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Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: United Auto Workers

1996 Positions on Workplace Rights

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 26%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 6%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 89%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 83%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 5%
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 84%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 95%
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 28 Howard Berman Democratic 95%
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 95%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 95%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 78%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 95%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 5%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 47%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 15%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 90%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 10%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 94%
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 33%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 5%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
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 89%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 10%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 11%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 5%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 11%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 5%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 5%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 94%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 95%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank 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 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 22%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 89%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 5%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 5%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 90%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 75%
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 72%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 20%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 11%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 95%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 89%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 94%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 26%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 89%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 42%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 95%
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 5%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 95%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 15%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 95%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 6%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 15%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 94%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 91%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 94%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 80%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 90%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 5%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 83%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 11%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 95%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 94%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 95%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 95%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 5%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 21%
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 94%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 95%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 95%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 78%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 15%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 15%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 95%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 89%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 95%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 6%
Wayne Allard 0%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 6%
Henry Scott Baesler 85%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
William Baker 0%
John Baldacci 95%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 85%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
William Barrett 0%
Herbert Bateman 0%
Anthony Beilenson 95%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 90%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Tom Bevill 61%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Peter Blute 15%
Sherwood Boehlert 65%
Kit Bond 11%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Sonny Bono 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 89%
Bill Bradley 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 89%
John Breaux 78%
Bill Brewster 30%
Glen Browder 55%
George Brown, Jr. 95%
Hank Brown 5%
Richard Bryan 78%
Ed Bryant 0%
John Bryant 94%
Dale Bumpers 94%
Jim Bunn 10%
Jim Bunning 5%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 89%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 38%
Thomas Campbell 15%
Mike Castle 25%
John Chafee 28%
Jim Chapman 65%
Helen Chenoweth 5%
Jon Lynn Christensen 5%
Dick Chrysler 0%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Robert Clement 70%
William Clinger 5%
William Cohen 42%
Ronald Coleman 100%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 5%
Larry Combest 5%
Gary Condit 60%
Wes Cooley 0%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 5%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 65%
Philip Crane 0%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 5%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 5%
Alfonse D'Amato 28%
Patsy Ann Danner 85%
Thomas Daschle 94%
Thomas Davis III 32%
E. Kika de la Garza 82%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 94%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 55%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 95%
Chris Dodd 94%
Robert Dole 5%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 6%
Calvin Dooley 68%
John Doolittle 11%
Byron Dorgan 83%
Robert Dornan 0%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 85%
Vern Ehlers 15%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 5%
Bill Emerson 0%
Philip English 30%
John Ensign 20%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 5%
Thomas Ewing 0%
Jim Exon 83%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 6%
Harris Fawell 0%
Victor Fazio 94%
Russ Feingold 94%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 0%
Floyd Flake 100%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 10%
Thomas Foglietta 94%
Mark Foley 10%
Michael Patrick Forbes 33%
Harold Ford, Sr. 89%
Wendell Ford 83%
Tillie Fowler 16%
Jon David Fox 30%
Gary Franks 30%
Robert Franks 35%
Daniel Frisa 10%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 95%
David Funderburk 10%
Elizabeth Furse 95%
John Ganske 0%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Pete Geren 15%
Sam Gibbons 95%
Wayne Gilchrest 10%
Paul Gillmor 5%
Benjamin Gilman 63%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 89%
Henry Gonzalez 95%
William Goodling 10%
Bart Gordon 75%
Slade Gorton 11%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 78%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 6%
Enid Greene 0%
James Greenwood 16%
Judd Gregg 0%
Steven Gunderson 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 5%
Tony Hall 93%
Lee Hamilton 75%
Melton Hancock 0%
James Hansen 5%
Jane Harman 75%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Mark Hatfield 20%
James Hayes 16%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 10%
W.G. Hefner 95%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 5%
Jesse Helms 0%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 95%
David Lee Hobson 0%
Pete Hoekstra 5%
Martin Hoke 5%
Ernest Hollings 83%
Stephen Horn 30%
John Nathan Hostettler 5%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 37%
Duncan Hunter 5%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 5%
Henry Hyde 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 5%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 5%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 80%
William Jefferson 95%
James Merrill Jeffords 28%
Nancy Johnson 21%
Harry Johnston 95%
J. Bennett Johnston 74%
Paul Kanjorski 95%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 15%
Sue Kelly 10%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 90%
Bob Kerrey 89%
Jay Kim 0%
Gerald Kleczka 90%
Ronald Klink 100%
Scott Klug 30%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 0%
John LaFalce 95%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 15%
Greg Laughlin 5%
Rick Lazio 15%
James Leach 35%
Ron Lewis 10%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 5%
Blanche Lincoln 42%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 90%
Robert Livingston 5%
James Longley, Jr. 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 95%
Connie Mack 6%
Thomas Manton 95%
Matthew Martinez 95%
Bill Martini 30%
Frank Mascara 95%
Robert Matsui 95%
Karen McCarthy 95%
Bill McCollum 95%
James McCrery III 0%
Joseph McDade 33%
Paul McHale 85%
John McHugh 40%
Scott McInnis 10%
David McIntosh 5%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 88%
Martin Meehan 95%
Carrie Meek 94%
Jack Metcalf 30%
Jan Meyers 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 95%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 95%
Susan Molinari 0%
Alan Mollohan 100%
G.V. Montgomery 16%
Carlos Moorhead 0%
Constance Morella 50%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 94%
Frank Murkowski 6%
Jack Murtha 95%
John Myers 5%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 15%
Mark Neumann 25%
Robert William Ney 15%
Don Nickles 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
Sam Nunn 70%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 95%
William Orton 65%
Major Owens 95%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ronald Packard 0%
Paul Michael Parker 0%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 55%
Claiborne Pell 94%
Pete Peterson 75%
Owen Pickett 65%
Richard Pombo 5%
Earl Pomeroy 95%
John Edward Porter 10%
Glenn Poshard 90%
Larry Pressler 5%
Deborah Pryce 5%
David Pryor 90%
James Quillen 11%
Jack Quinn 68%
George Radanovich 5%
James Ramstad 10%
Ralph Regula 20%
Bill Richardson 95%
Frank Duncan Riggs 15%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 89%
Timothy Roemer 75%
Charles Rose III 79%
Toby Roth 0%
William Roth, Jr. 11%
Marge Roukema 47%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 5%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 20%
Rick Santorum 11%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 15%
Joe Scarborough 16%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 22%
Patricia Schroeder 100%
Andrea Seastrand 0%
John Shadegg 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 30%
E.G. Shuster 0%
Paul Simon 95%
Alan Simpson 10%
Norman Sisisky 68%
David Skaggs 95%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 85%
Linda Smith 16%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 16%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 21%
Mark Souder 26%
Arlen Specter 39%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 90%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 6%
Steve Stockman 10%
Louis Stokes 100%
Gerry Studds 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 71%
Randy Tate 10%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 6%
Gene Taylor 50%
Frank Tejeda 80%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 0%
Ray Thornton 90%
Karen Thurman 95%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 10%
Peter Torkildsen 35%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 90%
Bruce Vento 100%
Harold Volkmer 75%
Barbara Vucanovich 0%
Robert Walker 0%
James Walsh 35%
Zach Wamp 10%
Michael Ward 100%
John Warner 6%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 5%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 17%
Gerald Weller 15%
Paul Wellstone 94%
Rick White 5%
Pat Williams 100%
Charles Wilson 80%
Robert Wise, Jr. 95%
Albert Wynn 100%
Sidney Yates 100%
Bill Zeliff 0%
Richard Zimmer 20%

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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