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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Public Citizen's Congress Watch

1995-1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 15%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 24%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 23%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 38%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 14%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 53%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 86%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 76%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 69%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 34%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 26%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 34%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 65%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 71%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 73%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 19%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 15%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 19%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 34%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 76%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 23%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 15%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 23%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 57%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 42%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 67%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 86%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 73%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 14%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 71%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 7%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 11%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 73%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 82%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 80%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 84%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 26%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 19%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 24%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 80%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 23%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 19%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 11%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 88%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 76%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 65%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 23%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 82%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 48%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 23%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 88%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 96%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 69%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 3%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 76%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 76%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 23%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 15%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 23%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 30%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 19%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 73%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 81%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 23%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 73%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 65%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 42%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 53%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 23%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 81%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 81%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 76%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 34%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 69%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 73%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 88%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 19%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 34%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 84%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 26%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 26%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 76%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 24%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 26%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 3%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 86%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 60%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 84%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 69%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 65%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 46%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 26%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 69%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 30%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 15%
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 69%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 19%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 61%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 65%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 73%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 19%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 61%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 46%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 86%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 88%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 86%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 11%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 73%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 80%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 76%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 38%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 34%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 92%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 71%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 84%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 19%
William Archer 15%
Richard Armey 19%
John Ashcroft 5%
Henry Scott Baesler 57%
Richard Hugh Baker 15%
William Baker 15%
John Baldacci 73%
Cass Ballenger 7%
James Barcia 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. 15%
William Barrett 11%
Herbert Bateman 3%
Anthony Beilenson 80%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 50%
Douglas Bereuter 23%
Tom Bevill 30%
Michael Bilirakis 34%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 7%
Peter Blute 38%
Sherwood Boehlert 46%
Kit Bond 5%
Henry Bonilla 19%
David Edward Bonior 84%
Sonny Bono 15%
Robert Borski, Jr. 88%
Rick Boucher 53%
