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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: League of Conservation Voters

1995-1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 4%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 4%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 11%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 4%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 88%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 89%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 4%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 4%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 4%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 46%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 88%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 89%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 85%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 19%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 38%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 96%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 8%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 4%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 31%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 46%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 27%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 67%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 85%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 92%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 11%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 89%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 8%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 54%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 15%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 11%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 19%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 81%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 8%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 27%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 12%
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 92%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 96%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 89%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 77%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 12%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 59%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 23%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 88%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 96%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 85%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 81%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 38%
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 88%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 78%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 96%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 31%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 4%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 4%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 12%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 4%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 96%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 67%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 31%
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 92%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 69%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 62%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 96%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 78%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 85%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 96%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 4%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 96%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 96%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 96%
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 92%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 31%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 27%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 85%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 35%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 27%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 96%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 19%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 4%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 15%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 92%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 89%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 42%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 42%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 96%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 4%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 92%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 62%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 15%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 15%
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 81%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 4%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 96%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 58%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 77%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 81%
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 93%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 96%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 93%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 69%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 96%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 96%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 38%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 46%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 96%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 96%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 81%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 4%
Wayne Allard 8%
William Archer 4%
Richard Armey 4%
John Ashcroft 11%
Henry Scott Baesler 50%
Richard Hugh Baker 8%
William Baker 8%
John Baldacci 88%
Cass Ballenger 4%
James Barcia 46%
Robert Barr, Jr. 4%
William Barrett 4%
Herbert Bateman 0%
Anthony Beilenson 100%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 69%
Douglas Bereuter 38%
Tom Bevill 31%
Michael Bilirakis 35%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 4%
Peter Blute 42%
Sherwood Boehlert 77%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 4%
David Edward Bonior 88%
Sonny Bono 4%
Robert Borski, Jr. 88%
Rick Boucher 85%
Bill Bradley 78%
Carol Moseley Braun 85%
John Breaux 33%
Bill Brewster 19%
Glen Browder 35%
George Brown, Jr. 81%
Hank Brown 11%
Richard Bryan 89%
Ed Bryant 0%
John Bryant 73%
Dale Bumpers 93%
Jim Bunn 12%
Jim Bunning 8%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 15%
Robert Byrd 81%
Herbert Callahan 4%
Ben Campbell 19%
Thomas Campbell 85%
Mike Castle 62%
John Chafee 70%
Jim Chapman 19%
