Rating Group: United States Chamber of Commerce

2008 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 86%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 73%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 75%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 50%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 94%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 89%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 82%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 94%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 75%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 94%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 61%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 44%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 50%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 76%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 63%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 57%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 56%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 56%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 61%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 50%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 38%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 41%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 43%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 67%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 50%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 61%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 56%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 61%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 94%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 94%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 61%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 61%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 61%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 44%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 61%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 50%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 50%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 83%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 44%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 47%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 76%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 41%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 82%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 94%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 83%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 56%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 47%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 61%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 59%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 83%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 59%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 61%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 61%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 65%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 50%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 56%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 63%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 89%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 69%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 94%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 83%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 83%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 63%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 83%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 65%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 59%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 83%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 78%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 94%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 88%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 61%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 67%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 72%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 47%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 50%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 72%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 67%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 78%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 67%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 67%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 83%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 56%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 56%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 56%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 89%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 83%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 75%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 94%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 63%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 83%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 67%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 59%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 56%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 94%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 56%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 61%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 56%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 88%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 67%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 72%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 53%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 53%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 81%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 88%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 89%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 88%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 72%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 61%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 94%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 75%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 88%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 94%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 94%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 94%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 61%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 50%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 56%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 56%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 59%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 67%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 53%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 63%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 63%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 67%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 61%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 58%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 67%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 50%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 61%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 75%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 63%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 50%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 94%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 89%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 89%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 59%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 78%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 56%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 50%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 57%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 50%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 94%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 56%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 56%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 94%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 75%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 83%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 47%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 61%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 83%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 88%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 88%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 75%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 63%
NA President Barack Obama II D 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 71%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 63%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 56%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 59%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 61%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 78%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 89%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 61%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 78%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 61%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 72%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 89%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 63%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 63%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 63%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 72%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 67%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 78%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 67%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 71%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 56%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 61%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 47%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 75%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 89%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 63%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 69%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 71%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 94%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 61%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 65%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 65%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 50%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 56%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 53%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 65%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 61%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 67%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 39%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 65%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 67%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 47%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 65%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 63%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 83%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 89%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 94%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 47%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 81%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 94%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 61%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 63%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 75%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 89%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 94%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 94%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 50%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 89%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 53%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 50%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 63%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 56%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 53%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 81%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 94%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 56%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 56%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 83%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 88%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 81%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 50%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 50%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 61%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 56%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 75%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 75%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 72%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 72%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 83%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 61%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 75%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 56%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 83%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 83%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 78%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 94%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 88%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 67%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 89%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 89%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 89%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 59%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 59%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 82%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 83%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 76%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 72%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 59%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 56%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 94%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 50%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 81%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 78%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 83%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 53%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 78%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 83%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 94%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 61%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 94%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 38%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 56%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 63%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 50%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 56%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 88%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 89%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 50%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 78%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 67%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 61%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 56%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 83%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 72%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 50%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 67%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 72%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 63%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 78%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 67%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 75%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 75%
Gary Ackerman Other 67%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 50%
Todd Akin Other 89%
Jason Altmire Other 61%
Michael Arcuri Other 67%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 67%
Brian Baird Other 50%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 94%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 78%
Evan Bayh Other 63%
Melissa Bean Other 83%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 67%
Howard Berman Other 69%
Marion Berry Other 56%
Judy Biggert Other 94%
Brian Bilbray Other 88%
Jeff Bingaman Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 88%
Dan Boren Other 78%
Leonard Boswell Other 61%
Rick Boucher Other 61%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 67%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 94%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 79%
Jim Bunning Other 75%
Dan Burton Other 89%
Steve Buyer Other 81%
Robert Byrd Other 57%
Dennis Cardoza Other 65%
Russ Carnahan Other 61%
Christopher Carney Other 59%
Mike Castle Other 78%
Ben Chandler III Other 61%
Travis Childers Other 64%
Hillary Clinton Other 67%
Norm Coleman Other 83%
Kent Conrad Other 57%
Jerry Costello Other 50%
Larry Craig Other 86%
Artur Davis Other 67%
Geoff Davis Other 89%
Lincoln Davis Other 61%
Bill Delahunt Other 56%
James DeMint Other 57%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 82%
Norm Dicks Other 67%
Chris Dodd Other 50%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 67%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Brad Ellsworth Other 72%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 83%
John Ensign Other 88%
Bob Etheridge Other 67%
Russ Feingold Other 38%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 94%
Barney Frank Other 61%
Elton Gallegly Other 89%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 67%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 61%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Judd Gregg Other 86%
John Hall Other 56%
Phil Hare Other 56%
Jane Harman Other 65%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 89%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 56%
Baron Hill Other 61%
Maurice Hinchey Other 50%
Paul Hodes Other 56%
Pete Hoekstra Other 83%
Thomas Holden Other 61%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 89%
Daniel Inouye Other 71%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 61%
Tim Johnson Other 67%
Steve Kagen Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 67%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 50%
Patrick Kennedy Other 59%
Dale Kildee Other 61%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 53%
Ron Klein Other 67%
Herb Kohl Other 63%
Dennis Kucinich Other 39%
Jon Kyl Other 63%
Ray LaHood Other 82%
Steve LaTourette Other 76%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 75%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 72%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Dan Lungren Other 94%
Connie Mack IV Other 88%
Don Manzullo Other 83%
Jim Marshall Other 67%
Melquiades Martinez Other 88%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 82%
John McHugh Other 83%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 61%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 71%
Brad Miller Other 61%
Harry Mitchell Other 67%
Alan Mollohan Other 59%
Dennis Moore Other 71%
Patrick Murphy Other 67%
Jack Murtha Other 65%
Sue Myrick Other 94%
Ben Nelson Other 71%
Jim Oberstar Other 56%
Dave Obey Other 56%
John Olver Other 56%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 65%
Ron Paul Other 47%
Donald Payne Other 47%
Todd Platts Other 78%
Earl Pomeroy Other 61%
George Radanovich Other 94%
Denny Rehberg Other 89%
Silvestre Reyes Other 67%
Laura Richardson Other 59%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 61%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 56%
Ken Salazar Other 63%
Jean Schmidt Other 94%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 61%
John Shadegg Other 83%
Heath Shuler Other 56%
Ike Skelton Other 61%
Olympia Snowe Other 71%
Vic Snyder Other 67%
Hilda Solis Other 50%
Mark Souder Other 94%
Zack Space Other 61%
Arlen Specter Other 86%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 61%
Pete Stark Other 47%
Cliff Stearns Other 89%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 56%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 75%
Betty Sutton Other 61%
Tom Tancredo Other 72%
John Tanner Other 71%
Ellen Tauscher Other 61%
Gene Taylor Other 56%
Todd Tiahrt Other 94%
Ed Towns Other 56%
George Voinovich Other 88%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 53%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 63%
Anthony Weiner Other 59%
Robert Wexler Other 54%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 67%
Lynn Woolsey Other 56%
David Wu Other 50%

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