Rating Group: Liberty Lobby

1999 Positions

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

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