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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Consumer Federation of America

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 20%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 40%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 10%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 10%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 60%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 10%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 70%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 10%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 90%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 90%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 30%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 80%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 20%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 60%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 33%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 90%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 80%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 30%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 75%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 50%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 20%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 20%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 20%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 30%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 20%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 20%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 80%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 80%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 20%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 90%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 20%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 90%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 30%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 20%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 20%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 80%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 70%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 20%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 30%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 30%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 60%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 80%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 70%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 50%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 70%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 70%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 80%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 70%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 20%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 90%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 90%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 90%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 50%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 20%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 80%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 40%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 20%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 20%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 70%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 20%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 60%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 80%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 40%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 80%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 30%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 67%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 20%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 70%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 30%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 70%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 90%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 80%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 20%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 70%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 70%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 60%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 20%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 30%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 80%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 80%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 70%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 10%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 30%
Wayne Allard 10%
Thomas Allen 90%
William Archer 20%
Richard Armey 20%
John Ashcroft 10%
Richard Hugh Baker 20%
John Baldacci 90%
Cass Ballenger 30%
James Barcia 70%
Robert Barr, Jr. 20%
William Barrett 30%
Herbert Bateman 10%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 60%
Douglas Bereuter 30%
Marion Berry 40%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Rod Blagojevich 90%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 20%
Sherwood Boehlert 60%
Kit Bond 30%
Henry Bonilla 20%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 60%
John Breaux 60%
Richard Bryan 80%
Ed Bryant 20%
Jim Bunning 20%
Conrad Burns 10%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 90%
Herbert Callahan 20%
Ben Campbell 30%
Thomas Campbell 50%
Chris Cannon 10%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 50%
John Chafee 60%
Helen Chenoweth 20%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 80%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 90%
Robert Clement 60%
Mac Collins 20%
Larry Combest 20%
Gary Condit 44%
Merrill Cook 30%
John Cooksey 20%
Paul Coverdell 20%
Christopher Cox 20%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 10%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 20%
Barbara Cubin 20%
Randall Cunningham 20%
Patsy Ann Danner 40%
Thomas Daschle 80%
James Davis 50%
Thomas Davis III 20%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 20%
Peter Deutsch 67%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 30%
Jay Dickey 20%
Julian Dixon 90%
Chris Dodd 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 50%
John Doolittle 20%
Byron Dorgan 80%
Jennifer Dunn 20%
Chet Edwards 60%
Vern Ehlers 40%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 20%
Philip English 20%
Bob Etheridge 50%
Lane Evans 90%
Terry Everett 20%
Thomas Ewing 40%
Russ Feingold 90%
Mark Foley 40%
Michael Patrick Forbes 60%
Harold Ford, Jr. 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 30%
Tillie Fowler 20%
Robert Franks 40%
William Frist 30%
Jonas Frost III 70%
John Ganske 40%
Sam Gejdenson 90%
George Gekas 30%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 78%
Jim Gibbons 10%
Wayne Gilchrest 40%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 22%
William Goodling 20%
Bart Gordon 60%
Slade Gorton 20%
Porter Goss 20%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 10%
Rodney Grams 10%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 20%
Charles Hagel 10%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 20%
J. Dennis Hastert 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 20%
Joel Hefley 30%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 30%
Van Hilleary 20%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 89%
David Lee Hobson 20%
Pete Hoekstra 30%
Ernest Hollings 50%
Darlene Hooley 70%
Stephen Horn 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 30%
Kenny Hulshof 40%
Duncan Hunter 20%
William Hutchinson 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 10%
Henry Hyde 20%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 20%
William Jefferson 70%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 20%
Christopher John 30%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 90%
Sue Kelly 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 80%
Patrick Kennedy 80%
Bob Kerrey 80%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 88%
Gerald Kleczka 60%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
James Kolbe 30%
John LaFalce 90%
Nicholas Lampson 89%
Tom Lantos 80%
Stephen Largent 20%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 60%
Ron Lewis 20%
John Linder 20%
William Lipinski 78%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
William Luther 90%
Connie Mack 10%
James Maloney 70%
Matthew Martinez 60%
Frank Mascara 70%
Robert Matsui 70%
Karen McCarthy 90%
Bill McCollum 10%
James McCrery III 20%
John McHugh 40%
Scott McInnis 20%
David McIntosh 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 90%
Martin Meehan 89%
Carrie Meek 90%
Jack Metcalf 30%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 90%
Dan Miller 20%
David Minge 50%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 90%
John Moakley 89%
Alan Mollohan 50%
Constance Morella 70%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 90%
Frank Murkowski 10%
Jack Murtha 89%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Robert William Ney 20%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 20%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 20%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 70%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 20%
Ronald Packard 30%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 20%
John Peterson 20%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 20%
Owen Pickett 40%
Richard Pombo 20%
Earl Pomeroy 60%
John Edward Porter 40%
Deborah Pryce 20%
Jack Quinn 30%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 30%
Bob Riley 10%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Charles Robb 60%
Ciro Rodriguez 70%
Timothy Roemer 70%
James Rogan 20%
William Roth, Jr. 40%
Marge Roukema 70%
Jim Ryun 20%
Martin Olav Sabo 80%
Matthew Salmon 20%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 50%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 50%
Rick Santorum 10%
Paul Sarbanes 90%
H. James Saxton 50%
Joe Scarborough 10%
John Shadegg 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 20%
Christopher Shays 50%
E.G. Shuster 20%
Norman Sisisky 40%
Joseph Skeen 20%
Ike Skelton 60%
Gordon Smith 20%
Nick Smith 30%
Bob Smith 10%
Vic Snyder 70%
Mark Souder 20%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 20%
John Spratt, Jr. 50%
Charles Stenholm 40%
Ted Stevens 30%
Ted Strickland 70%
Robert Stump 20%
Bart Stupak 80%
John Sununu 30%
James Talent 20%
John Tanner 40%
Ellen Tauscher 60%
William Tauzin 20%
Charles Taylor 22%
Gene Taylor 50%
Craig Thomas 10%
William Thomas 20%
Fred Thompson 30%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 10%
Todd Tiahrt 10%
Robert Torricelli 90%
James Traficant, Jr. 40%
James Turner 50%
Bruce Vento 90%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 30%
John Warner 30%
Wesley Watkins 10%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 20%
David Weldon 20%
W. Curtis Weldon 55%
Gerald Weller 30%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 89%
Robert Weygand 70%
Heather Wilson 0%
Robert Wise, Jr. 70%
Albert Wynn 70%

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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