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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

1999 Positions

Issues: Social
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 18%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 9%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 18%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 55%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 17%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 18%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 82%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 82%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 9%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 9%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 18%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 9%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 27%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 82%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 82%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 73%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 27%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 78%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 91%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 73%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 27%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 30%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 88%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 40%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 27%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 27%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 27%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 22%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 64%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 36%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 82%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 9%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 91%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 10%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 10%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 9%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 82%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 27%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 73%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 9%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 45%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 18%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 9%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 9%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 18%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 45%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 82%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 30%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 82%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 91%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 91%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 73%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 64%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 73%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 45%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 82%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 82%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 18%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 36%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 82%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 82%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 73%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 9%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 10%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 82%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 82%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 82%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 9%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 82%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 18%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 45%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 82%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 73%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 82%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 9%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 82%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 55%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 82%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 82%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 36%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 73%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 91%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 91%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 27%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 91%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 91%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 18%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 89%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 10%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 73%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 18%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 9%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 20%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 18%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 82%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 18%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 82%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 9%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 91%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 82%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 82%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 9%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 73%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 91%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 50%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 50%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 64%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 70%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 82%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 18%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 64%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 54%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 18%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 36%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 18%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 27%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 73%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 18%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 64%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 18%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 73%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 36%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 91%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 82%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 9%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 64%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 91%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 9%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 73%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 18%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 27%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 91%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 82%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 64%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 9%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 27%
