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Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Americans for the Arts Action Fund

2008 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 1 Jo Bonner, Jr. Republican 40%
AL U.S. House 3 Mike Rogers Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 60%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 20%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 86%
AR U.S. House 4 Mike Ross Democratic 88%
AZ U.S. House 2 Trent Franks Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 86%
AZ U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Raúl Grijalva Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 1 Mike Thompson Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 3 Dan Lungren Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 5 Doris Matsui Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 11 Jerry McNerney Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 52%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 15 Mike Honda Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 76%
CA U.S. House 18 Dennis Cardoza Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 20 Jim Costa Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 21 Devin Nunes Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 22 Kevin McCarthy Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 98%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 29 Adam Schiff Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 38 Grace Napolitano Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 39 Linda Sánchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 42 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Joe Baca, Sr. Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 80%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 48 John Campbell III Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 52 Duncan Hunter Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 92%
CO U.S. House 2 Jared Polis Democratic 88%
CO U.S. House 5 Doug Lamborn Republican 0%
CO U.S. House 6 Michael Coffman Republican 0%
CO U.S. House 7 Ed Perlmutter Democratic 80%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar No Party Affiliation 80%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 94%
CT U.S. House 2 Joe Courtney Democratic 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 86%
CT U.S. House 4 Jim Himes Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 5 Chris Murphy Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 66%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 9 Gus Bilirakis Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 11 Kathy Castor Democratic 84%
FL U.S. House 13 Vern Buchanan Republican 86%
FL U.S. House 14 Connie Mack IV Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 16 Thomas Rooney Republican 80%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 86%
FL U.S. House 20 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic 86%
FL U.S. House 21 Mario Diaz-Balart Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 88%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 40%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 80%
GA U.S. House 3 Lynn Westmoreland Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 4 Hank Johnson, Jr. Democratic 76%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 6 Tom Price Republican 26%
GA U.S. House 11 Phil Gingrey Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 12 John Barrow Democratic 80%
GA U.S. House 13 David Scott Democratic 86%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI U.S. House 2 Mazie Hirono Democratic 92%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 88%
IA U.S. House 1 Bruce Braley Democratic 40%
IA U.S. House 2 Dave Loebsack Democratic 88%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 90%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 40%
IA U.S. House 5 Steve King Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 92%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 86%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 94%
IL U.S. House 3 Daniel Lipinski Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 74%
IL U.S. House 6 Peter Roskam Republican 20%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 98%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 86%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 86%
IL U.S. House 15 Tim Johnson Republican 88%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 6%
IL U.S. House 18 Aaron Schock Republican 80%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 80%
IL Mayor At-Large Rahm Emanuel Democratic 80%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 86%
IN U.S. House 2 Joe Donnelly, Sr. Democratic 80%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 20%
IN U.S. House 6 Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 86%
KS U.S. House 2 Lynn Jenkins Republican 90%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 80%
KY U.S. House 2 Brett Guthrie Republican 26%
KY U.S. House 3 John Yarmuth Democratic 94%
KY U.S. House 4 Geoff Davis Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 6 Ben Chandler III Democratic 100%
LA U.S. House 4 John Fleming, Jr. Republican 40%
LA U.S. House 5 Rodney Alexander Republican 72%
LA U.S. House 7 Charles Boustany, Jr. Republican 40%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 66%
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 98%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 8 Mike Capuano Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 9 Stephen Lynch Democratic 86%
MD U.S. House 2 Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 3 John Sarbanes Democratic 84%
MD U.S. House 4 Donna Edwards Democratic 92%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. Democratic 100%
ME U.S. House 2 Mike Michaud Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 20%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 92%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 10 Candice Miller Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 11 Thaddeus McCotter Republican 92%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 94%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 94%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 94%
MN U.S. House 1 Tim Walz Democratic/Farmer/Labor 90%
MN U.S. House 2 John Kline Republican 40%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 5 Keith Ellison Democratic/Farmer/Labor 98%
MN U.S. House 6 Michele Bachmann Republican 0%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 40%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 90%
MO U.S. House 2 Todd Akin Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 3 Russ Carnahan Democratic 92%
MO U.S. House 5 Emanuel Cleaver II Democratic 82%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 20%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 86%
MO U.S. House 9 Blaine Luetkemeyer Republican 40%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 80%
MT U.S. House At-Large Denny Rehberg Republican 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Democratic 88%
NC U.S. House 1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 5 Virginia Foxx Republican 6%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 86%
