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Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 3%
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 3%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 14%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 13%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 79%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 76%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 24%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 28%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 24%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 69%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 66%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 93%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 97%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 7%
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 79%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 45%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 86%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 14%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 24%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 17%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 83%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 17%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 60%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 87%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 79%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 93%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 34%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 14%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 10%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 86%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 97%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 69%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 24%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 7%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 7%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 27%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 72%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 3%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 17%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 7%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 21%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 80%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 97%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 83%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 93%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 79%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 83%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 7%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 97%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 60%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 60%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 80%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 83%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 17%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 69%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 52%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 86%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 79%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 66%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 21%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 10%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 3%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 7%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 66%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 60%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 24%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 83%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 14%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 34%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 83%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 53%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 59%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 93%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 97%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 69%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 83%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 86%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 66%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 67%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 67%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 14%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 97%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 97%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 93%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 93%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 38%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 38%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 76%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 86%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 34%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 38%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 86%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 13%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 3%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 7%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 93%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 97%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 17%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 69%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 41%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 17%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 38%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 7%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 83%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 80%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 17%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 14%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 38%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 59%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 55%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 59%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 52%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 62%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 3%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 7%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 79%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 14%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 83%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 24%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 93%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 97%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 93%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 10%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 69%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 83%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 83%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 93%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 83%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 45%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 45%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 97%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 80%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 62%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 13%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 93%
