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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: United Auto Workers

1998 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 50%
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 42%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 25%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 92%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 90%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer 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 75%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 8%
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 33%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 92%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 92%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 17%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 91%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 67%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 8%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 17%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 17%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 83%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 25%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
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 75%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 18%
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 92%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 92%
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 33%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 10%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 22%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 17%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 25%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 18%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 100%
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 92%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 92%
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 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 17%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 92%
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 8%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 92%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 91%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 92%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 83%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 17%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 17%
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 89%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 50%
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 83%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 92%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 92%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 100%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 17%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
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 8%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 90%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks 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 91%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 90%
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 92%
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 8%
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 50%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 8%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 45%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 82%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 92%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 92%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 91%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 92%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 18%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 25%
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 33%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 8%
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 45%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 91%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 92%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 91%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 92%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 91%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 80%
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 92%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 67%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 25%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 92%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 75%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 82%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 83%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 83%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 25%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 25%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 92%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 91%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 92%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 91%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 92%
Robert Barr, Jr. 17%
William Barrett 25%
Herbert Bateman 9%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 75%
Douglas Bereuter 18%
Marion Berry 83%
Michael Bilirakis 18%
Rod Blagojevich 91%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 75%
Kit Bond 40%
Henry Bonilla 9%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 91%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 75%
John Breaux 80%
George Brown, Jr. 92%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 17%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 25%
Robert Byrd 90%
Herbert Callahan 9%
Ben Campbell 50%
Thomas Campbell 33%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 45%
John Chafee 50%
Helen Chenoweth 42%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 80%
Robert Clement 67%
Mac Collins 8%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 75%
Merrill Cook 17%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 8%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 75%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 8%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 82%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 75%
Thomas Davis III 25%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 8%
Peter Deutsch 91%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 58%
Jay Dickey 17%
Julian Dixon 91%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 22%
Calvin Dooley 75%
John Doolittle 17%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 75%
Vern Ehlers 36%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 9%
Philip English 33%
Bob Etheridge 83%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 25%
Thomas Ewing 8%
Russ Feingold 100%
Mark Foley 17%
Michael Patrick Forbes 75%
Harold Ford, Jr. 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 8%
Tillie Fowler 20%
Robert Franks 25%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 91%
John Ganske 33%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 25%
Wayne Gilchrest 8%
Paul Gillmor 8%
Benjamin Gilman 64%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 42%
William Goodling 25%
Bart Gordon 83%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 17%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 17%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 83%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 17%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 17%
Van Hilleary 17%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 91%
David Lee Hobson 25%
Pete Hoekstra 8%
Ernest Hollings 63%
Darlene Hooley 67%
Stephen Horn 42%
John Nathan Hostettler 25%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 45%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 27%
William Hutchinson 18%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 17%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 88%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 17%
Christopher John 64%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 92%
Sue Kelly 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 92%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 8%
John LaFalce 91%
Nicholas Lampson 91%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 9%
Rick Lazio 33%
James Leach 36%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 82%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 92%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 92%
Matthew Martinez 80%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 75%
Karen McCarthy 90%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 8%
John McHugh 58%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 92%
Carrie Meek 92%
Jack Metcalf 42%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 90%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 83%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 90%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 58%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 10%
Jack Murtha 90%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 58%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 8%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 20%
James Nussle 8%
Jim Oberstar 92%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 82%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ronald Packard 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 25%
John Peterson 8%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 8%
Owen Pickett 75%
Richard Pombo 25%
Earl Pomeroy 92%
John Edward Porter 8%
Deborah Pryce 13%
Jack Quinn 58%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 8%
Ralph Regula 42%
Bob Riley 17%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 90%
Ciro Rodriguez 92%
Timothy Roemer 83%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 20%
Marge Roukema 17%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 75%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 42%
Rick Santorum 10%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 50%
Joe Scarborough 18%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 25%
E.G. Shuster 9%
Norman Sisisky 100%
Joseph Skeen 17%
Ike Skelton 82%
Gordon Smith 10%
Nick Smith 42%
Bob Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 75%
Mark Souder 27%
Arlen Specter 75%
Floyd Spence 25%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 67%
Ted Stevens 30%
Ted Strickland 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 92%
John Sununu 17%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 64%
Ellen Tauscher 58%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 25%
Gene Taylor 45%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 10%
Karen Thurman 92%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 8%
Robert Torricelli 89%
James Traficant, Jr. 91%
James Turner 75%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 42%
Zach Wamp 25%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 8%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 17%
David Weldon 9%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 33%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 100%
Heather Wilson 29%
Robert Wise, Jr. 91%
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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