Rating Group: Californians for Population Stabilization

2001 Positions

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

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