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2001 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
John Ensign 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 100%
John Shadegg 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 100%
Philip Crane 96%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 96%
Thomas DeLay 96%
James DeMint 96%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 96%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 96%
Dan Miller 96%
Jon Kyl 95%
Bob Smith 95%
Richard Armey 93%
Robert Barr, Jr. 93%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 93%
Mark Green 93%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 93%
Pete Hoekstra 93%
Ric Keller 93%
John Linder 93%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 93%
Tom Tancredo 93%
Christopher Cox 91%
Wayne Allard 90%
William Frist 90%
William Phillip Gramm 90%
Dick Lugar 90%
Don Nickles 90%
Fred Thompson 90%
Henry Brown, Jr. 89%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 89%
Brian Kerns 89%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 89%
Sue Myrick 89%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 89%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 89%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 89%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 89%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 89%
Edward Schrock 89%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 89%
Cliff Stearns 89%
John Sununu 89%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 89%
Don Manzullo 88%
Todd Akin 85%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 85%
Jim Bunning 85%
Chris Cannon 85%
John Doolittle 85%
Jennifer Dunn 85%
Porter Goss 85%
Wally Herger, Jr. 85%
James Kolbe 85%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 85%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 85%
Jim Ryun 85%
Todd Tiahrt 85%
Zach Wamp 85%
Ron Paul 84%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 84%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 83%
Herbert Callahan 82%
Judy Biggert 81%
Steve Buyer 81%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 81%
Michael Collins 81%
Randall Cunningham 81%
Jo Ann Davis 81%
David Dreier 81%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 81%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 81%
John Nathan Hostettler 81%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 81%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 81%
Anne Northup 81%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 81%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 81%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 81%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 81%
Christopher Shays 81%
Nick Smith 81%
Mark Souder 81%
Bob Stump 81%
William Tauzin 81%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 81%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 81%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 81%
George Allen 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 80%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 80%
Dan Burton 80%
Ben Campbell 80%
Judd Gregg 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 80%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 80%
Trent Lott, Sr. 80%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 80%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 80%
Gordon Smith 80%
William Thomas 80%
Strom Thurmond 80%
Barbara Cubin 79%
Jim Gibbons 79%
Frank Murkowski 79%
Rick Santorum 79%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 79%
George Voinovich 79%
Charlie Bass 78%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 78%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 78%
Henry Bonilla 78%
Mary Bono Mack 78%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 78%
Larry Combest 78%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 78%
Thomas Davis III 78%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 78%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 78%
Ernest Fletcher 78%
Elton Gallegly 78%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 78%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 78%
Gilbert Gutknecht 78%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 78%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 78%
Van Hilleary 78%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 78%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 78%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 78%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 78%
James Nussle 78%
Michael Oxley 78%
James Ramstad 78%
Donald Sherwood 78%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 78%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 78%
Wesley Watkins 78%
David Weldon 78%
Gerald Weller 78%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 78%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 78%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 77%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 77%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 77%
Joseph Knollenberg 77%
John Peterson 77%
George Radanovich 77%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 77%
Scott McInnis 76%
Bob Bennett 75%
Larry Craig 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 75%
Peter Fitzgerald 75%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 75%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 75%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 75%
Kay Hutchison 75%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 75%
John Warner 75%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 75%
Cass Ballenger 74%
Roscoe Bartlett 74%
Ed Bryant 74%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 74%
Philip English 74%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 74%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 74%
James Hansen 74%
Robert Hayes 74%
Joel Hefley 74%
Kenny Hulshof 74%
Duncan Hunter 74%
Ron Lewis 74%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 74%
James McCrery III 74%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 74%
Richard Pombo 74%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 74%
Bob Riley 74%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 74%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 74%
Joseph Skeen 74%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 74%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 73%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 73%
John Cooksey 72%
Terry Everett 72%
Conrad Burns 70%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 70%
Mike Castle 70%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 70%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 70%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 70%
Vern Ehlers 70%
Mark Foley 70%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 70%
George Gekas 70%
Melissa Hart 70%
Jesse Helms 70%
Henry Hyde 70%
William Lewis Jenkins 70%
Mark Kennedy 70%
Jerry Lewis 70%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 70%
Deborah Pryce 70%
Denny Rehberg 70%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 70%
Charles Taylor 70%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 70%
Heather Wilson 70%
James Greenwood 69%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 69%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 68%
Ted Stevens 68%
Craig Thomas 68%
Douglas Bereuter 67%
Michael Bilirakis 67%
Jo Ann Emerson 67%
David Lee Hobson 67%
Sue Kelly 67%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 67%
Thomas William Osborne 67%
Doug Ose 67%
Thomas Reynolds 67%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 67%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 67%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 67%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 67%
Kit Bond 65%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 65%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 65%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 65%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 65%
Todd Platts 64%
Michael Ferguson 63%
Wayne Gilchrest 63%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 63%
Nancy Johnson 63%
Robert William Ney 63%
John Sweeney 63%
Christopher John 62%
Marge Roukema 62%
James Walsh 62%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 61%
Robert Cramer 60%
Arlen Specter 60%
Stephen Horn 59%
Tim Johnson 59%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 59%
Ralph Regula 59%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 59%
James Traficant, Jr. 59%
John Ganske 58%
John McHugh 58%
Ray LaHood 56%
Steve LaTourette 56%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 56%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 56%
Olympia Snowe 55%
