Rating Group: Bread for the World

1998 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 033%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 33%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 67%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 67%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 67%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 67%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 67%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 33%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 67%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 67%
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%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 67%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 33%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 67%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 33%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
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 33%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
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 67%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 67%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 33%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
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 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 50%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 67%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 67%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 67%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
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 67%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
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 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 67%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 67%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 67%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 50%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 33%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 33%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 67%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 67%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 33%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 67%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 33%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 67%
OH Governor John Kasich R 100%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 67%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 67%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 67%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 67%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 67%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 67%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Bill Archer Other 33%
Richard Armey Other 67%
John Ashcroft Other 33%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 67%
James Barcia Other 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 33%
Bill Barrett Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 50%
Charlie Bass Other 33%
Herbert Bateman Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 67%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 100%
Brian Bilbray Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 50%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 33%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 67%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 67%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100%
John Breaux Other 67%
Richard Bryan Other 67%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 67%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 67%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Thomas Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 33%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 100%
John Chafee Other 33%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 100%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 33%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
Merrill Cook Other 100%
John Cooksey Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Paul Coverdell Other 33%
Christopher Cox Other 67%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 67%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Philip Crane Other 33%
Barbara Cubin Other 67%
Randall Cunningham Other 67%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 33%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Jay Dickey Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 67%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 67%
Jennifer Dunn Other 67%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 50%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 67%
Philip English Other 67%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Thomas Ewing Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Tillie Fowler Other 67%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 100%
William Frist Other 33%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 67%
John Ganske Other 100%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 67%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 67%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Benjamin Gilman Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 33%
William Goodling Other 67%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Slade Gorton Other 67%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 33%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 67%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 67%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 33%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 33%
Rick Hill Other 100%
Van Hilleary Other 50%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 67%
Pete Hoekstra Other 67%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 33%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 33%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 67%
Kenny Hulshof Other 67%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Asa Hutchinson Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 67%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 33%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 67%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 67%
Christopher John Other 100%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Ronald Klink Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 67%
Herb Kohl Other 67%
James Kolbe Other 67%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 100%
Rick Lazio Other 100%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 67%
Joe Lieberman Other 67%
John Linder Other 67%
William Lipinski Other 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 33%
Dick Lugar Other 67%
William Luther Other 100%
Connie Mack Other 33%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 33%
Matthew Martinez Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
Bill McCollum Other 67%
James McCrery III Other 67%
John McHugh Other 100%
Scott McInnis Other 67%
David McIntosh Other 67%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 67%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 33%
David Minge Other 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 33%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 33%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 50%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ronald Packard Other 67%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 100%
John Peterson Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 67%
Owen Pickett Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 67%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
John Edward Porter Other 100%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
Jack Quinn Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 67%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 50%
Bob Riley Other 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 100%
James Rogan Other 100%
William Roth, Jr. Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 33%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 67%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
Joe Scarborough Other 33%
John Shadegg Other 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 67%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
E.G. Shuster Other 67%
Norman Sisisky Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 100%
Gordon Smith Other 67%
Nick Smith Other 100%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 67%
Floyd Spence Other 67%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Charles Stenholm Other 100%
Ted Stevens Other 33%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 67%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 33%
James Talent Other 100%
John Tanner Other 100%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 67%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Craig Thomas Other 67%
William Thomas Other 67%
Fred Thompson Other 33%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 33%
Todd Tiahrt Other 33%
Robert Torricelli Other 67%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 67%
James Turner Other 100%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 67%
John Warner Other 67%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
David Weldon Other 67%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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