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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: American Civil Liberties Union

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 20%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 7%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 14%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 27%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 93%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 60%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 87%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 93%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 93%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 93%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 87%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 40%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 60%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 12%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 86%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 14%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 7%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 7%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 7%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 57%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 93%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 7%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 93%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 20%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 60%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 20%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 40%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 13%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 20%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 60%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 47%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 80%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 93%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 93%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 13%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 79%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 7%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 20%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 27%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 20%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 13%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 7%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 7%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 75%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 7%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 50%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 60%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 87%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 87%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 87%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 40%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 60%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 60%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 87%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 79%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 93%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 87%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 57%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 60%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 14%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 93%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 7%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 93%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 60%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 60%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 87%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 27%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 93%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 7%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 73%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 13%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 13%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 73%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 60%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 87%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 93%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 40%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 60%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 14%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 60%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 87%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 87%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 67%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 40%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 20%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 7%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 60%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 13%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 93%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 93%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 13%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 87%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 87%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 15%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 53%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 7%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 87%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 60%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 53%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 60%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 17%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 71%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 40%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 73%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 87%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 20%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 73%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 8%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 7%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 7%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 73%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 60%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 93%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 60%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 60%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 87%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 7%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 93%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 64%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 87%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 93%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 13%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 73%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 7%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 13%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 60%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 7%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 67%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 40%
