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Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 6%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 6%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 19%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 29%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 63%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 69%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 31%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 31%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 88%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 94%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 6%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 81%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 6%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 19%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 44%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 81%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 13%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 13%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 38%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 19%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 25%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 43%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 86%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 75%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 86%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 31%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 13%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 6%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 94%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 94%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 63%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 25%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 6%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 29%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 69%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 6%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 19%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 14%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 19%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 6%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 71%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 94%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 88%
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 81%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 69%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 13%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 94%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 71%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 71%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 71%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 81%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 56%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 88%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 63%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 19%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 13%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 6%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 50%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 57%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 19%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 81%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 25%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 6%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 81%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 43%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 63%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 94%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 69%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 81%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 81%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 81%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 75%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 71%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 71%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 13%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 88%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 88%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 44%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 38%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 6%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 63%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 81%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 25%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 50%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 29%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 6%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 13%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 86%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 81%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 94%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 69%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 44%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 19%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 19%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 6%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 71%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 13%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 19%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 50%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 56%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 56%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 44%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 56%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 6%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 69%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 19%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 88%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 31%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 86%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 94%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 86%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 13%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 63%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 88%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 81%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 88%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 50%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 44%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 94%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 71%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 50%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 14%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 88%
William Archer 19%
Richard Armey 25%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 31%
Richard Hugh Baker 6%
John Baldacci 63%
Cass Ballenger 6%
James Barcia 25%
Robert Barr, Jr. 19%
William Barrett 13%
