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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 56%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 58%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 79%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 67%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 82%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 95%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 96%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 4%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 10%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 73%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 96%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 68%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 96%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 4%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 7%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 86%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 70%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 80%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 63%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 68%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 68%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 86%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 21%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 4%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 89%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 70%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 16%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 71%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 63%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 71%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 25%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 60%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 75%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 85%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 60%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 67%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 64%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 11%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 14%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 5%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 12%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 4%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 60%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 35%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 11%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 68%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 11%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 4%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 4%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 32%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 71%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 60%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 68%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 21%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 11%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 65%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 16%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 81%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 82%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 7%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 81%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 39%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 4%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 4%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 71%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 64%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 18%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 67%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 30%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 57%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 8%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 19%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 93%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 78%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 19%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 89%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 7%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 60%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 78%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 93%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 79%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 32%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 14%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 19%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 18%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 7%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 24%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 82%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 20%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 82%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 93%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 20%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 75%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 93%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 82%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 74%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 68%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 82%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 67%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 18%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 82%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 18%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 55%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 86%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 21%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 79%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 10%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 7%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 75%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 4%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 11%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 32%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 93%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 86%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 29%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 16%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 7%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 80%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 90%
Gary Ackerman 4%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 11%
Wayne Allard 85%
Thomas Allen 7%
Bill Archer 89%
Richard Armey 89%
John Ashcroft 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 71%
