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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: American Federation of Government Employees

1998 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 33%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 27%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 13%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 10%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 13%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 90%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
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 93%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 7%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 46%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 7%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 7%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 73%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 7%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 93%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 30%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 89%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 21%
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 27%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 10%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 13%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 14%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 10%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 93%
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 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 93%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 92%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 87%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 73%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 7%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 7%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 7%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 8%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 53%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 27%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 33%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 87%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 93%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 33%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 93%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 27%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 93%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 87%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 93%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 7%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 30%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 7%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 7%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 21%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
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 80%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 7%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 90%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 20%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 7%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 20%
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 13%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 86%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 92%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 87%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 30%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 7%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 13%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 90%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 7%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 93%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 87%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 7%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 20%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 80%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 20%
Gary Ackerman 93%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 10%
Thomas Allen 100%
Bill Archer 7%
Richard Armey 7%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 7%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 67%
Robert Barr, Jr. 14%
Bill Barrett 13%
Roscoe Bartlett 7%
Charlie Bass 33%
Herbert Bateman 8%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 80%
Douglas Bereuter 29%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 67%
Brian Bilbray 40%
Michael Bilirakis 7%
Jeff Bingaman 90%
Rod Blagojevich 93%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 14%
Sherwood Boehlert 73%
Kit Bond 30%
Henry Bonilla 21%
David Edward Bonior 93%
Mary Bono Mack 31%
Robert Borski, Jr. 87%
Leonard Boswell 57%
Rick Boucher 93%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 79%
John Breaux 90%
George Brown, Jr. 93%
Richard Bryan 90%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 7%
Conrad Burns 20%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 7%
Robert Byrd 90%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 50%
Thomas Campbell 60%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 53%
John Chafee 40%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 20%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 92%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 100%
Robert Clement 80%
Michael Collins 7%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 100%
Merrill Cook 13%
John Cooksey 8%
Jerry Costello 87%
Paul Coverdell 10%
Christopher Cox 13%
William Coyne 93%
Larry Craig 20%
Robert Cramer 67%
Philip Crane 7%
Barbara Cubin 7%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 62%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 80%
Thomas Davis III 33%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 7%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 47%
Jay Dickey 0%
Norm Dicks 92%
Julian Dixon 92%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 40%
Calvin Dooley 80%
John Doolittle 13%
Byron Dorgan 100%
David Dreier 13%
Jennifer Dunn 7%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 29%
Jo Ann Emerson 7%
Philip English 40%
Bob Etheridge 79%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 7%
Thomas Ewing 7%
Russ Feingold 90%
Mark Foley 33%
Michael Patrick Forbes 47%
Harold Ford, Jr. 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Tillie Fowler 15%
Barney Frank 100%
Robert Franks 40%
William Frist 10%
Jonas Frost III 93%
Elton Gallegly 27%
John Ganske 43%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 7%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 93%
Jim Gibbons 13%
Wayne Gilchrest 27%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Newt Gingrich 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 13%
William Goodling 8%
Bart Gordon 73%
Slade Gorton 20%
Porter Goss 8%
Daniel Graham 90%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 43%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 13%
Tony Hall 73%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 7%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 7%
Jesse Helms 11%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Rick Hill 31%
Van Hilleary 7%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 27%
Pete Hoekstra 13%
Thomas Holden 73%
Ernest Hollings 78%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 43%
John Nathan Hostettler 13%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 7%
Duncan Hunter 14%
Asa Hutchinson 14%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 20%
Henry Hyde 13%
Daniel Inouye 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 91%
James Merrill Jeffords 70%
William Lewis Jenkins 7%
Christopher John 55%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Paul Kanjorski 87%
Sue Kelly 53%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 90%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 90%
Dale Kildee 80%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 87%
Ronald Klink 80%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
Herb Kohl 90%
James Kolbe 27%
Dennis Kucinich 87%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 79%
Ray LaHood 27%
Nicholas Lampson 87%
Tom Lantos 93%
Stephen Largent 0%
Steve LaTourette 47%
Rick Lazio 47%
James Leach 40%
Jerry Lewis 14%
Ron Lewis 7%
Joe Lieberman 90%
John Linder 7%
William Lipinski 64%
Robert Livingston 7%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
Dick Lugar 20%
William Luther 87%
Connie Mack 20%
James Maloney 73%
Don Manzullo 7%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Frank Mascara 80%
Robert Matsui 93%
Karen McCarthy 86%
Bill McCollum 7%
James McCrery III 20%
John McHugh 27%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 93%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 27%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 92%
Dan Miller 13%
David Minge 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 93%
John Moakley 92%
Alan Mollohan 86%
Constance Morella 73%
Patrick Moynihan 90%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 87%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 7%
Robert William Ney 27%
Don Nickles 10%
Anne Northup 13%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 14%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 93%
Dave Obey 100%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 92%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 20%
Ronald Packard 0%
Ron Paul 36%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 13%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 80%
Richard Pombo 13%
Earl Pomeroy 93%
John Edward Porter 40%
Deborah Pryce 25%
Jack Quinn 33%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 27%
Ralph Regula 33%
Silvestre Reyes 100%
Bob Riley 7%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 87%
Charles Robb 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 67%
James Rogan 7%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Steve Rothman 93%
Marge Roukema 33%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 73%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 31%
Joe Scarborough 7%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 20%
Christopher Shays 40%
E.G. Shuster 14%
Norman Sisisky 87%
Joseph Skeen 7%
Ike Skelton 67%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 20%
Bob Smith 10%
Olympia Snowe 60%
Vic Snyder 87%
Mark Souder 7%
Arlen Specter 86%
Floyd Spence 7%
John Spratt, Jr. 87%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 7%
Charles Stenholm 47%
Ted Stevens 40%
Ted Strickland 93%
Bob Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 80%
John Sununu 7%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 62%
Ellen Tauscher 73%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 13%
Gene Taylor 29%
Craig Thomas 10%
William Thomas 27%
Fred Thompson 10%
Karen Thurman 87%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 100%
Ed Towns 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
James Turner 60%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 27%
Zach Wamp 13%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 7%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 36%
Gerald Weller 33%
Paul Wellstone 90%
Robert Wexler 100%
Bob Weygand 87%
Heather Wilson 44%
Bob Wise, Jr. 93%
Lynn Woolsey 93%
Albert Wynn 93%

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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