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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: United Auto Workers

1997 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 7%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 7%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 10%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 93%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 60%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 8%
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 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 93%
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 86%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 43%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 93%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 93%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 7%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 40%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 92%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 14%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 33%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 46%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 14%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 14%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 7%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 93%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 7%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 89%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 80%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 80%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 79%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 7%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 92%
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 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 21%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 86%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 7%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 14%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 15%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 14%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 40%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 93%
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%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 90%
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 7%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 40%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 10%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 21%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 21%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 92%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 92%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 86%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 21%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 0%
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 30%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 36%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 14%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 93%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 71%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 60%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 93%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 57%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 57%
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 23%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 70%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 90%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 57%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 92%
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 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 43%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 8%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 93%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 8%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 70%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 93%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 93%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 93%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 79%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 85%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 7%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 80%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 7%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 7%
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 14%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 7%
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 7%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 92%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 7%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 79%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 36%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 67%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 80%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 86%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 92%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 86%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 40%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 14%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 36%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 86%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 70%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 10%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 10%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 93%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 79%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 93%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 92%
Robert Barr, Jr. 7%
William Barrett 21%
Herbert Bateman 36%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 86%
Douglas Bereuter 14%
Marion Berry 93%
Michael Bilirakis 14%
Rod Blagojevich 93%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 57%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 8%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 92%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 79%
Carol Moseley Braun 70%
John Breaux 20%
George Brown, Jr. 92%
Richard Bryan 30%
Ed Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 80%
Jim Bunning 7%
Conrad Burns 10%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 90%
Herbert Callahan 14%
Ben Campbell 10%
Thomas Campbell 36%
Chris Cannon 8%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 50%
John Chafee 10%
Helen Chenoweth 8%
Jon Lynn Christensen 0%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 60%
Robert Clement 77%
Mac Collins 15%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 86%
Merrill Cook 7%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 20%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 71%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 8%
Randall Cunningham 7%
Alfonse D'Amato 30%
Patsy Ann Danner 86%
Thomas Daschle 80%
James Davis 86%
Thomas Davis III 36%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 86%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 57%
Jay Dickey 21%
Julian Dixon 93%
Chris Dodd 70%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 71%
John Doolittle 7%
Byron Dorgan 90%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 86%
Vern Ehlers 21%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 7%
Philip English 50%
John Ensign 7%
Bob Etheridge 86%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 7%
Thomas Ewing 21%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 30%
Harris Fawell 43%
Victor Fazio 93%
Russ Feingold 80%
Thomas Foglietta 92%
Mark Foley 21%
Michael Patrick Forbes 54%
Harold Ford, Jr. 93%
Wendell Ford 90%
Tillie Fowler 14%
Jon David Fox 43%
Robert Franks 43%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 93%
Elizabeth Furse 93%
John Ganske 14%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 36%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 8%
Wayne Gilchrest 31%
Paul Gillmor 21%
Benjamin Gilman 64%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 60%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 29%
William Goodling 21%
Bart Gordon 86%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 30%
William Phillip Gramm 10%
Rodney Grams 20%
James Greenwood 21%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 92%
Lee Hamilton 86%
James Hansen 0%
Jane Harman 71%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 7%
W.G. Hefner 100%
Jesse Helms 20%
Rick Hill 0%
Van Hilleary 7%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 29%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 89%
Darlene Hooley 86%
Stephen Horn 57%
John Nathan Hostettler 7%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 7%
Duncan Hunter 8%
William Hutchinson 14%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 50%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 7%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 92%
James Merrill Jeffords 10%
William Lewis Jenkins 7%
Christopher John 64%
Jay Johnson 86%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 93%
Sue Kelly 29%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 86%
Bob Kerrey 40%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Jay Kim 29%
Gerald Kleczka 79%
Ronald Klink 100%
Scott Klug 21%
Joseph Knollenberg 23%
James Kolbe 8%
John LaFalce 93%
Nicholas Lampson 86%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 38%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 7%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 79%
Robert Livingston 36%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 86%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 86%
Thomas Manton 93%
Matthew Martinez 86%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 93%
Karen McCarthy 83%
Bill McCollum 7%
James McCrery III 14%
Joseph McDade 50%
Paul McHale 86%
John McHugh 36%
Scott McInnis 8%
David McIntosh 7%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 92%
Martin Meehan 92%
Carrie Meek 92%
Jack Metcalf 43%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 93%
Dan Miller 29%
David Minge 79%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 93%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 50%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 30%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 83%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 14%
Mark Neumann 0%
Robert William Ney 36%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 14%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 7%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 92%
Dave Obey 93%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 93%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 21%
Ronald Packard 0%
Michael Pappas 29%
Paul Michael Parker 14%
William Paxon 7%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 14%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 7%
Owen Pickett 77%
Richard Pombo 7%
Earl Pomeroy 86%
John Edward Porter 46%
Glenn Poshard 93%
Deborah Pryce 8%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 14%
William Redmond 0%
Ralph Regula 36%
Frank Duncan Riggs 14%
Bob Riley 8%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 50%
Ciro Rodriguez 92%
Timothy Roemer 79%
James Rogan 8%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Marge Roukema 46%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 7%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 86%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 7%
Rick Santorum 10%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 29%
Joe Scarborough 7%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 100%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 21%
Christopher Shays 50%
E.G. Shuster 8%
Norman Sisisky 86%
David Skaggs 93%
Joseph Skeen 7%
Ike Skelton 79%
Gordon Smith 0%
Linda Smith 29%
Nick Smith 14%
Robert Smith 0%
Bob Smith 10%
Vincent Snowbarger 0%
Vic Snyder 86%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 7%
Mark Souder 7%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 7%
John Spratt, Jr. 93%
Charles Stenholm 46%
Ted Stevens 10%
Louis Stokes 100%
Ted Strickland 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 57%
Ellen Tauscher 86%
William Tauzin 14%
Charles Taylor 8%
Gene Taylor 29%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 14%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 86%
Strom Thurmond 10%
Todd Tiahrt 7%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 90%
James Traficant, Jr. 64%
James Turner 79%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 36%
Zach Wamp 7%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 7%
David Weldon 7%
W. Curtis Weldon 43%
Gerald Weller 21%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 100%
Rick White 7%
Robert Wise, Jr. 93%
Albert Wynn 100%
Sidney Yates 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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