Herbert Bateman 6%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 69%
Douglas Bereuter 25%
Marion Berry 31%
Michael Bilirakis 31%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 6%
Sherwood Boehlert 56%
Kit Bond 14%
Henry Bonilla 13%
David Edward Bonior 75%
Sonny Bono 13%
Robert Borski, Jr. 63%
Rick Boucher 56%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 25%
Carol Moseley Braun 86%
John Breaux 43%
George Brown, Jr. 81%
Richard Bryan 71%
Ed Bryant 13%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunning 6%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 6%
Robert Byrd 57%
Herbert Callahan 6%
Ben Campbell 29%
Thomas Campbell 63%
Chris Cannon 13%
Walter Holden Capps 100%
Julia Carson 69%
Mike Castle 81%
John Chafee 71%
Helen Chenoweth 6%
Jon Lynn Christensen 19%
William Clay, Sr. 69%
Eva Clayton 75%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 57%
Robert Clement 69%
Mac Collins 25%
Larry Combest 6%
Gary Condit 50%
Merrill Cook 38%
John Cooksey 13%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 38%
William Coyne 88%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 25%
Philip Crane 19%
Barbara Cubin 6%
Randall Cunningham 13%
Alfonse D'Amato 29%
Patsy Ann Danner 25%
Thomas Daschle 71%
James Davis 81%
Thomas Davis III 63%
Bill Delahunt 88%
Thomas DeLay 19%
Ronald Dellums 94%
Peter Deutsch 75%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 25%
Jay Dickey 19%
Julian Dixon 88%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 14%
Calvin Dooley 31%
John Doolittle 13%
Byron Dorgan 43%
Jennifer Dunn 31%
Chet Edwards 25%
Vern Ehlers 56%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 38%
Philip English 44%
John Ensign 38%
Bob Etheridge 56%
Lane Evans 88%
Terry Everett 6%
Thomas Ewing 31%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 14%
Harris Fawell 69%
Victor Fazio 50%
Russ Feingold 100%
Thomas Foglietta 69%
Mark Foley 44%
Michael Patrick Forbes 69%
Harold Ford, Jr. 63%
Wendell Ford 71%
Tillie Fowler 25%
Jon David Fox 63%
Robert Franks 88%
William Frist 43%
Jonas Frost III 44%
Elizabeth Furse 81%
John Ganske 38%
Sam Gejdenson 94%
George Gekas 19%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 75%
Jim Gibbons 44%
Wayne Gilchrest 63%
Paul Gillmor 19%
Benjamin Gilman 75%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 25%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 13%
William Goodling 13%
Bart Gordon 63%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 50%
Daniel Graham 86%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 75%
Judd Gregg 71%
Gilbert Gutknecht 25%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 69%
Lee Hamilton 63%
James Hansen 19%
Jane Harman 75%
J. Dennis Hastert 13%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 19%
Joel Hefley 13%
W.G. Hefner 44%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 13%
Van Hilleary 13%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 31%
David Lee Hobson 38%
Pete Hoekstra 38%
Ernest Hollings 71%
Darlene Hooley 94%
Stephen Horn 69%
John Nathan Hostettler 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 25%
Duncan Hunter 19%
William Hutchinson 19%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 14%
Henry Hyde 13%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 6%
William Jefferson 50%
James Merrill Jeffords 71%
William Lewis Jenkins 6%
Christopher John 13%
Jay Johnson 63%
Nancy Johnson 94%
Paul Kanjorski 69%
Sue Kelly 81%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 94%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 88%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 63%
Jay Kim 19%
Gerald Kleczka 94%
Ronald Klink 38%
Scott Klug 75%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
James Kolbe 31%
John LaFalce 69%
Nicholas Lampson 75%
Tom Lantos 94%
Stephen Largent 19%
Rick Lazio 69%
James Leach 69%
Ron Lewis 6%
John Linder 13%
William Lipinski 50%
Robert Livingston 6%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 88%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 88%
Thomas Manton 56%
Matthew Martinez 44%
Frank Mascara 44%
Robert Matsui 75%
Karen McCarthy 81%
Bill McCollum 19%
James McCrery III 13%
Joseph McDade 31%
Paul McHale 81%
John McHugh 19%
Scott McInnis 13%
David McIntosh 19%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 94%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 69%
Jack Metcalf 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 88%
Dan Miller 50%
David Minge 69%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 75%
John Moakley 81%
Alan Mollohan 44%
Constance Morella 94%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 86%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 38%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 13%
Mark Neumann 38%
Robert William Ney 25%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 19%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 13%
James Nussle 13%
Jim Oberstar 31%
Dave Obey 69%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 19%
Major Owens 88%
Michael Oxley 6%
Ronald Packard 13%
Michael Pappas 63%
Paul Michael Parker 6%
William Paxon 25%
Donald Payne 94%
Edward Pease 38%
John Peterson 6%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 6%
Owen Pickett 19%
Richard Pombo 19%
Earl Pomeroy 38%
John Edward Porter 75%
Glenn Poshard 63%
Deborah Pryce 19%
Jack Quinn 44%
George Radanovich 19%
James Ramstad 81%
William Redmond 21%
Ralph Regula 25%
Frank Duncan Riggs 13%
Bob Riley 6%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 88%
Charles Robb 86%
Ciro Rodriguez 47%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 38%
William Roth, Jr. 71%
Marge Roukema 75%
Jim Ryun 19%
Martin Olav Sabo 81%
Matthew Salmon 31%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 19%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 63%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 63%
Joe Scarborough 31%
Daniel Schaefer 6%
Steven Schiff 13%
John Shadegg 25%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 44%
Christopher Shays 100%
E.G. Shuster 6%
Norman Sisisky 20%
David Skaggs 69%
Joseph Skeen 25%
Ike Skelton 19%
Gordon Smith 14%
Linda Smith 31%
Nick Smith 31%
Robert Smith 6%
Bob Smith 29%
Vincent Snowbarger 13%
Vic Snyder 75%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 13%
Mark Souder 31%
Arlen Specter 43%
Floyd Spence 6%
John Spratt, Jr. 69%
Charles Stenholm 6%
Ted Stevens 14%
Louis Stokes 75%
Ted Strickland 69%
Robert Stump 13%
Bart Stupak 50%
John Sununu 38%
James Talent 19%
John Tanner 38%
Ellen Tauscher 94%
William Tauzin 6%
Charles Taylor 13%
Gene Taylor 25%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 19%
Fred Thompson 29%
Karen Thurman 50%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 13%
Esteban Edward Torres 88%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 6%
James Turner 19%
Bruce Vento 81%
James Walsh 38%
Zach Wamp 13%
John Warner 14%
Wesley Watkins 13%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 6%
David Weldon 13%
W. Curtis Weldon 38%
Gerald Weller 25%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 81%
Robert Weygand 69%
Rick White 38%
Robert Wise, Jr. 63%
Albert Wynn 63%
Sidney Yates 81%

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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