William Archer 17%
Richard Armey 17%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 38%
Richard Hugh Baker 7%
John Baldacci 79%
Cass Ballenger 7%
James Barcia 34%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
William Barrett 10%
Herbert Bateman 10%
Bob Bennett 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 76%
Douglas Bereuter 21%
Marion Berry 28%
Michael Bilirakis 38%
Rod Blagojevich 93%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 7%
Sherwood Boehlert 72%
Kit Bond 7%
Henry Bonilla 7%
David Edward Bonior 83%
Robert Borski, Jr. 76%
Rick Boucher 69%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 24%
Carol Moseley Braun 87%
John Breaux 47%
George Brown, Jr. 79%
Richard Bryan 73%
Ed Bryant 10%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunning 7%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 7%
Robert Byrd 60%
Herbert Callahan 7%
Ben Campbell 13%
Thomas Campbell 55%
Chris Cannon 10%
Julia Carson 83%
Mike Castle 76%
John Chafee 60%
Helen Chenoweth 7%
Jon Lynn Christensen 17%
William Clay, Sr. 62%
Eva Clayton 79%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 60%
Robert Clement 66%
Mac Collins 14%
Larry Combest 3%
Gary Condit 34%
Merrill Cook 24%
John Cooksey 10%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 28%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 24%
Philip Crane 10%
Barbara Cubin 3%
Randall Cunningham 10%
Alfonse D'Amato 20%
Patsy Ann Danner 21%
Thomas Daschle 73%
James Davis 76%
Thomas Davis III 52%
Bill Delahunt 90%
Thomas DeLay 10%
Peter Deutsch 83%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 31%
Jay Dickey 14%
Julian Dixon 90%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 7%
Calvin Dooley 34%
John Doolittle 7%
Byron Dorgan 53%
Jennifer Dunn 21%
Chet Edwards 31%
Vern Ehlers 62%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 28%
Philip English 38%
John Ensign 34%
Bob Etheridge 66%
Lane Evans 93%
Terry Everett 3%
Thomas Ewing 28%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 20%
Harris Fawell 62%
Victor Fazio 66%
Russ Feingold 100%
Mark Foley 41%
Michael Patrick Forbes 79%
Harold Ford, Jr. 45%
Wendell Ford 67%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 31%
Tillie Fowler 21%
Jon David Fox 66%
Robert Franks 83%
William Frist 27%
Jonas Frost III 45%
Elizabeth Furse 86%
John Ganske 41%
Sam Gejdenson 93%
George Gekas 14%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 83%
Jim Gibbons 28%
Wayne Gilchrest 62%
Paul Gillmor 17%
Benjamin Gilman 76%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 87%
Henry Gonzalez 14%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 14%
William Goodling 14%
Bart Gordon 62%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 41%
Daniel Graham 93%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 72%
Judd Gregg 60%
Gilbert Gutknecht 17%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 66%
Lee Hamilton 62%
James Hansen 10%
Jane Harman 62%
J. Dennis Hastert 17%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 17%
Joel Hefley 14%
W.G. Hefner 62%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 10%
Van Hilleary 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 48%
David Lee Hobson 31%
Pete Hoekstra 28%
Ernest Hollings 73%
Darlene Hooley 93%
Stephen Horn 62%
John Nathan Hostettler 7%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 34%
Kenny Hulshof 31%
Duncan Hunter 14%
William Hutchinson 21%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 7%
Henry Hyde 10%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 24%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 7%
William Jefferson 55%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 3%
Christopher John 10%
Jay Johnson 72%
Nancy Johnson 86%
Paul Kanjorski 76%
Sue Kelly 83%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 97%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 90%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 76%
Jay Kim 17%
Gerald Kleczka 93%
Ronald Klink 52%
Scott Klug 69%
Joseph Knollenberg 10%
James Kolbe 28%
John LaFalce 79%
Nicholas Lampson 83%
Tom Lantos 97%
Stephen Largent 17%
Rick Lazio 72%
James Leach 76%
Ron Lewis 3%
John Linder 10%
William Lipinski 55%
Robert Livingston 7%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 86%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 83%
Thomas Manton 72%
Matthew Martinez 52%
Frank Mascara 52%
Robert Matsui 86%
Karen McCarthy 86%
Bill McCollum 17%
James McCrery III 10%
Joseph McDade 21%
Paul McHale 83%
John McHugh 24%
Scott McInnis 14%
David McIntosh 14%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 97%
Michael McNulty 83%
Martin Meehan 97%
Carrie Meek 76%
Jack Metcalf 24%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 79%
Dan Miller 41%
David Minge 66%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 86%
John Moakley 83%
Alan Mollohan 45%
Constance Morella 93%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 87%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 45%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 10%
Mark Neumann 34%
Robert William Ney 17%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 14%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 21%
Jim Oberstar 48%
Dave Obey 83%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 28%
Major Owens 93%
Michael Oxley 7%
Ronald Packard 10%
Michael Pappas 59%
Paul Michael Parker 7%
William Paxon 14%
Donald Payne 83%
Edward Pease 34%
John Peterson 3%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 7%
Owen Pickett 14%
Richard Pombo 10%
Earl Pomeroy 38%
John Edward Porter 72%
Glenn Poshard 66%
Deborah Pryce 17%
Jack Quinn 52%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 83%
William Redmond 11%
Ralph Regula 24%
Frank Duncan Riggs 7%
Bob Riley 3%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Charles Robb 87%
Ciro Rodriguez 64%
Timothy Roemer 55%
James Rogan 28%
William Roth, Jr. 53%
Marge Roukema 72%
Jim Ryun 10%
Martin Olav Sabo 90%
Matthew Salmon 21%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 21%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 52%
Rick Santorum 7%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 66%
Joe Scarborough 31%
Daniel Schaefer 7%
John Shadegg 10%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 38%
Christopher Shays 100%
E.G. Shuster 7%
Norman Sisisky 14%
David Skaggs 76%
Joseph Skeen 21%
Ike Skelton 21%
Gordon Smith 13%
Linda Smith 21%
Nick Smith 31%
Robert Smith 3%
Bob Smith 13%
Vincent Snowbarger 7%
Vic Snyder 79%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 10%
Mark Souder 21%
Arlen Specter 47%
Floyd Spence 7%
John Spratt, Jr. 76%
Charles Stenholm 10%
Ted Stevens 7%
Louis Stokes 79%
Ted Strickland 76%
Robert Stump 7%
Bart Stupak 59%
John Sununu 34%
James Talent 17%
John Tanner 38%
Ellen Tauscher 90%
William Tauzin 7%
Charles Taylor 7%
Gene Taylor 24%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 14%
Fred Thompson 13%
Karen Thurman 45%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 7%
Esteban Edward Torres 86%
Robert Torricelli 93%
James Traficant, Jr. 10%
James Turner 21%
Bruce Vento 90%
James Walsh 52%
Zach Wamp 10%
John Warner 13%
Wesley Watkins 10%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 3%
David Weldon 14%
W. Curtis Weldon 52%
Gerald Weller 28%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 90%
Robert Weygand 72%
Rick White 28%
Heather Wilson 17%
Robert Wise, Jr. 66%
Albert Wynn 79%
Sidney Yates 83%

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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