Rating Group: Business-Industry Political Action Committee

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 90%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 82%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 93%
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 64%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 86%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 4%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 25%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 20%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 4%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 4%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 9%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 9%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 9%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 9%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 18%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 13%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 0%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 4%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 4%
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 4%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 22%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 4%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 9%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 9%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 18%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 4%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 17%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 23%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 95%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 4%
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 4%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 80%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 90%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 95%
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 9%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 94%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 93%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 5%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 81%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 4%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 4%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 13%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 95%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
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 90%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 86%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 52%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 95%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 4%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 4%
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 4%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 9%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 70%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 11%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 5%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 95%
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 13%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 18%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 9%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 4%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 40%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 94%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 95%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 13%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 47%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 5%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 95%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 72%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 13%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 72%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 36%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 4%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 81%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 13%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 54%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 54%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 81%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 18%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 4%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 11%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 72%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 20%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 22%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 9%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 4%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 9%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 4%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 18%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 4%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 4%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 9%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 95%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 90%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 4%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 76%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 94%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 95%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 23%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
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 95%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 9%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 95%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 4%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 35%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 63%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 57%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 22%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 17%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 72%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 95%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 95%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 90%
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 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 35%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 9%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 18%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 9%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 13%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 4%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 95%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 40%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 95%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 5%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 23%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 17%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 31%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 4%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 27%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 9%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 90%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 13%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 86%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 77%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 77%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 13%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 4%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 12%
Todd Akin Other 90%
Wayne Allard Other 94%
George Allen Other 88%
Thomas Allen Other 9%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 18%
Brian Baird Other 9%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 95%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 72%
Charlie Bass Other 90%
Evan Bayh Other 29%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 86%
Shelley Berkley Other 9%
Howard Berman Other 9%
Marion Berry Other 27%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 81%
Jeff Bingaman Other 17%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 77%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 22%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 31%
John Breaux Other 58%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 93%
Dan Burton Other 95%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 5%
Ben Campbell Other 82%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Brad Carson Other 59%
Julia Carson Other 9%
Mike Castle Other 77%
Hillary Clinton Other 5%
Michael Collins Other 95%
Kent Conrad Other 11%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 13%
Christopher Cox Other 95%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 80%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 94%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 5%
James Davis Other 18%
Jo Ann Davis Other 86%
Thomas Davis III Other 90%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 95%
Peter Deutsch Other 9%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 76%
Norm Dicks Other 18%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 82%
Calvin Dooley Other 77%
John Doolittle Other 90%
Byron Dorgan Other 11%
David Dreier Other 100%
Jennifer Dunn Other 90%
John Edwards Other 5%
Chet Edwards Other 36%
Vern Ehlers Other 86%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 95%
Philip English Other 86%
John Ensign Other 88%
Bob Etheridge Other 27%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 95%
Russ Feingold Other 5%
Michael Ferguson Other 77%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 76%
Ernest Fletcher Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 86%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 95%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 10%
Elton Gallegly Other 95%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 4%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 80%
Paul Gillmor Other 95%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 9%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 77%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Porter Goss Other 95%
Daniel Graham Other 11%
Mark Green Other 95%
James Greenwood Other 86%
Judd Gregg Other 88%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 90%
Jane Harman Other 40%
Melissa Hart Other 90%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 86%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 95%
Joel Hefley Other 81%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 27%
Maurice Hinchey Other 4%
David Lee Hobson Other 95%
Pete Hoekstra Other 81%
Thomas Holden Other 27%
Ernest Hollings Other 17%
Darlene Hooley Other 22%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 85%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 76%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 90%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 90%
Daniel Inouye Other 5%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 86%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 40%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 17%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 90%
Christopher John Other 68%
Nancy Johnson Other 77%
Tim Johnson Other 72%
Paul Kanjorski Other 18%
Ric Keller Other 95%
Sue Kelly Other 81%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 90%
Patrick Kennedy Other 4%
Dale Kildee Other 9%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 4%
Gerald Kleczka Other 4%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 25%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 4%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 86%
Nicholas Lampson Other 27%
Tom Lantos Other 4%
Steve LaTourette Other 77%
James Leach Other 68%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 11%
Blanche Lincoln Other 47%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 33%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 94%
Don Manzullo Other 90%
Robert Matsui Other 4%
Karen McCarthy Other 9%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 77%
Scott McInnis Other 90%
Michael McNulty Other 9%
Martin Meehan Other 10%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 4%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 76%
Alan Mollohan Other 18%
Dennis Moore Other 27%
Jack Murtha Other 28%
Sue Myrick Other 90%
Ben Nelson Other 64%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 95%
Robert William Ney Other 85%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 80%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 9%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 31%
Thomas William Osborne Other 100%
Doug Ose Other 95%
Major Owens Other 4%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 63%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 90%
Todd Platts Other 86%
Richard Pombo Other 90%
Earl Pomeroy Other 22%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
Jack Quinn Other 73%
George Radanovich Other 95%
James Ramstad Other 77%
Ralph Regula Other 86%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 13%
Thomas Reynolds Other 95%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 13%
Mike Ross Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 95%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 36%
Rick Santorum Other 94%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 71%
Edward Schrock Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 95%
Christopher Shays Other 77%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 77%
Ike Skelton Other 47%
Gordon Smith Other 76%
Nick Smith Other 95%
Olympia Snowe Other 58%
Vic Snyder Other 27%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 90%
Arlen Specter Other 70%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 14%
Pete Stark Other 5%
Cliff Stearns Other 81%
Charles Stenholm Other 72%
Ted Stevens Other 87%
Ted Strickland Other 4%
Bart Stupak Other 5%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 95%
John Sweeney Other 90%
Tom Tancredo Other 86%
John Tanner Other 59%
Ellen Tauscher Other 18%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 85%
Gene Taylor Other 36%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 18%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 4%
James Turner Other 36%
George Voinovich Other 94%
James Walsh Other 81%
Zach Wamp Other 95%
John Warner Other 88%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 4%
David Weldon Other 86%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 72%
Gerald Weller Other 95%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 4%
Albert Wynn Other 9%

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