Rating Group: American Lands Alliance

2003 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 13%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 13%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 11%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 78%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 75%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 88%
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-22 Devin Nunes R 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
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 0%
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-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 88%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 88%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 88%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 86%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 78%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 67%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 13%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 25%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 89%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 89%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 88%
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 0%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 88%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 88%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 25%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 11%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 88%
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. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 78%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 0%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 63%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 78%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 78%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 25%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 88%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 0%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 88%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 83%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 13%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 33%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 13%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 50%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 11%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 13%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 63%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 13%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 25%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 0%
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 25%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 78%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 89%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 88%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 88%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 88%
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 88%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 13%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 11%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 11%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 13%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 88%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 63%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 67%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 38%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 88%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 88%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 22%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 88%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 88%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 13%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 88%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 89%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 75%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 89%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 88%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 75%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 75%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 25%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 25%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 75%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 13%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 78%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 50%
Brian Baird Other 63%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 75%
Cass Ballenger Other 13%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 13%
Charlie Bass Other 25%
Evan Bayh Other 89%
Bob Beauprez Other 0%
Chris Bell Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 67%
Howard Berman Other 75%
Marion Berry Other 0%
Judy Biggert Other 25%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 78%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 25%
Leonard Boswell Other 50%
Rick Boucher Other 88%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 25%
John Breaux Other 11%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Max Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 67%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 38%
Brad Carson Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Edward Case Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 38%
Chris Chocola Other 0%
Hillary Clinton Other 86%
Norm Coleman Other 0%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 67%
Jon Corzine Other 78%
Jerry Costello Other 88%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 25%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 22%
Artur Davis Other 50%
James Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 43%
Thomas Davis III Other 14%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 75%
Chris Dodd Other 89%
Elizabeth Dole Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 67%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 25%
Vern Ehlers Other 38%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 13%
Philip English Other 25%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 75%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Tom Feeney Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 67%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 88%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 75%
Elton Gallegly Other 13%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 13%
Paul Gillmor Other 13%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 13%
Bart Gordon Other 71%
Porter Goss Other 13%
Daniel Graham Other 78%
Mark Green Other 13%
James Greenwood Other 38%
Judd Gregg Other 22%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 88%
Katherine Harris Other 0%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 13%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 75%
Ernest Hollings Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 88%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 13%
Kenny Hulshof Other 13%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 78%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 89%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 0%
Nancy Johnson Other 38%
Tim Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 88%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 75%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 89%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 88%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 63%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 86%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
Frank Lautenberg Other 78%
James Leach Other 88%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 0%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 75%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Denise Majette Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 38%
Robert Matsui Other 88%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 13%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 88%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 25%
Dennis Moore Other 88%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 13%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 38%
Dave Obey Other 75%
John Olver Other 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 38%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 88%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 38%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 13%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 13%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 13%
Deborah Pryce Other 13%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 63%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Richard Renzi Other 13%
Silvestre Reyes Other 50%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 88%
Mike Ross Other 38%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 88%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 13%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 78%
Jim Saxton Other 88%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 13%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 88%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 75%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 0%
Vic Snyder Other 75%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 11%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 63%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 75%
Bart Stupak Other 33%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 0%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 13%
John Tanner Other 13%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 38%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 13%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 13%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 29%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 88%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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