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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Latin America Working Group

2005 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
NA President Barack Obama II Democratic 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 50%
AK U.S. Senate Sr Lisa Murkowski Republican 50%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 25%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AR U.S. Senate Sr Mark Pryor Democratic 50%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 43%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 33%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 50%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 75%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 75%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 50%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 25%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 25%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 25%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 75%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 50%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 13%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 25%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 63%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 25%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 75%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 25%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 63%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 75%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 50%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 50%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 38%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 88%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 25%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 50%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 88%
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 75%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 75%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 25%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 50%
TN U.S. Senate Sr Lamar Alexander Republican 25%
TX U.S. Senate Sr John Cornyn Republican 25%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 25%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 75%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 50%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 50%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 3 Mike Rogers Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 20%
AZ U.S. House 3 Raúl Grijalva Democratic 100%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 6 Doris Matsui Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Jim Costa Democratic 57%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 38 Linda Sánchez Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 63%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 75%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 75%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 50%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 38%
FL U.S. House 23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic 50%
FL U.S. House 25 Mario Diaz-Balart Republican 14%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 38%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 20%
GA U.S. House 3 Lynn Westmoreland Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 12 John Barrow Democratic 38%
GA U.S. House 13 David Scott Democratic 40%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 25%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 75%
IL U.S. House 3 Daniel Lipinski Democratic 63%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 25%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 75%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 25%
LA U.S. House 3 Charles Boustany, Jr. Republican 13%
LA U.S. House 5 Rodney Alexander Republican 13%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 75%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 75%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 86%
MD U.S. House 2 Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic 63%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. Democratic 75%
ME U.S. House 2 Mike Michaud Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 38%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 88%
MI U.S. House 10 Candice Miller Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 88%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 88%
MN U.S. House 2 John Kline Republican 13%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 5 Emanuel Cleaver II Democratic 75%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 25%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 75%
NC U.S. House 1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 14%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 75%
NE U.S. House 1 Jeff Fortenberry Republican 13%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 13%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 5 Scott Garrett Republican 13%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 38%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 75%
NM U.S. House 2 Steve Pearce Republican 13%
NY U.S. House 1 Tim Bishop Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 26 Brian Higgins Democratic 50%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 13 Tim Ryan Democratic 75%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 13%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 88%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 75%
PA U.S. House 6 Jim Gerlach Republican 13%
PA U.S. House 8 Mike Fitzpatrick Republican 13%
PA U.S. House 13 Allyson Schwartz Democratic 75%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 15 Charlie Dent Republican 25%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 38%
PA U.S. House 18 Tim Murphy Republican 13%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 75%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 38%
