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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Christian Coalition of America

1995-1996 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 100%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 7%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 7%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 93%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 73%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 66%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 7%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 7%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 7%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 7%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 86%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 86%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 7%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 93%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 7%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 8%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 15%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 93%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 40%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 82%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 26%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 93%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 93%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 7%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 7%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 7%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 13%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 38%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 93%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 33%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 66%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 7%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 13%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 57%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 100%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 93%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 15%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 73%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 93%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 15%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 73%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 30%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 86%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 13%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 60%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 0%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 23%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 93%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 13%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 93%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 20%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 73%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 100%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 7%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 92%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 7%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 40%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 42%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 100%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 93%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 7%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 13%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 7%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 92%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 93%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 20%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 93%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 7%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 100%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 7%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 15%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 93%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 93%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 13%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 7%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 33%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 92%
William Archer 93%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 20%
Richard Hugh Baker 93%
William Baker 100%
John Baldacci 13%
Cass Ballenger 93%
James Barcia 46%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
William Barrett 93%
Herbert Bateman 76%
Anthony Beilenson 0%
Bob Bennett 92%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 7%
Douglas Bereuter 71%
Tom Bevill 71%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 93%
Peter Blute 79%
Sherwood Boehlert 33%
Kit Bond 77%
Henry Bonilla 93%
David Edward Bonior 20%
Sonny Bono 92%
Robert Borski, Jr. 20%
Rick Boucher 7%
Bill Bradley 20%
Carol Moseley Braun 7%
John Breaux 46%
Bill Brewster 86%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Hank Brown 100%
Richard Bryan 15%
Ed Bryant 100%
John Bryant 8%
Dale Bumpers 8%
Jim Bunn 91%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 30%
Herbert Callahan 100%
Ben Campbell 75%
Thomas Campbell 40%
Mike Castle 66%
John Chafee 23%
Jim Chapman 50%
Helen Chenoweth 100%
Jon Lynn Christensen 93%
Dick Chrysler 100%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 7%
Robert Clement 33%
William Clinger 100%
William Cohen 50%
Ronald Coleman 7%
Barbara-Rose Collins 0%
Cardiss Collins 0%
Mac Collins 100%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 50%
Wes Cooley 100%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 0%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 60%
Philip Crane 100%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 100%
Barbara Cubin 93%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 74%
Patsy Ann Danner 53%
Thomas Daschle 7%
Thomas Davis III 66%
E. Kika de la Garza 58%
Thomas DeLay 93%
Ronald Dellums 0%
Peter Deutsch 20%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 86%
Jay Dickey 100%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 7%
Robert Dole 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 84%
