Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

1995 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 53%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 68%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 79%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 89%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 93%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 31%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 13%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 21%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 14%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 26%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 20%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 11%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 75%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 14%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 15%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 95%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 13%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 64%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 14%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 95%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 14%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 17%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 9%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 72%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 65%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 9%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 75%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 75%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 73%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 82%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 23%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 16%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 73%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 4%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 76%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 26%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 80%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 77%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 18%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 20%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 21%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 92%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 31%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 71%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 88%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 68%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 71%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 60%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 28%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 11%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 27%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 11%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 13%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 84%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 88%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 22%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 13%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 20%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 63%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 62%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 63%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 18%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 26%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 80%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 74%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 86%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 18%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 28%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 29%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 62%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 82%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 73%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 28%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 71%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 18%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 31%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 71%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 16%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 17%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 23%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 18%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 13%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 13%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 20%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 88%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 95%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 82%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 76%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 91%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 44%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 86%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 80%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 66%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 91%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 84%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 18%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 62%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 31%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 9%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 37%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 97%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 68%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 15%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 84%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 34%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 64%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 13%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 18%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 10%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 75%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 15%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 88%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 88%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 42%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 16%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 13%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 89%
Gary Ackerman Other 14%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 8%
Wayne Allard Other 91%
Bill Archer Other 84%
Richard Armey Other 81%
John Ashcroft Other 81%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 33%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 64%
William Baker Other 75%
John Baldacci Other 24%
Cass Ballenger Other 70%
James Barcia Other 57%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 77%
Bill Barrett Other 68%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 75%
Charlie Bass Other 93%
Herbert Bateman Other 54%
Anthony Beilenson Other 11%
Bob Bennett Other 67%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 24%
Douglas Bereuter Other 72%
Howard Berman Other 11%
Tom Bevill Other 37%
Brian Bilbray Other 70%
Michael Bilirakis Other 79%
Jeff Bingaman Other 26%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 68%
Peter Blute Other 75%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 46%
Kit Bond Other 62%
Henry Bonilla Other 63%
David Edward Bonior Other 8%
Sonny Bono Other 74%
Rick Boucher Other 11%
Bill Bradley Other 33%
John Breaux Other 18%
George Brown, Jr. Other 18%
Hank Brown Other 94%
Richard Bryan Other 23%
Ed Bryant Other 84%
John Bryant Other 21%
Dale Bumpers Other 16%
Jim Bunn Other 60%
Jim Bunning Other 73%
Conrad Burns Other 65%
Dan Burton Other 80%
Steve Buyer Other 68%
Robert Byrd Other 18%
Herbert Callahan Other 64%
Ben Campbell Other 57%
Mike Castle Other 75%
John Chafee Other 65%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 78%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 93%
Dick Chrysler Other 91%
William Clay, Sr. Other 9%
Eva Clayton Other 11%
William Cohen Other 55%
Ronald Coleman Other 9%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 6%
Cardiss Collins Other 17%
Michael Collins Other 75%
Larry Combest Other 73%
