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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

1996 Positions

Issues: Social
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 27%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 13%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 13%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 13%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 87%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 13%
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 7%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 7%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 71%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 53%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 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 U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 13%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 13%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 73%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 13%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 80%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 7%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 93%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 60%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 7%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 8%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 13%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 13%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 67%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 93%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 87%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 69%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 33%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 27%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 93%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 71%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 73%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 8%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 13%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 73%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 87%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 7%
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%
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 87%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 29%
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 93%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 80%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
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 State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 87%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 27%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 13%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 7%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 7%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 20%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 93%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 67%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 67%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 33%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 73%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 20%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 60%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 27%
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 29 Gene Green Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 36 Steve Stockman Republican 7%
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. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 7%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 92%
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. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 93%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 87%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 13%
Gary Ackerman 93%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 93%
Wayne Allard 13%
Bill 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%
Bill Barrett 13%
Roscoe Bartlett 7%
Charlie Bass 13%
Herbert Bateman 20%
Anthony Beilenson 93%
Bob Bennett 13%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 67%
Douglas Bereuter 20%
Howard Berman 100%
Tom Bevill 67%
Brian Bilbray 29%
Michael Bilirakis 13%
Jeff Bingaman 93%
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%
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%
Dan Burton 20%
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-Hage 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%
Michael Collins 13%
Larry Combest 13%
Gary Condit 47%
Kent Conrad 87%
Wes Cooley 13%
Jerry Costello 67%
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%
Norm Dicks 67%
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%
David Dreier 13%
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%
Barney Frank 100%
Gary Franks 20%
Robert Franks 47%
Dan Frisa 7%
William Frist 14%
Jonas Frost III 57%
David Funderburk 7%
Elizabeth Furse 87%
Elton Gallegly 13%
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%
Wally Herger, Jr. 7%
Van Hilleary 20%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 13%
Pete Hoekstra 27%
Martin Hoke 7%
Thomas Holden 53%
Ernest Hollings 73%
Stephen Horn 27%
John Nathan Hostettler 20%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Duncan Hunter 13%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 20%
Kay Hutchison 7%
Henry Hyde 13%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 13%
Daniel Inouye 93%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 13%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
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%
Dale Kildee 73%
Jay Kim 13%
Gerald Kleczka 93%
Ronald Klink 67%
Scott Klug 40%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
Herb Kohl 80%
James Kolbe 13%
Jon Kyl 7%
John LaFalce 100%
Ray LaHood 20%
Tom Lantos 93%
Stephen Largent 13%
Steve LaTourette 27%
Greg Laughlin 13%
Rick Lazio 20%
James Leach 53%
Jerry Lewis 20%
Ron Lewis 20%
Joe Lieberman 60%
Jim Lightfoot 7%
Blanche Lincoln 60%
John Linder 13%
William Lipinski 60%
Robert Livingston 13%
James Longley, Jr. 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. 7%
Dick Lugar 20%
William Luther 87%
Connie Mack 7%
Thomas Manton 77%
Don Manzullo 7%
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%
Carol Moseley Braun 93%
Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 13%
Jack Murtha 60%
John Myers 13%
Sue Myrick 14%
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%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 67%
Bill Orton 73%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 13%
Ronald Packard 13%
Mike 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%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim 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%
Olympia Snowe 33%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 20%
Mark Souder 27%
Arlen Specter 53%
Floyd Spence 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 57%
Pete Stark 92%
Cliff Stearns 7%
Charles Stenholm 53%
Ted Stevens 20%
Louis Stokes 93%
Gerry Studds 100%
Bob 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%
Ed Towns 100%
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%
Bob Wise, Jr. 79%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
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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