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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Council of Senior Citizens

2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 22%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 22%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 90%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 90%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 80%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 10%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 10%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 80%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 10%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 10%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 10%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 20%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 90%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 11%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 40%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 80%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 90%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 20%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 89%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 10%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 10%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 90%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 20%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 90%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 10%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 10%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 90%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 90%
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 90%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 10%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 80%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 10%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 10%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 78%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 75%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 90%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 60%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 10%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 80%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Richard Armey 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. 88%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
Roscoe Bartlett 10%
Charlie Bass 10%
Evan Bayh 100%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Shelley Berkley 80%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 80%
Judy Biggert 0%
Michael Bilirakis 10%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Rod Blagojevich 90%
Sherwood Boehlert 20%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Mary Bono Mack 11%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Leonard Boswell 63%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
John Breaux 60%
Ed Bryant 10%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 10%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 0%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 10%
Eva Clayton 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 90%
Robert Clement 90%
Michael Collins 10%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 90%
Kent Conrad 89%
John Cooksey 0%
Jerry Costello 80%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 70%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 10%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 90%
Thomas Davis III 10%
Bill Delahunt 90%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 90%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 20%
Norm Dicks 90%
Chris Dodd 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 70%
John Doolittle 10%
Byron Dorgan 90%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 89%
Vern Ehlers 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 10%
Jo Ann Emerson 10%
Philip English 20%
Bob Etheridge 90%
Lane Evans 90%
Terry Everett 10%
Russ Feingold 100%
Peter Fitzgerald 30%
Ernest Fletcher 10%
Mark Foley 10%
Harold Ford, Jr. 90%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 10%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elton Gallegly 10%
John Ganske 30%
George Gekas 10%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 10%
Wayne Gilchrest 20%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 25%
Charlie Gonzalez 90%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
Bart Gordon 90%
Porter Goss 10%
Daniel Graham 100%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Mark Green 10%
James Greenwood 11%
Judd Gregg 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 10%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 25%
Robert Hayes 10%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 10%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 10%
Baron Hill 70%
Van Hilleary 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
Thomas Holden 80%
Ernest Hollings 90%
Darlene Hooley 90%
Stephen Horn 20%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 20%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 10%
Asa Hutchinson 10%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 20%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 11%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 90%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 11%
Christopher John 70%
Nancy Johnson 10%
Paul Kanjorski 90%
Sue Kelly 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 100%
James Kolbe 0%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 100%
Ray LaHood 20%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 90%
Stephen Largent 0%
Steve LaTourette 10%
James Leach 20%
Jerry Lewis 0%
Ron Lewis 10%
Joe Lieberman 90%
Blanche Lincoln 90%
John Linder 10%
William Lipinski 70%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
William Luther 90%
James Maloney 50%
Don Manzullo 10%
Frank Mascara 90%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 22%
Scott McInnis 10%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 89%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 10%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 80%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 70%
Dennis Moore 50%
Constance Morella 30%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 80%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 20%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 10%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Doug Ose 0%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ron Paul 30%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 10%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 80%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 22%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 10%
Ralph Regula 0%
Silvestre Reyes 100%
Thomas Reynolds 0%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 80%
Steve Rothman 90%
Marge Roukema 0%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 80%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 20%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 10%
Christopher Shays 20%
Donald Sherwood 20%
Ronnie Shows 70%
Norman Sisisky 80%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 80%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 11%
Bob Smith 0%
Olympia Snowe 20%
Vic Snyder 90%
Mark Souder 10%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 11%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Pete Stark 90%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 70%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bob Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 10%
Tom Tancredo 10%
John Tanner 80%
Ellen Tauscher 80%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 70%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 78%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 30%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 90%
George Voinovich 40%
James Walsh 20%
Zach Wamp 10%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 10%
W. Curtis Weldon 22%
Gerald Weller 20%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 20%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 100%
Albert Wynn 89%

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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