Rating Group: National Organization for Women

1998 Positions

Issues: Women
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 11%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 10%
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 5%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 15%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 85%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 75%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 75%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 95%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 60%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 95%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 95%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 94%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 94%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 90%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 80%
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 10%
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 5%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
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 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 89%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 11%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 50%
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 60%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 95%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 5%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 85%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 5%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 85%
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-15 John Shimkus R 10%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 74%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 65%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 85%
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 95%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 70%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 85%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 75%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 95%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 30%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 75%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 85%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 35%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 95%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 72%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 20%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 5%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
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 65%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 75%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 85%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 10%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 75%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 30%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 85%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 74%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 95%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 20%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 5%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 70%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 45%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 60%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 10%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 80%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 85%
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 95%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 89%
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 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 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 80%
OH Governor John Kasich R 5%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 90%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 95%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 85%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 39%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 80%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 5%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 15%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 95%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 5%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 10%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 10%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 11%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 25%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 80%
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 95%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 95%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 70%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 10%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 90%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 10%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 80%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 5%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 70%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 90%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 5%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 80%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 80%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 85%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 65%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 50%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 5%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 85%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 95%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 5%
Bill Barrett Other 15%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 35%
Herbert Bateman Other 11%
Bob Bennett Other 5%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 85%
Douglas Bereuter Other 10%
Howard Berman Other 95%
Marion Berry Other 40%
Brian Bilbray Other 37%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 65%
Rod Blagojevich Other 90%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 5%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 75%
Kit Bond Other 15%
Henry Bonilla Other 10%
David Edward Bonior Other 85%
Mary Bono Mack Other 18%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 70%
Leonard Boswell Other 70%
Rick Boucher Other 90%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
John Breaux Other 45%
Richard Bryan Other 60%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 5%
Dan Burton Other 5%
Steve Buyer Other 11%
Robert Byrd Other 50%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 30%
Thomas Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 6%
Julia Carson Other 94%
Mike Castle Other 50%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 5%
William Clay, Sr. Other 95%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 75%
Robert Clement Other 75%
Michael Collins Other 5%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 55%
Kent Conrad Other 55%
Merrill Cook Other 15%
John Cooksey Other 15%
Jerry Costello Other 50%
Paul Coverdell Other 5%
Christopher Cox Other 5%
William Coyne Other 90%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 40%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 6%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 30%
Thomas Daschle Other 75%
James Davis Other 55%
Thomas Davis III Other 45%
Bill Delahunt Other 95%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 85%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 15%
Jay Dickey Other 5%
Norm Dicks Other 85%
Julian Dixon Other 90%
Chris Dodd Other 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 10%
Calvin Dooley Other 80%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 65%
David Dreier Other 5%
Jennifer Dunn Other 5%
Chet Edwards Other 85%
Vern Ehlers Other 15%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 25%
Bob Etheridge Other 65%
Lane Evans Other 85%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 5%
Russ Feingold Other 75%
Mark Foley Other 45%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 6%
Tillie Fowler Other 25%
Barney Frank Other 90%
Robert Franks Other 35%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 90%
Elton Gallegly Other 15%
John Ganske Other 30%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 90%
Jim Gibbons Other 15%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 55%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 15%
William Goodling Other 5%
Bart Gordon Other 53%
Slade Gorton Other 5%
Porter Goss Other 15%
Daniel Graham Other 55%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 50%
Judd Gregg Other 5%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 5%
Tony Hall Other 35%
James Hansen Other 5%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 5%
Joel Hefley Other 5%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 5%
Rick Hill Other 6%
Van Hilleary Other 5%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 95%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 39%
Pete Hoekstra Other 5%
Thomas Holden Other 32%
Ernest Hollings Other 75%
Darlene Hooley Other 80%
Stephen Horn Other 65%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 5%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 53%
Kenny Hulshof Other 5%
Duncan Hunter Other 5%
Asa Hutchinson Other 11%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 5%
Henry Hyde Other 5%
Daniel Inouye Other 80%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 74%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 50%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 10%
Christopher John Other 24%
Nancy Johnson Other 70%
Paul Kanjorski Other 55%
Sue Kelly Other 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 95%
Patrick Kennedy Other 80%
Bob Kerrey Other 75%
Dale Kildee Other 55%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 70%
Ronald Klink Other 50%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 5%
Herb Kohl Other 70%
James Kolbe Other 45%
Dennis Kucinich Other 65%
Steven Kuykendall Other 85%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 41%
Ray LaHood Other 15%
Nicholas Lampson Other 90%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 6%
Steve LaTourette Other 16%
Rick Lazio Other 40%
James Leach Other 60%
Jerry Lewis Other 15%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 60%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 85%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 85%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 89%
Frank Mascara Other 45%
Robert Matsui Other 90%
Karen McCarthy Other 75%
Bill McCollum Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 10%
John McHugh Other 15%
Scott McInnis Other 10%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 60%
Martin Meehan Other 95%
Carrie Meek Other 95%
Jack Metcalf Other 5%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 95%
Dan Miller Other 25%
David Minge Other 65%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 59%
Alan Mollohan Other 35%
Constance Morella Other 95%
Patrick Moynihan Other 60%
Frank Murkowski Other 15%
Jack Murtha Other 45%
Sue Myrick Other 5%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 5%
Robert William Ney Other 10%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 5%
Jim Oberstar Other 60%
Dave Obey Other 74%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 44%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 15%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 20%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 0%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 65%
John Edward Porter Other 29%
Deborah Pryce Other 37%
Jack Quinn Other 20%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 35%
Ralph Regula Other 20%
Silvestre Reyes Other 75%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 90%
Charles Robb Other 80%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 88%
Timothy Roemer Other 35%
James Rogan Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 15%
Steve Rothman Other 80%
Marge Roukema Other 35%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 95%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 55%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 90%
Jim Saxton Other 20%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 25%
Christopher Shays Other 65%
E.G. Shuster Other 5%
Norman Sisisky Other 65%
Joseph Skeen Other 5%
Ike Skelton Other 30%
Gordon Smith Other 10%
Nick Smith Other 15%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 45%
Vic Snyder Other 60%
Mark Souder Other 5%
Arlen Specter Other 45%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 60%
Pete Stark Other 95%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 20%
Ted Stevens Other 20%
Ted Strickland Other 65%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 45%
John Sununu Other 0%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 35%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 10%
Gene Taylor Other 10%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 30%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 90%
Strom Thurmond Other 5%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 65%
Ed Towns Other 89%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 30%
James Turner Other 45%
Bruce Vento Other 95%
James Walsh Other 5%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 25%
Wesley Watkins Other 5%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 5%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 5%
Gerald Weller Other 10%
Paul Wellstone Other 90%
Robert Wexler Other 95%
Bob Weygand Other 70%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 80%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 95%

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