Rating Group: Family Research Council

2000 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 66%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 50%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 66%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 66%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 66%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 33%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 66%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 66%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 66%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 66%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 66%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 66%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 66%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 66%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 66%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 33%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 66%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 66%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 66%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 66%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 66%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 66%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 66%
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 33%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 66%
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 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 33%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 66%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 33%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 66%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 66%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 33%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
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 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 66%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 66%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 66%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 66%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 50%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 66%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 66%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 66%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 66%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 66%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 66%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 33%
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 66%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 50%
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 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 66%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 33%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 33%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 66%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 66%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 66%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 66%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 50%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 66%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 66%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 33%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 66%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 33%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 66%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 66%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 66%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 33%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 66%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 66%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 66%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 50%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 66%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 66%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 66%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 66%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 50%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 66%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 50%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 66%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 66%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 66%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 66%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 66%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 66%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 66%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 66%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 66%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 66%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 66%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 66%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
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 100%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 50%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 66%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 50%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 66%
Richard Armey Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 66%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
John Baldacci Other 66%
Cass Ballenger Other 100%
James Barcia Other 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 66%
Douglas Bereuter Other 66%
Shelley Berkley Other 66%
Howard Berman Other 66%
Marion Berry Other 100%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 50%
Rod Blagojevich Other 66%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 66%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 66%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100%
John Breaux Other 50%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 50%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 33%
Mike Castle Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 66%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 50%
Robert Clement Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 100%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 50%
John Cooksey Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
William Coyne Other 66%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Philip Crane Other 66%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 50%
James Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 66%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 66%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 66%
Chris Dodd Other 50%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 66%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 100%
Jennifer Dunn Other 100%
John Edwards Other 50%
Chet Edwards Other 33%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 66%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 50%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 100%
Ernest Fletcher Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 33%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 66%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
John Ganske Other 66%
George Gekas Other 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 66%
Benjamin Gilman Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 33%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 66%
Porter Goss Other 100%
Daniel Graham Other 50%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Mark Green Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 66%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Tony Hall Other 66%
James Hansen Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 33%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Jesse Helms Other 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 100%
Van Hilleary Other 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 66%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 66%
Stephen Horn Other 66%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 66%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 50%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 33%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 50%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 66%
Christopher John Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 50%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 33%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 66%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 66%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Nicholas Lampson Other 66%
Tom Lantos Other 66%
Stephen Largent Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 50%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 50%
William Luther Other 66%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 66%
Karen McCarthy Other 66%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 100%
Scott McInnis Other 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 66%
Carrie Meek Other 66%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 66%
Dan Miller Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 66%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 66%
Constance Morella Other 33%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 66%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 66%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Doug Ose Other 100%
Major Owens Other 66%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 66%
Donald Payne Other 66%
John Peterson Other 100%
David Phelps Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
Jack Quinn Other 66%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Bob Riley Other 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 66%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 66%
Timothy Roemer Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 66%
Marge Roukema Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 66%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 66%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 50%
Jim Saxton Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Ronnie Shows Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 100%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Nick Smith Other 66%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 66%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 33%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 100%
Ellen Tauscher Other 66%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 100%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Fred Thompson Other 100%
Karen Thurman Other 66%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 50%
Ed Towns Other 66%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 33%
James Turner Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 50%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 100%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 66%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 50%
Robert Wexler Other 66%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 66%
David Wu Other 66%
Albert Wynn Other 66%

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