Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

1995 Spending Score

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 80%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 86%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 84%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 88%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 86%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 22%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 26%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 14%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 22%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 23%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 22%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 22%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 20%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 81%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 28%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 18%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 89%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 18%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 80%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 19%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 87%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 28%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 23%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 13%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 83%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 81%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 11%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 78%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 80%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 82%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 87%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 17%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 18%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 77%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 14%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 90%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 25%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 84%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 85%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 25%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 26%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 23%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 90%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 41%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 82%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 87%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 86%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 80%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 79%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 25%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 25%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 17%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 31%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 27%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 16%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 88%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 90%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 29%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 18%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 18%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 58%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 85%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 81%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 17%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 21%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 83%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 84%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 88%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 19%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 18%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 29%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 51%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 81%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 71%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 42%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 80%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 32%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 29%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 82%
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 24%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 21%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 25%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 17%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 28%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 28%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 44%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 86%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 92%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 83%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 32%
OH Governor John Kasich R 87%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 24%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 86%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 89%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 88%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 80%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 36%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 41%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 20%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 37%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 30%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 83%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 92%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 17%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 38%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 89%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 85%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 66%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 84%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 85%
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 12%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 33%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 85%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 86%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 11%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 87%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 24%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 13%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 25%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 16%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 83%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 24%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 93%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 91%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 35%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 22%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 25%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 89%
Gary Ackerman Other 19%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 10%
Wayne Allard Other 87%
Bill Archer Other 85%
Richard Armey Other 84%
John Ashcroft Other 89%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 42%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 81%
William Baker Other 84%
John Baldacci Other 24%
Cass Ballenger Other 83%
James Barcia Other 38%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 83%
Bill Barrett Other 81%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 84%
Charlie Bass Other 86%
Herbert Bateman Other 79%
Anthony Beilenson Other 24%
Bob Bennett Other 85%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 25%
Douglas Bereuter Other 80%
Howard Berman Other 26%
Tom Bevill Other 36%
Brian Bilbray Other 82%
Michael Bilirakis Other 81%
Jeff Bingaman Other 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 81%
Peter Blute Other 83%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 72%
Kit Bond Other 83%
Henry Bonilla Other 80%
David Edward Bonior Other 18%
Sonny Bono Other 84%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 23%
Rick Boucher Other 23%
Bill Bradley Other 20%
John Breaux Other 18%
Bill Brewster Other 53%
Glen Browder Other 39%
George Brown, Jr. Other 21%
Hank Brown Other 93%
Richard Bryan Other 31%
Ed Bryant Other 86%
John Bryant Other 35%
Dale Bumpers Other 16%
Jim Bunn Other 74%
Jim Bunning Other 82%
Conrad Burns Other 85%
Dan Burton Other 85%
Steve Buyer Other 81%
Robert Byrd Other 22%
Herbert Callahan Other 80%
Ben Campbell Other 81%
Mike Castle Other 81%
John Chafee Other 82%
Jim Chapman Other 42%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 85%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 89%
Dick Chrysler Other 87%
William Clay, Sr. Other 16%
Eva Clayton Other 14%
Robert Clement Other 42%
William Clinger Other 78%
William Cohen Other 73%
Ronald Coleman Other 17%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 16%
Cardiss Collins Other 21%
Michael Collins Other 84%
Larry Combest Other 83%
Gary Condit Other 62%
Kent Conrad Other 21%
Wes Cooley Other 88%
Jerry Costello Other 36%
Paul Coverdell Other 88%
Christopher Cox Other 87%
William Coyne Other 21%
Larry Craig Other 87%
Robert Cramer Other 43%
Philip Crane Other 88%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 85%
Barbara Cubin Other 83%
Randall Cunningham Other 84%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 85%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 47%
Thomas Daschle Other 17%
Thomas Davis III Other 77%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 24%
Thomas DeLay Other 83%
Ronald Dellums Other 20%
Peter Deutsch Other 44%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 76%
Jay Dickey Other 84%
Norm Dicks Other 18%
Julian Dixon Other 9%
Chris Dodd Other 18%
Robert Dole Other 88%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 85%
Calvin Dooley Other 40%
John Doolittle Other 84%
Byron Dorgan Other 18%
Robert Dornan Other 83%
David Dreier Other 85%
Jennifer Dunn Other 83%
Chet Edwards Other 36%
Vern Ehlers Other 85%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 82%
Bill Emerson Other 80%
Philip English Other 84%
John Ensign Other 88%
Lane Evans Other 23%
Terry Everett Other 80%
Thomas Ewing Other 83%
Jim Exon Other 40%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 89%
Harris Fawell Other 84%
Victor Fazio Other 13%
Russ Feingold Other 24%
Cleo Fields Other 26%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 84%
Floyd Flake Other 17%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 79%
Thomas Foglietta Other 25%
Mark Foley Other 86%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 84%
Harold Ford, Sr. Other 23%
Wendell Ford Other 15%
Tillie Fowler Other 81%
Jon David Fox Other 84%
Barney Frank Other 19%
Gary Franks Other 80%
Robert Franks Other 87%
Dan Frisa Other 84%
William Frist Other 86%
Jonas Frost III Other 22%
David Funderburk Other 86%
Elizabeth Furse Other 27%
Elton Gallegly Other 83%
John Ganske Other 87%
Sam Gejdenson Other 18%
George Gekas Other 82%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 21%
Pete Geren Other 71%
Sam Gibbons Other 27%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 80%
Paul Gillmor Other 82%
Benjamin Gilman Other 79%
Newt Gingrich Other 98%
John Glenn Other 18%
Henry Gonzalez Other 15%
William Goodling Other 85%
Bart Gordon Other 47%
Slade Gorton Other 83%
Porter Goss Other 84%
Daniel Graham Other 29%
William Phillip Gramm Other 90%
Rodney Grams Other 90%
Enid Greene Other 86%
James Greenwood Other 83%
Judd Gregg Other 89%
Steven Gunderson Other 83%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 89%
Tony Hall Other 21%
Lee Hamilton Other 31%
Melton Hancock Other 87%
James Hansen Other 83%
Jane Harman Other 38%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 82%
Mark Hatfield Other 80%
James Hayes Other 59%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 85%
Joel Hefley Other 83%
W.G. Hefner Other 29%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 83%
Jesse Helms Other 88%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 82%
Van Hilleary Other 87%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 22%
