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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Liberty Lobby

1997 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 60%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 40%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 40%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 90%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 50%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 40%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 40%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 80%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 30%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 20%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 80%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 20%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 40%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 20%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 80%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 70%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 70%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 20%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 30%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 60%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 30%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 50%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 30%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 70%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 20%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 40%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 20%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 30%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 30%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 30%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 70%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 40%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 30%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 40%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 60%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 40%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 30%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 60%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 20%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 70%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 40%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 50%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 50%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 0%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 40%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 30%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 20%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 30%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 90%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 20%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 30%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 30%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 40%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 30%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 20%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 40%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 40%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 50%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 30%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 30%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 20%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 60%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 30%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 40%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 60%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 40%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 20%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 40%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 20%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 70%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 60%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 20%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 20%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 30%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 40%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 40%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 20%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 40%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 30%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 30%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 50%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 70%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 40%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 50%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 20%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 30%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 70%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 80%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 10%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 20%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 20%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 40%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 40%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 50%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 20%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 80%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 30%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 10%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 50%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 90%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 40%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 60%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 20%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 40%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 20%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 40%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 30%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 50%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 20%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 50%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 30%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 10%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 30%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 70%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 70%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 30%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 10%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 60%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 50%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 10%
Wayne Allard 40%
Thomas Allen 20%
William Archer 40%
Richard Armey 20%
John Ashcroft 60%
Richard Hugh Baker 50%
John Baldacci 20%
Cass Ballenger 40%
James Barcia 70%
Robert Barr, Jr. 90%
William Barrett 20%
Herbert Bateman 20%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 0%
Douglas Bereuter 40%
Marion Berry 40%
Michael Bilirakis 40%
Rod Blagojevich 10%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 10%
Sherwood Boehlert 30%
Kit Bond 30%
Henry Bonilla 30%
David Edward Bonior 50%
Robert Borski, Jr. 20%
Rick Boucher 10%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 40%
John Breaux 0%
George Brown, Jr. 10%
Richard Bryan 10%
Ed Bryant 40%
Jim Bunning 70%
Conrad Burns 40%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 50%
Herbert Callahan 10%
Ben Campbell 40%
Thomas Campbell 50%
Chris Cannon 40%
Julia Carson 30%
Mike Castle 10%
John Chafee 10%
Helen Chenoweth 80%
William Clay, Sr. 30%
Eva Clayton 40%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 20%
Robert Clement 10%
Mac Collins 60%
Larry Combest 50%
Gary Condit 80%
Merrill Cook 70%
John Cooksey 50%
Paul Coverdell 30%
Christopher Cox 30%
William Coyne 20%
Larry Craig 40%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 60%
Barbara Cubin 70%
Randall Cunningham 40%
Patsy Ann Danner 70%
Thomas Daschle 0%
James Davis 10%
Thomas Davis III 30%
Bill Delahunt 20%
Thomas DeLay 50%
Peter Deutsch 10%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Jay Dickey 60%
Julian Dixon 10%
Chris Dodd 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 10%
John Doolittle 70%
Byron Dorgan 30%
Jennifer Dunn 30%
Chet Edwards 20%
Vern Ehlers 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 30%
Philip English 40%
Bob Etheridge 30%
Lane Evans 40%
Terry Everett 80%
Thomas Ewing 40%
Russ Feingold 50%
Mark Foley 50%
Michael Patrick Forbes 70%
Harold Ford, Jr. 10%
Tillie Fowler 50%
Robert Franks 50%
William Frist 20%
Jonas Frost III 20%
John Ganske 30%
Sam Gejdenson 40%
George Gekas 50%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 40%
Jim Gibbons 70%
Wayne Gilchrest 20%
Paul Gillmor 40%
Benjamin Gilman 10%
Newt Gingrich 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 80%
William Goodling 70%
Bart Gordon 50%
Slade Gorton 10%
Porter Goss 50%
Daniel Graham 10%
William Phillip Gramm 40%
Rodney Grams 40%
James Greenwood 10%
Judd Gregg 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 60%
Charles Hagel 20%
Tony Hall 20%
James Hansen 60%
J. Dennis Hastert 40%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 30%
Joel Hefley 90%
Jesse Helms 70%
Rick Hill 50%
Van Hilleary 80%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 20%
David Lee Hobson 40%
Pete Hoekstra 40%
Ernest Hollings 50%
Darlene Hooley 20%
Stephen Horn 40%
John Nathan Hostettler 60%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 0%
Kenny Hulshof 70%
Duncan Hunter 60%
William Hutchinson 60%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 40%
Henry Hyde 40%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 70%
William Jefferson 20%
James Merrill Jeffords 10%
William Lewis Jenkins 50%
Christopher John 50%
Nancy Johnson 30%
Paul Kanjorski 20%
Sue Kelly 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 20%
Patrick Kennedy 30%
Bob Kerrey 10%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 20%
Gerald Kleczka 20%
Ronald Klink 60%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
James Kolbe 10%
John LaFalce 20%
Nicholas Lampson 20%
Tom Lantos 30%
Stephen Largent 50%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 20%
Ron Lewis 60%
John Linder 20%
William Lipinski 40%
Robert Livingston 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. 20%
William Luther 20%
Connie Mack 40%
James Maloney 40%
Matthew Martinez 30%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 20%
Bill McCollum 30%
James McCrery III 30%
John McHugh 20%
Scott McInnis 60%
David McIntosh 50%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 30%
Michael McNulty 20%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 20%
Jack Metcalf 60%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 20%
Dan Miller 40%
David Minge 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 40%
John Moakley 20%
Alan Mollohan 20%
Constance Morella 10%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 10%
Frank Murkowski 10%
Jack Murtha 20%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 40%
Robert William Ney 50%
Don Nickles 20%
Anne Northup 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 70%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 30%
Dave Obey 50%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 20%
Major Owens 40%
Michael Oxley 20%
Ronald Packard 30%
Donald Payne 30%
Edward Pease 50%
John Peterson 70%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 60%
Owen Pickett 30%
Richard Pombo 80%
Earl Pomeroy 40%
John Edward Porter 20%
Deborah Pryce 30%
Jack Quinn 30%
George Radanovich 60%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 30%
Bob Riley 70%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 50%
Charles Robb 0%
Ciro Rodriguez 30%
Timothy Roemer 40%
James Rogan 50%
William Roth, Jr. 10%
Marge Roukema 20%
Jim Ryun 70%
Martin Olav Sabo 20%
Matthew Salmon 50%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 40%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 70%
Rick Santorum 30%
Paul Sarbanes 30%
H. James Saxton 40%
Joe Scarborough 90%
John Shadegg 50%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 20%
Christopher Shays 30%
E.G. Shuster 40%
Norman Sisisky 40%
Joseph Skeen 30%
Ike Skelton 30%
Gordon Smith 10%
Nick Smith 60%
Bob Smith 80%
Vic Snyder 30%
Mark Souder 60%
Arlen Specter 30%
Floyd Spence 50%
John Spratt, Jr. 30%
Charles Stenholm 40%
Ted Stevens 30%
Ted Strickland 50%
Robert Stump 40%
Bart Stupak 30%
John Sununu 70%
James Talent 50%
John Tanner 40%
Ellen Tauscher 30%
William Tauzin 40%
Charles Taylor 20%
Gene Taylor 70%
Craig Thomas 20%
William Thomas 30%
Fred Thompson 40%
Karen Thurman 30%
Strom Thurmond 30%
Todd Tiahrt 80%
Robert Torricelli 30%
James Traficant, Jr. 90%
James Turner 40%
Bruce Vento 20%
James Walsh 60%
Zach Wamp 80%
John Warner 10%
Wesley Watkins 40%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 70%
David Weldon 50%
W. Curtis Weldon 30%
Gerald Weller 50%
Paul Wellstone 60%
Robert Wexler 10%
Robert Wise, Jr. 10%
Albert Wynn 20%

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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