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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: American Veterans

2003 Positions

Issues: Veterans
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 50%
AL U.S. House 1 Jo Bonner, Jr. Republican 50%
AL U.S. House 3 Mike Rogers Republican 50%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 50%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 50%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 3 Raúl Grijalva Democratic 50%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 0%
AZ U.S. House 8 Trent Franks Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 22 Devin Nunes Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 38 Linda Sánchez Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 50%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 50%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 50%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 50%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 50%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 25 Mario Diaz-Balart Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 50%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 50%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 50%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 50%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA U.S. House 11 Phil Gingrey Republican 50%
GA U.S. House 13 David Scott Democratic 50%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 50%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 50%
IA U.S. House 4 Steve King Republican 50%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 50%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 50%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 50%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 50%
IL Mayor At-Large Rahm Emanuel Democratic 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 50%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 50%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 50%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 50%
LA U.S. House 5 Rodney Alexander Republican 100%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 50%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 50%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 50%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 50%
MD U.S. House 2 Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic 50%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 0%
ME U.S. House 2 Mike Michaud Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 10 Candice Miller Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 50%
MN U.S. House 2 John Kline Republican 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 0%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 50%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 50%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 50%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 50%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 50%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 50%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 50%
NH State Senate 3 Jeb Bradley Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 5 Scott Garrett Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 50%
NM U.S. House 2 Steve Pearce Republican 50%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 1 Tim Bishop Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 50%
OH U.S. House 10 Mike Turner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 13 Tim Ryan Democratic 50%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 50%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 50%
OK U.S. House 4 Tom Cole Republican 50%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 50%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 6 Jim Gerlach Republican 100%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 50%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 50%
PA U.S. House 18 Tim Murphy Republican 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 100%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 0%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 100%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 50%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 50%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 50%
TN U.S. House 5 Jim Cooper Democratic 0%
TN U.S. House 7 Marsha Blackburn Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 5 Jeb Hensarling Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 50%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 19 Randy Neugebauer Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 26 Michael Burgess Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 50%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 31 John Carter Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 0%
UT U.S. House 1 Rob Bishop Republican 50%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 50%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 50%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 50%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 50%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 50%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 50%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 100%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 0%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 50%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 50%
Gary Ackerman 0%
Todd Akin 100%
Thomas Allen 50%
Joe Baca, Sr. 50%
Brian Baird 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 50%
Frank Ballance, Jr. 0%
Cass Ballenger 50%
J. Gresham Barrett 100%
Roscoe Bartlett 100%
Charlie Bass 50%
Bob Beauprez 100%
Chris Bell 50%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Shelley Berkley 50%
Howard Berman 0%
Marion Berry 50%
Judy Biggert 50%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Henry Bonilla 50%
Mary Bono Mack 50%
Leonard Boswell 100%
Rick Boucher 0%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. 50%
Ginny Brown-Waite 100%
Max Burns 100%
Dan Burton 50%
Steve Buyer 50%
Chris Cannon 50%
Dennis Cardoza 50%
Brad Carson 50%
Julia Carson 50%
Edward Case 50%
Mike Castle 50%
Chris Chocola 100%
Michael Collins 50%
Jerry Costello 100%
Christopher Cox 50%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 50%
Barbara Cubin 50%
Randall Cunningham 50%
Artur Davis 0%
James Davis 50%
Jo Ann Davis 100%
Lincoln Davis 100%
Thomas Davis III 50%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 50%
James DeMint 50%
Peter Deutsch 50%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Norm Dicks 0%
Calvin Dooley 50%
John Doolittle 50%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 50%
Chet Edwards 50%
Vern Ehlers 0%
Jo Ann Emerson 50%
Philip English 100%
Bob Etheridge 50%
Lane Evans 50%
Terry Everett 50%
Tom Feeney 100%
Michael Ferguson 50%
Mark Foley 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. 50%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 50%
Barney Frank 0%
Jonas Frost III 50%
Elton Gallegly 50%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jim Gibbons 50%
Wayne Gilchrest 0%
Paul Gillmor 50%
Charlie Gonzalez 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 50%
Bart Gordon 50%
Porter Goss 50%
Mark Green 100%
James Greenwood 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 100%
Jane Harman 50%
Katherine Harris 50%
Melissa Hart 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 50%
Maurice Hinchey 0%
David Lee Hobson 50%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Thomas Holden 50%
Darlene Hooley 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 50%
Duncan Hunter 50%
Henry Hyde 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 50%
William Jefferson 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 50%
Christopher John 100%
Nancy Johnson 100%
Tim Johnson 100%
Paul Kanjorski 50%
Ric Keller 50%
Sue Kelly 50%
Mark Kennedy 50%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Dale Kildee 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 0%
Joseph Knollenberg 50%
James Kolbe 50%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Ray LaHood 50%
Nicholas Lampson 50%
Tom Lantos 50%
Steve LaTourette 50%
James Leach 0%
Jerry Lewis 50%
Ron Lewis 100%
John Linder 50%
William Lipinski 50%
Denise Majette 0%
Don Manzullo 50%
Jim Marshall 50%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 0%
Thaddeus McCotter 100%
James McCrery III 50%
John McHugh 50%
Scott McInnis 100%
Michael McNulty 50%
Martin Meehan 0%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 50%
Brad Miller 0%
Alan Mollohan 50%
Dennis Moore 0%
Jack Murtha 50%
Marilyn Musgrave 100%
Sue Myrick 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 50%
Robert William Ney 50%
Anne Northup 50%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 50%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 50%
John Olver 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 50%
Thomas William Osborne 50%
Doug Ose 50%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 50%
Ron Paul 50%
Donald Payne 0%
John Peterson 50%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 50%
Todd Platts 50%
Richard Pombo 50%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
Jon Porter, Sr. 50%
Deborah Pryce 50%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 50%
James Ramstad 100%
Ralph Regula 50%
Denny Rehberg 50%
Richard Renzi 100%
Silvestre Reyes 50%
Thomas Reynolds 50%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Mike Ross 50%
Steve Rothman 50%
Jim Ryun 100%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 50%
Jim Saxton 50%
Edward Schrock 100%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 50%
Christopher Shays 0%
Donald Sherwood 50%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 100%
Ike Skelton 50%
Nick Smith 100%
Vic Snyder 0%
Hilda Solis 50%
Mark Souder 50%
John Spratt, Jr. 50%
Pete Stark 50%
Cliff Stearns 50%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bart Stupak 50%
John Sullivan 50%
John Sweeney 50%
Tom Tancredo 100%
John Tanner 50%
Ellen Tauscher 50%
William Tauzin 50%
Charles Taylor 50%
Gene Taylor 50%
William Thomas 50%
Todd Tiahrt 50%
Ed Towns 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 0%
James Turner 50%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 50%
Diane Watson 0%
Anthony Weiner 0%
David Weldon 50%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 50%
Robert Wexler 50%
Heather Wilson 50%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
David Wu 0%
Albert Wynn 50%

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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