John Baldacci 7%
Cass Ballenger 77%
James Barcia 22%
Robert Barr, Jr. 96%
Bill Barrett 75%
Roscoe Bartlett 81%
Charlie Bass 75%
Herbert Bateman 64%
Bob Bennett 55%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 7%
Douglas Bereuter 54%
Howard Berman 8%
Marion Berry 22%
Brian Bilbray 61%
Michael Bilirakis 75%
Jeff Bingaman 30%
Rod Blagojevich 19%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 70%
Sherwood Boehlert 39%
Kit Bond 63%
Henry Bonilla 78%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Mary Bono Mack 71%
Robert Borski, Jr. 11%
Leonard Boswell 25%
Rick Boucher 7%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 32%
John Breaux 15%
George Brown, Jr. 8%
Richard Bryan 30%
Ed Bryant 71%
Jim Bunning 65%
Conrad Burns 65%
Dan Burton 72%
Steve Buyer 68%
Robert Byrd 20%
Herbert Callahan 71%
Ben Campbell 55%
Thomas Campbell 68%
Chris Cannon 90%
Julia Carson 4%
Mike Castle 57%
John Chafee 50%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 75%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 4%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 15%
Robert Clement 18%
Michael Collins 89%
Larry Combest 71%
Gary Condit 50%
Kent Conrad 20%
Merrill Cook 74%
John Cooksey 69%
Jerry Costello 11%
Paul Coverdell 70%
Christopher Cox 93%
William Coyne 14%
Larry Craig 65%
Robert Cramer 36%
Philip Crane 93%
Barbara Cubin 79%
Randall Cunningham 75%
Patsy Ann Danner 50%
Thomas Daschle 15%
James Davis 11%
Thomas Davis III 52%
Bill Delahunt 4%
Thomas DeLay 86%
Peter Deutsch 18%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Jay Dickey 82%
Norm Dicks 0%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 5%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 7%
John Doolittle 75%
Byron Dorgan 20%
David Dreier 75%
Jennifer Dunn 79%
Chet Edwards 11%
Vern Ehlers 61%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 85%
Jo Ann Emerson 75%
Philip English 64%
Bob Etheridge 11%
Lane Evans 11%
Terry Everett 71%
Thomas Ewing 64%
Russ Feingold 45%
Mark Foley 71%
Michael Patrick Forbes 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. 4%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 82%
Tillie Fowler 64%
Barney Frank 15%
Robert Franks 61%
William Frist 65%
Jonas Frost III 7%
Elton Gallegly 68%
John Ganske 54%
Sam Gejdenson 4%
George Gekas 69%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jim Gibbons 82%
Wayne Gilchrest 57%
Paul Gillmor 67%
Benjamin Gilman 43%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 74%
William Goodling 81%
Bart Gordon 29%
Slade Gorton 50%
Porter Goss 80%
Daniel Graham 20%
William Phillip Gramm 85%
Rodney Grams 90%
James Greenwood 54%
Judd Gregg 75%
Gilbert Gutknecht 75%
Tony Hall 19%
James Hansen 81%
J. Dennis Hastert 79%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 93%
Joel Hefley 93%
Jesse Helms 57%
Wally Herger, Jr. 81%
Rick Hill 68%
Van Hilleary 89%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
Maurice Hinchey 4%
David Lee Hobson 86%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Thomas Holden 25%
Ernest Hollings 33%
Darlene Hooley 14%
Stephen Horn 61%
John Nathan Hostettler 86%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 41%
Kenny Hulshof 78%
Duncan Hunter 78%
Asa Hutchinson 77%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 89%
Kay Hutchison 65%
Henry Hyde 85%
Daniel Inouye 18%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 88%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 7%
William Jefferson 0%
James Merrill Jeffords 40%
William Lewis Jenkins 75%
Christopher John 31%
Nancy Johnson 25%
Paul Kanjorski 14%
Sue Kelly 61%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 16%
Patrick Kennedy 7%
Bob Kerrey 21%
Dale Kildee 11%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 25%
Ronald Klink 15%
Joseph Knollenberg 75%
Herb Kohl 45%
James Kolbe 75%
Dennis Kucinich 11%
Jon Kyl 95%
John LaFalce 15%
Ray LaHood 54%
Nicholas Lampson 4%
Tom Lantos 4%
Stephen Largent 93%
Steve LaTourette 57%
Frank Lautenberg 10%
Rick Lazio 61%
James Leach 50%
Jerry Lewis 50%
Ron Lewis 71%
Joe Lieberman 10%
John Linder 85%
William Lipinski 29%
Trent Lott, Sr. 58%
Dick Lugar 85%
William Luther 29%
Connie Mack 75%
James Maloney 32%
Don Manzullo 93%
Matthew Martinez 4%
Frank Mascara 18%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 19%
Bill McCollum 79%
James McCrery III 72%
John McHugh 57%
Scott McInnis 85%
David McIntosh 92%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 14%
Michael McNulty 19%
Martin Meehan 15%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 71%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 89%
David Minge 21%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 7%
John Moakley 4%
Alan Mollohan 20%
Constance Morella 29%
Patrick Moynihan 25%
Frank Murkowski 74%
Jack Murtha 14%
Sue Myrick 93%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 74%
Robert William Ney 67%
Don Nickles 90%
Anne Northup 68%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 74%
James Nussle 74%
Jim Oberstar 4%
Dave Obey 14%
John Olver 11%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 11%
Major Owens 7%
Michael Oxley 68%
Ronald Packard 74%
Ron Paul 88%
Donald Payne 4%
Edward Pease 67%
John Peterson 79%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 70%
Owen Pickett 29%
Richard Pombo 79%
Earl Pomeroy 18%
John Edward Porter 68%
Deborah Pryce 79%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 86%
James Ramstad 61%
Ralph Regula 57%
Silvestre Reyes 4%
Bob Riley 71%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 21%
Charles Robb 35%
Ciro Rodriguez 11%
Timothy Roemer 32%
James Rogan 93%
William Roth, Jr. 63%
Steve Rothman 11%
Marge Roukema 64%
Jim Ryun 79%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 15%
Rick Santorum 75%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 57%
Joe Scarborough 96%
John Shadegg 93%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 61%
Christopher Shays 64%
E.G. Shuster 79%
Norman Sisisky 30%
Joseph Skeen 64%
Ike Skelton 29%
Gordon Smith 65%
Nick Smith 81%
Bob Smith 89%
Olympia Snowe 55%
Vic Snyder 4%
Mark Souder 80%
Arlen Specter 39%
Floyd Spence 71%
John Spratt, Jr. 4%
Pete Stark 15%
Cliff Stearns 79%
Charles Stenholm 32%
Ted Stevens 55%
Ted Strickland 25%
Bob Stump 86%
Bart Stupak 11%
John Sununu 79%
James Talent 74%
John Tanner 21%
Ellen Tauscher 18%
William Tauzin 63%
Charles Taylor 71%
Gene Taylor 71%
Craig Thomas 85%
William Thomas 71%
Fred Thompson 75%
Karen Thurman 14%
Strom Thurmond 70%
Todd Tiahrt 79%
Robert Torricelli 5%
Ed Towns 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 43%
James Turner 26%
Bruce Vento 11%
James Walsh 43%
Zach Wamp 100%
John Warner 70%
Wesley Watkins 79%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 71%
David Weldon 75%
W. Curtis Weldon 63%
Gerald Weller 64%
Paul Wellstone 21%
Robert Wexler 11%
Bob Weygand 7%
Heather Wilson 58%
Bob Wise, Jr. 7%
Lynn Woolsey 7%
Albert Wynn 7%

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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