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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Council of Senior Citizens

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 22%
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 20%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 11%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 11%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 10%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 44%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 20%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 33%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 30%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 89%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 20%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 20%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 22%
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 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 10%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 11%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 11%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 10%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 22%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 100%
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 100%
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 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
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 60%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 90%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 20%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 30%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 10%
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 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 22%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 89%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 100%
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 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 30%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 22%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
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 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 10%
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 30%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 10%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 20%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 10%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
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 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 11%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 10%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 10%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 100%
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 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 11%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 30%
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 100%
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%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 10%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 10%
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%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 10%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 10%
Wayne Allard 20%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 10%
Richard Armey 10%
John Ashcroft 10%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 13%
James Barcia 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 30%
Herbert Bateman 25%
Bob Bennett 10%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 40%
Marion Berry 100%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 11%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Kit Bond 40%
Henry Bonilla 20%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 100%
John Breaux 90%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 10%
Jim Bunning 20%
Conrad Burns 10%
Steve Buyer 22%
Robert Byrd 80%
Herbert Callahan 11%
Ben Campbell 30%
Thomas Campbell 40%
Chris Cannon 10%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 70%
John Chafee 60%
Helen Chenoweth 20%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 90%
Robert Clement 100%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 10%
Gary Condit 80%
Merrill Cook 0%
John Cooksey 11%
Paul Coverdell 10%
Christopher Cox 13%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 10%
Robert Cramer 90%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 10%
Randall Cunningham 11%
Patsy Ann Danner 89%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 100%
Thomas Davis III 50%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
Jay Dickey 10%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 20%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 10%
Chet Edwards 100%
Vern Ehlers 40%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 20%
Philip English 22%
Bob Etheridge 100%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 11%
Thomas Ewing 10%
Russ Feingold 100%
Mark Foley 10%
Michael Patrick Forbes 44%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 20%
Tillie Fowler 22%
Robert Franks 40%
William Frist 10%
Jonas Frost III 100%
John Ganske 70%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 30%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 10%
Wayne Gilchrest 40%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 40%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 44%
William Goodling 20%
Bart Gordon 100%
Slade Gorton 10%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 90%
William Phillip Gramm 10%
Rodney Grams 10%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 20%
Charles Hagel 10%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 10%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 20%
Joel Hefley 25%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 20%
Van Hilleary 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 20%
Pete Hoekstra 20%
Ernest Hollings 80%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 40%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 20%
Duncan Hunter 10%
William Hutchinson 10%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 10%
Henry Hyde 10%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 10%
Christopher John 89%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Sue Kelly 30%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 90%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 10%
James Kolbe 30%
John LaFalce 100%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 20%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 60%
Ron Lewis 10%
John Linder 13%
William Lipinski 89%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 10%
James Maloney 89%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 20%
James McCrery III 22%
John McHugh 50%
Scott McInnis 22%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 20%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 80%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 10%
Jack Murtha 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Robert William Ney 40%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 20%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 10%
Ronald Packard 10%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 10%
John Peterson 10%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 90%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 50%
Deborah Pryce 43%
Jack Quinn 50%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 40%
Ralph Regula 30%
Bob Riley 10%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 100%
James Rogan 11%
William Roth, Jr. 10%
Marge Roukema 30%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 88%
Matthew Salmon 11%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 89%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 10%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 11%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 10%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 40%
Christopher Shays 50%
E.G. Shuster 10%
Norman Sisisky 100%
Joseph Skeen 30%
Ike Skelton 100%
Gordon Smith 10%
Nick Smith 20%
Bob Smith 10%
Vic Snyder 100%
Mark Souder 22%
Arlen Specter 80%
Floyd Spence 10%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 90%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 90%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 10%
James Talent 20%
John Tanner 100%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 38%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 60%
Craig Thomas 10%
William Thomas 20%
Fred Thompson 10%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 10%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 70%
James Turner 90%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 20%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 10%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 30%
David Weldon 20%
W. Curtis Weldon 20%
Gerald Weller 20%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 100%
Heather Wilson 60%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 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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