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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

1999 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 70%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 73%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 69%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 61%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 76%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 92%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 7%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 94%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 65%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 73%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 96%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 69%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 96%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 9%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 4%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 3%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 3%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 80%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 11%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 7%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 3%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 3%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 68%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 60%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 52%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 61%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 80%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 8%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 4%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 64%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 64%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 68%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 76%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 71%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 65%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 77%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 3%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 16%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 4%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 61%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 4%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 19%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 57%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 57%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 80%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 61%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 69%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 66%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 36%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 10%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 66%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 3%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 23%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 3%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 3%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 4%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 3%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 52%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 62%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 76%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 7%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 3%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 12%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 14%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 4%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 46%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 65%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 8%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 57%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 73%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 19%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 85%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 14%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 76%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 11%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 83%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 36%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 3%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 65%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 88%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 73%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 61%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 15%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 61%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 19%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 3%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 7%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 14%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 53%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 4%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 4%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 76%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 24%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 7%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 19%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 84%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 70%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 86%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 73%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 76%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 95%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 61%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 23%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 16%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 14%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 3%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 3%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 12%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 73%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 96%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 7%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 9%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 0%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 4%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 80%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 4%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 65%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 65%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 68%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 69%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 4%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 73%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 19%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 4%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 34%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 66%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 80%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 30%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 65%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 4%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 8%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 69%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 11%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 24%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 5%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 15%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 86%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 34%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 96%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 88%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 16%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 34%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 3%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 5%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 71%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 61%
