Rating Group: The Libertarian Party

1995 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 30%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 50%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 10%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 50%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 30%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 60%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 40%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 80%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 80%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 70%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 80%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 70%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 10%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 80%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 80%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 30%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 80%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 10%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 90%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 70%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 70%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 60%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 60%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 20%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 10%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 80%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 10%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 10%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 60%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 80%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 60%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 40%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 20%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 30%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 70%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 70%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 50%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 40%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 60%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 30%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 70%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 20%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 30%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 50%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 70%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 70%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 60%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 50%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 40%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 60%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 10%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 80%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 40%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 70%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 60%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 80%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 80%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 60%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 10%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 80%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 40%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 60%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 20%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 60%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 0%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 10%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 10%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 10%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 10%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 10%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 30%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 60%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 90%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 70%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 20%
OH Governor John Kasich R 70%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 10%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 20%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 80%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 60%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 10%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 10%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 10%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 10%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 10%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 80%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 70%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 10%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 70%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 80%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 80%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 90%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 10%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 60%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 10%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 10%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 10%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 80%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 70%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 30%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 60%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 70%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 10%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 80%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 70%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 20%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 30%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 40%
Gary Ackerman Other 10%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 50%
Wayne Allard Other 40%
Bill Archer Other 80%
Richard Armey Other 70%
John Ashcroft Other 60%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 10%
William Baker Other 30%
John Baldacci Other 50%
Cass Ballenger Other 70%
James Barcia Other 30%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 20%
Bill Barrett Other 70%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 20%
Charlie Bass Other 60%
Herbert Bateman Other 30%
Anthony Beilenson Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 60%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 10%
Douglas Bereuter Other 50%
Howard Berman Other 60%
Tom Bevill Other 10%
Brian Bilbray Other 10%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 60%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 70%
Peter Blute Other 40%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 30%
Kit Bond Other 40%
Henry Bonilla Other 70%
David Edward Bonior Other 80%
Sonny Bono Other 50%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 10%
Rick Boucher Other 20%
Bill Bradley Other 40%
John Breaux Other 40%
Bill Brewster Other 30%
Glen Browder Other 10%
George Brown, Jr. Other 80%
Hank Brown Other 50%
Richard Bryan Other 30%
Ed Bryant Other 90%
John Bryant Other 10%
Dale Bumpers Other 30%
Jim Bunn Other 60%
Jim Bunning Other 20%
Conrad Burns Other 50%
Dan Burton Other 20%
Steve Buyer Other 20%
Robert Byrd Other 30%
Herbert Callahan Other 20%
Ben Campbell Other 40%
Mike Castle Other 20%
John Chafee Other 60%
Jim Chapman Other 30%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 50%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 90%
Dick Chrysler Other 40%
William Clay, Sr. Other 10%
Eva Clayton Other 10%
Robert Clement Other 20%
William Clinger Other 40%
William Cohen Other 50%
Ronald Coleman Other 20%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 10%
Cardiss Collins Other 80%
Michael Collins Other 20%
Larry Combest Other 80%
Gary Condit Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 40%
Wes Cooley Other 80%
Jerry Costello Other 30%
Paul Coverdell Other 30%
Christopher Cox Other 30%
William Coyne Other 10%
Larry Craig Other 60%
Robert Cramer Other 20%
Philip Crane Other 20%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 70%
Barbara Cubin Other 70%
Randall Cunningham Other 30%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 40%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 30%
Thomas Daschle Other 40%
Thomas Davis III Other 50%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 20%
Thomas DeLay Other 70%
Ronald Dellums Other 90%
Peter Deutsch Other 40%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Jay Dickey Other 30%
Norm Dicks Other 10%
Julian Dixon Other 70%
Chris Dodd Other 50%
Robert Dole Other 40%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 40%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 40%
Byron Dorgan Other 40%
Robert Dornan Other 20%
David Dreier Other 30%
Jennifer Dunn Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 30%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 40%
Bill Emerson Other 60%
Philip English Other 40%
John Ensign Other 80%
Lane Evans Other 80%
Terry Everett Other 20%
Thomas Ewing Other 20%
Jim Exon Other 30%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 50%
Harris Fawell Other 20%
Victor Fazio Other 70%
Russ Feingold Other 70%
Cleo Fields Other 50%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 80%
Floyd Flake Other 10%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 30%
Thomas Foglietta Other 10%
Mark Foley Other 40%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 60%
Harold Ford, Sr. Other 10%
Wendell Ford Other 30%
Tillie Fowler Other 10%
Jon David Fox Other 80%
Barney Frank Other 70%
Gary Franks Other 30%
Robert Franks Other 50%
Dan Frisa Other 80%
William Frist Other 40%
Jonas Frost III Other 20%
David Funderburk Other 80%
Elizabeth Furse Other 10%
Elton Gallegly Other 20%
John Ganske Other 20%
Sam Gejdenson Other 70%
George Gekas Other 60%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 10%
Pete Geren Other 50%
Sam Gibbons Other 60%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 60%
Paul Gillmor Other 80%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 50%
Henry Gonzalez Other 0%
William Goodling Other 60%
Bart Gordon Other 20%
Slade Gorton Other 20%
Porter Goss Other 10%
Daniel Graham Other 60%
William Phillip Gramm Other 50%
Rodney Grams Other 50%
Enid Greene Other 80%
James Greenwood Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 40%
Steven Gunderson Other 50%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 90%
Tony Hall Other 10%
Lee Hamilton Other 30%
Melton Hancock Other 90%
James Hansen Other 80%
Jane Harman Other 30%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 10%
Mark Hatfield Other 30%
James Hayes Other 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 30%
Joel Hefley Other 20%
W.G. Hefner Other 10%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 60%
Jesse Helms Other 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 20%
Van Hilleary Other 80%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 90%
Maurice Hinchey Other 10%
David Lee Hobson Other 60%
Pete Hoekstra Other 40%
Martin Hoke Other 60%
Thomas Holden Other 20%
Ernest Hollings Other 50%
Stephen Horn Other 40%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 20%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 50%
Duncan Hunter Other 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 20%
Kay Hutchison Other 50%
Henry Hyde Other 10%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 80%
Daniel Inouye Other 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 70%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 50%
William Jefferson Other 60%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 80%
Nancy Johnson Other 40%
