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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

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. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 22%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward 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 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 44%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 67%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 22%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 44%
CA U.S. House 51 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. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 90%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 56%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 67%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 44%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 38%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 88%
FL Chief 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 U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
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 Leonard Boswell Democratic 89%
IA U.S. House 4 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 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 67%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 78%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 67%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 11%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 67%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 50%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 56%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 50%
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. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 63%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 86%
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 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 38%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr 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 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 44%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 89%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 89%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 78%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 44%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 67%
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 Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 67%
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 9 Sue Myrick Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 100%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 22%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr 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 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 56%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 44%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 63%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 56%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 28 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 U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 56%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 67%
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%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 78%
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. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 33%
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 14 Ron Paul Republican 22%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes 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 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 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%
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 Richard Hastings Republican 56%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 89%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 89%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 88%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 100%
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%
Wayne Allard 40%
Thomas Allen 78%
William 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%
William Barrett 78%
Herbert Bateman 57%
Bob Bennett 50%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 78%
Douglas Bereuter 89%
Marion Berry 67%
Michael Bilirakis 56%
Rod Blagojevich 67%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 44%
Sherwood Boehlert 44%
Kit Bond 50%
Henry Bonilla 56%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 67%
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%
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 67%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 100%
Robert Clement 89%
Mac Collins 11%
Larry Combest 56%
Gary Condit 88%
Merrill Cook 56%
John Cooksey 56%
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%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 67%
John Doolittle 56%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 33%
Chet Edwards 78%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 22%
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%
Robert Franks 33%
William Frist 40%
Jonas Frost III 100%
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%
Charles Hagel 50%
Tony Hall 67%
James Hansen 44%
J. Dennis Hastert 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 22%
Joel Hefley 13%
Jesse Helms 22%
Rick Hill 89%
Van Hilleary 56%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 22%
Pete Hoekstra 33%
Ernest Hollings 100%
Darlene Hooley 78%
Stephen Horn 33%
John Nathan Hostettler 11%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 88%
Kenny Hulshof 44%
Duncan Hunter 56%
William Hutchinson 38%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 40%
Henry Hyde 25%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 38%
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%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 89%
Ronald Klink 78%
Joseph Knollenberg 44%
James Kolbe 33%
John LaFalce 67%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 89%
Stephen Largent 22%
Rick Lazio 56%
James Leach 89%
Ron Lewis 56%
John Linder 33%
William Lipinski 50%
Robert Livingston 56%
Trent Lott, Sr. 50%
William Luther 78%
Connie Mack 30%
James Maloney 67%
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%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 50%
Jack Murtha 78%
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%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 78%
Major Owens 89%
Michael Oxley 56%
Ronald Packard 67%
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%
Bob Riley 67%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 67%
Charles Robb 90%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 89%
James Rogan 22%
William Roth, Jr. 50%
Marge Roukema 44%
Jim Ryun 44%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 89%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 22%
Rick Santorum 60%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James 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%
Vic Snyder 78%
Mark Souder 44%
Arlen Specter 56%
Floyd Spence 67%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 78%
Ted Stevens 60%
Ted Strickland 78%
Robert 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%
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%
Robert Weygand 89%
Heather Wilson 0%
Robert Wise, Jr. 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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