Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

1998 Positions

Issues: Environment
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 3%
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 14%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 13%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 21%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 79%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 93%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 90%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 97%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 83%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 83%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 14%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 90%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 97%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 72%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 24%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 93%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 14%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 76%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 69%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 24%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 93%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 97%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 7%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 79%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 10%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 17%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 86%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 45%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 14%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 24%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 17%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 83%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 17%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 79%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 93%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 14%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 10%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 86%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 90%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 90%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 7%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 27%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 72%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 17%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 7%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 21%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 10%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 93%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 83%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 93%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 79%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 83%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 97%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 60%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 83%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 17%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 52%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 86%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 66%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 79%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 21%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 10%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 7%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 66%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 60%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 87%
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 10%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 10%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 14%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 34%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 83%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 93%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 97%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 69%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 83%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 90%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 66%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 67%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 93%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 14%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 90%
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 90%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 72%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 72%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 90%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 93%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 93%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 93%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 38%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 38%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 7%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 76%
OH Governor John Kasich R 38%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 86%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 13%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 3%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 7%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 93%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 90%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 97%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 17%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 69%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 41%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 17%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 7%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 52%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 83%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 80%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 17%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 14%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 7%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 10%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 7%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 3%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 10%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 7%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 59%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 59%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 7%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 52%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 62%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 3%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 7%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 79%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 14%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 83%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 24%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 93%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 97%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 93%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 10%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 83%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 83%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 45%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 45%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 97%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 62%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 13%
Gary Ackerman Other 86%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 87%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 93%
Bill Archer Other 17%
Richard Armey Other 17%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 38%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 7%
John Baldacci Other 79%
Cass Ballenger Other 7%
James Barcia Other 34%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 10%
Bill Barrett Other 10%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 7%
Charlie Bass Other 59%
Herbert Bateman Other 10%
Bob Bennett Other 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 76%
Douglas Bereuter Other 21%
Howard Berman Other 86%
Marion Berry Other 28%
Brian Bilbray Other 66%
Michael Bilirakis Other 38%
Jeff Bingaman Other 67%
Rod Blagojevich Other 93%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 7%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 72%
Kit Bond Other 7%
Henry Bonilla Other 7%
David Edward Bonior Other 83%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 76%
Leonard Boswell Other 34%
Rick Boucher Other 69%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 24%
John Breaux Other 47%
George Brown, Jr. Other 79%
Richard Bryan Other 73%
Ed Bryant Other 10%
Dale Bumpers Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 7%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 3%
Steve Buyer Other 7%
Robert Byrd Other 60%
Herbert Callahan Other 7%
