Rating Group: Associated Builders & Contractors

1995 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 82%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 86%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 92%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 92%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 17%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 14%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 17%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 9%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 33%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 8%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 8%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 92%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 8%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 11%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 91%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 8%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 92%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 9%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 92%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 8%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 25%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 92%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 91%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 8%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 83%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 92%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 92%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 27%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 9%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 83%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 8%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 29%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 92%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 17%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 25%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 92%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 92%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 92%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 17%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 17%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 29%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 25%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 25%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 14%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 92%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 92%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 17%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 8%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 58%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 92%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 8%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 29%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 14%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 92%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 92%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 92%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 8%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 25%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 40%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 75%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 58%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 92%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 14%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 30%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 75%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 8%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 8%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 8%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 17%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 8%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 8%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 25%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 8%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 92%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 92%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 92%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 42%
OH Governor John Kasich R 92%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 25%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 86%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 91%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 92%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 33%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 33%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 8%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 50%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 25%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 92%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 83%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 25%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 58%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 92%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 92%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 83%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 91%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 92%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 25%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 92%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 33%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 18%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 33%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 83%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 8%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 92%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 25%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 83%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 8%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 14%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 92%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 8%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 83%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 75%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 33%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 29%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 25%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 25%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 92%
Bill Archer Other 92%
Richard Armey Other 92%
John Ashcroft Other 100%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 58%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 92%
William Baker Other 92%
John Baldacci Other 33%
Cass Ballenger Other 92%
James Barcia Other 58%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 92%
Bill Barrett Other 92%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 92%
Charlie Bass Other 92%
Herbert Bateman Other 91%
Anthony Beilenson Other 17%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 25%
Douglas Bereuter Other 92%
Howard Berman Other 30%
Tom Bevill Other 50%
Brian Bilbray Other 92%
Michael Bilirakis Other 92%
Jeff Bingaman Other 14%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 92%
Peter Blute Other 92%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 92%
David Edward Bonior Other 8%
Sonny Bono Other 92%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 25%
Bill Bradley Other 0%
John Breaux Other 43%
Bill Brewster Other 73%
Glen Browder Other 50%
George Brown, Jr. Other 25%
Hank Brown Other 100%
Richard Bryan Other 29%
Ed Bryant Other 91%
John Bryant Other 36%
Dale Bumpers Other 14%
Jim Bunn Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 92%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 92%
Steve Buyer Other 92%
Robert Byrd Other 14%
Herbert Callahan Other 92%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 83%
John Chafee Other 86%
Jim Chapman Other 50%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 83%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 92%
Dick Chrysler Other 91%
William Clay, Sr. Other 17%
Eva Clayton Other 8%
Robert Clement Other 50%
William Clinger Other 92%
William Cohen Other 57%
Ronald Coleman Other 25%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 8%
Cardiss Collins Other 11%
Michael Collins Other 92%
Larry Combest Other 92%
Gary Condit Other 67%
Kent Conrad Other 29%
Wes Cooley Other 92%
Jerry Costello Other 45%
Paul Coverdell Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
William Coyne Other 8%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 58%
Philip Crane Other 92%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 92%
Barbara Cubin Other 91%
Randall Cunningham Other 92%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 86%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 58%
