Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Boilermakers

1998 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 83%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 83%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 83%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 67%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 67%
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 67%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 67%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 83%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 67%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 67%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 83%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 50%
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 33%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 83%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 83%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 17%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 80%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 17%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 83%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 17%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 17%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 17%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 83%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 33%
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%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 83%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 83%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 50%
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 17%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 33%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 67%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 83%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 83%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney 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 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 83%
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 83%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 83%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 80%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 83%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 33%
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 67%
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 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 17%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 33%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 67%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 17%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 83%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 83%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 83%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 67%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 83%
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 17%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 67%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 67%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 83%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 83%
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 75%
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 83%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 83%
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 17%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 67%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 80%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 67%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 80%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 67%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 33%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 50%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 17%
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 83%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 80%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 83%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 60%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 83%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 83%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 67%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 67%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 60%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 83%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 17%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 33%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 83%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 83%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 83%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 83%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 83%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 33%
Bill Barrett Other 17%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 33%
Charlie Bass Other 33%
Herbert Bateman Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 67%
Douglas Bereuter Other 20%
Howard Berman Other 80%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Brian Bilbray Other 17%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 67%
Rod Blagojevich Other 80%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 67%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 50%
Rick Boucher Other 83%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 67%
John Breaux Other 67%
Richard Bryan Other 67%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 25%
Steve Buyer Other 17%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 67%
Thomas Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 50%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 67%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 67%
Robert Clement Other 67%
Michael Collins Other 17%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 83%
Kent Conrad Other 67%
Merrill Cook Other 33%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 17%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 67%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 80%
Thomas Daschle Other 67%
James Davis Other 67%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 83%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 83%
Jay Dickey Other 17%
Norm Dicks Other 67%
Julian Dixon Other 80%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 67%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 67%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 67%
Vern Ehlers Other 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 20%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 17%
Philip English Other 50%
Bob Etheridge Other 67%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 33%
Thomas Ewing Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 33%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 83%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 67%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Tillie Fowler Other 25%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 50%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 80%
Elton Gallegly Other 50%
John Ganske Other 33%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 33%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 17%
Benjamin Gilman Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 33%
William Goodling Other 33%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 67%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 17%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Rick Hill Other 33%
Van Hilleary Other 33%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 80%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 33%
Pete Hoekstra Other 17%
Thomas Holden Other 83%
Ernest Hollings Other 50%
Darlene Hooley Other 50%
Stephen Horn Other 50%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 33%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 60%
Asa Hutchinson Other 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 67%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 50%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 33%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 33%
Christopher John Other 60%
Nancy Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 83%
Sue Kelly Other 67%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 67%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 83%
Ronald Klink Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 67%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 83%
Ray LaHood Other 67%
Nicholas Lampson Other 83%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 67%
Rick Lazio Other 50%
James Leach Other 33%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 67%
John Linder Other 17%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 83%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 83%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 75%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 83%
Karen McCarthy Other 83%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 17%
John McHugh Other 67%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 83%
Carrie Meek Other 83%
Jack Metcalf Other 67%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 75%
Dan Miller Other 0%
David Minge Other 67%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 80%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 83%
Sue Myrick Other 17%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 67%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 17%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 40%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 83%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 67%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 40%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 33%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 17%
Owen Pickett Other 67%
Richard Pombo Other 33%
Earl Pomeroy Other 83%
John Edward Porter Other 17%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 67%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 17%
Ralph Regula Other 50%
Silvestre Reyes Other 83%
Bob Riley Other 33%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 67%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 83%
Timothy Roemer Other 67%
James Rogan Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 17%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 67%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 75%
Joe Scarborough Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 33%
E.G. Shuster Other 17%
Norman Sisisky Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 67%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 33%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 67%
Mark Souder Other 33%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
Floyd Spence Other 33%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 33%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 17%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 50%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 50%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Craig Thomas Other 33%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 33%
Karen Thurman Other 83%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 17%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 80%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
James Turner Other 67%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
James Walsh Other 50%
Zach Wamp Other 50%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
David Weldon Other 17%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 67%
Gerald Weller Other 67%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 25%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 83%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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