Gary Condit Other 62%
Kent Conrad Other 27%
Wes Cooley Other 84%
Jerry Costello Other 35%
Paul Coverdell Other 76%
Christopher Cox Other 84%
Larry Craig Other 73%
Robert Cramer Other 44%
Philip Crane Other 90%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 84%
Barbara Cubin Other 76%
Randall Cunningham Other 75%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 68%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 55%
Thomas Daschle Other 15%
Thomas Davis III Other 64%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 27%
Thomas DeLay Other 68%
Ronald Dellums Other 18%
Peter Deutsch Other 33%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 66%
Jay Dickey Other 75%
Norm Dicks Other 15%
Julian Dixon Other 11%
Chris Dodd Other 15%
Robert Dole Other 81%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 71%
Calvin Dooley Other 45%
John Doolittle Other 82%
Byron Dorgan Other 33%
Robert Dornan Other 78%
David Dreier Other 86%
Jennifer Dunn Other 73%
Chet Edwards Other 33%
Vern Ehlers Other 74%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 71%
Bill Emerson Other 65%
Philip English Other 71%
John Ensign Other 88%
Lane Evans Other 15%
Terry Everett Other 66%
Thomas Ewing Other 81%
Jim Exon Other 33%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 81%
Harris Fawell Other 84%
Victor Fazio Other 13%
Russ Feingold Other 44%
Cleo Fields Other 18%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 86%
Floyd Flake Other 13%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 71%
Mark Foley Other 84%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 65%
Wendell Ford Other 7%
Tillie Fowler Other 75%
Jon David Fox Other 81%
Barney Frank Other 25%
Gary Franks Other 73%
Robert Franks Other 80%
Dan Frisa Other 82%
William Frist Other 73%
Jonas Frost III Other 14%
David Funderburk Other 82%
Elton Gallegly Other 76%
John Ganske Other 84%
Sam Gejdenson Other 15%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 11%
Pete Geren Other 54%
Sam Gibbons Other 15%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 66%
Paul Gillmor Other 77%
Benjamin Gilman Other 63%
Newt Gingrich Other 100%
John Glenn Other 23%
Henry Gonzalez Other 13%
Slade Gorton Other 65%
Porter Goss Other 91%
Daniel Graham Other 26%
William Phillip Gramm Other 81%
Rodney Grams Other 91%
Enid Greene Other 75%
Judd Gregg Other 86%
Steven Gunderson Other 75%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 88%
Tony Hall Other 23%
Lee Hamilton Other 37%
Melton Hancock Other 84%
James Hansen Other 65%
Jane Harman Other 50%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 75%
Mark Hatfield Other 63%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 88%
Joel Hefley Other 75%
W.G. Hefner Other 15%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 79%
Jesse Helms Other 75%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 77%
Van Hilleary Other 84%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 17%
Maurice Hinchey Other 13%
David Lee Hobson Other 84%
Pete Hoekstra Other 95%
Ernest Hollings Other 34%
Stephen Horn Other 77%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 77%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 50%
Duncan Hunter Other 64%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 80%
Kay Hutchison Other 76%
Henry Hyde Other 68%
Daniel Inouye Other 5%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 52%
William Jefferson Other 9%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 64%
Nancy Johnson Other 60%
Harry Johnston Other 14%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 13%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 72%
Sue Kelly Other 64%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 73%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 23%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 20%
Patrick Kennedy Other 27%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 15%
Bob Kerrey Other 28%
Dale Kildee Other 20%
Jay Kim Other 84%
Gerald Kleczka Other 42%
Scott Klug Other 95%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 62%
Herb Kohl Other 42%
James Kolbe Other 64%
Jon Kyl Other 84%
John LaFalce Other 18%
Ray LaHood Other 68%
Tom Lantos Other 16%
Stephen Largent Other 95%
Steve LaTourette Other 66%
Greg Laughlin Other 65%
Rick Lazio Other 66%
James Leach Other 64%
Jerry Lewis Other 58%
Ron Lewis Other 71%
Joe Lieberman Other 21%
Jim Lightfoot Other 55%
Blanche Lincoln Other 52%
John Linder Other 77%
William Lipinski Other 47%
Robert Livingston Other 55%
James Longley, Jr. Other 81%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 71%
Dick Lugar Other 83%
William Luther Other 55%
Connie Mack Other 81%
Thomas Manton Other 20%
Don Manzullo Other 86%
Matthew Martinez Other 15%
Bill Martini Other 82%
Frank Mascara Other 31%
Robert Matsui Other 12%
Karen McCarthy Other 35%
Bill McCollum Other 71%
James McCrery III Other 68%
John McHugh Other 64%
Scott McInnis Other 88%
David McIntosh Other 84%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 15%
Michael McNulty Other 45%
Martin Meehan Other 43%
Carrie Meek Other 6%
Jack Metcalf Other 82%
Jan Meyers Other 79%
Dan Miller Other 93%
David Minge Other 55%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 13%
John Moakley Other 5%
Susan Molinari Other 73%
Alan Mollohan Other 7%
G.V. Montgomery Other 62%
Carlos Moorhead Other 71%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 18%
Patrick Moynihan Other 16%
Frank Murkowski Other 62%
John Myers Other 59%
Sue Myrick Other 88%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 75%
Mark Neumann Other 91%
Robert William Ney Other 75%
Don Nickles Other 83%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 86%
Sam Nunn Other 40%
James Nussle Other 88%
Jim Oberstar Other 18%
Dave Obey Other 20%
John Olver Other 15%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 22%
Bill Orton Other 44%
Major Owens Other 23%
Michael Oxley Other 75%
Ronald Packard Other 62%
Mike Parker Other 72%
William Paxon Other 86%
Donald Payne Other 18%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 33%
Claiborne Pell Other 21%
Pete Peterson Other 19%
Owen Pickett Other 31%
Richard Pombo Other 73%
Earl Pomeroy Other 34%
John Edward Porter Other 73%
Glenn Poshard Other 46%
Larry Pressler Other 76%
David Pryor Other 13%
Jack Quinn Other 72%
George Radanovich Other 82%
James Ramstad Other 93%
Bill Richardson Other 19%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 65%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 28%
Charles Robb Other 36%
Timothy Roemer Other 51%
Charles Rose III Other 33%
Toby Roth Other 86%
William Roth, Jr. Other 84%
Marge Roukema Other 63%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 15%
Paul Sarbanes Other 7%
Jim Saxton Other 60%
Joe Scarborough Other 88%
Daniel Schaefer Other 77%
Steven Schiff Other 63%
Patricia Schroeder Other 25%
Andrea Seastrand Other 81%
John Shadegg Other 88%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 80%
Christopher Shays Other 77%
Paul Simon Other 18%
Alan Simpson Other 67%
Norman Sisisky Other 35%
David Skaggs Other 8%
Joseph Skeen Other 59%
Ike Skelton Other 43%
Linda Smith Other 93%
Nick Smith Other 95%
Bob Smith Other 83%
Olympia Snowe Other 68%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 83%
Mark Souder Other 91%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
Pete Stark Other 18%
Cliff Stearns Other 86%
Charles Stenholm Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 60%
Gerry Studds Other 16%
Bob Stump Other 77%
Bart Stupak Other 34%
James Talent Other 88%
Randy Tate Other 84%
William Tauzin Other 62%
Charles Taylor Other 71%
Gene Taylor Other 53%
Frank Tejeda Other 18%
Craig Thomas Other 78%
William Thomas Other 70%
Fred Thompson Other 78%
Ray Thornton Other 19%
Karen Thurman Other 27%
Strom Thurmond Other 71%
Todd Tiahrt Other 88%
Peter Torkildsen Other 62%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 9%
Robert Torricelli Other 27%
Ed Towns Other 17%
Bruce Vento Other 22%
Harold Volkmer Other 27%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 61%
James Walsh Other 53%
Zach Wamp Other 86%
Michael Ward Other 29%
John Warner Other 75%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 75%
David Weldon Other 77%
Gerald Weller Other 75%
Paul Wellstone Other 26%
Rick White Other 80%
Pat Williams Other 14%
Charles Wilson Other 25%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 13%
Lynn Woolsey Other 18%
Albert Wynn Other 16%
Sidney Yates Other 8%
Bill Zeliff Other 90%
Richard Zimmer Other 88%

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