Rating Group: League of Private Property Voters

2000 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 60%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 70%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 53%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 62%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 8%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 20%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 7%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 0%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 93%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 7%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 93%
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 13%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 87%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 0%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 7%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 80%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 93%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 67%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 73%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 87%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 60%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 93%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 33%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 53%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 7%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 85%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 30%
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 93%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 15%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 7%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 87%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 70%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 87%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 77%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 85%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 40%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 87%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 53%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 38%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 60%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 0%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 0%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 8%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 33%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 70%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 23%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 7%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 87%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 33%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 7%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 13%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 60%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 62%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 87%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 20%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 30%
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 60%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 73%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 7%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 60%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 40%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 13%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 0%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 20%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 7%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 0%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 13%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 13%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 30%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 15%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 40%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 0%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 7%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 7%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 7%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 7%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 7%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 33%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 80%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 7%
OH Governor John Kasich R 73%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 46%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 93%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 60%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 7%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 13%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 80%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 13%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 7%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 27%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 80%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 15%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 87%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 73%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 23%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 73%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 93%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 87%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 87%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 7%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 27%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 13%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 87%
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 13%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 7%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 60%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 8%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 38%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 0%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 60%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 7%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 87%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 0%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 23%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 13%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 70%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 8%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 7%
Bill Archer Other 93%
Richard Armey Other 100%
John Ashcroft Other 62%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 67%
Brian Baird Other 13%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 60%
John Baldacci Other 33%
Cass Ballenger Other 87%
James Barcia Other 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 87%
Bill Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 93%
Charlie Bass Other 27%
Herbert Bateman Other 60%
Evan Bayh Other 23%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 20%
Douglas Bereuter Other 20%
Shelley Berkley Other 13%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 87%
Judy Biggert Other 27%
Brian Bilbray Other 13%
Michael Bilirakis Other 73%
Jeff Bingaman Other 23%
Rod Blagojevich Other 0%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 20%
Kit Bond Other 62%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 73%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 7%
Leonard Boswell Other 40%
Rick Boucher Other 20%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 40%
John Breaux Other 54%
Richard Bryan Other 15%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 62%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 92%
Herbert Callahan Other 53%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Thomas Campbell Other 27%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 7%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 80%