Maurice Hinchey Other 17%
David Lee Hobson Other 83%
Pete Hoekstra Other 92%
Martin Hoke Other 84%
Thomas Holden Other 30%
Ernest Hollings Other 23%
Stephen Horn Other 81%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 77%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 75%
Duncan Hunter Other 80%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 85%
Kay Hutchison Other 87%
Henry Hyde Other 82%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 87%
Daniel Inouye Other 11%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 88%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 43%
William Jefferson Other 16%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 74%
Nancy Johnson Other 77%
Harry Johnston Other 32%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 14%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 83%
Sue Kelly Other 80%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 87%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 16%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 36%
Patrick Kennedy Other 24%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 22%
Bob Kerrey Other 35%
Dale Kildee Other 31%
Jay Kim Other 82%
Gerald Kleczka Other 42%
Ronald Klink Other 34%
Scott Klug Other 91%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 80%
Herb Kohl Other 35%
James Kolbe Other 82%
Jon Kyl Other 90%
John LaFalce Other 29%
Ray LaHood Other 77%
Tom Lantos Other 25%
Stephen Largent Other 89%
Steve LaTourette Other 78%
Greg Laughlin Other 73%
Rick Lazio Other 82%
James Leach Other 82%
Jerry Lewis Other 79%
Ron Lewis Other 81%
Joe Lieberman Other 22%
Jim Lightfoot Other 78%
Blanche Lincoln Other 50%
John Linder Other 83%
William Lipinski Other 43%
Robert Livingston Other 79%
James Longley, Jr. Other 83%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 88%
Dick Lugar Other 87%
William Luther Other 45%
Connie Mack Other 88%
Thomas Manton Other 23%
Don Manzullo Other 86%
Matthew Martinez Other 16%
Bill Martini Other 87%
Frank Mascara Other 31%
Robert Matsui Other 21%
Karen McCarthy Other 38%
Bill McCollum Other 78%
James McCrery III Other 81%
Joseph McDade Other 79%
Paul McHale Other 36%
John McHugh Other 79%
Scott McInnis Other 88%
David McIntosh Other 85%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 16%
Michael McNulty Other 38%
Martin Meehan Other 42%
Carrie Meek Other 10%
Jack Metcalf Other 85%
Jan Meyers Other 83%
Dan Miller Other 84%
David Minge Other 51%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 19%
John Moakley Other 23%
Susan Molinari Other 82%
Alan Mollohan Other 22%
G.V. Montgomery Other 65%
Carlos Moorhead Other 84%
Constance Morella Other 72%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 27%
Patrick Moynihan Other 17%
Frank Murkowski Other 85%
Jack Murtha Other 22%
John Myers Other 77%
Sue Myrick Other 85%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 82%
Mark Neumann Other 86%
Robert William Ney Other 84%
Don Nickles Other 90%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 86%
Sam Nunn Other 39%
James Nussle Other 86%
Jim Oberstar Other 24%
Dave Obey Other 28%
John Olver Other 20%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 25%
Bill Orton Other 46%
Major Owens Other 20%
Michael Oxley Other 82%
Ronald Packard Other 81%
Mike Parker Other 80%
William Paxon Other 85%
Donald Payne Other 18%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 39%
Claiborne Pell Other 20%
Pete Peterson Other 33%
Owen Pickett Other 36%
Richard Pombo Other 82%
Earl Pomeroy Other 24%
John Edward Porter Other 83%
Glenn Poshard Other 44%
Larry Pressler Other 85%
Deborah Pryce Other 83%
David Pryor Other 15%
James Quillen Other 83%
Jack Quinn Other 80%
George Radanovich Other 84%
James Ramstad Other 93%
Ralph Regula Other 83%
Bill Richardson Other 20%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 85%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 30%
Charles Robb Other 35%
Timothy Roemer Other 48%
Charles Rose III Other 34%
Toby Roth Other 91%
William Roth, Jr. Other 91%
Marge Roukema Other 82%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 23%
Rick Santorum Other 86%
Paul Sarbanes Other 14%
Jim Saxton Other 75%
Joe Scarborough Other 81%
Daniel Schaefer Other 85%
Steven Schiff Other 79%
Patricia Schroeder Other 22%
Andrea Seastrand Other 85%
John Shadegg Other 85%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 82%
Christopher Shays Other 90%
E.G. Shuster Other 82%
Paul Simon Other 35%
Alan Simpson Other 86%
Norman Sisisky Other 41%
David Skaggs Other 27%
Joseph Skeen Other 80%
Ike Skelton Other 45%
Linda Smith Other 89%
Nick Smith Other 90%
Bob Smith Other 89%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 86%
Mark Souder Other 82%
Arlen Specter Other 68%
Floyd Spence Other 82%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 19%
Cliff Stearns Other 82%
Charles Stenholm Other 44%
Ted Stevens Other 84%
Louis Stokes Other 17%
Gerry Studds Other 26%
Bob Stump Other 84%
Bart Stupak Other 34%
James Talent Other 84%
John Tanner Other 45%
Randy Tate Other 85%
William Tauzin Other 79%
Charles Taylor Other 83%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Frank Tejeda Other 24%
Craig Thomas Other 88%
William Thomas Other 81%
Fred Thompson Other 88%
Ray Thornton Other 21%
Karen Thurman Other 28%
Strom Thurmond Other 87%
Todd Tiahrt Other 85%
Peter Torkildsen Other 75%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 17%
Robert Torricelli Other 31%
Ed Towns Other 16%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 34%
Bruce Vento Other 24%
Harold Volkmer Other 36%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 79%
Robert Walker Other 84%
James Walsh Other 78%
Zach Wamp Other 87%
Michael Ward Other 28%
John Warner Other 86%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 83%
David Weldon Other 83%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 82%
Gerald Weller Other 83%
Paul Wellstone Other 19%
Rick White Other 85%
Pat Williams Other 24%
Charles Wilson Other 33%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 20%
Lynn Woolsey Other 20%
Albert Wynn Other 17%
Sidney Yates Other 19%
Bill Zeliff Other 86%
Richard Zimmer Other 89%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

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