Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

1999-2000 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 7%
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 3%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 7%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 6%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 7%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 77%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 94%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 88%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 77%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 93%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 93%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 97%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 97%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 67%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 87%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 7%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 97%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 87%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 97%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 93%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 13%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 87%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 3%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 90%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 83%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 10%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 97%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 97%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 7%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 93%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 97%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 80%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 87%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 27%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 7%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 16%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 7%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 43%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 93%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 13%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 90%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 6%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 94%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 73%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 93%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 97%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 90%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 7%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 80%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 13%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 25%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 13%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 7%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 30%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 44%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 4%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 90%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 90%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 93%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 97%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 75%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 90%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 73%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 93%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 56%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 81%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 83%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 3%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 37%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 90%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 73%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 93%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 40%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 77%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 69%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 6%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 94%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 7%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 20%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 7%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 33%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 87%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 13%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 97%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 97%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 57%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 80%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 97%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 63%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 90%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 75%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 30%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 83%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 87%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 97%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 97%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 77%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 83%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 97%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 93%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 93%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 87%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 93%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 97%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 30%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 30%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 3%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 80%
OH Governor John Kasich R 13%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 97%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 19%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 13%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 3%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 7%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 90%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 90%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 20%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 80%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 90%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 53%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 10%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 93%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 7%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 30%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 88%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 10%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 13%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 3%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 10%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 3%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 3%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 3%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 60%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 77%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 3%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 70%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 80%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 10%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 97%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 83%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 7%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 80%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 17%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 94%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 81%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 73%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 87%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 87%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 27%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 20%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 27%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 97%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 94%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 70%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 93%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 81%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 87%
Bill Archer Other 7%
Richard Armey Other 3%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 57%
Brian Baird Other 87%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 3%
John Baldacci Other 77%
Cass Ballenger Other 10%
James Barcia Other 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 17%
Bill Barrett Other 3%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 7%