Paul Gillmor 54%
Jim Saxton 54%
W. Curtis Weldon 54%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Sherwood Boehlert 52%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 52%
Zell Bryan Miller 50%
Jack Quinn 50%
Constance Morella 48%
Calvin Dooley 46%
James Leach 46%
John Tanner 46%
Ike Skelton 44%
Benjamin Gilman 41%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 41%
Dennis Moore 41%
Ronnie Shows 41%
Charles Stenholm 41%
Gene Taylor 41%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 40%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 40%
James Barcia 37%
Marion Berry 37%
Bart Gordon 37%
James Maloney 37%
William Lipinski 36%
Russ Feingold 35%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 35%
Brad Carson 33%
Robert Clement 33%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 31%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 31%
James Turner 31%
Shelley Berkley 30%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 30%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 30%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 30%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 30%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 30%
Timothy Roemer 30%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 30%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 27%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 27%
Baron Hill 27%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 27%
Martin Meehan 27%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 26%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 26%
Leonard Boswell 26%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 26%
Gary Condit 26%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 26%
Chet Edwards 26%
Bob Etheridge 26%
Jane Harman 26%
William Jefferson 26%
James Merrill Jeffords 26%
David Phelps 26%
Mike Ross 26%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 26%
Ellen Tauscher 26%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 25%
Evan Bayh 25%
Jon Corzine 25%
Daniel Graham 25%
Herb Kohl 25%
Joe Lieberman 25%
Ben Nelson 25%
Jack Murtha 24%
Rick Boucher 23%
Harold Ford, Jr. 23%
Brian Baird 22%
Jerry Costello 22%
Peter Deutsch 22%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 22%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 22%
Frank Mascara 22%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 22%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 21%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 20%
John Breaux 20%
Jean Carnahan 20%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 20%
Tony Hall 20%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 20%
Blanche Lincoln 20%
Robert Torricelli 20%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 19%
Howard Berman 19%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 19%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 19%
James Davis 19%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 19%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 19%
Barney Frank 19%
Darlene Hooley 19%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 19%
Paul Kanjorski 19%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 19%
William Luther 19%
Michael McNulty 19%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 19%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 19%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 19%
Ciro Rodriguez 19%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 19%
Vic Snyder 19%
Ed Towns 19%
Anthony Weiner 19%
Ernest Hollings 16%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 16%
Steve Rothman 16%
Pete Stark 16%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 16%
Thomas Allen 15%
Joe Baca, Sr. 15%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 15%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
Rod Blagojevich 15%
Robert Borski, Jr. 15%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 15%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 15%
Robert Byrd 15%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 15%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 15%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 15%
William Coyne 15%
Norm Dicks 15%
John Edwards 15%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 15%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 15%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 15%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 15%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 15%
Thomas Holden 15%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 15%
Gerald Kleczka 15%
John LaFalce 15%
Nicholas Lampson 15%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 15%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 15%
Karen McCarthy 15%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 15%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 15%
Major Owens 15%
Earl Pomeroy 15%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 15%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 15%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 15%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 15%
David Wu 15%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 13%
Alan Mollohan 13%
Julia Carson 12%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 12%
Jonas Frost III 12%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 12%
Jim Oberstar 12%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 12%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 12%
Albert Wynn 12%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 11%
Bill Delahunt 11%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 11%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 11%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 11%
Charlie Gonzalez 11%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 11%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 11%
Dale Kildee 11%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 11%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 11%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 11%
Donald Payne 11%
Silvestre Reyes 11%
Martin Olav Sabo 11%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 11%
Hilda Solis 11%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 11%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 10%
Chris Dodd 10%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 10%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 10%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 10%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 10%
Paul Wellstone 10%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 9%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 9%
Gary Ackerman 8%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 8%
Carrie Meek 8%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 8%
John Spratt, Jr. 8%
Bart Stupak 8%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 7%
John Baldacci 7%
David Edward Bonior 7%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 7%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 7%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 7%
Lane Evans 7%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 7%
Maurice Hinchey 7%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 7%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 7%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 7%
Dennis Kucinich 7%
Tom Lantos 7%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 7%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 7%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 7%
Ted Strickland 7%
Karen Thurman 7%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 5%
Jeff Bingaman 5%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 5%
Thomas Daschle 5%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 5%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 5%
Daniel Inouye 5%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 5%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 5%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 5%
Paul Sarbanes 5%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 4%
Eva Clayton 4%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 4%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 4%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 4%
Robert Matsui 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%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 4%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 4%
Hillary Clinton 0%
Kent Conrad 0%
Byron Dorgan 0%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Olver 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
Diane Watson 0%
Robert Wexler 0%
Lynn Woolsey 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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