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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: American Federation of Government Employees

1996 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 26%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 11%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 10%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 5%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 5%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 90%
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 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 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
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 5%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 95%
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 5%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 5%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 39%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 15%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 95%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 15%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 95%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 10%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 90%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 5%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 5%
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 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 5%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 6%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 5%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 15%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 15%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
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 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank 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 5%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 40%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 5%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 5%
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 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 90%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 5%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 90%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 20%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 5%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 90%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 10%
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 95%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 35%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 16%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 90%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 40%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman 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 6%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 95%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 16%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 15%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 5%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 15%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 5%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 89%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 95%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 90%
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 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 16%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 95%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 94%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 5%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 5%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 95%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 17%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
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 5%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 85%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 5%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 15%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 90%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 20%
Wayne Allard 5%
William Archer 5%
Richard Armey 5%
John Ashcroft 10%
Henry Scott Baesler 95%
Richard Hugh Baker 5%
William Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 5%
James Barcia 95%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
William Barrett 5%
Herbert Bateman 11%
Anthony Beilenson 95%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 15%
Tom Bevill 89%
Michael Bilirakis 015%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 5%
Peter Blute 37%
Sherwood Boehlert 60%
Kit Bond 15%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 95%
Sonny Bono 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. 95%
Rick Boucher 100%
Bill Bradley 95%
Carol Moseley Braun 95%
John Breaux 80%
Bill Brewster 60%
Glen Browder 97%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Hank Brown 0%
Richard Bryan 85%
Ed Bryant 10%
John Bryant 100%
Dale Bumpers 89%
Jim Bunn 20%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 5%
Steve Buyer 11%
Robert Byrd 95%
Herbert Callahan 5%
Ben Campbell 47%
Thomas Campbell 20%
Mike Castle 15%
John Chafee 25%
Jim Chapman 100%
Helen Chenoweth 15%
Jon Lynn Christensen 5%
Dick Chrysler 5%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Robert Clement 95%
William Clinger 11%
William Cohen 22%
Ronald Coleman 100%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 5%
Larry Combest 5%
Gary Condit 75%
Wes Cooley 015%
Paul Coverdell 5%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 5%
Robert Cramer 90%
Philip Crane 0%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 10%
Barbara Cubin 5%
Randall Cunningham 5%
Alfonse D'Amato 35%
Patsy Ann Danner 85%
Thomas Daschle 95%
Thomas Davis III 25%
E. Kika de la Garza 94%
Thomas DeLay 5%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 42%
Jay Dickey 5%
Julian Dixon 95%
Chris Dodd 100%
Robert Dole 7%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 20%
