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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: AIDS Action Council

1995-1996 Positions

Issues: Health Issues
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 18%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 28%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 13%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 41%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 17%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 93%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 89%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 13%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 13%
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 92%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 29%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 89%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 93%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 21%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 87%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 20%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 13%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 13%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 80%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 13%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 94%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 94%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 93%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 22%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 83%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 13%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 13%
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 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 60%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 13%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 47%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 33%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 93%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 13%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 33%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 13%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 13%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
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 94%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 93%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 93%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 13%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 67%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 89%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 27%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 53%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 93%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 28%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 13%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 87%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 72%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 33%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 93%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 83%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 33%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 89%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 47%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 53%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 89%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 13%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman 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 93%
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 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 13%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 13%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 13%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 93%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 33%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 20%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 22%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 13%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 13%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 60%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 93%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 73%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 64%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 7%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 87%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 13%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 33%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 93%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 44%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 93%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 13%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 89%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 94%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 13%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 94%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 13%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 14%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 89%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 67%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 50%
William Archer 13%
Richard Armey 13%
John Ashcroft 28%
Henry Scott Baesler 64%
Richard Hugh Baker 13%
William Baker 0%
John Baldacci 93%
Cass Ballenger 8%
James Barcia 67%
Robert Barr, Jr. 13%
William Barrett 13%
Herbert Bateman 15%
Anthony Beilenson 100%
Bob Bennett 36%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 87%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Tom Bevill 56%
Michael Bilirakis 13%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 7%
Peter Blute 44%
Sherwood Boehlert 87%
Kit Bond 41%
Henry Bonilla 7%
David Edward Bonior 93%
Sonny Bono 20%
Robert Borski, Jr. 93%
Rick Boucher 86%
Bill Bradley 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 89%
John Breaux 89%
Bill Brewster 33%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Hank Brown 15%
Richard Bryan 89%
Ed Bryant 013%
John Bryant 100%
Dale Bumpers 83%
Jim Bunn 0%
Jim Bunning 13%
Conrad Burns 39%
Steve Buyer 13%
Robert Byrd 83%
Herbert Callahan 013%
Ben Campbell 50%
Thomas Campbell 71%
Mike Castle 60%
John Chafee 61%
Jim Chapman 78%
Helen Chenoweth 14%
Jon Lynn Christensen 13%
Dick Chrysler 0%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Robert Clement 80%
William Clinger 11%
William Cohen 77%
Ronald Coleman 89%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 13%
Larry Combest 13%
Gary Condit 67%
Wes Cooley 0%
Paul Coverdell 44%
