Rating Group: Concord Coalition

2000 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 12%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 20%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 32%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 37%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 11%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 59%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 40%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 19%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 35%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 33%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 57%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 51%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 36%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 50%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 49%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 37%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 20%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 24%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 35%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 41%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 40%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 45%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 38%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 68%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 40%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 19%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 46%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 16%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 63%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 42%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 24%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 36%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 50%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 27%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 33%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 38%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 32%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 35%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 46%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 35%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 26%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 40%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 17%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 39%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 48%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 31%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 32%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 32%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 29%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 31%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 30%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 40%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 43%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 34%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 36%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 49%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 24%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 46%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 22%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 20%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 26%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 17%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 24%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 23%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 39%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 29%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 44%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 45%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 43%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 37%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 43%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 40%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 21%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 26%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 35%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 26%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 46%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 33%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 33%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 38%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 38%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 29%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 24%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 26%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 21%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 35%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 33%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 24%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 33%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 27%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 42%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 35%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 27%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 27%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 29%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 48%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 37%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 32%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 35%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 31%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 32%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 26%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 25%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 32%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 34%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 31%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 29%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 11%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 10%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 29%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 34%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 36%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 26%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 31%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 35%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 43%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 28%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 38%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 41%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 35%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 49%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 63%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 33%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 35%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 33%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 26%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 20%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 17%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 31%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 29%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 47%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 46%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 52%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 39%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 43%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 28%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 55%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 29%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 33%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 34%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 57%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 24%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 22%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 33%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 41%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 56%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 42%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 49%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 46%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 39%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 32%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 33%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 27%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 25%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 38%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 25%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 51%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 79%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 20%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 42%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 36%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 24%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 35%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 35%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 27%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 25%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 54%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 41%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 57%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 46%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 48%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 57%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 67%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 40%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 40%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 32%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 20%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 24%
