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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: The John Birch Society

1997 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 48%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 68%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 78%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 55%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 49%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 55%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 78%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 15%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 13%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 49%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 48%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 53%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 22%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 21%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 67%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 26%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 23%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 20%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 73%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 49%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 40%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 24%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 45%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 50%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 58%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 18%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 28%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 58%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 16%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 5%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 18%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 55%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 11%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 23%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 40%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 65%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 13%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 27%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 28%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 25%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 26%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 32%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 64%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 38%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 43%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 74%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 28%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 63%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 50%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 53%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 70%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 55%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 44%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 48%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 10%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 13%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 28%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 28%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 23%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 26%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 28%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 30%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 16%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 25%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 65%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 23%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 35%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 33%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 13%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 18%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 38%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 33%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 18%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 30%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 18%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 38%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 46%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 43%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 40%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 40%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 20%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 10%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 38%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 45%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 67%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 15%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 55%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 33%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 60%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 23%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 23%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 44%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 15%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 32%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 48%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 41%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 25%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 23%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 25%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 28%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 27%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 20%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 28%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 45%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 64%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 46%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 28%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 40%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 33%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 56%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 18%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 55%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 83%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 74%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 48%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 15%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 21%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 38%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 16%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 38%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 48%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 30%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 15%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 58%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 15%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 50%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 70%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 65%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 51%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 53%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 63%
