Rating Group: American Benefits Council

2000 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 67%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 67%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 67%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 67%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 67%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 67%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 67%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 67%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 67%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 33%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 67%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 67%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 67%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 67%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 67%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 67%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 67%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 67%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 67%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 67%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 67%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 33%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 67%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 33%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 67%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 33%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 67%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 67%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 67%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 67%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 67%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 67%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 67%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 67%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 67%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 67%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 67%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 67%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 67%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 67%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 67%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 67%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 33%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 67%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 67%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 33%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 67%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 67%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 67%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 33%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 67%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 67%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 67%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 67%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 67%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 67%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 67%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 67%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 67%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 67%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 67%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 67%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 67%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 67%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 67%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 67%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 67%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 100%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 67%
Gary Ackerman Other 67%
Thomas Allen Other 67%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 33%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 67%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 67%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 67%
Mike Castle Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 67%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
James Davis Other 67%
Thomas Davis III Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 67%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 67%
John Doolittle Other 100%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 67%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 67%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 67%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 67%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Mark Green Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 67%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 67%
Paul Kanjorski Other 67%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 67%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 67%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 67%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
John Linder Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 67%
Michael McNulty Other 33%
Martin Meehan Other 67%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 67%
Alan Mollohan Other 33%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 67%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 67%
Dave Obey Other 67%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 67%
Major Owens Other 67%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 33%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 67%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 67%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 67%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Jim Saxton Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 67%
Vic Snyder Other 67%
Mark Souder Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 67%
Pete Stark Other 0%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 67%
Bart Stupak Other 67%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 100%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 67%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
William Thomas Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 67%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 67%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 67%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 67%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 67%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 67%

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