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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Liberty Lobby

1993 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 20%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 70%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 50%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 20%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 20%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 50%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 90%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 20%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 40%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 70%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 60%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 20%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 60%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 20%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 30%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 20%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 50%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 10%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 60%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 70%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 20%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 50%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 10%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 30%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 80%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 60%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 70%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 80%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 70%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 80%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 10%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 30%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 90%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 70%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 10%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 70%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 90%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 40%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 30%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 90%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 10%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 10%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 10%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 40%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 30%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 70%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 10%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 10%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 30%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 10%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 60%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 20%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 60%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 70%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 70%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 70%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 70%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 20%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 10%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 30%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 20%
Gary Ackerman 20%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 30%
Wayne Allard 70%
Bill Archer 70%
Richard Armey 70%
Henry Scott Baesler 40%
Richard Hugh Baker 50%
William Baker 70%
Cass Ballenger 70%
James Barcia 60%
Bill Barrett 70%
Roscoe Bartlett 70%
Herbert Bateman 50%
Anthony Beilenson 0%
Bob Bennett 70%
Douglas Bereuter 60%
Howard Berman 0%
Tom Bevill 50%
Michael Bilirakis 60%
Jeff Bingaman 20%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 70%
Peter Blute 60%
Sherwood Boehlert 20%
Kit Bond 50%
Henry Bonilla 70%
David Edward Bonior 30%
Rick Boucher 40%
Bill Bradley 0%
John Breaux 40%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Hank Brown 50%
Richard Bryan 70%
John Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 20%
Jim Bunning 90%
Conrad Burns 70%
Dan Burton 80%
Steve Buyer 70%
Robert Byrd 60%
Herbert Callahan 70%
Ben Campbell 50%
Mike Castle 50%
John Chafee 20%
William Clay, Sr. 20%
Eva Clayton 20%
William Cohen 40%
Ronald Coleman 30%
Barbara-Rose Collins 20%
Cardiss Collins 10%
Michael Collins 90%
Larry Combest 60%
Gary Condit 50%
Kent Conrad 50%
Jerry Costello 60%
Paul Coverdell 60%
Christopher Cox 80%
Larry Craig 80%
Robert Cramer 70%
Philip Crane 70%
Randall Cunningham 70%
Alfonse D'Amato 50%
Patsy Ann Danner 70%
