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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

1996 Positions

Issues: Social Issues
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 27%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 13%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 7%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 87%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 29%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 60%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 53%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 71%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 13%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 13%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 7%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 57%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 13%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 93%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 93%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 73%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 80%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 13%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 7%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 93%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 67%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 7%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 20%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 7%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 60%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 20%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 8%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 13%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 13%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 87%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 69%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 67%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 7%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 93%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 33%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 33%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 73%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 27%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 93%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 71%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 8%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 13%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 73%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 73%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 20%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 14%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 87%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 13%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 60%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 53%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 43%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 87%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 20%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 93%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 87%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 29%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
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 80%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 13%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 27%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 80%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 27%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 13%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 87%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 27%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 7%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 20%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 7%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 93%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 67%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 53%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 67%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 20%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 73%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 60%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 27%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 27%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 73%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 20%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 93%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 92%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 7%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 67%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 27%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 33%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 87%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 93%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 13%
Wayne Allard 13%
William Archer 7%
Richard Armey 7%
John Ashcroft 7%
Henry Scott Baesler 67%
Richard Hugh Baker 13%
William Baker 0%
John Baldacci 73%
Cass Ballenger 7%
James Barcia 67%
Robert Barr, Jr. 7%
William Barrett 13%
Herbert Bateman 20%
Anthony Beilenson 93%
Bob Bennett 13%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 67%
Douglas Bereuter 20%
Tom Bevill 67%
Michael Bilirakis 13%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 13%
Peter Blute 13%
Sherwood Boehlert 47%
Kit Bond 7%
Henry Bonilla 7%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Sonny Bono 13%
Robert Borski, Jr. 87%
Rick Boucher 73%
Bill Bradley 85%
Carol Moseley Braun 93%
John Breaux 67%
Bill Brewster 29%
Glen Browder 53%
George Brown, Jr. 87%
Hank Brown 13%
Richard Bryan 80%
Ed Bryant 13%
John Bryant 93%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunn 13%
Jim Bunning 13%
Conrad Burns 7%
Steve Buyer 13%
Robert Byrd 87%
Herbert Callahan 7%
Ben Campbell 33%
Thomas Campbell 47%
Mike Castle 33%
John Chafee 27%
Jim Chapman 53%
Helen Chenoweth 13%
Jon Lynn Christensen 20%
Dick Chrysler 0%
William Clay, Sr. 87%
Eva Clayton 87%
Robert Clement 47%
William Clinger 7%
William Cohen 33%
Ronald Coleman 93%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 13%
Larry Combest 13%
Gary Condit 47%
Wes Cooley 13%
Paul Coverdell 7%
Christopher Cox 7%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 7%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 7%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 7%
Barbara Cubin 7%
Randall Cunningham 14%
Alfonse D'Amato 20%
