Rating Group: Associated Builders & Contractors

2003-2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 70%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 90%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 30%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 56%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 70%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 10%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 10%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 90%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 10%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 10%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 30%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 10%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 10%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 10%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 10%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 11%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 20%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 10%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 10%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 10%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 10%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 10%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 10%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 90%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 10%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 10%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 22%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 10%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 11%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 10%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 12%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 10%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 10%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 10%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 30%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 90%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 90%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 10%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 80%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 90%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 90%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 89%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 90%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 50%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 10%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 90%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 44%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 89%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 30%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 20%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 90%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 90%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 90%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 10%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 90%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 20%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 10%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 30%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 10%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 10%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 10%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 90%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 90%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 90%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 30%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 40%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 11%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 10%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 10%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 10%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 10%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 30%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 10%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 30%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 10%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 10%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 10%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 70%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 10%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 20%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 30%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 80%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 90%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 10%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 14%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 90%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 10%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 60%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 30%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 90%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 30%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 30%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 90%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 20%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 90%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 20%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 90%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 11%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 10%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 10%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 80%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 78%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 10%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 10%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 10%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 10%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 20%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 10%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 70%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 33%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 20%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 10%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 30%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 11%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 10%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 10%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 10%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 10%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 90%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 10%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 20%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 90%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 90%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 89%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 30%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 10%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 10%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 10%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 10%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 11%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 10%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 10%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 50%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 70%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 30%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 90%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 40%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 90%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 90%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 90%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 90%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 90%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 30%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 10%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 22%
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 10%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 80%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 10%
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 90%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 30%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 90%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 11%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 22%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 30%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 20%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 10%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 12%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 10%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 10%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 90%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 10%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 70%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 10%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 90%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 30%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 10%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 10%
Todd Akin Other 90%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 10%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 10%
Brian Baird Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 90%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 90%
Charlie Bass Other 90%
Evan Bayh Other 40%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 20%
Howard Berman Other 10%
Marion Berry Other 20%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 90%
Jeff Bingaman Other 20%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 80%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 30%
Rick Boucher Other 40%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 44%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 90%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 20%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 30%
Julia Carson Other 12%
Edward Case Other 40%
Mike Castle Other 70%
Ben Chandler III Other 40%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 30%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 30%
Jon Corzine Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 33%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 90%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 40%
James Davis Other 10%
Jo Ann Davis Other 90%
Lincoln Davis Other 70%
Thomas Davis III Other 90%
Bill Delahunt Other 10%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 80%
Norm Dicks Other 10%
Chris Dodd Other 22%
Elizabeth Dole Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 90%
Byron Dorgan Other 22%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
John Ensign Other 90%
Bob Etheridge Other 20%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 89%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 90%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 10%
William Frist Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 30%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 40%
Mark Green Other 90%
Judd Gregg Other 70%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 90%
Jane Harman Other 33%
Katherine Harris Other 90%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 90%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 10%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 20%
Darlene Hooley Other 30%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 90%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 20%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 80%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 10%
William Jefferson Other 30%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 20%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 90%
Nancy Johnson Other 90%
Tim Johnson Other 78%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Ric Keller Other 90%
Sue Kelly Other 90%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 10%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 10%
Dale Kildee Other 10%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 11%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 11%
James Kolbe Other 90%
Dennis Kucinich Other 10%
Jon Kyl Other 80%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 10%
Steve LaTourette Other 90%
James Leach Other 62%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 29%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 90%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 90%
Jim Marshall Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 10%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 80%
Michael McNulty Other 11%
Martin Meehan Other 11%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 20%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 11%
Brad Miller Other 20%
Alan Mollohan Other 10%
Dennis Moore Other 20%
Jack Murtha Other 20%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 90%
Ben Nelson Other 56%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 89%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 78%
James Nussle Other 90%
Jim Oberstar Other 10%
Dave Obey Other 10%
John Olver Other 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 10%
Thomas William Osborne Other 100%
Major Owens Other 11%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 80%
Donald Payne Other 11%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 90%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 20%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 0%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 30%
Steve Rothman Other 30%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 10%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 10%
Jim Saxton Other 78%
John Shadegg Other 89%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 90%
Christopher Shays Other 90%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 30%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 40%
Vic Snyder Other 44%
Hilda Solis Other 10%
Mark Souder Other 90%
Arlen Specter Other 56%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 20%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
Ted Stevens Other 90%
Ted Strickland Other 10%
Bart Stupak Other 10%
John Sullivan Other 90%
John Sununu Other 89%
John Sweeney Other 80%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 80%
John Tanner Other 22%
Ellen Tauscher Other 10%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 10%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 10%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 10%
Anthony Weiner Other 10%
David Weldon Other 90%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 90%
Lynn Woolsey Other 10%
David Wu Other 20%
Albert Wynn Other 40%

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