Harry Johnston Other 50%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 60%
Sue Kelly Other 40%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 70%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 60%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 70%
Patrick Kennedy Other 10%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 50%
Bob Kerrey Other 50%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Jay Kim Other 40%
Gerald Kleczka Other 20%
Ronald Klink Other 10%
Scott Klug Other 70%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 10%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 40%
John LaFalce Other 10%
Ray LaHood Other 40%
Tom Lantos Other 50%
Stephen Largent Other 90%
Steve LaTourette Other 50%
Greg Laughlin Other 40%
Frank Lautenberg Other 40%
Rick Lazio Other 50%
James Leach Other 50%
Jerry Lewis Other 30%
Ron Lewis Other 20%
Joe Lieberman Other 40%
Jim Lightfoot Other 20%
Blanche Lincoln Other 60%
John Linder Other 20%
William Lipinski Other 30%
Robert Livingston Other 10%
James Longley, Jr. Other 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 50%
Dick Lugar Other 60%
William Luther Other 20%
Connie Mack Other 50%
Thomas Manton Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 30%
Matthew Martinez Other 60%
Bill Martini Other 30%
Frank Mascara Other 10%
Robert Matsui Other 50%
Karen McCarthy Other 10%
Bill McCollum Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 10%
Joseph McDade Other 50%
Paul McHale Other 10%
John McHugh Other 60%
Scott McInnis Other 50%
David McIntosh Other 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 50%
Michael McNulty Other 30%
Martin Meehan Other 70%
Carrie Meek Other 70%
Jack Metcalf Other 80%
Jan Meyers Other 40%
Dan Miller Other 30%
David Minge Other 20%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 70%
John Moakley Other 30%
Susan Molinari Other 60%
Alan Mollohan Other 0%
G.V. Montgomery Other 50%
Carlos Moorhead Other 20%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 50%
Patrick Moynihan Other 50%
Frank Murkowski Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 10%
John Myers Other 20%
Sue Myrick Other 70%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 50%
Mark Neumann Other 70%
Robert William Ney Other 60%
Don Nickles Other 40%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 20%
Sam Nunn Other 40%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 10%
Dave Obey Other 20%
John Olver Other 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 10%
Bill Orton Other 30%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 80%
Ronald Packard Other 20%
Mike Parker Other 50%
William Paxon Other 80%
Donald Payne Other 10%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 20%
Claiborne Pell Other 40%
Pete Peterson Other 30%
Owen Pickett Other 10%
Richard Pombo Other 30%
Earl Pomeroy Other 0%
John Edward Porter Other 20%
Glenn Poshard Other 40%
Larry Pressler Other 50%
Deborah Pryce Other 50%
David Pryor Other 20%
James Quillen Other 60%
Jack Quinn Other 40%
George Radanovich Other 20%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Ralph Regula Other 50%
Bill Richardson Other 10%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 40%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 70%
Charles Robb Other 80%
Timothy Roemer Other 20%
Charles Rose III Other 0%
Toby Roth Other 60%
William Roth, Jr. Other 40%
Marge Roukema Other 30%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 10%
Rick Santorum Other 60%
Paul Sarbanes Other 50%
Jim Saxton Other 60%
Joe Scarborough Other 50%
Daniel Schaefer Other 30%
Steven Schiff Other 50%
Patricia Schroeder Other 90%
Andrea Seastrand Other 30%
John Shadegg Other 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 30%
Christopher Shays Other 50%
E.G. Shuster Other 60%
Paul Simon Other 60%
Alan Simpson Other 60%
Norman Sisisky Other 20%
David Skaggs Other 70%
Joseph Skeen Other 70%
Ike Skelton Other 30%
Linda Smith Other 70%
Nick Smith Other 20%
Bob Smith Other 50%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 70%
Mark Souder Other 40%
Arlen Specter Other 70%
Floyd Spence Other 70%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 10%
Pete Stark Other 60%
Cliff Stearns Other 30%
Charles Stenholm Other 30%
Ted Stevens Other 40%
Louis Stokes Other 10%
Gerry Studds Other 70%
Bob Stump Other 30%
Bart Stupak Other 30%
James Talent Other 80%
John Tanner Other 20%
Randy Tate Other 60%
William Tauzin Other 30%
Charles Taylor Other 60%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Frank Tejeda Other 10%
Craig Thomas Other 40%
William Thomas Other 40%
Fred Thompson Other 40%
Ray Thornton Other 20%
Karen Thurman Other 60%
Strom Thurmond Other 50%
Todd Tiahrt Other 30%
Peter Torkildsen Other 40%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 60%
Robert Torricelli Other 10%
Ed Towns Other 10%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 20%
Bruce Vento Other 10%
Harold Volkmer Other 10%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 70%
Robert Walker Other 70%
James Walsh Other 40%
Zach Wamp Other 80%
Michael Ward Other 60%
John Warner Other 30%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 60%
David Weldon Other 20%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 50%
Gerald Weller Other 30%
Paul Wellstone Other 60%
Rick White Other 90%
Pat Williams Other 10%
Charles Wilson Other 10%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 70%
Albert Wynn Other 70%
Sidney Yates Other 60%
Bill Zeliff Other 80%
Richard Zimmer Other 90%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

Most performance evaluations are displayed in a percentage format. However, some organizations present their ratings in the form of a letter grade or endorsement based on voting records, interviews, survey results and/or sources of campaign funding. For consistency and ease in understanding, Project Vote Smart converts all scores into a percentage when possible. Please visit the group's website or call 1-888-VOTESMART for more specific information.