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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

2002 Positions

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