Rating Group: National Farmers Union

1997 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 57%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 43%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 86%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 71%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 29%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 86%
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 67%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 83%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 57%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 71%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 86%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 71%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 43%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 86%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 14%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 86%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 86%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 71%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 86%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 14%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 83%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 57%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 71%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 43%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 86%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 83%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 86%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 71%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 86%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 57%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 57%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 71%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 71%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 86%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 67%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 67%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 57%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 43%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 43%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 50%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 71%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 57%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 71%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 43%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 43%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 43%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 43%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 86%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 43%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 86%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 71%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 86%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 86%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 57%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 71%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 43%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 86%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 71%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 86%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 86%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 57%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 71%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 86%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 71%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 86%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 71%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 86%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 25%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 57%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 71%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 43%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 57%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 57%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 86%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 43%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 71%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 50%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 33%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 43%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 43%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 86%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 50%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 43%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 71%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 43%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 57%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 43%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 50%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 83%
OH Governor John Kasich R 57%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 71%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 86%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 43%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 57%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 86%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 71%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 71%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 71%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 57%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 57%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 71%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 14%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 86%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 43%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 57%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 50%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 71%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 71%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 86%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 57%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 57%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 71%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 57%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 57%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 83%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 43%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 86%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 86%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 33%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 71%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 43%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 29%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 57%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 43%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 86%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 43%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 57%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 43%
Thomas Allen Other 71%
Bill Archer Other 14%
Richard Armey Other 29%
John Ashcroft Other 57%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 86%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 83%
James Barcia Other 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 29%
Bill Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 71%
Charlie Bass Other 43%
Herbert Bateman Other 86%
Bob Bennett Other 57%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 67%
Marion Berry Other 100%
Brian Bilbray Other 43%
Michael Bilirakis Other 86%
Jeff Bingaman Other 83%
Rod Blagojevich Other 57%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 86%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 71%
Kit Bond Other 57%
Henry Bonilla Other 71%
David Edward Bonior Other 86%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 57%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 86%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100%
John Breaux Other 83%
George Brown, Jr. Other 86%
Richard Bryan Other 86%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Dale Bumpers Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 71%
Dan Burton Other 57%
Steve Buyer Other 71%
Robert Byrd Other 86%
Herbert Callahan Other 43%
Ben Campbell Other 57%
Thomas Campbell Other 43%
Chris Cannon Other 57%
Julia Carson Other 67%
Mike Castle Other 57%
John Chafee Other 86%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 86%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 71%
