Rating Group: Human Rights Campaign

1999 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 11%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 17%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 18%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 25%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 90%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 91%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 18%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 82%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 9%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 91%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 91%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 91%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 18%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 82%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 82%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 9%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 9%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 27%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 9%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 9%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 18%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 73%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 18%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 91%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 73%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 9%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 9%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 9%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 9%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 91%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 82%
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 91%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 27%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 9%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 73%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 9%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 17%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 9%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 73%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 9%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 9%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 91%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 91%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 91%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 36%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 20%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 91%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 82%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 73%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 82%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 82%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 83%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 18%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 91%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 91%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 91%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 90%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 90%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 91%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 91%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 10%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 9%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 9%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 70%
OH Governor John Kasich R 9%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 91%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 17%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 9%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 73%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 82%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 9%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 9%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 83%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 18%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 27%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 18%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 20%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 9%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 82%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 91%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 9%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 64%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 91%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 9%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 91%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 82%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 9%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 91%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 9%
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 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 91%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 91%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 9%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 9%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 83%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 55%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 91%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 91%
Cass Ballenger Other 18%
James Barcia Other 36%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 18%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 9%
Charlie Bass Other 27%
Herbert Bateman Other 9%
Evan Bayh Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 73%
Douglas Bereuter Other 9%
Shelley Berkley Other 91%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 27%
Judy Biggert Other 45%
Brian Bilbray Other 64%
Michael Bilirakis Other 18%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 9%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 73%
Kit Bond Other 17%
Henry Bonilla Other 18%
David Edward Bonior Other 91%
Mary Bono Mack Other 9%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 73%
Leonard Boswell Other 55%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 36%
John Breaux Other 80%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 17%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 50%
Herbert Callahan Other 18%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Thomas Campbell Other 64%
Chris Cannon Other 9%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 64%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 91%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 45%
Michael Collins Other 9%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 55%
Kent Conrad Other 33%
Merrill Cook Other 9%
John Cooksey Other 40%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Paul Coverdell Other 17%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 18%
Philip Crane Other 9%
Barbara Cubin Other 9%
Randall Cunningham Other 18%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 45%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 64%
Thomas Davis III Other 27%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 30%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 91%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 17%
Calvin Dooley Other 73%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 67%
David Dreier Other 9%
Jennifer Dunn Other 18%
John Edwards Other 67%
Chet Edwards Other 55%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 9%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 18%
Bob Etheridge Other 45%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 18%
Russ Feingold Other 83%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 17%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 82%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 91%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 82%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 18%
Tillie Fowler Other 18%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 45%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 18%
John Ganske Other 27%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 91%
Jim Gibbons Other 18%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 56%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 73%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 91%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
William Goodling Other 18%
Bart Gordon Other 27%
Slade Gorton Other 17%
Porter Goss Other 18%
Daniel Graham Other 83%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 82%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 55%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 9%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 36%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 91%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 18%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 36%
Ernest Hollings Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 91%
Stephen Horn Other 82%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 9%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 44%
Kenny Hulshof Other 10%
Duncan Hunter Other 9%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 17%
Henry Hyde Other 9%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 90%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 83%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 9%
Christopher John Other 27%
Nancy Johnson Other 73%
Paul Kanjorski Other 55%
Sue Kelly Other 73%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 91%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 82%
Ronald Klink Other 91%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 9%
Herb Kohl Other 83%
James Kolbe Other 80%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Steven Kuykendall Other 55%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 91%
Ray LaHood Other 18%
Nicholas Lampson Other 82%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 9%
Steve LaTourette Other 45%
Rick Lazio Other 18%
James Leach Other 73%
Jerry Lewis Other 27%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 50%
John Linder Other 10%
William Lipinski Other 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 17%
William Luther Other 82%
Connie Mack Other 17%
James Maloney Other 91%
Don Manzullo Other 9%
Matthew Martinez Other 91%
Frank Mascara Other 36%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 91%
Bill McCollum Other 18%
James McCrery III Other 9%
John McHugh Other 20%
Scott McInnis Other 25%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 89%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 91%
Jack Metcalf Other 9%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 36%
David Minge Other 82%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 55%
Dennis Moore Other 73%
Constance Morella Other 91%
Patrick Moynihan Other 83%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 40%
Sue Myrick Other 9%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 9%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 9%
James Nussle Other 18%
Jim Oberstar Other 91%
Dave Obey Other 73%
John Olver Other 91%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 36%
Doug Ose Other 27%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 10%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 18%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 18%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 27%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 55%
Richard Pombo Other 9%
Earl Pomeroy Other 55%
John Edward Porter Other 27%
Deborah Pryce Other 56%
Jack Quinn Other 36%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 9%
Ralph Regula Other 27%
Silvestre Reyes Other 73%
Thomas Reynolds Other 9%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 73%
Timothy Roemer Other 55%
James Rogan Other 20%
William Roth, Jr. Other 17%
Steve Rothman Other 91%
Marge Roukema Other 10%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 60%
Rick Santorum Other 17%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 18%
Joe Scarborough Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 27%
Christopher Shays Other 82%
Donald Sherwood Other 9%
Ronnie Shows Other 18%
E.G. Shuster Other 10%
Norman Sisisky Other 64%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 22%
Gordon Smith Other 33%
Nick Smith Other 9%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 73%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 67%
Floyd Spence Other 9%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 27%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 18%
Ted Stevens Other 17%
Ted Strickland Other 73%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 82%
John Sununu Other 14%
John Sweeney Other 18%
James Talent Other 9%
Tom Tancredo Other 9%
John Tanner Other 18%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 18%
Craig Thomas Other 17%
William Thomas Other 20%
Fred Thompson Other 17%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 9%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 55%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 27%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 17%
James Walsh Other 27%
Zach Wamp Other 9%
John Warner Other 33%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 91%
David Weldon Other 9%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 10%
Gerald Weller Other 9%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 36%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 45%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 91%

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