Rating Group: National Tax Limitation Committee

1995-1996 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 98%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 96%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 95%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 12%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 28%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 7%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 5%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 3%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 13%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 7%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 7%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 2%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 2%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 2%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 5%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 5%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 7%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 8%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 95%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 3%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 90%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 95%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 95%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 33%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 2%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 88%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 5%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 97%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 17%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 14%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 5%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 8%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 13%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 95%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 95%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 95%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 10%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 5%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 15%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 15%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 17%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 7%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 93%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 5%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 10%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 5%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 49%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 97%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 98%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 5%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 35%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 29%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 17%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 2%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 3%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 12%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 38%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 88%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 83%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 20%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 85%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 17%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 17%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 98%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 5%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 5%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 5%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 5%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 7%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 12%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 2%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 20%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 93%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 98%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 13%
OH Governor John Kasich R 100%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 93%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 95%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 20%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 10%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 3%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 32%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 12%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 98%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 88%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 15%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 28%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 98%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 85%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 93%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 7%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 24%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 5%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 10%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 13%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 22%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 85%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 3%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 10%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 13%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 2%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 93%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 88%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 5%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 10%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 12%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 4%
Wayne Allard Other 95%
Bill Archer Other 98%
Richard Armey Other 100%
John Ashcroft Other 100%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 37%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 98%
John Baldacci Other 17%
Cass Ballenger Other 100%
James Barcia Other 39%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 100%
Bill Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 98%
Charlie Bass Other 98%
Herbert Bateman Other 88%
Anthony Beilenson Other 30%
Bob Bennett Other 97%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 20%
Douglas Bereuter Other 80%
Howard Berman Other 8%
Tom Bevill Other 10%
Brian Bilbray Other 90%
Michael Bilirakis Other 95%
Jeff Bingaman Other 14%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 98%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 68%
Kit Bond Other 86%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 5%
Sonny Bono Other 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 5%
Rick Boucher Other 23%
Bill Bradley Other 19%
John Breaux Other 28%
George Brown, Jr. Other 5%
Hank Brown Other 94%
Richard Bryan Other 17%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
John Bryant Other 13%
Dale Bumpers Other 7%
Jim Bunning Other 98%
Conrad Burns Other 97%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 10%
Herbert Callahan Other 98%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Thomas Campbell Other 67%
Mike Castle Other 85%
John Chafee Other 83%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 98%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 95%
William Clay, Sr. Other 5%
Eva Clayton Other 5%
Robert Clement Other 32%
William Cohen Other 50%
Ronald Coleman Other 0%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 0%
Cardiss Collins Other 0%
Michael Collins Other 100%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 71%
Kent Conrad Other 10%
Jerry Costello Other 15%
Paul Coverdell Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
William Coyne Other 2%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 66%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 93%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 49%
Thomas Daschle Other 21%
Thomas Davis III Other 88%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 11%
