Rating Group: League of Private Property Voters

2001 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 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 80%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 40%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 86%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 10%
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-17 Mike Honda D 40%
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 40%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 10%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 10%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 0%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 30%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 30%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 30%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 60%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 30%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 10%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 10%
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%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 29%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 29%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 70%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 90%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 70%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 60%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 30%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 10%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 80%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 20%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 40%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
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 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 30%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 70%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 71%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 70%
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 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 30%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 71%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 14%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 60%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 20%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 0%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 20%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 86%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 20%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 29%
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 70%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 60%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 70%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 20%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 10%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 10%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 20%
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 30%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 10%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 14%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 10%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 10%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 30%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 0%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 0%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 30%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
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 60%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 90%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 90%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 86%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 29%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 0%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 90%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 10%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 30%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 55%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 43%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 90%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 20%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 29%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 70%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 90%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 90%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 70%
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 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 90%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 20%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 30%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 20%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 10%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 30%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 14%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 14%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 20%
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 30%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 80%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 0%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 70%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 20%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 10%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 70%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 14%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 86%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 30%
Brian Baird Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 60%
John Baldacci Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 100%
James Barcia Other 20%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 70%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 70%
Charlie Bass Other 20%
Evan Bayh Other 29%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 20%
Douglas Bereuter Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 30%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 80%
Judy Biggert Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 70%
Jeff Bingaman Other 14%
Rod Blagojevich Other 10%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 10%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 70%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 0%
Leonard Boswell Other 20%
Rick Boucher Other 10%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 60%
John Breaux Other 86%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 90%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 90%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 29%
Herbert Callahan Other 50%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 70%
Jean Carnahan Other 43%
Brad Carson Other 40%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 30%
Eva Clayton Other 10%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 29%
Robert Clement Other 20%
Hillary Clinton Other 0%
Michael Collins Other 90%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 29%
John Cooksey Other 70%
Jon Corzine Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 20%
Christopher Cox Other 80%
William Coyne Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 60%
Philip Crane Other 70%
Barbara Cubin Other 80%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 14%
James Davis Other 30%
Jo Ann Davis Other 80%
Thomas Davis III Other 40%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 60%
Norm Dicks Other 30%
Chris Dodd Other 14%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 71%
Calvin Dooley Other 30%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 100%
Jennifer Dunn Other 90%
John Edwards Other 14%
Chet Edwards Other 60%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 50%
Philip English Other 50%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 20%
Lane Evans Other 10%
Terry Everett Other 50%
Russ Feingold Other 29%
Michael Ferguson Other 50%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 57%
Ernest Fletcher Other 60%
Mark Foley Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 20%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 70%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 86%
Jonas Frost III Other 10%
Elton Gallegly Other 70%
John Ganske Other 60%
George Gekas Other 70%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 30%
Jim Gibbons Other 90%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 40%
Paul Gillmor Other 50%
Benjamin Gilman Other 20%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 10%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 20%
Porter Goss Other 50%
Daniel Graham Other 29%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Mark Green Other 50%
James Greenwood Other 20%
Judd Gregg Other 86%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 50%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 60%
Tony Hall Other 40%
James Hansen Other 70%
Jane Harman Other 10%
Melissa Hart Other 60%
Robert Hayes Other 70%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 70%
Jesse Helms Other 86%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 10%
Van Hilleary Other 90%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 50%
Maurice Hinchey Other 30%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 80%
Thomas Holden Other 10%
Ernest Hollings Other 29%
Darlene Hooley Other 10%
Stephen Horn Other 40%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 10%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 80%
Daniel Inouye Other 14%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 30%
William Jefferson Other 30%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 43%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Christopher John Other 60%
Nancy Johnson Other 20%
Tim Johnson Other 30%
Paul Kanjorski Other 40%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 70%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Brian Kerns Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 30%
Gerald Kleczka Other 0%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 14%
James Kolbe Other 90%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 30%
Ray LaHood Other 40%
Nicholas Lampson Other 30%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 80%
James Leach Other 20%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 43%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 86%
William Luther Other 0%
James Maloney Other 10%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 20%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 70%
John McHugh Other 70%
Scott McInnis Other 40%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 10%
Michael McNulty Other 0%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 10%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 30%
Dan Miller Other 90%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 71%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 10%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Constance Morella Other 0%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 60%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 71%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 40%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 90%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 70%
James Nussle Other 80%
Jim Oberstar Other 10%
Dave Obey Other 30%
John Olver Other 30%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 30%
Thomas William Osborne Other 100%
Doug Ose Other 90%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 90%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
David Phelps Other 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 70%
Todd Platts Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 10%
Deborah Pryce Other 80%
Jack Quinn Other 30%
George Radanovich Other 60%
James Ramstad Other 20%
Ralph Regula Other 90%
Denny Rehberg Other 70%
Silvestre Reyes Other 20%
Thomas Reynolds Other 80%
Bob Riley Other 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 10%
Timothy Roemer Other 0%
Mike Ross Other 40%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Marge Roukema Other 10%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 40%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 30%
Edward Schrock Other 70%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 50%
Christopher Shays Other 10%
Donald Sherwood Other 90%
Ronnie Shows Other 50%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 10%
Joseph Skeen Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 30%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Nick Smith Other 100%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 71%
Vic Snyder Other 10%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 60%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 40%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
Charles Stenholm Other 90%
Ted Stevens Other 71%
Ted Strickland Other 30%
Bob Stump Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 30%
John Sununu Other 70%
John Sweeney Other 70%
Tom Tancredo Other 70%
John Tanner Other 80%
Ellen Tauscher Other 10%
William Tauzin Other 70%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Craig Thomas Other 86%
William Thomas Other 90%
Fred Thompson Other 86%
Karen Thurman Other 10%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 14%
Ed Towns Other 10%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 90%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 60%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 60%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
John Warner Other 86%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 33%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
David Weldon Other 90%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 70%
Gerald Weller Other 50%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 90%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 0%
Albert Wynn Other 10%

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