Rating Group: Americans for Democratic Action

1999 Positions

Issues: Liberal
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 10%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 10%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 5%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 5%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 10%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
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 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 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 95%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 5%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 95%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 5%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 90%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 95%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 5%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 95%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 5%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
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. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 15%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson 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 10%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 20%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 80%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 25%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 10%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 10%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 65%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 95%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 10%
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 5%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 10%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 95%
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 15%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 95%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 5%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 95%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 5%
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 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 90%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 25%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 95%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 95%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 15%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 95%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 80%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 40%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 10%
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 95%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 5%
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 15%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 95%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 15%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 55%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 5%
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 95%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 40%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 40%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 95%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 95%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 40%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 95%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 95%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 90%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 30%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 90%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 95%
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 90%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 95%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 95%
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 10%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 20%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 85%
OH Governor John Kasich R 10%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 10%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 10%
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 10%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 95%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 5%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 95%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 95%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 85%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 20%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 15%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 85%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 95%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 10%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 25%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 20%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 5%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 15%
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 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 70%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 90%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 5%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 90%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 5%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 90%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 20%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 95%
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 55%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 85%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 90%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 10%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 90%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 10%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 20%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 65%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 5%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 95%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Brian Baird Other 95%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 5%
James Barcia Other 55%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 15%
Bill Barrett Other 10%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 10%
Charlie Bass Other 20%
Herbert Bateman Other 20%
Evan Bayh Other 90%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 95%
Douglas Bereuter Other 35%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 95%
Marion Berry Other 60%
Judy Biggert Other 30%
Brian Bilbray Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 65%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 90%
Mary Bono Mack Other 15%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 85%
Leonard Boswell Other 70%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 70%
John Breaux Other 80%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 5%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 5%
Steve Buyer Other 10%
Robert Byrd Other 80%
Herbert Callahan Other 10%
Ben Campbell Other 15%
Thomas Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 10%
Julia Carson Other 95%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 15%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 85%
Michael Collins Other 15%
Larry Combest Other 5%
Gary Condit Other 70%
Kent Conrad Other 90%
Merrill Cook Other 25%
John Cooksey Other 15%
Jerry Costello Other 65%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 95%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 55%
Philip Crane Other 5%
Barbara Cubin Other 5%
Randall Cunningham Other 10%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 60%
Thomas Daschle Other 90%
James Davis Other 80%
Thomas Davis III Other 35%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 95%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Jay Dickey Other 10%
Norm Dicks Other 90%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 95%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 5%
Calvin Dooley Other 80%
John Doolittle Other 5%
Byron Dorgan Other 95%
David Dreier Other 10%
Jennifer Dunn Other 10%
John Edwards Other 90%
Chet Edwards Other 85%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 20%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 10%
Philip English Other 25%
Bob Etheridge Other 85%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 5%
Thomas Ewing Other 15%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 15%
Mark Foley Other 35%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 75%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 15%
Tillie Fowler Other 15%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 45%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 85%
Elton Gallegly Other 25%
John Ganske Other 35%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 15%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Paul Gillmor Other 15%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 25%
William Goodling Other 15%
Bart Gordon Other 70%
Slade Gorton Other 5%
Porter Goss Other 10%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 5%
James Greenwood Other 70%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 15%
Tony Hall Other 80%
James Hansen Other 10%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 10%
Joel Hefley Other 20%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 5%
Baron Hill Other 75%
Rick Hill Other 10%
Van Hilleary Other 15%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 80%
Maurice Hinchey Other 95%
David Lee Hobson Other 20%
Pete Hoekstra Other 5%
Thomas Holden Other 65%
Ernest Hollings Other 85%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 55%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 15%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 45%
Kenny Hulshof Other 25%
Duncan Hunter Other 15%
Asa Hutchinson Other 10%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 5%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 15%
Daniel Inouye Other 95%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 45%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 15%
Nancy Johnson Other 55%
Paul Kanjorski Other 75%
Sue Kelly Other 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 95%
Patrick Kennedy Other 90%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 90%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 95%
Ronald Klink Other 85%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 5%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 20%
Dennis Kucinich Other 90%
Steven Kuykendall Other 35%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 85%
Ray LaHood Other 15%
Nicholas Lampson Other 90%
Tom Lantos Other 85%
Stephen Largent Other 15%
Steve LaTourette Other 35%
Rick Lazio Other 40%
James Leach Other 55%
Jerry Lewis Other 20%
Joe Lieberman Other 95%
Blanche Lincoln Other 95%
John Linder Other 10%
William Lipinski Other 55%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 5%
William Luther Other 100%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 85%
Don Manzullo Other 15%
Matthew Martinez Other 85%
Frank Mascara Other 70%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 95%
Bill McCollum Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 35%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
David McIntosh Other 5%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 95%
Michael McNulty Other 90%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 90%
Jack Metcalf Other 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 15%
David Minge Other 95%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 95%
John Moakley Other 90%
Alan Mollohan Other 60%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 80%
Patrick Moynihan Other 90%
Frank Murkowski Other 5%
Jack Murtha Other 60%
Sue Myrick Other 5%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 10%
Robert William Ney Other 10%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 10%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 75%
Dave Obey Other 90%
John Olver Other 95%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 60%
Doug Ose Other 30%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 5%
Ronald Packard Other 5%
Ron Paul Other 10%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 20%
John Peterson Other 5%
David Phelps Other 60%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 5%
Earl Pomeroy Other 85%
John Edward Porter Other 60%
Deborah Pryce Other 20%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 5%
James Ramstad Other 40%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 85%
Thomas Reynolds Other 15%
Bob Riley Other 5%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 85%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 80%
James Rogan Other 30%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 45%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 95%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 70%
Rick Santorum Other 5%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 25%
Joe Scarborough Other 15%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 20%
Christopher Shays Other 55%
Donald Sherwood Other 10%
Ronnie Shows Other 55%
E.G. Shuster Other 5%
Norman Sisisky Other 75%
Joseph Skeen Other 10%
Ike Skelton Other 55%
Gordon Smith Other 15%
Nick Smith Other 10%
Bob Smith Other 5%
Olympia Snowe Other 45%
Vic Snyder Other 85%
Mark Souder Other 5%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
Floyd Spence Other 10%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 80%
Pete Stark Other 95%
Cliff Stearns Other 10%
Charles Stenholm Other 55%
Ted Stevens Other 10%
Ted Strickland Other 85%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 85%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 25%
James Talent Other 15%
Tom Tancredo Other 10%
John Tanner Other 70%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 5%
Charles Taylor Other 5%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 10%
Fred Thompson Other 5%
Karen Thurman Other 85%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 5%
Robert Torricelli Other 95%
Ed Towns Other 95%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 60%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 90%
James Turner Other 75%
Bruce Vento Other 95%
George Voinovich Other 20%
James Walsh Other 35%
Zach Wamp Other 20%
John Warner Other 10%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 10%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 20%
Gerald Weller Other 15%
Paul Wellstone Other 90%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 90%
Heather Wilson Other 15%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 80%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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