Rating Group: Peace Action

1999 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 27%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 7%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 30%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 9%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 27%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 23%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 54%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 54%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 46%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 61%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 54%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 81%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 54%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 72%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 72%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 63%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 36%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 18%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 36%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 18%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 27%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 63%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 45%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 36%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 27%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 18%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 72%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 36%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 54%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 63%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 45%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 72%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 36%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 36%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 45%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 36%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 18%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 18%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 36%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 54%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 27%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 18%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 18%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 27%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 18%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 54%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 27%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 54%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 46%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 53%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 18%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 30%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 18%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 61%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 54%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 36%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 72%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 81%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 27%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 36%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 23%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 27%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 30%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 7%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 18%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 18%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 27%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 38%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 20%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 54%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 81%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 81%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 72%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 81%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 46%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 36%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 18%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 45%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 30%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 46%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 54%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 27%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 54%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 36%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 18%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 90%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 81%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 18%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 7%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 18%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 36%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 38%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 23%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 53%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 18%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 27%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 36%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 45%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 18%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 63%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 27%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 46%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 36%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 36%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 36%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 27%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 36%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 27%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 18%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 54%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 72%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 38%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 46%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 9%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 45%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 72%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 81%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 72%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 36%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 54%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 36%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 81%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 36%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 36%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 54%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 81%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 27%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 54%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 27%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 45%
OH Governor John Kasich R 27%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 45%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 15%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 30%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 27%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 27%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 61%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 18%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 81%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 27%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 45%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 54%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 36%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 27%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 36%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 38%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 27%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 54%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 27%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 53%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 18%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 54%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 27%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 36%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 36%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 18%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 18%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 18%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 36%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 45%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 36%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 36%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 36%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 27%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 72%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 7%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 36%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 27%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 36%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 9%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 38%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 38%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 18%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 72%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 27%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 63%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 36%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 36%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 45%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 36%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 72%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 46%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 27%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 30%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 30%
