Rating Group: Vietnam Veterans of America

2001 Positions

Issues: Veterans
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 66%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 76%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 69%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 77%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 77%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 46%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 66%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 77%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 92%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 69%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 77%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 55%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 77%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 55%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 66%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 66%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 66%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 77%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 66%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 77%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 77%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 77%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 77%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 77%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 66%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 55%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 77%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 77%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 77%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 66%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 55%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 77%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 77%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 66%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 55%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 66%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 77%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 66%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 77%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 66%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 92%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 84%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 77%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 77%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 77%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 66%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 66%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 66%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 77%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 77%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 77%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 66%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 77%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 66%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 55%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 61%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 84%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 77%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 76%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 77%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 77%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 76%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 77%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 66%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 55%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 66%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 66%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 77%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 77%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 77%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 69%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 77%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 69%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 76%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 66%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 77%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 66%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 84%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 77%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 77%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 66%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 55%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 66%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 66%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 92%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 66%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 77%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 77%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 61%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 84%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 76%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 77%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 77%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 77%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 77%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 77%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 66%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 77%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 77%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 84%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 77%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 66%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 77%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 76%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 77%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 66%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 76%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 84%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 76%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 92%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 77%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 77%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 77%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 77%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 66%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 77%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 77%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 66%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 77%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 77%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 77%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 77%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 77%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 77%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 77%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 77%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 84%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 84%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 77%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 77%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 77%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 77%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 66%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 66%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 66%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 88%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 77%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 77%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 77%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 77%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 66%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 66%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 66%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 55%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 77%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 77%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 77%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 77%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 69%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 76%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 77%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 84%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 77%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 66%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 66%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 66%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 66%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 66%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 77%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 77%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 77%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 92%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 77%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 84%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 77%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 77%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 76%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 77%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 77%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 66%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 66%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 77%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 77%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 77%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 77%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 77%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 66%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 77%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 77%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 77%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 77%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 77%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 66%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 76%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 77%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 66%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 75%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 77%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 77%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 88%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 77%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 84%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 55%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 92%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 92%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 77%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 77%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 66%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 66%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 77%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 44%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 66%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 66%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 66%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 66%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 66%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 84%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 77%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 88%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 61%
