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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Council of Senior Citizens

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 43%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 10%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 33%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 40%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 30%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 10%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 60%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 44%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 90%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 30%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 40%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 90%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 89%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 40%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 30%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 40%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 70%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 40%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 89%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 10%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 80%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 50%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 40%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 40%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
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 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 40%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 40%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 10%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 10%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 60%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 33%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 10%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 60%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 10%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 40%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 40%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 50%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 89%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 90%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 40%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 90%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 40%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 89%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 70%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 40%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 40%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 40%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 90%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 40%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 50%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 50%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 56%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 60%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 60%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 30%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 78%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 40%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 78%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 90%
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 90%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
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 89%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 89%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 89%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 40%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 40%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 40%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 40%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 40%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 40%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 40%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 70%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 40%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 80%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 40%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 40%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 30%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 89%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 33%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 40%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 40%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 40%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 80%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 80%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 60%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 30%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 30%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 80%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 10%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 20%
Wayne Allard 10%
Thomas Allen 89%
William Archer 33%
Richard Armey 33%
John Ashcroft 10%
Henry Scott Baesler 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 40%
John Baldacci 90%
Cass Ballenger 40%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 20%
William Barrett 40%
Herbert Bateman 50%
Bob Bennett 10%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Marion Berry 90%
Michael Bilirakis 40%
Rod Blagojevich 90%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 30%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Kit Bond 20%
Henry Bonilla 50%
David Edward Bonior 90%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 60%
Carol Moseley Braun 80%
John Breaux 30%
George Brown, Jr. 90%
Richard Bryan 50%
Ed Bryant 50%
Dale Bumpers 80%
Jim Bunning 40%
Conrad Burns 10%
Steve Buyer 40%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 40%
Ben Campbell 10%
Thomas Campbell 30%
Chris Cannon 40%
Julia Carson 90%
Mike Castle 30%
John Chafee 10%
Helen Chenoweth 40%
Jon Lynn Christensen 40%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 90%
