Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 53%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 51%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 61%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 54%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 57%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 56%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 64%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 84%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 18%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 14%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 22%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 27%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 21%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 32%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 26%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 22%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 25%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 25%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 25%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 57%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 19%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 20%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 64%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 21%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 22%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 25%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 70%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 18%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 58%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 30%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 25%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 64%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 61%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 24%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 25%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 23%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 26%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 23%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 18%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 26%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 24%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 66%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 55%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 19%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 60%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 58%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 22%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 56%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 57%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 53%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 54%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 55%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 25%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 22%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 63%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 24%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 64%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 19%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 56%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 54%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 56%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 60%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 9%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 59%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 19%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 17%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 22%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 23%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 58%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 20%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 59%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 64%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 63%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 67%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 64%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 55%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 52%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 43%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 26%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 59%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 19%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 21%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 23%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 24%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 30%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 23%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 9%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 21%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 18%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 20%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 40%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 11%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 12%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 55%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 58%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 56%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 18%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 20%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 26%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 25%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 26%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 14%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 56%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 20%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 58%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 52%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 53%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 18%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 32%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 69%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 18%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 57%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 62%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 14%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 58%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 31%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 25%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 63%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 19%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 23%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 52%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 49%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 29%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 15%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 56%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 29%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 21%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 11%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 15%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 53%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 25%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 27%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 24%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 22%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 21%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 19%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 19%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 18%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 24%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 18%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 19%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 28%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 59%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 68%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 62%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 20%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 62%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 62%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 64%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 55%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 25%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 56%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 28%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 31%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 66%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 20%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 56%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 22%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 64%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 16%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 16%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 20%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 52%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 54%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 57%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 14%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 71%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 61%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 42%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 60%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 