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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 73%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 50%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 88%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 71%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 79%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 79%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 80%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 96%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 8%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 67%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 91%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 79%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 17%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 21%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 13%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 13%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 4%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 13%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 19%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 96%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 71%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 8%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 96%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 79%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 5%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 74%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 71%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 79%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 79%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 75%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 25%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 88%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 17%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 81%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 83%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 73%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 71%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 83%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 6%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 88%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 13%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 13%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 83%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 4%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 83%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 69%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 71%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 88%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 63%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 79%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 75%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 79%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 31%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 79%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 9%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 9%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 13%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 9%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 5%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 6%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 17%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 13%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 13%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 56%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 13%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 13%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 92%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 83%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 8%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 9%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 13%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 13%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 36%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 74%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 17%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 79%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 56%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 83%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 4%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 25%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 81%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 13%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 83%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 8%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 88%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 38%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 13%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 79%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 4%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 67%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 67%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 17%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 8%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 71%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 21%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 8%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 0%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 61%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 29%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 9%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 17%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 83%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 83%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 9%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 96%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 63%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 81%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 71%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 19%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 79%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 13%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 21%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 96%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 13%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 14%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 83%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 21%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 100%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 17%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 8%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 56%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 83%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 88%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 8%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 13%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 67%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 92%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 67%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 79%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 17%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 