Rating Group: The Libertarian Party

1995 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 40%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 70%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 40%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 70%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 55%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 35%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 25%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 30%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 50%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 45%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 45%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 45%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 40%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 45%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 45%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 45%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 65%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 45%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 40%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 50%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 85%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 40%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 35%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 35%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 50%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 35%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 45%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 30%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 30%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 30%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 40%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 30%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 40%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 40%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 45%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 75%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 40%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 45%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 60%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 40%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 40%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 30%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 65%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 35%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 45%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 50%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 80%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 40%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 30%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 30%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 45%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 25%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 40%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 60%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 55%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 35%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 45%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 45%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 35%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 55%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 45%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 35%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 55%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 35%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 45%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 55%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 30%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 30%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 30%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 55%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 25%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 30%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 40%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 20%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 45%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 30%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 40%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 45%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 40%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 40%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 45%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 45%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 40%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 50%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 40%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 40%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 60%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 45%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 35%
OH Governor John Kasich R 45%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 40%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 70%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 60%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 35%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 35%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 40%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 45%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 25%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 40%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 45%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 45%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 30%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 20%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 60%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 55%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 45%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 65%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 55%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 45%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 35%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 25%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 40%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 35%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 65%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 65%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 35%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 50%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 35%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 30%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 45%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 35%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 45%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 45%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 60%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 55%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 45%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 15%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 15%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 65%
Gary Ackerman Other 40%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Wayne Allard Other 55%
Bill Archer Other 50%
Richard Armey Other 45%
John Ashcroft Other 70%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 15%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 35%
William Baker Other 65%
John Baldacci Other 25%
Cass Ballenger Other 40%
James Barcia Other 30%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 45%
Bill Barrett Other 50%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 45%
Charlie Bass Other 50%
Herbert Bateman Other 20%
Anthony Beilenson Other 45%
Bob Bennett Other 70%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 30%
Douglas Bereuter Other 35%
Howard Berman Other 35%
Tom Bevill Other 25%
Brian Bilbray Other 40%
Michael Bilirakis Other 40%
Jeff Bingaman Other 45%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 40%
Peter Blute Other 40%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 50%
Henry Bonilla Other 45%
David Edward Bonior Other 45%
Sonny Bono Other 60%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 45%
Bill Bradley Other 35%
John Breaux Other 35%
Bill Brewster Other 40%
Glen Browder Other 20%
George Brown, Jr. Other 45%
Hank Brown Other 70%
Richard Bryan Other 40%
Ed Bryant Other 50%
John Bryant Other 30%
Dale Bumpers Other 20%
Jim Bunn Other 45%
Jim Bunning Other 45%
Conrad Burns Other 60%
Dan Burton Other 50%
Steve Buyer Other 45%
Robert Byrd Other 20%
Herbert Callahan Other 45%
Ben Campbell Other 55%
Mike Castle Other 40%
John Chafee Other 65%
Jim Chapman Other 25%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 70%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 50%
Dick Chrysler Other 55%
William Clay, Sr. Other 45%
Eva Clayton Other 45%
Robert Clement Other 25%
William Clinger Other 30%
William Cohen Other 65%
Ronald Coleman Other 45%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 40%
Cardiss Collins Other 45%
Michael Collins Other 40%
Larry Combest Other 50%
Gary Condit Other 55%
Kent Conrad Other 30%
Wes Cooley Other 55%
Jerry Costello Other 20%
Paul Coverdell Other 60%
Christopher Cox Other 65%
William Coyne Other 45%
Larry Craig Other 75%
Robert Cramer Other 30%
Philip Crane Other 50%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 45%
Barbara Cubin Other 45%
Randall Cunningham Other 50%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 50%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 30%
Thomas Daschle Other 35%
Thomas Davis III Other 30%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 20%
Thomas DeLay Other 45%
Ronald Dellums Other 50%
Peter Deutsch Other 30%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Jay Dickey Other 55%
Norm Dicks Other 20%
Julian Dixon Other 40%
Chris Dodd Other 30%
Robert Dole Other 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 55%
Calvin Dooley Other 40%
John Doolittle Other 65%
Byron Dorgan Other 35%
Robert Dornan Other 45%
David Dreier Other 55%
Jennifer Dunn Other 35%
Chet Edwards Other 30%
Vern Ehlers Other 40%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 50%
Bill Emerson Other 45%
Philip English Other 40%
John Ensign Other 70%
Lane Evans Other 45%
Terry Everett Other 40%
Thomas Ewing Other 50%
Jim Exon Other 40%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 65%
Harris Fawell Other 45%
Victor Fazio Other 40%
Russ Feingold Other 45%
Cleo Fields Other 25%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 45%
Floyd Flake Other 35%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 40%
Thomas Foglietta Other 45%
Mark Foley Other 55%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 35%
Harold Ford, Sr. Other 35%
Wendell Ford Other 25%
Tillie Fowler Other 30%
Jon David Fox Other 45%
Barney Frank Other 45%
Gary Franks Other 50%
Robert Franks Other 50%
Dan Frisa Other 45%
William Frist Other 65%
Jonas Frost III Other 35%
David Funderburk Other 45%
Elizabeth Furse Other 40%
Elton Gallegly Other 50%
John Ganske Other 45%
Sam Gejdenson Other 40%
George Gekas Other 30%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 35%
Pete Geren Other 40%
Sam Gibbons Other 35%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 60%
Paul Gillmor Other 50%
Benjamin Gilman Other 40%
John Glenn Other 40%
Henry Gonzalez Other 40%
William Goodling Other 40%
Bart Gordon Other 25%
Slade Gorton Other 50%
Porter Goss Other 35%
Daniel Graham Other 45%
William Phillip Gramm Other 70%
Rodney Grams Other 70%
Enid Greene Other 40%
James Greenwood Other 55%
Judd Gregg Other 60%
Steven Gunderson Other 45%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 60%
Tony Hall Other 30%
Lee Hamilton Other 20%
Melton Hancock Other 55%
James Hansen Other 45%
Jane Harman Other 35%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 45%
Mark Hatfield Other 35%
James Hayes Other 35%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 50%
Joel Hefley Other 50%
W.G. Hefner Other 25%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 35%
Jesse Helms Other 65%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 55%