Gary Ackerman 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 60%
Todd Akin 7%
Wayne Allard 20%
George Allen 20%
Thomas Allen 87%
Joe Baca, Sr. 73%
Brian Baird 73%
Richard Hugh Baker 7%
Cass Ballenger 7%
Roscoe Bartlett 7%
Charlie Bass 33%
Evan Bayh 60%
Bob Bennett 20%
Douglas Bereuter 13%
Shelley Berkley 73%
Howard Berman 87%
Marion Berry 40%
Judy Biggert 53%
Michael Bilirakis 7%
Jeff Bingaman 60%
Sherwood Boehlert 53%
Kit Bond 40%
Henry Bonilla 7%
Mary Bono Mack 27%
Leonard Boswell 67%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 47%
John Breaux 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. 13%
Jim Bunning 20%
Conrad Burns 40%
Dan Burton 7%
Steve Buyer 8%
Robert Byrd 20%
Ben Campbell 20%
Chris Cannon 7%
Brad Carson 67%
Julia Carson 87%
Mike Castle 40%
Hillary Clinton 60%
Michael Collins 13%
Larry Combest 15%
Kent Conrad 40%
Jon Corzine 60%
Jerry Costello 47%
Christopher Cox 7%
Larry Craig 25%
Robert Cramer 20%
Philip Crane 7%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 7%
Thomas Daschle 60%
James Davis 60%
Jo Ann Davis 7%
Thomas Davis III 33%
Bill Delahunt 85%
Thomas DeLay 7%
James DeMint 7%
Peter Deutsch 73%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 13%
Norm Dicks 80%
Chris Dodd 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 71%
John Doolittle 7%
Byron Dorgan 40%
David Dreier 27%
Jennifer Dunn 14%
John Edwards 60%
Chet Edwards 67%
Vern Ehlers 27%
Jo Ann Emerson 21%
Philip English 20%
John Ensign 20%
Bob Etheridge 67%
Lane Evans 86%
Terry Everett 7%
Russ Feingold 80%
Michael Ferguson 13%
Peter Fitzgerald 0%
Ernest Fletcher 13%
Mark Foley 33%
Harold Ford, Jr. 60%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 7%
Barney Frank 93%
William Frist 20%
Jonas Frost III 73%
Elton Gallegly 13%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 71%
Jim Gibbons 7%
Wayne Gilchrest 29%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Charlie Gonzalez 86%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 7%
Bart Gordon 53%
Porter Goss 7%
Daniel Graham 60%
Mark Green 7%
James Greenwood 47%
Judd Gregg 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 7%
Jane Harman 73%
Melissa Hart 7%
J. Dennis Hastert 17%
Robert Hayes 7%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 7%
Joel Hefley 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 13%
Baron Hill 64%
Maurice Hinchey 87%
David Lee Hobson 13%
Pete Hoekstra 27%
Thomas Holden 40%
Ernest Hollings 60%
Darlene Hooley 86%
John Nathan Hostettler 36%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 43%
Kenny Hulshof 20%
Duncan Hunter 7%
Kay Hutchison 25%
Henry Hyde 7%
Daniel Inouye 50%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 7%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 93%
William Jefferson 79%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 7%
Christopher John 40%
Nancy Johnson 53%
Tim Johnson 20%
Paul Kanjorski 53%
Ric Keller 7%
Sue Kelly 33%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 60%
Mark Kennedy 7%
Patrick Kennedy 71%
Dale Kildee 53%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 85%
Gerald Kleczka 73%
Joseph Knollenberg 7%
Herb Kohl 60%
James Kolbe 50%
Dennis Kucinich 64%
Jon Kyl 20%
Ray LaHood 13%
Nicholas Lampson 64%
Tom Lantos 79%
Steve LaTourette 8%
James Leach 43%
Jerry Lewis 20%
Ron Lewis 7%
Joe Lieberman 40%
Blanche Lincoln 60%
John Linder 7%
William Lipinski 36%
Trent Lott, Sr. 20%
Dick Lugar 0%
Don Manzullo 27%
Robert Matsui 87%
Karen McCarthy 87%
James McCrery III 13%
John McHugh 13%
Scott McInnis 7%
Michael McNulty 60%
Martin Meehan 86%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 80%
Zell Bryan Miller 25%
Alan Mollohan 47%
Dennis Moore 87%
Jack Murtha 50%
Sue Myrick 7%
Ben Nelson 60%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 13%
Robert William Ney 27%
Don Nickles 20%
Anne Northup 7%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 7%
James Nussle 13%
Jim Oberstar 67%
Dave Obey 67%
John Olver 93%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 47%
Thomas William Osborne 20%
Doug Ose 27%
Major Owens 92%
Michael Oxley 7%
Ron Paul 67%
Donald Payne 93%
John Peterson 13%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 13%
Todd Platts 13%
Richard Pombo 7%
Earl Pomeroy 53%
Deborah Pryce 23%
Jack Quinn 13%
George Radanovich 7%
James Ramstad 27%
Ralph Regula 13%
Denny Rehberg 21%
Silvestre Reyes 64%
Thomas Reynolds 7%
Ciro Rodriguez 79%
Mike Ross 60%
Steve Rothman 73%
Jim Ryun 7%
Martin Olav Sabo 93%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 67%
Rick Santorum 25%
Paul Sarbanes 60%
Jim Saxton 7%
Edward Schrock 7%
John Shadegg 13%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 20%
Christopher Shays 53%
Donald Sherwood 20%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 47%
Ike Skelton 33%
Gordon Smith 40%
Nick Smith 7%
Olympia Snowe 60%
Vic Snyder 71%
Hilda Solis 87%
Mark Souder 13%
Arlen Specter 60%
John Spratt, Jr. 50%
Pete Stark 93%
Cliff Stearns 7%
Charles Stenholm 33%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 67%
Bart Stupak 53%
John Sullivan 0%
John Sununu 13%
John Sweeney 27%
Tom Tancredo 7%
John Tanner 38%
Ellen Tauscher 87%
William Tauzin 7%
Charles Taylor 7%
Gene Taylor 20%
Craig Thomas 50%
William Thomas 27%
Todd Tiahrt 20%
Ed Towns 79%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 92%
James Turner 53%
George Voinovich 40%
James Walsh 7%
Zach Wamp 7%
John Warner 20%
Diane Watson 91%
Anthony Weiner 87%
David Weldon 7%
W. Curtis Weldon 7%
Gerald Weller 13%
Robert Wexler 80%
Heather Wilson 13%
Lynn Woolsey 93%
David Wu 80%
Albert Wynn 80%

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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