Rating Group: National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association

2007-2008 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 80%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 77%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 60%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 70%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 90%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 90%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 50%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 80%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 70%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 30%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 70%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 70%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 40%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 75%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 70%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 70%
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 70%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 70%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 50%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 70%
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100%
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 70%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 87%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 70%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 70%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 70%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 50%
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 70%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 70%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 70%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 70%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 70%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 62%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 70%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 70%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 70%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 70%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 40%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 70%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 70%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 70%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 50%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 70%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 66%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 70%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 62%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 70%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 70%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 90%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 70%
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 40%
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 90%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 90%
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 70%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 62%
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 70%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 70%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 80%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 80%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 40%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 66%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 70%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 70%
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 80%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 50%
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 70%
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 80%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 70%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 70%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 70%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 70%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 70%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 80%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 80%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 37%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 62%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 60%
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 70%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 70%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 70%
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 42%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 70%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 90%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 70%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 70%
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 70%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 70%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 80%
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 70%
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 70%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 80%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 70%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 80%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 62%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 70%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 62%
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 70%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 70%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 70%
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 62%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 70%
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 70%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 70%
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 40%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 60%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 70%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 60%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 80%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 70%
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 70%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 70%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 80%
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 100%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 80%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 77%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 70%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 70%
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 66%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 70%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 70%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 70%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 70%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 80%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 62%
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 70%
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 70%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 70%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 70%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 70%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 90%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-7 Tim Walberg R 70%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 80%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 62%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 70%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 70%
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 80%
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 70%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 70%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 70%
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 70%
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 60%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 90%
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 75%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 70%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 70%
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 70%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 40%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 70%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 80%
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 80%
NA President Barack Obama II D 66%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 66%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 80%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 80%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 70%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 70%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 50%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 70%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 70%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 40%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 70%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 90%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 66%
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 90%
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 70%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 80%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 70%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 70%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 70%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 70%
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 70%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 70%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 50%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 70%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 70%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 70%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 60%
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 70%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 70%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 70%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 90%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 66%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 70%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 87%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 70%
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 66%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 70%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 77%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 70%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 70%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 70%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 70%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 70%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 70%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 62%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 80%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 40%
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 40%
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 60%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 70%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 90%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 60%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 70%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 60%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 20%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 70%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 70%
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 70%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 70%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 70%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 70%
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 80%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 70%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 66%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 70%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 62%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 70%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 90%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 80%
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 80%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 70%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 60%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 60%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 70%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 80%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 80%
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 80%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 70%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 70%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 60%
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 70%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 60%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 60%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 66%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 55%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 70%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 40%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 70%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 62%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 70%
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 70%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 70%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 70%
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 70%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 70%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 50%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 70%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 50%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 70%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 90%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 62%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 70%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 70%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 87%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 70%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 80%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 83%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 70%
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 70%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 62%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 60%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 66%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 70%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 90%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 80%
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 70%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 80%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 80%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 70%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 75%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 80%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 66%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 70%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 77%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 70%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 50%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 70%
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 70%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 75%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 70%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 40%
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 33%
Gary Ackerman Other 70%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 80%
Todd Akin Other 70%
Jason Altmire Other 70%
Michael Arcuri Other 70%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 87%
Brian Baird Other 70%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 70%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 80%
Evan Bayh Other 80%
Melissa Bean Other 70%
Bob Bennett Other 80%
Shelley Berkley Other 87%
Howard Berman Other 70%
Marion Berry Other 90%
Judy Biggert Other 80%
Brian Bilbray Other 60%
Jeff Bingaman Other 80%
Kit Bond Other 80%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Dan Boren Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 62%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 90%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 80%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 75%
Jim Bunning Other 80%
Dan Burton Other 70%
Steve Buyer Other 77%
Robert Byrd Other 80%
Dennis Cardoza Other 70%
Russ Carnahan Other 70%
Christopher Carney Other 70%
Mike Castle Other 100%
Ben Chandler III Other 70%
Travis Childers Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 75%
Norm Coleman Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 80%
Jerry Costello Other 70%
Larry Craig Other 75%
Artur Davis Other 70%
David Davis Other 70%
Geoff Davis Other 70%
Lincoln Davis Other 90%
Bill Delahunt Other 70%
James DeMint Other 20%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 70%
Norm Dicks Other 70%
Chris Dodd Other 75%
Byron Dorgan Other 80%
David Dreier Other 70%
Chet Edwards Other 70%
Vern Ehlers Other 90%
Brad Ellsworth Other 70%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
John Ensign Other 40%
Bob Etheridge Other 70%
Russ Feingold Other 80%
Barney Frank Other 70%
Elton Gallegly Other 70%
Gabrielle Giffords Other 70%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 90%
Bart Gordon Other 70%
Judd Gregg Other 60%
John Hall Other 70%
Phil Hare Other 62%
Jane Harman Other 70%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 70%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 90%
Baron Hill Other 70%
Maurice Hinchey Other 70%
Paul Hodes Other 70%
Pete Hoekstra Other 70%
Thomas Holden Other 70%
Kay Hutchison Other 80%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 40%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 70%
Tim Johnson Other 100%
Steve Kagen Other 70%
Paul Kanjorski Other 60%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 75%
Patrick Kennedy Other 70%
Dale Kildee Other 70%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 70%
Ron Klein Other 70%
Herb Kohl Other 80%
Dennis Kucinich Other 60%
Jon Kyl Other 60%
Ray LaHood Other 90%
Steve LaTourette Other 80%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Joe Lieberman Other 80%
Blanche Lincoln Other 80%
John Linder Other 70%
Dick Lugar Other 80%
Dan Lungren Other 50%
Connie Mack IV Other 87%
Don Manzullo Other 60%
Jim Marshall Other 70%
Melquiades Martinez Other 80%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 70%
John McHugh Other 90%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 70%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 90%
Brad Miller Other 70%
Harry Mitchell Other 70%
Alan Mollohan Other 70%
Dennis Moore Other 70%
Patrick Murphy Other 70%
Jack Murtha Other 70%
Sue Myrick Other 70%
Ben Nelson Other 80%
Jim Oberstar Other 62%
Dave Obey Other 70%
John Olver Other 87%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 62%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 70%
Tom Perriello Other 60%
Todd Platts Other 80%
Earl Pomeroy Other 70%
George Radanovich Other 50%
Denny Rehberg Other 70%
Silvestre Reyes Other 70%
Laura Richardson Other 66%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 70%
Mike Ross Other 90%
Steve Rothman Other 70%
Ken Salazar Other 80%
William Sali Other 70%
Jean Schmidt Other 80%
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 70%
John Shadegg Other 40%
Heath Shuler Other 70%
Ike Skelton Other 70%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 70%
Hilda Solis Other 70%
Mark Souder Other 70%
Zack Space Other 70%
Arlen Specter Other 60%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 70%
Pete Stark Other 70%
Cliff Stearns Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 80%
Bart Stupak Other 70%
John Sullivan Other 70%
John Sununu Other 60%
Betty Sutton Other 70%
Tom Tancredo Other 40%
John Tanner Other 87%
Ellen Tauscher Other 70%
Gene Taylor Other 80%
Todd Tiahrt Other 70%
Ed Towns Other 70%
George Voinovich Other 60%
Zach Wamp Other 70%
Diane Watson Other 62%
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 80%
Anthony Weiner Other 70%
Robert Wexler Other 70%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 70%
Lynn Woolsey Other 70%
David Wu Other 70%

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