Gary Ackerman Other 45%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 38%
Wayne Allard Other 46%
Thomas Allen Other 54%
Bill Archer Other 27%
Richard Armey Other 18%
John Ashcroft Other 30%
Brian Baird Other 45%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 27%
John Baldacci Other 54%
Cass Ballenger Other 27%
James Barcia Other 36%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 36%
Bill Barrett Other 18%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 27%
Charlie Bass Other 27%
Herbert Bateman Other 18%
Evan Bayh Other 61%
Bob Bennett Other 30%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 36%
Douglas Bereuter Other 18%
Shelley Berkley Other 36%
Howard Berman Other 36%
Marion Berry Other 18%
Judy Biggert Other 27%
Brian Bilbray Other 45%
Michael Bilirakis Other 27%
Jeff Bingaman Other 46%
Rod Blagojevich Other 45%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 9%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 27%
Kit Bond Other 23%
Henry Bonilla Other 18%
David Edward Bonior Other 63%
Mary Bono Mack Other 27%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 36%
Leonard Boswell Other 27%
Rick Boucher Other 27%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 18%
John Breaux Other 23%
Richard Bryan Other 46%
Ed Bryant Other 27%
Jim Bunning Other 23%
Conrad Burns Other 23%
Dan Burton Other 18%
Steve Buyer Other 18%
Robert Byrd Other 38%
Herbert Callahan Other 9%
Ben Campbell Other 23%
Thomas Campbell Other 63%
Chris Cannon Other 36%
Julia Carson Other 54%
Mike Castle Other 18%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 36%
William Clay, Sr. Other 54%
Eva Clayton Other 54%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 53%
Robert Clement Other 27%
Michael Collins Other 9%
Larry Combest Other 18%
Gary Condit Other 36%
Kent Conrad Other 53%
Merrill Cook Other 45%
John Cooksey Other 18%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Paul Coverdell Other 30%
Christopher Cox Other 18%
William Coyne Other 54%
Larry Craig Other 30%
Robert Cramer Other 9%
Philip Crane Other 36%
Barbara Cubin Other 18%
Randall Cunningham Other 18%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 72%
Thomas Daschle Other 46%
James Davis Other 27%
Thomas Davis III Other 18%
Bill Delahunt Other 72%
Thomas DeLay Other 27%
James DeMint Other 36%
Peter Deutsch Other 36%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 18%
Jay Dickey Other 9%
Norm Dicks Other 36%
Julian Dixon Other 36%
Chris Dodd Other 38%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 30%
Calvin Dooley Other 36%
John Doolittle Other 18%
Byron Dorgan Other 53%
David Dreier Other 18%
Jennifer Dunn Other 18%
John Edwards Other 61%
Chet Edwards Other 27%
Vern Ehlers Other 63%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 9%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 27%
Philip English Other 45%
Bob Etheridge Other 27%
Lane Evans Other 63%
Terry Everett Other 9%
Thomas Ewing Other 36%
Russ Feingold Other 84%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 46%
Ernest Fletcher Other 18%
Mark Foley Other 36%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 27%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 36%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 18%
Tillie Fowler Other 18%
Barney Frank Other 63%
Robert Franks Other 45%
William Frist Other 30%
Jonas Frost III Other 27%
Elton Gallegly Other 18%
John Ganske Other 63%
Sam Gejdenson Other 45%
George Gekas Other 27%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 45%
Jim Gibbons Other 36%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 27%
Paul Gillmor Other 18%
Benjamin Gilman Other 9%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 36%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 45%
William Goodling Other 27%
Bart Gordon Other 27%
Slade Gorton Other 30%
Porter Goss Other 18%
Daniel Graham Other 53%
William Phillip Gramm Other 38%
Rodney Grams Other 46%
Mark Green Other 36%
James Greenwood Other 27%
Judd Gregg Other 38%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 45%
Tony Hall Other 36%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 9%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 36%
Joel Hefley Other 36%
Jesse Helms Other 30%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 27%
Baron Hill Other 36%
Rick Hill Other 36%
Van Hilleary Other 27%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 36%
Maurice Hinchey Other 45%
David Lee Hobson Other 18%
Pete Hoekstra Other 27%
Thomas Holden Other 27%
Ernest Hollings Other 53%
Darlene Hooley Other 81%
Stephen Horn Other 27%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 27%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 9%
Kenny Hulshof Other 45%
Duncan Hunter Other 9%
Asa Hutchinson Other 18%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 30%
Kay Hutchison Other 23%
Henry Hyde Other 9%
Daniel Inouye Other 30%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 27%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 45%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 46%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 18%
Christopher John Other 18%
Nancy Johnson Other 36%
Paul Kanjorski Other 36%
Sue Kelly Other 18%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 38%
Patrick Kennedy Other 36%
Bob Kerrey Other 46%
Dale Kildee Other 36%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 54%
Gerald Kleczka Other 63%
Ronald Klink Other 36%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 9%
Herb Kohl Other 61%
James Kolbe Other 9%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Steven Kuykendall Other 27%
Jon Kyl Other 23%
John LaFalce Other 27%
Ray LaHood Other 36%
Nicholas Lampson Other 27%
Tom Lantos Other 36%
Stephen Largent Other 45%
Steve LaTourette Other 36%
Rick Lazio Other 18%
James Leach Other 45%
Jerry Lewis Other 18%
Ron Lewis Other 18%
Joe Lieberman Other 38%
Blanche Lincoln Other 38%
John Linder Other 36%
William Lipinski Other 45%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 15%
Dick Lugar Other 23%
William Luther Other 72%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 27%
Don Manzullo Other 36%
Matthew Martinez Other 27%
Frank Mascara Other 27%
Robert Matsui Other 36%
Karen McCarthy Other 63%
Bill McCollum Other 18%
James McCrery III Other 18%
John McHugh Other 9%
Scott McInnis Other 27%
David McIntosh Other 27%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 36%
Martin Meehan Other 54%
Carrie Meek Other 36%
Jack Metcalf Other 45%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 36%
Dan Miller Other 27%
David Minge Other 72%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 81%
John Moakley Other 45%
Alan Mollohan Other 18%
Dennis Moore Other 36%
Constance Morella Other 45%
Patrick Moynihan Other 30%
Frank Murkowski Other 30%
Jack Murtha Other 18%
Sue Myrick Other 45%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 18%
Robert William Ney Other 27%
Don Nickles Other 38%
Anne Northup Other 18%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 36%
James Nussle Other 45%
Jim Oberstar Other 63%
Dave Obey Other 54%
John Olver Other 63%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 18%
Doug Ose Other 36%
Major Owens Other 81%
Michael Oxley Other 9%
Ronald Packard Other 18%
Ron Paul Other 63%
Donald Payne Other 72%
Edward Pease Other 27%
John Peterson Other 18%
David Phelps Other 36%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 18%
Owen Pickett Other 18%
Richard Pombo Other 27%
Earl Pomeroy Other 36%
John Edward Porter Other 27%
Deborah Pryce Other 27%
Jack Quinn Other 36%
George Radanovich Other 18%
James Ramstad Other 63%
Ralph Regula Other 27%
Silvestre Reyes Other 27%
Thomas Reynolds Other 18%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 69%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 36%
Timothy Roemer Other 36%
James Rogan Other 36%
William Roth, Jr. Other 15%
Steve Rothman Other 36%
Marge Roukema Other 27%
Jim Ryun Other 18%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 54%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 18%
Rick Santorum Other 38%
Paul Sarbanes Other 46%
Jim Saxton Other 18%
Joe Scarborough Other 27%
John Shadegg Other 36%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 18%
Christopher Shays Other 54%
Donald Sherwood Other 18%
Ronnie Shows Other 18%
E.G. Shuster Other 18%
Norman Sisisky Other 18%
Joseph Skeen Other 18%
Ike Skelton Other 18%
Gordon Smith Other 30%
Nick Smith Other 36%
Bob Smith Other 30%
Olympia Snowe Other 15%
Vic Snyder Other 27%
Mark Souder Other 36%
Arlen Specter Other 23%
Floyd Spence Other 18%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 27%
Pete Stark Other 90%
Cliff Stearns Other 27%
Charles Stenholm Other 18%
Ted Stevens Other 23%
Ted Strickland Other 36%
Bob Stump Other 18%
Bart Stupak Other 45%
John Sununu Other 27%
John Sweeney Other 18%
James Talent Other 36%
Tom Tancredo Other 36%
John Tanner Other 18%
Ellen Tauscher Other 36%
William Tauzin Other 27%
Charles Taylor Other 27%
Gene Taylor Other 27%
Craig Thomas Other 30%
William Thomas Other 18%
Fred Thompson Other 23%
Karen Thurman Other 27%
Strom Thurmond Other 23%
Todd Tiahrt Other 27%
Robert Torricelli Other 69%
Ed Towns Other 81%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 36%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 63%
James Turner Other 18%
Bruce Vento Other 81%
George Voinovich Other 38%
James Walsh Other 27%
Zach Wamp Other 45%
John Warner Other 15%
Wesley Watkins Other 27%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 18%
Anthony Weiner Other 54%
David Weldon Other 27%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 27%
Gerald Weller Other 27%
Paul Wellstone Other 76%
Robert Wexler Other 36%
Bob Weygand Other 36%
Heather Wilson Other 18%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 18%
Lynn Woolsey Other 81%
David Wu Other 63%
Albert Wynn Other 36%

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