Rating Group: United States Student Association

1995-1996 Positions

Issues: Education
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 36%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 91%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 91%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 91%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi 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-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
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 29%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 91%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 73%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 91%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 82%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
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 36%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 64%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 10%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 74%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 73%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 73%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 9%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 54%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 9%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 17%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 9%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 82%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 64%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 64%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 64%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 73%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 9%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 73%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 82%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 45%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 36%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 91%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 64%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 64%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 82%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 9%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 91%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 91%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 45%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 27%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 9%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 73%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 73%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 91%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 17%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 91%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
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 82%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 91%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 91%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 9%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 64%
OH Governor John Kasich R 9%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 82%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 36%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 17%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 71%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 80%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 73%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 54%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 73%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 17%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 73%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 36%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 9%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 9%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 9%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 91%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 73%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 91%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 82%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 27%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 9%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 64%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 9%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 82%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 82%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
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 91%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 73%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 91%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 17%
Gary Ackerman Other 91%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 91%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 54%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
William Baker Other 11%
John Baldacci Other 82%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 64%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 9%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Herbert Bateman Other 0%
Anthony Beilenson Other 89%
Bob Bennett Other 36%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 73%
Douglas Bereuter Other 9%
Howard Berman Other 27%
Tom Bevill Other 67%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 9%
Jeff Bingaman Other 82%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Peter Blute Other 38%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 27%
Kit Bond Other 27%
Henry Bonilla Other 9%
David Edward Bonior Other 91%
Sonny Bono Other 91%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 82%
Rick Boucher Other 73%
Bill Bradley Other 100%
John Breaux Other 54%
Bill Brewster Other 56%
George Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Hank Brown Other 14%
Richard Bryan Other 64%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
John Bryant Other 100%
Dale Bumpers Other 82%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 27%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 64%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 30%
Thomas Campbell Other 36%
Mike Castle Other 27%
John Chafee Other 45%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 82%
Eva Clayton Other 91%
Robert Clement Other 45%
William Clinger Other 14%
William Cohen Other 29%
Ronald Coleman Other 89%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 100%
Cardiss Collins Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 73%
Jerry Costello Other 54%
Paul Coverdell Other 17%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 9%
Robert Cramer Other 45%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 45%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 45%
Thomas Daschle Other 92%
Thomas Davis III Other 9%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 75%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 54%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 36%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 73%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 87%
Robert Dole Other 29%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 36%
Calvin Dooley Other 64%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 73%
Robert Dornan Other 11%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 64%
Vern Ehlers Other 9%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Emerson Other 33%
