Rating Group: Americans for Democratic Action

2008 Positions

Issues: Liberal
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 25%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 55%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 15%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 20%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 15%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 50%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 25%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 20%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 85%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 5%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
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 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 95%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 90%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 85%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 95%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 60%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 80%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 95%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 90%
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-23 Kevin McCarthy R 10%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 5%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 90%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 85%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 5%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 95%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 95%
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 95%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 15%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 95%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 5%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 80%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 10%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 10%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 15%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 95%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 90%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 80%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 95%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 85%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 95%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 95%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 95%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 85%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 95%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 5%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 10%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 95%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 10%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 30%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 95%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 50%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 95%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 55%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 65%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 15%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 25%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 10%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 95%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 10%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 10%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 75%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 95%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 5%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 95%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 25%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 95%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 90%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 90%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 30%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 5%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 15%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 35%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 55%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 30%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 90%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 90%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 10%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 80%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 65%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 20%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 95%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 70%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 80%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 75%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 5%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 15%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 20%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 20%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 35%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 95%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 65%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 5%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 5%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 20%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 25%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 95%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 95%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 95%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 90%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 90%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 90%
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 75%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 90%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 20%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 60%
MI U.S. House-7 Tim Walberg R 20%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 95%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 50%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 90%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 85%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 15%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 15%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 90%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 40%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 15%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 10%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 90%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 80%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 85%
NA President Barack Obama II D 45%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 95%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 5%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 50%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 5%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 20%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 85%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 10%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 40%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 15%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 15%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 85%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 60%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 65%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 5%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 90%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 95%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 15%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 90%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 20%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 70%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 25%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 70%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 85%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 45%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 95%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 95%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 90%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 95%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 95%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 85%
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 95%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 95%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 80%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 95%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 15%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 0%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 15%
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 55%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 35%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 90%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 5%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 15%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 10%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 15%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 95%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 30%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 95%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 90%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 90%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 95%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 60%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 20%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 90%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 95%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 55%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 5%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 60%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 95%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 90%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 15%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 10%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 95%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 80%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 10%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 25%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 20%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 15%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 60%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 10%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 20%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 10%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 10%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 30%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 5%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 10%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 5%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 10%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 25%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 5%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 5%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 5%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 80%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 5%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 15%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 10%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 80%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 80%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 5%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 5%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 90%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 10%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 55%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 35%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 25%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 15%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 5%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 95%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 30%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 95%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 90%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 15%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 20%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 95%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 60%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 85%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 90%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 15%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 80%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 95%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 10%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 40%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 85%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 60%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 85%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 5%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 5%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 10%
Jason Altmire Other 80%
Michael Arcuri Other 90%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 90%
Brian Baird Other 80%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 5%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 15%
Evan Bayh Other 70%
Melissa Bean Other 65%
Bob Bennett Other 15%
Shelley Berkley Other 85%
Howard Berman Other 85%
Marion Berry Other 75%
Judy Biggert Other 35%
Brian Bilbray Other 15%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 20%
Mary Bono Mack Other 40%
Dan Boren Other 65%
Leonard Boswell Other 95%
Rick Boucher Other 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 75%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 20%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 35%
Jim Bunning Other 5%
Dan Burton Other 10%
Steve Buyer Other 25%
Robert Byrd Other 55%
Dennis Cardoza Other 85%
Russ Carnahan Other 90%
Christopher Carney Other 85%
Mike Castle Other 65%
Ben Chandler III Other 85%
Hillary Clinton Other 70%
Norm Coleman Other 45%
Kent Conrad Other 90%
Jerry Costello Other 85%
Larry Craig Other 15%
Artur Davis Other 85%
David Davis Other 15%
Geoff Davis Other 15%
Lincoln Davis Other 80%
Bill Delahunt Other 95%
James DeMint Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 55%
Norm Dicks Other 90%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 90%
David Dreier Other 10%
Chet Edwards Other 80%
Vern Ehlers Other 40%
Brad Ellsworth Other 75%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 65%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 85%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 15%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 80%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 90%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 25%
Bart Gordon Other 80%
Judd Gregg Other 15%
John Hall Other 95%
Phil Hare Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 95%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 10%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 70%
Baron Hill Other 75%
Maurice Hinchey Other 95%
Paul Hodes Other 90%
Pete Hoekstra Other 20%
Thomas Holden Other 85%
Kay Hutchison Other 20%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 5%
Daniel Inouye Other 85%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Steve Kagen Other 90%
Paul Kanjorski Other 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 60%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 95%
Ron Klein Other 95%
Herb Kohl Other 95%
Dennis Kucinich Other 95%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 55%
Steve LaTourette Other 60%
Jerry Lewis Other 20%
Joe Lieberman Other 85%
Blanche Lincoln Other 80%
John Linder Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 25%
Dan Lungren Other 5%
Connie Mack IV Other 10%
Don Manzullo Other 20%
Jim Marshall Other 70%
Melquiades Martinez Other 30%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 40%
John McHugh Other 60%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 95%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 80%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Harry Mitchell Other 75%
Alan Mollohan Other 85%
Dennis Moore Other 80%
Patrick Murphy Other 85%
Jack Murtha Other 85%
Sue Myrick Other 10%
Ben Nelson Other 75%
Jim Oberstar Other 80%
Dave Obey Other 95%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 75%
Ron Paul Other 10%
Donald Payne Other 95%
Todd Platts Other 55%
Earl Pomeroy Other 85%
George Radanovich Other 20%
Denny Rehberg Other 40%
Silvestre Reyes Other 70%
Laura Richardson Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 80%
Mike Ross Other 85%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Ken Salazar Other 95%
William Sali Other 10%
Jean Schmidt Other 15%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 90%
John Shadegg Other 0%
Heath Shuler Other 75%
Ike Skelton Other 85%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 90%
Hilda Solis Other 32%
Mark Souder Other 20%
Zack Space Other 80%
Arlen Specter Other 45%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 85%
Pete Stark Other 90%
Cliff Stearns Other 15%
Ted Stevens Other 30%
Bart Stupak Other 90%
John Sullivan Other 20%
John Sununu Other 25%
Betty Sutton Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 5%
John Tanner Other 80%
Ellen Tauscher Other 95%
Gene Taylor Other 75%
Todd Tiahrt Other 15%
Ed Towns Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 25%
Zach Wamp Other 15%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 95%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 90%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 80%
Lynn Woolsey Other 80%
David Wu Other 90%

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