Calvin Dooley 79%
John Doolittle 5%
Byron Dorgan 90%
Robert Dornan 5%
Jennifer Dunn 6%
Chet Edwards 95%
Vern Ehlers 16%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 10%
Bill Emerson 0%
Philip English 40%
John Ensign 15%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 5%
Thomas Ewing 5%
Jim Exon 90%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 5%
Harris Fawell 10%
Victor Fazio 100%
Russ Feingold 100%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 0%
Floyd Flake 100%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 35%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 15%
Michael Patrick Forbes 37%
Harold Ford, Sr. 94%
Wendell Ford 85%
Tillie Fowler 6%
Jon David Fox 35%
Sheila Frahm 0%
Gary Franks 25%
Robert Franks 30%
Daniel Frisa 37%
William Frist 5%
Jonas Frost III 100%
David Funderburk 5%
Elizabeth Furse 95%
John Ganske 10%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Pete Geren 25%
Sam Gibbons 100%
Wayne Gilchrest 10%
Paul Gillmor 17%
Benjamin Gilman 58%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
William Goodling 5%
Bart Gordon 85%
Slade Gorton 25%
Porter Goss 5%
Daniel Graham 90%
William Phillip Gramm 5%
Rodney Grams 10%
Enid Greene 5%
James Greenwood 21%
Judd Gregg 5%
Steven Gunderson 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 5%
Tony Hall 100%
Lee Hamilton 85%
Melton Hancock 5%
James Hansen 10%
Jane Harman 85%
J. Dennis Hastert 5%
Mark Hatfield 40%
James Hayes 11%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 5%
Joel Hefley 5%
W.G. Hefner 100%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 17%
Jesse Helms 5%
Van Hilleary 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Martin Hoke 21%
Ernest Hollings 79%
Stephen Horn 32%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 40%
Duncan Hunter 5%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 5%
Henry Hyde 5%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 5%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 79%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 45%
Nancy Johnson 37%
Harry Johnston 100%
J. Bennett Johnston 85%
Paul Kanjorski 95%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 21%
Sue Kelly 20%
Dirk Kempthorne 5%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 100%
Bob Kerrey 75%
Jay Kim 5%
Gerald Kleczka 95%
Ronald Klink 95%
Scott Klug 20%
Joseph Knollenberg 5%
James Kolbe 11%
John LaFalce 95%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 10%
Greg Laughlin 5%
Rick Lazio 32%
James Leach 30%
Ron Lewis 5%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 11%
Blanche Lincoln 77%
John Linder 5%
William Lipinski 95%
Robert Livingston 10%
James Longley, Jr. 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 95%
Connie Mack 5%
Thomas Manton 94%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Bill Martini 60%
Frank Mascara 95%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 95%
Bill McCollum 5%
James McCrery III 5%
Joseph McDade 36%
Paul McHale 95%
John McHugh 50%
Scott McInnis 10%
David McIntosh 5%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 94%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 25%
Jan Meyers 11%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 11%
David Minge 90%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 94%
Susan Molinari 18%
Alan Mollohan 95%
G.V. Montgomery 30%
Carlos Moorhead 5%
Constance Morella 50%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 90%
Frank Murkowski 20%
Jack Murtha 95%
John Myers 11%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 5%
Mark Neumann 20%
Robert William Ney 20%
Don Nickles 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 5%
Sam Nunn 45%
James Nussle 5%
Jim Oberstar 95%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 89%
William Orton 85%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 5%
Ronald Packard 6%
Paul Michael Parker 5%
William Paxon 5%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 85%
Claiborne Pell 95%
Pete Peterson 100%
Owen Pickett 75%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 15%
Glenn Poshard 95%
Larry Pressler 10%
Deborah Pryce 11%
David Pryor 88%
James Quillen 6%
Jack Quinn 55%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 10%
Ralph Regula 20%
Bill Richardson 100%
Frank Duncan Riggs 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 85%
Timothy Roemer 80%
Charles Rose III 88%
Toby Roth 0%
William Roth, Jr. 21%
Marge Roukema 37%
Martin Olav Sabo 95%
Matthew Salmon 15%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 10%
Rick Santorum 25%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 5%
Joe Scarborough 15%
Daniel Schaefer 5%
Steven Schiff 15%
Patricia Schroeder 100%
Andrea Seastrand 5%
John Shadegg 5%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 10%
Christopher Shays 25%
E.G. Shuster 5%
Paul Simon 90%
Alan Simpson 15%
Norman Sisisky 84%
David Skaggs 100%
Joseph Skeen 5%
Ike Skelton 85%
Linda Smith 18%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 5%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 21%
Mark Souder 11%
Arlen Specter 55%
Floyd Spence 5%
John Spratt, Jr. 95%
Charles Stenholm 55%
Ted Stevens 25%
Steve Stockman 31%
Louis Stokes 100%
Gerry Studds 100%
Robert Stump 5%
Bart Stupak 95%
James Talent 5%
John Tanner 89%
Randy Tate 5%
William Tauzin 10%
Charles Taylor 5%
Gene Taylor 45%
Frank Tejeda 85%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 10%
Fred Thompson 5%
Ray Thornton 100%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 10%
Todd Tiahrt 5%
Peter Torkildsen 53%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 90%
Bruce Vento 100%
Harold Volkmer 95%
Barbara Vucanovich 5%
Robert Walker 5%
James Walsh 25%
Zach Wamp 10%
Michael Ward 94%
John Warner 10%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 5%
David Weldon 5%
W. Curtis Weldon 33%
Gerald Weller 25%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Rick White 10%
Pat Williams 95%
Charles Wilson 100%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 95%
Sidney Yates 100%
Bill Zeliff 10%
Richard Zimmer 28%

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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