Rating Group: Associated Builders & Contractors

1999 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 60%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 91%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 83%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 80%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 91%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 16%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 0%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 8%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 10%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 33%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 16%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 18%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 9%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 91%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 91%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 8%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 16%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 8%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 8%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 8%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 90%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 11%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 70%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 91%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 91%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 58%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 91%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 8%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 8%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 9%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 8%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 91%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 91%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 66%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 85%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 8%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 8%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 8%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 8%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 8%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 16%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 8%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 8%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 25%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 91%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 8%
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%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 9%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 20%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 91%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 83%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 25%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 91%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 8%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 18%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 75%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 66%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 16%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 91%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 75%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 8%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 8%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 75%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 33%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 8%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 16%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 8%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 8%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 8%
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 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 9%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 90%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 91%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 91%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 18%
OH Governor John Kasich R 91%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 8%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 83%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 20%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 16%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 8%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 91%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 8%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 8%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 25%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 91%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 66%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 83%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 91%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 75%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 91%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 75%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 83%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 25%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 16%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 25%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 8%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 83%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 16%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 33%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 75%
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 20%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 11%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 91%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 25%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 91%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 83%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 0%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 16%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 80%
Gary Ackerman Other 8%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 8%
Bill Archer Other 91%
Richard Armey Other 100%
John Ashcroft Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 8%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
John Baldacci Other 8%
Cass Ballenger Other 91%
James Barcia Other 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 91%
Bill Barrett Other 83%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 91%
Herbert Bateman Other 83%
Evan Bayh Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 8%
Douglas Bereuter Other 83%
Shelley Berkley Other 16%
Howard Berman Other 8%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Brian Bilbray Other 72%
Michael Bilirakis Other 91%
Jeff Bingaman Other 20%
Rod Blagojevich Other 8%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 91%
David Edward Bonior Other 8%
Mary Bono Mack Other 91%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 8%
Leonard Boswell Other 41%
Rick Boucher Other 8%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 41%
John Breaux Other 20%
Richard Bryan Other 20%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 20%
Herbert Callahan Other 83%
Ben Campbell Other 80%
Thomas Campbell Other 58%
Chris Cannon Other 91%
Julia Carson Other 9%
Mike Castle Other 66%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 91%
William Clay, Sr. Other 8%
Eva Clayton Other 8%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 0%
Robert Clement Other 50%
Michael Collins Other 91%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 66%
Kent Conrad Other 0%
Merrill Cook Other 83%
John Cooksey Other 91%