Van Hilleary Other 50%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 45%
Maurice Hinchey Other 40%
David Lee Hobson Other 40%
Pete Hoekstra Other 60%
Martin Hoke Other 50%
Thomas Holden Other 15%
Ernest Hollings Other 45%
Stephen Horn Other 60%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Duncan Hunter Other 50%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 40%
Kay Hutchison Other 60%
Henry Hyde Other 35%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 45%
Daniel Inouye Other 40%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 45%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 30%
William Jefferson Other 30%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 75%
Nancy Johnson Other 40%
Harry Johnston Other 30%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 25%
Paul Kanjorski Other 25%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 55%
Sue Kelly Other 35%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 40%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 45%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 30%
Bob Kerrey Other 35%
Dale Kildee Other 30%
Jay Kim Other 50%
Gerald Kleczka Other 25%
Ronald Klink Other 20%
Scott Klug Other 60%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 35%
Herb Kohl Other 45%
James Kolbe Other 55%
Jon Kyl Other 65%
John LaFalce Other 20%
Ray LaHood Other 50%
Tom Lantos Other 30%
Stephen Largent Other 55%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
Greg Laughlin Other 30%
Rick Lazio Other 35%
James Leach Other 55%
Jerry Lewis Other 50%
Ron Lewis Other 40%
Joe Lieberman Other 35%
Jim Lightfoot Other 40%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 40%
William Lipinski Other 20%
Robert Livingston Other 40%
James Longley, Jr. Other 50%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 70%
Dick Lugar Other 70%
William Luther Other 35%
Connie Mack Other 70%
Thomas Manton Other 15%
Don Manzullo Other 55%
Matthew Martinez Other 35%
Bill Martini Other 35%
Frank Mascara Other 20%
Robert Matsui Other 30%
Karen McCarthy Other 35%
Bill McCollum Other 40%
James McCrery III Other 40%
Joseph McDade Other 40%
Paul McHale Other 25%
John McHugh Other 45%
Scott McInnis Other 70%
David McIntosh Other 45%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 25%
Michael McNulty Other 25%
Martin Meehan Other 45%
Carrie Meek Other 40%
Jack Metcalf Other 70%
Jan Meyers Other 45%
Dan Miller Other 45%
David Minge Other 45%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 40%
John Moakley Other 15%
Susan Molinari Other 35%
Alan Mollohan Other 10%
G.V. Montgomery Other 25%
Carlos Moorhead Other 55%
Constance Morella Other 40%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 45%
Patrick Moynihan Other 40%
Frank Murkowski Other 65%
Jack Murtha Other 5%
John Myers Other 45%
Sue Myrick Other 40%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 30%
Mark Neumann Other 55%
Robert William Ney Other 50%
Don Nickles Other 65%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 50%
Sam Nunn Other 50%
James Nussle Other 45%
Jim Oberstar Other 40%
Dave Obey Other 45%
John Olver Other 50%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 5%
Bill Orton Other 25%
Major Owens Other 40%
Michael Oxley Other 45%
Ronald Packard Other 55%
Mike Parker Other 35%
William Paxon Other 50%
Donald Payne Other 45%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 20%
Claiborne Pell Other 30%
Pete Peterson Other 20%
Owen Pickett Other 20%
Richard Pombo Other 60%
Earl Pomeroy Other 25%
John Edward Porter Other 35%
Glenn Poshard Other 40%
Larry Pressler Other 65%
Deborah Pryce Other 40%
David Pryor Other 20%
James Quillen Other 40%
Jack Quinn Other 35%
George Radanovich Other 50%
James Ramstad Other 45%
Ralph Regula Other 35%
Bill Richardson Other 25%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 45%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 45%
Charles Robb Other 55%
Timothy Roemer Other 25%
Charles Rose III Other 15%
Toby Roth Other 50%
William Roth, Jr. Other 60%
Marge Roukema Other 30%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 50%
Rick Santorum Other 70%
Paul Sarbanes Other 30%
Jim Saxton Other 30%
Joe Scarborough Other 65%
Daniel Schaefer Other 55%
Steven Schiff Other 45%
Patricia Schroeder Other 55%
Andrea Seastrand Other 60%
John Shadegg Other 60%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 40%
Christopher Shays Other 55%
E.G. Shuster Other 45%
Paul Simon Other 45%
Alan Simpson Other 60%
Norman Sisisky Other 15%
David Skaggs Other 40%
Joseph Skeen Other 45%
Ike Skelton Other 30%
Linda Smith Other 40%
Nick Smith Other 50%
Bob Smith Other 70%
Olympia Snowe Other 65%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 40%
Mark Souder Other 65%
Arlen Specter Other 70%
Floyd Spence Other 40%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 30%
Pete Stark Other 40%
Cliff Stearns Other 45%
Charles Stenholm Other 25%
Ted Stevens Other 60%
Louis Stokes Other 45%
Gerry Studds Other 40%
Bob Stump Other 55%
Bart Stupak Other 20%
James Talent Other 45%
John Tanner Other 25%
Randy Tate Other 40%
William Tauzin Other 35%
Charles Taylor Other 45%
Gene Taylor Other 35%
Frank Tejeda Other 10%
Craig Thomas Other 65%
William Thomas Other 55%
Fred Thompson Other 60%
Ray Thornton Other 15%
Karen Thurman Other 30%
Strom Thurmond Other 70%
Todd Tiahrt Other 50%
Peter Torkildsen Other 50%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 35%
Robert Torricelli Other 35%
Ed Towns Other 40%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 40%
Bruce Vento Other 45%
Harold Volkmer Other 20%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 45%
Robert Walker Other 40%
James Walsh Other 30%
Zach Wamp Other 50%
Michael Ward Other 35%
John Warner Other 55%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 60%
David Weldon Other 45%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 30%
Gerald Weller Other 45%
Paul Wellstone Other 40%
Rick White Other 65%
Pat Williams Other 50%
Charles Wilson Other 15%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 15%
Lynn Woolsey Other 40%
Albert Wynn Other 35%
Sidney Yates Other 35%
Bill Zeliff Other 50%
Richard Zimmer Other 65%

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