Rating Group: Center for Security Policy

1998-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 96%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 92%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 84%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 95%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 75%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 16%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 85%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 73%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 25%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 24%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 36%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 24%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 27%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 20%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 20%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 12%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 32%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 88%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 55%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 40%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 90%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 25%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 40%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 12%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 96%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 20%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 84%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 12%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 52%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 82%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 45%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 25%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 5%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 8%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 28%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 30%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 35%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 36%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 33%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 91%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 32%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 84%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 96%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 24%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 78%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 82%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 72%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 36%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 92%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 85%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 96%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 36%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 72%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 75%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 15%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 75%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 81%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 73%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 24%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 48%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 24%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 10%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 72%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 15%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 91%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 56%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 82%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 80%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 68%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 80%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 72%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 85%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 85%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 45%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 83%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 16%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 8%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 32%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 24%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 20%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 38%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 56%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 24%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 44%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 75%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 72%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 64%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 91%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 36%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 44%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 8%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 15%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 22%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 27%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 52%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 11%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 56%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 82%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 92%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 24%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 92%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 35%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 20%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 65%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 25%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 92%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 36%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 84%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 92%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 12%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 96%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 75%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 72%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 88%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 92%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 60%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 76%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 88%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 60%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 30%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 35%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 92%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 82%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 52%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 32%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 28%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 28%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 44%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 20%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 55%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 24%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 68%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 40%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 40%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 38%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 88%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 76%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 48%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 82%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 28%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 88%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 90%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 84%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 85%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 8%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 36%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 15%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 39%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 12%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 90%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 44%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 88%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 75%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 35%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 55%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 10%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 31%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 86%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 36%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 96%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 25%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 76%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 92%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 76%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 96%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 84%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 88%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 