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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Rifle Association

1993-1994 Positions

Issues: Guns
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 100%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 25%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 75%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 25%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 50%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 75%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 25%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 100%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 25%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 0%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 25%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 50%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 75%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 25%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 25%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 75%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
Gary Ackerman 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Wayne Allard 100%
Bill Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
William Baker 75%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 100%
Bill Barrett 100%
Roscoe Bartlett 100%
Herbert Bateman 50%
Anthony Beilenson 0%
Bob Bennett 100%
Douglas Bereuter 75%
Howard Berman 0%
Tom Bevill 75%
Michael Bilirakis 75%
Jeff Bingaman 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Peter Blute 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 0%
Kit Bond 75%
Henry Bonilla 100%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Rick Boucher 100%
Bill Bradley 0%
John Breaux 50%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Hank Brown 75%
Richard Bryan 50%
John Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 0%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Dan Burton 100%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 0%
Herbert Callahan 75%
Ben Campbell 25%
Mike Castle 25%
John Chafee 0%
William Clay, Sr. 50%
Eva Clayton 0%
William Cohen 50%
Ronald Coleman 25%
Barbara-Rose Collins 0%
Cardiss Collins 0%
Michael Collins 100%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 0%
Kent Conrad 0%
Jerry Costello 75%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 100%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 100%
Patsy Ann Danner 100%
Thomas Daschle 0%
E. Kika de la Garza 100%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Ronald Dellums 25%
Peter Deutsch 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Jay Dickey 100%
Norm Dicks 0%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Robert Dole 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
Calvin Dooley 0%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 0%
Robert Dornan 100%
David Dreier 100%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 25%
Bill Emerson 100%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 0%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 100%
Harris Fawell 50%
Victor Fazio 0%
Russ Feingold 25%
Cleo Fields 50%
Jack Fields, Jr. 100%
Floyd Flake 0%
Wendell Ford 0%
Tillie Fowler 75%
Barney Frank 0%
Gary Franks 75%
Robert Franks 25%
Jonas Frost III 25%
Elton Gallegly 50%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Pete Geren 100%
Sam Gibbons 0%
Wayne Gilchrest 25%
Paul Gillmor 100%
Benjamin Gilman 75%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 0%
Henry Gonzalez 0%
Slade Gorton 75%
Porter Goss 75%
Daniel Graham 0%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 100%
Judd Gregg 100%
Steven Gunderson 100%
Tony Hall 0%
Lee Hamilton 50%
Melton Hancock 100%
James Hansen 100%
Jane Harman 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 50%
Joel Hefley 100%
W.G. Hefner 25%
Jesse Helms 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 25%
David Lee Hobson 75%
Pete Hoekstra 75%
Ernest Hollings 50%
Stephen Horn 25%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 25%
Duncan Hunter 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Kay Hutchison 75%
Henry Hyde 50%
Daniel Inouye 0%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 0%
James Merrill Jeffords 0%
Nancy Johnson 0%
Harry Johnston 0%
J. Bennett Johnston 50%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 0%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Joseph Kennedy II 0%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 0%
Bob Kerrey 0%
Dale Kildee 0%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 0%
Scott Klug 25%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
Herb Kohl 0%
James Kolbe 75%
Jon Kyl 75%
John LaFalce 0%
Tom Lantos 0%
Greg Laughlin 100%
Rick Lazio 25%
James Leach 25%
Jerry Lewis 100%
Joe Lieberman 0%
Jim Lightfoot 100%
Blanche Lincoln 25%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 0%
Robert Livingston 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
Dick Lugar 50%
Connie Mack 100%
Thomas Manton 0%
Don Manzullo 100%
Matthew Martinez 25%
Robert Matsui 0%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
John McHugh 100%
Scott McInnis 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 0%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jan Meyers 0%
Dan Miller 75%
David Minge 0%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 0%
Susan Molinari 25%
Alan Mollohan 100%
G.V. Montgomery 75%
Carlos Moorhead 100%
Constance Morella 0%
Carol Moseley Braun 0%
Patrick Moynihan 0%
Frank Murkowski 100%
John Myers 100%
Don Nickles 100%
Sam Nunn 0%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 75%
Dave Obey 50%
John Olver 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Bill Orton 100%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 75%
Ronald Packard 100%
Mike Parker 100%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 25%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 100%
Claiborne Pell 0%
Pete Peterson 100%
Owen Pickett 100%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 25%
John Edward Porter 25%
Glenn Poshard 75%
Larry Pressler 100%
David Pryor 0%
Jack Quinn 0%
James Ramstad 25%
Bill Richardson 50%
Charles Robb 0%
Timothy Roemer 0%
Charles Rose III 25%
Toby Roth 100%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Marge Roukema 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 25%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 25%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 100%
Patricia Schroeder 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 0%
Paul Simon 0%
Alan Simpson 100%
Norman Sisisky 100%
David Skaggs 0%
Joseph Skeen 100%
Ike Skelton 100%
Nick Smith 75%
Bob Smith 100%
Olympia Snowe 75%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 100%
Arlen Specter 50%
Pete Stark 0%
Cliff Stearns 75%
Charles Stenholm 100%
Ted Stevens 100%
Gerry Studds 0%
Bob Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 100%
James Talent 75%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 100%
Frank Tejeda 100%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 75%
Ray Thornton 50%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 75%
Peter Torkildsen 50%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
Robert Torricelli 0%
Ed Towns 0%
Bruce Vento 0%
Harold Volkmer 100%
Barbara Vucanovich 100%
James Walsh 50%
John Warner 75%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Pat Williams 100%
Charles Wilson 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. 100%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
Albert Wynn 0%
Sidney Yates 0%
Bill Zeliff 100%
Richard Zimmer 50%

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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