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Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Peace Action

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 8%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 67%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 50%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 33%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 58%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 42%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 83%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 83%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 8%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 42%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 58%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 33%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 58%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 8%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 75%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 33%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 67%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 58%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 25%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 75%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 33%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 33%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 8%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 83%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 92%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 75%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 8%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 25%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 17%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 8%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 8%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 8%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 8%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 8%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 50%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 58%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 75%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 92%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 83%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 92%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 42%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 58%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 8%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 75%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 17%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 17%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 50%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 58%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 42%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 92%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 33%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 58%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 17%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 25%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 33%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 42%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 8%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 42%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 33%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 92%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 42%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 25%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 42%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 33%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 58%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 25%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 58%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 42%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 58%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 8%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 42%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 50%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 8%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 58%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 92%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 25%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 33%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 50%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 83%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 25%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 33%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 50%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 8%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 33%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 8%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 67%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 83%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 83%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 92%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 25%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 67%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 8%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 25%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 58%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 50%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 8%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 58%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 83%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 50%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 42%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 8%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 8%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 42%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 25%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 67%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 67%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 50%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 42%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 75%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 67%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 58%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 50%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 58%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 8%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 8%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 50%
William Archer 8%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 33%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 58%
Cass Ballenger 25%
James Barcia 25%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 0%
Herbert Bateman 8%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 42%
Douglas Bereuter 25%
Marion Berry 42%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Rod Blagojevich 58%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 8%
Sherwood Boehlert 33%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 17%
David Edward Bonior 75%
Sonny Bono 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. 25%
Rick Boucher 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 25%
Carol Moseley Braun 67%
John Breaux 42%
George Brown, Jr. 75%
Richard Bryan 50%
Ed Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 92%
Jim Bunning 8%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 58%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 8%
Thomas Campbell 58%
Chris Cannon 0%
Walter Holden Capps 73%
Julia Carson 83%
Mike Castle 33%
John Chafee 33%
Helen Chenoweth 25%
Jon Lynn Christensen 8%
William Clay, Sr. 75%
Eva Clayton 67%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 33%
Robert Clement 33%
Mac Collins 8%
Larry Combest 17%
Gary Condit 50%
Merrill Cook 0%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 92%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 8%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 8%
Alfonse D'Amato 17%
Patsy Ann Danner 50%
Thomas Daschle 42%
James Davis 33%
Thomas Davis III 8%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 42%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 8%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 50%
Chris Dodd 42%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 8%
Calvin Dooley 33%
John Doolittle 8%
Byron Dorgan 50%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 25%
Vern Ehlers 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 8%
Philip English 33%
John Ensign 25%
Bob Etheridge 25%
Lane Evans 75%
Terry Everett 8%
Thomas Ewing 0%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 0%
Harris Fawell 17%
Victor Fazio 25%
Russ Feingold 92%
Thomas Foglietta 75%
Mark Foley 50%
Michael Patrick Forbes 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. 67%
Wendell Ford 42%
Tillie Fowler 0%
Jon David Fox 33%
Robert Franks 67%
William Frist 17%
Jonas Frost III 17%
Elizabeth Furse 92%
John Ganske 50%
Sam Gejdenson 42%
George Gekas 8%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 58%
Jim Gibbons 17%
Wayne Gilchrest 17%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 8%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 58%
Henry Gonzalez 25%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 25%
William Goodling 25%
Bart Gordon 33%
Slade Gorton 8%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 25%
William Phillip Gramm 8%
Rodney Grams 8%
James Greenwood 50%
Judd Gregg 8%
Gilbert Gutknecht 42%
Charles Hagel 8%
Tony Hall 50%
Lee Hamilton 42%
James Hansen 8%
Jane Harman 17%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
W.G. Hefner 25%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 8%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 67%
David Lee Hobson 8%
Pete Hoekstra 50%
Ernest Hollings 33%
Darlene Hooley 92%
Stephen Horn 8%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 25%
Kenny Hulshof 8%
Duncan Hunter 0%
William Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 8%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 17%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 8%
Jay Johnson 67%
Nancy Johnson 17%
Paul Kanjorski 67%
Sue Kelly 42%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 67%
Joseph Kennedy II 92%
Patrick Kennedy 42%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 42%
Bob Kerrey 58%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 75%
Jay Kim 0%
Gerald Kleczka 75%
Ronald Klink 42%
Scott Klug 58%
Joseph Knollenberg 8%
James Kolbe 25%
John LaFalce 67%
Nicholas Lampson 58%
Tom Lantos 75%
Stephen Largent 17%
Rick Lazio 25%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 50%
Robert Livingston 8%
Trent Lott, Sr. 8%
William Luther 75%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 25%
Thomas Manton 42%
Matthew Martinez 50%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 42%
Karen McCarthy 67%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 0%
Joseph McDade 0%
Paul McHale 50%
John McHugh 8%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 8%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 67%
Martin Meehan 75%
Carrie Meek 8%
Jack Metcalf 17%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 50%
Dan Miller 17%
David Minge 75%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 83%
John Moakley 83%
Alan Mollohan 17%
Constance Morella 75%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 58%
Frank Murkowski 8%
Jack Murtha 8%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Mark Neumann 25%
Robert William Ney 17%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 17%
James Nussle 42%
Jim Oberstar 83%
Dave Obey 83%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 8%
Major Owens 83%
Michael Oxley 8%
Ronald Packard 8%
Michael Pappas 0%
Paul Michael Parker 8%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 92%
Edward Pease 8%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 25%
Richard Pombo 17%
Earl Pomeroy 25%
John Edward Porter 58%
Glenn Poshard 75%
Deborah Pryce 25%
Jack Quinn 25%
George Radanovich 8%
James Ramstad 75%
William Redmond 0%
Ralph Regula 25%
Frank Duncan Riggs 17%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 92%
Charles Robb 25%
Ciro Rodriguez 33%
Timothy Roemer 58%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 17%
Marge Roukema 67%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 67%
Matthew Salmon 8%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 8%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 33%
Rick Santorum 8%
Paul Sarbanes 58%
H. James Saxton 8%
Joe Scarborough 8%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 83%
E.G. Shuster 17%
Norman Sisisky 25%
David Skaggs 75%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 8%
Gordon Smith 8%
Linda Smith 17%
Nick Smith 42%
Robert Smith 0%
Bob Smith 0%
Vincent Snowbarger 0%
Vic Snyder 25%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 0%
Mark Souder 8%
Arlen Specter 42%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 17%
Charles Stenholm 25%
Ted Stevens 25%
Louis Stokes 92%
Ted Strickland 58%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 75%
John Sununu 17%
James Talent 17%
John Tanner 33%
Ellen Tauscher 67%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 8%
Gene Taylor 0%
Craig Thomas 8%
William Thomas 8%
Fred Thompson 8%
Karen Thurman 25%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Esteban Edward Torres 67%
Robert Torricelli 58%
James Traficant, Jr. 25%
James Turner 25%
Bruce Vento 83%
James Walsh 17%
Zach Wamp 17%
John Warner 8%
Wesley Watkins 8%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 25%
Gerald Weller 0%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 50%
Robert Weygand 42%
Rick White 17%
Robert Wise, Jr. 50%
Albert Wynn 58%
Sidney Yates 58%

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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