Rating Group: Peace Action

1997 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 8%
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 8%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 8%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 67%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 92%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 92%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 83%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 83%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 92%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 92%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 8%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 92%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 33%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 83%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 58%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 42%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 25%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 83%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 83%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 8%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 58%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
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 58%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 17%
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 8%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 75%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 58%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 25%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 75%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 33%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 8%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 83%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 92%
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 17%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 8%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 8%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 8%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 8%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 8%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 67%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 92%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 83%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 42%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 58%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 8%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 75%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 17%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 58%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 50%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 33%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 92%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 58%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 17%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 25%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 33%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 42%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 8%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 58%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 17%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 42%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 33%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 92%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 42%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 33%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 58%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 25%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 58%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 42%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 8%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 50%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 8%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 92%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 58%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 92%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 92%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 67%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 83%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 92%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 83%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 25%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 50%
OH Governor John Kasich R 33%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 50%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 8%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 33%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 8%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 67%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 83%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 83%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 92%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 67%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 8%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 25%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 58%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 8%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 17%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 25%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 58%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 50%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 42%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 8%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 83%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 8%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 42%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 25%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 67%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
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 42%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 75%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 67%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 58%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 50%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 58%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 8%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 8%
Gary Ackerman Other 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 67%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 50%
Bill Archer Other 8%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 33%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 58%
Cass Ballenger Other 25%
James Barcia Other 25%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 25%
Herbert Bateman Other 8%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 42%
Douglas Bereuter Other 25%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 42%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 42%
Rod Blagojevich Other 58%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 8%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 17%
David Edward Bonior Other 75%
Sonny Bono Other 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 25%
Leonard Boswell Other 33%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 25%
John Breaux Other 42%
George Brown, Jr. Other 75%
Richard Bryan Other 50%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Dale Bumpers Other 92%
Jim Bunning Other 8%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 58%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 8%
Thomas Campbell Other 58%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Walter Holden Capps Other 73%
Julia Carson Other 83%
Mike Castle Other 33%
John Chafee Other 33%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 25%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 8%
William Clay, Sr. Other 75%
Eva Clayton Other 67%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 33%
Robert Clement Other 33%
Michael Collins Other 8%
Larry Combest Other 17%
Gary Condit Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 42%
