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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Farmers Union

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 67%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 44%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 22%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 67%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 44%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 50%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 13%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 90%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 22%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 89%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 89%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 56%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 67%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 44%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 88%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 38%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 67%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 56%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 33%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 78%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 56%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 89%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 60%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 67%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 67%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 67%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 78%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 67%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 67%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 56%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 40%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 56%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 50%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 50%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 67%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 67%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 86%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 67%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 78%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 89%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 56%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 44%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 89%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 89%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 78%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 44%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 50%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 56%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 88%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 57%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 67%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 89%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 56%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 44%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 44%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 78%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 56%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 44%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 63%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 56%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 56%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 22%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 11%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 63%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 22%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 67%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 33%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 56%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 75%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 63%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 71%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 71%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 38%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 78%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 22%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 78%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 44%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 44%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 56%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 38%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 44%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 56%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 56%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 56%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 89%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 56%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 56%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 89%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 33%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 44%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 80%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 78%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 56%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 89%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 88%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 11%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 33%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 67%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 90%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 78%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 50%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 40%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 40%
Thomas Allen 78%
Bill Archer 11%
Richard Armey 25%
John Ashcroft 40%
Richard Hugh Baker 56%
John Baldacci 89%
Cass Ballenger 56%
James Barcia 89%
Robert Barr, Jr. 22%
Bill Barrett 78%
Roscoe Bartlett 38%
Charlie Bass 22%
Herbert Bateman 57%
Bob Bennett 50%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 78%
Douglas Bereuter 89%
Howard Berman 78%
Marion Berry 67%
Brian Bilbray 44%
Michael Bilirakis 56%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Rod Blagojevich 67%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 44%
Sherwood Boehlert 44%
Kit Bond 50%
Henry Bonilla 56%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 38%