Ben Campbell Other 13%
Thomas Campbell Other 55%
Chris Cannon Other 10%
Julia Carson Other 83%
Mike Castle Other 76%
John Chafee Other 60%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 7%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 17%
William Clay, Sr. Other 62%
Eva Clayton Other 79%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 60%
Robert Clement Other 66%
Michael Collins Other 14%
Larry Combest Other 3%
Gary Condit Other 34%
Kent Conrad Other 53%
Merrill Cook Other 24%
John Cooksey Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 69%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 28%
William Coyne Other 90%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 24%
Philip Crane Other 10%
Barbara Cubin Other 3%
Randall Cunningham Other 10%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 20%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 21%
Thomas Daschle Other 73%
James Davis Other 76%
Thomas Davis III Other 52%
Bill Delahunt Other 90%
Thomas DeLay Other 10%
Peter Deutsch Other 83%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 31%
Jay Dickey Other 14%
Norm Dicks Other 69%
Julian Dixon Other 90%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 7%
Calvin Dooley Other 34%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 53%
David Dreier Other 14%
Jennifer Dunn Other 21%
Chet Edwards Other 31%
Vern Ehlers Other 62%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 28%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 3%
Philip English Other 38%
John Ensign Other 34%
Bob Etheridge Other 66%
Lane Evans Other 93%
Terry Everett Other 3%
Thomas Ewing Other 28%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 20%
Harris Fawell Other 62%
Victor Fazio Other 66%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 41%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 79%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 45%
Wendell Ford Other 67%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 31%
Tillie Fowler Other 21%
Jon David Fox Other 66%
Barney Frank Other 90%
Robert Franks Other 83%
William Frist Other 27%
Jonas Frost III Other 45%
Elizabeth Furse Other 86%
Elton Gallegly Other 10%
John Ganske Other 41%
Sam Gejdenson Other 93%
George Gekas Other 14%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 83%
Jim Gibbons Other 28%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 62%
Paul Gillmor Other 17%
Benjamin Gilman Other 76%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 87%
Henry Gonzalez Other 14%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 14%
William Goodling Other 14%
Bart Gordon Other 62%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 41%
Daniel Graham Other 93%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 72%
Judd Gregg Other 60%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 17%
Tony Hall Other 66%
Lee Hamilton Other 62%
James Hansen Other 10%
Jane Harman Other 62%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 17%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 17%
Joel Hefley Other 14%
W.G. Hefner Other 62%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 7%
Rick Hill Other 10%
Van Hilleary Other 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 48%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 31%
Pete Hoekstra Other 28%
Thomas Holden Other 38%
Ernest Hollings Other 73%
Darlene Hooley Other 93%
Stephen Horn Other 62%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 7%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 34%
Kenny Hulshof Other 31%
Duncan Hunter Other 14%
Asa Hutchinson Other 21%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 7%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 10%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 24%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 7%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 97%
William Jefferson Other 55%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 60%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 3%
Christopher John Other 10%
Jay Johnson Other 72%
Nancy Johnson Other 86%
Paul Kanjorski Other 76%
Sue Kelly Other 83%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 97%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 90%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 69%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 76%
Jay Kim Other 17%
Gerald Kleczka Other 93%
Ronald Klink Other 52%
Scott Klug Other 69%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 10%
Herb Kohl Other 93%
James Kolbe Other 28%
Dennis Kucinich Other 86%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 79%
Ray LaHood Other 24%
Nicholas Lampson Other 83%
Tom Lantos Other 97%
Stephen Largent Other 17%
Steve LaTourette Other 34%
Rick Lazio Other 72%
James Leach Other 76%
Jerry Lewis Other 28%
Ron Lewis Other 3%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
John Linder Other 10%
William Lipinski Other 55%
Robert Livingston Other 7%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 7%
William Luther Other 86%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 83%
Thomas Manton Other 72%
Don Manzullo Other 24%
Matthew Martinez Other 52%
Frank Mascara Other 52%
Robert Matsui Other 86%
Karen McCarthy Other 86%
Bill McCollum Other 17%
James McCrery III Other 10%
Joseph McDade Other 21%
Paul McHale Other 83%
John McHugh Other 24%
Scott McInnis Other 14%
David McIntosh Other 14%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 97%
Michael McNulty Other 83%
Martin Meehan Other 97%
Carrie Meek Other 76%
Jack Metcalf Other 24%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 79%
Dan Miller Other 41%
David Minge Other 66%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 86%
John Moakley Other 83%
Alan Mollohan Other 45%
Constance Morella Other 93%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 87%
Patrick Moynihan Other 87%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 45%
Sue Myrick Other 7%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 10%
Mark Neumann Other 34%
Robert William Ney Other 17%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 14%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 10%
James Nussle Other 21%
Jim Oberstar Other 48%
Dave Obey Other 83%
John Olver Other 97%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 28%
Major Owens Other 93%
Michael Oxley Other 7%
Ronald Packard Other 10%
Michael Pappas Other 59%
Mike Parker Other 7%
Ron Paul Other 38%
William Paxon Other 14%
Donald Payne Other 83%
Edward Pease Other 34%
John Peterson Other 3%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 7%
Owen Pickett Other 14%
Richard Pombo Other 10%
Earl Pomeroy Other 38%
John Edward Porter Other 72%
Glenn Poshard Other 66%
Deborah Pryce Other 17%
Jack Quinn Other 52%
George Radanovich Other 10%
James Ramstad Other 83%
Bill Redmond Other 11%
Ralph Regula Other 24%
Silvestre Reyes Other 55%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 7%
Bob Riley Other 3%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 90%
Charles Robb Other 87%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 64%
Timothy Roemer Other 55%
James Rogan Other 28%
William Roth, Jr. Other 53%
Steve Rothman Other 86%
Marge Roukema Other 72%
Jim Ryun Other 10%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 21%
Rick Santorum Other 7%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 66%
Joe Scarborough Other 31%
Daniel Schaefer Other 7%
John Shadegg Other 10%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 38%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
E.G. Shuster Other 7%
Norman Sisisky Other 14%
David Skaggs Other 76%
Joseph Skeen Other 21%
Ike Skelton Other 21%
Gordon Smith Other 13%
Linda Smith Other 21%
Nick Smith Other 31%
Robert Smith Other 3%
Bob Smith Other 13%
Vincent Snowbarger Other 7%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 79%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 10%
Mark Souder Other 21%
Arlen Specter Other 47%
Floyd Spence Other 7%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 76%
Pete Stark Other 86%
Cliff Stearns Other 17%
Charles Stenholm Other 10%
Ted Stevens Other 7%
Louis Stokes Other 79%
Ted Strickland Other 76%
Bob Stump Other 7%
Bart Stupak Other 59%
John Sununu Other 34%
James Talent Other 17%
John Tanner Other 38%
Ellen Tauscher Other 90%
William Tauzin Other 7%
Charles Taylor Other 7%
Gene Taylor Other 24%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 14%
Fred Thompson Other 13%
Karen Thurman Other 45%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 7%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 86%
Robert Torricelli Other 93%
Ed Towns Other 90%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 10%
James Turner Other 21%
Bruce Vento Other 90%
James Walsh Other 52%
Zach Wamp Other 10%
John Warner Other 13%
Wesley Watkins Other 10%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 3%
David Weldon Other 14%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 52%
Gerald Weller Other 28%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 90%
Bob Weygand Other 72%
Rick White Other 28%
Heather Wilson Other 17%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 66%
Lynn Woolsey Other 93%
Albert Wynn Other 79%
Sidney Yates Other 83%

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