Rating Group: Human Rights Campaign

1997-1998 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 50%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 75%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 88%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 88%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 12%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 88%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 12%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 88%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 12%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 75%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 12%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 38%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 38%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 88%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 88%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 12%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 62%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 17%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 12%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 83%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 88%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 88%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 75%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 12%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 75%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 88%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 88%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 88%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 25%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 88%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 88%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 83%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 88%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 88%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 88%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 12%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 62%
OH Governor John Kasich R 12%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 33%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 88%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 88%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 88%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 12%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 83%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 12%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 38%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 62%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 62%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 75%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 33%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 88%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 88%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 88%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 12%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 83%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 50%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 17%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 88%
Cass Ballenger Other 12%
James Barcia Other 38%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 38%
Herbert Bateman Other 14%
Bob Bennett Other 40%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 75%
Douglas Bereuter Other 12%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 0%
Brian Bilbray Other 71%
Michael Bilirakis Other 12%
Jeff Bingaman Other 83%
Rod Blagojevich Other 88%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 67%
Henry Bonilla Other 12%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 75%
Leonard Boswell Other 62%
Rick Boucher Other 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 38%
John Breaux Other 67%
George Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Richard Bryan Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 33%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 12%
Robert Byrd Other 67%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 50%
Thomas Campbell Other 88%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 50%
John Chafee Other 100%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 88%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 83%
Robert Clement Other 62%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 62%
Kent Conrad Other 40%
Merrill Cook Other 0%
John Cooksey Other 25%
Jerry Costello Other 25%
Paul Coverdell Other 50%
Christopher Cox Other 25%
William Coyne Other 88%
Larry Craig Other 17%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 12%
Randall Cunningham Other 12%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 38%
Thomas Daschle Other 83%
James Davis Other 50%
Thomas Davis III Other 38%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 67%
Calvin Dooley Other 75%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 60%
David Dreier Other 25%
Jennifer Dunn Other 12%
Chet Edwards Other 38%
Vern Ehlers Other 12%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 38%
Bob Etheridge Other 38%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 83%
Mark Foley Other 88%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 62%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 75%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Tillie Fowler Other 38%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 50%
William Frist Other 33%
Jonas Frost III Other 88%
Elton Gallegly Other 12%
John Ganske Other 38%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 12%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 12%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 75%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
William Goodling Other 14%
Bart Gordon Other 25%
Slade Gorton Other 50%
Porter Goss Other 38%
Daniel Graham Other 67%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 88%
Judd Gregg Other 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 25%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 50%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 12%
Ernest Hollings Other 33%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 88%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 62%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 40%
Henry Hyde Other 12%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 100%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 25%
Nancy Johnson Other 88%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Sue Kelly Other 88%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 88%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 75%
Ronald Klink Other 50%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 38%
Herb Kohl Other 83%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 62%
Ray LaHood Other 12%
Nicholas Lampson Other 75%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 43%
Frank Lautenberg Other 100%
Rick Lazio Other 50%
James Leach Other 88%
Jerry Lewis Other 62%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 83%
John Linder Other 12%
William Lipinski Other 12%
Robert Livingston Other 12%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 33%
William Luther Other 88%
Connie Mack Other 33%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 88%
Frank Mascara Other 25%
Robert Matsui Other 88%
Karen McCarthy Other 88%
Bill McCollum Other 25%
James McCrery III Other 38%
John McHugh Other 12%
Scott McInnis Other 12%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 75%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 88%
Dan Miller Other 50%
David Minge Other 38%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Patrick Moynihan Other 83%
Frank Murkowski Other 33%
Jack Murtha Other 38%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 12%
Jim Oberstar Other 75%
Dave Obey Other 75%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 12%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 12%
Ronald Packard Other 14%
Ron Paul Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 0%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 25%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 38%
John Edward Porter Other 43%
Deborah Pryce Other 50%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 62%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 50%
Timothy Roemer Other 25%
James Rogan Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 12%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 29%
Rick Santorum Other 33%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 38%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 38%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Norman Sisisky Other 38%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 12%
Gordon Smith Other 33%
Nick Smith Other 12%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 67%
Vic Snyder Other 75%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 83%
Floyd Spence Other 0%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 25%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
Ted Strickland Other 62%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sununu Other 12%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 0%
Ellen Tauscher Other 88%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 0%
Craig Thomas Other 33%
William Thomas Other 50%
Fred Thompson Other 33%
Karen Thurman Other 88%
Strom Thurmond Other 17%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 38%
James Turner Other 0%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
James Walsh Other 12%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 40%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 29%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 50%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 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.