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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: AIDS Action Council

1997-1998 Positions

Issues: Health Issues
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 30%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 33%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 18%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 40%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 20%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 90%
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 18%
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 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
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 23 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 70%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 90%
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 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 9%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 18%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 27%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 18%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 90%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 18%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 75%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 80%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 33%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 80%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 60%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 40%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 27%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 80%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
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 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 10%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 40%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 40%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 60%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 27%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 40%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 33%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 27%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 30%
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 100%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 88%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 80%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 9%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 60%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 60%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 18%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 70%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 87%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 40%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 9%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 60%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 18%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 80%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 40%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 30%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 9%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 9%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 18%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 80%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 30%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 36%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 36%
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 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 70%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 80%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 80%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 33%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 90%
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 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 90%
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 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 30%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 9%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 90%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 50%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 27%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 40%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 16%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 7%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 25%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
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 50%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 18%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 50%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 18%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 80%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 30%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 9%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 45%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 55%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 55%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 10%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 60%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 18%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 36%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 80%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 80%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 10%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 90%
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 100%
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 40%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 40%
Wayne Allard 40%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 10%
Richard Armey 18%
John Ashcroft 20%
Richard Hugh Baker 27%
John Baldacci 90%
Cass Ballenger 18%
James Barcia 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. 9%
William Barrett 40%
Herbert Bateman 33%
Bob Bennett 60%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 40%
Marion Berry 80%
Michael Bilirakis 30%
Rod Blagojevich 80%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 30%
Sherwood Boehlert 80%
Kit Bond 60%
Henry Bonilla 55%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 60%
John Breaux 80%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Richard Bryan 80%
Ed Bryant 18%
Jim Bunning 30%
Conrad Burns 40%
Steve Buyer 55%
Robert Byrd 80%
Herbert Callahan 36%
Ben Campbell 25%
Thomas Campbell 90%
Chris Cannon 10%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 70%
John Chafee 80%
Helen Chenoweth 27%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 80%
Robert Clement 70%
Mac Collins 10%
Larry Combest 27%
Gary Condit 72%
Merrill Cook 30%
John Cooksey 50%
Paul Coverdell 50%
Christopher Cox 20%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 40%
Robert Cramer 66%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 10%
Randall Cunningham 20%
Patsy Ann Danner 50%
Thomas Daschle 80%
James Davis 80%
Thomas Davis III 54%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 16%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
Jay Dickey 30%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 60%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 9%
Byron Dorgan 80%
Jennifer Dunn 18%
Chet Edwards 70%
Vern Ehlers 40%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 30%
Philip English 16%
Bob Etheridge 60%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 27%
Thomas Ewing 27%
Russ Feingold 80%
Mark Foley 88%
Michael Patrick Forbes 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. 88%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 40%
Tillie Fowler 36%
Robert Franks 50%
William Frist 60%
Jonas Frost III 90%
John Ganske 81%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 40%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 30%
Wayne Gilchrest 60%
Paul Gillmor 22%
Benjamin Gilman 54%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
William Goodling 30%
Bart Gordon 60%
Slade Gorton 60%
Porter Goss 20%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 40%
Rodney Grams 40%
James Greenwood 80%
Judd Gregg 40%
Gilbert Gutknecht 40%
Charles Hagel 40%
Tony Hall 60%
James Hansen 33%
J. Dennis Hastert 16%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 27%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 14%
Rick Hill 20%
Van Hilleary 9%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 40%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 80%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 70%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 70%
Kenny Hulshof 20%
Duncan Hunter 18%
William Hutchinson 18%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 33%
Henry Hyde 50%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 80%
William Lewis Jenkins 30%
Christopher John 66%
Nancy Johnson 90%
Paul Kanjorski 90%
Sue Kelly 54%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 90%
Bob Kerrey 80%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 80%
Ronald Klink 60%
Joseph Knollenberg 36%
James Kolbe 80%
John LaFalce 70%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 60%
James Leach 66%
Ron Lewis 18%
John Linder 30%
William Lipinski 45%
Robert Livingston 40%
Trent Lott, Sr. 40%
William Luther 70%
Connie Mack 60%
James Maloney 100%
Matthew Martinez 90%
Frank Mascara 60%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 80%
Bill McCollum 22%
James McCrery III 36%
John McHugh 33%
Scott McInnis 18%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 63%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 30%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 40%
David Minge 50%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 60%
Constance Morella 100%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 80%
Frank Murkowski 40%
Jack Murtha 55%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 27%
Robert William Ney 45%
Don Nickles 33%
Anne Northup 36%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 9%
James Nussle 30%
Jim Oberstar 80%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 50%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 50%
Ronald Packard 44%
Paul Michael Parker 20%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 40%
John Peterson 27%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 18%
Owen Pickett 70%
Richard Pombo 9%
Earl Pomeroy 70%
John Edward Porter 60%
Deborah Pryce 50%
Jack Quinn 25%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 40%
Ralph Regula 50%
Bob Riley 22%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 66%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 30%
William Roth, Jr. 60%
Marge Roukema 50%
Jim Ryun 18%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 66%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 10%
Rick Santorum 40%
Paul Sarbanes 80%
H. James Saxton 27%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 18%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 30%
Christopher Shays 90%
E.G. Shuster 30%
Norman Sisisky 70%
Joseph Skeen 45%
Ike Skelton 50%
Gordon Smith 40%
Nick Smith 30%
Bob Smith 14%
Vic Snyder 100%
Mark Souder 27%
Arlen Specter 75%
Floyd Spence 18%
John Spratt, Jr. 60%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 60%
Ted Strickland 63%
Robert Stump 18%
Bart Stupak 50%
John Sununu 30%
James Talent 18%
John Tanner 60%
Ellen Tauscher 81%
William Tauzin 18%
Charles Taylor 25%
Gene Taylor 30%
Craig Thomas 40%
William Thomas 60%
Fred Thompson 60%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 60%
Todd Tiahrt 9%
Robert Torricelli 80%
James Traficant, Jr. 27%
James Turner 60%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 36%
Zach Wamp 9%
John Warner 50%
Wesley Watkins 27%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 27%
David Weldon 18%
W. Curtis Weldon 36%
Gerald Weller 30%
Paul Wellstone 75%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 90%
Heather Wilson 0%
Robert Wise, Jr. 70%
Albert Wynn 100%

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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