Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

1998 Spending Score

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 48%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 64%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 74%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 46%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 59%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 73%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 82%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 14%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 30%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 15%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 31%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 25%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 30%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 15%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 17%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 51%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 25%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 18%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 16%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 83%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 15%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 49%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 19%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 24%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 81%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 24%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 21%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 82%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 13%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 12%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 54%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 63%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 28%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 50%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 53%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 49%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 69%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 22%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 29%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 73%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 12%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 56%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 10%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 48%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 51%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 11%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 20%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 18%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 20%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 50%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 56%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 55%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 68%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 63%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 47%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 46%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 9%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 10%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 16%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 14%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 21%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 10%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 27%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 22%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 14%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 53%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 16%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 14%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 50%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 51%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 15%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 12%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 22%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 28%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 54%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 57%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 53%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 12%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 22%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 66%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 13%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 75%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 77%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 18%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 62%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 25%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 17%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 14%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 27%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 46%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 48%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 21%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 14%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 57%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 24%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 18%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 52%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 26%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 18%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 19%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 20%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 21%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 18%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 13%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 15%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 18%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 15%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 34%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 73%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 82%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 66%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 18%
OH Governor John Kasich R 69%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 17%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 49%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 74%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 78%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 55%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 21%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 23%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 31%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 20%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 16%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 15%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 54%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 10%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 72%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 90%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 13%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 12%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 48%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 65%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 78%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 63%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 75%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 60%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 49%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 69%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 10%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 14%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 50%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 24%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 15%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 70%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 28%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 57%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 14%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 61%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 32%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 66%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 14%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 21%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 13%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 59%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 25%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 29%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 40%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 87%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 70%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 42%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 6%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 14%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 70%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 65%
