Rating Group: Center for Security Policy

2005-2006 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 68%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 85%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 76%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 96%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 92%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 93%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 36%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 59%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 81%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 11%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 4%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 32%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 21%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 15%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 17%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 7%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 23%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 67%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 16%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 30%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 12%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 15%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 89%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 12%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 92%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 46%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 38%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 22%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 21%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 19%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 22%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 89%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 12%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 91%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 42%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 96%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 88%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 44%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 15%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 48%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 22%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 67%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 26%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 22%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 28%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 56%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 88%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 93%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 88%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 24%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 24%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 78%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 85%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 85%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 92%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 92%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 96%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 73%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 96%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 7%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 89%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 96%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 100%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 67%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 19%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 84%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 8%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 89%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 96%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 84%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 89%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 17%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 93%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 17%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 63%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 9%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 15%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 12%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 93%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 35%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 30%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 84%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 80%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 76%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 84%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 96%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 96%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 38%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 88%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 89%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 96%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 19%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 11%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 11%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 19%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 19%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 30%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 22%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 42%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 56%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 54%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 16%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 23%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 60%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 19%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 20%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 28%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 89%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 85%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 96%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 26%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 20%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 7%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 81%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 19%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 74%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 96%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 15%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 27%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 71%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 96%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 38%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 26%
NA President Barack Obama II D 21%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 21%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 25%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 88%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 58%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 76%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 15%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 89%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 76%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 7%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 96%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 17%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 9%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 48%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 93%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 85%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 84%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 15%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 19%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 93%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 7%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 12%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 88%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 28%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 33%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 52%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 56%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 60%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 19%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 11%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 15%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 19%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 15%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 19%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 11%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 38%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 31%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 16%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 56%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 19%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 96%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 88%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 25%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 93%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 96%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 48%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 96%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 92%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 93%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 96%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 20%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 8%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 42%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 28%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 26%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 96%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 41%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 30%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 93%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 16%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 52%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 75%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 93%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 44%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 28%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 84%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 79%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 70%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 74%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 96%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 96%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 93%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 96%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 96%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 93%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 89%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 92%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 22%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 96%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 96%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 92%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 81%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 45%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 15%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 96%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 88%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 96%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 93%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 69%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 57%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 24%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 88%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 88%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 22%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 80%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 88%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 85%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 15%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 96%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 96%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 26%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 96%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 8%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 15%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 20%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 24%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 42%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 92%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 96%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 4%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 80%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 37%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 22%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 7%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 89%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 52%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 12%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 92%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 81%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 19%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 96%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 11%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 75%
Gary Ackerman Other 26%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 12%
Todd Akin Other 96%
Wayne Allard Other 96%
Thomas Allen Other 19%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 35%
Brian Baird Other 36%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 96%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 71%
Evan Bayh Other 44%
Melissa Bean Other 70%
Bob Bennett Other 72%
Shelley Berkley Other 48%
Howard Berman Other 44%
Marion Berry Other 52%
Judy Biggert Other 85%
Brian Bilbray Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 24%
Kit Bond Other 80%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Dan Boren Other 85%
Leonard Boswell Other 59%
Rick Boucher Other 48%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 70%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 89%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 91%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 89%
Robert Byrd Other 28%
Chris Cannon Other 85%
Dennis Cardoza Other 68%
Russ Carnahan Other 48%
Julia Carson Other 17%
Mike Castle Other 81%
Ben Chandler III Other 73%
Hillary Clinton Other 32%
Norm Coleman Other 64%
Kent Conrad Other 36%
Jerry Costello Other 48%
Larry Craig Other 71%
Robert Cramer Other 81%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 73%
Geoff Davis Other 96%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Lincoln Davis Other 88%
Thomas Davis III Other 92%
Bill Delahunt Other 15%
James DeMint Other 92%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 81%
Norm Dicks Other 54%
Chris Dodd Other 25%
Elizabeth Dole Other 92%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 76%
John Doolittle Other 96%
Byron Dorgan Other 32%
Thelma Drake Other 100%
David Dreier Other 85%
Chet Edwards Other 78%
Vern Ehlers Other 65%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 93%
John Ensign Other 92%
Bob Etheridge Other 56%
Terry Everett Other 92%
Tom Feeney Other 92%
Russ Feingold Other 8%
Michael Ferguson Other 96%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 93%
Barney Frank Other 15%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 78%
Paul Gillmor Other 96%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 44%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 89%
Bart Gordon Other 74%
Judd Gregg Other 72%
Jane Harman Other 48%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 96%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 65%
Maurice Hinchey Other 12%
David Lee Hobson Other 89%
Pete Hoekstra Other 93%
Thomas Holden Other 63%
Darlene Hooley Other 36%
Kenny Hulshof Other 93%
Duncan Hunter Other 92%
Kay Hutchison Other 84%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 89%
Daniel Inouye Other 17%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 7%
William Jefferson Other 32%
Tim Johnson Other 88%
Paul Kanjorski Other 46%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 13%
Patrick Kennedy Other 46%
Dale Kildee Other 30%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 4%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 93%
Herb Kohl Other 24%
Dennis Kucinich Other 11%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 96%
Jon Kyl Other 88%
Ray LaHood Other 80%
Tom Lantos Other 44%
Steve LaTourette Other 89%
Jerry Lewis Other 84%
Ron Lewis Other 96%
Joe Lieberman Other 50%
Blanche Lincoln Other 28%
John Linder Other 96%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 83%
Dick Lugar Other 60%
Dan Lungren Other 100%
Connie Mack IV Other 89%
Don Manzullo Other 88%
Jim Marshall Other 84%
Melquiades Martinez Other 76%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 89%
John McHugh Other 92%
Michael McNulty Other 23%
Martin Meehan Other 12%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 46%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 78%
Brad Miller Other 38%
Alan Mollohan Other 41%
Dennis Moore Other 59%
Jack Murtha Other 48%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 76%
Jim Oberstar Other 8%
Dave Obey Other 8%
John Olver Other 15%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 54%
Ron Paul Other 31%
Donald Payne Other 8%
John Peterson Other 96%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 63%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 96%
Deborah Pryce Other 93%
George Radanovich Other 93%
James Ramstad Other 96%
Ralph Regula Other 89%
Denny Rehberg Other 89%
Richard Renzi Other 96%
Silvestre Reyes Other 57%
Thomas Reynolds Other 89%
Mike Ross Other 69%
Steve Rothman Other 19%
Ken Salazar Other 42%
Jim Saxton Other 89%
Jean Schmidt Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 96%
Christopher Shays Other 69%
Ike Skelton Other 69%
Gordon Smith Other 64%
Olympia Snowe Other 52%
Vic Snyder Other 44%
Hilda Solis Other 11%
Mark Souder Other 96%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 80%
Pete Stark Other 4%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 71%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sullivan Other 96%
John Sununu Other 71%
Tom Tancredo Other 96%
John Tanner Other 77%
Ellen Tauscher Other 31%
Gene Taylor Other 80%
Todd Tiahrt Other 89%
Ed Towns Other 28%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 19%
George Voinovich Other 56%
James Walsh Other 79%
Zach Wamp Other 93%
John Warner Other 76%
Diane Watson Other 12%
Anthony Weiner Other 23%
David Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 89%
Robert Wexler Other 20%
Heather Wilson Other 73%
Lynn Woolsey Other 8%
David Wu Other 22%
Albert Wynn Other 33%

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