80%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 32%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 24%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 88%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 72%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 20%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 80%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 12%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 73%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 85%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 24%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 90%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 80%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 91%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 32%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 10%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 32%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 36%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 88%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 12%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 48%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 15%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 30%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 60%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 40%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 84%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 64%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 10%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 91%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 24%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 25%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 80%
Gary Ackerman Other 44%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 35%
Todd Akin Other 82%
Wayne Allard Other 85%
George Allen Other 89%
Thomas Allen Other 28%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 56%
Brian Baird Other 25%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 88%
Cass Ballenger Other 96%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 96%
Charlie Bass Other 80%
Evan Bayh Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 80%
Douglas Bereuter Other 64%
Shelley Berkley Other 65%
Howard Berman Other 44%
Marion Berry Other 56%
Judy Biggert Other 60%
Michael Bilirakis Other 88%
Jeff Bingaman Other 15%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 60%
Kit Bond Other 70%
Henry Bonilla Other 92%
Mary Bono Mack Other 76%
Leonard Boswell Other 64%
Rick Boucher Other 32%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 64%
John Breaux Other 40%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 91%
Jim Bunning Other 94%
Conrad Burns Other 80%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 84%
Robert Byrd Other 35%
Ben Campbell Other 70%
Chris Cannon Other 84%
Brad Carson Other 73%
Julia Carson Other 32%
Mike Castle Other 72%
Hillary Clinton Other 56%
Michael Collins Other 92%
Larry Combest Other 72%
Kent Conrad Other 30%
Jon Corzine Other 33%
Jerry Costello Other 52%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 85%
Robert Cramer Other 68%
Philip Crane Other 80%
Barbara Cubin Other 88%
Randall Cunningham Other 92%
Thomas Daschle Other 25%
James Davis Other 60%
Jo Ann Davis Other 91%
Thomas Davis III Other 88%
Bill Delahunt Other 36%
Thomas DeLay Other 88%
James DeMint Other 85%
Peter Deutsch Other 72%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 36%
Chris Dodd Other 20%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 80%
Calvin Dooley Other 32%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 20%
David Dreier Other 80%
Jennifer Dunn Other 84%
John Edwards Other 50%
Chet Edwards Other 60%
Vern Ehlers Other 44%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 84%
Philip English Other 64%
John Ensign Other 78%
Bob Etheridge Other 64%
Lane Evans Other 28%
Terry Everett Other 92%
Russ Feingold Other 25%
Michael Ferguson Other 91%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 69%
Ernest Fletcher Other 80%
Mark Foley Other 80%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 44%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 88%
Barney Frank Other 40%
William Frist Other 90%
Jonas Frost III Other 60%
Elton Gallegly Other 88%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 76%
Jim Gibbons Other 96%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 72%
Paul Gillmor Other 76%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 48%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 84%
Bart Gordon Other 64%
Porter Goss Other 84%
Daniel Graham Other 40%
Mark Green Other 90%
James Greenwood Other 68%
Judd Gregg Other 95%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 76%
Jane Harman Other 64%
Melissa Hart Other 91%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 92%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 96%
Joel Hefley Other 92%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 72%
Baron Hill Other 35%
Maurice Hinchey Other 16%
David Lee Hobson Other 96%
Pete Hoekstra Other 76%
Thomas Holden Other 64%
Ernest Hollings Other 65%
Darlene Hooley Other 32%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 76%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 60%
Kenny Hulshof Other 72%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 90%
Henry Hyde Other 92%
Daniel Inouye Other 30%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 84%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 24%
William Jefferson Other 32%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 25%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 92%
Christopher John Other 60%
Nancy Johnson Other 52%
Tim Johnson Other 82%
Paul Kanjorski Other 40%
Ric Keller Other 91%
Sue Kelly Other 76%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 10%
Mark Kennedy Other 91%
Patrick Kennedy Other 72%
Dale Kildee Other 64%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 16%
Gerald Kleczka Other 20%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 88%
Herb Kohl Other 35%
James Kolbe Other 60%
Dennis Kucinich Other 36%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 60%
Nicholas Lampson Other 36%
Tom Lantos Other 52%
Steve LaTourette Other 64%
James Leach Other 40%
Jerry Lewis Other 84%
Ron Lewis Other 84%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
Blanche Lincoln Other 38%
John Linder Other 72%
William Lipinski Other 84%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 95%
Dick Lugar Other 65%
Don Manzullo Other 68%
Robert Matsui Other 16%
Karen McCarthy Other 32%
James McCrery III Other 84%
John McHugh Other 80%
Scott McInnis Other 84%
Michael McNulty Other 56%
Martin Meehan Other 32%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 28%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 70%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 55%
Jack Murtha Other 60%
Sue Myrick Other 88%
Ben Nelson Other 56%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 84%
Robert William Ney Other 80%
Don Nickles Other 85%
Anne Northup Other 88%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 92%
James Nussle Other 60%
Jim Oberstar Other 16%
Dave Obey Other 28%
John Olver Other 16%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 68%
Thomas William Osborne Other 73%
Doug Ose Other 75%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 72%
Ron Paul Other 40%
Donald Payne Other 24%
John Peterson Other 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 92%
Todd Platts Other 91%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 48%
Deborah Pryce Other 84%
Jack Quinn Other 80%
George Radanovich Other 80%
James Ramstad Other 64%
Ralph Regula Other 80%
Denny Rehberg Other 82%
Silvestre Reyes Other 60%
Thomas Reynolds Other 90%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 28%
Mike Ross Other 82%
Steve Rothman Other 68%
Jim Ryun Other 84%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 12%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 52%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 15%
Jim Saxton Other 80%
Edward Schrock Other 91%
John Shadegg Other 88%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 88%
Christopher Shays Other 60%
Donald Sherwood Other 70%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 73%
Ike Skelton Other 52%
Gordon Smith Other 70%
Nick Smith Other 68%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 44%
Hilda Solis Other 9%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 75%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 68%
Pete Stark Other 32%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 72%
Ted Stevens Other 80%
Ted Strickland Other 48%
Bart Stupak Other 48%
John Sullivan Other 71%
John Sununu Other 84%
John Sweeney Other 85%
Tom Tancredo Other 95%
John Tanner Other 64%
Ellen Tauscher Other 40%
William Tauzin Other 88%
Charles Taylor Other 96%
Gene Taylor Other 84%
Craig Thomas Other 75%
William Thomas Other 76%
Todd Tiahrt Other 88%
Ed Towns Other 32%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 25%
James Turner Other 68%
George Voinovich Other 75%
James Walsh Other 72%
Zach Wamp Other 84%
John Warner Other 70%
Diane Watson Other 40%
Anthony Weiner Other 25%
David Weldon Other 96%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 84%
Gerald Weller Other 80%
Robert Wexler Other 56%
Heather Wilson Other 77%
Lynn Woolsey Other 28%
David Wu Other 45%
Albert Wynn Other 32%

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