Thomas Daschle 30%
E. Kika de la Garza 40%
Thomas DeLay 70%
Ronald Dellums 20%
Peter Deutsch 10%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 70%
Jay Dickey 60%
Norm Dicks 0%
Julian Dixon 10%
Chris Dodd 10%
Robert Dole 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 60%
Calvin Dooley 30%
John Doolittle 90%
Byron Dorgan 40%
Robert Dornan 70%
David Dreier 70%
Jennifer Dunn 60%
Chet Edwards 50%
Bill Emerson 60%
Lane Evans 30%
Terry Everett 90%
Thomas Ewing 60%
Jim Exon 50%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 90%
Harris Fawell 50%
Victor Fazio 0%
Russ Feingold 20%
Cleo Fields 20%
Jack Fields, Jr. 70%
Floyd Flake 10%
Wendell Ford 40%
Tillie Fowler 50%
Barney Frank 20%
Gary Franks 60%
Robert Franks 40%
Jonas Frost III 20%
Elton Gallegly 70%
Sam Gejdenson 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 20%
Pete Geren 60%
Sam Gibbons 10%
Wayne Gilchrest 50%
Paul Gillmor 60%
Benjamin Gilman 40%
Newt Gingrich 60%
John Glenn 20%
Henry Gonzalez 30%
Slade Gorton 40%
Porter Goss 60%
Daniel Graham 30%
William Phillip Gramm 60%
Rodney Grams 60%
Judd Gregg 50%
Steven Gunderson 60%
Tony Hall 40%
Lee Hamilton 40%
Melton Hancock 70%
James Hansen 70%
Jane Harman 20%
J. Dennis Hastert 60%
Mark Hatfield 40%
Joel Hefley 80%
W.G. Hefner 40%
Jesse Helms 80%
Wally Herger, Jr. 70%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 30%
Maurice Hinchey 20%
David Lee Hobson 60%
Pete Hoekstra 50%
Ernest Hollings 60%
Stephen Horn 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 60%
Duncan Hunter 90%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 70%
Kay Hutchison 40%
Henry Hyde 60%
Daniel Inouye 20%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 50%
William Jefferson 10%
James Merrill Jeffords 30%
Nancy Johnson 30%
Harry Johnston 10%
J. Bennett Johnston 50%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 50%
Dirk Kempthorne 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 10%
Joseph Kennedy II 0%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 10%
Bob Kerrey 20%
Dale Kildee 30%
Jay Kim 70%
Gerald Kleczka 20%
Scott Klug 60%
Joseph Knollenberg 60%
Herb Kohl 30%
James Kolbe 60%
Jon Kyl 60%
John LaFalce 40%
Tom Lantos 20%
Greg Laughlin 60%
Rick Lazio 30%
James Leach 30%
Jerry Lewis 60%
Joe Lieberman 10%
Jim Lightfoot 50%
Blanche Lincoln 40%
John Linder 70%
William Lipinski 50%
Robert Livingston 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. 50%
Dick Lugar 40%
Connie Mack 50%
Thomas Manton 10%
Don Manzullo 60%
Matthew Martinez 30%
Robert Matsui 0%
Bill McCollum 70%
James McCrery III 60%
John McHugh 70%
Scott McInnis 70%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 20%
Michael McNulty 40%
Martin Meehan 10%
Carrie Meek 10%
Jan Meyers 40%
Dan Miller 70%
David Minge 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 20%
John Moakley 10%
Susan Molinari 50%
Alan Mollohan 70%
G.V. Montgomery 40%
Carlos Moorhead 70%
Constance Morella 20%
Carol Moseley Braun 10%
Patrick Moynihan 20%
Frank Murkowski 60%
John Myers 80%
Don Nickles 60%
Sam Nunn 40%
James Nussle 70%
Jim Oberstar 40%
Dave Obey 40%
John Olver 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 40%
Bill Orton 80%
Major Owens 20%
Michael Oxley 50%
Ronald Packard 70%
Mike Parker 40%
William Paxon 60%
Donald Payne 20%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 50%
Claiborne Pell 10%
Pete Peterson 50%
Owen Pickett 30%
Richard Pombo 80%
Earl Pomeroy 70%
John Edward Porter 60%
Glenn Poshard 80%
Larry Pressler 60%
David Pryor 20%
Jack Quinn 60%
James Ramstad 50%
Bill Richardson 10%
Charles Robb 10%
Timothy Roemer 60%
Charles Rose III 0%
Toby Roth 60%
William Roth, Jr. 40%
Marge Roukema 40%
Martin Olav Sabo 10%
Paul Sarbanes 20%
Jim Saxton 70%
Daniel Schaefer 70%
Steven Schiff 60%
Patricia Schroeder 20%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 50%
Christopher Shays 30%
Paul Simon 10%
Alan Simpson 70%
Norman Sisisky 50%
David Skaggs 10%
Joseph Skeen 50%
Ike Skelton 40%
Nick Smith 50%
Bob Smith 70%
Olympia Snowe 80%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 100%
Arlen Specter 50%
Pete Stark 40%
Cliff Stearns 90%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 60%
Gerry Studds 0%
Bob Stump 70%
Bart Stupak 60%
James Talent 70%
William Tauzin 80%
Charles Taylor 80%
Gene Taylor 90%
Frank Tejeda 30%
Craig Thomas 70%
William Thomas 50%
Ray Thornton 40%
Karen Thurman 70%
Strom Thurmond 80%
Peter Torkildsen 40%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
Robert Torricelli 10%
Ed Towns 20%
Bruce Vento 10%
Harold Volkmer 70%
Barbara Vucanovich 80%
James Walsh 70%
John Warner 40%
Paul Wellstone 30%
Pat Williams 60%
Charles Wilson 50%
Bob Wise, Jr. 40%
Lynn Woolsey 10%
Albert Wynn 20%
Sidney Yates 20%
Bill Zeliff 60%
Richard Zimmer 40%

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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