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Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Boilermakers

1999 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 14%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 86%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 20%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 57%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 80%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 86%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 20%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 86%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 14%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 40%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 86%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 20%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 40%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 14%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 40%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 40%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 20%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 20%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 80%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 40%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 80%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 80%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 40%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 60%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 80%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 80%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 60%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 80%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 20%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 60%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 20%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 50%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 60%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 40%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 60%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 20%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 40%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 00%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 40%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 80%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 80%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 14%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 86%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 60%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 80%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 80%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 80%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 20%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Gary Ackerman 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 86%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 80%
Bill Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 80%
Cass Ballenger 20%
James Barcia 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. 40%
Bill Barrett 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 40%
Charlie Bass 0%
Herbert Bateman 0%
Evan Bayh 100%
Bob Bennett 14%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Shelley Berkley 80%
Howard Berman 60%
Marion Berry 60%
Judy Biggert 0%
Brian Bilbray 0%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Jeff Bingaman 86%
Rod Blagojevich 80%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 40%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 20%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Leonard Boswell 80%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 60%
John Breaux 43%
Richard Bryan 86%
Ed Bryant 20%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 14%
Dan Burton 50%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 20%
Ben Campbell 29%
Thomas Campbell 20%
Chris Cannon 20%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 20%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 40%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 80%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 71%
Robert Clement 60%
Michael Collins 40%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 100%
Merrill Cook 40%
John Cooksey 0%
Jerry Costello 100%
Christopher Cox 20%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 60%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 20%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 80%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 60%
Thomas Davis III 0%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
Jay Dickey 40%
Norm Dicks 60%
Julian Dixon 80%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 40%
John Doolittle 20%
Byron Dorgan 100%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 40%
Jo Ann Emerson 20%
Philip English 40%
Bob Etheridge 80%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 40%
Thomas Ewing 20%
Russ Feingold 100%
Peter Fitzgerald 29%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 0%
Michael Patrick Forbes 80%
Harold Ford, Jr. 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Tillie Fowler 20%
Barney Frank 100%
Robert Franks 20%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 80%
Elton Gallegly 40%
John Ganske 60%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 40%
Wayne Gilchrest 20%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 60%
Charlie Gonzalez 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 40%
William Goodling 40%
Bart Gordon 80%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 86%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 20%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 20%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 20%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 20%
Joel Hefley 40%
Jesse Helms 14%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 80%
Rick Hill 0%
Van Hilleary 40%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 40%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Thomas Holden 80%
Ernest Hollings 100%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 60%
John Nathan Hostettler 40%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 0%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 40%
Asa Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 20%
Daniel Inouye 86%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 75%
James Merrill Jeffords 14%
William Lewis Jenkins 20%
Christopher John 40%
Nancy Johnson 0%
Paul Kanjorski 80%
Sue Kelly 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 83%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 71%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 80%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 86%
James Kolbe 0%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Steven Kuykendall 0%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 80%
Ray LaHood 20%
Nicholas Lampson 80%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 20%
Steve LaTourette 20%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 0%
Jerry Lewis 0%
Ron Lewis 20%
Joe Lieberman 86%
Blanche Lincoln 100%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
William Luther 80%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 80%
Don Manzullo 0%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 80%
Karen McCarthy 80%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 40%
Scott McInnis 20%
David McIntosh 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 80%
Martin Meehan 80%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 80%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 80%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Dennis Moore 80%
Constance Morella 40%
Patrick Moynihan 86%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 80%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 40%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 40%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 80%
Doug Ose 0%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ronald Packard 0%
Ron Paul 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 20%
John Peterson 50%
David Phelps 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 20%
Owen Pickett 60%
Richard Pombo 40%
Earl Pomeroy 80%
John Edward Porter 0%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 80%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 0%
Ralph Regula 20%
Silvestre Reyes 80%
Thomas Reynolds 0%
Bob Riley 40%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 80%
Timothy Roemer 80%
James Rogan 20%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Steve Rothman 100%
Marge Roukema 20%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 80%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 0%
Joe Scarborough 20%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 0%
Donald Sherwood 20%
Ronnie Shows 60%
E.G. Shuster 20%
Norman Sisisky 80%
Joseph Skeen 20%
Ike Skelton 80%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 14%
Olympia Snowe 14%
Vic Snyder 80%
Mark Souder 40%
Arlen Specter 57%
Floyd Spence 20%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 40%
Charles Stenholm 60%
Ted Stevens 29%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bob Stump 10%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 60%
James Talent 0%
Tom Tancredo 20%
John Tanner 60%
Ellen Tauscher 80%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 20%
Gene Taylor 80%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 80%
Strom Thurmond 14%
Todd Tiahrt 20%
Robert Torricelli 86%
Ed Towns 80%
James Traficant, Jr. 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 60%
Bruce Vento 100%
George Voinovich 29%
James Walsh 40%
Zach Wamp 40%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 80%
David Weldon 20%
W. Curtis Weldon 40%
Gerald Weller 40%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Bob Weygand 100%
Heather Wilson 0%
Bob Wise, Jr. 100%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 100%
Albert Wynn 100%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

Most performance evaluations are displayed in a percentage format. However, some organizations present their ratings in the form of a letter grade or endorsement based on voting records, interviews, survey results and/or sources of campaign funding. For consistency and ease in understanding, Project Vote Smart converts all scores into a percentage when possible. Please visit the group's website or call 1-888-VOTESMART for more specific information.

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