Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

2001 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 65%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 77%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 81%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 60%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 67%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 23%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 66%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 87%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 12%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 18%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 6%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 17%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 15%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 8%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 18%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 13%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 15%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 13%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 10%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 15%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 61%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 20%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 15%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 71%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 8%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 10%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 11%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 81%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 6%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 62%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 13%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 21%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 79%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 61%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 18%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 18%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 14%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 10%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 85%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 11%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 10%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 21%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 62%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 11%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 64%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 60%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 11%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 62%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 61%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 65%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 60%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 68%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 30%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 10%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 67%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 19%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 78%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 6%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 59%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 79%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 61%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 73%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 7%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 57%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 8%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 10%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 9%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 14%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 65%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 76%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 81%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 67%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 85%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 81%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 60%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 59%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 48%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 24%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 66%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 9%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 8%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 11%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 13%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 13%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 5%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 11%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 10%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 8%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 6%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 6%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 66%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 60%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 61%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 11%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 22%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 10%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 34%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 6%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 67%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 11%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 61%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 77%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 61%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 16%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 43%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 82%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 7%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 60%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 75%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 10%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 63%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 29%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 66%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 12%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 19%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 56%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 59%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 13%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 12%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 61%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 15%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 14%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 6%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 9%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 59%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 16%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 21%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 13%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 14%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 13%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 6%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 11%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 8%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 7%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 9%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 15%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 68%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 75%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 65%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 15%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 68%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 8%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 75%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 82%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 65%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 17%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 60%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 19%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 13%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 76%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 11%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 13%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 76%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 12%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 8%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 10%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 49%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 64%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 14%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 16%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 59%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 71%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 73%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 62%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 69%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 74%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 69%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 63%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 63%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 15%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 9%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 61%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 17%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 10%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 76%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 21%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 81%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 25%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 12%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 72%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 70%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 15%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 59%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 8%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 11%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 9%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 7%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 16%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 62%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 17%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 18%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 10%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 14%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 69%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 15%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 84%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 76%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 13%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 7%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 56%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 21%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 83%
