Rating Group: National Farmers Union

1998 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 67%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 44%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 22%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 67%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 44%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 50%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 13%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 90%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 90%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 67%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 88%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 89%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 78%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 78%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 56%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 89%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 67%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 13%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 56%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 88%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 89%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 22%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 89%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 89%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 56%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 67%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 44%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 38%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 67%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 56%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 33%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 78%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 56%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 89%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 60%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 67%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 67%
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 78%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 67%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 67%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 56%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 40%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 56%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 50%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 50%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 67%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 67%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 90%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 78%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 89%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 86%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 67%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 78%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 89%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 56%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 44%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 89%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 89%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 78%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 44%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 56%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 88%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 57%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 67%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 89%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 75%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 88%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 56%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 44%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 44%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 78%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 56%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 44%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 67%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 63%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 56%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 89%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 67%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 78%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 89%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 75%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 67%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 56%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 22%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 11%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 63%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Governor John Kasich R 22%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 67%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 50%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 10%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 33%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 56%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 90%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 75%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 63%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 50%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 71%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 71%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 38%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 78%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 22%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 78%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 44%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 44%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 56%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 38%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 44%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 56%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 56%
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 56%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 89%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 56%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 56%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 89%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 33%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 50%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 44%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 78%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 56%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 89%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 88%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 67%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 11%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 33%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 67%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 90%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 78%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 50%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 40%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 40%
Thomas Allen Other 78%
Bill Archer Other 11%
Richard Armey Other 25%
John Ashcroft Other 40%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 56%
John Baldacci Other 89%
Cass Ballenger Other 56%
James Barcia Other 89%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 22%
Bill Barrett Other 78%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 38%
Charlie Bass Other 22%
Herbert Bateman Other 57%
Bob Bennett Other 50%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 78%
Douglas Bereuter Other 89%
Howard Berman Other 78%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Brian Bilbray Other 44%
Michael Bilirakis Other 56%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 67%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 44%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 44%
