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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Council of Senior Citizens

1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 20%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 33%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 20%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 80%
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 10%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 22%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 90%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 33%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 90%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 40%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
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 Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 90%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 90%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 30%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 90%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 20%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 10%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 89%
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 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 10%
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 90%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 10%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 22%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 10%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 20%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 90%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 10%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 30%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 20%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 80%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 70%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 10%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 80%
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 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 90%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 10%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 30%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 90%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 90%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 30%
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 100%
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 90%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 89%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 90%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 30%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 80%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 30%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 10%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 20%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 20%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 10%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 80%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 70%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 80%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 10%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 78%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 30%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 89%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 70%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 10%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 90%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 90%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 10%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 70%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 10%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 22%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 30%
Wayne Allard 10%
William Archer 10%
Richard Armey 10%
John Ashcroft 20%
Henry Scott Baesler 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 20%
William Baker 10%
John Baldacci 90%
Cass Ballenger 10%
James Barcia 78%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 10%
Herbert Bateman 10%
Anthony Beilenson 90%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 30%
Tom Bevill 90%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Peter Blute 20%
Sherwood Boehlert 40%
Kit Bond 50%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Sonny Bono 20%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 90%
Bill Bradley 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 90%
John Breaux 70%
George Brown, Jr. 80%
Hank Brown 0%
Richard Bryan 70%
Ed Bryant 10%
John Bryant 90%
Dale Bumpers 89%
Jim Bunn 20%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 30%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 33%
Thomas Campbell 30%
Mike Castle 40%
John Chafee 30%
Helen Chenoweth 20%
Jon Lynn Christensen 20%
Dick Chrysler 10%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 90%
Robert Clement 90%
William Cohen 50%
Ronald Coleman 100%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 10%
Larry Combest 10%
Gary Condit 50%
Wes Cooley 10%
Paul Coverdell 20%
Christopher Cox 10%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 20%
Robert Cramer 70%
Philip Crane 10%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 20%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 10%
Alfonse D'Amato 30%
Patsy Ann Danner 70%
Thomas Daschle 100%
Thomas Davis III 20%
E. Kika de la Garza 80%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 90%
Peter Deutsch 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Jay Dickey 13%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Robert Dole 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 40%
Calvin Dooley 70%
John Doolittle 10%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Robert Dornan 11%
Jennifer Dunn 13%
Chet Edwards 70%
Vern Ehlers 30%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 10%
