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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Americans for Better Immigration

1989-2001 Lifetime Score

Issues: Immigration
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 86%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 83%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 48%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 78%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 95%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 85%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 25%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 81%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 7%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 65%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 26%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 87%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 98%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 87%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 88%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 36%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 14%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 13%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 13%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 17%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 78%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 14%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 18%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 28%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 8%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 34%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 7%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 6%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 63%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 87%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 85%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 90%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 26%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 4%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 99%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 40%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 67%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 18%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 64%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 74%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 52%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 71%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 17%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 36%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 17%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 78%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 41%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 85%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 74%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 78%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 22%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 23%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 82%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 76%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 48%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 26%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 77%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 29%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 42%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 14%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 17%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 43%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 24%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 60%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 84%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 85%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 22%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 5%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 14%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 80%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 90%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 0%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 85%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 29%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 80%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 8%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 43%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 22%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 20%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 91%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 10%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 96%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 62%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 7%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 14%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 12%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 15%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 52%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 18%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 18%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 91%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 0%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 16%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 74%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 11%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 36%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 12%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 8%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 21%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 35%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 55%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 22%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 42%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 30%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 21%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 50%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 79%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 8%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 85%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 70%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 75%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 16%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 11%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 85%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 35%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 78%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 17%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 36%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 28%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 73%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 8%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 29%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 78%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 99%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 93%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 69%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 65%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 6%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 82%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 8%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 10%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 25%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 24%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 11%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 85%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 96%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 85%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 14%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 89%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 20%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 8%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 15%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 14%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 75%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 3%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 8%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 17%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 16%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 24%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 56%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 86%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 72%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 46%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 25%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 85%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 21%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 32%