Robert Borski, Jr. 67%
Leonard Boswell 89%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 89%
John Breaux 80%
George Brown, Jr. 89%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 56%
Jim Bunning 56%
Conrad Burns 80%
Dan Burton 50%
Steve Buyer 67%
Robert Byrd 90%
Herbert Callahan 50%
Ben Campbell 40%
Thomas Campbell 33%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 89%
Mike Castle 44%
John Chafee 60%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 67%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 100%
Robert Clement 89%
Michael Collins 11%
Larry Combest 56%
Gary Condit 88%
Kent Conrad 100%
Merrill Cook 56%
John Cooksey 56%
Jerry Costello 88%
Paul Coverdell 30%
Christopher Cox 22%
William Coyne 67%
Larry Craig 50%
Robert Cramer 100%
Philip Crane 11%
Barbara Cubin 56%
Randall Cunningham 71%
Patsy Ann Danner 78%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 89%
Thomas Davis III 44%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 25%
Peter Deutsch 75%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 67%
Jay Dickey 33%
Norm Dicks 89%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 67%
John Doolittle 56%
Byron Dorgan 100%
David Dreier 56%
Jennifer Dunn 33%
Chet Edwards 78%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 22%
Jo Ann Emerson 67%
Philip English 33%
Bob Etheridge 78%
Lane Evans 89%
Terry Everett 67%
Thomas Ewing 56%
Russ Feingold 60%
Mark Foley 67%
Michael Patrick Forbes 63%
Harold Ford, Jr. 78%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 22%
Tillie Fowler 57%
Barney Frank 63%
Robert Franks 33%
William Frist 40%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elton Gallegly 67%
John Ganske 56%
Sam Gejdenson 89%
George Gekas 44%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 44%
Wayne Gilchrest 67%
Paul Gillmor 33%
Benjamin Gilman 89%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 67%
William Goodling 44%
Bart Gordon 78%
Slade Gorton 40%
Porter Goss 14%
Daniel Graham 90%
William Phillip Gramm 40%
Rodney Grams 60%
James Greenwood 33%
Judd Gregg 40%
Gilbert Gutknecht 56%
Tony Hall 67%
James Hansen 44%
J. Dennis Hastert 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 22%
Joel Hefley 13%
Jesse Helms 22%
Wally Herger, Jr. 44%
Rick Hill 89%
Van Hilleary 56%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 89%
David Lee Hobson 22%
Pete Hoekstra 33%
Thomas Holden 100%
Ernest Hollings 100%
Darlene Hooley 78%
Stephen Horn 33%
John Nathan Hostettler 11%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 88%
Kenny Hulshof 44%
Duncan Hunter 56%
Asa Hutchinson 38%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 40%
Kay Hutchison 33%
Henry Hyde 25%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 38%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 67%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 67%
Christopher John 78%
Nancy Johnson 56%
Paul Kanjorski 78%
Sue Kelly 56%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 78%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 89%
Ronald Klink 78%
Joseph Knollenberg 44%
Herb Kohl 100%
James Kolbe 33%
Dennis Kucinich 56%
Jon Kyl 22%
John LaFalce 67%
Ray LaHood 67%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 89%
Stephen Largent 22%
Steve LaTourette 67%
Frank Lautenberg 90%
Rick Lazio 56%
James Leach 89%
Jerry Lewis 56%
Ron Lewis 56%
Joe Lieberman 90%
John Linder 33%
William Lipinski 50%
Robert Livingston 56%
Trent Lott, Sr. 50%
Dick Lugar 50%
William Luther 78%
Connie Mack 30%
James Maloney 67%
Don Manzullo 11%
Matthew Martinez 83%
Frank Mascara 78%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 67%
Bill McCollum 44%
James McCrery III 56%
John McHugh 56%
Scott McInnis 22%
David McIntosh 33%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 67%
Michael McNulty 67%
Martin Meehan 63%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 78%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 13%
David Minge 89%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 89%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 75%
Constance Morella 38%
Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 50%
Jack Murtha 78%
Sue Myrick 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 56%
Robert William Ney 44%
Don Nickles 10%
Anne Northup 33%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 67%
James Nussle 78%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 89%
John Olver 67%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 78%
Major Owens 89%
Michael Oxley 56%
Ronald Packard 67%
Ron Paul 22%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 56%
John Peterson 33%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 56%
Owen Pickett 88%
Richard Pombo 67%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 44%
Deborah Pryce 17%
Jack Quinn 56%
George Radanovich 33%
James Ramstad 33%
Ralph Regula 56%
Silvestre Reyes 100%
Bob Riley 67%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 67%
Charles Robb 90%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 89%
James Rogan 22%
William Roth, Jr. 50%
Steve Rothman 67%
Marge Roukema 44%
Jim Ryun 44%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 89%
Rick Santorum 60%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 50%
Joe Scarborough 22%
John Shadegg 11%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 22%
Christopher Shays 44%
E.G. Shuster 56%
Norman Sisisky 100%
Joseph Skeen 67%
Ike Skelton 78%
Gordon Smith 50%
Nick Smith 78%
Bob Smith 20%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 78%
Mark Souder 44%
Arlen Specter 56%
Floyd Spence 67%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Pete Stark 75%
Cliff Stearns 56%
Charles Stenholm 78%
Ted Stevens 60%
Ted Strickland 78%
Bob Stump 44%
Bart Stupak 88%
John Sununu 13%
James Talent 50%
John Tanner 75%
Ellen Tauscher 67%
William Tauzin 63%
Charles Taylor 67%
Gene Taylor 67%
Craig Thomas 70%
William Thomas 56%
Fred Thompson 40%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 50%
Todd Tiahrt 33%
Robert Torricelli 100%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 67%
James Turner 100%
Bruce Vento 78%
James Walsh 78%
Zach Wamp 44%
John Warner 40%
Wesley Watkins 56%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 56%
David Weldon 44%
W. Curtis Weldon 44%
Gerald Weller 67%
Paul Wellstone 90%
Robert Wexler 100%
Bob Weygand 89%
Heather Wilson 0%
Bob Wise, Jr. 100%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
Albert Wynn 100%

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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