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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

1987-1999 Positions

Issues: Guns
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 6%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 8%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 9%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 11%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 80%
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 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 80%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 10%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 9%
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 92%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 7%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 20%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 100%
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 18%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 69%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 87%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 17%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 27%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 94%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 30%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 11%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 17%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 91%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 91%
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%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 8%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 60%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 5%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 17%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 92%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 20%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
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. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 17%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 63%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 6%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 94%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 14%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 93%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 5%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 37%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 95%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 8%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 20%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 91%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 91%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 33%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 88%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 93%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 80%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 74%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 73%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
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%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 18%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 17%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 62%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 29%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 20%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 50%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
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 83%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 18%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 83%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 5%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 91%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 63%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 47%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 71%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 89%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 17%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 60%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 20%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 60%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 38%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 13%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 84%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 8%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Richard Armey 0%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 83%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 9%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Evan Bayh 86%
Bob Bennett 12%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 83%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Shelley Berkley 100%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 60%
Judy Biggert 40%
Michael Bilirakis 31%
Jeff Bingaman 53%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 88%
Kit Bond 5%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 40%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Leonard Boswell 40%
Rick Boucher 13%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 60%
John Breaux 29%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 9%
Robert Byrd 95%
Herbert Callahan 14%
Ben Campbell 17%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 67%
Mike Castle 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 75%
Robert Clement 56%
Michael Collins 9%
Larry Combest 6%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 68%
John Cooksey 40%
Jerry Costello 19%
Christopher Cox 14%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 14%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 17%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 79%
James Davis 100%
Thomas Davis III 67%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 55%
Norm Dicks 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 16%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 14%
Byron Dorgan 64%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 18%
John Edwards 14%
Chet Edwards 57%
Vern Ehlers 25%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Jo Ann Emerson 20%
Philip English 17%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 80%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 9%
Russ Feingold 78%
Peter Fitzgerald 100%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 60%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 15%
Jonas Frost III 60%
Elton Gallegly 31%
John Ganske 100%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 94%
Jim Gibbons 20%
Wayne Gilchrest 86%
Paul Gillmor 7%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Charlie Gonzalez 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 20%
Bart Gordon 38%
Porter Goss 33%
Daniel Graham 89%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Mark Green 20%
James Greenwood 82%
Judd Gregg 11%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Tony Hall 88%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 17%
Joel Hefley 13%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 6%
Baron Hill 40%
Van Hilleary 17%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 9%
Maurice Hinchey 73%
David Lee Hobson 14%
Pete Hoekstra 18%
Thomas Holden 27%
Ernest Hollings 42%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 82%
John Nathan Hostettler 17%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 36%
Kenny Hulshof 20%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Asa Hutchinson 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 17%
Kay Hutchison 11%
Henry Hyde 63%
Daniel Inouye 93%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 9%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 83%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 47%
William Lewis Jenkins 20%
Christopher John 20%
Nancy Johnson 94%
Paul Kanjorski 13%
Sue Kelly 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 100%
James Kolbe 25%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Jon Kyl 8%
John LaFalce 100%
Ray LaHood 17%
Nicholas Lampson 20%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Steve LaTourette 17%
James Leach 94%
Jerry Lewis 0%
Ron Lewis 14%
Joe Lieberman 89%
Blanche Lincoln 86%
John Linder 9%
William Lipinski 94%
Trent Lott, Sr. 5%
Dick Lugar 53%
William Luther 100%
James Maloney 100%
Don Manzullo 0%
Frank Mascara 33%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 0%
Scott McInnis 9%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 87%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 55%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 93%
John Moakley 75%
Alan Mollohan 13%
Dennis Moore 80%
Constance Morella 100%
Frank Murkowski 5%
Jack Murtha 13%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 17%
Robert William Ney 17%
Don Nickles 5%
Anne Northup 40%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 21%
Jim Oberstar 13%
Dave Obey 27%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 13%
Doug Ose 80%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 44%
Ron Paul 20%
Donald Payne 93%
John Peterson 20%
David Phelps 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Richard Pombo 9%
Earl Pomeroy 82%
Deborah Pryce 45%
Jack Quinn 73%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 57%
Ralph Regula 44%
Silvestre Reyes 40%
Thomas Reynolds 0%
Bob Riley 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 60%
Timothy Roemer 86%
Steve Rothman 100%
Marge Roukema 94%
Jim Ryun 20%
Martin Olav Sabo 94%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 20%
Rick Santorum 8%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 75%
Joe Scarborough 50%
John Shadegg 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 40%
Christopher Shays 100%
Donald Sherwood 40%
Ronnie Shows 20%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 6%
Gordon Smith 17%
Nick Smith 27%
Bob Smith 5%
Olympia Snowe 8%
Vic Snyder 100%
Mark Souder 17%
Arlen Specter 11%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 75%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 13%
Charles Stenholm 25%
Ted Stevens 5%
Ted Strickland 38%
Bob Stump 6%
Bart Stupak 36%
John Sweeney 0%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 0%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 7%
Gene Taylor 0%
Craig Thomas 8%
William Thomas 27%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 36%
Strom Thurmond 16%
Todd Tiahrt 33%
Robert Torricelli 100%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 69%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 50%
James Turner 20%
George Voinovich 71%
James Walsh 40%
Zach Wamp 17%
John Warner 53%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 38%
Gerald Weller 33%
Paul Wellstone 95%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 0%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 80%
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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