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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
James DeMint 96%
Sue Myrick 96%
Philip Crane 95%
Jon Kyl 95%
Stephen Largent 95%
Robert Barr, Jr. 92%
Ed Bryant 92%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 92%
Mark Green 92%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 92%
Joel Hefley 92%
Van Hilleary 92%
Pete Hoekstra 92%
John Linder 92%
Don Manzullo 92%
Dan Miller 92%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 92%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 92%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 92%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 92%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 92%
John Shadegg 92%
Cliff Stearns 92%
Tom Tancredo 92%
Wayne Allard 89%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 89%
William Frist 89%
William Phillip Gramm 89%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 89%
Kay Hutchison 89%
Frank Murkowski 89%
Don Nickles 89%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 89%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 89%
Fred Thompson 89%
Richard Armey 88%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 88%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 88%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 88%
Porter Goss 88%
John Nathan Hostettler 88%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 88%
Scott McInnis 88%
James Ramstad 88%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 88%
Jim Ryun 88%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 88%
John Sununu 88%
Wally Herger, Jr. 87%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 87%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 87%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 87%
Christopher Cox 86%
Thomas DeLay 86%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 86%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 84%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 84%
Gordon Smith 84%
John Warner 84%
Roscoe Bartlett 83%
Charlie Bass 83%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 83%
Jim Bunning 83%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 83%
Chris Cannon 83%
Michael Collins 83%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 83%
Judd Gregg 83%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 83%
Kenny Hulshof 83%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 83%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 83%
Ron Paul 83%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 83%
Christopher Shays 83%
Zach Wamp 83%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 82%
Kit Bond 79%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 79%
Larry Craig 79%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 79%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 79%
Peter Fitzgerald 79%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 79%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 79%
Jesse Helms 79%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 79%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 79%
Trent Lott, Sr. 79%
Dick Lugar 79%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 79%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 79%
Marge Roukema 79%
Rick Santorum 79%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 79%
Craig Thomas 79%
David Weldon 79%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 78%
Cass Ballenger 78%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 78%
Bob Bennett 78%
Barbara Cubin 78%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 78%
Michael Oxley 78%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 77%
George Radanovich 77%
Nick Smith 77%
Dan Burton 75%
Steve Buyer 75%
Larry Combest 75%
David Dreier 75%
John Ganske 75%
Gilbert Gutknecht 75%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 75%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 75%
James Nussle 75%
Richard Pombo 75%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 75%
Bob Stump 75%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 75%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 75%
Conrad Burns 74%
Ben Campbell 74%
Randall Cunningham 74%
Thomas Davis III 74%
Terry Everett 74%
James McCrery III 74%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 74%
Bob Smith 74%
Olympia Snowe 74%
Ted Stevens 74%
Strom Thurmond 74%
James Hansen 73%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 72%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 71%
Richard Hugh Baker 71%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 71%
Philip English 71%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 71%
Jim Gibbons 71%
James Greenwood 71%
Robert Hayes 71%
William Lewis Jenkins 71%
Sue Kelly 71%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 71%
Charles Taylor 71%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 71%
Todd Tiahrt 71%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 71%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 70%
Henry Bonilla 70%
George Gekas 70%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 70%
James Leach 70%
Deborah Pryce 70%
Gerald Weller 70%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 70%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 68%
Wayne Gilchrest 68%
Michael Bilirakis 67%
Mike Castle 67%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 67%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 67%
John Doolittle 67%
Jennifer Dunn 67%
Vern Ehlers 67%
Ernest Fletcher 67%
Mark Foley 67%
Duncan Hunter 67%
Henry Hyde 67%
James Kolbe 67%
John Peterson 67%
Bob Riley 67%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 67%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 67%
Mark Souder 67%
John Sweeney 67%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 67%
Arlen Specter 65%
William Tauzin 65%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 65%
Herbert Callahan 64%
Thomas Reynolds 64%
Douglas Bereuter 63%
Judy Biggert 63%
Mary Bono Mack 63%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 63%
Jo Ann Emerson 63%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 63%
David Lee Hobson 63%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 63%
Joseph Knollenberg 63%
Ray LaHood 63%
Ron Lewis 63%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 63%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 63%
Anne Northup 63%
William Thomas 63%
George Voinovich 63%
Wesley Watkins 63%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 63%
Heather Wilson 63%
John Cooksey 62%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 62%
Steve LaTourette 61%
W. Curtis Weldon 61%
Zell Bryan Miller 60%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 58%
Robert William Ney 58%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 58%
Jim Saxton 58%
Ronnie Shows 58%
Joseph Skeen 58%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 58%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 57%
Jerry Lewis 57%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 55%
Elton Gallegly 54%
Stephen Horn 54%
Nancy Johnson 54%
John McHugh 54%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 54%
Doug Ose 54%
Ralph Regula 54%
Donald Sherwood 54%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 54%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 54%
Paul Gillmor 52%
Gary Condit 50%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 50%
James Walsh 50%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 48%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 47%
James Merrill Jeffords 47%
