Rating Group: The Humane Society Legislative Fund

1995-1996 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 25%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 75%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 25%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 25%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 75%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi 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 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 75%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 50%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 75%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 50%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 25%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 25%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 25%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 0%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 25%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 75%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 75%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 50%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 50%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 25%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 75%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 75%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 0%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
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 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 25%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 25%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 75%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
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 25%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 25%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 25%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 75%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 66%
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 25%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
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-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 75%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 25%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 75%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 25%
OH Governor John Kasich R 25%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 25%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 75%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 50%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 50%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 75%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 75%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 75%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 25%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 66%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 50%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 25%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 25%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 25%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 50%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 75%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 25%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 75%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 25%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 66%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 25%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 75%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 75%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 25%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 75%
Gary Ackerman Other 75%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Bill Archer Other 25%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 25%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
William Baker Other 25%
John Baldacci Other 50%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 25%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Herbert Bateman Other 0%
Anthony Beilenson Other 85%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 25%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Howard Berman Other 75%
Tom Bevill Other 25%
Brian Bilbray Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 75%
Jeff Bingaman Other 75%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Peter Blute Other 15%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Kit Bond Other 25%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 75%
Sonny Bono Other 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 75%
Rick Boucher Other 0%
Bill Bradley Other 90%
John Breaux Other 25%
George Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Hank Brown Other 20%
Richard Bryan Other 75%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
John Bryant Other 65%
Dale Bumpers Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 25%
Robert Byrd Other 75%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 25%
Thomas Campbell Other 66%
Mike Castle Other 50%
John Chafee Other 75%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 25%
William Clay, Sr. Other 66%
Eva Clayton Other 75%
Robert Clement Other 25%
William Cohen Other 70%
Ronald Coleman Other 55%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 85%
Cardiss Collins Other 75%
Michael Collins Other 25%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 75%
Jerry Costello Other 50%
Paul Coverdell Other 50%
Christopher Cox Other 25%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 25%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 25%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 75%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 25%
Thomas Daschle Other 75%
Thomas Davis III Other 50%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 25%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 75%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 25%
Julian Dixon Other 75%
Chris Dodd Other 75%
Robert Dole Other 20%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 25%
Calvin Dooley Other 25%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 75%
Robert Dornan Other 15%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 25%
Chet Edwards Other 0%
Vern Ehlers Other 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 25%
John Ensign Other 25%
Lane Evans Other 75%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 0%
Jim Exon Other 70%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 50%
Harris Fawell Other 50%
Victor Fazio Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 75%
Cleo Fields Other 75%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 5%
Floyd Flake Other 33%
Thomas Foglietta Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 25%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 25%
Wendell Ford Other 50%
Tillie Fowler Other 25%
Jon David Fox Other 50%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Gary Franks Other 25%
Robert Franks Other 75%
William Frist Other 33%
Jonas Frost III Other 25%
Elizabeth Furse Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
John Ganske Other 25%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 50%
Pete Geren Other 0%
Sam Gibbons Other 65%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 25%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
John Glenn Other 75%
Henry Gonzalez Other 25%
William Goodling Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 25%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 50%
Daniel Graham Other 75%
William Phillip Gramm Other 50%
Rodney Grams Other 75%
James Greenwood Other 25%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Steven Gunderson Other 35%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 25%
Tony Hall Other 75%
Lee Hamilton Other 0%
Melton Hancock Other 0%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 50%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Mark Hatfield Other 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 25%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
W.G. Hefner Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 75%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 25%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 33%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 25%
Pete Hoekstra Other 25%
Thomas Holden Other 0%
Ernest Hollings Other 75%
Stephen Horn Other 25%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 25%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 50%
Henry Hyde Other 25%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 25%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 80%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 25%
Harry Johnston Other 90%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 50%
Sue Kelly Other 50%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 50%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 75%
Jay Kim Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 50%
Ronald Klink Other 75%
Scott Klug Other 25%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 75%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 50%
John LaFalce Other 75%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 25%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
Greg Laughlin Other 0%
Frank Lautenberg Other 100%
Rick Lazio Other 25%
James Leach Other 50%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 75%
Jim Lightfoot Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 35%
John Linder Other 25%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Robert Livingston Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 25%
Dick Lugar Other 50%
William Luther Other 50%
Connie Mack Other 50%
Thomas Manton Other 25%
Don Manzullo Other 50%
Matthew Martinez Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 25%
Robert Matsui Other 50%
Karen McCarthy Other 75%
Bill McCollum Other 25%
James McCrery III Other 0%
Joseph McDade Other 50%
Paul McHale Other 75%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 25%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 50%
Jack Metcalf Other 0%
Jan Meyers Other 45%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 50%
David Minge Other 25%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 75%
John Moakley Other 100%
Susan Molinari Other 25%
Alan Mollohan Other 0%
G.V. Montgomery Other 35%
Carlos Moorhead Other 15%
Constance Morella Other 75%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 75%
Patrick Moynihan Other 75%
Frank Murkowski Other 33%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
John Myers Other 25%
Sue Myrick Other 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Mark Neumann Other 75%
Robert William Ney Other 25%
Don Nickles Other 75%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 25%
Sam Nunn Other 70%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 25%
Dave Obey Other 50%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 0%
Bill Orton Other 30%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Mike Parker Other 0%
William Paxon Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 25%
Claiborne Pell Other 90%
Pete Peterson Other 45%
Owen Pickett Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 0%
John Edward Porter Other 50%
Glenn Poshard Other 50%
Larry Pressler Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 33%
David Pryor Other 60%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Bill Richardson Other 75%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 25%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 75%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
Charles Rose III Other 70%
Toby Roth Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 50%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 66%
Paul Sarbanes Other 75%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Joe Scarborough Other 50%
Daniel Schaefer Other 0%
Steven Schiff Other 33%
Patricia Schroeder Other 90%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 25%
Christopher Shays Other 75%
E.G. Shuster Other 25%
Paul Simon Other 90%
Alan Simpson Other 10%
Norman Sisisky Other 0%
David Skaggs Other 50%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 0%
Linda Smith Other 25%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 75%
Olympia Snowe Other 75%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 25%
Mark Souder Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 75%
Floyd Spence Other 25%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 80%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
Louis Stokes Other 66%
Gerry Studds Other 85%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 33%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 0%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 25%
Gene Taylor Other 75%
Frank Tejeda Other 35%
Craig Thomas Other 50%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 100%
Ray Thornton Other 25%
Karen Thurman Other 25%
Strom Thurmond Other 50%
Todd Tiahrt Other 25%
Peter Torkildsen Other 40%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 75%
Robert Torricelli Other 66%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 25%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
Harold Volkmer Other 35%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 10%
James Walsh Other 0%
Zach Wamp Other 50%
John Warner Other 50%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
David Weldon Other 25%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Rick White Other 25%
Pat Williams Other 35%
Charles Wilson Other 35%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 75%
Sidney Yates Other 75%
Bill Zeliff Other 0%
Richard Zimmer Other 70%

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