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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: The Libertarian Party

1995 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 30%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 50%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 10%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 50%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 30%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 60%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 20%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 70%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 70%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 60%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 60%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 10%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 60%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 80%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 80%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 60%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 40%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 20%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 30%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 70%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 70%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 50%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 40%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 60%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 30%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 70%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 30%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 50%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 70%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 40%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 70%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 60%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 60%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 10%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 80%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 40%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 50%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 70%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 60%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 60%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 20%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 20%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 60%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 20%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 60%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 30%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 20%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 60%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 70%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 20%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 70%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 10%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 20%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 80%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 60%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 10%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 10%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 10%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 10%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 10%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 80%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 70%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 10%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 36 Steve Stockman Republican 80%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 70%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 30%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 50%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 80%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 10%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 60%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 70%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 10%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 80%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 70%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 20%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 30%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 40%
Gary Ackerman 10%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 50%
Wayne Allard 40%
Bill Archer 80%
Richard Armey 70%
John Ashcroft 60%
Henry Scott Baesler 10%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
William Baker 30%
John Baldacci 50%
Cass Ballenger 70%
James Barcia 30%
Robert Barr, Jr. 20%
Bill Barrett 70%
Roscoe Bartlett 20%
Charlie Bass 60%
Herbert Bateman 30%
Anthony Beilenson 80%
Bob Bennett 60%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 10%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Howard Berman 60%
Tom Bevill 10%
Brian Bilbray 10%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Jeff Bingaman 60%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 70%
Peter Blute 40%
Sherwood Boehlert 30%
Kit Bond 40%
Henry Bonilla 70%
David Edward Bonior 80%
Sonny Bono 50%
Robert Borski, Jr. 10%
Rick Boucher 20%
Bill Bradley 40%
John Breaux 40%
Bill Brewster 30%
Glen Browder 10%
George Brown, Jr. 80%
Hank Brown 50%
Richard Bryan 30%
Ed Bryant 90%
John Bryant 10%
Dale Bumpers 30%
Jim Bunn 60%
Jim Bunning 20%
Conrad Burns 50%
Dan Burton 20%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 30%
Herbert Callahan 20%
Ben Campbell 40%
Mike Castle 20%
John Chafee 60%
Jim Chapman 30%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 50%
Jon Lynn Christensen 90%
Dick Chrysler 40%
William Clay, Sr. 10%
Eva Clayton 10%
Robert Clement 20%
William Clinger 40%
William Cohen 50%
Ronald Coleman 20%
Barbara-Rose Collins 10%
Cardiss Collins 80%
Michael Collins 20%
Larry Combest 80%
Gary Condit 50%
Kent Conrad 40%
Wes Cooley 80%
Jerry Costello 30%
Paul Coverdell 30%
Christopher Cox 30%
William Coyne 10%
Larry Craig 60%
Robert Cramer 20%
Philip Crane 20%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 70%
Barbara Cubin 70%
Randall Cunningham 30%
Alfonse D'Amato 40%
Patsy Ann Danner 30%
Thomas Daschle 40%
Thomas Davis III 50%
E. Kika de la Garza 20%
Thomas DeLay 70%
Ronald Dellums 90%
Peter Deutsch 40%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 0%
Jay Dickey 30%
Norm Dicks 10%