William Clay, Sr. Other 71%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 57%
Michael Collins Other 29%
Larry Combest Other 71%
Gary Condit Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Merrill Cook Other 71%
John Cooksey Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Paul Coverdell Other 57%
Christopher Cox Other 29%
William Coyne Other 57%
Larry Craig Other 57%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Philip Crane Other 29%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 86%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 71%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 86%
Thomas Daschle Other 86%
James Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 57%
Bill Delahunt Other 71%
Thomas DeLay Other 14%
Peter Deutsch Other 57%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Jay Dickey Other 57%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 86%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 71%
Calvin Dooley Other 71%
John Doolittle Other 86%
Byron Dorgan Other 86%
David Dreier Other 57%
Jennifer Dunn Other 86%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 71%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 43%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 71%
John Ensign Other 50%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Thomas Ewing Other 100%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 71%
Harris Fawell Other 57%
Victor Fazio Other 86%
Russ Feingold Other 71%
Thomas Foglietta Other 57%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 67%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 86%
Wendell Ford Other 100%
Tillie Fowler Other 86%
Jon David Fox Other 57%
Barney Frank Other 43%
Robert Franks Other 57%
William Frist Other 57%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elizabeth Furse Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 67%
John Ganske Other 86%
Sam Gejdenson Other 50%
George Gekas Other 71%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 86%
Jim Gibbons Other 57%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 86%
Paul Gillmor Other 71%
Benjamin Gilman Other 86%
John Glenn Other 100%
Henry Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
William Goodling Other 43%
Bart Gordon Other 71%
Slade Gorton Other 57%
Porter Goss Other 57%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 57%
Rodney Grams Other 71%
James Greenwood Other 71%
Judd Gregg Other 57%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 71%
Tony Hall Other 50%
Lee Hamilton Other 100%
James Hansen Other 71%
Jane Harman Other 86%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 71%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 57%
Joel Hefley Other 57%
W.G. Hefner Other 100%
Jesse Helms Other 57%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 83%
Rick Hill Other 100%
Van Hilleary Other 43%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 57%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 86%
Ernest Hollings Other 83%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 57%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 43%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 86%
Kenny Hulshof Other 71%
Duncan Hunter Other 71%
Asa Hutchinson Other 57%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 71%
Kay Hutchison Other 50%
Henry Hyde Other 86%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 29%
Daniel Inouye Other 86%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 43%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Christopher John Other 100%
Jay Johnson Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 71%
Paul Kanjorski Other 57%
Sue Kelly Other 57%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 57%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 86%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 43%
Patrick Kennedy Other 71%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 57%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 83%
Jay Kim Other 71%
Gerald Kleczka Other 86%
Ronald Klink Other 86%
Scott Klug Other 57%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 57%
Herb Kohl Other 86%
James Kolbe Other 57%
Dennis Kucinich Other 43%
Jon Kyl Other 29%
John LaFalce Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 50%
Stephen Largent Other 43%
Steve LaTourette Other 71%
Rick Lazio Other 57%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 71%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 86%
John Linder Other 57%
William Lipinski Other 86%
Robert Livingston Other 71%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 57%
Dick Lugar Other 71%
William Luther Other 57%
Connie Mack Other 50%
James Maloney Other 43%
Thomas Manton Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 29%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 57%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 71%
Bill McCollum Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 86%
Joseph McDade Other 83%
Paul McHale Other 71%
John McHugh Other 71%
Scott McInnis Other 71%
David McIntosh Other 43%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 83%
Michael McNulty Other 71%
Martin Meehan Other 43%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 86%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 86%
Dan Miller Other 29%
David Minge Other 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 43%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 57%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 100%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 71%
Jack Murtha Other 86%
Sue Myrick Other 71%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 86%
Mark Neumann Other 14%
Robert William Ney Other 71%
Don Nickles Other 43%
Anne Northup Other 57%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 71%
James Nussle Other 71%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 86%
John Olver Other 57%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Major Owens Other 71%
Michael Oxley Other 86%
Ronald Packard Other 86%
Michael Pappas Other 71%
Mike Parker Other 86%
Ron Paul Other 29%
William Paxon Other 57%
Donald Payne Other 43%
Edward Pease Other 86%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 86%
Owen Pickett Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 86%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
John Edward Porter Other 57%
Glenn Poshard Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 57%
Jack Quinn Other 71%
George Radanovich Other 71%
James Ramstad Other 57%
Bill Redmond Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 71%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 100%
Bob Riley Other 86%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 57%
Charles Robb Other 86%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 86%
James Rogan Other 71%
William Roth, Jr. Other 71%
Steve Rothman Other 86%
Marge Roukema Other 57%
Jim Ryun Other 57%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 43%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 86%
Joe Scarborough Other 29%
Daniel Schaefer Other 86%
John Shadegg Other 29%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 57%
Christopher Shays Other 43%
E.G. Shuster Other 86%
Norman Sisisky Other 100%
David Skaggs Other 86%
Joseph Skeen Other 71%
Ike Skelton Other 100%
Gordon Smith Other 71%
Linda Smith Other 71%
Nick Smith Other 86%
Robert Smith Other 86%
Bob Smith Other 43%
Vincent Snowbarger Other 29%
Olympia Snowe Other 86%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 71%
Floyd Spence Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 67%
Cliff Stearns Other 71%
Charles Stenholm Other 86%
Ted Stevens Other 57%
Louis Stokes Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 71%
Bob Stump Other 71%
Bart Stupak Other 86%
John Sununu Other 57%
James Talent Other 71%
John Tanner Other 100%
Ellen Tauscher Other 71%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 86%
Gene Taylor Other 57%
Craig Thomas Other 43%
William Thomas Other 100%
Fred Thompson Other 71%
Karen Thurman Other 86%
Strom Thurmond Other 71%
Todd Tiahrt Other 43%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 83%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
James Turner Other 100%
Bruce Vento Other 57%
James Walsh Other 86%
Zach Wamp Other 57%
John Warner Other 57%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
David Weldon Other 71%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 57%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 57%
Rick White Other 71%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%
Sidney Yates Other 67%

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