Rating Group: Transportation Communications Union

1999 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 43%
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 29%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 43%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 14%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 86%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 86%
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 71%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 71%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 86%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 86%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 14%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 86%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 86%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 86%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 86%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 14%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 86%
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 14%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 86%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 86%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 29%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 86%
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 14%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 29%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 57%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 14%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 29%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 14%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 86%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 29%
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 14%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 9%
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 86%
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 29%
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 29%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 29%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 29%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 71%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 82%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 40%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 86%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 86%
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 86%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 14%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 14%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 71%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 86%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 86%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 71%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 14%
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 100%
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 14%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 57%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 86%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 43%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 86%
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 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 86%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 71%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 71%
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 14%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 86%
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 71%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 86%
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 86%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 86%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 86%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 86%
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 17%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 14%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Governor John Kasich R 29%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 86%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 43%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 14%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 86%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 14%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 86%
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 86%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 57%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 86%
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 14%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 57%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 14%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 14%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 14%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 14%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 14%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 86%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 86%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 17%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 86%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 86%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 14%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 86%
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 71%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 29%
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 75%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 71%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 86%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 43%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 71%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 29%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 29%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 86%
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 86%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 86%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 86%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 86%
Cass Ballenger Other 29%
James Barcia Other 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 43%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 29%
Charlie Bass Other 14%
Herbert Bateman Other 14%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 86%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 86%
Howard Berman Other 71%
Marion Berry Other 71%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Brian Bilbray Other 17%
Michael Bilirakis Other 43%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 86%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 57%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 29%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 86%
Rick Boucher Other 86%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 71%
John Breaux Other 64%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 14%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 33%
Steve Buyer Other 14%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 29%
Ben Campbell Other 9%
Thomas Campbell Other 29%
Chris Cannon Other 43%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 29%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 43%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 86%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 91%
Robert Clement Other 71%
Michael Collins Other 29%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 71%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Merrill Cook Other 43%
John Cooksey Other 14%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 14%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 71%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 14%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 86%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 71%
Thomas Davis III Other 14%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 14%
Peter Deutsch Other 86%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 57%
Jay Dickey Other 43%
Norm Dicks Other 71%
Julian Dixon Other 86%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 57%
John Doolittle Other 14%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 86%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 29%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 29%
Philip English Other 43%
Bob Etheridge Other 86%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 29%
Thomas Ewing Other 29%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 18%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 29%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 86%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 86%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 14%
Tillie Fowler Other 14%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 29%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 86%
Elton Gallegly Other 43%
John Ganske Other 71%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 14%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 43%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 33%
Paul Gillmor Other 29%
Benjamin Gilman Other 71%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 86%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 29%
William Goodling Other 43%
Bart Gordon Other 86%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 14%
James Greenwood Other 43%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 14%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 14%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 29%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 14%
Joel Hefley Other 57%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 86%
Rick Hill Other 86%
Van Hilleary Other 43%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 29%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 86%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 86%
Stephen Horn Other 57%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 43%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 17%
Duncan Hunter Other 43%
Asa Hutchinson Other 14%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 29%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 71%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 9%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 43%
Christopher John Other 57%
Nancy Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 86%
Sue Kelly Other 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 91%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 86%
Ronald Klink Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Steven Kuykendall Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 86%
Ray LaHood Other 29%
Nicholas Lampson Other 86%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 14%
Steve LaTourette Other 43%
Rick Lazio Other 43%
James Leach Other 29%
Jerry Lewis Other 14%
Ron Lewis Other 14%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 14%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 86%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 86%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 86%
Karen McCarthy Other 86%
Bill McCollum Other 14%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 43%
Scott McInnis Other 29%
David McIntosh Other 14%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 86%
Martin Meehan Other 86%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 33%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 86%
Dan Miller Other 0%
David Minge Other 86%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 86%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 86%
Constance Morella Other 43%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 86%
Sue Myrick Other 17%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 43%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 57%
James Nussle Other 29%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 86%
Doug Ose Other 14%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 14%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 14%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 14%
John Peterson Other 25%
David Phelps Other 86%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 14%
Owen Pickett Other 57%
Richard Pombo Other 29%
Earl Pomeroy Other 86%
John Edward Porter Other 14%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 86%
George Radanovich Other 14%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 14%
Silvestre Reyes Other 86%
Thomas Reynolds Other 29%
Bob Riley Other 29%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 86%
Timothy Roemer Other 86%
James Rogan Other 14%
William Roth, Jr. Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 29%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 86%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 14%
Joe Scarborough Other 17%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 14%
Christopher Shays Other 14%
Donald Sherwood Other 29%
Ronnie Shows Other 71%
E.G. Shuster Other 17%
Norman Sisisky Other 86%
Joseph Skeen Other 14%
Ike Skelton Other 86%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 9%
Vic Snyder Other 86%
Mark Souder Other 29%
Arlen Specter Other 36%
Floyd Spence Other 29%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 43%
Charles Stenholm Other 57%
Ted Stevens Other 9%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 71%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 29%
John Tanner Other 71%
Ellen Tauscher Other 86%
William Tauzin Other 14%
Charles Taylor Other 14%
Gene Taylor Other 86%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 86%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 14%
Robert Torricelli Other 91%
Ed Towns Other 86%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 71%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 36%
James Walsh Other 57%
Zach Wamp Other 43%
John Warner Other 9%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 86%
David Weldon Other 29%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 57%
Gerald Weller Other 43%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 29%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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