Rating Group: NARAL Pro-Choice America

1996 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. 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-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-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 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
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 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 0%
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 90%
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%
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%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 72%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts 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%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 65%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey 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%
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 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 55%
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 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 43%
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-6 Howard Coble R 0%
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 12%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 33%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
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 45%
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 13%
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 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 65%
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-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 0%
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 65%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 66%
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%
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 75%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 55%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
William Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 10%
James Barcia Other 0%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 55%
Herbert Bateman Other 10%
Anthony Beilenson Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 13%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Tom Bevill Other 3%
Brian Bilbray Other 45%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Peter Blute Other 32%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 30%
David Edward Bonior Other 23%
Sonny Bono Other 35%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 13%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Bill Bradley Other 100%
John Breaux Other 9%
George Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Hank Brown Other 35%
Richard Bryan Other 91%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
John Bryant Other 100%
Dale Bumpers Other 100%
Jim Bunn Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 57%
Thomas Campbell Other 90%
Mike Castle Other 45%
John Chafee Other 100%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 0%
Dick Chrysler Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 55%
William Cohen Other 100%
Ronald Coleman Other 100%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 100%
Cardiss Collins Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 65%
Kent Conrad Other 38%
Wes Cooley 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 65%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 13%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 15%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Robert Dole Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 15%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 38%
Robert Dornan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 32%
Chet Edwards Other 90%
Vern Ehlers Other 13%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 45%
Bill Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
John Ensign Other 0%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 0%
Jim Exon Other 23%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 0%
Harris Fawell Other 55%
Victor Fazio Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Cleo Fields Other 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 0%
Floyd Flake Other 75%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 2%
Thomas Foglietta Other 75%
Mark Foley Other 45%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 0%
Wendell Ford Other 9%
Tillie Fowler Other 35%
Jon David Fox Other 12%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Gary Franks Other 93%
Robert Franks Other 65%
Dan Frisa Other 0%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 80%
David Funderburk Other 0%
Elizabeth Furse Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
John Ganske Other 25%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 13%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 75%
Pete Geren Other 34%
Sam Gibbons Other 95%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 55%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 100%
John Glenn Other 100%
Henry Gonzalez Other 90%
William Goodling Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 65%
Slade Gorton Other 14%
Porter Goss Other 13%
Daniel Graham Other 91%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Enid Greene Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Steven Gunderson Other 68%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 0%
Lee Hamilton Other 0%
Melton Hancock Other 1%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Mark Hatfield Other 9%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
W.G. Hefner Other 65%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 2%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 23%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 13%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 65%
Duncan Hunter 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%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 62%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 77%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Harry Johnston Other 100%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 18%
Paul Kanjorski Other 13%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 79%
Sue Kelly Other 90%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 75%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Jay Kim Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 45%
Ronald Klink Other 13%
Scott Klug Other 55%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 80%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
Greg Laughlin Other 0%
Rick Lazio Other 45%
James Leach Other 45%
Jerry Lewis Other 13%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Jim Lightfoot Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 80%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 0%
Robert Livingston Other 0%
James Longley, Jr. Other 48%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 100%
Connie Mack Other 0%
Thomas Manton Other 13%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 65%
Bill Martini Other 73%
Frank Mascara Other 13%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
Joseph McDade Other 0%
Paul McHale Other 55%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 33%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 25%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 12%
Jan Meyers Other 91%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 43%
David Minge Other 65%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 55%
Susan Molinari Other 65%
Alan Mollohan Other 0%
G.V. Montgomery Other 1%
Carlos Moorhead Other 0%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 100%
Patrick Moynihan Other 66%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 13%
John Myers Other 1%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 13%
Mark Neumann Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 13%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
Sam Nunn Other 74%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 13%
Dave Obey Other 75%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 0%
Bill Orton Other 3%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 13%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Mike Parker Other 0%
William Paxon Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 80%
Claiborne Pell Other 100%
Pete Peterson Other 100%
Owen Pickett Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 65%
John Edward Porter Other 55%
Glenn Poshard Other 0%
Larry Pressler Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 45%
David Pryor Other 80%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 45%
Ralph Regula Other 23%
Bill Richardson Other 90%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 23%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 0%
Charles Rose III Other 75%
Toby Roth Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 29%
Marge Roukema Other 65%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 12%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
Daniel Schaefer Other 0%
Steven Schiff Other 33%
Patricia Schroeder Other 100%
Andrea Seastrand Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 45%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Paul Simon Other 100%
Alan Simpson Other 79%
Norman Sisisky Other 65%
David Skaggs Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 0%
Linda Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 91%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 66%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 75%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 43%
Louis Stokes Other 100%
Gerry Studds Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 0%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 65%
Randy Tate Other 0%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Frank Tejeda Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 45%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Ray Thornton Other 47%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Peter Torkildsen Other 94%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 65%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
Harold Volkmer Other 3%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 0%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
Michael Ward Other 100%
John Warner 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%
Rick White Other 42%
Pat Williams Other 100%
Charles Wilson Other 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 90%
Sidney Yates Other 100%
Bill Zeliff Other 62%
Richard Zimmer Other 99%

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