77%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 21%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 13%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 87%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 29%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 69%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 38%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 4%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 88%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 88%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 83%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 33%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 79%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 13%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 8%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 13%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 19%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 25%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 78%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 13%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 23%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 17%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 8%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 88%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 17%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 92%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 79%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 6%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 58%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 4%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 81%
Gary Ackerman 8%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 6%
Todd Akin 92%
Wayne Allard 88%
George Allen 63%
Thomas Allen 13%
Joe Baca, Sr. 8%
Brian Baird 17%
Richard Hugh Baker 71%
Cass Ballenger 75%
Roscoe Bartlett 92%
Charlie Bass 83%
Evan Bayh 38%
Bob Bennett 73%
Douglas Bereuter 71%
Shelley Berkley 25%
Howard Berman 14%
Marion Berry 38%
Judy Biggert 83%
Michael Bilirakis 83%
Jeff Bingaman 8%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Kit Bond 56%
Henry Bonilla 71%
Mary Bono Mack 62%
Leonard Boswell 33%
Rick Boucher 29%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 25%
John Breaux 19%
Henry Brown, Jr. 71%
Jim Bunning 94%
Conrad Burns 63%
Dan Burton 87%
Steve Buyer 80%
Robert Byrd 13%
Ben Campbell 53%
Chris Cannon 91%
Brad Carson 29%
Julia Carson 4%
Mike Castle 83%
Hillary Clinton 6%
Michael Collins 96%
Kent Conrad 19%
Jon Corzine 19%
Jerry Costello 25%
Christopher Cox 91%
Larry Craig 80%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 95%
Barbara Cubin 78%
Randall Cunningham 74%
Thomas Daschle 0%
James Davis 21%
Jo Ann Davis 83%
Thomas Davis III 65%
Bill Delahunt 14%
Thomas DeLay 83%
James DeMint 96%
Peter Deutsch 25%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 65%
Norm Dicks 13%
Chris Dodd 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 57%
Calvin Dooley 36%
John Doolittle 74%
Byron Dorgan 13%
David Dreier 71%
Jennifer Dunn 75%
John Edwards 19%
Chet Edwards 33%
Vern Ehlers 67%
Jo Ann Emerson 65%
Philip English 65%
John Ensign 94%
Bob Etheridge 17%
Lane Evans 13%
Terry Everett 79%
Russ Feingold 38%
Michael Ferguson 71%
Peter Fitzgerald 81%
Mark Foley 79%
Harold Ford, Jr. 17%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 79%
Barney Frank 13%
William Frist 75%
Jonas Frost III 4%
Elton Gallegly 75%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 8%
Jim Gibbons 83%
Wayne Gilchrest 68%
Paul Gillmor 71%
Charlie Gonzalez 4%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 88%
Bart Gordon 38%
Porter Goss 75%
Daniel Graham 13%
Mark Green 79%
James Greenwood 65%
Judd Gregg 63%
Gilbert Gutknecht 79%
Jane Harman 52%
Melissa Hart 88%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Robert Hayes 75%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 88%
Joel Hefley 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. 78%
Baron Hill 25%
Maurice Hinchey 9%
David Lee Hobson 79%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Thomas Holden 38%
Ernest Hollings 13%
Darlene Hooley 22%
John Nathan Hostettler 83%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 57%
Kenny Hulshof 75%
Duncan Hunter 67%
Kay Hutchison 75%
Henry Hyde 78%
Daniel Inouye 6%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 77%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 4%
William Jefferson 13%
James Merrill Jeffords 0%
William Lewis Jenkins 79%
Christopher John 46%
Nancy Johnson 58%
Tim Johnson 63%
Paul Kanjorski 13%
Ric Keller 96%
Sue Kelly 63%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Mark Kennedy 88%
Patrick Kennedy 8%
Dale Kildee 8%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 13%
Gerald Kleczka 8%
Joseph Knollenberg 71%
Herb Kohl 13%
James Kolbe 71%
Dennis Kucinich 13%
Jon Kyl 94%
Ray LaHood 58%
Nicholas Lampson 13%
Tom Lantos 9%
Steve LaTourette 63%
James Leach 58%
Jerry Lewis 71%
Ron Lewis 71%
Joe Lieberman 6%
Blanche Lincoln 31%
John Linder 92%
William Lipinski 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. 88%
Dick Lugar 81%
Don Manzullo 88%
Robert Matsui 13%
Karen McCarthy 9%
James McCrery III 71%
John McHugh 64%
Scott McInnis 91%
Michael McNulty 8%
Martin Meehan 9%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 9%
Zell Bryan Miller 50%
Alan Mollohan 17%
Dennis Moore 21%
Jack Murtha 20%
Sue Myrick 88%
Ben Nelson 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 79%
Robert William Ney 79%
Don Nickles 88%
Anne Northup 75%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 88%
James Nussle 88%
Jim Oberstar 8%
Dave Obey 17%
John Olver 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 8%
Thomas William Osborne 79%
Doug Ose 63%
Major Owens 14%
Michael Oxley 83%
Ron Paul 70%
Donald Payne 13%
John Peterson 83%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 83%
Todd Platts 79%
Richard Pombo 65%
Earl Pomeroy 38%
Deborah Pryce 79%
Jack Quinn 57%
George Radanovich 71%
James Ramstad 83%
Ralph Regula 79%
Denny Rehberg 83%
Silvestre Reyes 14%
Thomas Reynolds 75%
Ciro Rodriguez 4%
Mike Ross 25%
Steve Rothman 13%
Jim Ryun 92%
Martin Olav Sabo 8%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 25%
Rick Santorum 94%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 71%
Edward Schrock 78%
John Shadegg 96%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 71%
Christopher Shays 75%
Donald Sherwood 75%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 71%
Ike Skelton 29%
Gordon Smith 50%
Nick Smith 88%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 13%
Hilda Solis 8%
Mark Souder 79%
Arlen Specter 44%
John Spratt, Jr. 9%
Pete Stark 13%
Cliff Stearns 88%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 56%
Ted Strickland 13%
Bart Stupak 13%
John Sullivan 88%
John Sununu 91%
John Sweeney 63%
Tom Tancredo 95%
John Tanner 39%
Ellen Tauscher 13%
William Tauzin 75%
Charles Taylor 79%
Gene Taylor 63%
Craig Thomas 81%
William Thomas 67%
Todd Tiahrt 79%
Ed Towns 13%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 5%
James Turner 33%
George Voinovich 87%
James Walsh 58%
Zach Wamp 88%
John Warner 63%
Diane Watson 9%
Anthony Weiner 17%
David Weldon 83%
W. Curtis Weldon 63%
Gerald Weller 75%
Robert Wexler 9%
Heather Wilson 79%
Lynn Woolsey 4%
David Wu 25%
Albert Wynn 17%

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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