Rating Group: The Humane Society Legislative Fund

1999-2000 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 13%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 20%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 13%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 13%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 20%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 13%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 63%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 75%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 88%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 63%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 13%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 13%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 63%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 63%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 50%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 63%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 63%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 38%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 50%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 13%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 75%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 50%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 75%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 38%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 38%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 63%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 13%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 13%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 75%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 50%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 60%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 25%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 13%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 50%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 75%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 13%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 50%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 13%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 20%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 40%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 75%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 13%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 25%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 13%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 88%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 88%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 63%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 75%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 50%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 75%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 25%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 38%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 13%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 20%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 38%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 60%
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 25%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 75%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 13%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 25%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 25%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 13%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 75%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 63%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 88%
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 88%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
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-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 88%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 63%
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 75%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 75%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 63%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 75%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 88%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 88%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 38%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 88%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 13%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 38%
OH Governor John Kasich R 13%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 40%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 40%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 13%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
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 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 50%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 63%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 13%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 50%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 88%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 60%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 13%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 25%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 13%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 13%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 13%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 25%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 25%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 75%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 13%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 88%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 63%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 38%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 63%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 40%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 38%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 38%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 60%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 80%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 13%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 63%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 88%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 88%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 88%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 50%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 75%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 63%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 63%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 63%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 60%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 38%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 40%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 40%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 60%
Thomas Allen Other 88%
Bill Archer Other 13%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 20%
Brian Baird Other 88%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 13%
John Baldacci Other 50%
Cass Ballenger Other 13%
James Barcia Other 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 13%
Bill Barrett Other 13%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 63%
Charlie Bass Other 63%
Evan Bayh Other 60%
Bob Bennett Other 40%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 63%
Douglas Bereuter Other 38%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 63%
Brian Bilbray Other 88%
Michael Bilirakis Other 63%
Jeff Bingaman Other 40%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 13%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 88%
Kit Bond Other 20%
Henry Bonilla Other 13%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 88%
Leonard Boswell Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 63%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 13%
