Rating Group: Bread for the World

2001-2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 33%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 33%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 67%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 67%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 33%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 33%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 33%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 33%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 33%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 33%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 33%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 33%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 33%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 33%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 33%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 33%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 33%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 33%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 67%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 67%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 33%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 33%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 33%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 33%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 33%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 67%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 33%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 33%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 33%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 67%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 33%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 67%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 67%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 33%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 33%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 33%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 33%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 33%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 33%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 67%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 33%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 33%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 33%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 33%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 33%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 33%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 33%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 33%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 33%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 33%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 33%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 33%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 33%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 33%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 33%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 33%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 33%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 33%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 33%
Cass Ballenger Other 33%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 33%
Charlie Bass Other 33%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 33%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Judy Biggert Other 67%
Michael Bilirakis Other 33%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 67%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 67%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 67%
John Breaux Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 33%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 33%
Steve Buyer Other 50%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 33%
Brad Carson Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 67%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 33%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 33%
Philip Crane Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 33%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 33%
Thomas Davis III Other 67%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 33%
James DeMint Other 33%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 67%
Jennifer Dunn Other 33%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 67%
Vern Ehlers Other 67%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 50%
Philip English Other 33%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 33%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 67%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 100%
Ernest Fletcher Other 33%
Mark Foley Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 33%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 33%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Paul Gillmor Other 67%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
Mark Green Other 33%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Jane Harman Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 33%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 33%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 33%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 33%
Pete Hoekstra Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 67%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 50%
Kenny Hulshof Other 67%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 33%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 33%
Christopher John Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 67%
Tim Johnson Other 67%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Ric Keller Other 33%
Sue Kelly Other 67%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 33%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 33%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 67%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
James Leach Other 67%
Jerry Lewis Other 67%
Ron Lewis Other 33%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 33%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 33%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 33%
John McHugh Other 67%
Scott McInnis Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 33%
Ben Nelson Other 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 33%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 33%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 33%
James Nussle Other 33%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Thomas William Osborne Other 67%
Doug Ose Other 67%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 33%
Ron Paul Other 33%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 33%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 33%
Todd Platts Other 33%
Richard Pombo Other 50%
Earl Pomeroy Other 67%
Deborah Pryce Other 50%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 50%
James Ramstad Other 67%
Ralph Regula Other 33%
Denny Rehberg Other 33%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 33%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 33%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Edward Schrock Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 67%
Christopher Shays Other 67%
Donald Sherwood Other 67%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 67%
Ike Skelton Other 100%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Nick Smith Other 33%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 67%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Charles Stenholm Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 33%
John Sweeney Other 67%
Tom Tancredo Other 33%
John Tanner Other 100%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 33%
Charles Taylor Other 33%
Gene Taylor Other 33%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 33%
Todd Tiahrt Other 67%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 67%
Zach Wamp Other 33%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 33%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 67%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 67%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 67%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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