Thomas DeLay Other 98%
Ronald Dellums Other 5%
Peter Deutsch Other 20%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 93%
Jay Dickey Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 17%
Julian Dixon Other 8%
Chris Dodd Other 7%
Robert Dole Other 72%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 86%
Calvin Dooley Other 43%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 17%
Robert Dornan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 98%
Jennifer Dunn Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 15%
Vern Ehlers Other 82%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 93%
Bill Emerson Other 65%
Philip English Other 90%
John Ensign Other 98%
Lane Evans Other 9%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Thomas Ewing Other 100%
Jim Exon Other 17%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 97%
Harris Fawell Other 93%
Victor Fazio Other 21%
Russ Feingold Other 14%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 100%
Floyd Flake Other 5%
Thomas Foglietta Other 2%
Mark Foley Other 93%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 93%
Wendell Ford Other 24%
Tillie Fowler Other 95%
Jon David Fox Other 90%
Barney Frank Other 7%
Gary Franks Other 80%
Robert Franks Other 85%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 21%
Elizabeth Furse Other 20%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
John Ganske Other 95%
Sam Gejdenson Other 5%
George Gekas Other 98%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 10%
Pete Geren Other 55%
Sam Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 81%
Paul Gillmor Other 98%
Benjamin Gilman Other 83%
Newt Gingrich Other 100%
John Glenn Other 18%
Henry Gonzalez Other 18%
William Goodling Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 46%
Slade Gorton Other 83%
Porter Goss Other 90%
Daniel Graham Other 28%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 85%
Judd Gregg Other 90%
Steven Gunderson Other 55%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 98%
Tony Hall Other 12%
Lee Hamilton Other 32%
Melton Hancock Other 100%
James Hansen Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 42%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Mark Hatfield Other 44%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 98%
Joel Hefley Other 92%
W.G. Hefner Other 30%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Van Hilleary Other 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 15%
Maurice Hinchey Other 5%
David Lee Hobson Other 98%
Pete Hoekstra Other 98%
Thomas Holden Other 38%
Ernest Hollings Other 17%
Stephen Horn Other 93%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 85%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 81%
Duncan Hunter Other 97%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 98%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 14%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 98%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 6%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 40%
William Jefferson Other 8%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 86%
Nancy Johnson Other 78%
Harry Johnston Other 11%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 5%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 56%
Sue Kelly Other 90%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 14%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 5%
Patrick Kennedy Other 5%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 10%
Bob Kerrey Other 18%
Dale Kildee Other 10%
Jay Kim Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 13%
Ronald Klink Other 12%
Scott Klug Other 81%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 98%
Herb Kohl Other 24%
James Kolbe Other 93%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 7%
Ray LaHood Other 88%
Tom Lantos Other 7%
Stephen Largent Other 95%
Steve LaTourette Other 93%
Greg Laughlin Other 40%
Rick Lazio Other 90%
James Leach Other 83%
Jerry Lewis Other 95%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 31%
Jim Lightfoot Other 90%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 28%
Robert Livingston Other 95%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 93%
William Luther Other 17%
Connie Mack Other 100%
Thomas Manton Other 13%
Don Manzullo Other 98%
Matthew Martinez Other 13%
Frank Mascara Other 20%
Karen McCarthy Other 22%
Bill McCollum Other 98%
James McCrery III Other 100%
Joseph McDade Other 95%
Paul McHale Other 20%
John McHugh Other 90%
Scott McInnis Other 100%
David McIntosh Other 95%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 5%
Michael McNulty Other 18%
Martin Meehan Other 12%
Carrie Meek Other 5%
Jack Metcalf Other 95%
Jan Meyers Other 63%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 14%
Dan Miller Other 90%
David Minge Other 32%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 7%
John Moakley Other 5%
Alan Mollohan Other 18%
G.V. Montgomery Other 55%
Carlos Moorhead Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 54%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 7%
Patrick Moynihan Other 7%
Frank Murkowski Other 96%
Jack Murtha Other 20%
John Myers Other 75%
Sue Myrick Other 98%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 95%
Mark Neumann Other 90%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
Sam Nunn Other 39%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 5%
Dave Obey Other 15%
John Olver Other 7%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 39%
Bill Orton Other 67%
Major Owens Other 3%
Michael Oxley Other 98%
Ronald Packard Other 100%
Mike Parker Other 90%
William Paxon Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 5%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 30%
Claiborne Pell Other 17%
Pete Peterson Other 10%
Owen Pickett Other 46%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 20%
John Edward Porter Other 73%
Glenn Poshard Other 39%
Larry Pressler Other 83%
Deborah Pryce Other 98%
David Pryor Other 10%
Jack Quinn Other 81%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 88%
Ralph Regula Other 95%
Bill Richardson Other 0%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 12%
Charles Robb Other 31%
Timothy Roemer Other 37%
Charles Rose III Other 0%
Toby Roth Other 80%
William Roth, Jr. Other 97%
Marge Roukema Other 65%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 5%
Rick Santorum Other 97%
Paul Sarbanes Other 3%
Jim Saxton Other 83%
Joe Scarborough Other 88%
Daniel Schaefer Other 100%
Steven Schiff Other 87%
Patricia Schroeder Other 15%
John Shadegg Other 98%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 93%
Christopher Shays Other 81%
E.G. Shuster Other 100%
Paul Simon Other 5%
Alan Simpson Other 72%
Norman Sisisky Other 51%
David Skaggs Other 7%
Joseph Skeen Other 98%
Ike Skelton Other 58%
Linda Smith Other 95%
Nick Smith Other 98%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 83%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 93%
Arlen Specter Other 79%
Floyd Spence Other 100%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 20%
Pete Stark Other 5%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 49%
Ted Stevens Other 86%
Louis Stokes Other 6%
Gerry Studds Other 0%
Bob Stump Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 17%
James Talent Other 100%
John Tanner Other 55%
William Tauzin Other 90%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 59%
Craig Thomas Other 97%
William Thomas Other 98%
Fred Thompson Other 97%
Ray Thornton Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 25%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 98%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 24%
Ed Towns Other 5%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 51%
Bruce Vento Other 5%
Harold Volkmer Other 21%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 90%
James Walsh Other 85%
Zach Wamp Other 90%
John Warner Other 97%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 95%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 87%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 14%
Rick White Other 98%
Pat Williams Other 0%
Charles Wilson Other 10%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 10%
Lynn Woolsey Other 2%
Albert Wynn Other 22%
Sidney Yates Other 3%
Bill Zeliff Other 85%
Richard Zimmer Other 80%

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