John Breaux Other 20%
Richard Bryan Other 80%
Ed Bryant Other 13%
Jim Bunning Other 20%
Conrad Burns Other 20%
Dan Burton Other 13%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 60%
Herbert Callahan Other 13%
Ben Campbell Other 40%
Thomas Campbell Other 75%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 63%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 75%
Eva Clayton Other 25%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 80%
Robert Clement Other 50%
Michael Collins Other 13%
Larry Combest Other 13%
Gary Condit Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 40%
Merrill Cook Other 38%
John Cooksey Other 13%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 50%
William Coyne Other 88%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 25%
Philip Crane Other 63%
Barbara Cubin Other 13%
Randall Cunningham Other 13%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 13%
Thomas Daschle Other 60%
James Davis Other 50%
Thomas Davis III Other 63%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 13%
James DeMint Other 25%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 63%
Jay Dickey Other 13%
Norm Dicks Other 75%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 60%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 25%
John Edwards Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 38%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 13%
Philip English Other 63%
Bob Etheridge Other 75%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 13%
Thomas Ewing Other 38%
Russ Feingold Other 60%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 80%
Ernest Fletcher Other 38%
Mark Foley Other 25%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 50%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 50%
Tillie Fowler Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 88%
Robert Franks Other 100%
William Frist Other 40%
Jonas Frost III Other 25%
Elton Gallegly Other 75%
John Ganske Other 13%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 13%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 50%
Jim Gibbons Other 13%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Paul Gillmor Other 25%
Benjamin Gilman Other 88%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 38%
William Goodling Other 38%
Bart Gordon Other 38%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 38%
Daniel Graham Other 80%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 40%
Mark Green Other 88%
James Greenwood Other 88%
Judd Gregg Other 40%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 13%
Tony Hall Other 88%
James Hansen Other 13%
Robert Hayes Other 13%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 13%
Joel Hefley Other 50%
Jesse Helms Other 20%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 13%
Baron Hill Other 50%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 13%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 38%
Maurice Hinchey Other 88%
David Lee Hobson Other 25%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 25%
Ernest Hollings Other 20%
Darlene Hooley Other 63%
Stephen Horn Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 50%
Kenny Hulshof Other 50%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 25%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 38%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 13%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 75%
William Jefferson Other 38%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 80%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 0%
Nancy Johnson Other 88%
Paul Kanjorski Other 25%
Sue Kelly Other 88%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 80%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 60%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 75%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Ronald Klink Other 50%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 13%
Herb Kohl Other 80%
James Kolbe Other 50%
Dennis Kucinich Other 88%
Steven Kuykendall Other 38%
Jon Kyl Other 40%
John LaFalce Other 50%
Ray LaHood Other 38%
Nicholas Lampson Other 63%
Tom Lantos Other 75%
Stephen Largent Other 25%
Steve LaTourette Other 75%
Rick Lazio Other 75%
James Leach Other 88%
Jerry Lewis Other 25%
Ron Lewis Other 13%
Joe Lieberman Other 80%
Blanche Lincoln Other 20%
John Linder Other 13%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 40%
William Luther Other 88%
Connie Mack Other 40%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 25%
Frank Mascara Other 63%
Robert Matsui Other 75%
Karen McCarthy Other 88%
Bill McCollum Other 38%
James McCrery III Other 25%
John McHugh Other 13%
Scott McInnis Other 13%
David McIntosh Other 13%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 50%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 63%
Jack Metcalf Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 75%
Dan Miller Other 38%
David Minge Other 50%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 63%
John Moakley Other 88%
Alan Mollohan Other 13%
Dennis Moore Other 63%
Constance Morella Other 88%
Patrick Moynihan Other 80%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 13%
Sue Myrick Other 38%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 25%
Robert William Ney Other 13%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 75%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 13%
Jim Oberstar Other 50%
Dave Obey Other 63%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 13%
Doug Ose Other 38%
Major Owens Other 75%
Michael Oxley Other 25%
Ronald Packard Other 13%
Ron Paul Other 50%
Donald Payne Other 88%
Edward Pease Other 50%
John Peterson Other 13%
David Phelps Other 88%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 25%
Owen Pickett Other 38%
Richard Pombo Other 13%
Earl Pomeroy Other 38%
John Edward Porter Other 88%
Deborah Pryce Other 63%
Jack Quinn Other 13%
George Radanovich Other 13%
James Ramstad Other 75%
Ralph Regula Other 50%
Silvestre Reyes Other 38%
Thomas Reynolds Other 13%
Bob Riley Other 13%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 88%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 25%
Timothy Roemer Other 63%
James Rogan Other 13%
William Roth, Jr. Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 75%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 80%
Paul Sarbanes Other 80%
Jim Saxton Other 38%
Joe Scarborough Other 50%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 63%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 13%
Ronnie Shows Other 25%
E.G. Shuster Other 13%
Norman Sisisky Other 38%
Joseph Skeen Other 13%
Ike Skelton Other 13%
Gordon Smith Other 80%
Nick Smith Other 13%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 63%
Mark Souder Other 13%
Arlen Specter Other 60%
Floyd Spence Other 13%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 75%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 13%
Charles Stenholm Other 13%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 50%
Bob Stump Other 13%
Bart Stupak Other 25%
John Sununu Other 25%
John Sweeney Other 13%
James Talent Other 25%
Tom Tancredo Other 75%
John Tanner Other 13%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 13%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 63%
Craig Thomas Other 40%
William Thomas Other 13%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 38%
Strom Thurmond Other 20%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 88%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 75%
James Turner Other 25%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 13%
Zach Wamp Other 50%
John Warner Other 40%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 25%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 50%
Gerald Weller Other 63%
Paul Wellstone Other 80%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 25%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 13%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 88%
Albert Wynn Other 88%

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