Rating Group: Americans for Tax Reform

1999 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 70%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 90%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 85%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 65%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 75%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 82%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 15%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 5%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 5%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 10%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 10%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 10%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 8%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 20%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 15%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 15%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 22%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 95%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 22%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 95%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 15%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 8%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 15%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 95%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 10%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 88%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 15%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 25%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 90%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 10%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 10%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 15%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 92%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 15%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 5%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 12%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 70%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 70%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 5%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 50%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 75%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 70%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 65%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 82%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 30%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 5%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 75%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 5%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 90%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 72%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 80%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 5%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 12%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 2%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 12%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 8%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 85%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 5%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 65%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 75%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 55%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 65%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 20%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 64%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 20%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 10%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 8%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 8%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 15%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 5%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 20%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 20%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 10%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 70%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 15%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 85%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 70%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 20%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 10%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 10%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 32%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 85%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 80%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 5%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 10%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 5%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 5%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 80%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 78%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 25%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 88%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 32%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 5%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 5%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 12%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 40%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 70%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 75%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 28%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 18%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 75%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 20%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 5%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 5%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 5%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 80%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 25%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 15%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 15%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 5%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 22%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 20%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 10%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 10%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 10%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 10%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 5%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 82%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 92%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 12%
OH Governor John Kasich R 80%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 15%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 80%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 85%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 90%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 5%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 70%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 22%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 8%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 98%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 5%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 5%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 95%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 20%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 68%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 70%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 85%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 5%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 85%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 75%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 92%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 85%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 82%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 90%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 80%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 85%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 20%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 15%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 80%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 20%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 22%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 22%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 90%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 15%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 88%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 22%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 70%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 5%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 8%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 5%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 85%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 2%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 30%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 25%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 8%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 98%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 28%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 92%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 82%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 12%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 0%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 10%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 90%
Gary Ackerman Other 15%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 10%