Gary Ackerman Other 14%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 9%
Wayne Allard Other 74%
Thomas Allen Other 12%
Bill Archer Other 65%
Richard Armey Other 55%
John Ashcroft Other 80%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 51%
John Baldacci Other 13%
Cass Ballenger Other 69%
James Barcia Other 24%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 76%
Bill Barrett Other 61%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 66%
Charlie Bass Other 47%
Herbert Bateman Other 43%
Bob Bennett Other 50%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 27%
Douglas Bereuter Other 33%
Howard Berman Other 17%
Marion Berry Other 30%
Brian Bilbray Other 52%
Michael Bilirakis Other 53%
Jeff Bingaman Other 14%
Rod Blagojevich Other 14%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 50%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 28%
Kit Bond Other 53%
Henry Bonilla Other 66%
David Edward Bonior Other 16%
Mary Bono Mack Other 53%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 13%
Leonard Boswell Other 23%
Rick Boucher Other 13%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 28%
John Breaux Other 15%
Richard Bryan Other 13%
Ed Bryant Other 50%
Jim Bunning Other 46%
Conrad Burns Other 64%
Dan Burton Other 51%
Steve Buyer Other 45%
Robert Byrd Other 27%
Herbert Callahan Other 50%
Ben Campbell Other 54%
Thomas Campbell Other 68%
Chris Cannon Other 62%
Julia Carson Other 17%
Mike Castle Other 54%
John Chafee Other 36%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 60%
William Clay, Sr. Other 12%
Eva Clayton Other 14%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 14%
Robert Clement Other 14%
Michael Collins Other 61%
Larry Combest Other 52%
Gary Condit Other 49%
Kent Conrad Other 10%
Merrill Cook Other 48%
John Cooksey Other 48%
Jerry Costello Other 22%
Paul Coverdell Other 66%
Christopher Cox Other 75%
William Coyne Other 17%
Larry Craig Other 65%
Robert Cramer Other 30%
Philip Crane Other 83%
Barbara Cubin Other 63%
Randall Cunningham Other 54%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 34%
Thomas Daschle Other 12%
James Davis Other 22%
Thomas Davis III Other 41%
Bill Delahunt Other 18%
Thomas DeLay Other 57%
Peter Deutsch Other 31%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 44%
Jay Dickey Other 51%
Norm Dicks Other 14%
Julian Dixon Other 9%
Chris Dodd Other 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 58%
Calvin Dooley Other 25%
John Doolittle Other 55%
Byron Dorgan Other 12%
David Dreier Other 54%
Jennifer Dunn Other 51%
Chet Edwards Other 31%
Vern Ehlers Other 51%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 55%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 51%
Philip English Other 46%
Bob Etheridge Other 21%
Lane Evans Other 15%
Terry Everett Other 51%
Thomas Ewing Other 50%
Russ Feingold Other 35%
Mark Foley Other 60%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 38%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 14%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 50%
Tillie Fowler Other 46%
Barney Frank Other 18%
Robert Franks Other 50%
William Frist Other 59%
Jonas Frost III Other 14%
Elton Gallegly Other 48%
John Ganske Other 36%
Sam Gejdenson Other 14%
George Gekas Other 46%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 14%
Jim Gibbons Other 52%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 42%
Paul Gillmor Other 42%
Benjamin Gilman Other 42%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 53%
William Goodling Other 52%
Bart Gordon Other 22%
Slade Gorton Other 56%
Porter Goss Other 72%
Daniel Graham Other 12%
William Phillip Gramm Other 73%
Rodney Grams Other 73%
James Greenwood Other 47%
Judd Gregg Other 63%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 48%
Tony Hall Other 17%
James Hansen Other 56%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 51%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 72%
Joel Hefley Other 72%
Jesse Helms Other 71%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 73%
Rick Hill Other 46%
Van Hilleary Other 61%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 15%
Maurice Hinchey Other 16%
David Lee Hobson Other 65%
Pete Hoekstra Other 83%
Thomas Holden Other 20%
Ernest Hollings Other 17%
Darlene Hooley Other 22%
Stephen Horn Other 42%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 58%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 29%
Kenny Hulshof Other 48%
Duncan Hunter Other 66%
Asa Hutchinson Other 50%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 70%
Kay Hutchison Other 64%
Henry Hyde Other 61%
Daniel Inouye Other 15%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 64%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 20%
William Jefferson Other 14%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 32%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 50%
Christopher John Other 24%
Nancy Johnson Other 28%
Paul Kanjorski Other 20%
Sue Kelly Other 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 9%
Patrick Kennedy Other 19%
Bob Kerrey Other 22%
Dale Kildee Other 14%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 15%
Gerald Kleczka Other 27%
Ronald Klink Other 20%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 50%
Herb Kohl Other 28%
James Kolbe Other 63%
Dennis Kucinich Other 22%
Jon Kyl Other 88%
John LaFalce Other 23%
Ray LaHood Other 45%
Nicholas Lampson Other 8%
Tom Lantos Other 14%
Stephen Largent Other 79%
Steve LaTourette Other 42%
Frank Lautenberg Other 13%
Rick Lazio Other 43%
James Leach Other 42%
Jerry Lewis Other 44%
Ron Lewis Other 51%
Joe Lieberman Other 17%
John Linder Other 53%
William Lipinski Other 18%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 61%
Dick Lugar Other 63%
William Luther Other 27%
Connie Mack Other 64%
James Maloney Other 31%
Don Manzullo Other 63%
Matthew Martinez Other 10%
Frank Mascara Other 14%
Robert Matsui Other 10%
Karen McCarthy Other 20%
Bill McCollum Other 61%
James McCrery III Other 60%
John McHugh Other 42%
Scott McInnis Other 53%
David McIntosh Other 66%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 23%
Michael McNulty Other 19%
Martin Meehan Other 18%
Carrie Meek Other 11%
Jack Metcalf Other 49%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 14%
Dan Miller Other 78%
David Minge Other 41%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 16%
John Moakley Other 10%
Alan Mollohan Other 14%
Constance Morella Other 40%
Patrick Moynihan Other 16%
Frank Murkowski Other 68%
Jack Murtha Other 14%
Sue Myrick Other 73%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 64%
Robert William Ney Other 47%
Don Nickles Other 80%
Anne Northup Other 47%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 50%
James Nussle Other 49%
Jim Oberstar Other 19%
Dave Obey Other 35%
John Olver Other 16%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 13%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 48%
Ronald Packard Other 50%
Ron Paul Other 88%
Donald Payne Other 24%
Edward Pease Other 51%
John Peterson Other 51%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 52%
Owen Pickett Other 17%
Richard Pombo Other 56%
Earl Pomeroy Other 25%
John Edward Porter Other 51%
Deborah Pryce Other 54%
Jack Quinn Other 41%
George Radanovich Other 65%
James Ramstad Other 48%
Ralph Regula Other 42%
Silvestre Reyes Other 10%
Bob Riley Other 49%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 27%
Charles Robb Other 26%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 12%
Timothy Roemer Other 33%
James Rogan Other 59%
William Roth, Jr. Other 59%
Steve Rothman Other 18%
Marge Roukema Other 52%
Jim Ryun Other 54%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 24%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 29%
Rick Santorum Other 69%
Paul Sarbanes Other 7%
Jim Saxton Other 46%
Joe Scarborough Other 77%
John Shadegg Other 76%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 36%
Christopher Shays Other 67%
E.G. Shuster Other 52%
Norman Sisisky Other 19%
Joseph Skeen Other 44%
Ike Skelton Other 24%
Gordon Smith Other 54%
Nick Smith Other 62%
Bob Smith Other 81%
Olympia Snowe Other 49%
Vic Snyder Other 17%
Mark Souder Other 63%
Arlen Specter Other 44%
Floyd Spence Other 53%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 18%
Pete Stark Other 38%
Cliff Stearns Other 66%
Charles Stenholm Other 37%
Ted Stevens Other 54%
Ted Strickland Other 21%
Bob Stump Other 79%
Bart Stupak Other 22%
John Sununu Other 56%
James Talent Other 51%
John Tanner Other 21%
Ellen Tauscher Other 22%
William Tauzin Other 47%
Charles Taylor Other 62%
Gene Taylor Other 53%
Craig Thomas Other 72%
William Thomas Other 52%
Fred Thompson Other 70%
Karen Thurman Other 27%
Strom Thurmond Other 62%
Todd Tiahrt Other 57%
Robert Torricelli Other 18%
Ed Towns Other 14%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 29%
James Turner Other 19%
Bruce Vento Other 21%
James Walsh Other 30%
Zach Wamp Other 71%
John Warner Other 63%
Wesley Watkins Other 54%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 50%
David Weldon Other 54%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 51%
Gerald Weller Other 47%
Paul Wellstone Other 18%
Robert Wexler Other 31%
Bob Weygand Other 15%
Heather Wilson Other 43%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 11%
Lynn Woolsey Other 18%
Albert Wynn Other 13%

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