Rating Group: Peace Action West

2008 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 40%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 20%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 60%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 20%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 90%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 90%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 90%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 80%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 50%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 90%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 80%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 90%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 0%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 10%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 90%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 80%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 90%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 90%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 90%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 10%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 80%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 30%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 11%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 80%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 90%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 78%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 50%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 60%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 90%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 90%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 90%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 60%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 60%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 70%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 67%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 10%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 90%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 90%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 10%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 20%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 20%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 10%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 60%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 0%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 50%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 70%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 90%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 89%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 90%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 10%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 10%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 60%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 78%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 10%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 90%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 90%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 78%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 40%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 89%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 89%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 20%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 20%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 90%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 0%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 0%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 90%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 90%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 90%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 60%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 80%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 40%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 70%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 60%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 80%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 60%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 90%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 60%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 60%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 80%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 10%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 90%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 90%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 80%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 80%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 90%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 90%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 60%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 80%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 20%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 90%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 80%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 40%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 60%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 90%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 30%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 10%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 0%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 80%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 33%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 10%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 11%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 90%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 80%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 90%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 90%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 80%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 70%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 70%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 75%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 90%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 89%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 80%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 80%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 80%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 70%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 0%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 89%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 70%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 0%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 90%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 60%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 10%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 10%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 10%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 11%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 80%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 25%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 80%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 60%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 20%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 40%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 60%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 90%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 20%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 0%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 20%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 90%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 0%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 33%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 90%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 10%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 50%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 60%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 80%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 90%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 10%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 70%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 10%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 80%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 10%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 80%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 80%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 70%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 10%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 10%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 70%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 80%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 70%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 20%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 20%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 60%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 10%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 80%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 80%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Jason Altmire Other 40%
Michael Arcuri Other 60%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 80%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 10%
Evan Bayh Other 40%
Melissa Bean Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 40%
Shelley Berkley Other 60%
Howard Berman Other 70%
Marion Berry Other 70%
Judy Biggert Other 20%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Dan Boren Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 90%
Rick Boucher Other 60%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 60%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 13%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 70%
Russ Carnahan Other 67%
Christopher Carney Other 40%
Mike Castle Other 40%
Ben Chandler III Other 50%
Travis Childers Other 22%
Kent Conrad Other 60%
Jerry Costello Other 90%
Artur Davis Other 50%
Geoff Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 50%
Bill Delahunt Other 90%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 10%
Norm Dicks Other 60%
Chris Dodd Other 80%
Byron Dorgan Other 80%
David Dreier Other 10%
Chet Edwards Other 60%
Vern Ehlers Other 25%
Brad Ellsworth Other 40%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 50%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 60%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 90%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 60%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 60%
Bart Gordon Other 70%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
John Hall Other 90%
Phil Hare Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 80%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 40%
Baron Hill Other 60%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
Paul Hodes Other 80%
Pete Hoekstra Other 10%
Thomas Holden Other 70%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 30%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 90%
Tim Johnson Other 20%
Steve Kagen Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 70%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 80%
Dale Kildee Other 80%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 90%
Ron Klein Other 70%
Herb Kohl Other 80%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 10%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 40%
Blanche Lincoln Other 60%
John Linder Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 40%
Dan Lungren Other 0%
Connie Mack IV Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 11%
Jim Marshall Other 20%
Melquiades Martinez Other 20%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 80%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 56%
Brad Miller Other 70%
Harry Mitchell Other 70%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 60%
Patrick Murphy Other 70%
Jack Murtha Other 60%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 40%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 90%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 60%
Ron Paul Other 67%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 10%
Earl Pomeroy Other 70%
George Radanovich Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 60%
Laura Richardson Other 80%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 60%
Mike Ross Other 60%
Steve Rothman Other 80%
Jean Schmidt Other 0%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 70%
John Shadegg Other 0%
Heath Shuler Other 70%
Ike Skelton Other 70%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 50%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Zack Space Other 50%
Arlen Specter Other 20%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 70%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 22%
Bart Stupak Other 80%
John Sullivan Other 0%
Betty Sutton Other 80%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 90%
George Voinovich Other 20%
Zach Wamp Other 10%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 60%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 60%
Lynn Woolsey Other 89%
David Wu Other 90%

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