Rating Group: United Food & Commercial Workers

1997 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 38%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 25%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 15%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 23%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 8%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 8%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 85%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 83%
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 92%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 85%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 92%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 92%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 85%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 92%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 15%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 92%
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 77%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 15%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 92%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 92%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 15%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 92%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 8%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 54%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 62%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 23%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 15%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 15%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 92%
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 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 83%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 15%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 92%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 38%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 8%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 38%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 23%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 92%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 92%
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 92%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 92%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 92%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 92%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 23%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 23%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 92%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 92%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 91%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 62%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 23%
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 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 58%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 67%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 8%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 8%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 92%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 46%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 75%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 92%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 85%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 85%
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 23%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 85%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 85%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 92%
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 92%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 85%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 92%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 85%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 92%
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 8%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Governor John Kasich R 8%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 92%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 25%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 8%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 8%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 67%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 85%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 85%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 77%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 15%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 8%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 15%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 15%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 8%
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 92%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 85%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 92%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 85%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 92%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
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 77%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 62%
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 75%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 85%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 85%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 92%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 23%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 46%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 92%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 67%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 25%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 8%
Gary Ackerman Other 92%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 75%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 92%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 77%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 92%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 92%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 15%
Bill Barrett Other 23%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 15%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Herbert Bateman Other 46%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 77%
Douglas Bereuter Other 23%
Howard Berman Other 92%
Marion Berry Other 85%
Brian Bilbray Other 8%
Michael Bilirakis Other 23%
Jeff Bingaman Other 67%
Rod Blagojevich Other 92%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 77%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 8%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Sonny Bono Other 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 77%
Rick Boucher Other 90%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 62%
John Breaux Other 50%
George Brown, Jr. Other 92%
Richard Bryan Other 50%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Dale Bumpers Other 67%
Jim Bunning Other 15%
Conrad Burns Other 25%
Dan Burton Other 15%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 23%
Ben Campbell Other 25%
Thomas Campbell Other 46%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Walter Holden Capps Other 71%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 46%
John Chafee Other 0%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 15%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 58%
Robert Clement Other 69%
Michael Collins Other 8%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 85%
Kent Conrad Other 83%
Merrill Cook Other 15%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Paul Coverdell Other 8%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 69%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 8%
Randall Cunningham Other 8%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 33%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 85%
Thomas Daschle Other 75%
James Davis Other 77%
Thomas Davis III Other 46%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 85%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 85%
Jay Dickey Other 23%
Norm Dicks Other 77%
Julian Dixon Other 85%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 46%
John Doolittle Other 15%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 83%
Vern Ehlers Other 23%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 8%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 69%
John Ensign Other 15%
Bob Etheridge Other 85%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 15%
Thomas Ewing Other 23%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 33%
Harris Fawell Other 50%
Victor Fazio Other 85%
Russ Feingold Other 83%
Thomas Foglietta Other 90%
Mark Foley Other 38%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 85%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 92%
Wendell Ford Other 92%
Tillie Fowler Other 8%
Jon David Fox Other 54%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 54%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 92%
Elizabeth Furse Other 92%
Elton Gallegly Other 8%
John Ganske Other 31%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 54%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 17%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 9%
Paul Gillmor Other 15%
Benjamin Gilman Other 77%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 58%
Henry Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 15%
William Goodling Other 38%
Bart Gordon Other 85%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 50%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 8%
James Greenwood Other 23%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 8%
Tony Hall Other 85%
Lee Hamilton Other 77%
James Hansen Other 8%
Jane Harman Other 54%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 15%
W.G. Hefner Other 100%
Jesse Helms Other 8%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 8%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 15%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 31%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 85%
Ernest Hollings Other 92%
Darlene Hooley Other 85%
Stephen Horn Other 54%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 8%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 46%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 18%
Asa Hutchinson Other 23%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 54%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 15%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 8%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 46%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 25%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 8%
Christopher John Other 54%
Jay Johnson Other 92%
Nancy Johnson Other 46%
Paul Kanjorski Other 92%
Sue Kelly Other 23%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 92%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 77%
Bob Kerrey Other 58%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Jay Kim Other 46%
Gerald Kleczka Other 85%
Ronald Klink Other 100%
Scott Klug Other 8%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 31%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 9%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 92%
Ray LaHood Other 31%
Nicholas Lampson Other 85%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 46%
Rick Lazio Other 46%
James Leach Other 46%
Jerry Lewis Other 46%
Ron Lewis Other 15%
Joe Lieberman Other 58%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 92%
Robert Livingston Other 46%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 77%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 85%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 85%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 85%
Karen McCarthy Other 77%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
Joseph McDade Other 77%
Paul McHale Other 85%
John McHugh Other 62%
Scott McInnis Other 15%
David McIntosh Other 8%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 92%
Michael McNulty Other 92%
Martin Meehan Other 83%
Carrie Meek Other 92%
Jack Metcalf Other 69%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 92%
Dan Miller Other 46%
David Minge Other 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 92%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 46%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 83%
Patrick Moynihan Other 58%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 92%
Sue Myrick Other 15%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 23%
Mark Neumann Other 8%
Robert William Ney Other 8%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 8%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 15%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 92%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 92%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 23%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Michael Pappas Other 31%
Mike Parker Other 23%
Ron Paul Other 15%
William Paxon Other 8%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 15%
John Peterson Other 8%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 8%
Owen Pickett Other 54%
Richard Pombo Other 15%
Earl Pomeroy Other 85%
John Edward Porter Other 50%
Glenn Poshard Other 92%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 75%
George Radanovich Other 8%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Bill Redmond Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 23%
Silvestre Reyes Other 92%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 8%
Bob Riley Other 8%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 50%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 90%
Timothy Roemer Other 69%
James Rogan Other 8%
William Roth, Jr. Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 46%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 85%
Rick Santorum Other 25%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 31%
Joe Scarborough Other 15%
Daniel Schaefer Other 8%
Steven Schiff Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 46%
Christopher Shays Other 46%
E.G. Shuster Other 23%
Norman Sisisky Other 85%
David Skaggs Other 85%
Joseph Skeen Other 23%
Ike Skelton Other 77%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Linda Smith Other 54%
Nick Smith Other 15%
Robert Smith Other 8%
Bob Smith Other 25%
Vincent Snowbarger Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 58%
Vic Snyder Other 85%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 15%
Mark Souder Other 15%
Arlen Specter Other 83%
Floyd Spence Other 15%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 92%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 23%
Charles Stenholm Other 10%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Louis Stokes Other 100%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 31%
Ellen Tauscher Other 85%
William Tauzin Other 8%
Charles Taylor Other 8%
Gene Taylor Other 15%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 31%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 85%
Strom Thurmond Other 25%
Todd Tiahrt Other 15%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 83%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 77%
James Turner Other 77%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
James Walsh Other 54%
Zach Wamp Other 15%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 8%
David Weldon Other 8%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 54%
Gerald Weller Other 38%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 92%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Rick White Other 0%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 92%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 92%
Sidney Yates Other 100%

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