Jerry Costello Other 16%
Paul Coverdell Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 90%
William Coyne Other 8%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 58%
Philip Crane Other 91%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 58%
Thomas Daschle Other 0%
James Davis Other 16%
Thomas Davis III Other 91%
Bill Delahunt Other 16%
Thomas DeLay Other 91%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 16%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 75%
Jay Dickey Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 9%
Julian Dixon Other 8%
Chris Dodd Other 25%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 80%
Calvin Dooley Other 58%
John Doolittle Other 91%
Byron Dorgan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 91%
Jennifer Dunn Other 100%
John Edwards Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 18%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 91%
Philip English Other 91%
Bob Etheridge Other 41%
Lane Evans Other 8%
Terry Everett Other 91%
Thomas Ewing Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 0%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 60%
Ernest Fletcher Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 75%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 16%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Tillie Fowler Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 8%
Robert Franks Other 83%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 25%
Elton Gallegly Other 83%
John Ganske Other 58%
Sam Gejdenson Other 8%
George Gekas Other 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 8%
Jim Gibbons Other 75%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 75%
Paul Gillmor Other 91%
Benjamin Gilman Other 66%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 8%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
William Goodling Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Slade Gorton Other 80%
Porter Goss Other 91%
Daniel Graham Other 0%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 100%
Mark Green Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 75%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Tony Hall Other 25%
James Hansen Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 91%
Joel Hefley Other 91%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 91%
Baron Hill Other 25%
Rick Hill Other 83%
Van Hilleary Other 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 8%
Maurice Hinchey Other 8%
David Lee Hobson Other 91%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 33%
Ernest Hollings Other 0%
Darlene Hooley Other 16%
Stephen Horn Other 66%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 90%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 81%
Kenny Hulshof Other 81%
Duncan Hunter Other 91%
Asa Hutchinson Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 72%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 83%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 18%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 60%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 91%
Christopher John Other 66%
Nancy Johnson Other 66%
Paul Kanjorski Other 8%
Sue Kelly Other 83%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 9%
Bob Kerrey Other 20%
Dale Kildee Other 8%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 8%
Ronald Klink Other 8%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 91%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 90%
Dennis Kucinich Other 8%
Steven Kuykendall Other 91%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 8%
Ray LaHood Other 90%
Nicholas Lampson Other 8%
Tom Lantos Other 11%
Stephen Largent Other 91%
Steve LaTourette Other 83%
Rick Lazio Other 75%
James Leach Other 83%
Jerry Lewis Other 91%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 20%
Blanche Lincoln Other 20%
John Linder Other 91%
William Lipinski Other 25%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
William Luther Other 16%
Connie Mack Other 100%
James Maloney Other 33%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Matthew Martinez Other 9%
Frank Mascara Other 8%
Robert Matsui Other 8%
Karen McCarthy Other 25%
Bill McCollum Other 91%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 75%
Scott McInnis Other 91%
David McIntosh Other 91%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 9%
Michael McNulty Other 8%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 8%
Jack Metcalf Other 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 8%
Dan Miller Other 91%
David Minge Other 16%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 16%
John Moakley Other 8%
Alan Mollohan Other 27%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Constance Morella Other 16%
Patrick Moynihan Other 20%
Frank Murkowski Other 80%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 91%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 91%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 83%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 9%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 16%
Doug Ose Other 91%
Major Owens Other 8%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ronald Packard Other 91%
Ron Paul Other 75%
Donald Payne Other 8%
Edward Pease Other 100%
John Peterson Other 100%
David Phelps Other 16%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Owen Pickett Other 41%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 33%
John Edward Porter Other 66%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 75%
Ralph Regula Other 83%
Silvestre Reyes Other 16%
Thomas Reynolds Other 91%
Bob Riley Other 90%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 25%
Charles Robb Other 20%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 8%
Timothy Roemer Other 41%
James Rogan Other 100%
William Roth, Jr. Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 8%
Marge Roukema Other 75%
Jim Ryun Other 91%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 41%
Rick Santorum Other 80%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 75%
Joe Scarborough Other 90%
John Shadegg Other 91%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 81%
Christopher Shays Other 50%
Donald Sherwood Other 91%
Ronnie Shows Other 54%
E.G. Shuster Other 100%
Norman Sisisky Other 50%
Joseph Skeen Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 41%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Nick Smith Other 90%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 8%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 0%
Floyd Spence Other 91%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 9%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 91%
Charles Stenholm Other 41%
Ted Stevens Other 80%
Ted Strickland Other 16%
Bob Stump Other 91%
Bart Stupak Other 16%
John Sununu Other 91%
John Sweeney Other 83%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 33%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 91%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 90%
Fred Thompson Other 60%
Karen Thurman Other 8%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 91%
Robert Torricelli Other 20%
Ed Towns Other 8%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 41%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 16%
James Turner Other 41%
Bruce Vento Other 8%
George Voinovich Other 60%
James Walsh Other 75%
Zach Wamp Other 75%
John Warner Other 100%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 8%
David Weldon Other 91%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 75%
Gerald Weller Other 83%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Bob Weygand Other 25%
Heather Wilson Other 91%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 25%
Lynn Woolsey Other 8%
David Wu Other 16%
Albert Wynn Other 8%

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