Rating Group: American Federation of Government Employees

1996 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 26%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 11%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 10%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 5%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 15%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 90%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
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 5%
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 5%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 5%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
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 5%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 20%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 39%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 15%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 5%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 5%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 95%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 15%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 10%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 90%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 5%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 5%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 6%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 15%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 15%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 10%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 10%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 5%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 5%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 90%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 5%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 90%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 5%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 5%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 5%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 95%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 35%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 40%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 95%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 16%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 90%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 40%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
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 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 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 6%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 95%
OH Governor John Kasich R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 15%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 5%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 15%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 5%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 89%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 95%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 90%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 10%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 16%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 25%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 11%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 5%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 5%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 94%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 95%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 31%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 5%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 5%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 95%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 17%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 5%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 5%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 15%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 90%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 20%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 5%
Bill Archer Other 5%
Richard Armey Other 5%
John Ashcroft Other 10%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 95%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 5%
William Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 5%
James Barcia Other 95%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 10%
Bill Barrett Other 5%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 5%
Charlie Bass Other 10%
Herbert Bateman Other 11%
Anthony Beilenson Other 95%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 15%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Tom Bevill Other 89%
Brian Bilbray Other 15%
Michael Bilirakis Other 015%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 5%
Peter Blute Other 37%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 60%
Kit Bond Other 15%
Henry Bonilla Other 10%
David Edward Bonior Other 95%
Sonny Bono Other 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 95%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Bill Bradley Other 95%
John Breaux Other 80%
Bill Brewster Other 60%
Glen Browder Other 97%
George Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Hank Brown Other 0%
Richard Bryan Other 85%
Ed Bryant Other 10%
John Bryant Other 100%
Dale Bumpers Other 89%
Jim Bunn Other 20%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 5%
Dan Burton Other 5%
Steve Buyer Other 11%
Robert Byrd Other 95%
Herbert Callahan Other 5%
Ben Campbell Other 47%
Thomas Campbell Other 20%
Mike Castle Other 15%
John Chafee Other 25%
Jim Chapman Other 100%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 15%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 5%
Dick Chrysler Other 5%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 95%
William Clinger Other 11%
William Cohen Other 22%
Ronald Coleman Other 100%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 100%
Cardiss Collins Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 5%
Larry Combest Other 5%
Gary Condit Other 75%
Kent Conrad Other 90%
Wes Cooley Other 015%
Jerry Costello Other 95%
Paul Coverdell Other 5%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 5%
Robert Cramer Other 90%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 10%
Barbara Cubin Other 5%
Randall Cunningham Other 5%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 35%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 85%
Thomas Daschle Other 95%
Thomas Davis III Other 25%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 94%
Thomas DeLay Other 5%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 42%
Jay Dickey Other 5%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 95%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Robert Dole Other 7%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 20%
Calvin Dooley Other 79%
John Doolittle Other 5%
Byron Dorgan Other 90%
Robert Dornan Other 5%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 6%
Chet Edwards Other 95%
Vern Ehlers Other 16%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 10%
Bill Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 40%
John Ensign Other 15%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 5%
Thomas Ewing Other 5%
Jim Exon Other 90%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 5%
