Rating Group: National Farmers Union

1994 Family Farm Advocacy Score

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 67%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 50%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 44%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 56%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 67%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 78%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 89%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 86%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 78%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 78%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 75%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 44%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 75%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 88%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 44%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 78%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 56%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 78%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 44%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 89%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 78%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 88%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 44%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 44%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 83%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 57%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 67%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 56%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 63%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 89%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 78%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 56%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 89%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 22%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 78%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 75%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 67%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 56%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 78%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 56%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 56%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 67%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 78%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 75%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 88%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 78%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 89%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 50%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 78%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 78%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 78%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 88%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 67%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 44%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 88%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 89%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 89%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 78%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 33%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 78%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 89%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 78%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 75%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 89%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 78%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 44%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 88%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 88%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 89%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 63%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 86%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 78%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 78%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 89%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 25%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 33%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Governor John Kasich R 56%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 78%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 83%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 89%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 75%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 78%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 78%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 30%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 22%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 67%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 13%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 88%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 86%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 89%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 44%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 89%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 22%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 75%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 56%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 89%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 78%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 44%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 89%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 89%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 67%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 33%
Bill Archer Other 22%
Richard Armey Other 33%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 78%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 38%
Cass Ballenger Other 33%
James Barcia Other 78%
Bill Barrett Other 67%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 33%
Herbert Bateman Other 38%
Bob Bennett Other 44%
Douglas Bereuter Other 67%
Howard Berman Other 78%
Michael Bilirakis Other 78%
Jeff Bingaman Other 78%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 11%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 75%
Kit Bond Other 56%
Henry Bonilla Other 67%
David Edward Bonior Other 78%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 78%
Rick Boucher Other 78%
John Breaux Other 67%
George Brown, Jr. Other 71%
Richard Bryan Other 89%
Dale Bumpers Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 33%
Conrad Burns Other 56%
Dan Burton Other 44%
Steve Buyer Other 56%
Robert Byrd Other 89%
Herbert Callahan Other 56%
Ben Campbell Other 78%
Mike Castle Other 67%
John Chafee Other 67%
William Clay, Sr. Other 57%
Eva Clayton Other 67%
Robert Clement Other 75%
Michael Collins Other 33%
Larry Combest Other 22%
Gary Condit Other 75%
Kent Conrad Other 89%
Jerry Costello Other 89%
Paul Coverdell Other 44%
Christopher Cox Other 44%
William Coyne Other 78%
Larry Craig Other 44%
Robert Cramer Other 78%
Randall Cunningham Other 78%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 44%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 89%
Thomas Daschle Other 78%
Thomas DeLay Other 11%
Peter Deutsch Other 78%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 78%
Jay Dickey Other 75%
Norm Dicks Other 78%
Julian Dixon Other 78%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 44%
Calvin Dooley Other 78%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 89%
David Dreier Other 38%
Jennifer Dunn Other 44%
Chet Edwards Other 78%
Vern Ehlers Other 56%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 56%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 67%
Thomas Ewing Other 44%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 22%
Harris Fawell Other 67%
Victor Fazio Other 89%
Russ Feingold Other 89%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 71%
Wendell Ford Other 89%
Tillie Fowler Other 56%
Barney Frank Other 67%
Robert Franks Other 44%
Jonas Frost III Other 78%
Elizabeth Furse Other 78%
Elton Gallegly Other 88%
Sam Gejdenson Other 78%
George Gekas Other 56%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 78%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 67%
Paul Gillmor Other 78%
Benjamin Gilman Other 100%
Newt Gingrich Other 38%
John Glenn Other 100%
Henry Gonzalez Other 67%
William Goodling Other 78%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Slade Gorton Other 56%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 67%
William Phillip Gramm Other 33%
Rodney Grams Other 29%
James Greenwood Other 56%
Judd Gregg Other 11%
Tony Hall Other 88%
Lee Hamilton Other 78%
James Hansen Other 22%
Jane Harman Other 67%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 38%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
W.G. Hefner Other 88%
Jesse Helms Other 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 25%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 88%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 56%
Pete Hoekstra Other 56%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 78%
Stephen Horn Other 67%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 44%
Duncan Hunter Other 44%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 56%
Kay Hutchison Other 25%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 44%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 33%
William Jefferson Other 89%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 89%
Nancy Johnson Other 44%
Paul Kanjorski Other 89%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 44%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 78%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 67%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 78%
Bob Kerrey Other 56%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Jay Kim Other 44%
Gerald Kleczka Other 89%
Ronald Klink Other 89%
Scott Klug Other 78%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 44%
Herb Kohl Other 67%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Jon Kyl Other 44%
John LaFalce Other 88%
Tom Lantos Other 88%
Rick Lazio Other 67%
James Leach Other 67%
Jerry Lewis Other 56%
Ron Lewis Other 83%
Joe Lieberman Other 75%
John Linder Other 56%
William Lipinski Other 88%
Robert Livingston Other 63%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 44%
Dick Lugar Other 56%
Connie Mack Other 44%
Thomas Manton Other 57%
Don Manzullo Other 33%
Matthew Martinez Other 75%
Robert Matsui Other 78%
Bill McCollum Other 33%
James McCrery III Other 67%
Joseph McDade Other 56%
Paul McHale Other 78%
John McHugh Other 44%
Scott McInnis Other 44%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 78%
Michael McNulty Other 67%
Martin Meehan Other 67%
Carrie Meek Other 67%
Dan Miller Other 33%
David Minge Other 67%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 75%
John Moakley Other 78%
Alan Mollohan Other 89%
Constance Morella Other 67%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 78%
Patrick Moynihan Other 78%
Frank Murkowski Other 44%
Jack Murtha Other 63%
Don Nickles Other 22%
James Nussle Other 56%
Jim Oberstar Other 78%
Dave Obey Other 88%
John Olver Other 78%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 78%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 33%
Ronald Packard Other 33%
Mike Parker Other 78%
William Paxon Other 11%
Donald Payne Other 75%
Owen Pickett Other 88%
Richard Pombo Other 56%
Earl Pomeroy Other 88%
John Edward Porter Other 56%
Glenn Poshard Other 78%
Deborah Pryce Other 63%
Jack Quinn Other 75%
James Ramstad Other 33%
Ralph Regula Other 67%
Charles Robb Other 67%
Timothy Roemer Other 67%
William Roth, Jr. Other 33%
Marge Roukema Other 67%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 78%
Rick Santorum Other 38%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 67%
Daniel Schaefer Other 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 67%
Christopher Shays Other 44%
E.G. Shuster Other 33%
Norman Sisisky Other 67%
David Skaggs Other 78%
Joseph Skeen Other 67%
Ike Skelton Other 78%
Nick Smith Other 25%
Robert Smith Other 20%
Bob Smith Other 22%
Olympia Snowe Other 67%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 22%
Arlen Specter Other 44%
Floyd Spence Other 56%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 78%
Pete Stark Other 88%
Cliff Stearns Other 22%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 56%
Louis Stokes Other 89%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 22%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
James Talent Other 50%
John Tanner Other 67%
William Tauzin Other 67%
Charles Taylor Other 44%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
William Thomas Other 56%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 56%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 78%
Robert Torricelli Other 57%
Ed Towns Other 86%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
Bruce Vento Other 89%
James Walsh Other 78%
John Warner Other 44%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 63%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 89%
Albert Wynn Other 88%
Sidney Yates Other 86%

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