NC U.S. House 8 Larry Kissell Democratic 20%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 10 Patrick McHenry Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 11 Heath Shuler Democratic 60%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 88%
NC U.S. House 13 Brad Miller Democratic 98%
NE U.S. House 1 Jeff Fortenberry Republican 80%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 46%
NE U.S. House 3 Adrian Smith Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 88%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 86%
NJ U.S. House 5 Scott Garrett Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 96%
NJ U.S. House 7 Leonard Lance Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 94%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 13 Albio Sires Democratic 80%
NM U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Udall Democratic 92%
NM U.S. House 2 Steve Pearce Republican 20%
NV U.S. Senate Jr Dean Heller Republican 20%
NV U.S. House 1 Shelley Berkley Democratic 94%
NY U.S. Senate Jr Kirsten Gillibrand Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 1 Tim Bishop Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 2 Steve Israel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 20%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 96%
NY U.S. House 11 Yvette Clarke Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 27 Brian Higgins Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 2 Jean Schmidt Republican 40%
OH U.S. House 3 Mike Turner Republican 86%
OH U.S. House 4 Jim Jordan Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 86%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 92%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 80%
OH U.S. House 13 Betty Sutton Democratic 96%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 80%
OH U.S. House 17 Tim Ryan Democratic 86%
OK U.S. House 1 John Sullivan Republican 40%
OK U.S. House 2 Dan Boren Democratic 84%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 60%
OK U.S. House 4 Tom Cole Republican 40%
OK Governor Mary Fallin Republican 40%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 94%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 86%
PA U.S. House 4 Jason Altmire Democratic 98%
PA U.S. House 6 Jim Gerlach Republican 86%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 20%
PA U.S. House 13 Allyson Schwartz Democratic 86%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 15 Charlie Dent Republican 86%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 86%
PA U.S. House 18 Tim Murphy Republican 80%
PA U.S. House 19 Todd Platts Republican 96%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 98%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 6%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 86%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 20%
TN U.S. House 5 Jim Cooper Democratic 86%
TN U.S. House 7 Marsha Blackburn Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 9 Steve Cohen Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 1 Louie Gohmert Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 2 Ted Poe Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 5 Jeb Hensarling Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 9 Al Green Democratic 86%
TX U.S. House 10 Michael McCaul Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 11 Mike Conaway Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 46%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 82%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 96%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 19 Randy Neugebauer Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 98%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 24 Kenny Marchant Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 26 Michael Burgess Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 28 Henry Cuellar Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 94%
TX U.S. House 31 John Carter Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 1 Rob Bishop Republican 20%
UT U.S. House 2 Jim Matheson Democratic 74%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 80%
VA U.S. House 11 Gerry Connolly Democratic 80%
VT U.S. House At-Large Peter Welch Democratic 96%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers Republican 20%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 96%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 98%
WA U.S. House 8 Dave Reichert Republican 82%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 4 Gwen Moore Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 6%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 20%
WI State Assembly 29 John Murtha Republican 80%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Capito Republican 86%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
John Adler 80%
Thomas Allen 100%
Michael Arcuri 86%
Brian Baird 92%
J. Gresham Barrett 0%
Melissa Bean 80%
Marion Berry 80%
Rick Boucher 96%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 80%
Henry Brown, Jr. 66%
Ginny Brown-Waite 40%
Steve Buyer 0%
Chris Cannon 0%
Joseph Cao 94%
Christopher Carney 86%
Mike Castle 92%
Robert Cramer 80%
Barbara Cubin 20%
Artur Davis 80%
David Davis 6%
Lincoln Davis 80%
Bill Delahunt 84%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
John Doolittle 0%
Thelma Drake 40%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 86%
Brad Ellsworth 86%
Philip English 86%
Bob Etheridge 90%
Terry Everett 20%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 60%
Gabrielle Giffords 46%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 92%
Alan Grayson 0%
John Hall 86%
Debbie Halvorson 40%
Phil Hare 86%
Jane Harman 86%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 80%
Baron Hill 80%
David Lee Hobson 80%
Paul Hodes 98%
Pete Hoekstra 40%
Darlene Hooley 86%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 40%
Jay Inslee 90%
Steve Kagen 80%
Paul Kanjorski 86%
Patrick Kennedy 89%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 80%
Ron Klein 88%
Joseph Knollenberg 60%
Suzanne Kosmas 0%
Frank Kratovil, Jr. 60%
John Kuhl, Jr. 66%
Nicholas Lampson 80%
Chris Lee 80%
John Linder 0%
Dan Maffei 80%
Betsy Markey 6%
Jim Marshall 88%
John McHugh 62%
Michael McNulty 90%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 60%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. 66%
Harry Mitchell 86%
Alan Mollohan 80%
Dennis Moore 100%
Patrick Murphy 80%
Jim Oberstar 86%
Dave Obey 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 34%
Donald Payne 84%
John Peterson 80%
Charles Pickering 20%
Earl Pomeroy 64%
Deborah Pryce 80%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 100%
Ralph Regula 80%
Richard Renzi 40%
Ciro Rodriguez 86%
William Sali 0%
Mark Schauer 26%
Joe Sestak, Jr. 86%
John Shadegg 0%
Carol Shea-Porter 90%
Ike Skelton 40%
Vic Snyder 96%
Mark Souder 20%
Zack Space 86%
John Spratt, Jr. 92%
Bart Stupak 86%
John Tanner 46%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
Gene Taylor 20%
Todd Tiahrt 40%
Dina Titus 80%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 72%
Zach Wamp 40%
Diane Watson 90%
Anthony Weiner 86%
David Weldon 0%
Robert Wexler 90%
Charlie Wilson, Jr. 84%
David Wu 92%

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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