Rating Group: NARAL Pro-Choice America

1997 Positions

Issues: Abortion
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 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 5%
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-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 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman 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 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 3%
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 3%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner 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-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 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 3%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
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 88%
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 94%
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 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-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 60%
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 5%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 65%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 47%
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%
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 77%
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 32%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 62%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 97%
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 5%
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 34%
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 3%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
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 52%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 63%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
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-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-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 29%
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-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 3%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
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 3%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 48%
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 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 3%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 10%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 77%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 3%
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 77%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 71%
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%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 77%
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 77%
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%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 42%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 3%
James Barcia Other 0%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 3%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 42%
Herbert Bateman Other 3%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 6%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 33%
Brian Bilbray Other 29%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 94%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 40%
Sonny Bono Other 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 18%
Leonard Boswell Other 71%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 77%
John Breaux Other 5%
George Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Dale Bumpers Other 94%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 10%
Robert Byrd Other 48%
Herbert Callahan Other 3%
Ben Campbell Other 51%
Thomas Campbell Other 86%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Walter Holden Capps Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 46%
John Chafee Other 100%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 3%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 83%
Robert Clement Other 42%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 68%
Kent Conrad Other 34%
Merrill Cook Other 3%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 0%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 33%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 3%
Randall Cunningham Other 3%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 23%
Thomas Daschle Other 65%
James Davis Other 71%
Thomas Davis III Other 29%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 92%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 3%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 94%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 34%
David Dreier Other 3%
Jennifer Dunn Other 18%
Chet Edwards Other 83%
Vern Ehlers Other 3%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 39%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 54%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 3%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 0%
Harris Fawell Other 49%
Victor Fazio Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 94%
Thomas Foglietta Other 77%
Mark Foley Other 31%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Wendell Ford Other 5%
Tillie Fowler Other 31%
Jon David Fox Other 6%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 59%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elizabeth Furse Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 3%
John Ganske Other 16%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 16%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 54%
Jim Gibbons Other 23%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 42%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 92%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 100%
Henry Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
William Goodling Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 44%
Slade Gorton Other 14%
Porter Goss Other 3%
Daniel Graham Other 77%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 15%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 3%
Tony Hall Other 6%
Lee Hamilton Other 21%
James Hansen Other 3%
Jane Harman Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
W.G. Hefner Other 52%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Rick Hill Other 3%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 32%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 3%
Ernest Hollings Other 65%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 90%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 49%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 69%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 10%
Jay Johnson Other 70%
Nancy Johnson Other 94%
Paul Kanjorski Other 16%
Sue Kelly Other 59%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 77%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Jay Kim Other 3%
Gerald Kleczka Other 34%
Ronald Klink Other 16%
Scott Klug Other 46%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 3%
Herb Kohl Other 77%
James Kolbe Other 73%
Dennis Kucinich Other 12%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 17%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 54%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 13%
Rick Lazio Other 34%
James Leach Other 42%
Jerry Lewis Other 19%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 94%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 0%
Robert Livingston Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 5%
William Luther Other 100%
Connie Mack Other 5%
James Maloney Other 77%
Thomas Manton Other 17%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 74%
Frank Mascara Other 13%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 3%
Joseph McDade Other 3%
Paul McHale Other 60%
John McHugh Other 3%
Scott McInnis Other 13%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 29%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 26%
David Minge Other 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 31%
Alan Mollohan Other 3%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 100%
Patrick Moynihan Other 65%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 6%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 3%
Mark Neumann Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 10%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 45%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 3%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 13%
Ronald Packard Other 3%
Michael Pappas Other 0%
Mike Parker Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 3%
William Paxon Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 0%
John Peterson Other 3%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 94%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 54%
John Edward Porter Other 49%
Glenn Poshard Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 42%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 3%
James Ramstad Other 46%
Bill Redmond Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 21%
Silvestre Reyes Other 64%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 13%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 13%
James Rogan Other 3%
William Roth, Jr. Other 20%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 59%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 71%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 3%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
Daniel Schaefer Other 0%
Steven Schiff Other 21%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 21%
Christopher Shays Other 77%
E.G. Shuster Other 13%
Norman Sisisky Other 60%
David Skaggs Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 15%
Ike Skelton Other 0%
Gordon Smith Other 20%
Linda Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Robert Smith Other 3%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Vincent Snowbarger Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 77%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 65%
Floyd Spence Other 3%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 54%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 65%
Louis Stokes Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 71%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 13%
John Sununu Other 3%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 54%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 38%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 83%
Strom Thurmond Other 5%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 99%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 16%
James Turner Other 42%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
James Walsh Other 3%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 20%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 17%
Rick White Other 26%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%
Sidney Yates Other 100%

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