Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

2005 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 70%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 59%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 69%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 82%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 61%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 54%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 57%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 58%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 15%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 59%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 78%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 91%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 17%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 16%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 11%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 18%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 11%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 17%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 11%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 21%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 23%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 16%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 14%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 15%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 17%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 59%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 14%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 54%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 12%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 12%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 65%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 12%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 15%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 14%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 13%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 79%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 10%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 55%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 19%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 22%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 76%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 59%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 14%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 20%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 16%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 15%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 26%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 10%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 11%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 22%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 16%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 72%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 55%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 11%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 63%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 56%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 13%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 14%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 68%
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 73%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 77%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 61%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 23%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 70%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 17%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 68%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 59%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 21%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 19%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 67%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 14%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 71%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 7%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 52%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 70%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 69%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 53%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 73%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 4%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 51%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 13%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 15%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 18%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 17%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 15%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 60%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 12%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 12%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 75%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 69%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 64%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 75%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 75%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 56%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 55%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 23%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 70%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 56%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 56%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 62%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 12%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 17%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 18%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 19%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 16%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 11%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 5%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 13%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 16%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 13%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 13%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 14%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 40%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 19%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 7%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 6%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 55%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 52%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 62%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 12%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 52%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 16%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 23%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 60%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 17%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 32%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 8%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 59%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 18%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 12%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 61%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 70%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 53%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 13%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 23%
NA President Barack Obama II D 6%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 76%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 7%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 76%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 14%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 62%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 12%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 70%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 59%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 27%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 70%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 15%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 54%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 63%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 56%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 7%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 13%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 18%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 48%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 42%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 74%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 14%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 10%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 51%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 13%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 12%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 55%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 5%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 13%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 12%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 52%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 18%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 16%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 16%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 21%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 14%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 15%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 15%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 10%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 15%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 12%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 11%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 12%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 11%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 12%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 70%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 65%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 12%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 52%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 58%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 14%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 48%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 78%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 83%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 56%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 60%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 14%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 57%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 18%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 16%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 12%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 10%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 42%