Merrill Cook Other 0%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 75%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 92%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 8%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 8%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 17%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 50%
Thomas Daschle Other 42%
James Davis Other 33%
Thomas Davis III Other 8%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 42%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 8%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Julian Dixon Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 42%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 8%
Calvin Dooley Other 33%
John Doolittle Other 8%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 25%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 8%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 33%
John Ensign Other 25%
Bob Etheridge Other 25%
Lane Evans Other 75%
Terry Everett Other 8%
Thomas Ewing Other 0%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 0%
Harris Fawell Other 17%
Victor Fazio Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 92%
Thomas Foglietta Other 75%
Mark Foley Other 50%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 67%
Wendell Ford Other 42%
Tillie Fowler Other 0%
Jon David Fox Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 92%
Robert Franks Other 67%
William Frist Other 17%
Jonas Frost III Other 17%
Elizabeth Furse Other 92%
Elton Gallegly Other 17%
John Ganske Other 50%
Sam Gejdenson Other 42%
George Gekas Other 8%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 58%
Jim Gibbons Other 17%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 17%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 8%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 58%
Henry Gonzalez Other 25%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 25%
William Goodling Other 25%
Bart Gordon Other 33%
Slade Gorton Other 8%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 25%
William Phillip Gramm Other 8%
Rodney Grams Other 8%
James Greenwood Other 50%
Judd Gregg Other 8%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 42%
Tony Hall Other 50%
Lee Hamilton Other 42%
James Hansen Other 8%
Jane Harman Other 17%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
W.G. Hefner Other 25%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 17%
Rick Hill Other 8%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 67%
Maurice Hinchey Other 83%
David Lee Hobson Other 8%
Pete Hoekstra Other 50%
Thomas Holden Other 25%
Ernest Hollings Other 33%
Darlene Hooley Other 92%
Stephen Horn Other 8%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 25%
Kenny Hulshof Other 8%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 17%
Henry Hyde Other 8%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 33%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 17%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 50%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 8%
Jay Johnson Other 67%
Nancy Johnson Other 17%
Paul Kanjorski Other 67%
Sue Kelly Other 42%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 67%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 92%
Patrick Kennedy Other 42%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 42%
Bob Kerrey Other 58%
Dale Kildee Other 42%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 75%
Jay Kim Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 75%
Ronald Klink Other 42%
Scott Klug Other 58%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 8%
Herb Kohl Other 67%
James Kolbe Other 25%
Dennis Kucinich Other 83%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 8%
Nicholas Lampson Other 58%
Tom Lantos Other 75%
Stephen Largent Other 17%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
Rick Lazio Other 25%
James Leach Other 50%
Jerry Lewis Other 17%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 42%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 50%
Robert Livingston Other 8%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 8%
Dick Lugar Other 25%
William Luther Other 75%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 25%
Thomas Manton Other 42%
Don Manzullo Other 8%
Matthew Martinez Other 50%
Frank Mascara Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 42%
Karen McCarthy Other 67%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
Joseph McDade Other 0%
Paul McHale Other 50%
John McHugh Other 8%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
David McIntosh Other 8%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 67%
Martin Meehan Other 75%
Carrie Meek Other 8%
Jack Metcalf Other 17%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 50%
Dan Miller Other 17%
David Minge Other 75%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 83%
John Moakley Other 83%
Alan Mollohan Other 17%
Constance Morella Other 75%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 67%
Patrick Moynihan Other 58%
Frank Murkowski Other 8%
Jack Murtha Other 8%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Mark Neumann Other 25%
Robert William Ney Other 17%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 17%
James Nussle Other 42%
Jim Oberstar Other 83%
Dave Obey Other 83%
John Olver Other 75%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 8%
Major Owens Other 83%
Michael Oxley Other 8%
Ronald Packard Other 8%
Michael Pappas Other 0%
Mike Parker Other 8%
Ron Paul Other 75%
William Paxon Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 92%
Edward Pease Other 8%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 25%
Richard Pombo Other 17%
Earl Pomeroy Other 25%
John Edward Porter Other 58%
Glenn Poshard Other 75%
Deborah Pryce Other 25%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 8%
James Ramstad Other 75%
Bill Redmond Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 8%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 17%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 92%
Charles Robb Other 25%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 33%
Timothy Roemer Other 58%
James Rogan Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 17%
Steve Rothman Other 58%
Marge Roukema Other 67%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 67%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 8%
Rick Santorum Other 8%
Paul Sarbanes Other 58%
Jim Saxton Other 8%
Joe Scarborough Other 8%
Daniel Schaefer Other 0%
Steven Schiff Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 83%
E.G. Shuster Other 17%
Norman Sisisky Other 25%
David Skaggs Other 75%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 8%
Gordon Smith Other 8%
Linda Smith Other 17%
Nick Smith Other 42%
Robert Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Vincent Snowbarger Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 17%
Vic Snyder Other 25%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 8%
Arlen Specter Other 42%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 17%
Pete Stark Other 83%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 25%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Louis Stokes Other 92%
Ted Strickland Other 58%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 75%
John Sununu Other 17%
James Talent Other 17%
John Tanner Other 33%
Ellen Tauscher Other 67%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 8%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 8%
William Thomas Other 8%
Fred Thompson Other 8%
Karen Thurman Other 25%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 67%
Robert Torricelli Other 58%
Ed Towns Other 75%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 25%
James Turner Other 25%
Bruce Vento Other 83%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 17%
John Warner Other 8%
Wesley Watkins Other 8%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 25%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 50%
Bob Weygand Other 42%
Rick White Other 17%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 50%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 58%
Sidney Yates Other 58%

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