Rating Group: Liberty Lobby

1993 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 70%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 60%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 50%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 20%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 20%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 20%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 0%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 0%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 10%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 70%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 20%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 10%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 80%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 10%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 70%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 20%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 80%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 30%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 10%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 30%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 90%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 70%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 70%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 90%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 40%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 20%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 70%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 10%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 90%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 20%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 10%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 30%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 40%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 20%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 70%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 60%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 90%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 20%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 20%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 0%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 10%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 20%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 60%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 60%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 10%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 40%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 30%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 70%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 60%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 10%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 20%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 20%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 10%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 80%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 10%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 30%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 20%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 40%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 80%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 30%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 10%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
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 20%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 20%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 20%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 20%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 10%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 60%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 60%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 70%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 70%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 80%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 70%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 30%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 10%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 70%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 10%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 60%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 20%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 60%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 20%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 10%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 70%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 70%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 20%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 30%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 70%
Gary Ackerman Other 20%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Wayne Allard Other 70%
Bill Archer Other 70%
Richard Armey Other 70%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 40%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 50%
William Baker Other 70%
Cass Ballenger Other 70%
James Barcia Other 60%
Bill Barrett Other 70%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 70%
Herbert Bateman Other 50%
Anthony Beilenson Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 70%
Douglas Bereuter Other 60%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Tom Bevill Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 60%
Jeff Bingaman Other 20%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 70%
Peter Blute Other 60%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 20%
Kit Bond Other 50%
Henry Bonilla Other 70%
David Edward Bonior Other 30%
Rick Boucher Other 40%
Bill Bradley Other 0%
John Breaux Other 40%
George Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Hank Brown Other 50%
Richard Bryan Other 70%
John Bryant Other 0%
Dale Bumpers Other 20%
Jim Bunning Other 90%
Conrad Burns Other 70%
Dan Burton Other 80%
Steve Buyer Other 70%
Robert Byrd Other 60%
Herbert Callahan Other 70%
Ben Campbell Other 50%
Mike Castle Other 50%
John Chafee Other 20%
William Clay, Sr. Other 20%
Eva Clayton Other 20%
William Cohen Other 40%
Ronald Coleman Other 30%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 20%
Cardiss Collins Other 10%
Michael Collins Other 90%
Larry Combest Other 60%
Gary Condit Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 50%
Jerry Costello Other 60%
Paul Coverdell Other 60%