Gary Ackerman Other 44%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 84%
Todd Akin Other 77%
Wayne Allard Other 69%
George Allen Other 76%
Thomas Allen Other 55%
Richard Armey Other 77%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 77%
Brian Baird Other 77%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 77%
John Baldacci Other 77%
Cass Ballenger Other 77%
James Barcia Other 77%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 77%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 77%
Charlie Bass Other 88%
Evan Bayh Other 84%
Bob Bennett Other 69%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 88%
Douglas Bereuter Other 66%
Shelley Berkley Other 77%
Howard Berman Other 66%
Marion Berry Other 77%
Judy Biggert Other 77%
Michael Bilirakis Other 77%
Jeff Bingaman Other 84%
Rod Blagojevich Other 66%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 77%
Kit Bond Other 69%
Henry Bonilla Other 77%
David Edward Bonior Other 55%
Mary Bono Mack Other 77%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 77%
Leonard Boswell Other 77%
Rick Boucher Other 77%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 66%
John Breaux Other 84%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 77%
Ed Bryant Other 77%
Jim Bunning Other 61%
Conrad Burns Other 69%
Dan Burton Other 77%
Steve Buyer Other 77%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 77%
Ben Campbell Other 76%
Chris Cannon Other 66%
Jean Carnahan Other 76%
Brad Carson Other 77%
Julia Carson Other 66%
Mike Castle Other 66%
Eva Clayton Other 77%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 61%
Robert Clement Other 77%
Hillary Clinton Other 92%
Michael Collins Other 66%
Larry Combest Other 77%
Gary Condit Other 66%
Kent Conrad Other 92%
John Cooksey Other 77%
Jon Corzine Other 84%
Jerry Costello Other 66%
Christopher Cox Other 66%
William Coyne Other 77%
Larry Craig Other 76%
Robert Cramer Other 66%
Philip Crane Other 77%
Barbara Cubin Other 55%
Randall Cunningham Other 77%
Thomas Daschle Other 92%
James Davis Other 77%
Jo Ann Davis Other 77%
Thomas Davis III Other 66%
Bill Delahunt Other 66%
Thomas DeLay Other 77%
James DeMint Other 77%
Peter Deutsch Other 66%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 77%
Norm Dicks Other 77%
Chris Dodd Other 76%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 69%
Calvin Dooley Other 77%
John Doolittle Other 77%
Byron Dorgan Other 92%
David Dreier Other 77%
Jennifer Dunn Other 77%
John Edwards Other 84%
Chet Edwards Other 77%
Vern Ehlers Other 77%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 77%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 77%
Philip English Other 66%
John Ensign Other 53%
Bob Etheridge Other 77%
Lane Evans Other 77%
Terry Everett Other 77%
Russ Feingold Other 69%
Michael Ferguson Other 77%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 69%
Ernest Fletcher Other 77%
Mark Foley Other 77%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 66%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 77%
Barney Frank Other 66%
William Frist Other 76%
Jonas Frost III Other 77%
Elton Gallegly Other 77%
John Ganske Other 77%
George Gekas Other 77%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 55%
Jim Gibbons Other 66%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 66%
Paul Gillmor Other 77%
Benjamin Gilman Other 77%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 77%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 77%
Bart Gordon Other 88%
Porter Goss Other 77%
Daniel Graham Other 92%
William Phillip Gramm Other 53%
Mark Green Other 77%
James Greenwood Other 77%
Judd Gregg Other 76%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 77%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 77%
Tony Hall Other 55%
James Hansen Other 55%
Jane Harman Other 66%
Melissa Hart Other 77%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 66%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 77%
Joel Hefley Other 77%
Jesse Helms Other 53%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 77%
Baron Hill Other 77%
Van Hilleary Other 77%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 66%
Maurice Hinchey Other 44%
David Lee Hobson Other 77%
Pete Hoekstra Other 66%
Thomas Holden Other 77%
Ernest Hollings Other 92%
Darlene Hooley Other 77%
Stephen Horn Other 77%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 55%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 77%
Kenny Hulshof Other 77%
Duncan Hunter Other 77%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 61%
Kay Hutchison Other 69%
Henry Hyde Other 77%
Daniel Inouye Other 92%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 55%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 66%
William Jefferson Other 66%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 76%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 77%
Christopher John Other 44%
Nancy Johnson Other 77%
Tim Johnson Other 77%
Paul Kanjorski Other 77%
Ric Keller Other 77%
Sue Kelly Other 77%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 84%
Mark Kennedy Other 77%
Patrick Kennedy Other 77%
Brian Kerns Other 77%
Dale Kildee Other 77%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 77%
Gerald Kleczka Other 66%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 77%
Herb Kohl Other 92%
James Kolbe Other 77%
Dennis Kucinich Other 66%
Jon Kyl Other 61%
John LaFalce Other 66%
Ray LaHood Other 77%
Nicholas Lampson Other 55%
Tom Lantos Other 77%
Steve LaTourette Other 66%
James Leach Other 77%
Jerry Lewis Other 77%
Ron Lewis Other 77%
Joe Lieberman Other 92%
Blanche Lincoln Other 84%
John Linder Other 77%
William Lipinski Other 66%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 76%
Dick Lugar Other 76%
William Luther Other 77%
James Maloney Other 77%
Don Manzullo Other 77%
Frank Mascara Other 77%
Robert Matsui Other 77%
Karen McCarthy Other 55%
James McCrery III Other 77%
John McHugh Other 77%
Scott McInnis Other 66%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 77%
Michael McNulty Other 66%
Martin Meehan Other 66%
Carrie Meek Other 77%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 77%
Dan Miller Other 77%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 61%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 77%
Alan Mollohan Other 77%
Dennis Moore Other 66%
Constance Morella Other 77%
Frank Murkowski Other 76%
Jack Murtha Other 88%
Sue Myrick Other 77%
Ben Nelson Other 84%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 77%
Robert William Ney Other 66%
Don Nickles Other 76%
Anne Northup Other 77%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 77%
James Nussle Other 66%
Jim Oberstar Other 55%
Dave Obey Other 44%
John Olver Other 66%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 77%
Thomas William Osborne Other 66%
Doug Ose Other 77%
Major Owens Other 44%
Michael Oxley Other 77%
Ron Paul Other 77%
Donald Payne Other 66%
John Peterson Other 66%
David Phelps Other 77%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 77%
Todd Platts Other 66%
Richard Pombo Other 77%
Earl Pomeroy Other 66%
Deborah Pryce Other 77%
Jack Quinn Other 66%
George Radanovich Other 77%
James Ramstad Other 77%
Ralph Regula Other 77%
Denny Rehberg Other 77%
Silvestre Reyes Other 55%
Thomas Reynolds Other 77%
Bob Riley Other 77%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 55%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 77%
Timothy Roemer Other 66%
Mike Ross Other 77%
Steve Rothman Other 44%
Marge Roukema Other 66%
Jim Ryun Other 77%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 77%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 77%
Rick Santorum Other 76%
Paul Sarbanes Other 92%
Jim Saxton Other 77%
Edward Schrock Other 77%
John Shadegg Other 66%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 55%
Christopher Shays Other 66%
Donald Sherwood Other 77%
Ronnie Shows Other 77%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 77%
Joseph Skeen Other 77%
Ike Skelton Other 77%
Gordon Smith Other 69%
Nick Smith Other 77%
Bob Smith Other 61%
Olympia Snowe Other 61%
Vic Snyder Other 66%
Hilda Solis Other 77%
Mark Souder Other 66%
Arlen Specter Other 69%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 77%
Pete Stark Other 55%
Cliff Stearns Other 55%
Charles Stenholm Other 66%
Ted Stevens Other 76%
Ted Strickland Other 77%
Bob Stump Other 77%
Bart Stupak Other 55%
John Sununu Other 77%
John Sweeney Other 66%
Tom Tancredo Other 66%
John Tanner Other 66%
Ellen Tauscher Other 66%
William Tauzin Other 77%
Charles Taylor Other 66%
Gene Taylor Other 77%
Craig Thomas Other 76%
William Thomas Other 77%
Fred Thompson Other 76%
Karen Thurman Other 66%
Strom Thurmond Other 69%
Todd Tiahrt Other 77%
Robert Torricelli Other 92%
Ed Towns Other 66%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 77%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 66%
James Turner Other 77%
George Voinovich Other 61%
James Walsh Other 77%
Zach Wamp Other 77%
John Warner Other 69%
Wesley Watkins Other 77%
Diane Watson Other 60%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 77%
Anthony Weiner Other 66%
David Weldon Other 77%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 77%
Gerald Weller Other 77%
Paul Wellstone Other 76%
Robert Wexler Other 66%
Heather Wilson Other 77%
Lynn Woolsey Other 77%
David Wu Other 77%
Albert Wynn Other 77%

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