Rating Group: Concord Coalition

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 51%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 47%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 8%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 50%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 95%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 43%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 21%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 31%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 43%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 84%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 70%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 95%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 47%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 70%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 90%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 70%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 34%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 34%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 34%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 84%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 93%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 43%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 68%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 19%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 99%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 43%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 53%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 73%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 79%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 97%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 58%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 70%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 79%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 70%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 75%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 70%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 43%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 98%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 92%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 8%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 43%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 58%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 36%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 38%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 13%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 8%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 17%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 8%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 17%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 69%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 25%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 8%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 69%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 31%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 34%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 43%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 8%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 25%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 58%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 77%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 37%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 76%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 70%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 63%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 77%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 55%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 58%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 69%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 69%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 51%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 25%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 13%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 23%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 25%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 73%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 43%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 90%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 92%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 63%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 92%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 43%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 63%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 78%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 88%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 58%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 77%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 43%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 43%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 80%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 43%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 38%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 74%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 25%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 78%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 2%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 25%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 54%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 58%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 65%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 25%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 68%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 43%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 4%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 67%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 59%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 63%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 92%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 75%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 92%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 63%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 89%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 92%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 18%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 36%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 36%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 2%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 58%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 25%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 43%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 63%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 73%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 63%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 63%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 84%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 43%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 63%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 63%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 72%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 83%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 75%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 97%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 38%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 1%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 87%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 69%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 43%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 8%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 36%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 25%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 78%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 79%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 94%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 52%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 80%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 37%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 81%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 35%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 81%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 89%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 72%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 48%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 8%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 97%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 81%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 3%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 15%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 87%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 58%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 14%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 25%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 43%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 53%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 25%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 