Rating Group: United States Chamber of Commerce

2006 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 87%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 87%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 93%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 83%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 92%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 75%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 27%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 33%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 93%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 79%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 47%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 33%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 29%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 40%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 20%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 93%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 33%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 40%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 33%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 27%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 27%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 47%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 33%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 33%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 21%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 31%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 87%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 47%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 93%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 33%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 25%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 33%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 33%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 53%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 64%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 43%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 27%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 58%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 93%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 40%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 87%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 40%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 93%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 87%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 83%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 87%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 10%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 87%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 87%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 60%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 92%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 92%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 92%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 40%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 93%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 92%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 36%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 93%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 83%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 46%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 47%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 31%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 40%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 20%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 93%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 45%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 80%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 47%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 27%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 93%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 93%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 87%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 92%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 36%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 40%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 20%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 33%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 40%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 27%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 67%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 40%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 33%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 42%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 40%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 40%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 92%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 93%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 40%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 93%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 33%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 20%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 50%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 33%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 73%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 67%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 50%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 60%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 92%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 70%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 45%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 55%
NA President Barack Obama II D 55%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 47%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 47%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 93%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 93%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 73%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 93%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 47%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 67%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 93%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 40%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 73%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 67%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 87%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 27%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 27%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 80%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 55%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 29%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 40%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 50%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 47%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 57%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 27%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 27%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 43%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 40%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 57%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 15%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 36%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 40%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 29%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 43%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 64%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 93%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 33%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 93%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 47%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 40%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 93%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 91%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 64%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 27%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 47%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 42%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 53%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 40%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 79%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 47%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 47%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 93%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 92%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 93%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 42%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 91%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 50%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 92%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 50%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 92%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 87%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 53%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 92%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 100%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 87%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 91%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 93%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 93%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 93%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 93%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 60%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 100%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway 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 87%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 53%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 92%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 60%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 23%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 83%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 93%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 87%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 92%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 27%
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 53%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 33%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 27%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 20%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 73%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 57%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 58%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 47%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 53%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 20%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 87%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 87%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 20%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 47%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 83%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 91%
Gary Ackerman Other 47%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 92%
Thomas Allen Other 47%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 47%
Brian Baird Other 53%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 93%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 80%
Evan Bayh Other 45%
Melissa Bean Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 54%
Howard Berman Other 43%
Marion Berry Other 73%
Judy Biggert Other 93%
Brian Bilbray Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 36%
Kit Bond Other 92%
Mary Bono Mack Other 86%
Dan Boren Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 60%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 93%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 87%
Jim Bunning Other 91%
Dan Burton Other 92%
Steve Buyer Other 87%
Robert Byrd Other 25%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 79%
Russ Carnahan Other 53%
Julia Carson Other 43%
Mike Castle Other 83%
Ben Chandler III Other 57%
Hillary Clinton Other 67%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 45%
Jerry Costello Other 40%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 93%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 73%
Geoff Davis Other 93%
Jo Ann Davis Other 83%
Lincoln Davis Other 93%
Thomas Davis III Other 80%
Bill Delahunt Other 53%
James DeMint Other 92%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 93%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 42%
Elizabeth Dole Other 83%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 93%
Byron Dorgan Other 33%
Thelma Drake Other 100%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 87%
Vern Ehlers Other 80%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 93%
Philip English Other 100%
John Ensign Other 92%
Bob Etheridge Other 60%
Terry Everett Other 93%
Tom Feeney Other 93%
Russ Feingold Other 25%
Michael Ferguson Other 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 29%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 77%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 57%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 93%
Bart Gordon Other 80%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 40%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 93%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 93%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 80%
Maurice Hinchey Other 27%
David Lee Hobson Other 93%
Pete Hoekstra Other 93%
Thomas Holden Other 53%
Darlene Hooley Other 53%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 93%
Kay Hutchison Other 92%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 87%
Daniel Inouye Other 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 27%
William Jefferson Other 86%
Tim Johnson Other 86%
Paul Kanjorski Other 43%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 36%
Patrick Kennedy Other 31%
Dale Kildee Other 27%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 27%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
Dennis Kucinich Other 20%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 92%
Ray LaHood Other 87%
Tom Lantos Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 93%
Frank Lautenberg Other 42%
Jerry Lewis Other 93%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 44%
Blanche Lincoln Other 67%
John Linder Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 92%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Dan Lungren Other 80%
Connie Mack IV Other 93%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Jim Marshall Other 73%
Melquiades Martinez Other 100%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 93%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 86%
Michael McNulty Other 27%
Martin Meehan Other 25%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 57%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 93%
Brad Miller Other 47%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 60%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 83%
Jim Oberstar Other 27%
Dave Obey Other 20%
John Olver Other 40%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 80%
Ron Paul Other 60%
Donald Payne Other 14%
John Peterson Other 93%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 93%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 87%
Ralph Regula Other 80%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 93%
Silvestre Reyes Other 57%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 27%
Ken Salazar Other 64%
Jim Saxton Other 67%
Jean Schmidt Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 62%
Ike Skelton Other 80%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 75%
Vic Snyder Other 43%
Hilda Solis Other 27%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 8%
Cliff Stearns Other 93%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 33%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 91%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 86%
Ellen Tauscher Other 40%
Gene Taylor Other 53%
Todd Tiahrt Other 93%
Ed Towns Other 53%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 40%
George Voinovich Other 75%
James Walsh Other 79%
Zach Wamp Other 87%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 33%
Anthony Weiner Other 40%
David Weldon Other 93%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 33%
Heather Wilson Other 93%
Lynn Woolsey Other 20%
David Wu Other 33%
Albert Wynn Other 60%

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