Bill Emerson 10%
Philip English 20%
John Ensign 30%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 10%
Thomas Ewing 10%
Jim Exon 90%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 10%
Harris Fawell 20%
Victor Fazio 89%
Russ Feingold 100%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 10%
Floyd Flake 100%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 30%
Thomas Foglietta 90%
Mark Foley 40%
Michael Patrick Forbes 22%
Wendell Ford 100%
Tillie Fowler 20%
Jon David Fox 40%
Gary Franks 20%
Robert Franks 40%
Daniel Frisa 10%
William Frist 10%
Jonas Frost III 90%
David Funderburk 10%
Elizabeth Furse 70%
John Ganske 20%
Sam Gejdenson 90%
George Gekas 10%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Pete Geren 20%
Sam Gibbons 90%
Wayne Gilchrest 30%
Paul Gillmor 22%
Benjamin Gilman 56%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 90%
William Goodling 10%
Bart Gordon 70%
Slade Gorton 30%
Porter Goss 10%
Daniel Graham 70%
William Phillip Gramm 20%
Rodney Grams 10%
Enid Greene 20%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 20%
Steven Gunderson 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 30%
Tony Hall 89%
Lee Hamilton 70%
Melton Hancock 10%
James Hansen 0%
Jane Harman 60%
J. Dennis Hastert 10%
Mark Hatfield 30%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 10%
Joel Hefley 10%
W.G. Hefner 80%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 20%
Jesse Helms 20%
Van Hilleary 30%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 90%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
Ernest Hollings 90%
Stephen Horn 33%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 30%
Duncan Hunter 10%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 10%
Henry Hyde 10%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 10%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 10%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 90%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 10%
Nancy Johnson 30%
Harry Johnston 89%
J. Bennett Johnston 100%
Paul Kanjorski 90%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 10%
Sue Kelly 30%
Dirk Kempthorne 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 90%
Patrick Kennedy 90%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 70%
Bob Kerrey 60%
Jay Kim 10%
Gerald Kleczka 90%
Ronald Klink 89%
Scott Klug 30%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 0%
John LaFalce 100%
Tom Lantos 90%
Stephen Largent 20%
Greg Laughlin 10%
Rick Lazio 30%
James Leach 40%
Ron Lewis 10%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 20%
Blanche Lincoln 78%
John Linder 10%
William Lipinski 80%
Robert Livingston 0%
James Longley, Jr. 20%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
William Luther 90%
Connie Mack 22%
Thomas Manton 100%
Matthew Martinez 90%
Bill Martini 20%
Frank Mascara 80%
Robert Matsui 89%
Karen McCarthy 70%
Bill McCollum 20%
James McCrery III 20%
Joseph McDade 25%
Paul McHale 80%
John McHugh 20%
Scott McInnis 10%
David McIntosh 10%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 80%
Martin Meehan 90%
Carrie Meek 90%
Jack Metcalf 30%
Jan Meyers 22%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 89%
Dan Miller 10%
David Minge 70%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 90%
John Moakley 90%
Susan Molinari 14%
Alan Mollohan 100%
G.V. Montgomery 20%
Carlos Moorhead 10%
Constance Morella 40%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 80%
Frank Murkowski 20%
Jack Murtha 80%
John Myers 10%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Mark Neumann 30%
Robert William Ney 20%
Don Nickles 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
Sam Nunn 80%
James Nussle 10%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 90%
William Orton 70%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 10%
Ronald Packard 11%
Paul Michael Parker 10%
William Paxon 13%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 80%
Claiborne Pell 100%
Pete Peterson 80%
Owen Pickett 70%
Richard Pombo 10%
Earl Pomeroy 80%
John Edward Porter 20%
Glenn Poshard 90%
Larry Pressler 10%
Deborah Pryce 20%
David Pryor 100%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 20%
Bill Richardson 80%
Frank Duncan Riggs 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Charles Robb 70%
Timothy Roemer 70%
Charles Rose III 90%
Toby Roth 10%
William Roth, Jr. 30%
Marge Roukema 50%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 20%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 10%
Rick Santorum 10%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 30%
Joe Scarborough 20%
Daniel Schaefer 10%
Steven Schiff 44%
Patricia Schroeder 90%
Andrea Seastrand 10%
John Shadegg 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 20%
Christopher Shays 40%
E.G. Shuster 10%
Paul Simon 90%
Alan Simpson 10%
Norman Sisisky 60%
David Skaggs 90%
Joseph Skeen 10%
Ike Skelton 70%
Linda Smith 30%
Nick Smith 10%
Bob Smith 30%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 20%
Mark Souder 20%
Arlen Specter 30%
Floyd Spence 10%
John Spratt, Jr. 80%
Charles Stenholm 40%
Ted Stevens 40%
Steve Stockman 10%
Louis Stokes 100%
Gerry Studds 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 90%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 88%
Randy Tate 20%
William Tauzin 30%
Charles Taylor 10%
Gene Taylor 50%
Frank Tejeda 90%
Craig Thomas 10%
William Thomas 10%
Fred Thompson 10%
Ray Thornton 90%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 30%
Todd Tiahrt 20%
Peter Torkildsen 50%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 70%
Bruce Vento 100%
Harold Volkmer 75%
Barbara Vucanovich 10%
James Walsh 40%
Zach Wamp 10%
Michael Ward 90%
John Warner 30%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 10%
David Weldon 10%
W. Curtis Weldon 38%
Gerald Weller 20%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Rick White 10%
Pat Williams 100%
Charles Wilson 80%
Robert Wise, Jr. 90%
Albert Wynn 90%
Sidney Yates 89%
Bill Zeliff 10%
Richard Zimmer 40%

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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