Bill Archer Other 88%
Richard Armey Other 100%
John Ashcroft Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 75%
John Baldacci Other 10%
Cass Ballenger Other 75%
James Barcia Other 30%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 78%
Bill Barrett Other 62%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 88%
Charlie Bass Other 75%
Herbert Bateman Other 65%
Evan Bayh Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 30%
Douglas Bereuter Other 50%
Shelley Berkley Other 22%
Howard Berman Other 10%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 82%
Brian Bilbray Other 57%
Michael Bilirakis Other 70%
Jeff Bingaman Other 5%
Rod Blagojevich Other 12%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 90%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 40%
Kit Bond Other 95%
Henry Bonilla Other 80%
David Edward Bonior Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 92%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 10%
Leonard Boswell Other 22%
Rick Boucher Other 15%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 15%
John Breaux Other 30%
Richard Bryan Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 80%
Jim Bunning Other 95%
Conrad Burns Other 95%
Dan Burton Other 72%
Steve Buyer Other 68%
Robert Byrd Other 5%
Herbert Callahan Other 80%
Ben Campbell Other 90%
Thomas Campbell Other 65%
Chris Cannon Other 92%
Julia Carson Other 5%
Mike Castle Other 55%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 72%
William Clay, Sr. Other 10%
Eva Clayton Other 10%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 5%
Robert Clement Other 30%
Michael Collins Other 82%
Larry Combest Other 90%
Gary Condit Other 42%
Kent Conrad Other 10%
Merrill Cook Other 90%
John Cooksey Other 70%
Jerry Costello Other 10%
Paul Coverdell Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 75%
William Coyne Other 10%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 30%
Philip Crane Other 98%
Barbara Cubin Other 70%
Randall Cunningham Other 90%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 35%
Thomas Daschle Other 0%
James Davis Other 15%
Thomas Davis III Other 72%
Bill Delahunt Other 8%
Thomas DeLay Other 92%
James DeMint Other 90%
Peter Deutsch Other 15%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 60%
Jay Dickey Other 70%
Norm Dicks Other 20%
Julian Dixon Other 10%
Chris Dodd Other 5%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 75%
Calvin Dooley Other 20%
John Doolittle Other 80%
Byron Dorgan Other 5%
David Dreier Other 78%
Jennifer Dunn Other 75%
John Edwards Other 10%
Chet Edwards Other 20%
Vern Ehlers Other 60%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 75%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 75%
Philip English Other 80%
Bob Etheridge Other 35%
Lane Evans Other 8%
Terry Everett Other 85%
Thomas Ewing Other 82%
Russ Feingold Other 5%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 90%
Ernest Fletcher Other 95%
Mark Foley Other 85%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 45%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 25%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 90%
Tillie Fowler Other 60%
Barney Frank Other 12%
Robert Franks Other 80%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 15%
Elton Gallegly Other 85%
John Ganske Other 42%
Sam Gejdenson Other 10%
George Gekas Other 75%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 10%
Jim Gibbons Other 80%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 70%
Paul Gillmor Other 80%
Benjamin Gilman Other 65%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 20%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 78%
William Goodling Other 75%
Bart Gordon Other 30%
Slade Gorton Other 95%
Porter Goss Other 88%
Daniel Graham Other 5%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 90%
Mark Green Other 82%
James Greenwood Other 70%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 98%
Tony Hall Other 28%
James Hansen Other 85%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 82%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 92%
Joel Hefley Other 88%
Jesse Helms Other 95%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 92%
Baron Hill Other 25%
Rick Hill Other 85%
Van Hilleary Other 72%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 10%
Maurice Hinchey Other 10%
David Lee Hobson Other 78%
Pete Hoekstra Other 88%
Thomas Holden Other 15%
Ernest Hollings Other 5%
Darlene Hooley Other 15%
Stephen Horn Other 55%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 65%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Kenny Hulshof Other 80%
Duncan Hunter Other 78%
Asa Hutchinson Other 70%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 78%
Daniel Inouye Other 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 90%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 18%
William Jefferson Other 20%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 60%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 80%
Christopher John Other 25%
Nancy Johnson Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 10%
Sue Kelly Other 65%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 10%
Bob Kerrey Other 25%
Dale Kildee Other 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 10%
Gerald Kleczka Other 12%
Ronald Klink Other 5%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 85%
Herb Kohl Other 0%
James Kolbe Other 92%
Dennis Kucinich Other 8%
Steven Kuykendall Other 70%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 20%
Ray LaHood Other 72%
Nicholas Lampson Other 20%
Tom Lantos Other 5%
Stephen Largent Other 78%
Steve LaTourette Other 82%
Rick Lazio Other 70%
James Leach Other 52%
Jerry Lewis Other 70%
Ron Lewis Other 95%
Joe Lieberman Other 5%
Blanche Lincoln Other 5%
John Linder Other 88%
William Lipinski Other 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 75%
William Luther Other 12%
Connie Mack Other 95%
James Maloney Other 45%
Don Manzullo Other 88%
Matthew Martinez Other 12%
Frank Mascara Other 5%
Robert Matsui Other 15%
Karen McCarthy Other 20%
Bill McCollum Other 80%
James McCrery III Other 85%
John McHugh Other 55%
Scott McInnis Other 88%
David McIntosh Other 95%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 8%
Michael McNulty Other 5%
Martin Meehan Other 18%
Carrie Meek Other 12%
Jack Metcalf Other 80%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 15%
Dan Miller Other 80%
David Minge Other 28%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 25%
John Moakley Other 10%
Alan Mollohan Other 10%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Constance Morella Other 40%
Patrick Moynihan Other 0%
Frank Murkowski Other 95%
Jack Murtha Other 10%
Sue Myrick Other 88%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 85%
Robert William Ney Other 70%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 92%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 80%
James Nussle Other 88%
Jim Oberstar Other 18%
Dave Obey Other 18%
John Olver Other 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 20%
Doug Ose Other 88%
Major Owens Other 10%
Michael Oxley Other 78%
Ronald Packard Other 90%
Ron Paul Other 80%
Donald Payne Other 12%
Edward Pease Other 82%
John Peterson Other 55%
David Phelps Other 15%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 80%
Owen Pickett Other 35%
Richard Pombo Other 82%
Earl Pomeroy Other 18%
John Edward Porter Other 52%
Deborah Pryce Other 68%
Jack Quinn Other 55%
George Radanovich Other 88%
James Ramstad Other 72%
Ralph Regula Other 60%
Silvestre Reyes Other 15%
Thomas Reynolds Other 90%
Bob Riley Other 80%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 20%
Charles Robb Other 10%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 10%
Timothy Roemer Other 45%
James Rogan Other 95%
William Roth, Jr. Other 90%
Steve Rothman Other 22%
Marge Roukema Other 75%
Jim Ryun Other 98%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 12%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 30%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 5%
Jim Saxton Other 65%
Joe Scarborough Other 88%
John Shadegg Other 88%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 57%
Christopher Shays Other 57%
Donald Sherwood Other 80%
Ronnie Shows Other 40%
E.G. Shuster Other 75%
Norman Sisisky Other 20%
Joseph Skeen Other 70%
Ike Skelton Other 40%
Gordon Smith Other 90%
Nick Smith Other 92%
Bob Smith Other 95%
Olympia Snowe Other 60%
Vic Snyder Other 20%
Mark Souder Other 78%
Arlen Specter Other 45%
Floyd Spence Other 85%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 20%
Pete Stark Other 8%
Cliff Stearns Other 80%
Charles Stenholm Other 30%
Ted Stevens Other 95%
Ted Strickland Other 20%
Bob Stump Other 90%
Bart Stupak Other 10%
John Sununu Other 98%
John Sweeney Other 55%
James Talent Other 85%
Tom Tancredo Other 95%
John Tanner Other 20%
Ellen Tauscher Other 25%
William Tauzin Other 75%
Charles Taylor Other 85%
Gene Taylor Other 55%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 65%
Fred Thompson Other 85%
Karen Thurman Other 5%
Strom Thurmond Other 80%
Todd Tiahrt Other 92%
Robert Torricelli Other 10%
Ed Towns Other 15%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 30%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 8%
James Turner Other 25%
Bruce Vento Other 8%
George Voinovich Other 70%
James Walsh Other 50%
Zach Wamp Other 85%
John Warner Other 90%
Wesley Watkins Other 95%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 90%
Anthony Weiner Other 10%
David Weldon Other 75%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 65%
Gerald Weller Other 98%
Paul Wellstone Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 20%
Bob Weygand Other 5%
Heather Wilson Other 85%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 5%
Lynn Woolsey Other 10%
David Wu Other 22%
Albert Wynn Other 10%

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