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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: The Humane Society Legislative Fund

1995-1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 25%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 33%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 75%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 50%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 25%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 75%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 75%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 25%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 80%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 50%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 25%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 0%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 25%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 75%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 50%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 75%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 75%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 50%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 50%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 50%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 50%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 25%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 75%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 50%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 75%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 25%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 25%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 25%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 75%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 0%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 50%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 75%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 25%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 75%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 66%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 75%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 25%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 75%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 25%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 75%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 25%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 25%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 25%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 25%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 75%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 50%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 50%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 75%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 75%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 75%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 25%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 66%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 50%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 50%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 50%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 25%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 75%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 25%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 25%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 66%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 75%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 50%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 25%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 75%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 75%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 25%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 75%
Wayne Allard 0%
William Archer 25%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 25%
Henry Scott Baesler 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
William Baker 25%
John Baldacci 50%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 25%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 0%
Herbert Bateman 0%
Anthony Beilenson 85%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 25%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Tom Bevill 25%
Michael Bilirakis 75%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Peter Blute 15%
Sherwood Boehlert 25%
Kit Bond 25%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 75%
Sonny Bono 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. 75%
Rick Boucher 0%
Bill Bradley 90%
Carol Moseley Braun 75%
John Breaux 25%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Hank Brown 20%
Richard Bryan 75%
Ed Bryant 0%
John Bryant 65%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 25%
Robert Byrd 75%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 25%
Thomas Campbell 66%
Mike Castle 50%
John Chafee 75%
Helen Chenoweth 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen 25%
William Clay, Sr. 66%
Eva Clayton 75%
Robert Clement 25%
William Cohen 70%
Ronald Coleman 55%
Barbara-Rose Collins 85%
Cardiss Collins 75%
Mac Collins 25%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 0%
Paul Coverdell 50%
Christopher Cox 25%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 25%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 25%
Alfonse D'Amato 75%
Patsy Ann Danner 25%
Thomas Daschle 75%
Thomas Davis III 50%
E. Kika de la Garza 25%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 75%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 25%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 75%
Chris Dodd 75%
Robert Dole 20%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 25%
Calvin Dooley 25%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 75%
Robert Dornan 15%
Jennifer Dunn 25%
Chet Edwards 0%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Bill Emerson 0%
Philip English 25%
John Ensign 25%
Lane Evans 75%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 0%
Jim Exon 70%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 50%
Harris Fawell 50%
Victor Fazio 25%
Russ Feingold 75%
Cleo Fields 75%
Jack Fields, Jr. 5%
Floyd Flake 33%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 25%
Michael Patrick Forbes 25%
Wendell Ford 50%
Tillie Fowler 25%
Jon David Fox 50%
Gary Franks 25%
Robert Franks 75%
William Frist 33%
Jonas Frost III 25%
Elizabeth Furse 100%
John Ganske 25%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 50%
Pete Geren 0%
Sam Gibbons 65%
Wayne Gilchrest 25%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
John Glenn 75%
Henry Gonzalez 25%
William Goodling 0%
Bart Gordon 25%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 50%
Daniel Graham 75%
William Phillip Gramm 50%
Rodney Grams 75%
James Greenwood 25%
Judd Gregg 100%
Steven Gunderson 35%
Gilbert Gutknecht 25%
Tony Hall 75%
Lee Hamilton 0%
Melton Hancock 0%
James Hansen 0%
Jane Harman 50%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Mark Hatfield 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 25%
Joel Hefley 0%
W.G. Hefner 0%
Jesse Helms 75%
Van Hilleary 25%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 33%
David Lee Hobson 25%
Pete Hoekstra 25%
Ernest Hollings 75%
Stephen Horn 25%
John Nathan Hostettler 25%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 0%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 25%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 33%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 25%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 80%
William Jefferson 75%
James Merrill Jeffords 100%
Nancy Johnson 25%
Harry Johnston 90%
J. Bennett Johnston 50%
Paul Kanjorski 50%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 50%
Sue Kelly 50%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 50%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Jay Kim 0%
Gerald Kleczka 50%
Ronald Klink 75%
Scott Klug 25%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 0%
John LaFalce 75%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 25%
Greg Laughlin 0%
Rick Lazio 25%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 0%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 0%
Blanche Lincoln 35%
John Linder 25%
William Lipinski 100%
Robert Livingston 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. 25%
William Luther 50%
Connie Mack 50%
Thomas Manton 25%
Matthew Martinez 0%
Frank Mascara 25%
Robert Matsui 50%
Karen McCarthy 75%
Bill McCollum 25%
James McCrery III 0%
Joseph McDade 50%
Paul McHale 75%
John McHugh 0%
Scott McInnis 25%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 50%
Jack Metcalf 0%
Jan Meyers 45%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 50%
David Minge 25%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 75%
John Moakley 100%
Susan Molinari 25%
Alan Mollohan 0%
G.V. Montgomery 35%
Carlos Moorhead 15%
Constance Morella 75%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 75%
Frank Murkowski 33%
Jack Murtha 50%
John Myers 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Mark Neumann 75%
Robert William Ney 25%
Don Nickles 75%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 25%
Sam Nunn 70%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 25%
Dave Obey 50%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 0%
William Orton 30%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ronald Packard 0%
Paul Michael Parker 0%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 25%
Claiborne Pell 90%
Pete Peterson 45%
Owen Pickett 0%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 0%
John Edward Porter 50%
Glenn Poshard 50%
Larry Pressler 0%
Deborah Pryce 33%
David Pryor 60%
Jack Quinn 0%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 25%
Bill Richardson 75%
Frank Duncan Riggs 25%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 75%
Timothy Roemer 50%
Charles Rose III 70%
Toby Roth 0%
William Roth, Jr. 100%
Marge Roukema 50%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 25%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 100%
Rick Santorum 66%
Paul Sarbanes 75%
H. James Saxton 0%
Joe Scarborough 50%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 33%
Patricia Schroeder 90%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 75%
E.G. Shuster 25%
Paul Simon 90%
Alan Simpson 10%
Norman Sisisky 0%
David Skaggs 50%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 0%
Linda Smith 25%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 75%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 25%
Mark Souder 25%
Arlen Specter 75%
Floyd Spence 25%
John Spratt, Jr. 50%
Charles Stenholm 0%
Ted Stevens 50%
Louis Stokes 66%
Gerry Studds 85%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 33%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 0%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 25%
Gene Taylor 75%
Frank Tejeda 35%
Craig Thomas 50%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 100%
Ray Thornton 25%
Karen Thurman 25%
Strom Thurmond 50%
Todd Tiahrt 25%
Peter Torkildsen 40%
Esteban Edward Torres 75%
Robert Torricelli 66%
James Traficant, Jr. 25%
Bruce Vento 100%
Harold Volkmer 35%
Barbara Vucanovich 10%
James Walsh 0%
Zach Wamp 50%
John Warner 50%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 25%
W. Curtis Weldon 0%
Gerald Weller 25%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Rick White 25%
Pat Williams 35%
Charles Wilson 35%
Robert Wise, Jr. 0%
Albert Wynn 75%
Sidney Yates 75%
Bill Zeliff 0%
Richard Zimmer 70%

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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