Rating Group: NARAL Pro-Choice America

1999 Positions

Issues: Abortion
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
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 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 7%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 7%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 7%
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 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
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 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 7%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 14%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 56%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 87%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
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%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 21%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 93%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 65%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 56%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
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 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 35%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 60%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 0%
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 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 46%
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 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 7%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 0%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 76%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 83%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 93%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 5%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
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 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 52%
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 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 55%
OH Governor John Kasich R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 28%
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 21%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 21%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 65%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
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-8 Kevin Brady R 7%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 35%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 7%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 7%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 65%
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 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 87%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 7%
James Barcia Other 7%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 89%
Herbert Bateman Other 14%
Evan Bayh Other 65%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 35%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 28%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Brian Bilbray Other 49%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 7%
David Edward Bonior Other 49%
Mary Bono Mack Other 27%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 35%
Leonard Boswell Other 83%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 76%
John Breaux Other 0%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 65%
Herbert Callahan Other 7%
Ben Campbell Other 41%
Thomas Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 80%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 63%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 83%
Kent Conrad Other 46%
Merrill Cook Other 7%
John Cooksey Other 28%
Jerry Costello Other 0%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 7%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 63%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 21%
Thomas Daschle Other 65%
James Davis Other 83%
Thomas Davis III Other 42%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 14%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 46%
David Dreier Other 7%
Jennifer Dunn Other 35%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 86%
Vern Ehlers Other 7%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 63%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 80%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 7%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 0%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 69%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Tillie Fowler Other 49%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 56%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 93%
Elton Gallegly Other 21%
John Ganske Other 35%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 7%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 42%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 87%
Paul Gillmor Other 14%
Benjamin Gilman Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
William Goodling Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 63%
Slade Gorton Other 19%
Porter Goss Other 7%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 7%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 63%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 87%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 42%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 7%
Ernest Hollings Other 65%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 96%
Kenny Hulshof Other 7%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 7%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 28%
Sue Kelly Other 83%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 7%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 56%
Ronald Klink Other 28%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 7%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 69%
Dennis Kucinich Other 14%
Steven Kuykendall Other 83%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 7%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 86%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 28%
Rick Lazio Other 56%
James Leach Other 49%
Jerry Lewis Other 35%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 65%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 87%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 7%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 7%
Scott McInnis Other 7%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 35%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 49%
David Minge Other 74%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 42%
Alan Mollohan Other 0%
Dennis Moore Other 93%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Patrick Moynihan Other 65%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 14%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 21%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 7%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 24%
Dave Obey Other 63%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 7%
Doug Ose Other 76%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 7%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 26%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 0%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 93%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 63%
John Edward Porter Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 56%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 63%
Ralph Regula Other 28%
Silvestre Reyes Other 76%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 21%
James Rogan Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 5%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 76%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 87%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 42%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Ronnie Shows Other 0%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Norman Sisisky Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 21%
Ike Skelton Other 7%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 14%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Vic Snyder Other 76%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 65%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 70%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 7%
Ted Stevens Other 46%
Ted Strickland Other 87%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 7%
John Sununu Other 7%
John Sweeney Other 42%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 63%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 7%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 42%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 93%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 7%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 49%
Bruce Vento Other 87%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 7%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 27%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 7%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 21%
Heather Wilson Other 35%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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