William Clay, Sr. Other 0%
Eva Clayton Other 20%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 8%
Robert Clement Other 27%
Michael Collins Other 80%
Larry Combest Other 67%
Gary Condit Other 53%
Kent Conrad Other 54%
Merrill Cook Other 87%
John Cooksey Other 53%
Jerry Costello Other 13%
Christopher Cox Other 80%
William Coyne Other 7%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 47%
Philip Crane Other 53%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 87%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 67%
Thomas Daschle Other 70%
James Davis Other 7%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 87%
Peter Deutsch Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67%
Jay Dickey Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 20%
Julian Dixon Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 42%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 30%
David Dreier Other 87%
Jennifer Dunn Other 87%
John Edwards Other 30%
Chet Edwards Other 53%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 60%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 33%
Bob Etheridge Other 13%
Lane Evans Other 7%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Thomas Ewing Other 93%
Russ Feingold Other 23%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 23%
Ernest Fletcher Other 87%
Mark Foley Other 33%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 13%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 60%
Tillie Fowler Other 67%
Barney Frank Other 0%
Robert Franks Other 13%
William Frist Other 62%
Jonas Frost III Other 40%
Elton Gallegly Other 67%
John Ganske Other 47%
Sam Gejdenson Other 0%
George Gekas Other 87%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 27%
Paul Gillmor Other 87%
Benjamin Gilman Other 13%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 87%
William Goodling Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 20%
Slade Gorton Other 92%
Porter Goss Other 53%
Daniel Graham Other 0%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 100%
Mark Green Other 73%
James Greenwood Other 20%
Judd Gregg Other 54%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 87%
Tony Hall Other 13%
James Hansen Other 80%
Robert Hayes Other 67%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 93%
Joel Hefley Other 80%
Jesse Helms Other 85%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 27%
Rick Hill Other 87%
Van Hilleary Other 93%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 33%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 93%
Pete Hoekstra Other 93%
Thomas Holden Other 40%
Ernest Hollings Other 30%
Darlene Hooley Other 7%
Stephen Horn Other 33%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 33%
Kenny Hulshof Other 67%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Asa Hutchinson Other 87%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 85%
Kay Hutchison Other 92%
Henry Hyde Other 60%
Daniel Inouye Other 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 80%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 20%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 8%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 80%
Christopher John Other 53%
Nancy Johnson Other 27%
Paul Kanjorski Other 13%
Sue Kelly Other 13%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Bob Kerrey Other 15%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 0%
Ronald Klink Other 27%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 30%
James Kolbe Other 93%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Steven Kuykendall Other 33%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 67%
Nicholas Lampson Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Stephen Largent Other 93%
Steve LaTourette Other 60%
Rick Lazio Other 7%
James Leach Other 13%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 87%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 46%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 13%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 62%
Dick Lugar Other 62%
William Luther Other 0%
Connie Mack Other 100%
James Maloney Other 7%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Matthew Martinez Other 47%
Frank Mascara Other 33%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
Bill McCollum Other 47%
James McCrery III Other 60%
John McHugh Other 73%
Scott McInnis Other 73%
David McIntosh Other 53%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 0%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 7%
Jack Metcalf Other 67%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 60%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 0%
David Minge Other 13%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 7%
John Moakley Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 20%
Dennis Moore Other 7%
Constance Morella Other 7%
Patrick Moynihan Other 8%
Frank Murkowski Other 54%
Jack Murtha Other 60%
Sue Myrick Other 80%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 93%
Robert William Ney Other 87%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 67%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 80%
James Nussle Other 87%
Jim Oberstar Other 20%
Dave Obey Other 20%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 47%
Doug Ose Other 100%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ronald Packard Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 80%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Edward Pease Other 40%
John Peterson Other 87%
David Phelps Other 27%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 87%
Owen Pickett Other 47%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 33%
John Edward Porter Other 7%
Deborah Pryce Other 87%
Jack Quinn Other 33%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 7%
Ralph Regula Other 87%
Silvestre Reyes Other 20%
Thomas Reynolds Other 67%
Bob Riley Other 87%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 0%
Charles Robb Other 8%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 13%
Timothy Roemer Other 20%
James Rogan Other 67%
William Roth, Jr. Other 23%
Steve Rothman Other 13%
Marge Roukema Other 27%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 73%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 13%
Joe Scarborough Other 20%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 53%
Christopher Shays Other 0%
Donald Sherwood Other 67%
Ronnie Shows Other 67%
E.G. Shuster Other 73%
Norman Sisisky Other 60%
Joseph Skeen Other 87%
Ike Skelton Other 33%
Gordon Smith Other 70%
Nick Smith Other 93%
Bob Smith Other 62%
Olympia Snowe Other 70%
Vic Snyder Other 7%
Mark Souder Other 60%
Arlen Specter Other 30%
Floyd Spence Other 93%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 7%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 93%
Charles Stenholm Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 27%
Bob Stump Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 20%
John Sununu Other 73%
John Sweeney Other 73%
James Talent Other 87%
Tom Tancredo Other 80%
John Tanner Other 53%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
William Tauzin Other 47%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Fred Thompson Other 100%
Karen Thurman Other 13%
Strom Thurmond Other 85%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 7%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 47%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 33%
Bruce Vento Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 92%
James Walsh Other 20%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
John Warner Other 54%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 87%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 27%
Gerald Weller Other 47%
Paul Wellstone Other 8%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Bob Weygand Other 7%
Heather Wilson Other 87%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 27%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 7%
Albert Wynn Other 7%

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