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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

2000 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 63%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 14%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 50%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 67%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 90%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 75%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 75%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 63%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 88%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 88%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 75%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 75%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 90%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 88%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 75%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 13%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 63%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 75%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 10%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 10%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 75%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 63%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 75%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 33%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 30%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
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 90%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 90%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 90%
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 10%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 30%
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 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 10%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
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 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
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. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 88%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 65%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 60%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 75%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 60%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 30%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 10%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 20%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 11%
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 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 60%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 20%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 22%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 10%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 90%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 70%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 75%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 40%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 38%
Gary Ackerman 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 86%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 90%
Richard Armey 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. 100%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 80%
Robert Barr, Jr. 20%
Roscoe Bartlett 49%
Charlie Bass 0%
Evan Bayh 75%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 10%
Shelley Berkley 80%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 60%
Judy Biggert 0%
Michael Bilirakis 10%
Jeff Bingaman 75%
Rod Blagojevich 89%
Sherwood Boehlert 30%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Leonard Boswell 70%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 30%
John Breaux 25%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 13%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 13%
Steve Buyer 10%
Robert Byrd 63%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 14%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 90%
Mike Castle 20%
Eva Clayton 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 50%
Robert Clement 80%
Michael Collins 10%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 71%
John Cooksey 0%
Jerry Costello 90%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 10%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 71%
James Davis 70%
Thomas Davis III 0%
Bill Delahunt 89%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
Norm Dicks 80%
Julian Dixon 90%
Chris Dodd 75%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 60%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 75%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 75%
Chet Edwards 70%
Vern Ehlers 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 10%
Jo Ann Emerson 10%
Philip English 30%
Bob Etheridge 70%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 88%
Peter Fitzgerald 25%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 90%
Elton Gallegly 0%
John Ganske 30%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 20%
Wayne Gilchrest 94%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 40%
Charlie Gonzalez 90%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
Bart Gordon 80%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 75%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Mark Green 10%
James Greenwood 11%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 10%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 11%
Joel Hefley 10%
Jesse Helms 13%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 70%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 0%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
Thomas Holden 90%
Ernest Hollings 88%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 40%
John Nathan Hostettler 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 20%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 10%
Asa Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 14%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 20%
Daniel Inouye 60%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 10%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 89%
James Merrill Jeffords 38%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 50%
Nancy Johnson 10%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Sue Kelly 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 86%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 63%
James Kolbe 0%
Dennis Kucinich 90%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 90%
Ray LaHood 10%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Steve LaTourette 30%
James Leach 20%
Jerry Lewis 0%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 80%
Blanche Lincoln 50%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 90%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
William Luther 90%
James Maloney 60%
Don Manzullo 0%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 90%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 20%
Scott McInnis 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 90%
Carrie Meek 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 0%
Zell Bryan Miller 33%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 90%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 90%
Dennis Moore 50%
Constance Morella 50%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 100%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 40%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 10%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 90%
Doug Ose 0%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ron Paul 44%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 90%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Richard Pombo 10%
Earl Pomeroy 90%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 40%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 10%
Ralph Regula 10%
Silvestre Reyes 90%
Thomas Reynolds 0%
Bob Riley 10%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 44%
Steve Rothman 100%
Marge Roukema 0%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 80%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 88%
Jim Saxton 30%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 30%
Donald Sherwood 20%
Ronnie Shows 60%
E.G. Shuster 11%
Norman Sisisky 60%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 80%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 10%
Bob Smith 13%
Olympia Snowe 0%
Vic Snyder 90%
Mark Souder 10%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 78%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 10%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bob Stump 10%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 10%
John Sweeney 20%
Tom Tancredo 10%
John Tanner 60%
Ellen Tauscher 50%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 11%
Gene Taylor 60%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 50%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 40%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 80%
George Voinovich 13%
James Walsh 10%
Zach Wamp 10%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 90%
David Weldon 10%
W. Curtis Weldon 20%
Gerald Weller 22%
Paul Wellstone 88%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 10%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 90%
Albert Wynn 88%

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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