Rating Group: American Conservative Union

1999 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 86%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 84%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 84%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 84%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 77%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 86%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 4%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 4%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 4%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 8%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 4%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 4%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 8%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 79%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 8%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 88%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 96%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 80%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 4%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 96%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 4%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 0%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 4%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 80%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 73%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 73%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 80%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 80%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 66%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 95%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 28%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 80%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 4%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 92%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 4%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 88%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 84%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 4%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 0%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 0%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 4%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 80%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 12%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 88%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 84%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 95%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 84%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 80%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 80%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 64%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 4%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 83%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 4%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 0%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 4%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 4%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 8%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 64%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 4%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 4%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 79%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 68%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 4%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 12%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 8%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 52%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 87%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 84%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 92%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 4%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 4%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 87%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 4%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 52%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 83%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 4%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 20%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 80%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 79%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 8%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 48%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 4%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 12%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 4%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 75%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 8%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 0%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 4%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 4%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 8%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 4%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 0%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 4%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 4%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 76%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 96%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 91%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 4%
OH Governor John Kasich R 91%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 84%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 96%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 4%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 80%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 4%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 8%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 92%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 8%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 16%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 92%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 4%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 4%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 88%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 92%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 8%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 80%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 92%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 96%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 84%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 91%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 78%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 88%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 4%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 84%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 26%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 96%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 4%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 84%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 4%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 96%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 12%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 68%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 4%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 12%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 4%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 92%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 5%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 20%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 8%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 4%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 92%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 4%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 96%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 80%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 4%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 4%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 20%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 92%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 88%
Gary Ackerman Other 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 4%
Wayne Allard Other 95%
Thomas Allen Other 0%
Bill Archer Other 87%
Richard Armey Other 96%
John Ashcroft Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 4%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 80%
John Baldacci Other 4%
Cass Ballenger Other 80%
James Barcia Other 52%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 100%
Bill Barrett Other 84%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 96%
Charlie Bass Other 68%
Herbert Bateman Other 76%
Evan Bayh Other 12%
Bob Bennett Other 84%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 8%
Douglas Bereuter Other 62%
Shelley Berkley Other 4%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 29%
Judy Biggert Other 60%