Christopher Cox Other 80%
Larry Craig Other 80%
Robert Cramer Other 70%
Philip Crane Other 70%
Randall Cunningham Other 70%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 50%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 70%
Thomas Daschle Other 30%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 40%
Thomas DeLay Other 70%
Ronald Dellums Other 20%
Peter Deutsch Other 10%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 70%
Jay Dickey Other 60%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Julian Dixon Other 10%
Chris Dodd Other 10%
Robert Dole Other 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 60%
Calvin Dooley Other 30%
John Doolittle Other 90%
Byron Dorgan Other 40%
Robert Dornan Other 70%
David Dreier Other 70%
Jennifer Dunn Other 60%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Bill Emerson Other 60%
Lane Evans Other 30%
Terry Everett Other 90%
Thomas Ewing Other 60%
Jim Exon Other 50%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 90%
Harris Fawell Other 50%
Victor Fazio Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Cleo Fields Other 20%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 70%
Floyd Flake Other 10%
Wendell Ford Other 40%
Tillie Fowler Other 50%
Barney Frank Other 20%
Gary Franks Other 60%
Robert Franks Other 40%
Jonas Frost III Other 20%
Elton Gallegly Other 70%
Sam Gejdenson Other 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 20%
Pete Geren Other 60%
Sam Gibbons Other 10%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Paul Gillmor Other 60%
Benjamin Gilman Other 40%
Newt Gingrich Other 60%
John Glenn Other 20%
Henry Gonzalez Other 30%
Slade Gorton Other 40%
Porter Goss Other 60%
Daniel Graham Other 30%
William Phillip Gramm Other 60%
Rodney Grams Other 60%
Judd Gregg Other 50%
Steven Gunderson Other 60%
Tony Hall Other 40%
Lee Hamilton Other 40%
Melton Hancock Other 70%
James Hansen Other 70%
Jane Harman Other 20%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 60%
Mark Hatfield Other 40%
Joel Hefley Other 80%
W.G. Hefner Other 40%
Jesse Helms Other 80%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 70%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 30%
Maurice Hinchey Other 20%
David Lee Hobson Other 60%
Pete Hoekstra Other 50%
Ernest Hollings Other 60%
Stephen Horn Other 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 60%
Duncan Hunter Other 90%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 70%
Kay Hutchison Other 40%
Henry Hyde Other 60%
Daniel Inouye Other 20%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 50%
William Jefferson Other 10%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 30%
Nancy Johnson Other 30%
Harry Johnston Other 10%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 50%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 50%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 10%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 0%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 10%
Bob Kerrey Other 20%
Dale Kildee Other 30%
Jay Kim Other 70%
Gerald Kleczka Other 20%
Scott Klug Other 60%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 60%
Herb Kohl Other 30%
James Kolbe Other 60%
Jon Kyl Other 60%
John LaFalce Other 40%
Tom Lantos Other 20%
Greg Laughlin Other 60%
Rick Lazio Other 30%
James Leach Other 30%
Jerry Lewis Other 60%
Joe Lieberman Other 10%
Jim Lightfoot Other 50%
Blanche Lincoln Other 40%
John Linder Other 70%
William Lipinski Other 50%
Robert Livingston Other 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 50%
Dick Lugar Other 40%
Connie Mack Other 50%
Thomas Manton Other 10%
Don Manzullo Other 60%
Matthew Martinez Other 30%
Robert Matsui Other 0%
Bill McCollum Other 70%
James McCrery III Other 60%
John McHugh Other 70%
Scott McInnis Other 70%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 20%
Michael McNulty Other 40%
Martin Meehan Other 10%
Carrie Meek Other 10%
Jan Meyers Other 40%
Dan Miller Other 70%
David Minge Other 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 20%
John Moakley Other 10%
Susan Molinari Other 50%
Alan Mollohan Other 70%
G.V. Montgomery Other 40%
Carlos Moorhead Other 70%
Constance Morella Other 20%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 10%
Patrick Moynihan Other 20%
Frank Murkowski Other 60%
John Myers Other 80%
Don Nickles Other 60%
Sam Nunn Other 40%
James Nussle Other 70%
Jim Oberstar Other 40%
Dave Obey Other 40%
John Olver Other 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 40%
Bill Orton Other 80%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 50%
Ronald Packard Other 70%
Mike Parker Other 40%
William Paxon Other 60%
Donald Payne Other 20%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 50%
Claiborne Pell Other 10%
Pete Peterson Other 50%
Owen Pickett Other 30%
Richard Pombo Other 80%
Earl Pomeroy Other 70%
John Edward Porter Other 60%
Glenn Poshard Other 80%
Larry Pressler Other 60%
David Pryor Other 20%
Jack Quinn Other 60%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Bill Richardson Other 10%
Charles Robb Other 10%
Timothy Roemer Other 60%
Charles Rose III Other 0%
Toby Roth Other 60%
William Roth, Jr. Other 40%
Marge Roukema Other 40%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 10%
Paul Sarbanes Other 20%
Jim Saxton Other 70%
Daniel Schaefer Other 70%
Steven Schiff Other 60%
Patricia Schroeder Other 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 50%
Christopher Shays Other 30%
Paul Simon Other 10%
Alan Simpson Other 70%
Norman Sisisky Other 50%
David Skaggs Other 10%
Joseph Skeen Other 50%
Ike Skelton Other 40%
Nick Smith Other 50%
Bob Smith Other 70%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 40%
Cliff Stearns Other 90%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 60%
Gerry Studds Other 0%
Bob Stump Other 70%
Bart Stupak Other 60%
James Talent Other 70%
William Tauzin Other 80%
Charles Taylor Other 80%
Gene Taylor Other 90%
Frank Tejeda Other 30%
Craig Thomas Other 70%
William Thomas Other 50%
Ray Thornton Other 40%
Karen Thurman Other 70%
Strom Thurmond Other 80%
Peter Torkildsen Other 40%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 10%
Ed Towns Other 20%
Bruce Vento Other 10%
Harold Volkmer Other 70%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 80%
James Walsh Other 70%
John Warner Other 40%
Paul Wellstone Other 30%
Pat Williams Other 60%
Charles Wilson Other 50%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 40%
Lynn Woolsey Other 10%
Albert Wynn Other 20%
Sidney Yates Other 20%
Bill Zeliff Other 60%
Richard Zimmer Other 40%

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