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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

2001 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 10%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AR U.S. House 4 Mike Ross Democratic 90%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 36%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
AZ U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake Republican 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 92%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 1 Mike Thompson Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 15 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 29 Adam Schiff Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 38 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Joe Baca, Sr. Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 90%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 92%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 92%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 10%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
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 89%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 90%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 8%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 10%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 10%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. 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 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 10%
IL U.S. House 15 Tim Johnson Republican 20%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 10%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 10%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 6 Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 75%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 8 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 9 Stephen Lynch 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 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 10%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 25%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 25%
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 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 70%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 10%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 2 Todd Akin Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 10%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
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 58%
MT U.S. House At-Large Denny Rehberg Republican 10%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 20%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 11%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 67%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 92%
NE U.S. Senate Sr Ben Nelson Democratic 50%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 10%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 30%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NV U.S. House 1 Shelley Berkley Democratic 90%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 2 Steve Israel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 11%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
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%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 30%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 25%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 10%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 92%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 10%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
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 9 Bill Shuster Republican 14%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 19 Todd Platts Republican 10%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 42%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 10%
SC U.S. Senate Jr James DeMint Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 92%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 10%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
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 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
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 14 Ron Paul Republican 44%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
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 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 2 Jim Matheson Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 89%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 92%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 10%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Capito Republican 20%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 9%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Brian Baird 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 0%
Evan Bayh 92%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 10%
Marion Berry 100%
Michael Bilirakis 10%
Sherwood Boehlert 20%
Kit Bond 8%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 89%
John Breaux 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 8%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 75%
Ben Campbell 0%
Chris Cannon 0%
Brad Carson 70%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 10%
Mac Collins 0%
Jon Corzine 100%
Christopher Cox 0%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 90%
Jo Ann Davis 0%
Thomas Davis III 10%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 0%
Chris Dodd 92%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 70%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 92%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 100%
Vern Ehlers 0%
Philip English 10%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 90%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 92%
Michael Ferguson 20%
Peter Fitzgerald 25%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 10%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 10%
Wayne Gilchrest 10%
Paul Gillmor 11%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
Bart Gordon 70%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 100%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 0%
Judd Gregg 8%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Charles Hagel 8%
Jane Harman 90%
Melissa Hart 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 11%
Baron Hill 89%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
Ernest Hollings 83%
Darlene Hooley 90%
John Nathan Hostettler 11%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 11%
Kenny Hulshof 10%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Jay Inslee 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 90%
James Merrill Jeffords 58%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 44%
Nancy Johnson 10%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 10%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 10%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 0%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
James Leach 30%
Ron Lewis 0%
Blanche Lincoln 75%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 63%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 30%
Scott McInnis 0%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 42%
Alan Mollohan 90%
Dennis Moore 80%
Jack Murtha 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 10%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 90%
Thomas William Osborne 10%
Doug Ose 10%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Richard Pombo 10%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
Deborah Pryce 10%
Jack Quinn 38%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 10%
Ralph Regula 20%
Thomas Reynolds 10%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 90%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 20%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 0%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 20%
Ike Skelton 67%
Gordon Smith 25%
Nick Smith 10%
Vic Snyder 90%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 42%
John Spratt, Jr. 90%
Charles Stenholm 80%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 10%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 78%
Ellen Tauscher 90%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 10%
Gene Taylor 89%
Craig Thomas 8%
William Thomas 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 80%
George Voinovich 0%
James Walsh 11%
Zach Wamp 10%
John Warner 8%
Diane Watson 100%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 30%
Gerald Weller 0%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 10%
David Wu 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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