Brian Bilbray Other 68%
Michael Bilirakis Other 84%
Jeff Bingaman Other 4%
Rod Blagojevich Other 8%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 83%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 84%
Henry Bonilla Other 91%
David Edward Bonior Other 4%
Mary Bono Mack Other 76%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 12%
Leonard Boswell Other 32%
Rick Boucher Other 21%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 20%
John Breaux Other 17%
Richard Bryan Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 88%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 96%
Dan Burton Other 95%
Steve Buyer Other 91%
Robert Byrd Other 20%
Herbert Callahan Other 91%
Ben Campbell Other 88%
Thomas Campbell Other 64%
Chris Cannon Other 92%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 44%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 100%
William Clay, Sr. Other 0%
Eva Clayton Other 0%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 0%
Robert Clement Other 32%
Michael Collins Other 92%
Larry Combest Other 96%
Gary Condit Other 44%
Kent Conrad Other 16%
Merrill Cook Other 84%
John Cooksey Other 62%
Jerry Costello Other 24%
Paul Coverdell Other 96%
Christopher Cox Other 95%
William Coyne Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 96%
Robert Cramer Other 41%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 88%
Randall Cunningham Other 88%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 52%
Thomas Daschle Other 8%
James Davis Other 12%
Thomas Davis III Other 56%
Bill Delahunt Other 0%
Thomas DeLay Other 92%
James DeMint Other 91%
Peter Deutsch Other 8%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 64%
Jay Dickey Other 87%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Julian Dixon Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 88%
Calvin Dooley Other 8%
John Doolittle Other 91%
Byron Dorgan Other 12%
David Dreier Other 80%
Jennifer Dunn Other 80%
John Edwards Other 8%
Chet Edwards Other 8%
Vern Ehlers Other 60%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 83%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 80%
Philip English Other 72%
Bob Etheridge Other 24%
Lane Evans Other 0%
Terry Everett Other 91%
Thomas Ewing Other 68%
Russ Feingold Other 8%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 92%
Ernest Fletcher Other 84%
Mark Foley Other 64%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 44%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 4%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 83%
Tillie Fowler Other 72%
Barney Frank Other 0%
Robert Franks Other 64%
William Frist Other 92%
Jonas Frost III Other 4%
Elton Gallegly Other 79%
John Ganske Other 44%
Sam Gejdenson Other 0%
George Gekas Other 84%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 84%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 52%
Paul Gillmor Other 80%
Benjamin Gilman Other 52%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 92%
William Goodling Other 84%
Bart Gordon Other 36%
Slade Gorton Other 84%
Porter Goss Other 80%
Daniel Graham Other 4%
William Phillip Gramm Other 96%
Rodney Grams Other 92%
Mark Green Other 87%
James Greenwood Other 41%
Judd Gregg Other 91%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 92%
Tony Hall Other 12%
James Hansen Other 84%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 90%
Robert Hayes Other 96%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 100%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 92%
Baron Hill Other 16%
Rick Hill Other 88%
Van Hilleary Other 96%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 4%
Maurice Hinchey Other 4%
David Lee Hobson Other 80%
Pete Hoekstra Other 88%
Thomas Holden Other 28%
Ernest Hollings Other 12%
Darlene Hooley Other 4%
Stephen Horn Other 44%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 96%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Kenny Hulshof Other 84%
Duncan Hunter Other 84%
Asa Hutchinson Other 72%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 88%
Henry Hyde Other 72%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 92%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 8%
William Jefferson Other 4%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 40%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 87%
Christopher John Other 50%
Nancy Johnson Other 36%
Paul Kanjorski Other 16%
Sue Kelly Other 56%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 4%
Patrick Kennedy Other 4%
Bob Kerrey Other 8%
Dale Kildee Other 12%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 16%
Ronald Klink Other 8%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 80%
Herb Kohl Other 4%
James Kolbe Other 70%
Dennis Kucinich Other 20%
Steven Kuykendall Other 62%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 12%
Ray LaHood Other 66%
Nicholas Lampson Other 16%
Tom Lantos Other 0%
Stephen Largent Other 91%
Steve LaTourette Other 64%
Frank Lautenberg Other 0%
Rick Lazio Other 64%
James Leach Other 48%
Jerry Lewis Other 73%
Ron Lewis Other 92%
Joe Lieberman Other 0%
Blanche Lincoln Other 12%
John Linder Other 87%
William Lipinski Other 45%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 96%
Dick Lugar Other 88%
William Luther Other 8%
Connie Mack Other 91%
James Maloney Other 28%
Don Manzullo Other 92%
Matthew Martinez Other 12%
Frank Mascara Other 21%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
Bill McCollum Other 69%
James McCrery III Other 80%
John McHugh Other 72%
Scott McInnis Other 92%
David McIntosh Other 95%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 8%
Michael McNulty Other 8%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 0%
Jack Metcalf Other 88%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 0%
Dan Miller Other 68%
David Minge Other 0%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 8%
John Moakley Other 4%
Alan Mollohan Other 31%
Dennis Moore Other 12%
Constance Morella Other 12%
Patrick Moynihan Other 9%
Frank Murkowski Other 92%
Jack Murtha Other 24%
Sue Myrick Other 91%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 84%
Robert William Ney Other 84%
Don Nickles Other 96%
Anne Northup Other 68%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 88%
James Nussle Other 80%
Jim Oberstar Other 12%
Dave Obey Other 4%
John Olver Other 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 32%
Doug Ose Other 68%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 76%
Ronald Packard Other 91%
Ron Paul Other 92%
Donald Payne Other 0%
Edward Pease Other 88%
John Peterson Other 80%
David Phelps Other 32%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 92%
Owen Pickett Other 28%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 12%
John Edward Porter Other 44%
Deborah Pryce Other 56%
Jack Quinn Other 60%
George Radanovich Other 88%
James Ramstad Other 72%
Ralph Regula Other 64%
Silvestre Reyes Other 26%
Thomas Reynolds Other 79%
Bob Riley Other 91%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 12%
Charles Robb Other 8%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 8%
Timothy Roemer Other 36%
James Rogan Other 87%
William Roth, Jr. Other 84%
Steve Rothman Other 4%
Marge Roukema Other 60%
Jim Ryun Other 96%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 24%
Rick Santorum Other 88%
Paul Sarbanes Other 4%
Jim Saxton Other 68%
Joe Scarborough Other 85%
John Shadegg Other 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 60%
Christopher Shays Other 44%
Donald Sherwood Other 80%
Ronnie Shows Other 52%
E.G. Shuster Other 82%
Norman Sisisky Other 24%
Joseph Skeen Other 83%
Ike Skelton Other 41%
Gordon Smith Other 76%
Nick Smith Other 84%
Bob Smith Other 96%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 4%
Mark Souder Other 80%
Arlen Specter Other 48%
Floyd Spence Other 88%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 12%
Pete Stark Other 8%
Cliff Stearns Other 92%
Charles Stenholm Other 54%
Ted Stevens Other 84%
Ted Strickland Other 12%
Bob Stump Other 92%
Bart Stupak Other 16%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 72%
James Talent Other 84%
Tom Tancredo Other 100%
John Tanner Other 29%
Ellen Tauscher Other 8%
William Tauzin Other 84%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 72%
Craig Thomas Other 87%
William Thomas Other 66%
Fred Thompson Other 84%
Karen Thurman Other 4%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 95%
Robert Torricelli Other 8%
Ed Towns Other 4%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 52%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 28%
Bruce Vento Other 0%
George Voinovich Other 88%
James Walsh Other 64%
Zach Wamp Other 96%
John Warner Other 84%
Wesley Watkins Other 96%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 92%
Anthony Weiner Other 0%
David Weldon Other 92%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 73%
Gerald Weller Other 80%
Paul Wellstone Other 8%
Robert Wexler Other 8%
Bob Weygand Other 12%
Heather Wilson Other 68%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 24%
Lynn Woolsey Other 4%
David Wu Other 4%
Albert Wynn Other 4%

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