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Special Interest Groups

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

2001 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 17%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 19%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 20%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 25%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 92%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 27%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 92%
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 17 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 83%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 94%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 8%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 92%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 93%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 17%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 18%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 8%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 17%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 9%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 9%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 92%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 8%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 13%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 17%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 19%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 8%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
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 25%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 94%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 25%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 13%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 19%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 8%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 17%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 6%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 33%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 88%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 8%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 92%
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%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 17%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 25%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 17%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 75%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 17%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 17%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 25%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 8%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 81%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 18%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 82%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 17%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 8%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 42%
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 0%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 27%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 8%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 8%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 8%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 25%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 25%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 25%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 17%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 91%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden 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 9 Bill Shuster Republican 30%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 8%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 63%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 92%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 17%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 94%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 33%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 75%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 6%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 17%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 8%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 83%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 17%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 83%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 8%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 83%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 92%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 17%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 92%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 8%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 17%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 33%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 20%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 6%
George Allen 13%
Thomas Allen 100%
Richard Armey 8%
Joe Baca, Sr. 100%
Brian Baird 83%
Richard Hugh Baker 9%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 83%
Robert Barr, Jr. 9%
Roscoe Bartlett 17%
Charlie Bass 17%
Evan Bayh 100%
Bob Bennett 13%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 82%
Douglas Bereuter 17%
Shelley Berkley 92%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 92%
Judy Biggert 17%
Michael Bilirakis 25%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 33%
Kit Bond 19%
Henry Bonilla 8%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 17%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Leonard Boswell 92%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 82%
John Breaux 75%
Henry Brown, Jr. 8%
Ed Bryant 8%
Jim Bunning 13%
Conrad Burns 19%
Dan Burton 9%
Steve Buyer 18%
Robert Byrd 75%
Herbert Callahan 8%
Ben Campbell 40%
Chris Cannon 8%
Jean Carnahan 93%
Brad Carson 67%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 25%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 88%
Robert Clement 73%
Hillary Clinton 100%
Michael Collins 17%
Larry Combest 17%
Gary Condit 75%
Kent Conrad 94%
John Cooksey 8%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 100%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 13%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 8%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 17%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 83%
Jo Ann Davis 17%
Thomas Davis III 17%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 8%
Norm Dicks 82%
Chris Dodd 94%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 21%
Calvin Dooley 50%
John Doolittle 17%
Byron Dorgan 94%
David Dreier 8%
Jennifer Dunn 8%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 100%
Vern Ehlers 8%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Jo Ann Emerson 17%
Philip English 25%
John Ensign 19%
Bob Etheridge 92%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 8%
Russ Feingold 94%
Michael Ferguson 33%
Peter Fitzgerald 38%
Ernest Fletcher 8%
Mark Foley 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. 91%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 9%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 13%
Jonas Frost III 92%
Elton Gallegly 17%
John Ganske 42%
George Gekas 17%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 17%
Wayne Gilchrest 17%
Paul Gillmor 18%
Benjamin Gilman 42%
Charlie Gonzalez 78%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 25%
Bart Gordon 83%
Porter Goss 8%
Daniel Graham 94%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Mark Green 17%
James Greenwood 8%
Judd Gregg 13%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht 17%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 8%
Jane Harman 83%
Melissa Hart 17%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 8%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 8%
Joel Hefley 18%
Jesse Helms 6%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 82%
Van Hilleary 17%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 17%
Pete Hoekstra 17%
Thomas Holden 100%
Ernest Hollings 88%
Darlene Hooley 83%
Stephen Horn 33%
John Nathan Hostettler 11%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 18%
Kenny Hulshof 17%
Duncan Hunter 17%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 19%
Kay Hutchison 19%
Henry Hyde 17%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 8%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 91%
James Merrill Jeffords 56%
William Lewis Jenkins 8%
Christopher John 45%
Nancy Johnson 17%
Tim Johnson 33%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Ric Keller 9%
Sue Kelly 25%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 17%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Brian Kerns 8%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 8%
Herb Kohl 88%
James Kolbe 0%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Jon Kyl 6%
John LaFalce 100%
Ray LaHood 33%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
Steve LaTourette 36%
James Leach 42%
Jerry Lewis 8%
Ron Lewis 8%
Joe Lieberman 93%
Blanche Lincoln 88%
John Linder 8%
William Lipinski 80%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 13%
William Luther 100%
James Maloney 91%
Don Manzullo 17%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 91%
Karen McCarthy 91%
James McCrery III 8%
John McHugh 42%
Scott McInnis 8%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 0%
Zell Bryan Miller 56%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
Alan Mollohan 92%
Dennis Moore 75%
Constance Morella 50%
Frank Murkowski 7%
Jack Murtha 100%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 81%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 8%
Robert William Ney 25%
Don Nickles 13%
Anne Northup 8%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 25%
James Nussle 17%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 75%
Thomas William Osborne 17%
Doug Ose 17%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 10%
Ron Paul 27%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 8%
David Phelps 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 17%
Todd Platts 18%
Richard Pombo 25%
Earl Pomeroy 92%
Deborah Pryce 17%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 17%
Ralph Regula 25%
Denny Rehberg 17%
Silvestre Reyes 83%
Thomas Reynolds 17%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 83%
Mike Ross 92%
Steve Rothman 100%
Marge Roukema 36%
Jim Ryun 8%
Martin Olav Sabo 92%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 83%
Rick Santorum 13%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 33%
Edward Schrock 8%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 8%
Christopher Shays 17%
Donald Sherwood 17%
Ronnie Shows 82%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 25%
Joseph Skeen 8%
Ike Skelton 67%
Gordon Smith 44%
Nick Smith 8%
Bob Smith 13%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 83%
Hilda Solis 100%
Mark Souder 9%
Arlen Specter 63%
John Spratt, Jr. 92%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 18%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 25%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bob Stump 9%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 18%
Tom Tancredo 8%
John Tanner 64%
Ellen Tauscher 83%
William Tauzin 17%
Charles Taylor 8%
Gene Taylor 64%
Craig Thomas 13%
William Thomas 8%
Fred Thompson 13%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 6%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 94%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 42%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 75%
George Voinovich 13%
James Walsh 10%
Zach Wamp 9%
John Warner 25%
Wesley Watkins 8%
Diane Watson 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 8%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 8%
W. Curtis Weldon 42%
Gerald Weller 17%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 17%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 92%
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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