Gary Ackerman 12%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 25%
Todd Akin 85%
Wayne Allard 28%
George Allen 80%
Thomas Allen 43%
Richard Armey 36%
Joe Baca, Sr. 0%
Brian Baird 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 95%
John Baldacci 35%
Cass Ballenger 91%
James Barcia 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. 96%
Roscoe Bartlett 94%
Charlie Bass 88%
Evan Bayh 35%
Bob Bennett 18%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 38%
Douglas Bereuter 95%
Shelley Berkley 0%
Howard Berman 13%
Marion Berry 17%
Judy Biggert 48%
Michael Bilirakis 94%
Jeff Bingaman 21%
Rod Blagojevich 17%
Sherwood Boehlert 25%
Kit Bond 33%
Henry Bonilla 48%
David Edward Bonior 4%
Mary Bono Mack 41%
Robert Borski, Jr. 21%
Leonard Boswell 23%
Rick Boucher 51%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 78%
John Breaux 60%
Henry Brown, Jr. 85%
Ed Bryant 88%
Jim Bunning 82%
Conrad Burns 51%
Dan Burton 97%
Steve Buyer 71%
Robert Byrd 95%
Herbert Callahan 93%
Ben Campbell 30%
Chris Cannon 19%
Jean Carnahan 100%
Brad Carson 16%
Julia Carson 37%
Mike Castle 62%
Eva Clayton 7%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 12%
Robert Clement 77%
Hillary Clinton 78%
Michael Collins 94%
Larry Combest 95%
Gary Condit 42%
Kent Conrad 52%
John Cooksey 97%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 17%
Christopher Cox 91%
William Coyne 8%
Larry Craig 68%
Robert Cramer 63%
Philip Crane 78%
Barbara Cubin 91%
Randall Cunningham 91%
Thomas Daschle 22%
James Davis 8%
Jo Ann Davis 95%
Thomas Davis III 20%
Bill Delahunt 12%
Thomas DeLay 72%
James DeMint 100%
Peter Deutsch 13%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 9%
Norm Dicks 18%
Chris Dodd 22%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 24%
Calvin Dooley 8%
John Doolittle 94%
Byron Dorgan 25%
David Dreier 76%
Jennifer Dunn 61%
John Edwards 30%
Chet Edwards 23%
Vern Ehlers 55%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 82%
Jo Ann Emerson 99%
Philip English 21%
John Ensign 25%
Bob Etheridge 62%
Lane Evans 4%
Terry Everett 96%
Russ Feingold 23%
Michael Ferguson 85%
Peter Fitzgerald 59%
Ernest Fletcher 48%
Mark Foley 84%
Harold Ford, Jr. 24%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 42%
Barney Frank 12%
William Frist 23%
Jonas Frost III 11%
Elton Gallegly 97%
John Ganske 81%
George Gekas 87%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 16%
Jim Gibbons 78%
Wayne Gilchrest 83%
Paul Gillmor 72%
Benjamin Gilman 19%
Charlie Gonzalez 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 99%
Bart Gordon 34%
Porter Goss 92%
Daniel Graham 8%
William Phillip Gramm 38%
Mark Green 63%
James Greenwood 92%
Judd Gregg 27%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 42%
Gilbert Gutknecht 77%
Tony Hall 23%
James Hansen 90%
Jane Harman 52%
Melissa Hart 24%
J. Dennis Hastert 94%
Robert Hayes 90%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 31%
Joel Hefley 96%
Jesse Helms 65%
Wally Herger, Jr. 96%
Baron Hill 14%
Van Hilleary 80%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 47%
Maurice Hinchey 55%
David Lee Hobson 68%
Pete Hoekstra 54%
Thomas Holden 43%
Ernest Hollings 79%
Darlene Hooley 41%
Stephen Horn 97%
John Nathan Hostettler 86%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 43%
Kenny Hulshof 78%
Duncan Hunter 96%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 53%
Kay Hutchison 26%
Henry Hyde 50%
Daniel Inouye 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 79%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 9%
William Jefferson 8%
James Merrill Jeffords 57%
William Lewis Jenkins 38%
Christopher John 46%
Nancy Johnson 34%
Tim Johnson 29%
Paul Kanjorski 31%
Ric Keller 85%
Sue Kelly 39%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 20%
Mark Kennedy 36%
Patrick Kennedy 13%
Brian Kerns 96%
Dale Kildee 19%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 21%
Gerald Kleczka 31%
Joseph Knollenberg 29%
Herb Kohl 23%
James Kolbe 67%
Dennis Kucinich 21%
Jon Kyl 69%
John LaFalce 16%
Ray LaHood 33%
Nicholas Lampson 17%
Tom Lantos 22%
Steve LaTourette 23%
James Leach 56%
Jerry Lewis 55%
Ron Lewis 90%
Joe Lieberman 31%
Blanche Lincoln 63%
John Linder 86%
William Lipinski 76%
Trent Lott, Sr. 32%
Dick Lugar 24%
William Luther 40%
James Maloney 34%
Don Manzullo 50%
Frank Mascara 39%
Robert Matsui 3%
Karen McCarthy 38%
James McCrery III 92%
John McHugh 18%
Scott McInnis 36%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 15%
Michael McNulty 13%
Martin Meehan 13%
Carrie Meek 8%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 17%
Dan Miller 36%
Zell Bryan Miller 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 12%
Alan Mollohan 19%
Dennis Moore 14%
Constance Morella 4%
Frank Murkowski 24%
Jack Murtha 29%
Sue Myrick 31%
Ben Nelson 70%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 74%
Robert William Ney 71%
Don Nickles 24%
Anne Northup 71%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 95%
James Nussle 64%
Jim Oberstar 4%
Dave Obey 55%
John Olver 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 3%
Thomas William Osborne 14%
Doug Ose 14%
Major Owens 4%
Michael Oxley 62%
Ron Paul 67%
Donald Payne 4%
John Peterson 78%
David Phelps 30%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 78%
Todd Platts 85%
Richard Pombo 80%
Earl Pomeroy 64%
Deborah Pryce 27%
Jack Quinn 28%
George Radanovich 69%
James Ramstad 81%
Ralph Regula 75%
Denny Rehberg 85%
Silvestre Reyes 5%
Thomas Reynolds 48%
Bob Riley 67%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 42%
Ciro Rodriguez 16%
Timothy Roemer 38%
Mike Ross 14%
Steve Rothman 24%
Marge Roukema 97%
Jim Ryun 78%
Martin Olav Sabo 11%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 12%
Rick Santorum 24%
Paul Sarbanes 22%
Jim Saxton 92%
Edward Schrock 96%
John Shadegg 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 88%
Christopher Shays 73%
Donald Sherwood 100%
Ronnie Shows 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 36%
Joseph Skeen 86%
Ike Skelton 25%
Gordon Smith 32%
Nick Smith 30%
Bob Smith 48%
Olympia Snowe 30%
Vic Snyder 0%
Hilda Solis 0%
Mark Souder 13%
Arlen Specter 25%
John Spratt, Jr. 43%
Pete Stark 1%
Cliff Stearns 94%
Charles Stenholm 93%
Ted Stevens 31%
Ted Strickland 49%
Bob Stump 96%
Bart Stupak 38%
John Sullivan 100%
John Sununu 58%
John Sweeney 80%
Tom Tancredo 100%
John Tanner 86%
Ellen Tauscher 10%
William Tauzin 85%
Charles Taylor 94%
Gene Taylor 92%
Craig Thomas 72%
William Thomas 22%
Fred Thompson 20%
Karen Thurman 24%
Strom Thurmond 25%
Todd Tiahrt 42%
Robert Torricelli 27%
Ed Towns 4%
James Traficant, Jr. 98%
James Turner 12%
George Voinovich 64%
James Walsh 17%
Zach Wamp 93%
John Warner 23%
Wesley Watkins 92%
Diane Watson 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 75%
Anthony Weiner 15%
David Weldon 56%
W. Curtis Weldon 44%
Gerald Weller 73%
Paul Wellstone 23%
Robert Wexler 19%
Heather Wilson 19%
Lynn Woolsey 7%
David Wu 14%
Albert Wynn 11%

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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