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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Planned Parenthood

1995-1998 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 0%
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 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
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 20%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 60%
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 100%
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 10%
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 10%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
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 70%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 78%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
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 0%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 80%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
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 67%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 60%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 100%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 88%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
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 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 0%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 22%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 67%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 80%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 80%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 0%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 90%
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 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
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 60%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 11%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 20%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
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 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 20%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 10%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 67%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 33%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 89%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 78%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 89%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 83%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 89%
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 90%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 10%
James Barcia 0%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 10%
Herbert Bateman 12%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 30%
Marion Berry 33%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 100%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 60%
Robert Borski, Jr. 44%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 78%
John Breaux 17%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 83%
Herbert Callahan 10%
Ben Campbell 33%
Thomas Campbell 100%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 80%
John Chafee 100%
Helen Chenoweth 10%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 100%
Robert Clement 70%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 70%
Merrill Cook 33%
John Cooksey 11%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 10%
Randall Cunningham 10%
Patsy Ann Danner 40%
Thomas Daschle 83%
James Davis 78%
Thomas Davis III 60%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 10%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 17%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 67%
Jennifer Dunn 30%
Chet Edwards 90%
Vern Ehlers 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 70%
Philip English 0%
Bob Etheridge 67%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 11%
Russ Feingold 100%
Mark Foley 60%
Michael Patrick Forbes 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Tillie Fowler 50%
Robert Franks 70%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
John Ganske 50%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 80%
Jim Gibbons 22%
Wayne Gilchrest 80%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
William Goodling 10%
Bart Gordon 56%
Slade Gorton 17%
Porter Goss 10%
Daniel Graham 100%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 100%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 10%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 11%
James Hansen 10%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 14%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 90%
David Lee Hobson 50%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 83%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 80%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 0%
William Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 80%
James Merrill Jeffords 100%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 0%
Nancy Johnson 100%
Paul Kanjorski 30%
Sue Kelly 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 90%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 50%
Ronald Klink 30%
Joseph Knollenberg 10%
James Kolbe 80%
John LaFalce 10%
Nicholas Lampson 78%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 60%
James Leach 70%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 0%
Robert Livingston 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 89%
Matthew Martinez 89%
Frank Mascara 10%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 10%
John McHugh 10%
Scott McInnis 30%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 50%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 30%
David Minge 70%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 38%
Alan Mollohan 10%
Constance Morella 100%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 75%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 22%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Robert William Ney 0%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 30%
Dave Obey 70%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 10%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 20%
Ronald Packard 10%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 0%
John Peterson 11%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 90%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 70%
John Edward Porter 78%
Deborah Pryce 57%
Jack Quinn 0%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 70%
Ralph Regula 20%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 30%
James Rogan 11%
William Roth, Jr. 40%
Marge Roukema 70%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 67%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 10%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 10%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 50%
Christopher Shays 90%
E.G. Shuster 10%
Norman Sisisky 90%
Joseph Skeen 10%
Ike Skelton 0%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 78%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 60%
Floyd Spence 10%
John Spratt, Jr. 70%
Charles Stenholm 0%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 78%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 10%
John Sununu 11%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 60%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 0%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 60%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 89%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 20%
James Turner 56%
Bruce Vento 90%
James Walsh 10%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 10%
Gerald Weller 0%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 33%
Heather Wilson 25%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 100%

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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