Patsy Ann Danner 67%
Thomas Daschle 87%
Thomas Davis III 29%
E. Kika de la Garza 64%
Thomas DeLay 7%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 73%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 53%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 73%
Chris Dodd 87%
Robert Dole 12%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 27%
Calvin Dooley 67%
John Doolittle 14%
Byron Dorgan 80%
Robert Dornan 7%
Jennifer Dunn 13%
Chet Edwards 60%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 7%
Bill Emerson 7%
Philip English 50%
John Ensign 27%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 13%
Thomas Ewing 13%
Jim Exon 73%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 7%
Harris Fawell 20%
Victor Fazio 67%
Russ Feingold 87%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 0%
Floyd Flake 86%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 20%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 33%
Michael Patrick Forbes 20%
Harold Ford, Sr. 79%
Wendell Ford 73%
Tillie Fowler 20%
Jon David Fox 33%
Gary Franks 20%
Robert Franks 47%
Daniel Frisa 7%
William Frist 14%
Jonas Frost III 57%
David Funderburk 7%
Elizabeth Furse 87%
John Ganske 33%
Sam Gejdenson 67%
George Gekas 13%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 80%
Pete Geren 13%
Sam Gibbons 73%
Wayne Gilchrest 20%
Paul Gillmor 25%
Benjamin Gilman 47%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 87%
Henry Gonzalez 86%
William Goodling 20%
Bart Gordon 40%
Slade Gorton 13%
Porter Goss 13%
Daniel Graham 67%
William Phillip Gramm 7%
Rodney Grams 13%
Enid Greene 0%
James Greenwood 20%
Judd Gregg 20%
Steven Gunderson 13%
Gilbert Gutknecht 33%
Tony Hall 67%
Lee Hamilton 53%
Melton Hancock 0%
James Hansen 13%
Jane Harman 47%
J. Dennis Hastert 13%
Mark Hatfield 33%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 13%
Joel Hefley 7%
W.G. Hefner 73%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 7%
Jesse Helms 7%
Van Hilleary 20%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 13%
Pete Hoekstra 27%
Martin Hoke 7%
Ernest Hollings 73%
Stephen Horn 27%
John Nathan Hostettler 20%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Duncan Hunter 13%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 20%
Henry Hyde 13%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 13%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 13%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 80%
William Jefferson 73%
James Merrill Jeffords 53%
Nancy Johnson 47%
Harry Johnston 93%
J. Bennett Johnston 80%
Paul Kanjorski 80%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 13%
Sue Kelly 27%
Dirk Kempthorne 7%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 93%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 80%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 60%
Bob Kerrey 93%
Jay Kim 13%
Gerald Kleczka 93%
Ronald Klink 67%
Scott Klug 40%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
James Kolbe 13%
John LaFalce 100%
Tom Lantos 93%
Stephen Largent 13%
Greg Laughlin 13%
Rick Lazio 20%
James Leach 53%
Ron Lewis 20%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 7%
Blanche Lincoln 60%
John Linder 13%
William Lipinski 60%
Robert Livingston 13%
James Longley, Jr. 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. 7%
William Luther 87%
Connie Mack 7%
Thomas Manton 77%
Matthew Martinez 73%
Bill Martini 33%
Frank Mascara 73%
Robert Matsui 87%
Karen McCarthy 93%
Bill McCollum 7%
James McCrery III 13%
Joseph McDade 25%
Paul McHale 60%
John McHugh 46%
Scott McInnis 20%
David McIntosh 14%
Michael McNulty 79%
Martin Meehan 93%
Carrie Meek 79%
Jack Metcalf 27%
Jan Meyers 15%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 79%
Dan Miller 7%
David Minge 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 87%
John Moakley 100%
Susan Molinari 33%
Alan Mollohan 67%
G.V. Montgomery 13%
Carlos Moorhead 0%
Constance Morella 67%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 13%
Jack Murtha 60%
John Myers 13%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Mark Neumann 47%
Robert William Ney 27%
Don Nickles 7%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 13%
Sam Nunn 60%
James Nussle 13%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 93%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 67%
William Orton 73%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 13%
Ronald Packard 13%
Paul Michael Parker 13%
William Paxon 14%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 53%
Claiborne Pell 87%
Pete Peterson 80%
Owen Pickett 47%
Richard Pombo 7%
Earl Pomeroy 73%
John Edward Porter 20%
Glenn Poshard 67%
Larry Pressler 7%
Deborah Pryce 13%
David Pryor 86%
James Quillen 7%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 13%
James Ramstad 47%
Ralph Regula 27%
Bill Richardson 80%
Frank Duncan Riggs 33%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 93%
Charles Robb 60%
Timothy Roemer 60%
Charles Rose III 60%
Toby Roth 7%
William Roth, Jr. 13%
Marge Roukema 67%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 13%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 33%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 23%
Joe Scarborough 7%
Daniel Schaefer 7%
Steven Schiff 31%
Patricia Schroeder 100%
Andrea Seastrand 0%
John Shadegg 13%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 13%
Christopher Shays 60%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Paul Simon 93%
Alan Simpson 13%
Norman Sisisky 43%
David Skaggs 93%
Joseph Skeen 13%
Ike Skelton 40%
Linda Smith 20%
Nick Smith 27%
Bob Smith 7%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 20%
Mark Souder 27%
Arlen Specter 53%
Floyd Spence 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 57%
Charles Stenholm 53%
Ted Stevens 20%
Steve Stockman 7%
Louis Stokes 93%
Gerry Studds 100%
Robert Stump 7%
Bart Stupak 87%
James Talent 13%
John Tanner 50%
Randy Tate 0%
William Tauzin 13%
Charles Taylor 7%
Gene Taylor 40%
Frank Tejeda 73%
Craig Thomas 7%
William Thomas 20%
Fred Thompson 20%
Ray Thornton 86%
Karen Thurman 67%
Strom Thurmond 13%
Todd Tiahrt 27%
Peter Torkildsen 40%
Esteban Edward Torres 80%
Robert Torricelli 73%
James Traficant, Jr. 40%
Bruce Vento 93%
Harold Volkmer 85%
Barbara Vucanovich 7%
Robert Walker 0%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 13%
Michael Ward 87%
John Warner 13%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 13%
David Weldon 13%
W. Curtis Weldon 23%
Gerald Weller 27%
Paul Wellstone 93%
Rick White 27%
Pat Williams 100%
Charles Wilson 60%
Robert Wise, Jr. 79%
Albert Wynn 87%
Sidney Yates 100%
Bill Zeliff 0%
Richard Zimmer 20%

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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