Robert Clement 70%
Mac Collins 40%
Larry Combest 30%
Gary Condit 50%
Merrill Cook 40%
John Cooksey 40%
Paul Coverdell 40%
Christopher Cox 44%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 10%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 40%
Barbara Cubin 40%
Randall Cunningham 40%
Alfonse D'Amato 50%
Patsy Ann Danner 60%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 70%
Thomas Davis III 40%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 40%
Peter Deutsch 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
Jay Dickey 50%
Julian Dixon 89%
Chris Dodd 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 60%
John Doolittle 50%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 40%
Chet Edwards 78%
Vern Ehlers 25%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 30%
Philip English 40%
John Ensign 40%
Bob Etheridge 80%
Lane Evans 90%
Terry Everett 40%
Thomas Ewing 40%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 10%
Harris Fawell 30%
Victor Fazio 90%
Russ Feingold 90%
Thomas Foglietta 90%
Mark Foley 40%
Michael Patrick Forbes 22%
Harold Ford, Jr. 90%
Wendell Ford 90%
Tillie Fowler 30%
Jon David Fox 40%
Robert Franks 40%
William Frist 10%
Jonas Frost III 90%
Elizabeth Furse 89%
John Ganske 40%
Sam Gejdenson 90%
George Gekas 30%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 40%
Wayne Gilchrest 44%
Paul Gillmor 50%
Benjamin Gilman 40%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 56%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 50%
William Goodling 30%
Bart Gordon 60%
Slade Gorton 10%
Porter Goss 40%
Daniel Graham 50%
William Phillip Gramm 10%
Rodney Grams 10%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 30%
Charles Hagel 10%
Tony Hall 80%
Lee Hamilton 70%
James Hansen 40%
Jane Harman 50%
J. Dennis Hastert 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 40%
Joel Hefley 40%
W.G. Hefner 80%
Jesse Helms 10%
Rick Hill 50%
Van Hilleary 50%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 40%
Pete Hoekstra 30%
Ernest Hollings 70%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 30%
John Nathan Hostettler 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 40%
Kenny Hulshof 40%
Duncan Hunter 33%
William Hutchinson 33%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 10%
Henry Hyde 40%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 30%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 50%
William Jefferson 90%
James Merrill Jeffords 20%
William Lewis Jenkins 40%
Christopher John 50%
Jay Johnson 90%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Paul Kanjorski 90%
Sue Kelly 40%
Dirk Kempthorne 10%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 80%
Bob Kerrey 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Jay Kim 40%
Gerald Kleczka 80%
Ronald Klink 90%
Scott Klug 30%
Joseph Knollenberg 40%
James Kolbe 11%
John LaFalce 90%
Nicholas Lampson 80%
Tom Lantos 90%
Stephen Largent 40%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 40%
Ron Lewis 40%
John Linder 40%
William Lipinski 70%
Robert Livingston 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
William Luther 70%
Connie Mack 10%
James Maloney 60%
Thomas Manton 88%
Matthew Martinez 80%
Frank Mascara 90%
Robert Matsui 89%
Karen McCarthy 80%
Bill McCollum 40%
James McCrery III 40%
Joseph McDade 30%
Paul McHale 70%
John McHugh 40%
Scott McInnis 30%
David McIntosh 60%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 80%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 78%
Carrie Meek 90%
Jack Metcalf 38%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 90%
Dan Miller 40%
David Minge 60%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 90%
Constance Morella 40%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 60%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 90%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 40%
Mark Neumann 30%
Robert William Ney 40%
Don Nickles 10%
Anne Northup 40%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 30%
James Nussle 40%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 90%
Major Owens 90%
Michael Oxley 40%
Ronald Packard 40%
Michael Pappas 40%
Paul Michael Parker 40%
William Paxon 40%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 40%
John Peterson 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 40%
Owen Pickett 80%
Richard Pombo 50%
Earl Pomeroy 80%
John Edward Porter 30%
Glenn Poshard 90%
Deborah Pryce 40%
Jack Quinn 40%
George Radanovich 40%
James Ramstad 30%
William Redmond 43%
Ralph Regula 30%
Frank Duncan Riggs 30%
Bob Riley 40%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Charles Robb 30%
Ciro Rodriguez 88%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 40%
William Roth, Jr. 10%
Marge Roukema 50%
Jim Ryun 50%
Martin Olav Sabo 90%
Matthew Salmon 60%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 70%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 30%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 40%
Joe Scarborough 40%
Daniel Schaefer 40%
Steven Schiff 0%
John Shadegg 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 50%
Christopher Shays 30%
E.G. Shuster 40%
Norman Sisisky 60%
David Skaggs 89%
Joseph Skeen 40%
Ike Skelton 60%
Gordon Smith 10%
Linda Smith 50%
Nick Smith 40%
Robert Smith 40%
Bob Smith 10%
Vincent Snowbarger 50%
Vic Snyder 70%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 44%
Mark Souder 40%
Arlen Specter 60%
Floyd Spence 40%
John Spratt, Jr. 80%
Charles Stenholm 60%
Ted Stevens 10%
Louis Stokes 90%
Ted Strickland 90%
Robert Stump 40%
Bart Stupak 90%
John Sununu 40%
James Talent 40%
John Tanner 70%
Ellen Tauscher 70%
William Tauzin 30%
Charles Taylor 20%
Gene Taylor 40%
Craig Thomas 10%
William Thomas 40%
Fred Thompson 10%
Karen Thurman 80%
Strom Thurmond 10%
Todd Tiahrt 50%
Esteban Edward Torres 89%
Robert Torricelli 90%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
James Turner 50%
Bruce Vento 90%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 30%
John Warner 10%
Wesley Watkins 40%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 40%
David Weldon 44%
W. Curtis Weldon 40%
Gerald Weller 33%
Paul Wellstone 90%
Robert Wexler 90%
Robert Weygand 89%
Rick White 40%
Robert Wise, Jr. 90%
Albert Wynn 90%
Sidney Yates 100%

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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