Christopher Cox 14%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 44%
Robert Cramer 67%
Philip Crane 15%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 0%
Barbara Cubin 21%
Randall Cunningham 13%
Alfonse D'Amato 50%
Patsy Ann Danner 60%
Thomas Daschle 100%
Thomas Davis III 33%
E. Kika de la Garza 67%
Thomas DeLay 13%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 13%
Jay Dickey 13%
Julian Dixon 93%
Chris Dodd 100%
Robert Dole 23%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 85%
John Doolittle 13%
Byron Dorgan 83%
Robert Dornan 0%
Jennifer Dunn 23%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 27%
Bill Emerson 0%
Philip English 20%
John Ensign 27%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 13%
Thomas Ewing 7%
Jim Exon 92%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 22%
Harris Fawell 33%
Victor Fazio 100%
Russ Feingold 89%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 0%
Floyd Flake 100%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 22%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 27%
Michael Patrick Forbes 33%
Wendell Ford 94%
Tillie Fowler 29%
Jon David Fox 33%
Gary Franks 33%
Robert Franks 73%
Daniel Frisa 0%
William Frist 50%
Jonas Frost III 80%
David Funderburk 11%
Elizabeth Furse 93%
John Ganske 40%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 33%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Pete Geren 22%
Sam Gibbons 100%
Wayne Gilchrest 47%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 60%
Newt Gingrich 25%
John Glenn 83%
Henry Gonzalez 73%
William Goodling 20%
Bart Gordon 80%
Slade Gorton 56%
Porter Goss 21%
Daniel Graham 78%
William Phillip Gramm 29%
Rodney Grams 22%
Enid Greene 0%
James Greenwood 60%
Judd Gregg 50%
Steven Gunderson 50%
Gilbert Gutknecht 20%
Tony Hall 58%
Lee Hamilton 67%
Melton Hancock 0%
James Hansen 13%
Jane Harman 93%
J. Dennis Hastert 13%
Mark Hatfield 69%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 13%
Joel Hefley 20%
W.G. Hefner 87%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 11%
Jesse Helms 11%
Van Hilleary 13%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 93%
David Lee Hobson 29%
Pete Hoekstra 13%
Martin Hoke 0%
Ernest Hollings 67%
Stephen Horn 73%
John Nathan Hostettler 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 57%
Duncan Hunter 7%
Henry Hyde 7%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 13%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 7%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 89%
William Jefferson 87%
James Merrill Jeffords 67%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Harry Johnston 100%
J. Bennett Johnston 92%
Paul Kanjorski 80%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 54%
Sue Kelly 67%
Dirk Kempthorne 44%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 93%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 93%
Bob Kerrey 89%
Jay Kim 13%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Ronald Klink 87%
Scott Klug 40%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
James Kolbe 40%
John LaFalce 80%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 7%
Greg Laughlin 0%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 67%
Ron Lewis 13%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 0%
Blanche Lincoln 78%
John Linder 13%
William Lipinski 53%
Robert Livingston 7%
James Longley, Jr. 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. 22%
William Luther 93%
Connie Mack 38%
Thomas Manton 79%
Matthew Martinez 86%
Bill Martini 44%
Frank Mascara 67%
Robert Matsui 92%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 13%
James McCrery III 27%
Joseph McDade 10%
Paul McHale 87%
John McHugh 27%
Scott McInnis 36%
David McIntosh 13%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 71%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 93%
Jack Metcalf 13%
Jan Meyers 13%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 29%
David Minge 87%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 93%
John Moakley 100%
Susan Molinari 50%
Alan Mollohan 60%
G.V. Montgomery 11%
Carlos Moorhead 0%
Constance Morella 93%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 44%
Jack Murtha 73%
John Myers 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Mark Neumann 20%
Robert William Ney 27%
Don Nickles 28%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 13%
Sam Nunn 92%
James Nussle 13%
Jim Oberstar 93%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 47%
William Orton 44%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 21%
Ronald Packard 13%
Paul Michael Parker 13%
William Paxon 13%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 78%
Claiborne Pell 100%
Pete Peterson 88%
Owen Pickett 60%
Richard Pombo 13%
Earl Pomeroy 80%
John Edward Porter 47%
Glenn Poshard 53%
Larry Pressler 23%
Deborah Pryce 43%
David Pryor 92%
James Quillen 0%
Jack Quinn 43%
George Radanovich 13%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 27%
Bill Richardson 87%
Frank Duncan Riggs 40%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 83%
Timothy Roemer 80%
Charles Rose III 89%
Toby Roth 0%
William Roth, Jr. 35%
Marge Roukema 67%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 13%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 7%
Rick Santorum 33%
Paul Sarbanes 94%
H. James Saxton 33%
Joe Scarborough 7%
Daniel Schaefer 20%
Steven Schiff 47%
Patricia Schroeder 100%
Andrea Seastrand 0%
John Shadegg 7%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 29%
Christopher Shays 80%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Paul Simon 100%
Alan Simpson 46%
Norman Sisisky 57%
David Skaggs 100%
Joseph Skeen 13%
Ike Skelton 47%
Linda Smith 14%
Nick Smith 13%
Bob Smith 11%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 13%
Mark Souder 7%
Arlen Specter 67%
Floyd Spence 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 87%
Charles Stenholm 40%
Ted Stevens 44%
Steve Stockman 0%
Louis Stokes 100%
Gerry Studds 100%
Robert Stump 7%
Bart Stupak 80%
James Talent 14%
John Tanner 67%
Randy Tate 0%
William Tauzin 13%
Charles Taylor 13%
Gene Taylor 33%
Frank Tejeda 53%
Craig Thomas 44%
William Thomas 40%
Fred Thompson 33%
Ray Thornton 75%
Karen Thurman 91%
Strom Thurmond 39%
Todd Tiahrt 13%
Peter Torkildsen 78%
Esteban Edward Torres 93%
James Traficant, Jr. 67%
Bruce Vento 93%
Harold Volkmer 63%
Barbara Vucanovich 0%
Robert Walker 0%
James Walsh 20%
Zach Wamp 13%
Michael Ward 89%
John Warner 44%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 13%
David Weldon 7%
W. Curtis Weldon 31%
Gerald Weller 20%
Paul Wellstone 89%
Rick White 20%
Pat Williams 100%
Charles Wilson 78%
Robert Wise, Jr. 87%
Albert Wynn 85%
Sidney Yates 82%
Bill Zeliff 11%
Richard Zimmer 44%

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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