Gary Ackerman 73%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 82%
Wayne Allard 9%
Thomas Allen 73%
Bill Archer 9%
Richard Armey 9%
John Ashcroft 18%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
John Baldacci 82%
Cass Ballenger 27%
James Barcia 82%
Robert Barr, Jr. 45%
Bill Barrett 18%
Roscoe Bartlett 27%
Charlie Bass 27%
Herbert Bateman 27%
Evan Bayh 73%
Bob Bennett 18%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 73%
Douglas Bereuter 20%
Shelley Berkley 73%
Howard Berman 73%
Marion Berry 73%
Judy Biggert 18%
Brian Bilbray 50%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Jeff Bingaman 82%
Rod Blagojevich 91%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 9%
Sherwood Boehlert 45%
Kit Bond 10%
Henry Bonilla 18%
David Edward Bonior 91%
Mary Bono Mack 40%
Robert Borski, Jr. 73%
Leonard Boswell 60%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 73%
John Breaux 82%
Richard Bryan 91%
Ed Bryant 18%
Jim Bunning 18%
Conrad Burns 9%
Dan Burton 20%
Steve Buyer 27%
Robert Byrd 70%
Herbert Callahan 27%
Ben Campbell 18%
Thomas Campbell 55%
Chris Cannon 27%
Julia Carson 80%
Mike Castle 45%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 30%
William Clay, Sr. 90%
Eva Clayton 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 91%
Robert Clement 73%
Michael Collins 27%
Larry Combest 27%
Gary Condit 73%
Kent Conrad 82%
Merrill Cook 45%
John Cooksey 30%
Jerry Costello 100%
Paul Coverdell 9%
Christopher Cox 9%
William Coyne 82%
Larry Craig 9%
Robert Cramer 73%
Philip Crane 9%
Barbara Cubin 18%
Randall Cunningham 9%
Patsy Ann Danner 73%
Thomas Daschle 82%
James Davis 64%
Thomas Davis III 27%
Bill Delahunt 91%
Thomas DeLay 9%
James DeMint 27%
Peter Deutsch 64%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 36%
Jay Dickey 10%
Norm Dicks 73%
Julian Dixon 82%
Chris Dodd 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 9%
Calvin Dooley 73%
John Doolittle 9%
Byron Dorgan 100%
David Dreier 9%
Jennifer Dunn 9%
John Edwards 91%
Chet Edwards 73%
Vern Ehlers 18%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 9%
Jo Ann Emerson 36%
Philip English 36%
Bob Etheridge 82%
Lane Evans 91%
Terry Everett 18%
Thomas Ewing 18%
Russ Feingold 82%
Peter Fitzgerald 30%
Ernest Fletcher 9%
Mark Foley 55%
Michael Patrick Forbes 73%
Harold Ford, Jr. 73%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 9%
Tillie Fowler 18%
Barney Frank 100%
Robert Franks 55%
William Frist 9%
Jonas Frost III 70%
Elton Gallegly 36%
John Ganske 60%
Sam Gejdenson 82%
George Gekas 9%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 82%
Jim Gibbons 36%
Wayne Gilchrest 45%
Paul Gillmor 18%
Benjamin Gilman 36%
Charlie Gonzalez 73%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 36%
William Goodling 9%
Bart Gordon 80%
Slade Gorton 9%
Porter Goss 9%
Daniel Graham 82%
William Phillip Gramm 9%
Rodney Grams 9%
Mark Green 9%
James Greenwood 45%
Judd Gregg 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 27%
Tony Hall 73%
James Hansen 9%
J. Dennis Hastert 11%
Robert Hayes 27%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 18%
Joel Hefley 40%
Jesse Helms 18%
Wally Herger, Jr. 9%
Baron Hill 73%
Rick Hill 27%
Van Hilleary 20%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 73%
Maurice Hinchey 82%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 9%
Thomas Holden 82%
Ernest Hollings 90%
Darlene Hooley 82%
Stephen Horn 36%
John Nathan Hostettler 9%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 18%
Kenny Hulshof 30%
Duncan Hunter 36%
Asa Hutchinson 18%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 20%
Kay Hutchison 9%
Henry Hyde 18%
Daniel Inouye 90%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 20%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 80%
James Merrill Jeffords 45%
William Lewis Jenkins 27%
Christopher John 56%
Nancy Johnson 22%
Paul Kanjorski 90%
Sue Kelly 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 89%
Patrick Kennedy 82%
Bob Kerrey 82%
Dale Kildee 91%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 73%
Gerald Kleczka 82%
Ronald Klink 82%
Joseph Knollenberg 9%
Herb Kohl 82%
James Kolbe 9%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Steven Kuykendall 27%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 64%
Ray LaHood 20%
Nicholas Lampson 73%
Tom Lantos 78%
Stephen Largent 30%
Steve LaTourette 45%
Frank Lautenberg 82%
Rick Lazio 36%
James Leach 45%
Jerry Lewis 18%
Ron Lewis 9%
Joe Lieberman 82%
Blanche Lincoln 82%
John Linder 18%
William Lipinski 91%
Trent Lott, Sr. 9%
Dick Lugar 9%
William Luther 90%
Connie Mack 10%
James Maloney 82%
Don Manzullo 18%
Matthew Martinez 70%
Frank Mascara 80%
Robert Matsui 73%
Karen McCarthy 73%
Bill McCollum 27%
James McCrery III 9%
John McHugh 45%
Scott McInnis 11%
David McIntosh 9%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 80%
Martin Meehan 82%
Carrie Meek 82%
Jack Metcalf 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 73%
Dan Miller 20%
David Minge 82%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 73%
John Moakley 91%
Alan Mollohan 67%
Dennis Moore 73%
Constance Morella 73%
Patrick Moynihan 80%
Frank Murkowski 9%
Jack Murtha 64%
Sue Myrick 27%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 10%
Robert William Ney 30%
Don Nickles 9%
Anne Northup 9%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 50%
James Nussle 27%
Jim Oberstar 73%
Dave Obey 91%
John Olver 80%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 70%
Doug Ose 18%
Major Owens 82%
Michael Oxley 9%
Ronald Packard 9%
Ron Paul 50%
Donald Payne 73%
Edward Pease 9%
John Peterson 14%
David Phelps 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 18%
Owen Pickett 64%
Richard Pombo 9%
Earl Pomeroy 73%
John Edward Porter 45%
Deborah Pryce 20%
Jack Quinn 64%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 36%
Ralph Regula 27%
Silvestre Reyes 60%
Thomas Reynolds 27%
Bob Riley 18%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 91%
Charles Robb 73%
Ciro Rodriguez 91%
Timothy Roemer 73%
James Rogan 18%
William Roth, Jr. 27%
Steve Rothman 73%
Marge Roukema 36%
Jim Ryun 9%
Martin Olav Sabo 70%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 64%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 91%
Jim Saxton 36%
Joe Scarborough 17%
John Shadegg 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 30%
Christopher Shays 55%
Donald Sherwood 27%
Ronnie Shows 70%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Norman Sisisky 73%
Joseph Skeen 27%
Ike Skelton 70%
Gordon Smith 27%
Nick Smith 27%
Bob Smith 18%
Olympia Snowe 54%
Vic Snyder 64%
Mark Souder 36%
Arlen Specter 36%
Floyd Spence 45%
John Spratt, Jr. 73%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 27%
Charles Stenholm 73%
Ted Stevens 9%
Ted Strickland 82%
Bob Stump 18%
Bart Stupak 73%
John Sununu 9%
John Sweeney 36%
James Talent 27%
Tom Tancredo 27%
John Tanner 73%
Ellen Tauscher 73%
William Tauzin 20%
Charles Taylor 30%
Gene Taylor 82%
Craig Thomas 10%
William Thomas 10%
Fred Thompson 18%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 18%
Todd Tiahrt 18%
Robert Torricelli 82%
Ed Towns 82%
James Traficant, Jr. 82%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 73%
James Turner 64%
Bruce Vento 91%
George Voinovich 18%
James Walsh 54%
Zach Wamp 64%
John Warner 18%
Wesley Watkins 9%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 9%
Anthony Weiner 82%
David Weldon 18%
W. Curtis Weldon 36%
Gerald Weller 18%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 73%
Bob Weygand 82%
Heather Wilson 27%
Bob Wise, Jr. 73%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 82%
Albert Wynn 73%

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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