Helen Chenoweth 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen 12%
Dick Chrysler 27%
William Clay, Sr. 96%
Eva Clayton 92%
Robert Clement 65%
William Clinger 15%
William Cohen 70%
Ronald Coleman 77%
Barbara-Rose Collins 69%
Cardiss Collins 65%
Mac Collins 4%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 31%
Wes Cooley 12%
Paul Coverdell 4%
Christopher Cox 8%
William Coyne 88%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 31%
Philip Crane 4%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 4%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 19%
Alfonse D'Amato 4%
Patsy Ann Danner 31%
Thomas Daschle 85%
Thomas Davis III 42%
E. Kika de la Garza 27%
Thomas DeLay 4%
Ronald Dellums 96%
Peter Deutsch 96%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 31%
Jay Dickey 12%
Julian Dixon 92%
Chris Dodd 89%
Robert Dole 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 7%
Calvin Dooley 35%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 81%
Robert Dornan 4%
Jennifer Dunn 12%
Chet Edwards 35%
Vern Ehlers 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 31%
Bill Emerson 0%
Philip English 38%
John Ensign 31%
Lane Evans 96%
Terry Everett 4%
Thomas Ewing 27%
Jim Exon 85%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 4%
Harris Fawell 35%
Victor Fazio 69%
Russ Feingold 100%
Cleo Fields 69%
Jack Fields, Jr. 8%
Floyd Flake 81%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 35%
Thomas Foglietta 85%
Mark Foley 35%
Michael Patrick Forbes 54%
Harold Ford, Sr. 69%
Wendell Ford 59%
Tillie Fowler 8%
Jon David Fox 54%
Sheila Frahm 0%
Gary Franks 38%
Robert Franks 58%
Daniel Frisa 8%
William Frist 7%
Jonas Frost III 65%
David Funderburk 8%
Elizabeth Furse 92%
John Ganske 19%
Sam Gejdenson 96%
George Gekas 4%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 77%
Pete Geren 31%
Sam Gibbons 81%
Wayne Gilchrest 69%
Paul Gillmor 31%
Benjamin Gilman 65%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 65%
William Goodling 19%
Bart Gordon 62%
Slade Gorton 4%
Porter Goss 50%
Daniel Graham 89%
William Phillip Gramm 7%
Rodney Grams 4%
Enid Greene 8%
James Greenwood 58%
Judd Gregg 30%
Steven Gunderson 23%
Gilbert Gutknecht 12%
Tony Hall 77%
Lee Hamilton 58%
Melton Hancock 15%
James Hansen 8%
Jane Harman 81%
J. Dennis Hastert 8%
Mark Hatfield 11%
James Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 12%
Joel Hefley 8%
W.G. Hefner 42%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 8%
Jesse Helms 4%
Van Hilleary 12%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 65%
David Lee Hobson 19%
Pete Hoekstra 19%
Martin Hoke 23%
Ernest Hollings 81%
Stephen Horn 58%
John Nathan Hostettler 15%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 23%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 12%
Henry Hyde 8%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 23%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 12%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 81%
William Jefferson 77%
James Merrill Jeffords 56%
Nancy Johnson 54%
Harry Johnston 85%
J. Bennett Johnston 37%
Paul Kanjorski 77%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 30%
Sue Kelly 58%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 93%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 96%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 92%
Bob Kerrey 74%
Jay Kim 12%
Gerald Kleczka 77%
Ronald Klink 58%
Scott Klug 65%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 15%
John LaFalce 88%
Tom Lantos 88%
Stephen Largent 12%
Greg Laughlin 0%
Rick Lazio 73%
James Leach 62%
Ron Lewis 0%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 0%
Blanche Lincoln 27%
John Linder 8%
William Lipinski 62%
Robert Livingston 0%
James Longley, Jr. 31%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 96%
Connie Mack 4%
Thomas Manton 85%
Matthew Martinez 65%
Bill Martini 81%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 96%
Karen McCarthy 92%
Bill McCollum 12%
James McCrery III 0%
Joseph McDade 4%
Paul McHale 88%
John McHugh 19%
Scott McInnis 15%
David McIntosh 8%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 92%
Michael McNulty 77%
Martin Meehan 96%
Carrie Meek 88%
Jack Metcalf 23%
Jan Meyers 58%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 90%
Dan Miller 31%
David Minge 73%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 96%
John Moakley 69%
Susan Molinari 19%
Alan Mollohan 15%
G.V. Montgomery 12%
Carlos Moorhead 8%
Constance Morella 85%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 89%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 50%
John Myers 4%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 4%
Mark Neumann 23%
Robert William Ney 12%
Don Nickles 11%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
Sam Nunn 81%
James Nussle 8%
Jim Oberstar 65%
Dave Obey 69%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 27%
William Orton 31%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 4%
Ronald Packard 4%
Paul Michael Parker 0%
William Paxon 4%
Donald Payne 92%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 54%
Claiborne Pell 85%
Pete Peterson 42%
Owen Pickett 12%
Richard Pombo 8%
Earl Pomeroy 62%
John Edward Porter 65%
Glenn Poshard 46%
Larry Pressler 4%
Deborah Pryce 19%
David Pryor 89%
James Quillen 0%
Jack Quinn 42%
George Radanovich 8%
James Ramstad 54%
Ralph Regula 19%
Bill Richardson 88%
Frank Duncan Riggs 12%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 96%
Charles Robb 89%
Timothy Roemer 54%
Charles Rose III 46%
Toby Roth 8%
William Roth, Jr. 56%
Marge Roukema 73%
Martin Olav Sabo 81%
Matthew Salmon 27%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 62%
Rick Santorum 15%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 50%
Joe Scarborough 35%
Daniel Schaefer 8%
Steven Schiff 23%
Patricia Schroeder 92%
Andrea Seastrand 12%
John Shadegg 12%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 35%
Christopher Shays 88%
E.G. Shuster 4%
Paul Simon 85%
Alan Simpson 11%
Norman Sisisky 20%
David Skaggs 88%
Joseph Skeen 4%
Ike Skelton 27%
Linda Smith 12%
Nick Smith 19%
Bob Smith 15%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 8%
Mark Souder 15%
Arlen Specter 52%
Floyd Spence 4%
John Spratt, Jr. 77%
Charles Stenholm 15%
Ted Stevens 4%
Steve Stockman 4%
Louis Stokes 85%
Gerry Studds 92%
Robert Stump 4%
Bart Stupak 54%
James Talent 15%
John Tanner 31%
Randy Tate 12%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 8%
Gene Taylor 42%
Frank Tejeda 35%
Craig Thomas 11%
William Thomas 12%
Fred Thompson 19%
Ray Thornton 65%
Karen Thurman 65%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 4%
Peter Torkildsen 69%
Esteban Edward Torres 92%
Robert Torricelli 81%
James Traficant, Jr. 15%
Bruce Vento 92%
Harold Volkmer 38%
Barbara Vucanovich 4%
Robert Walker 8%
James Walsh 19%
Zach Wamp 15%
Michael Ward 77%
John Warner 7%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 8%
David Weldon 12%
W. Curtis Weldon 54%
Gerald Weller 15%
Paul Wellstone 93%
Rick White 31%
Pat Williams 69%
Charles Wilson 27%
Robert Wise, Jr. 77%
Albert Wynn 92%
Sidney Yates 81%
Bill Zeliff 8%
Richard Zimmer 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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