Julian Dixon 70%
Chris Dodd 50%
Robert Dole 40%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 40%
Calvin Dooley 50%
John Doolittle 40%
Byron Dorgan 40%
Robert Dornan 20%
David Dreier 30%
Jennifer Dunn 60%
Chet Edwards 30%
Vern Ehlers 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 40%
Bill Emerson 60%
Philip English 40%
John Ensign 80%
Lane Evans 80%
Terry Everett 20%
Thomas Ewing 20%
Jim Exon 30%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 50%
Harris Fawell 20%
Victor Fazio 70%
Russ Feingold 70%
Cleo Fields 50%
Jack Fields, Jr. 80%
Floyd Flake 10%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 30%
Thomas Foglietta 10%
Mark Foley 40%
Michael Patrick Forbes 60%
Harold Ford, Sr. 10%
Wendell Ford 30%
Tillie Fowler 10%
Jon David Fox 80%
Barney Frank 70%
Gary Franks 30%
Robert Franks 50%
Dan Frisa 80%
William Frist 40%
Jonas Frost III 20%
David Funderburk 80%
Elizabeth Furse 10%
Elton Gallegly 20%
John Ganske 20%
Sam Gejdenson 70%
George Gekas 60%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 10%
Pete Geren 50%
Sam Gibbons 60%
Wayne Gilchrest 60%
Paul Gillmor 80%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 50%
Henry Gonzalez 0%
William Goodling 60%
Bart Gordon 20%
Slade Gorton 20%
Porter Goss 10%
Daniel Graham 60%
William Phillip Gramm 50%
Rodney Grams 50%
Enid Greene 80%
James Greenwood 60%
Judd Gregg 40%
Steven Gunderson 50%
Gilbert Gutknecht 90%
Tony Hall 10%
Lee Hamilton 30%
Melton Hancock 90%
James Hansen 80%
Jane Harman 30%
J. Dennis Hastert 10%
Mark Hatfield 30%
James Hayes 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 30%
Joel Hefley 20%
W.G. Hefner 10%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 60%
Jesse Helms 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. 20%
Van Hilleary 80%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 90%
Maurice Hinchey 10%
David Lee Hobson 60%
Pete Hoekstra 40%
Martin Hoke 60%
Thomas Holden 20%
Ernest Hollings 50%
Stephen Horn 40%
John Nathan Hostettler 20%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Duncan Hunter 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 20%
Kay Hutchison 50%
Henry Hyde 10%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 80%
Daniel Inouye 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 70%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 50%
William Jefferson 60%
James Merrill Jeffords 80%
Nancy Johnson 40%
Harry Johnston 50%
J. Bennett Johnston 40%
Paul Kanjorski 10%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 60%
Sue Kelly 40%
Dirk Kempthorne 70%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 60%
Joseph Kennedy II 70%
Patrick Kennedy 10%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 50%
Bob Kerrey 50%
Dale Kildee 50%
Jay Kim 40%
Gerald Kleczka 20%
Ronald Klink 10%
Scott Klug 70%
Joseph Knollenberg 10%
Herb Kohl 50%
James Kolbe 50%
Jon Kyl 40%
John LaFalce 10%
Ray LaHood 40%
Tom Lantos 50%
Stephen Largent 90%
Steve LaTourette 50%
Greg Laughlin 40%
Rick Lazio 50%
James Leach 50%
Jerry Lewis 30%
Ron Lewis 20%
Joe Lieberman 40%
Jim Lightfoot 20%
Blanche Lincoln 60%
John Linder 20%
William Lipinski 30%
Robert Livingston 10%
James Longley, Jr. 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. 50%
Dick Lugar 60%
William Luther 20%
Connie Mack 50%
Thomas Manton 0%
Don Manzullo 30%
Matthew Martinez 60%
Bill Martini 30%
Frank Mascara 10%
Robert Matsui 50%
Karen McCarthy 10%
Bill McCollum 10%
James McCrery III 10%
Joseph McDade 50%
Paul McHale 10%
John McHugh 60%
Scott McInnis 50%
David McIntosh 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 50%
Michael McNulty 30%
Martin Meehan 70%
Carrie Meek 70%
Jack Metcalf 80%
Jan Meyers 40%
Dan Miller 30%
David Minge 20%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 70%
John Moakley 30%
Susan Molinari 60%
Alan Mollohan 0%
G.V. Montgomery 50%
Carlos Moorhead 20%
Constance Morella 50%
Carol Moseley Braun 50%
Patrick Moynihan 50%
Frank Murkowski 50%
Jack Murtha 10%
John Myers 20%
Sue Myrick 70%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 50%
Mark Neumann 70%
Robert William Ney 60%
Don Nickles 40%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 20%
Sam Nunn 40%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 10%
Dave Obey 20%
John Olver 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 10%
Bill Orton 30%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 80%
Ronald Packard 20%
Mike Parker 50%
William Paxon 80%
Donald Payne 10%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 20%
Claiborne Pell 40%
Pete Peterson 30%
Owen Pickett 10%
Richard Pombo 30%
Earl Pomeroy 0%
John Edward Porter 20%
Glenn Poshard 40%
Larry Pressler 50%
Deborah Pryce 50%
David Pryor 20%
James Quillen 60%
Jack Quinn 40%
George Radanovich 20%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 50%
Bill Richardson 10%
Frank Duncan Riggs 40%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 70%
Charles Robb 80%
Timothy Roemer 20%
Charles Rose III 0%
Toby Roth 60%
William Roth, Jr. 40%
Marge Roukema 30%
Martin Olav Sabo 10%
Rick Santorum 60%
Paul Sarbanes 50%
Jim Saxton 60%
Joe Scarborough 50%
Daniel Schaefer 30%
Steven Schiff 50%
Patricia Schroeder 90%
Andrea Seastrand 30%
John Shadegg 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 30%
Christopher Shays 50%
E.G. Shuster 60%
Paul Simon 60%
Alan Simpson 60%
Norman Sisisky 20%
David Skaggs 70%
Joseph Skeen 70%
Ike Skelton 30%
Linda Smith 70%
Nick Smith 20%
Bob Smith 50%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 70%
Mark Souder 40%
Arlen Specter 70%
Floyd Spence 70%
John Spratt, Jr. 10%
Pete Stark 60%
Cliff Stearns 30%
Charles Stenholm 30%
Ted Stevens 40%
Louis Stokes 10%
Gerry Studds 70%
Bob Stump 30%
Bart Stupak 30%
James Talent 80%
John Tanner 20%
Randy Tate 60%
William Tauzin 30%
Charles Taylor 60%
Gene Taylor 50%
Frank Tejeda 10%
Craig Thomas 40%
William Thomas 40%
Fred Thompson 40%
Ray Thornton 20%
Karen Thurman 60%
Strom Thurmond 50%
Todd Tiahrt 30%
Peter Torkildsen 40%
Esteban Edward Torres 60%
Robert Torricelli 10%
Ed Towns 10%
James Traficant, Jr. 20%
Bruce Vento 10%
Harold Volkmer 10%
Barbara Vucanovich 70%
Robert Walker 70%
James Walsh 40%
Zach Wamp 80%
Michael Ward 60%
John Warner 30%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 60%
David Weldon 20%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 30%
Paul Wellstone 60%
Rick White 90%
Pat Williams 10%
Charles Wilson 10%
Bob Wise, Jr. 0%
Lynn Woolsey 70%
Albert Wynn 70%
Sidney Yates 60%
Bill Zeliff 80%
Richard Zimmer 90%

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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