Kit Bond Other 50%
Henry Bonilla Other 56%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 38%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 67%
Leonard Boswell Other 89%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 89%
John Breaux Other 80%
George Brown, Jr. Other 89%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 56%
Jim Bunning Other 56%
Conrad Burns Other 80%
Dan Burton Other 50%
Steve Buyer Other 67%
Robert Byrd Other 90%
Herbert Callahan Other 50%
Ben Campbell Other 40%
Thomas Campbell Other 33%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 89%
Mike Castle Other 44%
John Chafee Other 60%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 67%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 89%
Michael Collins Other 11%
Larry Combest Other 56%
Gary Condit Other 88%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Merrill Cook Other 56%
John Cooksey Other 56%
Jerry Costello Other 88%
Paul Coverdell Other 30%
Christopher Cox Other 22%
William Coyne Other 67%
Larry Craig Other 50%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Philip Crane Other 11%
Barbara Cubin Other 56%
Randall Cunningham Other 71%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 78%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 89%
Thomas Davis III Other 44%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 25%
Peter Deutsch Other 75%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67%
Jay Dickey Other 33%
Norm Dicks Other 89%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 50%
Calvin Dooley Other 67%
John Doolittle Other 56%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 56%
Jennifer Dunn Other 33%
Chet Edwards Other 78%
Vern Ehlers Other 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 22%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 67%
Philip English Other 33%
Bob Etheridge Other 78%
Lane Evans Other 89%
Terry Everett Other 67%
Thomas Ewing Other 56%
Russ Feingold Other 60%
Mark Foley Other 67%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 63%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 78%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 22%
Tillie Fowler Other 57%
Barney Frank Other 63%
Robert Franks Other 33%
William Frist Other 40%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 67%
John Ganske Other 56%
Sam Gejdenson Other 89%
George Gekas Other 44%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 44%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 67%
Paul Gillmor Other 33%
Benjamin Gilman Other 89%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 67%
William Goodling Other 44%
Bart Gordon Other 78%
Slade Gorton Other 40%
Porter Goss Other 14%
Daniel Graham Other 90%
William Phillip Gramm Other 40%
Rodney Grams Other 60%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 40%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 56%
Tony Hall Other 67%
James Hansen Other 44%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 22%
Joel Hefley Other 13%
Jesse Helms Other 22%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 44%
Rick Hill Other 89%
Van Hilleary Other 56%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 89%
David Lee Hobson Other 22%
Pete Hoekstra Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 78%
Stephen Horn Other 33%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 11%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 88%
Kenny Hulshof Other 44%
Duncan Hunter Other 56%
Asa Hutchinson Other 38%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 40%
Kay Hutchison Other 33%
Henry Hyde Other 25%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 38%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 67%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 60%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 67%
Christopher John Other 78%
Nancy Johnson Other 56%
Paul Kanjorski Other 78%
Sue Kelly Other 56%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 78%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 89%
Ronald Klink Other 78%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 44%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 56%
Jon Kyl Other 22%
John LaFalce Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 67%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 89%
Stephen Largent Other 22%
Steve LaTourette Other 67%
Rick Lazio Other 56%
James Leach Other 89%
Jerry Lewis Other 56%
Ron Lewis Other 56%
Joe Lieberman Other 90%
John Linder Other 33%
William Lipinski Other 50%
Robert Livingston Other 56%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 50%
Dick Lugar Other 50%
William Luther Other 78%
Connie Mack Other 30%
James Maloney Other 67%
Don Manzullo Other 11%
Matthew Martinez Other 83%
Frank Mascara Other 78%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 67%
Bill McCollum Other 44%
James McCrery III Other 56%
John McHugh Other 56%
Scott McInnis Other 22%
David McIntosh Other 33%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 67%
Michael McNulty Other 67%
Martin Meehan Other 63%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 78%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 13%
David Minge Other 89%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 89%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 75%
Constance Morella Other 38%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 50%
Jack Murtha Other 78%
Sue Myrick Other 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 56%
Robert William Ney Other 44%
Don Nickles Other 10%
Anne Northup Other 33%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 67%
James Nussle Other 78%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 89%
John Olver Other 67%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 78%
Major Owens Other 89%
Michael Oxley Other 56%
Ronald Packard Other 67%
Ron Paul Other 22%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 56%
John Peterson Other 33%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 56%
Owen Pickett Other 88%
Richard Pombo Other 67%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
John Edward Porter Other 44%
Deborah Pryce Other 17%
Jack Quinn Other 56%
George Radanovich Other 33%
James Ramstad Other 33%
Ralph Regula Other 56%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Bob Riley Other 67%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 67%
Charles Robb Other 90%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 89%
James Rogan Other 22%
William Roth, Jr. Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 67%
Marge Roukema Other 44%
Jim Ryun Other 44%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 89%
Rick Santorum Other 60%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
Joe Scarborough Other 22%
John Shadegg Other 11%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 22%
Christopher Shays Other 44%
E.G. Shuster Other 56%
Norman Sisisky Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 67%
Ike Skelton Other 78%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Nick Smith Other 78%
Bob Smith Other 20%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 78%
Mark Souder Other 44%
Arlen Specter Other 56%
Floyd Spence Other 67%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 75%
Cliff Stearns Other 56%
Charles Stenholm Other 78%
Ted Stevens Other 60%
Ted Strickland Other 78%
Bob Stump Other 44%
Bart Stupak Other 88%
John Sununu Other 13%
James Talent Other 50%
John Tanner Other 75%
Ellen Tauscher Other 67%
William Tauzin Other 63%
Charles Taylor Other 67%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Craig Thomas Other 70%
William Thomas Other 56%
Fred Thompson Other 40%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 50%
Todd Tiahrt Other 33%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 67%
James Turner Other 100%
Bruce Vento Other 78%
James Walsh Other 78%
Zach Wamp Other 44%
John Warner Other 40%
Wesley Watkins Other 56%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 56%
David Weldon Other 44%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 44%
Gerald Weller Other 67%
Paul Wellstone Other 90%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 89%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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