Thomas Daschle Other 14%
Thomas Davis III Other 83%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 55%
Thomas DeLay Other 92%
Ronald Dellums Other 8%
Peter Deutsch Other 45%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67%
Jay Dickey Other 92%
Norm Dicks Other 17%
Julian Dixon Other 17%
Chris Dodd Other 14%
Robert Dole Other 86%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 83%
John Doolittle Other 92%
Byron Dorgan Other 29%
Robert Dornan Other 92%
David Dreier Other 92%
Jennifer Dunn Other 92%
Chet Edwards Other 67%
Vern Ehlers Other 82%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 83%
Bill Emerson Other 92%
Philip English Other 75%
John Ensign Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 8%
Terry Everett Other 92%
Thomas Ewing Other 92%
Jim Exon Other 43%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 100%
Harris Fawell Other 92%
Victor Fazio Other 33%
Russ Feingold Other 14%
Cleo Fields Other 18%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 91%
Floyd Flake Other 25%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 83%
Thomas Foglietta Other 17%
Mark Foley Other 92%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 83%
Harold Ford, Sr. Other 42%
Wendell Ford Other 14%
Tillie Fowler Other 92%
Jon David Fox Other 67%
Barney Frank Other 25%
Gary Franks Other 83%
Robert Franks Other 92%
Dan Frisa Other 83%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 30%
David Funderburk Other 92%
Elizabeth Furse Other 33%
Elton Gallegly Other 92%
John Ganske Other 92%
Sam Gejdenson Other 8%
George Gekas Other 92%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 27%
Pete Geren Other 83%
Sam Gibbons Other 36%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 83%
Paul Gillmor Other 92%
Benjamin Gilman Other 67%
Newt Gingrich Other 100%
John Glenn Other 29%
Henry Gonzalez Other 27%
William Goodling Other 91%
Bart Gordon Other 50%
Slade Gorton Other 86%
Porter Goss Other 83%
Daniel Graham Other 29%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 100%
Enid Greene Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 83%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Steven Gunderson Other 83%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 92%
Tony Hall Other 25%
Lee Hamilton Other 50%
Melton Hancock Other 92%
James Hansen Other 92%
Jane Harman Other 42%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 92%
Mark Hatfield Other 71%
James Hayes Other 67%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 92%
Joel Hefley Other 92%
W.G. Hefner Other 50%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 92%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Van Hilleary Other 92%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 18%
Maurice Hinchey Other 8%
David Lee Hobson Other 92%
Pete Hoekstra Other 92%
Martin Hoke Other 92%
Thomas Holden Other 42%
Ernest Hollings Other 0%
Stephen Horn Other 83%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 75%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 92%
Duncan Hunter Other 92%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 92%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 92%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 92%
Daniel Inouye Other 14%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 92%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 42%
William Jefferson Other 10%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 86%
Nancy Johnson Other 83%
Harry Johnston Other 25%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 43%
Paul Kanjorski Other 25%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 92%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 14%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 25%
Patrick Kennedy Other 25%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 25%
Bob Kerrey Other 17%
Dale Kildee Other 25%
Jay Kim Other 92%
Gerald Kleczka Other 50%
Ronald Klink Other 25%
Scott Klug Other 83%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 92%
Herb Kohl Other 43%
James Kolbe Other 92%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 17%
Ray LaHood Other 83%
Tom Lantos Other 33%
Stephen Largent Other 92%
Steve LaTourette Other 83%
Greg Laughlin Other 92%
Rick Lazio Other 67%
James Leach Other 92%
Jerry Lewis Other 91%
Ron Lewis Other 92%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Jim Lightfoot Other 92%
Blanche Lincoln Other 55%
John Linder Other 92%
William Lipinski Other 45%
Robert Livingston Other 92%
James Longley, Jr. Other 92%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
William Luther Other 42%
Connie Mack Other 100%
Thomas Manton Other 33%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Matthew Martinez Other 9%
Bill Martini Other 75%
Frank Mascara Other 42%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 45%
Bill McCollum Other 92%
James McCrery III Other 92%
Joseph McDade Other 73%
Paul McHale Other 42%
John McHugh Other 67%
Scott McInnis Other 92%
David McIntosh Other 92%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 8%
Michael McNulty Other 55%
Martin Meehan Other 42%
Carrie Meek Other 9%
Jack Metcalf Other 83%
Jan Meyers Other 92%
Dan Miller Other 92%
David Minge Other 50%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 8%
John Moakley Other 13%
Susan Molinari Other 92%
Alan Mollohan Other 18%
G.V. Montgomery Other 92%
Carlos Moorhead Other 91%
Constance Morella Other 67%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 29%
Patrick Moynihan Other 14%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 17%
John Myers Other 82%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 92%
Mark Neumann Other 92%
Robert William Ney Other 75%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 92%
Sam Nunn Other 43%
James Nussle Other 92%
Jim Oberstar Other 9%
Dave Obey Other 17%
John Olver Other 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 55%
Bill Orton Other 58%
Major Owens Other 8%
Michael Oxley Other 92%
Ronald Packard Other 92%
Mike Parker Other 92%
William Paxon Other 92%
Donald Payne Other 8%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 58%
Claiborne Pell Other 29%
Pete Peterson Other 42%
Owen Pickett Other 42%
Richard Pombo Other 92%
Earl Pomeroy Other 42%
John Edward Porter Other 83%
Glenn Poshard Other 50%
Larry Pressler Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 92%
David Pryor Other 29%
James Quillen Other 92%
Jack Quinn Other 75%
George Radanovich Other 92%
James Ramstad Other 83%
Ralph Regula Other 92%
Bill Richardson Other 42%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 92%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 25%
Charles Robb Other 43%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
Charles Rose III Other 55%
Toby Roth Other 92%
William Roth, Jr. Other 71%
Marge Roukema Other 83%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 8%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 14%
Jim Saxton Other 75%
Joe Scarborough Other 83%
Daniel Schaefer Other 83%
Steven Schiff Other 92%
Patricia Schroeder Other 17%
Andrea Seastrand Other 83%
John Shadegg Other 92%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 92%
Christopher Shays Other 75%
E.G. Shuster Other 83%
Paul Simon Other 14%
Alan Simpson Other 86%
Norman Sisisky Other 44%
David Skaggs Other 17%
Joseph Skeen Other 92%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Linda Smith Other 92%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 90%
Mark Souder Other 83%
Arlen Specter Other 71%
Floyd Spence Other 92%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 8%
Cliff Stearns Other 92%
Charles Stenholm Other 58%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Louis Stokes Other 17%
Gerry Studds Other 17%
Bob Stump Other 92%
Bart Stupak Other 33%
James Talent Other 92%
John Tanner Other 58%
Randy Tate Other 92%
William Tauzin Other 83%
Charles Taylor Other 92%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Frank Tejeda Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 92%
Fred Thompson Other 100%
Ray Thornton Other 25%
Karen Thurman Other 36%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 92%
Peter Torkildsen Other 75%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 17%
Robert Torricelli Other 25%
Ed Towns Other 8%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 50%
Bruce Vento Other 17%
Harold Volkmer Other 40%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 92%
Robert Walker Other 92%
James Walsh Other 75%
Zach Wamp Other 92%
Michael Ward Other 33%
John Warner Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 90%
David Weldon Other 92%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 75%
Gerald Weller Other 92%
Paul Wellstone Other 14%
Rick White Other 92%
Pat Williams Other 8%
Charles Wilson Other 50%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 25%
Lynn Woolsey Other 9%
Albert Wynn Other 25%
Sidney Yates Other 8%
Bill Zeliff Other 92%
Richard Zimmer Other 75%

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