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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: The Humane Society Legislative Fund

1999-2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 60%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 25%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 63%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 20%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 60%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 13%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 40%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 40%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 13%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 80%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 88%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 80%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 50%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 13%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 40%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 25%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 75%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 50%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 38%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 40%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 25%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 50%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 60%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 13%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 40%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 60%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 80%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 88%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 60%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 40%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 13%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 13%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 38%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 50%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 75%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 75%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 38%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 13%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 13%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 75%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 25%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 13%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 75%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 13%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 50%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 75%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 13%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 63%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 25%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 25%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 38%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 38%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 25%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 25%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 13%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 88%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 88%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 88%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 88%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 13%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 38%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 13%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 13%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 63%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 13%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 50%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 88%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 63%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 38%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 63%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 38%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 38%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 50%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 13%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 63%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 88%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 50%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 75%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 63%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 63%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 38%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 50%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 50%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 20%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 13%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 88%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 40%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 25%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 63%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 13%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 40%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 60%
Thomas Allen 88%
Bill Archer 13%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 20%
Brian Baird 88%
Richard Hugh Baker 13%
John Baldacci 50%
Cass Ballenger 13%
James Barcia 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. 13%
Bill Barrett 13%
Roscoe Bartlett 63%
Charlie Bass 63%
Evan Bayh 60%
Bob Bennett 40%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 63%
Douglas Bereuter 38%
Shelley Berkley 100%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 25%
Judy Biggert 63%
Brian Bilbray 88%
Michael Bilirakis 63%
Jeff Bingaman 40%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 13%
Sherwood Boehlert 88%
Kit Bond 20%
Henry Bonilla 13%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. 88%
Leonard Boswell 25%
Rick Boucher 63%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 13%
John Breaux 20%
Richard Bryan 80%
Ed Bryant 13%
Jim Bunning 20%
Conrad Burns 20%
Dan Burton 13%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 60%
Herbert Callahan 13%
Ben Campbell 40%
Thomas Campbell 75%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 63%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 0%
William Clay, Sr. 75%
Eva Clayton 25%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 80%
Robert Clement 50%
Michael Collins 13%
Larry Combest 13%
Gary Condit 50%
Kent Conrad 40%
Merrill Cook 38%
John Cooksey 13%
Jerry Costello 100%
Christopher Cox 50%
