Rating Group: United Auto Workers

1999 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 15%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 8%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 8%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 8%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 31%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 8%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 92%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 92%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 92%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 85%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 92%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 92%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 85%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 77%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 77%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 8%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 85%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 85%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 92%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 92%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 92%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 92%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 8%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 92%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 92%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 8%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 85%
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 8%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 15%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 92%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 31%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 8%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 15%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 8%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 8%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 85%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 8%
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 8%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 8%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 85%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 92%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 85%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 8%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 8%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 8%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 15%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 15%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 46%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 77%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 92%
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 92%
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 85%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 92%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 8%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 77%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 8%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 8%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 92%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 69%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 8%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 8%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 92%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 92%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 92%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 92%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 15%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 77%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 8%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 69%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 8%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 85%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 92%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 92%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 31%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 38%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 92%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 23%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 92%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 92%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 31%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 77%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 92%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 92%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 85%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 92%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 92%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 85%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 15%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 15%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 77%
OH Governor John Kasich R 15%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 8%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 8%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 8%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 8%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 92%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 85%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 92%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 8%
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 85%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 33%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 8%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 15%
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 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 8%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 8%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 23%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 8%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 8%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 77%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 92%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 8%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 92%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 92%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 92%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 8%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 92%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 69%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 8%
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 8%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 62%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 54%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 85%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 92%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 15%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 69%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 15%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 8%
Gary Ackerman Other 92%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 92%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 92%
Bill Archer Other 8%
Richard Armey Other 8%
John Ashcroft Other 8%
Brian Baird Other 85%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 8%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 8%
James Barcia Other 85%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 15%
Bill Barrett Other 8%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 8%
Charlie Bass Other 8%
Herbert Bateman Other 8%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 8%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 92%
Douglas Bereuter Other 8%
Shelley Berkley Other 85%
Howard Berman Other 77%
Marion Berry Other 69%
Judy Biggert Other 15%
Brian Bilbray Other 8%
Michael Bilirakis Other 8%
Jeff Bingaman Other 92%
Rod Blagojevich Other 92%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 54%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 15%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 8%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 92%
Leonard Boswell Other 77%
Rick Boucher Other 85%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 69%
John Breaux Other 77%
Richard Bryan Other 92%
Ed Bryant Other 8%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 8%
Dan Burton Other 8%
Steve Buyer Other 15%
Robert Byrd Other 92%
Herbert Callahan Other 15%
Ben Campbell Other 15%
Thomas Campbell Other 31%
Chris Cannon Other 15%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 15%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 15%
William Clay, Sr. Other 8%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 85%
Robert Clement Other 69%
Michael Collins Other 8%
Larry Combest Other 8%
Gary Condit Other 54%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Merrill Cook Other 23%
John Cooksey Other 8%
Jerry Costello Other 85%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 54%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 62%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 77%
Thomas Davis III Other 15%
Bill Delahunt Other 92%
Thomas DeLay Other 8%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 85%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 23%
Jay Dickey Other 15%
Norm Dicks Other 85%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 46%
John Doolittle Other 8%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 8%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 85%
Vern Ehlers Other 15%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 8%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 15%
Philip English Other 31%
Bob Etheridge Other 77%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 8%
Thomas Ewing Other 8%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 23%
Ernest Fletcher Other 8%
Mark Foley Other 15%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 54%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 92%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Tillie Fowler Other 15%
Barney Frank Other 85%
Robert Franks Other 31%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 85%
Elton Gallegly Other 15%
John Ganske Other 38%
Sam Gejdenson Other 92%
George Gekas Other 23%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 92%
Jim Gibbons Other 8%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 15%
Paul Gillmor Other 15%
Benjamin Gilman Other 54%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 8%
William Goodling Other 8%
Bart Gordon Other 69%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 8%
Daniel Graham Other 92%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 23%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 8%
Tony Hall Other 85%
James Hansen Other 15%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 15%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 15%
Jesse Helms Other 8%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 77%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 8%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 15%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 85%
Ernest Hollings Other 85%
Darlene Hooley Other 85%
Stephen Horn Other 39%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 15%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 15%
Kenny Hulshof Other 8%
Duncan Hunter Other 15%
Asa Hutchinson Other 8%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 92%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 69%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 31%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 8%
Christopher John Other 62%
Nancy Johnson Other 23%
Paul Kanjorski Other 92%
Sue Kelly Other 23%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 85%
Patrick Kennedy Other 92%
Bob Kerrey Other 92%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 85%
Ronald Klink Other 92%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 8%
Herb Kohl Other 92%
James Kolbe Other 8%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Steven Kuykendall Other 15%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 92%
Ray LaHood Other 15%
Nicholas Lampson Other 85%
Tom Lantos Other 58%
Stephen Largent Other 8%
Steve LaTourette Other 15%
Rick Lazio Other 15%
James Leach Other 23%
Jerry Lewis Other 8%
Ron Lewis Other 15%
Joe Lieberman Other 92%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 69%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 77%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 69%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 85%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 77%
Bill McCollum Other 23%
James McCrery III Other 8%
John McHugh Other 31%
Scott McInnis Other 15%
David McIntosh Other 15%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 92%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 85%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 15%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 8%
David Minge Other 77%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 92%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 62%
Dennis Moore Other 77%
Constance Morella Other 62%
Patrick Moynihan Other 85%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 92%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 15%
Robert William Ney Other 23%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 8%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 31%
James Nussle Other 8%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 92%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 92%
Doug Ose Other 8%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 8%
Ronald Packard Other 8%
Ron Paul Other 23%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 8%
John Peterson Other 8%
David Phelps Other 85%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 69%
Richard Pombo Other 15%
Earl Pomeroy Other 77%
John Edward Porter Other 15%
Deborah Pryce Other 15%
Jack Quinn Other 62%
George Radanovich Other 8%
James Ramstad Other 8%
Ralph Regula Other 23%
Silvestre Reyes Other 77%
Thomas Reynolds Other 8%
Bob Riley Other 8%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 77%
Charles Robb Other 85%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 77%
James Rogan Other 8%
William Roth, Jr. Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 92%
Marge Roukema Other 15%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 77%
Rick Santorum Other 15%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 15%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 8%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 8%
Christopher Shays Other 15%
Donald Sherwood Other 15%
Ronnie Shows Other 62%
E.G. Shuster Other 15%
Norman Sisisky Other 69%
Joseph Skeen Other 15%
Ike Skelton Other 77%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 8%
Bob Smith Other 8%
Olympia Snowe Other 23%
Vic Snyder Other 92%
Mark Souder Other 15%
Arlen Specter Other 54%
Floyd Spence Other 15%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 77%
Pete Stark Other 92%
Cliff Stearns Other 8%
Charles Stenholm Other 62%
Ted Stevens Other 15%
Ted Strickland Other 92%
Bob Stump Other 8%
Bart Stupak Other 92%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 31%
James Talent Other 8%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 62%
Ellen Tauscher Other 77%
William Tauzin Other 8%
Charles Taylor Other 8%
Gene Taylor Other 62%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 8%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 8%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 92%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 92%
James Turner Other 69%
Bruce Vento Other 92%
George Voinovich Other 31%
James Walsh Other 23%
Zach Wamp Other 15%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 8%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 8%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 23%
Gerald Weller Other 15%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 77%
Heather Wilson Other 15%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 77%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 77%
Albert Wynn Other 92%

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