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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: The John Birch Society

1997 Positions

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

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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