Robert Cramer 46%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 46%
Timothy Roemer 46%
Gene Taylor 46%
Jack Quinn 45%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 44%
Bart Gordon 43%
Shelley Berkley 42%
Sherwood Boehlert 42%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 42%
James Maloney 42%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 42%
Benjamin Gilman 41%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 39%
James Barcia 38%
Christopher John 38%
William Luther 38%
Dennis Moore 38%
Constance Morella 38%
James Traficant, Jr. 38%
John Breaux 37%
Herb Kohl 37%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 37%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 35%
Robert Clement 33%
Calvin Dooley 33%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 33%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 33%
Martin Meehan 33%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 33%
Charles Stenholm 33%
John Tanner 33%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 32%
Blanche Lincoln 32%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 30%
Peter Deutsch 29%
Bob Etheridge 29%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 28%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 26%
Rick Boucher 26%
Robert Byrd 26%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 25%
Leonard Boswell 25%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 25%
Barney Frank 25%
Ike Skelton 25%
James Turner 25%
David Wu 25%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 24%
Jerry Costello 22%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 22%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 22%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 22%
John Spratt, Jr. 22%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 21%
Marion Berry 21%
Kent Conrad 21%
Thomas Holden 21%
Darlene Hooley 21%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 21%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 21%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 21%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 21%
David Phelps 21%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 21%
Ellen Tauscher 21%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 21%
Daniel Inouye 19%
William Lipinski 19%
Brian Baird 17%
Rod Blagojevich 17%
Eva Clayton 17%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. 17%
William Jefferson 17%
Paul Kanjorski 17%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 17%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 17%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 17%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 17%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 17%
Ted Strickland 17%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 17%
Robert Torricelli 17%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 17%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 17%
Anthony Weiner 17%
Evan Bayh 16%
Jeff Bingaman 16%
Russ Feingold 16%
Daniel Graham 16%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 16%
Michael McNulty 16%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 16%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 14%
Joe Lieberman 14%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 14%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 14%
Robert Wexler 14%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 13%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 13%
James Davis 13%
Bill Delahunt 13%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 13%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 13%
Gerald Kleczka 13%
Nicholas Lampson 13%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 13%
Alan Mollohan 13%
Jack Murtha 13%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 13%
John Olver 13%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 13%
Pete Stark 13%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 13%
Karen Thurman 13%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 13%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 13%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 11%
Chris Dodd 11%
Byron Dorgan 11%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 11%
John Edwards 11%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 11%
Ernest Hollings 11%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 11%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 11%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 11%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 9%
Gary Ackerman 9%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 9%
Baron Hill 9%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 9%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 9%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 9%
Jim Oberstar 9%
Earl Pomeroy 9%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 9%
Vic Snyder 9%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 9%
Albert Wynn 9%
Joe Baca, Sr. 8%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 8%
Julia Carson 8%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 8%
Chet Edwards 8%
Lane Evans 8%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 8%
Tony Hall 8%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 8%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 8%
Dale Kildee 8%
John LaFalce 8%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 8%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 8%
Frank Mascara 8%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 8%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 8%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 8%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 6%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 6%
William Coyne 5%
Thomas Daschle 5%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 5%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 5%
Paul Sarbanes 5%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 5%
Paul Wellstone 5%
Thomas Allen 4%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 4%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 4%
Howard Berman 4%
David Edward Bonior 4%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 4%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 4%
Norm Dicks 4%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 4%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 4%
Jonas Frost III 4%
Charlie Gonzalez 4%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 4%
Maurice Hinchey 4%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 4%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 4%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 4%
Dennis Kucinich 4%
Tom Lantos 4%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 4%
Robert Matsui 4%
Karen McCarthy 4%
Carrie Meek 4%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 4%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 4%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 4%
Dave Obey 4%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 4%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 4%
Silvestre Reyes 4%
Ciro Rodriguez 4%
Steve Rothman 4%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 4%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 4%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 4%
Bart Stupak 4%
Lynn Woolsey 4%
John Baldacci 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Major Owens 0%
Donald Payne 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Ed Towns 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%

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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