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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: NARAL Pro-Choice America

1997 Positions

Issues: Abortion
State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 34%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 5%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 94%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 5%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 65%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 77%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 5%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 20%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 48%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 71%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 3%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 3%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 3%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 3%
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%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 60%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 47%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 32%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 62%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 97%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 3%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 52%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 63%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 0%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
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 29%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 3%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 3%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
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 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 77%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
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 77%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 77%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 77%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Bill Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 42%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 3%
James Barcia 0%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
Bill Barrett 3%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Charlie Bass 42%
Herbert Bateman 3%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 6%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 33%
Brian Bilbray 29%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 94%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 40%
Sonny Bono 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. 18%
Leonard Boswell 71%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 77%
John Breaux 5%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 94%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 10%
Robert Byrd 48%
Herbert Callahan 3%
Ben Campbell 51%
Thomas Campbell 86%
Chris Cannon 0%
Walter Holden Capps 100%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 46%
John Chafee 100%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 3%
Jon Lynn Christensen 0%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 83%
Robert Clement 42%
Michael Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 68%
Kent Conrad 34%
Merrill Cook 3%
John Cooksey 0%
Jerry Costello 0%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 33%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 3%
Randall Cunningham 3%
Alfonse D'Amato 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 23%
Thomas Daschle 65%
James Davis 71%
Thomas Davis III 29%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 92%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 3%
Jay Dickey 0%
Norm Dicks 100%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 94%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 34%
David Dreier 3%
Jennifer Dunn 18%
Chet Edwards 83%
Vern Ehlers 3%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 39%
Jo Ann Emerson 0%
Philip English 0%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 54%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 3%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 0%
Harris Fawell 49%
Victor Fazio 100%
Russ Feingold 94%
Thomas Foglietta 77%
Mark Foley 31%
Michael Patrick Forbes 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Wendell Ford 5%
Tillie Fowler 31%
Jon David Fox 6%
Barney Frank 100%
Robert Franks 59%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elizabeth Furse 100%
Elton Gallegly 3%
John Ganske 16%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 16%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 54%
Jim Gibbons 23%
Wayne Gilchrest 42%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 92%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
William Goodling 0%
Bart Gordon 44%
Slade Gorton 14%
Porter Goss 3%
Daniel Graham 77%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 100%
Judd Gregg 15%
Gilbert Gutknecht 3%
Tony Hall 6%
Lee Hamilton 21%
James Hansen 3%
Jane Harman 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
W.G. Hefner 52%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Rick Hill 3%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 32%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Thomas Holden 3%
Ernest Hollings 65%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 90%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 49%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Asa Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 0%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 69%
James Merrill Jeffords 100%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 10%
Jay Johnson 70%
Nancy Johnson 94%
Paul Kanjorski 16%
Sue Kelly 59%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 77%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 100%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Dale Kildee 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Jay Kim 3%
Gerald Kleczka 34%
Ronald Klink 16%
Scott Klug 46%
Joseph Knollenberg 3%
Herb Kohl 77%
James Kolbe 73%
Dennis Kucinich 12%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 17%
Ray LaHood 0%
Nicholas Lampson 54%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Steve LaTourette 13%
Rick Lazio 34%
James Leach 42%
Jerry Lewis 19%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 94%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 0%
Robert Livingston 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 5%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 5%
James Maloney 77%
Thomas Manton 17%
Don Manzullo 0%
Matthew Martinez 74%
Frank Mascara 13%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 3%
Joseph McDade 3%
Paul McHale 60%
John McHugh 3%
Scott McInnis 13%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 29%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 26%
David Minge 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 31%
Alan Mollohan 3%
Constance Morella 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 100%
Patrick Moynihan 65%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 6%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 3%
Mark Neumann 0%
Robert William Ney 10%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 45%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 3%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 13%
Ronald Packard 3%
Michael Pappas 0%
Mike Parker 0%
Ron Paul 3%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 0%
John Peterson 3%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 94%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 54%
John Edward Porter 49%
Glenn Poshard 0%
Deborah Pryce 42%
Jack Quinn 0%
George Radanovich 3%
James Ramstad 46%
Bill Redmond 0%
Ralph Regula 21%
Silvestre Reyes 64%
Frank Duncan Riggs 13%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 13%
James Rogan 3%
William Roth, Jr. 20%
Steve Rothman 100%
Marge Roukema 59%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 71%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 3%
Joe Scarborough 0%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 21%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 21%
Christopher Shays 77%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Norman Sisisky 60%
David Skaggs 100%
Joseph Skeen 15%
Ike Skelton 0%
Gordon Smith 20%
Linda Smith 0%
Nick Smith 0%
Robert Smith 3%
Bob Smith 0%
Vincent Snowbarger 0%
Olympia Snowe 77%
Vic Snyder 83%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 0%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 65%
Floyd Spence 3%
John Spratt, Jr. 54%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 0%
Ted Stevens 65%
Louis Stokes 100%
Ted Strickland 71%
Bob Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 13%
John Sununu 3%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 54%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 0%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 38%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 83%
Strom Thurmond 5%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Esteban Edward Torres 99%
Robert Torricelli 100%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 16%
James Turner 42%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 3%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 0%
Gerald Weller 0%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Bob Weygand 17%
Rick White 26%
Bob Wise, Jr. 100%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
Albert Wynn 100%
Sidney Yates 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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