63%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 61%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 53%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 58%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 21%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 20%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 51%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 16%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 18%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 62%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 32%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 63%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 27%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 17%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 61%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 60%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 57%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 30%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 57%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 14%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 22%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 19%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 20%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 27%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 56%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 28%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 28%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 19%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 27%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 63%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 24%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 72%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 63%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 10%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 49%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 20%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 73%
Gary Ackerman Other 21%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 17%
Todd Akin Other 65%
Wayne Allard Other 66%
George Allen Other 55%
Thomas Allen Other 18%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 16%
Brian Baird Other 19%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 55%
Cass Ballenger Other 55%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 57%
Charlie Bass Other 60%
Evan Bayh Other 31%
Bob Bennett Other 61%
Douglas Bereuter Other 46%
Shelley Berkley Other 25%
Howard Berman Other 23%
Marion Berry Other 27%
Judy Biggert Other 59%
Michael Bilirakis Other 60%
Jeff Bingaman Other 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 45%
Kit Bond Other 59%
Henry Bonilla Other 53%
Mary Bono Mack Other 48%
Leonard Boswell Other 27%
Rick Boucher Other 22%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 16%
John Breaux Other 29%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 53%
Jim Bunning Other 65%
Conrad Burns Other 53%
Dan Burton Other 58%
Steve Buyer Other 54%
Robert Byrd Other 15%
Ben Campbell Other 52%
Chris Cannon Other 65%
Brad Carson Other 26%
Julia Carson Other 21%
Mike Castle Other 58%
Hillary Clinton Other 17%
Michael Collins Other 73%
Larry Combest Other 48%
Kent Conrad Other 15%
Jon Corzine Other 20%
Jerry Costello Other 28%
Christopher Cox Other 64%
Larry Craig Other 60%
Robert Cramer Other 36%
Philip Crane Other 67%
Barbara Cubin Other 61%
Randall Cunningham Other 53%
Thomas Daschle Other 18%
James Davis Other 28%
Jo Ann Davis Other 56%
Thomas Davis III Other 57%
Bill Delahunt Other 26%
Thomas DeLay Other 59%
James DeMint Other 62%
Peter Deutsch Other 19%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 55%
Norm Dicks Other 19%
Chris Dodd Other 8%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 56%
Calvin Dooley Other 32%
John Doolittle Other 60%
Byron Dorgan Other 14%
David Dreier Other 52%
Jennifer Dunn Other 57%
John Edwards Other 18%
Chet Edwards Other 21%
Vern Ehlers Other 59%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 55%
Philip English Other 53%
John Ensign Other 70%
Bob Etheridge Other 24%
Lane Evans Other 18%
Terry Everett Other 58%
Russ Feingold Other 43%
Michael Ferguson Other 55%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 55%
Ernest Fletcher Other 53%
Mark Foley Other 56%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 24%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 59%
Barney Frank Other 26%
William Frist Other 67%
Jonas Frost III Other 13%
Elton Gallegly Other 57%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 18%
Jim Gibbons Other 59%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 51%
Paul Gillmor Other 49%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 17%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 65%
Bart Gordon Other 33%
Porter Goss Other 57%
Daniel Graham Other 24%
Mark Green Other 60%
James Greenwood Other 55%
Judd Gregg Other 59%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 64%
Jane Harman Other 37%
Melissa Hart Other 57%
Robert Hayes Other 52%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 61%
Joel Hefley Other 65%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 60%
Baron Hill Other 25%
Maurice Hinchey Other 21%
David Lee Hobson Other 59%
Pete Hoekstra Other 62%
Thomas Holden Other 18%
Ernest Hollings Other 19%
Darlene Hooley Other 21%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 65%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 47%
Kenny Hulshof Other 56%
Duncan Hunter Other 52%
Kay Hutchison Other 68%
Henry Hyde Other 53%
Daniel Inouye Other 15%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 61%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 24%
William Jefferson Other 26%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 18%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 56%
Christopher John Other 28%
Nancy Johnson Other 49%
Tim Johnson Other 51%
Paul Kanjorski Other 22%
Ric Keller Other 57%
Sue Kelly Other 53%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 13%
Mark Kennedy Other 59%
Patrick Kennedy Other 16%
Dale Kildee Other 16%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 23%
Gerald Kleczka Other 27%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 55%
Herb Kohl Other 18%
James Kolbe Other 57%
Dennis Kucinich Other 32%
Jon Kyl Other 82%
Ray LaHood Other 53%
Nicholas Lampson Other 21%
Tom Lantos Other 21%
Steve LaTourette Other 51%
James Leach Other 44%
Jerry Lewis Other 56%
Ron Lewis Other 55%
Joe Lieberman Other 20%
Blanche Lincoln Other 36%
John Linder Other 60%
William Lipinski Other 21%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 69%
Dick Lugar Other 70%
Don Manzullo Other 64%
Robert Matsui Other 20%
Karen McCarthy Other 19%
James McCrery III Other 56%
John McHugh Other 49%
Scott McInnis Other 61%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Martin Meehan Other 20%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 18%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 41%
Alan Mollohan Other 24%
Dennis Moore Other 24%
Jack Murtha Other 21%
Sue Myrick Other 61%
Ben Nelson Other 35%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 55%
Robert William Ney Other 56%
Don Nickles Other 77%
Anne Northup Other 57%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 59%
James Nussle Other 57%
Jim Oberstar Other 26%
Dave Obey Other 25%
John Olver Other 24%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 14%
Thomas William Osborne Other 55%
Doug Ose Other 54%
Major Owens Other 27%
Michael Oxley Other 60%
Ron Paul Other 88%
Donald Payne Other 30%
John Peterson Other 56%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 55%
Todd Platts Other 58%
Richard Pombo Other 55%
Earl Pomeroy Other 18%
Deborah Pryce Other 58%
Jack Quinn Other 42%
George Radanovich Other 56%
James Ramstad Other 59%
Ralph Regula Other 53%
Denny Rehberg Other 56%
Silvestre Reyes Other 15%
Thomas Reynolds Other 56%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 18%
Mike Ross Other 27%
Steve Rothman Other 18%
Jim Ryun Other 63%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 18%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 31%
Rick Santorum Other 77%
Paul Sarbanes Other 10%
Jim Saxton Other 56%
Edward Schrock Other 59%
John Shadegg Other 67%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 52%
Christopher Shays Other 58%
Donald Sherwood Other 56%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 49%
Ike Skelton Other 21%
Gordon Smith Other 42%
Nick Smith Other 67%
Olympia Snowe Other 41%
Vic Snyder Other 24%
Hilda Solis Other 18%
Mark Souder Other 58%
Arlen Specter Other 42%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 16%
Pete Stark Other 31%
Cliff Stearns Other 65%
Charles Stenholm Other 27%
Ted Stevens Other 53%
Ted Strickland Other 16%
Bart Stupak Other 22%
John Sullivan Other 61%
John Sununu Other 61%
John Sweeney Other 54%
Tom Tancredo Other 71%
John Tanner Other 26%
Ellen Tauscher Other 22%
William Tauzin Other 58%
Charles Taylor Other 56%
Gene Taylor Other 30%
Craig Thomas Other 73%
William Thomas Other 52%
Todd Tiahrt Other 56%
Ed Towns Other 22%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 26%
James Turner Other 17%
George Voinovich Other 69%
James Walsh Other 49%
Zach Wamp Other 59%
John Warner Other 51%
Diane Watson Other 26%
Anthony Weiner Other 21%
David Weldon Other 60%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 50%
Gerald Weller Other 56%
Robert Wexler Other 17%
Heather Wilson Other 53%
Lynn Woolsey Other 24%
David Wu Other 17%
Albert Wynn Other 21%

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