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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Organization for Women

1998 Positions

Issues: Women
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. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed 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 11 George Miller Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 5%
CA Mayor At-Large 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. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 89%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 11%
FL 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 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 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 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 10%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 74%
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. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 95%
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 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 95%
ME U.S. Senate Sr 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 6 Fred Upton Republican 35%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 72%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 20%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 5%
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 Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 85%
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 12 Mel Watt Democratic 85%
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 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 70%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 45%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 60%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 10%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 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 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%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 80%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 5%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 15%
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. 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 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
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%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 70%
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 Doc Hastings Republican 5%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 80%
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%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 85%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Bill 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%
Bill Barrett 15%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Charlie Bass 35%
Herbert Bateman 11%
Bob Bennett 5%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 85%
Douglas Bereuter 10%
Howard Berman 95%
Marion Berry 40%
Brian Bilbray 37%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Jeff Bingaman 65%
Rod Blagojevich 90%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 5%
Sherwood Boehlert 75%
Kit Bond 15%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 85%
Mary Bono Mack 18%
Robert Borski, Jr. 70%
Leonard Boswell 70%
Rick Boucher 90%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
John Breaux 45%
Richard Bryan 60%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 5%
Dan Burton 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-Hage 5%
William Clay, Sr. 95%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 75%
Robert Clement 75%
Michael Collins 5%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 55%
Kent Conrad 55%
Merrill Cook 15%
John Cooksey 15%
Jerry Costello 50%
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%
Norm Dicks 85%
Julian Dixon 90%
Chris Dodd 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 80%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 65%
David Dreier 5%
Jennifer Dunn 5%
Chet Edwards 85%
Vern Ehlers 15%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 25%
Jo Ann Emerson 0%
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%
Barney Frank 90%
Robert Franks 35%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 90%
Elton Gallegly 15%
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%
Tony Hall 35%
James Hansen 5%
J. Dennis Hastert 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 5%
Joel Hefley 5%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 5%
Rick Hill 6%
Van Hilleary 5%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 95%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 39%
Pete Hoekstra 5%
Thomas Holden 32%
Ernest Hollings 75%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 65%
John Nathan Hostettler 5%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Kenny Hulshof 5%
Duncan Hunter 5%
Asa Hutchinson 11%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 5%
Henry Hyde 5%
Daniel Inouye 80%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
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%
Dale Kildee 55%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 70%
Ronald Klink 50%
Joseph Knollenberg 5%
Herb Kohl 70%
James Kolbe 45%
Dennis Kucinich 65%
Steven Kuykendall 85%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 41%
Ray LaHood 15%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 6%
Steve LaTourette 16%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 60%
Jerry Lewis 15%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 60%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
William Luther 85%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 85%
Don Manzullo 0%
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%
Patrick Moynihan 60%
Frank Murkowski 15%
Jack Murtha 45%
Sue Myrick 5%
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%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 44%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 15%
Ronald Packard 0%
Ron Paul 20%
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%
Silvestre Reyes 75%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Charles Robb 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 88%
Timothy Roemer 35%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 15%
Steve Rothman 80%
Marge Roukema 35%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 95%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 55%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 90%
Jim 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%
Olympia Snowe 45%
Vic Snyder 60%
Mark Souder 5%
Arlen Specter 45%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 60%
Pete Stark 95%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 20%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 65%
Bob 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%
Ed Towns 89%
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%
Bob Weygand 70%
Bob Wise, Jr. 80%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
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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