TN U.S. House 5 Jim Cooper Democratic 40%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 9 Al Green Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 10 Michael McCaul Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 83%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 28 Henry Cuellar Democratic 50%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 43%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 75%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 75%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 25%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 88%
WA U.S. House 5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers Republican 13%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 88%
WA U.S. House 8 Dave Reichert Republican 13%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 75%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 50%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 88%
WI U.S. House 4 Gwen Moore Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 38%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 13%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 13%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 75%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 88%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 63%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 25%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 75%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 88%
NH State Senate 3 Jeb Bradley Republican 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 75%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar No Party Affiliation 38%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
IL Mayor At-Large Rahm Emanuel Democratic 75%
Gary Ackerman 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 50%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 25%
Thomas Allen 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. 75%
Brian Baird 75%
Roscoe Bartlett 29%
Charlie Bass 38%
Evan Bayh 50%
Melissa Bean 50%
Bob Beauprez 13%
Bob Bennett 33%
Shelley Berkley 50%
Howard Berman 75%
Marion Berry 50%
Judy Biggert 63%
Jeff Bingaman 75%
Sherwood Boehlert 38%
Kit Bond 25%
Mary Bono Mack 25%
Dan Boren 50%
Leonard Boswell 75%
Rick Boucher 63%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 38%
Ginny Brown-Waite 25%
Jim Bunning 25%
Conrad Burns 25%
Dan Burton 13%
Robert Byrd 50%
Dennis Cardoza 38%
Russ Carnahan 50%
Julia Carson 88%
Edward Case 13%
Mike Castle 38%
Ben Chandler III 25%
Chris Chocola 13%
Hillary Clinton 50%
Norm Coleman 25%
Kent Conrad 50%
Jerry Costello 75%
Larry Craig 50%
Robert Cramer 20%
Barbara Cubin 13%
Artur Davis 50%
Geoff Davis 25%
James Davis 38%
Jo Ann Davis 13%
Lincoln Davis 63%
Thomas Davis III 13%
Bill Delahunt 88%
James DeMint 50%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 25%
Norm Dicks 88%
Chris Dodd 75%
Elizabeth Dole 25%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 50%
Chet Edwards 50%
Vern Ehlers 50%
Jo Ann Emerson 50%
Philip English 13%
John Ensign 50%
Bob Etheridge 63%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Tom Feeney 14%
Russ Feingold 100%
Michael Ferguson 14%
Mark Foley 13%
Harold Ford, Jr. 63%
Barney Frank 88%
William Frist 25%
Jim Gibbons 13%
Wayne Gilchrest 38%
Charlie Gonzalez 75%
Bart Gordon 88%
Mark Green 25%
Judd Gregg 25%
Gilbert Gutknecht 25%
Jane Harman 75%
Katherine Harris 25%
Robert Hayes 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 38%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 63%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 13%
Thomas Holden 50%
Darlene Hooley 63%
John Nathan Hostettler 25%
Kenny Hulshof 25%
Kay Hutchison 50%
Henry Hyde 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 13%
Daniel Inouye 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 75%
William Jefferson 75%
James Merrill Jeffords 75%
William Lewis Jenkins 13%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Tim Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 50%
Ric Keller 13%
Sue Kelly 25%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 75%
Mark Kennedy 13%
Patrick Kennedy 50%
Dale Kildee 88%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 88%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
Herb Kohl 75%
James Kolbe 50%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
John Kuhl, Jr. 13%
Jon Kyl 50%
Tom Lantos 75%
Steve LaTourette 13%
James Leach 63%
Joe Lieberman 67%
Blanche Lincoln 50%
Trent Lott, Sr. 25%
Dick Lugar 50%
Connie Mack IV 13%
Don Manzullo 25%
Jim Marshall 25%
Melquiades Martinez 33%
Thaddeus McCotter 25%
James McCrery III 13%
John McHugh 13%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 86%
Michael McNulty 88%
Martin Meehan 75%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 63%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. 13%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Brad Miller 50%
Alan Mollohan 63%
Dennis Moore 88%
Jack Murtha 50%
Ben Nelson 50%
Robert William Ney 13%
Anne Northup 13%
James Nussle 13%
Jim Oberstar 88%
Dave Obey 75%
John Olver 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 43%
Thomas William Osborne 50%
Major Owens 88%
Ron Paul 75%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 13%
Todd Platts 25%
Richard Pombo 25%
Earl Pomeroy 75%
Jon Porter, Sr. 13%
Deborah Pryce 13%
James Ramstad 75%
Ralph Regula 13%
Silvestre Reyes 86%
Thomas Reynolds 13%
Mike Ross 25%
Steve Rothman 38%
Martin Olav Sabo 88%
Ken Salazar 50%
Rick Santorum 25%
Paul Sarbanes 75%
Jim Saxton 13%
John Schwarz 13%
John Shadegg 14%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 13%
Christopher Shays 63%
Donald Sherwood 13%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 13%
Ike Skelton 25%
Gordon Smith 25%
Olympia Snowe 25%
Vic Snyder 75%
Mike Sodrel 13%
Hilda Solis 75%
Arlen Specter 25%
John Spratt, Jr. 63%
Pete Stark 75%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 63%
Bart Stupak 86%
John Sununu 50%
John Sweeney 13%
James Talent 50%
Tom Tancredo 50%
John Tanner 63%
Ellen Tauscher 75%
Gene Taylor 63%
Craig Thomas 50%
William Thomas 13%
Ed Towns 75%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 75%
George Voinovich 50%
James Walsh 13%
Zach Wamp 13%
John Warner 50%
Diane Watson 88%
Anthony Weiner 88%
W. Curtis Weldon 25%
Gerald Weller 13%
Robert Wexler 63%
Heather Wilson 38%
Lynn Woolsey 88%
David Wu 38%
Albert Wynn 75%

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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