Rating Group: League of Private Property Voters

2004 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 91%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 100%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 43%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 57%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 100%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 43%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 14%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 9%
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 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 9%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 82%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 91%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 0%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 91%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 9%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 9%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 91%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 9%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
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 0%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 14%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
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 91%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 91%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 73%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 82%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 82%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 73%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 100%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 36%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 55%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 71%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 14%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 91%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 91%
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 14%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 27%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 9%
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%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 71%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 91%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 71%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 73%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 91%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 29%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 73%
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%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 18%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 43%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 9%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 82%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 55%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 0%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 91%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 9%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 91%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 43%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 82%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 9%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 82%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 9%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 43%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 14%
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 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 45%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 73%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 64%
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 18%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 18%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 82%
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 45%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 0%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 0%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 9%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 9%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
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 0%
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. House-1 Steve Chabot R 91%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 0%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 91%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 82%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 9%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 43%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 91%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 43%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 91%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 9%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 18%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 36%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 100%
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 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 91%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 71%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 71%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 91%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 9%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 82%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 82%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 73%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 55%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 27%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 9%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 91%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 82%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 27%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 9%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 73%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 36%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 91%
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 0%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 82%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 9%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 0%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 18%
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 9%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 9%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 82%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 82%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 82%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 9%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 86%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Todd Akin Other 91%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 9%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 45%
Brian Baird Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 91%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 91%
Charlie Bass Other 73%
Evan Bayh Other 14%
Bob Beauprez Other 91%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 9%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 64%
Judy Biggert Other 64%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 36%
Kit Bond Other 86%
Henry Bonilla Other 82%
Mary Bono Mack Other 82%
Leonard Boswell Other 55%
Rick Boucher Other 9%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 64%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 91%
Steve Buyer Other 91%
Robert Byrd Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Dennis Cardoza Other 55%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Edward Case Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 36%
Ben Chandler III Other 0%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 0%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 14%
Jerry Costello Other 9%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 64%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Artur Davis Other 27%
James Davis Other 0%
Jo Ann Davis Other 91%
Lincoln Davis Other 27%
Thomas Davis III Other 73%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 55%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 82%
Norm Dicks Other 9%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Elizabeth Dole Other 86%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 14%
David Dreier Other 91%
Chet Edwards Other 73%
Vern Ehlers Other 36%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 73%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 18%
Lane Evans Other 9%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Tom Feeney Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 14%
Michael Ferguson Other 18%
Mark Foley Other 82%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 9%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 0%
William Frist Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 91%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 55%
Paul Gillmor Other 82%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 9%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 91%
Bart Gordon Other 9%
Mark Green Other 91%
Judd Gregg Other 43%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 0%
Katherine Harris Other 91%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 91%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 50%
Maurice Hinchey Other 0%
David Lee Hobson Other 91%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 18%
Darlene Hooley Other 18%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 91%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 91%
Daniel Inouye Other 14%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 0%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 0%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 18%
Tim Johnson Other 18%
Paul Kanjorski Other 27%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 27%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Mark Kennedy Other 82%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 9%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 82%
Herb Kohl Other 14%
James Kolbe Other 91%
Dennis Kucinich Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 91%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 73%
James Leach Other 9%
Jerry Lewis Other 91%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 57%
John Linder Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Jim Marshall Other 45%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 91%
Michael McNulty Other 0%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 9%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Brad Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 36%
Dennis Moore Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 45%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 43%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 91%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 91%
James Nussle Other 91%
Jim Oberstar Other 36%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 55%
Thomas William Osborne Other 91%
Major Owens Other 9%
Michael Oxley Other 64%
Ron Paul Other 82%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 91%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 45%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 91%
Deborah Pryce Other 82%
George Radanovich Other 91%
James Ramstad Other 18%
Ralph Regula Other 91%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Richard Renzi Other 91%
Silvestre Reyes Other 36%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 73%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Ken Salazar Other 86%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 18%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 82%
Christopher Shays Other 9%
Donald Sherwood Other 91%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 9%
Ike Skelton Other 27%
Gordon Smith Other 71%
Olympia Snowe Other 43%
Vic Snyder Other 0%
Hilda Solis Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 91%
Arlen Specter Other 71%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 0%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 71%
Ted Strickland Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 36%
John Sullivan Other 100%
John Sununu Other 57%
John Sweeney Other 91%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 64%
Ellen Tauscher Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 91%
Gene Taylor Other 36%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 91%
Todd Tiahrt Other 91%
Ed Towns Other 18%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 57%
James Walsh Other 73%
Zach Wamp Other 91%
John Warner Other 86%
Diane Watson Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 64%
Gerald Weller Other 82%
Robert Wexler Other 0%
Heather Wilson Other 82%
Lynn Woolsey Other 0%
David Wu Other 9%
Albert Wynn Other 18%

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