PA U.S. House-8 Mike Fitzpatrick R 47%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 63%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 10%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 12%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 54%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 72%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 55%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 9%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 13%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 33%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 74%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 67%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 14%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 9%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 63%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 71%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 80%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 33%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 74%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 79%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 67%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 65%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 69%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 56%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 79%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 69%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 61%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 68%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 13%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 60%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 62%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 56%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 67%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 21%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 20%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 67%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 57%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 63%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 66%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 29%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 17%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 12%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 60%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 69%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 18%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 68%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 63%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 37%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 11%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 58%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 62%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 58%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 15%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 48%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 7%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 18%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 7%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 17%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 18%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 54%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 61%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 21%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 48%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 18%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 20%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 19%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 69%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 21%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 14%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 76%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 7%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 49%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 19%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 72%
Gary Ackerman Other 12%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 7%
Todd Akin Other 71%
Wayne Allard Other 80%
George Allen Other 74%
Thomas Allen Other 13%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 16%
Brian Baird Other 18%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 61%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 71%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 73%
Charlie Bass Other 59%
Evan Bayh Other 12%
Melissa Bean Other 34%
Bob Beauprez Other 64%
Bob Bennett Other 69%
Shelley Berkley Other 21%
Howard Berman Other 13%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 53%
Michael Bilirakis Other 55%
Jeff Bingaman Other 17%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 47%
Kit Bond Other 69%
Henry Bonilla Other 57%
Mary Bono Mack Other 55%
Dan Boren Other 36%
Leonard Boswell Other 20%
Rick Boucher Other 18%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 21%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 56%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 58%
Jim Bunning Other 75%
Conrad Burns Other 67%
Dan Burton Other 63%
Steve Buyer Other 61%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Chris Cannon Other 66%
Dennis Cardoza Other 25%
Russ Carnahan Other 12%
Julia Carson Other 14%
Edward Case Other 20%
Mike Castle Other 51%
Ben Chandler III Other 21%
Chris Chocola Other 71%
Hillary Clinton Other 9%
Norm Coleman Other 51%
Kent Conrad Other 17%
Jerry Costello Other 22%
Larry Craig Other 69%
Robert Cramer Other 32%
Barbara Cubin Other 62%
Artur Davis Other 18%
Geoff Davis Other 55%
James Davis Other 10%
Jo Ann Davis Other 61%
Lincoln Davis Other 29%
Thomas Davis III Other 49%
Bill Delahunt Other 15%
Thomas DeLay Other 55%
James DeMint Other 85%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 59%
Norm Dicks Other 16%
Chris Dodd Other 11%
Elizabeth Dole Other 68%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 66%
John Doolittle Other 55%
Byron Dorgan Other 10%
Thelma Drake Other 59%
David Dreier Other 55%
Chet Edwards Other 22%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 50%
Philip English Other 57%
John Ensign Other 82%
Bob Etheridge Other 13%
Lane Evans Other 8%
Terry Everett Other 58%
Tom Feeney Other 74%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Michael Ferguson Other 55%
Mark Foley Other 55%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 15%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 60%
Barney Frank Other 19%
William Frist Other 74%
Elton Gallegly Other 54%
Jim Gibbons Other 66%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 48%
Paul Gillmor Other 52%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 13%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 56%
Bart Gordon Other 29%
Mark Green Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 78%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 66%
Jane Harman Other 20%
Katherine Harris Other 65%
Melissa Hart Other 58%
Robert Hayes Other 55%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 69%
Joel Hefley Other 69%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 67%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 19%
Maurice Hinchey Other 15%
David Lee Hobson Other 51%
Pete Hoekstra Other 63%
Thomas Holden Other 19%
Darlene Hooley Other 16%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 71%
Kenny Hulshof Other 56%
Duncan Hunter Other 56%
Kay Hutchison Other 69%
Henry Hyde Other 54%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 67%
Daniel Inouye Other 7%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 66%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 12%
William Jefferson Other 19%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 9%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 63%
Nancy Johnson Other 46%
Tim Johnson Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 18%
Ric Keller Other 64%
Sue Kelly Other 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 7%
Mark Kennedy Other 59%
Patrick Kennedy Other 12%
Dale Kildee Other 13%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 16%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 53%
Herb Kohl Other 14%
James Kolbe Other 59%
Dennis Kucinich Other 23%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 58%
Jon Kyl Other 87%
Ray LaHood Other 49%
Tom Lantos Other 11%
Steve LaTourette Other 49%
James Leach Other 39%
Jerry Lewis Other 53%
Ron Lewis Other 60%
Joe Lieberman Other 9%
Blanche Lincoln Other 17%
John Linder Other 69%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 70%
Dick Lugar Other 61%
Dan Lungren Other 63%
Connie Mack IV Other 67%
Don Manzullo Other 66%
Jim Marshall Other 24%
Melquiades Martinez Other 70%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 58%
James McCrery III Other 57%
John McHugh Other 48%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 20%
Michael McNulty Other 16%
Martin Meehan Other 16%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 15%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 29%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 13%
Brad Miller Other 9%
Alan Mollohan Other 18%
Dennis Moore Other 21%
Jack Murtha Other 21%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 70%
Sue Myrick Other 71%
Ben Nelson Other 41%
Robert William Ney Other 50%
Anne Northup Other 55%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 66%
James Nussle Other 57%
Jim Oberstar Other 18%
Dave Obey Other 16%
John Olver Other 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 17%
Thomas William Osborne Other 53%
Major Owens Other 18%
Michael Oxley Other 54%
Ron Paul Other 84%
Donald Payne Other 17%
John Peterson Other 56%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 53%
Todd Platts Other 53%
Richard Pombo Other 59%
Earl Pomeroy Other 18%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 56%
Deborah Pryce Other 54%
George Radanovich Other 64%
James Ramstad Other 51%
Ralph Regula Other 51%
Denny Rehberg Other 51%
Richard Renzi Other 56%
Silvestre Reyes Other 19%
Thomas Reynolds Other 55%
Mike Ross Other 21%
Steve Rothman Other 10%
Jim Ryun Other 64%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 12%
Ken Salazar Other 14%
Rick Santorum Other 69%
Paul Sarbanes Other 5%
Jim Saxton Other 49%
John Schwarz Other 47%
John Shadegg Other 79%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 55%
Christopher Shays Other 44%
Donald Sherwood Other 55%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 42%
Ike Skelton Other 19%
Gordon Smith Other 54%
Olympia Snowe Other 35%
Vic Snyder Other 18%
Mike Sodrel Other 60%
Hilda Solis Other 15%
Mark Souder Other 57%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 14%
Pete Stark Other 24%
Cliff Stearns Other 71%
Ted Stevens Other 68%
Ted Strickland Other 13%
Bart Stupak Other 13%
John Sullivan Other 63%
John Sununu Other 91%
John Sweeney Other 50%
James Talent Other 64%
Tom Tancredo Other 80%
John Tanner Other 33%
Ellen Tauscher Other 17%
Charles Taylor Other 56%
Gene Taylor Other 38%
Craig Thomas Other 74%
William Thomas Other 55%
Todd Tiahrt Other 61%
Ed Towns Other 22%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 17%
George Voinovich Other 60%
James Walsh Other 51%
Zach Wamp Other 62%
John Warner Other 67%
Diane Watson Other 13%
Anthony Weiner Other 15%
David Weldon Other 59%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 49%
Gerald Weller Other 57%
Robert Wexler Other 15%
Heather Wilson Other 46%
Lynn Woolsey Other 19%
David Wu Other 15%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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