Gary Ackerman 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 4%
Wayne Allard 90%
Thomas Allen 0%
Bill Archer 87%
Richard Armey 84%
John Ashcroft 71%
Joe Baca, Sr. 0%
Brian Baird 7%
Richard Hugh Baker 62%
John Baldacci 0%
Cass Ballenger 73%
James Barcia 23%
Robert Barr, Jr. 80%
Bill Barrett 73%
Roscoe Bartlett 84%
Charlie Bass 84%
Herbert Bateman 57%
Evan Bayh 19%
Bob Bennett 66%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 7%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Shelley Berkley 20%
Howard Berman 3%
Marion Berry 26%
Judy Biggert 69%
Brian Bilbray 61%
Michael Bilirakis 61%
Jeff Bingaman 14%
Rod Blagojevich 8%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 69%
Sherwood Boehlert 30%
Kit Bond 57%
Henry Bonilla 69%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Mary Bono Mack 64%
Robert Borski, Jr. 0%
Leonard Boswell 23%
Rick Boucher 8%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 19%
John Breaux 14%
Richard Bryan 14%
Ed Bryant 69%
Jim Bunning 66%
Conrad Burns 71%
Dan Burton 84%
Steve Buyer 84%
Robert Byrd 19%
Herbert Callahan 69%
Ben Campbell 61%
Thomas Campbell 80%
Chris Cannon 76%
Julia Carson 8%
Mike Castle 53%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 75%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 15%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 4%
Robert Clement 19%
Michael Collins 84%
Larry Combest 68%
Gary Condit 46%
Kent Conrad 9%
Merrill Cook 64%
John Cooksey 66%
Jerry Costello 12%
Paul Coverdell 61%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 8%
Larry Craig 66%
Robert Cramer 28%
Philip Crane 92%
Barbara Cubin 70%
Randall Cunningham 73%
Patsy Ann Danner 32%
Thomas Daschle 4%
James Davis 11%
Thomas Davis III 57%
Bill Delahunt 20%
Thomas DeLay 80%
James DeMint 92%
Peter Deutsch 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Jay Dickey 80%
Norm Dicks 8%
Julian Dixon 4%
Chris Dodd 5%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 52%
Calvin Dooley 23%
John Doolittle 80%
Byron Dorgan 9%
David Dreier 69%
Jennifer Dunn 69%
John Edwards 9%
Chet Edwards 15%
Vern Ehlers 65%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 87%
Jo Ann Emerson 69%
Philip English 52%
Bob Etheridge 23%
Lane Evans 11%
Terry Everett 72%
Thomas Ewing 65%
Russ Feingold 33%
Peter Fitzgerald 76%
Ernest Fletcher 73%
Mark Foley 65%
Michael Patrick Forbes 36%
Harold Ford, Jr. 8%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 86%
Tillie Fowler 60%
Barney Frank 16%
Robert Franks 69%
William Frist 66%
Jonas Frost III 3%
Elton Gallegly 61%
John Ganske 50%
Sam Gejdenson 4%
George Gekas 60%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jim Gibbons 65%
Wayne Gilchrest 48%
Paul Gillmor 73%
Benjamin Gilman 34%
Charlie Gonzalez 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 73%
William Goodling 64%
Bart Gordon 28%
Slade Gorton 57%
Porter Goss 69%
Daniel Graham 14%
William Phillip Gramm 85%
Rodney Grams 80%
Mark Green 84%
James Greenwood 48%
Judd Gregg 75%
Gilbert Gutknecht 73%
Tony Hall 12%
James Hansen 69%
J. Dennis Hastert 90%
Robert Hayes 69%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 88%
Joel Hefley 88%
Jesse Helms 66%
Wally Herger, Jr. 92%
Baron Hill 15%
Rick Hill 69%
Van Hilleary 80%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
Maurice Hinchey 8%
David Lee Hobson 69%
Pete Hoekstra 88%
Thomas Holden 20%
Ernest Hollings 4%
Darlene Hooley 7%
Stephen Horn 46%
John Nathan Hostettler 88%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 45%
Kenny Hulshof 62%
Duncan Hunter 68%
Asa Hutchinson 57%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 75%
Kay Hutchison 61%
Henry Hyde 69%
Daniel Inouye 9%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 80%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 11%
William Jefferson 5%
James Merrill Jeffords 42%
William Lewis Jenkins 65%
Christopher John 20%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 11%
Sue Kelly 69%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 9%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Bob Kerrey 14%
Dale Kildee 7%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 3%
Gerald Kleczka 19%
Ronald Klink 4%
Joseph Knollenberg 65%
Herb Kohl 19%
James Kolbe 69%
Dennis Kucinich 15%
Steven Kuykendall 53%
Jon Kyl 95%
John LaFalce 7%
Ray LaHood 50%
Nicholas Lampson 0%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 91%
Steve LaTourette 61%
Frank Lautenberg 9%
Rick Lazio 69%
James Leach 53%
Jerry Lewis 57%
Ron Lewis 69%
Joe Lieberman 14%
Blanche Lincoln 14%
John Linder 76%
William Lipinski 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. 61%
Dick Lugar 75%
William Luther 38%
Connie Mack 68%
James Maloney 30%
Don Manzullo 92%
Matthew Martinez 4%
Frank Mascara 4%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 12%
Bill McCollum 59%
James McCrery III 69%
John McHugh 53%
Scott McInnis 92%
David McIntosh 88%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 4%
Michael McNulty 0%
Martin Meehan 24%
Carrie Meek 3%
Jack Metcalf 72%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 80%
David Minge 19%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 4%
John Moakley 0%
Alan Mollohan 8%
Dennis Moore 15%
Constance Morella 26%
Patrick Moynihan 25%
Frank Murkowski 61%
Jack Murtha 8%
Sue Myrick 91%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 69%
Robert William Ney 60%
Don Nickles 80%
Anne Northup 69%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 65%
James Nussle 73%
Jim Oberstar 12%
Dave Obey 19%
John Olver 7%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 0%
Doug Ose 69%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 79%
Ronald Packard 69%
Ron Paul 80%
Donald Payne 3%
Edward Pease 65%
John Peterson 63%
David Phelps 7%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 73%
Owen Pickett 15%
Richard Pombo 76%
Earl Pomeroy 15%
John Edward Porter 57%
Deborah Pryce 68%
Jack Quinn 36%
George Radanovich 65%
James Ramstad 84%
Ralph Regula 57%
Silvestre Reyes 4%
Thomas Reynolds 64%
Bob Riley 72%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 24%
Charles Robb 19%
Ciro Rodriguez 3%
Timothy Roemer 34%
James Rogan 88%
William Roth, Jr. 66%
Steve Rothman 11%
Marge Roukema 73%
Jim Ryun 88%
Martin Olav Sabo 8%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 12%
Rick Santorum 71%
Paul Sarbanes 4%
Jim Saxton 46%
Joe Scarborough 84%
John Shadegg 92%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 60%
Christopher Shays 80%
Donald Sherwood 64%
Ronnie Shows 29%
E.G. Shuster 68%
Norman Sisisky 15%
Joseph Skeen 68%
Ike Skelton 23%
Gordon Smith 55%
Nick Smith 84%
Bob Smith 80%
Olympia Snowe 42%
Vic Snyder 11%
Mark Souder 76%
Arlen Specter 42%
Floyd Spence 69%
John Spratt, Jr. 7%
Pete Stark 24%
Cliff Stearns 84%
Charles Stenholm 32%
Ted Stevens 52%
Ted Strickland 11%
Bob Stump 73%
Bart Stupak 8%
John Sununu 92%
John Sweeney 56%
James Talent 72%
Tom Tancredo 92%
John Tanner 20%
Ellen Tauscher 11%
William Tauzin 65%
Charles Taylor 75%
Gene Taylor 52%
Craig Thomas 75%
William Thomas 62%
Fred Thompson 76%
Karen Thurman 12%
Strom Thurmond 66%
Todd Tiahrt 84%
Robert Torricelli 4%
Ed Towns 8%
James Traficant, Jr. 34%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 4%
James Turner 15%
Bruce Vento 11%
George Voinovich 65%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 88%
John Warner 55%
Wesley Watkins 72%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 72%
Anthony Weiner 4%
David Weldon 76%
W. Curtis Weldon 45%
Gerald Weller 73%
Paul Wellstone 19%
Robert Wexler 0%
Bob Weygand 11%
Heather Wilson 57%
Bob Wise, Jr. 3%
Lynn Woolsey 7%
David Wu 15%
Albert Wynn 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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