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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: International Brotherhood of Teamsters

1997-1998 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 38%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 17%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 38%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 25%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 17%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 83%
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 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 67%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 29%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
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 88%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 13%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 83%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 83%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 63%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 25%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 38%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 38%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 13%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 83%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 83%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 13%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 33%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 88%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 13%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 13%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 38%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 88%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 14%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 63%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 83%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 13%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 83%
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 63%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 13%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 83%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
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 100%
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 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 63%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 88%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 17%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 29%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 83%
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 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 100%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 63%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 13%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 83%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 13%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 88%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 38%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 83%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 83%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 75%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 88%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 13%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 38%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 83%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 17%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 88%
Robert Barr, Jr. 13%
William Barrett 13%
Herbert Bateman 25%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 88%
Douglas Bereuter 14%
Marion Berry 88%
Michael Bilirakis 25%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 75%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 88%
John Breaux 67%
Richard Bryan 67%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 17%
Steve Buyer 13%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 14%
Ben Campbell 50%
Thomas Campbell 50%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 50%
John Chafee 17%
Helen Chenoweth 38%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 83%
Robert Clement 75%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 75%
Merrill Cook 13%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 17%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 75%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 75%
Thomas Daschle 83%
James Davis 88%
Thomas Davis III 38%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 63%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 83%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 63%
John Doolittle 13%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 88%
Vern Ehlers 25%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Philip English 63%
Bob Etheridge 88%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 13%
Thomas Ewing 13%
Russ Feingold 100%
Mark Foley 38%
Michael Patrick Forbes 75%
Harold Ford, Jr. 86%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Tillie Fowler 0%
Robert Franks 38%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
John Ganske 25%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 29%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 13%
Wayne Gilchrest 0%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 63%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 38%
William Goodling 25%
Bart Gordon 75%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 50%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 25%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 13%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 25%
Van Hilleary 13%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 13%
Pete Hoekstra 13%
Ernest Hollings 80%
Darlene Hooley 75%
Stephen Horn 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 38%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 17%
William Hutchinson 14%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 25%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 20%
William Lewis Jenkins 13%
Christopher John 75%
Nancy Johnson 38%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Sue Kelly 38%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 67%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
James Kolbe 0%
John LaFalce 100%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 38%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 88%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 75%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 50%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 25%
David Minge 75%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 63%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 67%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 13%
Robert William Ney 25%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 13%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 13%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 88%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 13%
Ronald Packard 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 25%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 63%
Richard Pombo 13%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 25%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 63%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 0%
Ralph Regula 38%
Bob Riley 13%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 67%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 75%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Marge Roukema 38%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 75%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 13%
Rick Santorum 17%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 33%
Joe Scarborough 13%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 25%
E.G. Shuster 25%
Norman Sisisky 88%
Joseph Skeen 13%
Ike Skelton 75%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 13%
Bob Smith 17%
Vic Snyder 88%
Mark Souder 13%
Arlen Specter 100%
Floyd Spence 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 57%
Ted Stevens 17%
Ted Strickland 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 63%
Ellen Tauscher 75%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 25%
Gene Taylor 29%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 13%
Fred Thompson 17%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 17%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 88%
James Turner 75%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 13%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 50%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 100%
Heather Wilson 0%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 100%

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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