Rating Group: Disabled American Veterans

1999 Positions

Issues: Veterans
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 33%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AS U.S. House-Delegate Eni Faleomavaega D 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 66%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 66%
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 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
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 100%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
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 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DC U.S. House-Delegate Eleanor Norton D 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 66%
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 33%
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 100%
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 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 33%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 33%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 66%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
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 66%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 66%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
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 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
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 33%
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 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 66%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 0%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
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 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 0%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 66%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 33%
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 0%
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-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
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 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
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 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 33%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VI U.S. House-Delegate Donna Christensen D 0%
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 0%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 0%
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 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
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 33%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 33%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 66%
Bob Bennett Other 33%
Douglas Bereuter Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 100%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 33%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100%
John Breaux Other 33%
Jim Bunning Other 33%
Conrad Burns Other 66%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 66%
Ben Campbell Other 66%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 0%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 33%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 33%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 66%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 66%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 33%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 33%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 66%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 66%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 66%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 66%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 66%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 33%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
James Leach Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 66%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 33%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 0%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 33%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Doug Ose Other 100%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 66%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 0%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 100%
Gordon Smith Other 66%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 100%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 33%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 0%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 0%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 100%
Craig Thomas Other 66%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 33%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 66%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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