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 55%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 11%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 37%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 54%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 48%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 23%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 23%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 41%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 15%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 33%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 56%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 13%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 26%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 15%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 20%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 21%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 79%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 68%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 30%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 26%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 28%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 68%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 60%
Wayne Allard 75%
Thomas Allen 20%
William Archer 58%
Richard Armey 55%
John Ashcroft 85%
Henry Scott Baesler 25%
Richard Hugh Baker 41%
John Baldacci 20%
Cass Ballenger 39%
James Barcia 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. 75%
William Barrett 44%
Herbert Bateman 38%
Bob Bennett 58%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 18%
Douglas Bereuter 33%
Marion Berry 38%
Michael Bilirakis 48%
Rod Blagojevich 23%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 38%
Sherwood Boehlert 18%
Kit Bond 53%
Henry Bonilla 45%
David Edward Bonior 30%
Sonny Bono 46%
Robert Borski, Jr. 37%
Rick Boucher 19%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 28%
Carol Moseley Braun 15%
John Breaux 25%
George Brown, Jr. 20%
Richard Bryan 18%
Ed Bryant 47%
Dale Bumpers 15%
Jim Bunning 44%
Conrad Burns 63%
Steve Buyer 41%
Robert Byrd 28%
Herbert Callahan 44%
Ben Campbell 53%
Thomas Campbell 60%
Chris Cannon 55%
Walter Holden Capps 21%
Julia Carson 23%
Mike Castle 25%
John Chafee 21%
Helen Chenoweth 67%
Jon Lynn Christensen 55%
William Clay, Sr. 17%
Eva Clayton 20%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 15%
Robert Clement 21%
Mac Collins 59%
Larry Combest 58%
Gary Condit 46%
Merrill Cook 48%
John Cooksey 47%
Paul Coverdell 63%
Christopher Cox 70%
William Coyne 25%
Larry Craig 65%
Robert Cramer 28%
Philip Crane 62%
Barbara Cubin 58%
Randall Cunningham 48%
Alfonse D'Amato 40%
Patsy Ann Danner 44%
Thomas Daschle 10%
James Davis 18%
Thomas Davis III 25%
Bill Delahunt 26%
Thomas DeLay 60%
Ronald Dellums 23%
Peter Deutsch 15%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 34%
Jay Dickey 51%
Julian Dixon 23%
Chris Dodd 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 43%
Calvin Dooley 18%
John Doolittle 61%
Byron Dorgan 23%
Jennifer Dunn 44%
Chet Edwards 18%
Vern Ehlers 28%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 45%
Philip English 34%
John Ensign 65%
Bob Etheridge 16%
Lane Evans 25%
Terry Everett 50%
Thomas Ewing 33%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 82%
Harris Fawell 25%
Victor Fazio 15%
Russ Feingold 25%
Thomas Foglietta 22%
Mark Foley 42%
Michael Patrick Forbes 37%
Harold Ford, Jr. 18%
Wendell Ford 30%
Tillie Fowler 43%
Jon David Fox 38%
Robert Franks 28%
William Frist 45%
Jonas Frost III 13%
Elizabeth Furse 13%
John Ganske 48%
Sam Gejdenson 23%
George Gekas 43%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 29%
Jim Gibbons 54%
Wayne Gilchrest 23%
Paul Gillmor 43%
Benjamin Gilman 21%
John Glenn 13%
Henry Gonzalez 22%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 53%
William Goodling 58%
Bart Gordon 18%
Slade Gorton 53%
Porter Goss 43%
Daniel Graham 13%
William Phillip Gramm 78%
Rodney Grams 70%
James Greenwood 25%
Judd Gregg 63%
Gilbert Gutknecht 45%
Charles Hagel 55%
Tony Hall 28%
Lee Hamilton 25%
James Hansen 49%
Jane Harman 18%
J. Dennis Hastert 48%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 60%
Joel Hefley 63%
W.G. Hefner 15%
Jesse Helms 83%
Rick Hill 50%
Van Hilleary 70%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 24%
David Lee Hobson 38%
Pete Hoekstra 63%
Ernest Hollings 35%
Darlene Hooley 18%
Stephen Horn 23%
John Nathan Hostettler 78%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 20%
Kenny Hulshof 45%
Duncan Hunter 63%
William Hutchinson 53%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 70%
Henry Hyde 48%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 58%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 67%
William Jefferson 16%
James Merrill Jeffords 10%
William Lewis Jenkins 40%
Christopher John 35%
Jay Johnson 20%
Nancy Johnson 23%
Paul Kanjorski 35%
Sue Kelly 33%
Dirk Kempthorne 65%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 21%
Joseph Kennedy II 25%
Patrick Kennedy 28%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 20%
Bob Kerrey 13%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 18%
Jay Kim 43%
Gerald Kleczka 28%
Ronald Klink 35%
Scott Klug 38%
Joseph Knollenberg 38%
James Kolbe 25%
John LaFalce 32%
Nicholas Lampson 23%
Tom Lantos 25%
Stephen Largent 67%
Rick Lazio 28%
James Leach 23%
Ron Lewis 44%
John Linder 50%
William Lipinski 38%
Robert Livingston 43%
Trent Lott, Sr. 63%
William Luther 20%
Connie Mack 64%
James Maloney 30%
Thomas Manton 23%
Matthew Martinez 22%
Frank Mascara 35%
Robert Matsui 18%
Karen McCarthy 20%
Bill McCollum 38%
James McCrery III 34%
Joseph McDade 38%
Paul McHale 23%
John McHugh 40%
Scott McInnis 50%
David McIntosh 68%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 21%
Michael McNulty 23%
Martin Meehan 18%
Carrie Meek 15%
Jack Metcalf 45%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 18%
Dan Miller 58%
David Minge 25%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 25%
John Moakley 26%
Alan Mollohan 24%
Constance Morella 28%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 18%
Frank Murkowski 51%
Jack Murtha 28%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 40%
Mark Neumann 62%
Robert William Ney 48%
Don Nickles 73%
Anne Northup 43%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 60%
James Nussle 45%
Jim Oberstar 30%
Dave Obey 31%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 28%
Major Owens 26%
Michael Oxley 33%
Ronald Packard 38%
Michael Pappas 50%
Paul Michael Parker 49%
William Paxon 56%
Donald Payne 31%
Edward Pease 50%
John Peterson 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 54%
Owen Pickett 20%
Richard Pombo 71%
Earl Pomeroy 21%
John Edward Porter 21%
Glenn Poshard 28%
Deborah Pryce 41%
Jack Quinn 33%
George Radanovich 51%
James Ramstad 33%
William Redmond 30%
Ralph Regula 35%
Frank Duncan Riggs 45%
Bob Riley 60%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 25%
Charles Robb 20%
Ciro Rodriguez 9%
Timothy Roemer 38%
James Rogan 53%
William Roth, Jr. 35%
Marge Roukema 33%
Jim Ryun 63%
Martin Olav Sabo 20%
Matthew Salmon 74%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 23%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 73%
Rick Santorum 63%
Paul Sarbanes 10%
H. James Saxton 30%
Joe Scarborough 84%
Daniel Schaefer 56%
Steven Schiff 58%
John Shadegg 73%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 43%
Christopher Shays 38%
E.G. Shuster 50%
Norman Sisisky 28%
David Skaggs 15%
Joseph Skeen 35%
Ike Skelton 30%
Gordon Smith 45%
Linda Smith 53%
Nick Smith 50%
Robert Smith 36%
Bob Smith 90%
Vincent Snowbarger 60%
Vic Snyder 20%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 59%
Mark Souder 64%
Arlen Specter 25%
Floyd Spence 43%
John Spratt, Jr. 20%
Charles Stenholm 49%
Ted Stevens 37%
Louis Stokes 20%
Ted Strickland 23%
Robert Stump 65%
Bart Stupak 30%
John Sununu 45%
James Talent 58%
John Tanner 25%
Ellen Tauscher 18%
William Tauzin 40%
Charles Taylor 47%
Gene Taylor 65%
Craig Thomas 68%
William Thomas 35%
Fred Thompson 70%
Karen Thurman 15%
Strom Thurmond 60%
Todd Tiahrt 63%
Esteban Edward Torres 22%
Robert Torricelli 23%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
James Turner 28%
Bruce Vento 20%
James Walsh 33%
Zach Wamp 68%
John Warner 50%
Wesley Watkins 45%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 45%
David Weldon 59%
W. Curtis Weldon 40%
Gerald Weller 33%
Paul Wellstone 23%
Robert Wexler 15%
Robert Weygand 37%
Rick White 30%
Robert Wise, Jr. 13%
Albert Wynn 13%
Sidney Yates 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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