Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Boilermakers

1999 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 40%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 14%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 40%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 80%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 86%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 80%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 60%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 60%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 80%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 80%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 80%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 80%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 80%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 20%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 80%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 20%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 80%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 80%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 20%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 80%
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 20%
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 40%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 20%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 20%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 80%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 80%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 20%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 00%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 20%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 40%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 60%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 57%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 80%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 80%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano 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%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 60%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 80%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 80%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 86%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 86%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 20%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 40%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 80%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 40%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 80%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 86%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 80%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 60%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 60%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 80%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 60%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 80%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
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 80%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 80%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 80%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 80%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 80%
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 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Governor John Kasich R 40%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 80%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 14%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 14%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 40%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 86%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 80%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 20%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 80%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 40%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 20%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 40%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 20%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 80%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 80%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 25%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 80%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 80%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 80%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 14%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 60%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 20%
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 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 50%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 60%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 80%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 40%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 60%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 20%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 40%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 80%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 86%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 80%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 80%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 80%
Cass Ballenger Other 20%
James Barcia Other 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 40%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 40%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Herbert Bateman Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 14%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 80%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 80%
Howard Berman Other 60%
Marion Berry Other 60%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 86%
Rod Blagojevich Other 80%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 20%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 80%
Rick Boucher Other 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 60%
John Breaux Other 43%
Richard Bryan Other 86%
Ed Bryant Other 20%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 14%
Dan Burton Other 50%
Steve Buyer Other 20%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 20%
Ben Campbell Other 29%
Thomas Campbell Other 20%
Chris Cannon Other 20%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 20%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 40%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 80%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 71%
Robert Clement Other 60%
Michael Collins Other 40%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 60%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Merrill Cook Other 40%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 20%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 60%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 20%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 80%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 60%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 40%
Jay Dickey Other 40%
Norm Dicks Other 60%
Julian Dixon Other 80%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 40%
John Doolittle Other 20%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 80%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 40%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 20%
Philip English Other 40%
Bob Etheridge Other 80%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 40%
Thomas Ewing Other 20%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 29%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 80%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Tillie Fowler Other 20%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 20%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 80%
Elton Gallegly Other 40%
John Ganske Other 60%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 40%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 20%
Paul Gillmor Other 20%
Benjamin Gilman Other 60%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 40%
William Goodling Other 40%
Bart Gordon Other 80%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 86%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 20%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 20%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 20%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 20%
Joel Hefley Other 40%
Jesse Helms Other 14%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 80%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 40%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 40%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 80%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 80%
Stephen Horn Other 60%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 40%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 40%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 20%
Daniel Inouye Other 86%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 14%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 20%
Christopher John Other 40%
Nancy Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 80%
Sue Kelly Other 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 83%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 71%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 80%
Ronald Klink Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 86%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Steven Kuykendall Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 80%
Ray LaHood Other 20%
Nicholas Lampson Other 80%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 20%
Steve LaTourette Other 20%
Rick Lazio Other 40%
James Leach Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 20%
Joe Lieberman Other 86%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 80%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 80%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 80%
Karen McCarthy Other 80%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 40%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
David McIntosh Other 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 80%
Martin Meehan Other 80%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 80%
Dan Miller Other 0%
David Minge Other 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 80%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 80%
Constance Morella Other 40%
Patrick Moynihan Other 86%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 80%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 40%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 40%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 80%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 20%
John Peterson Other 50%
David Phelps Other 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 20%
Owen Pickett Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 40%
Earl Pomeroy Other 80%
John Edward Porter Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 80%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 20%
Silvestre Reyes Other 80%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 40%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 80%
Timothy Roemer Other 80%
James Rogan Other 20%
William Roth, Jr. Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 20%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 80%
Rick Santorum Other 14%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Joe Scarborough Other 20%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 0%
Donald Sherwood Other 20%
Ronnie Shows Other 60%
E.G. Shuster Other 20%
Norman Sisisky Other 80%
Joseph Skeen Other 20%
Ike Skelton Other 80%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 14%
Olympia Snowe Other 14%
Vic Snyder Other 80%
Mark Souder Other 40%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
Floyd Spence Other 20%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 40%
Charles Stenholm Other 60%
Ted Stevens Other 29%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 10%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 60%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 20%
John Tanner Other 60%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 20%
Gene Taylor Other 80%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 80%
Strom Thurmond Other 14%
Todd Tiahrt Other 20%
Robert Torricelli Other 86%
Ed Towns Other 80%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 60%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 29%
James Walsh Other 40%
Zach Wamp Other 40%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 80%
David Weldon Other 20%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 40%
Gerald Weller Other 40%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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