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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: United States Student Association

1995-1996 Positions

Issues: Education
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 36%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 91%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 91%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 9%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 27%
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 91%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 9%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 29%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 73%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 73%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 91%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 82%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 9%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 36%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 64%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 10%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 91%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 91%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 17%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 74%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 73%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 73%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 54%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 27%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 9%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 54%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 9%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 17%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 9%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 82%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 82%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 64%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 64%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 64%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 80%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 65%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 73%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 9%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 73%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 73%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 82%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 45%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 36%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 91%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 64%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 64%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 17%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 9%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 91%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 73%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 82%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 91%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 45%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 27%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 9%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 73%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 0%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 82%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 73%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 17%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
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 82%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 91%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 91%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 91%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 9%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 64%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 27%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 9%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 82%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 36%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 17%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 71%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 73%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 54%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 54%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 73%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 73%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 36%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 91%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 82%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 91%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 27%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 9%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 64%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 9%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 82%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 82%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 73%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 64%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 9%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 9%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 91%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 73%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 91%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 17%
Wayne Allard 0%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 54%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
William Baker 11%
John Baldacci 82%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 64%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 9%
Herbert Bateman 0%
Anthony Beilenson 89%
Bob Bennett 36%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 73%
Douglas Bereuter 9%
Tom Bevill 67%
Michael Bilirakis 9%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Peter Blute 38%
Sherwood Boehlert 27%
Kit Bond 27%
Henry Bonilla 9%
David Edward Bonior 91%
Sonny Bono 91%
Robert Borski, Jr. 82%
Rick Boucher 73%
Bill Bradley 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 73%
John Breaux 54%
Bill Brewster 56%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Hank Brown 14%
Richard Bryan 64%
Ed Bryant 0%
John Bryant 100%
Dale Bumpers 82%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 27%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 64%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 30%
Thomas Campbell 36%
Mike Castle 27%
John Chafee 45%
Helen Chenoweth 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen 0%
William Clay, Sr. 82%
Eva Clayton 91%
Robert Clement 45%
William Clinger 14%
William Cohen 29%
Ronald Coleman 89%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 0%
Paul Coverdell 17%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 9%
Robert Cramer 45%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Alfonse D'Amato 45%
Patsy Ann Danner 45%
Thomas Daschle 92%
Thomas Davis III 9%
E. Kika de la Garza 75%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 54%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 36%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 87%
Robert Dole 29%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 36%
Calvin Dooley 64%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 73%
Robert Dornan 11%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 64%
Vern Ehlers 9%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Bill Emerson 33%
Philip English 9%
John Ensign 17%
Lane Evans 91%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 9%
Jim Exon 43%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 0%
Harris Fawell 9%
Victor Fazio 73%
Russ Feingold 82%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 13%
Floyd Flake 82%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 9%
Michael Patrick Forbes 0%
Wendell Ford 64%
Tillie Fowler 0%
Jon David Fox 9%
Gary Franks 33%
Robert Franks 9%
William Frist 36%
Jonas Frost III 73%
Elizabeth Furse 64%
John Ganske 0%
Sam Gejdenson 91%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 91%
Pete Geren 56%
Sam Gibbons 89%
Wayne Gilchrest 9%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 17%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 82%
Henry Gonzalez 82%
William Goodling 9%
Bart Gordon 45%
Slade Gorton 27%
Porter Goss 9%
Daniel Graham 64%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 9%
James Greenwood 9%
Judd Gregg 27%
Steven Gunderson 67%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Tony Hall 64%
Lee Hamilton 45%
Melton Hancock 11%
James Hansen 0%
Jane Harman 64%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Mark Hatfield 87%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 9%
W.G. Hefner 45%
Jesse Helms 0%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 82%
David Lee Hobson 9%
Pete Hoekstra 17%
Martin Hoke 33%
Ernest Hollings 73%
Stephen Horn 17%
John Nathan Hostettler 9%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 27%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 75%
William Jefferson 91%
James Merrill Jeffords 70%
Nancy Johnson 0%
Harry Johnston 100%
J. Bennett Johnston 57%
Paul Kanjorski 54%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 43%
Sue Kelly 17%
Dirk Kempthorne 9%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 116%
Joseph Kennedy II 91%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 82%
Bob Kerrey 91%
Jay Kim 9%
Gerald Kleczka 73%
Ronald Klink 64%
Scott Klug 17%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 17%
John LaFalce 91%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 17%
Greg Laughlin 56%
Rick Lazio 9%
James Leach 17%
Ron Lewis 0%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 33%
Blanche Lincoln 78%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 45%
Robert Livingston 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. 27%
William Luther 64%
Connie Mack 17%
Thomas Manton 64%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Frank Mascara 54%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 64%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 0%
Joseph McDade 0%
Paul McHale 54%
John McHugh 17%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 17%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 73%
Martin Meehan 73%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 0%
Jan Meyers 56%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 9%
David Minge 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 64%
Susan Molinari 17%
Alan Mollohan 91%
G.V. Montgomery 67%
Carlos Moorhead 11%
Constance Morella 64%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 91%
Frank Murkowski 9%
Jack Murtha 64%
John Myers 33%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 9%
Mark Neumann 9%
Robert William Ney 9%
Don Nickles 17%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
Sam Nunn 57%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 91%
Dave Obey 64%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 82%
William Orton 44%
Major Owens 91%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ronald Packard 0%
Paul Michael Parker 0%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 67%
Claiborne Pell 100%
Pete Peterson 78%
Owen Pickett 54%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 73%
John Edward Porter 9%
Glenn Poshard 45%
Larry Pressler 0%
Deborah Pryce 9%
David Pryor 83%
James Quillen 22%
Jack Quinn 45%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 9%
Ralph Regula 9%
Bill Richardson 73%
Frank Duncan Riggs 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 91%
Charles Robb 73%
Timothy Roemer 45%
Charles Rose III 100%
Toby Roth 22%
William Roth, Jr. 27%
Marge Roukema 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 17%
Rick Santorum 27%
Paul Sarbanes 82%
H. James Saxton 9%
Joe Scarborough 27%
Steven Schiff 27%
Patricia Schroeder 89%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 9%
E.G. Shuster 0%
Paul Simon 96%
Alan Simpson 29%
Norman Sisisky 27%
David Skaggs 91%
Joseph Skeen 17%
Ike Skelton 54%
Linda Smith 0%
Nick Smith 9%
Bob Smith 0%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 0%
Mark Souder 27%
Arlen Specter 65%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 45%
Charles Stenholm 36%
Ted Stevens 36%
Louis Stokes 82%
Gerry Studds 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 73%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 45%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 36%
Frank Tejeda 91%
Craig Thomas 17%
William Thomas 9%
Fred Thompson 17%
Ray Thornton 67%
Karen Thurman 45%
Strom Thurmond 27%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Peter Torkildsen 56%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 54%
James Traficant, Jr. 54%
Bruce Vento 82%
Harold Volkmer 78%
Barbara Vucanovich 33%
Robert Walker 11%
James Walsh 9%
Zach Wamp 17%
John Warner 27%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 9%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 9%
Gerald Weller 9%
Paul Wellstone 87%
Rick White 17%
Pat Williams 98%
Charles Wilson 89%
Robert Wise, Jr. 82%
Albert Wynn 82%
Sidney Yates 73%
Bill Zeliff 11%
Richard Zimmer 25%

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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