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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Organization for Women

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 11%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 5%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 15%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 85%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 75%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 80%
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 15%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 18%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 37%
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 0%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 60%
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 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 89%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 50%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 60%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 80%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 85%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 95%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 5%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 85%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 70%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 5%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 85%
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 50%
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 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 74%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 5%
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. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 65%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 95%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 70%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 85%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 95%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 45%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 30%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 85%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 55%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 35%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 72%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 20%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 5%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 65%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 75%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 15%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 75%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 30%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 85%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 55%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 35%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 74%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 5%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 70%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 45%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 65%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 60%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 10%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 80%
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 89%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 89%
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 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 80%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 65%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 16%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 5%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 95%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 85%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 39%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 32%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 80%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 5%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 95%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 5%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 95%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 95%
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 90%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 5%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 70%
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 5%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 85%
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 70%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 0%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 85%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 65%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 50%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 5%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 95%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. 5%
William Barrett 15%
Herbert Bateman 11%
Bob Bennett 5%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 85%
Douglas Bereuter 10%
Marion Berry 40%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Rod Blagojevich 90%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 5%
Sherwood Boehlert 75%
Kit Bond 15%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 85%
Robert Borski, Jr. 70%
Rick Boucher 90%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
John Breaux 45%
Richard Bryan 60%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 5%
Steve Buyer 11%
Robert Byrd 50%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 30%
Thomas Campbell 50%
Chris Cannon 6%
Julia Carson 94%
Mike Castle 50%
Helen Chenoweth 5%
William Clay, Sr. 95%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 75%
Robert Clement 75%
Mac Collins 5%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 55%
Merrill Cook 15%
John Cooksey 15%
Paul Coverdell 5%
Christopher Cox 5%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 6%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 30%
Thomas Daschle 75%
James Davis 55%
Thomas Davis III 45%
Bill Delahunt 95%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 85%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 15%
Jay Dickey 5%
Julian Dixon 90%
Chris Dodd 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 80%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 65%
Jennifer Dunn 5%
Chet Edwards 85%
Vern Ehlers 15%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 25%
Philip English 25%
Bob Etheridge 65%
Lane Evans 85%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 5%
Russ Feingold 75%
Mark Foley 45%
Michael Patrick Forbes 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 6%
Tillie Fowler 25%
Robert Franks 35%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 90%
John Ganske 30%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 90%
Jim Gibbons 15%
Wayne Gilchrest 55%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 15%
William Goodling 5%
Bart Gordon 53%
Slade Gorton 5%
Porter Goss 15%
Daniel Graham 55%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 50%
Judd Gregg 5%
Gilbert Gutknecht 5%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 35%
James Hansen 5%
J. Dennis Hastert 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 5%
Joel Hefley 5%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 6%
Van Hilleary 5%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 95%
David Lee Hobson 39%
Pete Hoekstra 5%
Ernest Hollings 75%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 65%
John Nathan Hostettler 5%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Kenny Hulshof 5%
Duncan Hunter 5%
William Hutchinson 11%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 5%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 5%
William Jefferson 74%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 10%
Christopher John 24%
Nancy Johnson 70%
Paul Kanjorski 55%
Sue Kelly 45%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 95%
Patrick Kennedy 80%
Bob Kerrey 75%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 70%
Ronald Klink 50%
Joseph Knollenberg 5%
James Kolbe 45%
Steven Kuykendall 85%
John LaFalce 41%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 6%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 60%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 85%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 85%
Matthew Martinez 89%
Frank Mascara 45%
Robert Matsui 90%
Karen McCarthy 75%
Bill McCollum 10%
James McCrery III 10%
John McHugh 15%
Scott McInnis 10%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 60%
Martin Meehan 95%
Carrie Meek 95%
Jack Metcalf 5%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 95%
Dan Miller 25%
David Minge 65%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 59%
Alan Mollohan 35%
Constance Morella 95%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 60%
Frank Murkowski 15%
Jack Murtha 45%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 5%
Robert William Ney 10%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 5%
Jim Oberstar 60%
Dave Obey 74%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 44%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 15%
Ronald Packard 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 0%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 60%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 65%
John Edward Porter 29%
Deborah Pryce 37%
Jack Quinn 20%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 35%
Ralph Regula 20%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Charles Robb 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 88%
Timothy Roemer 35%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 15%
Marge Roukema 35%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 95%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 55%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 15%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 90%
H. James Saxton 20%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 65%
E.G. Shuster 5%
Norman Sisisky 65%
Joseph Skeen 5%
Ike Skelton 30%
Gordon Smith 10%
Nick Smith 15%
Bob Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 60%
Mark Souder 5%
Arlen Specter 45%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 60%
Charles Stenholm 20%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 65%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 45%
John Sununu 0%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 35%
Ellen Tauscher 80%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 10%
Gene Taylor 10%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 30%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 5%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 65%
James Traficant, Jr. 30%
James Turner 45%
Bruce Vento 95%
James Walsh 5%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 25%
Wesley Watkins 5%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 5%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 5%
Gerald Weller 10%
Paul Wellstone 90%
Robert Wexler 95%
Robert Weygand 70%
Robert Wise, Jr. 80%
Albert Wynn 95%

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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