Calvin Dooley 14%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 15%
Robert Dornan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 84%
Chet Edwards 13%
Vern Ehlers 80%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 73%
Bill Emerson 100%
Philip English 100%
John Ensign 100%
Lane Evans 7%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 90%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 100%
Harris Fawell 60%
Victor Fazio 7%
Russ Feingold 0%
Cleo Fields 0%
Jack Fields, Jr. 100%
Floyd Flake 13%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 82%
Thomas Foglietta 7%
Mark Foley 73%
Michael Patrick Forbes 93%
Wendell Ford 38%
Tillie Fowler 73%
Jon David Fox 86%
Gary Franks 93%
Robert Franks 66%
Daniel Frisa 100%
William Frist 92%
Jonas Frost III 14%
David Funderburk 100%
Elizabeth Furse 13%
John Ganske 86%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 86%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 14%
Pete Geren 79%
Sam Gibbons 8%
Wayne Gilchrest 60%
Paul Gillmor 86%
Benjamin Gilman 53%
Newt Gingrich 91%
John Glenn 0%
Henry Gonzalez 7%
William Goodling 93%
Bart Gordon 40%
Slade Gorton 69%
Porter Goss 93%
Daniel Graham 15%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 100%
Enid Greene 100%
James Greenwood 57%
Judd Gregg 100%
Steven Gunderson 79%
Gilbert Gutknecht 100%
Tony Hall 23%
Lee Hamilton 26%
Melton Hancock 100%
James Hansen 93%
Jane Harman 21%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 87%
W.G. Hefner 20%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 100%
Jesse Helms 100%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 7%
David Lee Hobson 80%
Pete Hoekstra 93%
Martin Hoke 92%
Ernest Hollings 7%
Stephen Horn 53%
John Nathan Hostettler 80%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Duncan Hunter 93%
Henry Hyde 93%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 50%
William Jefferson 14%
James Merrill Jeffords 30%
Nancy Johnson 40%
Harry Johnston 8%
J. Bennett Johnston 44%
Paul Kanjorski 20%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 80%
Sue Kelly 60%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Joseph Kennedy II 7%
Patrick Kennedy 7%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 7%
Bob Kerrey 8%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 26%
Ronald Klink 20%
Scott Klug 73%
Joseph Knollenberg 93%
James Kolbe 67%
John LaFalce 28%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 100%
Greg Laughlin 69%
Rick Lazio 66%
James Leach 53%
Ron Lewis 100%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 100%
Blanche Lincoln 36%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 53%
Robert Livingston 86%
James Longley, Jr. 82%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
William Luther 20%
Connie Mack 100%
Thomas Manton 28%
Matthew Martinez 7%
Bill Martini 73%
Frank Mascara 33%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 20%
Bill McCollum 93%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 80%
Paul McHale 20%
John McHugh 86%
Scott McInnis 86%
David McIntosh 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 40%
Martin Meehan 21%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 100%
Jan Meyers 92%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 93%
David Minge 26%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 20%
Susan Molinari 80%
Alan Mollohan 33%
G.V. Montgomery 92%
Carlos Moorhead 100%
Constance Morella 20%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 7%
Frank Murkowski 100%
Jack Murtha 26%
John Myers 92%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 86%
Mark Neumann 100%
Robert William Ney 93%
Don Nickles 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
Sam Nunn 56%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 26%
Dave Obey 21%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 60%
William Orton 57%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 86%
Ronald Packard 100%
Paul Michael Parker 86%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 0%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 50%
Claiborne Pell 20%
Pete Peterson 46%
Owen Pickett 13%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 14%
John Edward Porter 60%
Glenn Poshard 46%
Larry Pressler 100%
Deborah Pryce 73%
David Pryor 33%
James Quillen 93%
Jack Quinn 80%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 66%
Ralph Regula 73%
Bill Richardson 13%
Frank Duncan Riggs 86%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 0%
Charles Robb 7%
Timothy Roemer 40%
Charles Rose III 38%
Toby Roth 100%
William Roth, Jr. 84%
Marge Roukema 46%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Matthew Salmon 92%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 100%
Rick Santorum 92%
Paul Sarbanes 7%
H. James Saxton 86%
Joe Scarborough 86%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 66%
Patricia Schroeder 0%
Andrea Seastrand 100%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 80%
Christopher Shays 46%
E.G. Shuster 100%
Paul Simon 10%
Alan Simpson 60%
Norman Sisisky 28%
David Skaggs 0%
Joseph Skeen 86%
Ike Skelton 69%
Linda Smith 100%
Nick Smith 100%
Bob Smith 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 100%
Mark Souder 93%
Arlen Specter 38%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 20%
Charles Stenholm 66%
Ted Stevens 69%
Steve Stockman 100%
Louis Stokes 0%
Gerry Studds 0%
Robert Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 33%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 46%
Randy Tate 100%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 78%
Frank Tejeda 46%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 66%
Fred Thompson 92%
Ray Thornton 36%
Karen Thurman 7%
Strom Thurmond 100%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Peter Torkildsen 57%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 46%
Bruce Vento 7%
Harold Volkmer 57%
Barbara Vucanovich 100%
Robert Walker 100%
James Walsh 80%
Zach Wamp 100%
Michael Ward 0%
John Warner 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 100%
W. Curtis Weldon 86%
Gerald Weller 100%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Rick White 80%
Pat Williams 8%
Charles Wilson 43%
Robert Wise, Jr. 7%
Albert Wynn 7%
Sidney Yates 15%
Bill Zeliff 100%
Richard Zimmer 79%

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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