William Coyne 88%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 25%
Philip Crane 63%
Barbara Cubin 13%
Randall Cunningham 13%
Patsy Ann Danner 13%
Thomas Daschle 60%
James Davis 50%
Thomas Davis III 63%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 13%
James DeMint 25%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 63%
Jay Dickey 13%
Norm Dicks 75%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 50%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 60%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 25%
John Edwards 60%
Chet Edwards 38%
Vern Ehlers 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 25%
Jo Ann Emerson 13%
Philip English 63%
Bob Etheridge 75%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 13%
Thomas Ewing 38%
Russ Feingold 60%
Peter Fitzgerald 80%
Ernest Fletcher 38%
Mark Foley 25%
Michael Patrick Forbes 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. 50%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 50%
Tillie Fowler 0%
Barney Frank 88%
Robert Franks 100%
William Frist 40%
Jonas Frost III 25%
Elton Gallegly 75%
John Ganske 13%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 13%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 50%
Jim Gibbons 13%
Wayne Gilchrest 50%
Paul Gillmor 25%
Benjamin Gilman 88%
Charlie Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 38%
William Goodling 38%
Bart Gordon 38%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 38%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 40%
Mark Green 88%
James Greenwood 88%
Judd Gregg 40%
Gilbert Gutknecht 13%
Tony Hall 88%
James Hansen 13%
Robert Hayes 13%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 13%
Joel Hefley 50%
Jesse Helms 20%
Wally Herger, Jr. 13%
Baron Hill 50%
Rick Hill 0%
Van Hilleary 13%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 38%
Maurice Hinchey 88%
David Lee Hobson 25%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Thomas Holden 25%
Ernest Hollings 20%
Darlene Hooley 63%
Stephen Horn 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 50%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Asa Hutchinson 25%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 38%
Daniel Inouye 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 13%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 75%
William Jefferson 38%
James Merrill Jeffords 80%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 0%
Nancy Johnson 88%
Paul Kanjorski 25%
Sue Kelly 88%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 80%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 60%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 75%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Ronald Klink 50%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
Herb Kohl 80%
James Kolbe 50%
Dennis Kucinich 88%
Steven Kuykendall 38%
Jon Kyl 40%
John LaFalce 50%
Ray LaHood 38%
Nicholas Lampson 63%
Tom Lantos 75%
Stephen Largent 25%
Steve LaTourette 75%
Rick Lazio 75%
James Leach 88%
Jerry Lewis 25%
Ron Lewis 13%
Joe Lieberman 80%
Blanche Lincoln 20%
John Linder 13%
William Lipinski 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 40%
William Luther 88%
Connie Mack 40%
James Maloney 100%
Don Manzullo 0%
Matthew Martinez 25%
Frank Mascara 63%
Robert Matsui 75%
Karen McCarthy 88%
Bill McCollum 38%
James McCrery III 25%
John McHugh 13%
Scott McInnis 13%
David McIntosh 13%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 50%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 63%
Jack Metcalf 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 75%
Dan Miller 38%
David Minge 50%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 63%
John Moakley 88%
Alan Mollohan 13%
Dennis Moore 63%
Constance Morella 88%
Patrick Moynihan 80%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 13%
Sue Myrick 38%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 25%
Robert William Ney 13%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 75%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 13%
Jim Oberstar 50%
Dave Obey 63%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 13%
Doug Ose 38%
Major Owens 75%
Michael Oxley 25%
Ronald Packard 13%
Ron Paul 50%
Donald Payne 88%
Edward Pease 50%
John Peterson 13%
David Phelps 88%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 25%
Owen Pickett 38%
Richard Pombo 13%
Earl Pomeroy 38%
John Edward Porter 88%
Deborah Pryce 63%
Jack Quinn 13%
George Radanovich 13%
James Ramstad 75%
Ralph Regula 50%
Silvestre Reyes 38%
Thomas Reynolds 13%
Bob Riley 13%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 88%
Charles Robb 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 25%
Timothy Roemer 63%
James Rogan 13%
William Roth, Jr. 100%
Steve Rothman 100%
Marge Roukema 75%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 50%
Rick Santorum 80%
Paul Sarbanes 80%
Jim Saxton 38%
Joe Scarborough 50%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 63%
Christopher Shays 100%
Donald Sherwood 13%
Ronnie Shows 25%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Norman Sisisky 38%
Joseph Skeen 13%
Ike Skelton 13%
Gordon Smith 80%
Nick Smith 13%
Bob Smith 100%
Olympia Snowe 60%
Vic Snyder 63%
Mark Souder 13%
Arlen Specter 60%
Floyd Spence 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 75%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 13%
Charles Stenholm 13%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 50%
Bob Stump 13%
Bart Stupak 25%
John Sununu 25%
John Sweeney 13%
James Talent 25%
Tom Tancredo 75%
John Tanner 13%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 13%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 63%
Craig Thomas 40%
William Thomas 13%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 38%
Strom Thurmond 20%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 100%
Ed Towns 88%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 75%
James Turner 25%
George Voinovich 0%
James Walsh 13%
Zach Wamp 50%
John Warner 40%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 25%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 63%
Paul Wellstone 80%
Robert Wexler 100%
Bob Weygand 100%
Heather Wilson 25%
Bob Wise, Jr. 13%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 88%
Albert Wynn 88%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

Most performance evaluations are displayed in a percentage format. However, some organizations present their ratings in the form of a letter grade or endorsement based on voting records, interviews, survey results and/or sources of campaign funding. For consistency and ease in understanding, Project Vote Smart converts all scores into a percentage when possible. Please visit the group's website or call 1-888-VOTESMART for more specific information.

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