Philip English Other 9%
John Ensign Other 17%
Lane Evans Other 91%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 9%
Jim Exon Other 43%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 0%
Harris Fawell Other 9%
Victor Fazio Other 73%
Russ Feingold Other 82%
Cleo Fields Other 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 13%
Floyd Flake Other 82%
Thomas Foglietta Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 9%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 0%
Wendell Ford Other 64%
Tillie Fowler Other 0%
Jon David Fox Other 9%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Gary Franks Other 33%
Robert Franks Other 9%
William Frist Other 36%
Jonas Frost III Other 73%
Elizabeth Furse Other 64%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
John Ganske Other 0%
Sam Gejdenson Other 91%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 91%
Pete Geren Other 56%
Sam Gibbons Other 89%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 9%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 17%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 82%
Henry Gonzalez Other 82%
William Goodling Other 9%
Bart Gordon Other 45%
Slade Gorton Other 27%
Porter Goss Other 9%
Daniel Graham Other 64%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 9%
James Greenwood Other 9%
Judd Gregg Other 27%
Steven Gunderson Other 67%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 64%
Lee Hamilton Other 45%
Melton Hancock Other 11%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 64%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Mark Hatfield Other 87%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 9%
W.G. Hefner Other 45%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 9%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 82%
Maurice Hinchey Other 91%
David Lee Hobson Other 9%
Pete Hoekstra Other 17%
Martin Hoke Other 33%
Thomas Holden Other 54%
Ernest Hollings Other 73%
Stephen Horn Other 17%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 9%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 27%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 9%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 91%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 75%
William Jefferson Other 91%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 70%
Nancy Johnson Other 0%
Harry Johnston Other 100%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 57%
Paul Kanjorski Other 54%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 43%
Sue Kelly Other 17%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 9%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 116%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 91%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 82%
Bob Kerrey Other 91%
Dale Kildee Other 73%
Jay Kim Other 9%
Gerald Kleczka Other 73%
Ronald Klink Other 64%
Scott Klug Other 17%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 64%
James Kolbe Other 17%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 91%
Ray LaHood Other 17%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 17%
Steve LaTourette Other 27%
Greg Laughlin Other 56%
Frank Lautenberg Other 82%
Rick Lazio Other 9%
James Leach Other 17%
Jerry Lewis Other 9%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 73%
Jim Lightfoot Other 33%
Blanche Lincoln Other 78%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 45%
Robert Livingston Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 27%
Dick Lugar Other 27%
William Luther Other 64%
Connie Mack Other 17%
Thomas Manton Other 64%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 54%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 64%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
Joseph McDade Other 0%
Paul McHale Other 54%
John McHugh Other 17%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
David McIntosh Other 17%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 73%
Martin Meehan Other 73%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 0%
Jan Meyers Other 56%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 9%
David Minge Other 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 64%
Susan Molinari Other 17%
Alan Mollohan Other 91%
G.V. Montgomery Other 67%
Carlos Moorhead Other 11%
Constance Morella Other 64%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 73%
Patrick Moynihan Other 91%
Frank Murkowski Other 9%
Jack Murtha Other 64%
John Myers Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 9%
Mark Neumann Other 9%
Robert William Ney Other 9%
Don Nickles Other 17%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
Sam Nunn Other 57%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 91%
Dave Obey Other 64%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 82%
Bill Orton Other 44%
Major Owens Other 91%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Mike Parker Other 0%
William Paxon Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 67%
Claiborne Pell Other 100%
Pete Peterson Other 78%
Owen Pickett Other 54%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 73%
John Edward Porter Other 9%
Glenn Poshard Other 45%
Larry Pressler Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 9%
David Pryor Other 83%
James Quillen Other 22%
Jack Quinn Other 45%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 9%
Ralph Regula Other 9%
Bill Richardson Other 73%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 91%
Charles Robb Other 73%
Timothy Roemer Other 45%
Charles Rose III Other 100%
Toby Roth Other 22%
William Roth, Jr. Other 27%
Marge Roukema Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 27%
Paul Sarbanes Other 82%
Jim Saxton Other 9%
Joe Scarborough Other 27%
Steven Schiff Other 27%
Patricia Schroeder Other 89%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 9%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Paul Simon Other 96%
Alan Simpson Other 29%
Norman Sisisky Other 27%
David Skaggs Other 91%
Joseph Skeen Other 17%
Ike Skelton Other 54%
Linda Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 9%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 65%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 27%
Arlen Specter Other 65%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 45%
Pete Stark Other 91%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 36%
Ted Stevens Other 36%
Louis Stokes Other 82%
Gerry Studds Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 73%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 45%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 36%
Frank Tejeda Other 91%
Craig Thomas Other 17%
William Thomas Other 9%
Fred Thompson Other 17%
Ray Thornton Other 67%
Karen Thurman Other 45%
Strom Thurmond Other 27%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Peter Torkildsen Other 56%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 54%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 54%
Bruce Vento Other 82%
Harold Volkmer Other 78%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 33%
Robert Walker Other 11%
James Walsh Other 9%
Zach Wamp Other 17%
John Warner Other 27%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 9%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 9%
Gerald Weller Other 9%
Paul Wellstone Other 87%
Rick White Other 17%
Pat Williams Other 98%
Charles Wilson Other 89%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 82%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 82%
Sidney Yates Other 73%
Bill Zeliff Other 11%
Richard Zimmer Other 25%

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