Rating Group: Americans for Tax Reform

2001 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 90%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 95%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 90%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 55%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 95%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 5%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 5%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 15%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
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 5%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 5%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 10%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 15%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 20%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 10%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 5%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 5%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 5%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 95%
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 15%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 95%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 90%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 20%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 5%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 5%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 5%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 95%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 10%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 5%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 15%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 15%
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 10%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 90%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 5%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 95%
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 95%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 40%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 95%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 95%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 90%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 95%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 95%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 85%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 5%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 5%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 5%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 95%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 10%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 95%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 95%
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 80%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 85%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 15%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 5%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 5%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 5%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 5%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 55%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 95%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 95%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 5%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 10%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 5%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 25%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 95%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 10%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 95%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 5%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 15%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 5%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 95%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 5%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 90%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 90%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 5%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 90%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 40%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 5%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 30%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 70%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 70%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 10%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 5%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 90%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 15%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 10%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 15%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 85%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 20%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 30%
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 5%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 10%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 5%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 5%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 5%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 5%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
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 5%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 75%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 95%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 95%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 15%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 95%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 0%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 10%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 92%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 5%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 5%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 30%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 90%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 15%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 95%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 85%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 95%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 90%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 95%
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 95%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 10%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 20%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 15%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 5%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 25%
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 20%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 85%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 15%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 5%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 20%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 5%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 35%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 5%
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 10%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 95%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 95%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 10%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 5%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 85%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 85%
Gary Ackerman Other 5%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 10%
Todd Akin Other 95%
Wayne Allard Other 95%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 10%
Richard Armey Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 10%
Brian Baird Other 20%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
John Baldacci Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 100%
James Barcia Other 30%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 90%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 90%
Charlie Bass Other 90%
Evan Bayh Other 10%
Bob Bennett Other 95%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 15%
Douglas Bereuter Other 70%
Shelley Berkley Other 20%
Howard Berman Other 5%
Marion Berry Other 40%
Judy Biggert Other 95%
Michael Bilirakis Other 85%
Jeff Bingaman Other 5%
Rod Blagojevich Other 10%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 60%
Kit Bond Other 90%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 5%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 0%
Leonard Boswell Other 30%
Rick Boucher Other 20%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 30%
John Breaux Other 20%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 85%
Dan Burton Other 95%
Steve Buyer Other 85%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Herbert Callahan Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 85%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Jean Carnahan Other 5%
Brad Carson Other 35%
Julia Carson Other 10%
Mike Castle Other 75%
Eva Clayton Other 0%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 15%
Robert Clement Other 35%
Hillary Clinton Other 5%
Michael Collins Other 95%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 40%
Kent Conrad Other 5%
John Cooksey Other 95%
Jon Corzine Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 15%
Christopher Cox Other 95%
William Coyne Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 95%
Robert Cramer Other 80%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 95%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 10%
James Davis Other 15%
Jo Ann Davis Other 95%
Thomas Davis III Other 95%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 10%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 95%
Norm Dicks Other 10%
Chris Dodd Other 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 65%
Calvin Dooley Other 35%
John Doolittle Other 95%
Byron Dorgan Other 5%
David Dreier Other 90%
Jennifer Dunn Other 100%
John Edwards Other 15%
Chet Edwards Other 20%
Vern Ehlers Other 80%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 90%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 95%
Philip English Other 90%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 35%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 95%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Michael Ferguson Other 80%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 85%
Ernest Fletcher Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 95%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 20%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 95%
Jonas Frost III Other 10%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
John Ganske Other 85%
George Gekas Other 95%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 5%
Jim Gibbons Other 95%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 85%
Paul Gillmor Other 80%
Benjamin Gilman Other 65%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 10%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 90%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Porter Goss Other 100%
Daniel Graham Other 5%
William Phillip Gramm Other 85%
Mark Green Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 90%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 90%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Tony Hall Other 10%
James Hansen Other 95%
Jane Harman Other 35%
Melissa Hart Other 95%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 95%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 95%
Joel Hefley Other 85%
Jesse Helms Other 85%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 30%
Van Hilleary Other 95%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 5%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 90%
Pete Hoekstra Other 95%
Thomas Holden Other 15%
Ernest Hollings Other 0%
Darlene Hooley Other 15%
Stephen Horn Other 75%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 70%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 60%
Kenny Hulshof Other 95%
Duncan Hunter Other 95%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 80%
Kay Hutchison Other 95%
Henry Hyde Other 85%
Daniel Inouye Other 5%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 20%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 25%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 95%
Christopher John Other 65%
Nancy Johnson Other 65%
Tim Johnson Other 85%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 85%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 10%
Mark Kennedy Other 95%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Brian Kerns Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 5%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 5%
Gerald Kleczka Other 5%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 95%
John LaFalce Other 10%
Ray LaHood Other 85%
Nicholas Lampson Other 10%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 75%
James Leach Other 75%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 25%
Blanche Lincoln Other 15%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 95%
Dick Lugar Other 90%
William Luther Other 10%
James Maloney Other 45%
Don Manzullo Other 95%
Frank Mascara Other 25%
Robert Matsui Other 5%
Karen McCarthy Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 65%
Scott McInnis Other 95%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 5%
Michael McNulty Other 5%
Martin Meehan Other 5%
Carrie Meek Other 10%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 95%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 20%
Dennis Moore Other 30%
Constance Morella Other 45%
Frank Murkowski Other 80%
Jack Murtha Other 20%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 35%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 90%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 85%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 5%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 25%
Thomas William Osborne Other 95%
Doug Ose Other 95%
Major Owens Other 5%
Michael Oxley Other 90%
Ron Paul Other 70%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
David Phelps Other 25%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 95%
Todd Platts Other 80%
Richard Pombo Other 85%
Earl Pomeroy Other 10%
Deborah Pryce Other 95%
Jack Quinn Other 85%
George Radanovich Other 95%
James Ramstad Other 85%
Ralph Regula Other 75%
Denny Rehberg Other 95%
Silvestre Reyes Other 10%
Thomas Reynolds Other 90%
Bob Riley Other 95%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 5%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 20%
Timothy Roemer Other 30%
Mike Ross Other 20%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Marge Roukema Other 80%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 30%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 5%
Jim Saxton Other 75%
Edward Schrock Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 90%
Christopher Shays Other 75%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Ronnie Shows Other 60%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 85%
Joseph Skeen Other 90%
Ike Skelton Other 60%
Gordon Smith Other 75%
Nick Smith Other 100%
Bob Smith Other 95%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 10%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 95%
Arlen Specter Other 70%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 10%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 95%
Charles Stenholm Other 35%
Ted Stevens Other 80%
Ted Strickland Other 5%
Bob Stump Other 90%
Bart Stupak Other 10%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 85%
Tom Tancredo Other 95%
John Tanner Other 40%
Ellen Tauscher Other 15%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 90%
Gene Taylor Other 45%
Craig Thomas Other 90%
William Thomas Other 80%
Fred Thompson Other 90%
Karen Thurman Other 5%
Strom Thurmond Other 90%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 30%
Ed Towns Other 10%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 80%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 5%
James Turner Other 25%
George Voinovich Other 80%
James Walsh Other 90%
Zach Wamp Other 90%
John Warner Other 85%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 5%
David Weldon Other 95%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 70%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 5%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 95%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 5%
Albert Wynn Other 10%

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