Charlie Bass Other 47%
Herbert Bateman Other 3%
Evan Bayh Other 81%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 67%
Douglas Bereuter Other 37%
Shelley Berkley Other 80%
Howard Berman Other 90%
Marion Berry Other 27%
Judy Biggert Other 33%
Brian Bilbray Other 73%
Michael Bilirakis Other 13%
Jeff Bingaman Other 69%
Rod Blagojevich Other 93%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 3%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 70%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 97%
Mary Bono Mack Other 7%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 87%
Leonard Boswell Other 53%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 40%
John Breaux Other 19%
Richard Bryan Other 81%
Ed Bryant Other 3%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 3%
Robert Byrd Other 31%
Herbert Callahan Other 3%
Ben Campbell Other 6%
Thomas Campbell Other 37%
Chris Cannon Other 3%
Julia Carson Other 83%
Mike Castle Other 73%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 3%
William Clay, Sr. Other 90%
Eva Clayton Other 77%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 88%
Robert Clement Other 47%
Michael Collins Other 17%
Larry Combest Other 7%
Gary Condit Other 53%
Kent Conrad Other 63%
Merrill Cook Other 10%
John Cooksey Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 67%
Christopher Cox Other 10%
William Coyne Other 90%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 30%
Philip Crane Other 13%
Barbara Cubin Other 3%
Randall Cunningham Other 10%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 27%
Thomas Daschle Other 56%
James Davis Other 73%
Thomas Davis III Other 37%
Bill Delahunt Other 93%
Thomas DeLay Other 3%
James DeMint Other 10%
Peter Deutsch Other 93%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 20%
Jay Dickey Other 3%
Norm Dicks Other 80%
Julian Dixon Other 93%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 53%
John Doolittle Other 3%
Byron Dorgan Other 75%
David Dreier Other 7%
Jennifer Dunn Other 7%
John Edwards Other 88%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 23%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 3%
Philip English Other 20%
Bob Etheridge Other 73%
Lane Evans Other 93%
Terry Everett Other 7%
Thomas Ewing Other 3%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 50%
Ernest Fletcher Other 10%
Mark Foley Other 40%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 77%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 77%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 30%
Tillie Fowler Other 17%
Barney Frank Other 90%
Robert Franks Other 63%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 60%
Elton Gallegly Other 23%
John Ganske Other 30%
Sam Gejdenson Other 87%
George Gekas Other 3%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 93%
Jim Gibbons Other 13%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 57%
Paul Gillmor Other 7%
Benjamin Gilman Other 70%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 93%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 13%
William Goodling Other 3%
Bart Gordon Other 53%
Slade Gorton Other 6%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 81%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 6%
Mark Green Other 13%
James Greenwood Other 50%
Judd Gregg Other 31%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 17%
Tony Hall Other 77%
James Hansen Other 10%
Robert Hayes Other 13%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 7%
Joel Hefley Other 17%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 3%
Baron Hill Other 63%
Rick Hill Other 10%
Van Hilleary Other 7%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 63%
Maurice Hinchey Other 87%
David Lee Hobson Other 10%
Pete Hoekstra Other 10%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Ernest Hollings Other 63%
Darlene Hooley Other 87%
Stephen Horn Other 63%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 7%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 43%
Kenny Hulshof Other 20%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 3%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 7%
Daniel Inouye Other 44%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 3%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 70%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 81%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 10%
Christopher John Other 13%
Nancy Johnson Other 67%
Paul Kanjorski Other 77%
Sue Kelly Other 77%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 81%
Patrick Kennedy Other 93%
Bob Kerrey Other 75%
Dale Kildee Other 87%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 87%
Gerald Kleczka Other 97%
Ronald Klink Other 53%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 75%
James Kolbe Other 23%
Dennis Kucinich Other 90%
Steven Kuykendall Other 33%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 87%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Nicholas Lampson Other 67%
Tom Lantos Other 80%
Stephen Largent Other 7%
Steve LaTourette Other 23%
Rick Lazio Other 70%
James Leach Other 67%
Jerry Lewis Other 10%
Ron Lewis Other 10%
Joe Lieberman Other 94%
Blanche Lincoln Other 31%
John Linder Other 10%
William Lipinski Other 63%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 31%
William Luther Other 93%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 87%
Don Manzullo Other 7%
Matthew Martinez Other 43%
Frank Mascara Other 53%
Robert Matsui Other 93%
Karen McCarthy Other 83%
Bill McCollum Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 3%
John McHugh Other 23%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
David McIntosh Other 7%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 97%
Michael McNulty Other 87%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 73%
Jack Metcalf Other 23%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 93%
Dan Miller Other 30%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
David Minge Other 77%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 93%
John Moakley Other 93%
Alan Mollohan Other 43%
Dennis Moore Other 87%
Constance Morella Other 87%
Patrick Moynihan Other 56%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 37%
Sue Myrick Other 10%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 7%
Robert William Ney Other 7%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 7%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 10%
James Nussle Other 7%
Jim Oberstar Other 73%
Dave Obey Other 87%
John Olver Other 97%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 43%
Doug Ose Other 7%
Major Owens Other 97%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 27%
Donald Payne Other 90%
Edward Pease Other 27%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 53%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 7%
Owen Pickett Other 30%
Richard Pombo Other 3%
Earl Pomeroy Other 57%
John Edward Porter Other 67%
Deborah Pryce Other 10%
Jack Quinn Other 40%
George Radanovich Other 10%
James Ramstad Other 80%
Ralph Regula Other 13%
Silvestre Reyes Other 70%
Thomas Reynolds Other 20%
Bob Riley Other 3%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 80%
Charles Robb Other 81%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 77%
Timothy Roemer Other 67%
James Rogan Other 7%
William Roth, Jr. Other 63%
Steve Rothman Other 90%
Marge Roukema Other 67%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 27%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 94%
Jim Saxton Other 63%
Joe Scarborough Other 37%
John Shadegg Other 7%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 17%
Christopher Shays Other 97%
Donald Sherwood Other 10%
Ronnie Shows Other 27%
E.G. Shuster Other 7%
Norman Sisisky Other 33%
Joseph Skeen Other 7%
Ike Skelton Other 47%
Gordon Smith Other 19%
Nick Smith Other 13%
Bob Smith Other 6%
Olympia Snowe Other 56%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Mark Souder Other 7%
Arlen Specter Other 38%
Floyd Spence Other 3%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 67%
Pete Stark Other 83%
Cliff Stearns Other 10%
Charles Stenholm Other 7%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 70%
Bob Stump Other 3%
Bart Stupak Other 70%
John Sununu Other 20%
John Sweeney Other 20%
James Talent Other 10%
Tom Tancredo Other 17%
John Tanner Other 37%
Ellen Tauscher Other 90%
William Tauzin Other 7%
Charles Taylor Other 3%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 7%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 63%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 3%
Robert Torricelli Other 94%
Ed Towns Other 87%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 17%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 80%
James Turner Other 43%
Bruce Vento Other 53%
George Voinovich Other 13%
James Walsh Other 37%
Zach Wamp Other 13%
John Warner Other 19%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 93%
David Weldon Other 7%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 20%
Paul Wellstone Other 94%
Robert Wexler Other 97%
Bob Weygand Other 83%
Heather Wilson Other 17%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 53%
Lynn Woolsey Other 97%
David Wu Other 87%
Albert Wynn Other 77%

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