Gary Ackerman Other 41%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 35%
Wayne Allard Other 20%
Thomas Allen Other 25%
Richard Armey Other 28%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 28%
Brian Baird Other 31%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 23%
John Baldacci Other 33%
Cass Ballenger Other 27%
James Barcia Other 29%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 51%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 42%
Charlie Bass Other 25%
Evan Bayh Other 39%
Bob Bennett Other 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 33%
Douglas Bereuter Other 50%
Shelley Berkley Other 19%
Howard Berman Other 38%
Marion Berry Other 43%
Judy Biggert Other 15%
Michael Bilirakis Other 26%
Jeff Bingaman Other 27%
Rod Blagojevich Other 13%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 17%
Kit Bond Other 24%
Henry Bonilla Other 23%
David Edward Bonior Other 35%
Mary Bono Mack Other 21%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 25%
Leonard Boswell Other 31%
Rick Boucher Other 18%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 42%
John Breaux Other 27%
Ed Bryant Other 37%
Jim Bunning Other 20%
Conrad Burns Other 36%
Dan Burton Other 31%
Steve Buyer Other 23%
Robert Byrd Other 27%
Herbert Callahan Other 12%
Ben Campbell Other 20%
Chris Cannon Other 54%
Julia Carson Other 28%
Mike Castle Other 50%
Eva Clayton Other 28%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 27%
Robert Clement Other 20%
Michael Collins Other 45%
Larry Combest Other 31%
Gary Condit Other 29%
Kent Conrad Other 22%
John Cooksey Other 23%
Jerry Costello Other 28%
Christopher Cox Other 58%
William Coyne Other 36%
Larry Craig Other 32%
Robert Cramer Other 10%
Philip Crane Other 63%
Barbara Cubin Other 28%
Randall Cunningham Other 23%
Thomas Daschle Other 38%
James Davis Other 45%
Thomas Davis III Other 28%
Bill Delahunt Other 43%
Thomas DeLay Other 50%
James DeMint Other 47%
Peter Deutsch Other 25%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 17%
Norm Dicks Other 41%
Chris Dodd Other 38%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 35%
Calvin Dooley Other 21%
John Doolittle Other 19%
Byron Dorgan Other 22%
David Dreier Other 30%
Jennifer Dunn Other 35%
John Edwards Other 43%
Chet Edwards Other 40%
Vern Ehlers Other 28%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 39%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 27%
Philip English Other 25%
Bob Etheridge Other 20%
Lane Evans Other 32%
Terry Everett Other 20%
Russ Feingold Other 63%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 34%
Ernest Fletcher Other 16%
Mark Foley Other 33%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 28%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 43%
Barney Frank Other 45%
William Frist Other 34%
Jonas Frost III Other 33%
Elton Gallegly Other 21%
John Ganske Other 38%
George Gekas Other 31%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 21%
Jim Gibbons Other 32%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 16%
Paul Gillmor Other 24%
Benjamin Gilman Other 17%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 35%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 39%
Bart Gordon Other 10%
Porter Goss Other 36%
Daniel Graham Other 50%
William Phillip Gramm Other 49%
Mark Green Other 42%
James Greenwood Other 22%
Judd Gregg Other 49%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 42%
Tony Hall Other 44%
James Hansen Other 24%
Robert Hayes Other 24%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 52%
Joel Hefley Other 53%
Jesse Helms Other 24%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 49%
Baron Hill Other 57%
Van Hilleary Other 26%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 25%
Maurice Hinchey Other 46%
David Lee Hobson Other 22%
Pete Hoekstra Other 51%
Thomas Holden Other 48%
Ernest Hollings Other 29%
Darlene Hooley Other 15%
Stephen Horn Other 21%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 55%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 36%
Kenny Hulshof Other 43%
Duncan Hunter Other 28%
Asa Hutchinson Other 29%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 15%
Kay Hutchison Other 20%
Henry Hyde Other 27%
Daniel Inouye Other 35%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 15%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 42%
William Jefferson Other 32%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 21%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 27%
Christopher John Other 18%
Nancy Johnson Other 21%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Sue Kelly Other 19%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 39%
Patrick Kennedy Other 32%
Dale Kildee Other 29%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 40%
Gerald Kleczka Other 49%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 17%
Herb Kohl Other 33%
James Kolbe Other 31%
Dennis Kucinich Other 35%
Jon Kyl Other 34%
John LaFalce Other 39%
Ray LaHood Other 42%
Nicholas Lampson Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 30%
Stephen Largent Other 56%
Steve LaTourette Other 29%
James Leach Other 20%
Jerry Lewis Other 21%
Ron Lewis Other 15%
Joe Lieberman Other 41%
Blanche Lincoln Other 27%
John Linder Other 32%
William Lipinski Other 26%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 20%
Dick Lugar Other 22%
William Luther Other 64%
James Maloney Other 8%
Don Manzullo Other 46%
Frank Mascara Other 28%
Robert Matsui Other 34%
Karen McCarthy Other 38%
James McCrery III Other 10%
John McHugh Other 21%
Scott McInnis Other 44%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 38%
Michael McNulty Other 26%
Martin Meehan Other 66%
Carrie Meek Other 35%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 36%
Dan Miller Other 41%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 26%
John Moakley Other 41%
Alan Mollohan Other 21%
Dennis Moore Other 23%
Constance Morella Other 42%
Frank Murkowski Other 20%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 44%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 37%
Robert William Ney Other 20%
Don Nickles Other 49%
Anne Northup Other 22%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 45%
James Nussle Other 33%
Jim Oberstar Other 39%
Dave Obey Other 45%
John Olver Other 43%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 38%
Doug Ose Other 18%
Major Owens Other 45%
Michael Oxley Other 27%
Ron Paul Other 57%
Donald Payne Other 38%
John Peterson Other 32%
David Phelps Other 36%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 40%
Richard Pombo Other 31%
Earl Pomeroy Other 40%
Deborah Pryce Other 37%
Jack Quinn Other 9%
George Radanovich Other 39%
James Ramstad Other 48%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 35%
Thomas Reynolds Other 23%
Bob Riley Other 33%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 53%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 35%
Timothy Roemer Other 48%
Steve Rothman Other 28%
Marge Roukema Other 48%
Jim Ryun Other 41%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 51%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 24%
Rick Santorum Other 22%
Paul Sarbanes Other 33%
Jim Saxton Other 27%
Joe Scarborough Other 56%
John Shadegg Other 55%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 37%
Christopher Shays Other 53%
Donald Sherwood Other 15%
Ronnie Shows Other 26%
Joseph Skeen Other 20%
Ike Skelton Other 25%
Gordon Smith Other 20%
Nick Smith Other 40%
Bob Smith Other 22%
Olympia Snowe Other 22%
Vic Snyder Other 35%
Mark Souder Other 31%
Arlen Specter Other 30%
Floyd Spence Other 22%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 40%
Pete Stark Other 63%
Cliff Stearns Other 51%
Charles Stenholm Other 68%
Ted Stevens Other 20%
Ted Strickland Other 29%
Bob Stump Other 27%
Bart Stupak Other 46%
John Sununu Other 57%
John Sweeney Other 23%
Tom Tancredo Other 58%
John Tanner Other 58%
Ellen Tauscher Other 25%
William Tauzin Other 18%
Charles Taylor Other 21%
Gene Taylor Other 59%
Craig Thomas Other 39%
William Thomas Other 25%
Fred Thompson Other 22%
Karen Thurman Other 60%
Strom Thurmond Other 20%
Todd Tiahrt Other 33%
Robert Torricelli Other 18%
Ed Towns Other 32%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 9%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 33%
James Turner Other 25%
George Voinovich Other 63%
James Walsh Other 20%
Zach Wamp Other 45%
John Warner Other 24%
Wesley Watkins Other 22%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 22%
Anthony Weiner Other 26%
David Weldon Other 31%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 28%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Paul Wellstone Other 25%
Robert Wexler Other 21%
Heather Wilson Other 19%
Lynn Woolsey Other 35%
David Wu Other 33%
Albert Wynn Other 29%

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