Harris Fawell Other 10%
Victor Fazio Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Cleo Fields Other 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 0%
Floyd Flake Other 100%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 35%
Thomas Foglietta Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 15%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 37%
Harold Ford, Sr. Other 94%
Wendell Ford Other 85%
Tillie Fowler Other 6%
Jon David Fox Other 35%
Sheila Frahm Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Gary Franks Other 25%
Robert Franks Other 30%
Dan Frisa Other 37%
William Frist Other 5%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
David Funderburk Other 5%
Elizabeth Furse Other 95%
Elton Gallegly Other 5%
John Ganske Other 10%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Pete Geren Other 25%
Sam Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 10%
Paul Gillmor Other 17%
Benjamin Gilman Other 58%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 100%
Henry Gonzalez Other 100%
William Goodling Other 5%
Bart Gordon Other 85%
Slade Gorton Other 25%
Porter Goss Other 5%
Daniel Graham Other 90%
William Phillip Gramm Other 5%
Rodney Grams Other 10%
Enid Greene Other 5%
James Greenwood Other 21%
Judd Gregg Other 5%
Steven Gunderson Other 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 5%
Tony Hall Other 100%
Lee Hamilton Other 85%
Melton Hancock Other 5%
James Hansen Other 10%
Jane Harman Other 85%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 5%
Mark Hatfield Other 40%
James Hayes Other 11%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 5%
Joel Hefley Other 5%
W.G. Hefner Other 100%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 17%
Jesse Helms Other 5%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 10%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Martin Hoke Other 21%
Thomas Holden Other 90%
Ernest Hollings Other 79%
Stephen Horn Other 32%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Duncan Hunter Other 5%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 5%
Kay Hutchison Other 5%
Henry Hyde Other 5%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 95%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 79%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 45%
Nancy Johnson Other 37%
Harry Johnston Other 100%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 85%
Paul Kanjorski Other 95%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 21%
Sue Kelly Other 20%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 5%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 75%
Dale Kildee Other 95%
Jay Kim Other 5%
Gerald Kleczka Other 95%
Ronald Klink Other 95%
Scott Klug Other 20%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 5%
Herb Kohl Other 85%
James Kolbe Other 11%
Jon Kyl Other 5%
John LaFalce Other 95%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 10%
Steve LaTourette Other 16%
Greg Laughlin Other 5%
Frank Lautenberg Other 100%
Rick Lazio Other 32%
James Leach Other 30%
Jerry Lewis Other 11%
Ron Lewis Other 5%
Joe Lieberman Other 95%
Jim Lightfoot Other 11%
Blanche Lincoln Other 77%
John Linder Other 5%
William Lipinski Other 95%
Robert Livingston Other 10%
James Longley, Jr. Other 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 95%
Connie Mack Other 5%
Thomas Manton Other 94%
Don Manzullo Other 5%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Bill Martini Other 60%
Frank Mascara Other 95%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 95%
Bill McCollum Other 5%
James McCrery III Other 5%
Joseph McDade Other 36%
Paul McHale Other 95%
John McHugh Other 50%
Scott McInnis Other 10%
David McIntosh Other 5%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 94%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 25%
Jan Meyers Other 11%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 11%
David Minge Other 90%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 94%
Susan Molinari Other 18%
Alan Mollohan Other 95%
G.V. Montgomery Other 30%
Carlos Moorhead Other 5%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 95%
Patrick Moynihan Other 90%
Frank Murkowski Other 20%
Jack Murtha Other 95%
John Myers Other 11%
Sue Myrick Other 5%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 5%
Mark Neumann Other 20%
Robert William Ney Other 20%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 5%
Sam Nunn Other 45%
James Nussle Other 5%
Jim Oberstar Other 95%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 89%
Bill Orton Other 85%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 5%
Ronald Packard Other 6%
Mike Parker Other 5%
William Paxon Other 5%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 85%
Claiborne Pell Other 95%
Pete Peterson Other 100%
Owen Pickett Other 75%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
John Edward Porter Other 15%
Glenn Poshard Other 95%
Larry Pressler Other 10%
Deborah Pryce Other 11%
David Pryor Other 88%
James Quillen Other 6%
Jack Quinn Other 55%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 10%
Ralph Regula Other 20%
Bill Richardson Other 100%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 85%
Timothy Roemer Other 80%
Charles Rose III Other 88%
Toby Roth Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 21%
Marge Roukema Other 37%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 95%
Rick Santorum Other 25%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 5%
Joe Scarborough Other 15%
Daniel Schaefer Other 5%
Steven Schiff Other 15%
Patricia Schroeder Other 100%
Andrea Seastrand Other 5%
John Shadegg Other 5%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 10%
Christopher Shays Other 25%
E.G. Shuster Other 5%
Paul Simon Other 90%
Alan Simpson Other 15%
Norman Sisisky Other 84%
David Skaggs Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 5%
Ike Skelton Other 85%
Linda Smith Other 18%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 5%
Olympia Snowe Other 40%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 21%
Mark Souder Other 11%
Arlen Specter Other 55%
Floyd Spence Other 5%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 95%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 5%
Charles Stenholm Other 55%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Louis Stokes Other 100%
Gerry Studds Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 5%
Bart Stupak Other 95%
James Talent Other 5%
John Tanner Other 89%
Randy Tate Other 5%
William Tauzin Other 10%
Charles Taylor Other 5%
Gene Taylor Other 45%
Frank Tejeda Other 85%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 10%
Fred Thompson Other 5%
Ray Thornton Other 100%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 10%
Todd Tiahrt Other 5%
Peter Torkildsen Other 53%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 90%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
Harold Volkmer Other 95%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 5%
Robert Walker Other 5%
James Walsh Other 25%
Zach Wamp Other 10%
Michael Ward Other 94%
John Warner Other 10%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 5%
David Weldon Other 5%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Rick White Other 10%
Pat Williams Other 95%
Charles Wilson Other 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 95%
Sidney Yates Other 100%
Bill Zeliff Other 10%
Richard Zimmer Other 28%

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