Gary Ackerman Other 9%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 6%
Todd Akin Other 74%
Wayne Allard Other 88%
George Allen Other 80%
Thomas Allen Other 11%
Richard Armey Other 67%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 13%
Brian Baird Other 14%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 64%
John Baldacci Other 10%
Cass Ballenger Other 60%
James Barcia Other 27%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 74%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 70%
Charlie Bass Other 61%
Evan Bayh Other 20%
Bob Bennett Other 83%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 18%
Douglas Bereuter Other 50%
Shelley Berkley Other 22%
Howard Berman Other 12%
Marion Berry Other 18%
Judy Biggert Other 61%
Michael Bilirakis Other 59%
Jeff Bingaman Other 7%
Rod Blagojevich Other 11%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 51%
Kit Bond Other 83%
Henry Bonilla Other 61%
David Edward Bonior Other 10%
Mary Bono Mack Other 63%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 14%
Leonard Boswell Other 22%
Rick Boucher Other 12%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 20%
John Breaux Other 42%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 61%
Ed Bryant Other 66%
Jim Bunning Other 85%
Conrad Burns Other 81%
Dan Burton Other 72%
Steve Buyer Other 62%
Robert Byrd Other 13%
Herbert Callahan Other 62%
Ben Campbell Other 79%
Chris Cannon Other 67%
Jean Carnahan Other 21%
Brad Carson Other 20%
Julia Carson Other 10%
Mike Castle Other 56%
Eva Clayton Other 8%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 32%
Robert Clement Other 22%
Hillary Clinton Other 3%
Michael Collins Other 64%
Larry Combest Other 62%
Gary Condit Other 38%
Kent Conrad Other 5%
John Cooksey Other 57%
Jon Corzine Other 9%
Jerry Costello Other 19%
Christopher Cox Other 74%
William Coyne Other 10%
Larry Craig Other 82%
Robert Cramer Other 40%
Philip Crane Other 79%
Barbara Cubin Other 77%
Randall Cunningham Other 61%
Thomas Daschle Other 6%
James Davis Other 18%
Jo Ann Davis Other 66%
Thomas Davis III Other 60%
Bill Delahunt Other 12%
Thomas DeLay Other 73%
James DeMint Other 73%
Peter Deutsch Other 15%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 61%
Norm Dicks Other 12%
Chris Dodd Other 6%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 78%
Calvin Dooley Other 22%
John Doolittle Other 73%
Byron Dorgan Other 6%
David Dreier Other 63%
Jennifer Dunn Other 66%
John Edwards Other 13%
Chet Edwards Other 15%
Vern Ehlers Other 60%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 62%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 57%
Philip English Other 58%
John Ensign Other 84%
Bob Etheridge Other 21%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 67%
Russ Feingold Other 17%
Michael Ferguson Other 58%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 77%
Ernest Fletcher Other 61%
Mark Foley Other 60%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 18%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 63%
Barney Frank Other 16%
William Frist Other 84%
Jonas Frost III Other 9%
Elton Gallegly Other 62%
John Ganske Other 55%
George Gekas Other 58%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 9%
Jim Gibbons Other 67%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 59%
Paul Gillmor Other 55%
Benjamin Gilman Other 52%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 12%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 72%
Bart Gordon Other 33%
Porter Goss Other 62%
Daniel Graham Other 8%
William Phillip Gramm Other 87%
Mark Green Other 65%
James Greenwood Other 57%
Judd Gregg Other 85%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 58%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 61%
Tony Hall Other 14%
James Hansen Other 67%
Jane Harman Other 24%
Melissa Hart Other 59%
Robert Hayes Other 61%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 72%
Joel Hefley Other 78%
Jesse Helms Other 87%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 72%
Baron Hill Other 27%
Van Hilleary Other 62%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 16%
Maurice Hinchey Other 11%
David Lee Hobson Other 59%
Pete Hoekstra Other 74%
Thomas Holden Other 17%
Ernest Hollings Other 7%
Darlene Hooley Other 14%
Stephen Horn Other 54%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 74%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 50%
Kenny Hulshof Other 61%
Duncan Hunter Other 68%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 77%
Kay Hutchison Other 79%
Henry Hyde Other 56%
Daniel Inouye Other 6%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 68%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 18%
William Jefferson Other 16%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 49%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 60%
Christopher John Other 36%
Nancy Johnson Other 52%
Tim Johnson Other 56%
Paul Kanjorski Other 20%
Ric Keller Other 66%
Sue Kelly Other 57%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 9%
Mark Kennedy Other 62%
Patrick Kennedy Other 8%
Brian Kerns Other 72%
Dale Kildee Other 10%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 11%
Gerald Kleczka Other 11%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 62%
Herb Kohl Other 20%
James Kolbe Other 62%
Dennis Kucinich Other 12%
Jon Kyl Other 88%
John LaFalce Other 8%
Ray LaHood Other 57%
Nicholas Lampson Other 14%
Tom Lantos Other 9%
Steve LaTourette Other 57%
James Leach Other 53%
Jerry Lewis Other 62%
Ron Lewis Other 68%
Joe Lieberman Other 7%
Blanche Lincoln Other 29%
John Linder Other 64%
William Lipinski Other 29%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 81%
Dick Lugar Other 81%
William Luther Other 13%
James Maloney Other 24%
Don Manzullo Other 70%
Frank Mascara Other 16%
Robert Matsui Other 7%
Karen McCarthy Other 13%
James McCrery III Other 62%
John McHugh Other 55%
Scott McInnis Other 69%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 16%
Michael McNulty Other 9%
Martin Meehan Other 11%
Carrie Meek Other 11%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 8%
Dan Miller Other 67%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 63%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 7%
Alan Mollohan Other 17%
Dennis Moore Other 27%
Constance Morella Other 43%
Frank Murkowski Other 82%
Jack Murtha Other 24%
Sue Myrick Other 71%
Ben Nelson Other 43%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 65%
Robert William Ney Other 58%
Don Nickles Other 87%
Anne Northup Other 62%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 64%
James Nussle Other 63%
Jim Oberstar Other 9%
Dave Obey Other 9%
John Olver Other 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 17%
Thomas William Osborne Other 59%
Doug Ose Other 60%
Major Owens Other 15%
Michael Oxley Other 60%
Ron Paul Other 88%
Donald Payne Other 12%
John Peterson Other 61%
David Phelps Other 21%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 60%
Todd Platts Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 71%
Earl Pomeroy Other 12%
Deborah Pryce Other 59%
Jack Quinn Other 58%
George Radanovich Other 63%
James Ramstad Other 62%
Ralph Regula Other 58%
Denny Rehberg Other 59%
Silvestre Reyes Other 13%
Thomas Reynolds Other 62%
Bob Riley Other 66%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 16%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 12%
Timothy Roemer Other 25%
Mike Ross Other 23%
Steve Rothman Other 10%
Marge Roukema Other 57%
Jim Ryun Other 75%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 24%
Rick Santorum Other 82%
Paul Sarbanes Other 5%
Jim Saxton Other 56%
Edward Schrock Other 67%
John Shadegg Other 80%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 56%
Christopher Shays Other 66%
Donald Sherwood Other 62%
Ronnie Shows Other 36%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 58%
Joseph Skeen Other 60%
Ike Skelton Other 25%
Gordon Smith Other 76%
Nick Smith Other 66%
Bob Smith Other 87%
Olympia Snowe Other 65%
Vic Snyder Other 19%
Hilda Solis Other 9%
Mark Souder Other 67%
Arlen Specter Other 59%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 11%
Pete Stark Other 16%
Cliff Stearns Other 74%
Charles Stenholm Other 28%
Ted Stevens Other 73%
Ted Strickland Other 12%
Bob Stump Other 65%
Bart Stupak Other 15%
John Sununu Other 69%
John Sweeney Other 59%
Tom Tancredo Other 86%
John Tanner Other 25%
Ellen Tauscher Other 20%
William Tauzin Other 61%
Charles Taylor Other 65%
Gene Taylor Other 32%
Craig Thomas Other 83%
William Thomas Other 57%
Fred Thompson Other 84%
Karen Thurman Other 11%
Strom Thurmond Other 85%
Todd Tiahrt Other 68%
Robert Torricelli Other 29%
Ed Towns Other 18%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 56%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 13%
James Turner Other 18%
George Voinovich Other 87%
James Walsh Other 58%
Zach Wamp Other 62%
John Warner Other 77%
Wesley Watkins Other 61%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 59%
Anthony Weiner Other 11%
David Weldon Other 71%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 55%
Gerald Weller Other 60%
Paul Wellstone Other 7%
Robert Wexler Other 7%
Heather Wilson Other 60%
Lynn Woolsey Other 11%
David Wu Other 17%
Albert Wynn Other 10%

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