Bill Bradley 95%
Carol Moseley Braun 62%
John Breaux 52%
Bill Brewster 26%
Glen Browder 53%
George Brown, Jr. 69%
Hank Brown 19%
Richard Bryan 86%
Ed Bryant 7%
John Bryant 73%
Dale Bumpers 90%
Jim Bunn 23%
Jim Bunning 19%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 15%
Robert Byrd 90%
Herbert Callahan 3%
Ben Campbell 14%
Thomas Campbell 73%
Mike Castle 34%
John Chafee 52%
Jim Chapman 46%
Helen Chenoweth 19%
Jon Lynn Christensen 26%
Dick Chrysler 30%
William Clay, Sr. 84%
Eva Clayton 80%
Robert Clement 50%
William Clinger 7%
William Cohen 71%
Ronald Coleman 57%
Barbara-Rose Collins 73%
Cardiss Collins 69%
Mac Collins 15%
Larry Combest 15%
Gary Condit 42%
Wes Cooley 23%
Paul Coverdell 10%
Christopher Cox 19%
William Coyne 88%
Larry Craig 10%
Robert Cramer 42%
Philip Crane 7%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 19%
Barbara Cubin 11%
Randall Cunningham 19%
Alfonse D'Amato 24%
Patsy Ann Danner 42%
Thomas Daschle 86%
Thomas Davis III 23%
E. Kika de la Garza 46%
Thomas DeLay 3%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 73%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 30%
Jay Dickey 19%
Julian Dixon 76%
Chris Dodd 67%
Robert Dole 730%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 34%
John Doolittle 15%
Byron Dorgan 81%
Robert Dornan 30%
Jennifer Dunn 23%
Chet Edwards 42%
Vern Ehlers 30%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 19%
Philip English 30%
John Ensign 46%
Lane Evans 88%
Terry Everett 11%
Thomas Ewing 15%
Jim Exon 71%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 10%
Harris Fawell 23%
Victor Fazio 57%
Russ Feingold 95%
Cleo Fields 69%
Jack Fields, Jr. 11%
Floyd Flake 61%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 23%
Thomas Foglietta 84%
Mark Foley 34%
Michael Patrick Forbes 23%
Wendell Ford 71%
Tillie Fowler 34%
Jon David Fox 30%
Sheila Frahm 0%
Gary Franks 23%
Robert Franks 38%
Daniel Frisa 23%
William Frist 14%
Jonas Frost III 42%
David Funderburk 19%
Elizabeth Furse 84%
John Ganske 23%
Sam Gejdenson 80%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 80%
Pete Geren 19%
Sam Gibbons 61%
Wayne Gilchrest 30%
Paul Gillmor 30%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 90%
Henry Gonzalez 46%
William Goodling 38%
Bart Gordon 50%
Slade Gorton 5%
Porter Goss 26%
Daniel Graham 86%
William Phillip Gramm 10%
Rodney Grams 5%
Enid Greene 34%
James Greenwood 30%
Judd Gregg 19%
Steven Gunderson 23%
Gilbert Gutknecht 34%
Tony Hall 61%
Lee Hamilton 53%
Melton Hancock 26%
James Hansen 23%
Jane Harman 57%
J. Dennis Hastert 7%
Mark Hatfield 29%
James Hayes 11%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 23%
Joel Hefley 30%
W.G. Hefner 38%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 15%
Jesse Helms 0%
Van Hilleary 26%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 65%
David Lee Hobson 23%
Pete Hoekstra 38%
Martin Hoke 38%
Ernest Hollings 71%
Stephen Horn 57%
John Nathan Hostettler 23%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 19%
Duncan Hunter 11%
Henry Hyde 15%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 30%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 23%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 88%
William Jefferson 65%
James Merrill Jeffords 43%
Nancy Johnson 26%
Harry Johnston 76%
J. Bennett Johnston 33%
Paul Kanjorski 80%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 33%
Sue Kelly 19%
Dirk Kempthorne 10%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 95%
Joseph Kennedy II 84%
Patrick Kennedy 84%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 57%
Bob Kerrey 81%
Jay Kim 15%
Gerald Kleczka 76%
Ronald Klink 76%
Scott Klug 46%
Joseph Knollenberg 15%
James Kolbe 23%
John LaFalce 76%
Tom Lantos 88%
Stephen Largent 30%
Greg Laughlin 3%
Rick Lazio 23%
James Leach 42%
Ron Lewis 19%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 7%
Blanche Lincoln 30%
John Linder 23%
William Lipinski 76%
Robert Livingston 7%
James Longley, Jr. 34%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 88%
Connie Mack 10%
Thomas Manton 65%
Matthew Martinez 69%
Bill Martini 50%
Frank Mascara 65%
Robert Matsui 73%
Karen McCarthy 69%
Bill McCollum 11%
James McCrery III 15%
Joseph McDade 3%
Paul McHale 80%
John McHugh 26%
Scott McInnis 30%
David McIntosh 7%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 84%
Michael McNulty 61%
Martin Meehan 76%
Carrie Meek 69%
Jack Metcalf 42%
Jan Meyers 38%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 91%
Dan Miller 26%
David Minge 61%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 80%
John Moakley 61%
Susan Molinari 34%
Alan Mollohan 61%
G.V. Montgomery 23%
Carlos Moorhead 11%
Constance Morella 57%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 57%
John Myers 7%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 19%
Mark Neumann 46%
Robert William Ney 11%
Don Nickles 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 7%
Sam Nunn 43%
James Nussle 19%
Jim Oberstar 84%
Dave Obey 80%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 42%
William Orton 57%
Major Owens 92%
Michael Oxley 11%
Ronald Packard 11%
Paul Michael Parker 7%
William Paxon 15%
Donald Payne 84%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 42%
Claiborne Pell 67%
Pete Peterson 38%
Owen Pickett 30%
Richard Pombo 19%
Earl Pomeroy 65%
John Edward Porter 42%
Glenn Poshard 69%
Larry Pressler 14%
Deborah Pryce 26%
David Pryor 76%
James Quillen 3%
Jack Quinn 30%
George Radanovich 19%
James Ramstad 38%
Ralph Regula 19%
Bill Richardson 57%
Frank Duncan Riggs 23%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 96%
Charles Robb 81%
Timothy Roemer 53%
Charles Rose III 42%
Toby Roth 15%
William Roth, Jr. 38%
Marge Roukema 46%
Martin Olav Sabo 84%
Matthew Salmon 30%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 46%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 34%
Joe Scarborough 30%
Daniel Schaefer 15%
Steven Schiff 15%
Patricia Schroeder 80%
Andrea Seastrand 23%
John Shadegg 26%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 30%
Christopher Shays 61%
E.G. Shuster 23%
Paul Simon 86%
Alan Simpson 24%
Norman Sisisky 26%
David Skaggs 73%
Joseph Skeen 3%
Ike Skelton 38%
Linda Smith 46%
Nick Smith 19%
Bob Smith 14%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 26%
Mark Souder 34%
Arlen Specter 57%
Floyd Spence 15%
John Spratt, Jr. 61%
Charles Stenholm 30%
Ted Stevens 5%
Steve Stockman 19%
Louis Stokes 92%
Gerry Studds 80%
Robert Stump 15%
Bart Stupak 73%
James Talent 26%
John Tanner 26%
Randy Tate 34%
William Tauzin 15%
Charles Taylor 11%
Gene Taylor 53%
Frank Tejeda 38%
Craig Thomas 14%
William Thomas 7%
Fred Thompson 43%
Ray Thornton 50%
Karen Thurman 65%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 34%
Peter Torkildsen 50%
Esteban Edward Torres 76%
James Traficant, Jr. 46%
Bruce Vento 84%
Harold Volkmer 50%
Barbara Vucanovich 7%
Robert Walker 15%
James Walsh 19%
Zach Wamp 26%
Michael Ward 69%
John Warner 24%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 23%
David Weldon 26%
W. Curtis Weldon 34%
Gerald Weller 11%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Rick White 23%
Pat Williams 57%
Charles Wilson 53%
Robert Wise, Jr. 73%
Albert Wynn 76%
Sidney Yates 84%
Bill Zeliff 11%
Richard Zimmer 53%

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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