Rating Group: Americans for Democratic Action

1998 Positions

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

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