
Artur Davis Other 34
David Davis Other 0
Geoff Davis Other 50
Lincoln Davis Other 34
Thomas Davis III Other 67
Bill Delahunt Other 83
James DeMint Other 0
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67
Norm Dicks Other 100
Chris Dodd Other 100
Elizabeth Dole Other 75
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0
John Doolittle Other 0
Byron Dorgan Other 0
Thelma Drake Other 17
David Dreier Other 34
Chet Edwards Other 34
Vern Ehlers Other 67
Brad Ellsworth Other 17
Jo Ann Emerson Other 17
Philip English Other 67
John Ensign Other 100
Bob Etheridge Other 50
Terry Everett Other 50
Tom Feeney Other 0
Russ Feingold Other 75
Michael Ferguson Other 100+
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 34
Barney Frank Other 83
Elton Gallegly Other 100
Gabrielle Giffords Other 67
Wayne Gilchrest Other 67
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 34
Bart Gordon Other 50
Judd Gregg Other 25
John Hall Other 100
Phil Hare Other 83
Jane Harman Other 67
Robert Hayes Other 17
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 17
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 50
Baron Hill Other 50
Maurice Hinchey Other 100+
David Lee Hobson Other 34
Paul Hodes Other 83
Pete Hoekstra Other 17
Thomas Holden Other 34
Darlene Hooley Other 83
Kenny Hulshof Other 17
Duncan Hunter Other 17
Kay Hutchison Other 0
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 34
Daniel Inouye Other 25
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 83
William Jefferson Other 50
Tim Johnson Other 34
Steve Kagen Other 34
Paul Kanjorski Other 17
Ric Keller Other 50
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100
Patrick Kennedy Other 100
Dale Kildee Other 100
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 67
Ron Klein Other 83
Joseph Knollenberg Other 17
Herb Kohl Other 75
Dennis Kucinich Other 100
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 34
Jon Kyl Other 25
Ray LaHood Other 17
Nicholas Lampson Other 0
Steve LaTourette Other 83
Jerry Lewis Other 34
Ron Lewis Other 0
Joe Lieberman Other 75
Blanche Lincoln Other 0
John Linder Other 50
Dick Lugar Other 50
Dan Lungren Other 17
Connie Mack IV Other 0
Tim Mahoney Other 17
Don Manzullo Other 17
Jim Marshall Other 17
Melquiades Martinez Other 0
Thaddeus McCotter Other 83
James McCrery III Other 34
John McHugh Other 50
Michael McNulty Other 83
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 34
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 34
Brad Miller Other 100
Harry Mitchell Other 100
Alan Mollohan Other 50
Dennis Moore Other 83
Patrick Murphy Other 83
Jack Murtha Other 67
Marilyn Musgrave Other 17
Sue Myrick Other 50
Ben Nelson Other 0
Jim Oberstar Other 34
Dave Obey Other 50
John Olver Other 100
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 34
Ron Paul Other 0
Donald Payne Other 67
John Peterson Other 0
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 17
Todd Platts Other 100
Earl Pomeroy Other 17
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 67
Deborah Pryce Other 67
George Radanovich Other 17
James Ramstad Other 83
Ralph Regula Other 17
Denny Rehberg Other 17
Richard Renzi Other 17
Silvestre Reyes Other 50
Thomas Reynolds Other 34
Ciro Rodriguez Other 34
Mike Ross Other 50
Steve Rothman Other 83
Ken Salazar Other 25
William Sali Other 0
Jim Saxton Other 67
Jean Schmidt Other 34
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 67
John Shadegg Other 17
Christopher Shays Other 100+
Heath Shuler Other 50
Ike Skelton Other 34
Gordon Smith Other 25
Olympia Snowe Other 100
Vic Snyder Other 67
Hilda Solis Other 67
Mark Souder Other 0
Zack Space Other 17
Arlen Specter Other 100
John Spratt, Jr. Other 67
Pete Stark Other 100
Cliff Stearns Other 0
Ted Stevens Other 50
Bart Stupak Other 34
John Sullivan Other 0
John Sununu Other 0
Betty Sutton Other 100+
Tom Tancredo Other 34
John Tanner Other 34
Ellen Tauscher Other 100
Gene Taylor Other 50
Todd Tiahrt Other 17
Ed Towns Other 83
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 67
George Voinovich Other 0
James Walsh Other 17
Zach Wamp Other 17
John Warner Other 50
Diane Watson Other 67
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 0
Anthony Weiner Other 100
David Weldon Other 17
Gerald Weller Other 67
Robert Wexler Other 83
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 50
Heather Wilson Other 34
Lynn Woolsey Other 83
David Wu Other 83
Albert Wynn Other 100

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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