43%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 43%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 55%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 94%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 27%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 25%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 43%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 95%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 25%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 67%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 91%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 34%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 16%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 67%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 31%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 84%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 8%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 8%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 47%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 94%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 63%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 73%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 52%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 92%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 97%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 27%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 8%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 1%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 55%
Gary Ackerman Other 78%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 20%
Todd Akin Other 87%
Wayne Allard Other 43%
George Allen Other 12%
Thomas Allen Other 70%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 17%
Brian Baird Other 63%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 25%
Cass Ballenger Other 60%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 50%
Charlie Bass Other 90%
Evan Bayh Other 88%
Bob Bennett Other 51%
Douglas Bereuter Other 54%
Shelley Berkley Other 50%
Howard Berman Other 84%
Marion Berry Other 63%
Judy Biggert Other 58%
Michael Bilirakis Other 58%
Jeff Bingaman Other 40%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 8%
Kit Bond Other 18%
Henry Bonilla Other 8%
Mary Bono Mack Other 8%
Leonard Boswell Other 63%
Rick Boucher Other 43%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 51%
John Breaux Other 1%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 50%
Jim Bunning Other 51%
Conrad Burns Other 25%
Dan Burton Other 66%
Steve Buyer Other 15%
Robert Byrd Other 47%
Ben Campbell Other 5%
Chris Cannon Other 38%
Brad Carson Other 8%
Julia Carson Other 43%
Mike Castle Other 87%
Hillary Clinton Other 58%
Michael Collins Other 75%
Kent Conrad Other 88%
Jon Corzine Other 81%
Jerry Costello Other 87%
Christopher Cox Other 97%
Larry Craig Other 43%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Philip Crane Other 76%
Barbara Cubin Other 82%
Randall Cunningham Other 52%
Thomas Daschle Other 36%
James Davis Other 84%
Jo Ann Davis Other 87%
Thomas Davis III Other 36%
Bill Delahunt Other 81%
Thomas DeLay Other 79%
James DeMint Other 87%
Peter Deutsch Other 84%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 14%
Norm Dicks Other 43%
Chris Dodd Other 74%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 65%
Calvin Dooley Other 55%
John Doolittle Other 36%
Byron Dorgan Other 36%
David Dreier Other 34%
Jennifer Dunn Other 34%
John Edwards Other 69%
Chet Edwards Other 43%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 34%
Philip English Other 67%
John Ensign Other 84%
Bob Etheridge Other 43%
Lane Evans Other 34%
Terry Everett Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 99%
Michael Ferguson Other 75%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 27%
Ernest Fletcher Other 8%
Mark Foley Other 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 43%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 87%
Barney Frank Other 84%
William Frist Other 62%
Jonas Frost III Other 48%
Elton Gallegly Other 66%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 43%
Jim Gibbons Other 58%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 8%
Paul Gillmor Other 17%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 52%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 25%
Bart Gordon Other 3%
Porter Goss Other 25%
Daniel Graham Other 95%
Mark Green Other 25%
James Greenwood Other 31%
Judd Gregg Other 97%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 25%
Jane Harman Other 84%
Melissa Hart Other 25%
Robert Hayes Other 25%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 87%
Joel Hefley Other 89%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 61%
Baron Hill Other 75%
Maurice Hinchey Other 55%
David Lee Hobson Other 34%
Pete Hoekstra Other 97%
Thomas Holden Other 43%
Ernest Hollings Other 58%
Darlene Hooley Other 13%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 76%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 18%
Kenny Hulshof Other 8%
Duncan Hunter Other 8%
Kay Hutchison Other 29%
Henry Hyde Other 32%
Daniel Inouye Other 45%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 56%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 36%
William Jefferson Other 60%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 8%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 31%
Christopher John Other 2%
Nancy Johnson Other 58%
Tim Johnson Other 8%
Paul Kanjorski Other 43%
Ric Keller Other 67%
Sue Kelly Other 75%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 63%
Mark Kennedy Other 25%
Patrick Kennedy Other 70%
Dale Kildee Other 43%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 43%
Gerald Kleczka Other 88%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 8%
Herb Kohl Other 23%
James Kolbe Other 92%
Dennis Kucinich Other 81%
Jon Kyl Other 92%
Ray LaHood Other 8%
Nicholas Lampson Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 84%
Steve LaTourette Other 13%
James Leach Other 15%
Jerry Lewis Other 49%
Ron Lewis Other 8%
Joe Lieberman Other 77%
Blanche Lincoln Other 8%
John Linder Other 87%
William Lipinski Other 51%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 78%
Dick Lugar Other 74%
Don Manzullo Other 56%
Robert Matsui Other 70%
Karen McCarthy Other 17%
James McCrery III Other 8%
John McHugh Other 8%
Scott McInnis Other 77%
Michael McNulty Other 63%
Martin Meehan Other 79%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 55%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 3%
Alan Mollohan Other 53%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 68%
Sue Myrick Other 81%
Ben Nelson Other 36%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 8%
Robert William Ney Other 8%
Don Nickles Other 92%
Anne Northup Other 34%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 12%
James Nussle Other 25%
Jim Oberstar Other 3%
Dave Obey Other 70%
John Olver Other 55%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 43%
Thomas William Osborne Other 8%
Doug Ose Other 8%
Major Owens Other 63%
Michael Oxley Other 66%
Ron Paul Other 99%
Donald Payne Other 96%
John Peterson Other 31%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 25%
Todd Platts Other 25%
Richard Pombo Other 2%
Earl Pomeroy Other 43%
Deborah Pryce Other 58%
Jack Quinn Other 17%
George Radanovich Other 60%
James Ramstad Other 87%
Ralph Regula Other 8%
Denny Rehberg Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 43%
Thomas Reynolds Other 25%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 17%
Mike Ross Other 8%
Steve Rothman Other 91%
Jim Ryun Other 58%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 43%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 3%
Rick Santorum Other 84%
Paul Sarbanes Other 58%
Jim Saxton Other 60%
Edward Schrock Other 77%
John Shadegg Other 99%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 82%
Christopher Shays Other 97%
Donald Sherwood Other 8%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 25%
Ike Skelton Other 43%
Gordon Smith Other 15%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Olympia Snowe Other 74%
Vic Snyder Other 43%
Hilda Solis Other 73%
Mark Souder Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 8%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 43%
Pete Stark Other 99%
Cliff Stearns Other 94%
Charles Stenholm Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 14%
Ted Strickland Other 18%
Bart Stupak Other 63%
John Sununu Other 89%
John Sweeney Other 14%
Tom Tancredo Other 95%
John Tanner Other 73%
Ellen Tauscher Other 34%
William Tauzin Other 25%
Charles Taylor Other 50%
Gene Taylor Other 100%
Craig Thomas Other 81%
William Thomas Other 34%
Todd Tiahrt Other 25%
Ed Towns Other 15%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 56%
James Turner Other 31%
George Voinovich Other 69%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 97%
John Warner Other 12%
Diane Watson Other 4%
Anthony Weiner Other 79%
David Weldon Other 77%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 58%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Robert Wexler Other 53%
Heather Wilson Other 8%
Lynn Woolsey Other 43%
David Wu Other 63%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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