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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: The John Birch Society

1997 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 68%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 78%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 55%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 13%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 10%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 50%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 55%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 11%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 65%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 13%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 74%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 50%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 53%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 55%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 10%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 16%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 25%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 33%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 13%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 18%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 46%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 40%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 40%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 10%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 45%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 25%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 25%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 25%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 28%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 45%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 83%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 74%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 15%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 15%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 58%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 15%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 50%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 48%
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%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 26%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 68%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 48%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 55%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 49%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 74%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 48%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 85%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 21%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 23%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 20%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 49%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 24%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 40%
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%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 40%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 27%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 25%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 26%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 38%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 28%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 44%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 48%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 28%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 23%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 28%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 23%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 38%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 18%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 18%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 30%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 38%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 20%
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 12 Mel Watt Democratic 23%
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 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 25%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 28%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 20%
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%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 48%
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%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 73%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 70%
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 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 11%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 37%
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%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 25%
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%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 56%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 26%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 15%
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%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 28%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 58%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 18%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 70%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 56%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 18%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 55%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 45%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 55%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 13%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 22%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 30%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 67%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 60%
Gary Ackerman 18%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 5%
Wayne Allard 75%
Thomas Allen 20%
Bill 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%
Bill Barrett 44%
Roscoe Bartlett 65%
Charlie Bass 44%
Herbert Bateman 38%
Bob Bennett 58%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 18%
Douglas Bereuter 33%
Howard Berman 23%
Marion Berry 38%
Brian Bilbray 38%
Michael Bilirakis 48%
Jeff Bingaman 23%
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%
Leonard Boswell 23%
Rick Boucher 19%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 28%
John Breaux 25%
George Brown, Jr. 20%
Richard Bryan 18%
Ed Bryant 47%
Dale Bumpers 15%
Jim Bunning 44%
Conrad Burns 63%
Dan Burton 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-Hage 67%
Jon Lynn Christensen 55%
William Clay, Sr. 17%
Eva Clayton 20%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 15%
Robert Clement 21%
Michael Collins 59%
Larry Combest 58%
Gary Condit 46%
Kent Conrad 23%
Merrill Cook 48%
John Cooksey 47%
Jerry Costello 32%
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%
Norm Dicks 13%
Julian Dixon 23%
Chris Dodd 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 43%
Calvin Dooley 18%
John Doolittle 61%
Byron Dorgan 23%
David Dreier 53%
Jennifer Dunn 44%
Chet Edwards 18%
Vern Ehlers 28%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 45%
Jo Ann Emerson 43%
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%
Barney Frank 26%
Robert Franks 28%
William Frist 45%
Jonas Frost III 13%
Elizabeth Furse 13%
Elton Gallegly 40%
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%
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%
Wally Herger, Jr. 49%
Rick Hill 50%
Van Hilleary 70%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 24%
Maurice Hinchey 27%
David Lee Hobson 38%
Pete Hoekstra 63%
Thomas Holden 30%
Ernest Hollings 35%
Darlene Hooley 18%
Stephen Horn 23%
John Nathan Hostettler 78%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 20%
Kenny Hulshof 45%
Duncan Hunter 63%
Asa Hutchinson 53%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 70%
Kay Hutchison 65%
Henry Hyde 48%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 58%
Daniel Inouye 16%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 67%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 28%
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%
Dale Kildee 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 18%
Jay Kim 43%
Gerald Kleczka 28%
Ronald Klink 35%
Scott Klug 38%
Joseph Knollenberg 38%
Herb Kohl 20%
James Kolbe 25%
Dennis Kucinich 40%
Jon Kyl 78%
John LaFalce 32%
Ray LaHood 38%
Nicholas Lampson 23%
Tom Lantos 25%
Stephen Largent 67%
Steve LaTourette 33%
Frank Lautenberg 15%
Rick Lazio 28%
James Leach 23%
Jerry Lewis 38%
Ron Lewis 44%
Joe Lieberman 26%
John Linder 50%
William Lipinski 38%
Robert Livingston 43%
Trent Lott, Sr. 63%
Dick Lugar 43%
William Luther 20%
Connie Mack 64%
James Maloney 30%
Thomas Manton 23%
Don Manzullo 64%
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%
Carol Moseley Braun 15%
Patrick Moynihan 18%
Frank Murkowski 51%
Jack Murtha 28%
Sue Myrick 60%
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%
John Olver 28%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 28%
Major Owens 26%
Michael Oxley 33%
Ronald Packard 38%
Michael Pappas 50%
Mike Parker 49%
Ron Paul 95%
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%
Bill Redmond 30%
Ralph Regula 35%
Silvestre Reyes 23%
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%
Steve Rothman 21%
Marge Roukema 33%
Jim Ryun 63%
Martin Olav Sabo 20%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 23%
Rick Santorum 63%
Paul Sarbanes 10%
Jim 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%
Olympia Snowe 35%
Vic Snyder 20%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 59%
Mark Souder 64%
Arlen Specter 25%
Floyd Spence 43%
John Spratt, Jr. 20%
Pete Stark 17%
Cliff Stearns 73%
Charles Stenholm 49%
Ted Stevens 37%
Louis Stokes 20%
Ted Strickland 23%
Bob 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%
Ed Towns 19%
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%
Bob Weygand 37%
Rick White 30%
Bob Wise, Jr. 13%
Lynn Woolsey 22%
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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