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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: The John Birch Society

1995-1996 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 50%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 63%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 53%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 74%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 81%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 26%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 15%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 66%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 33%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 26%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 41%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 54%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 31%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 33%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 31%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 38%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 78%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 46%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 46%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 76%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 54%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 28%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 20%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 25%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 23%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 69%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 59%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 51%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 47%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 26%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 48%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 49%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 58%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 31%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 33%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 51%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 16%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 12%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 30%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 61%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 19%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 46%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 64%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 24%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 30%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 32%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 31%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 47%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 69%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 61%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 70%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 38%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 61%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 54%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 59%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 61%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 49%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 52%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 24%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 31%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 33%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 30%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 18%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 31%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 24%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 61%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 47%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 19%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 48%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 27%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 54%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 34%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 32%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 58%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 49%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 26%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 32%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 47%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 53%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 62%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 59%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 54%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 37%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 29%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 56%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 24%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 38%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 55%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 53%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 29%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 34%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 22%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 32%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 47%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 31%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 36%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 42%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 28%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 28%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 34%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 31%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 38%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 71%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 51%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 42%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 43%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 62%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 26%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 61%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 76%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 69%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 52%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 26%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 42%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 29%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 41%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 48%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 29%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 63%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 23%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 34%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 74%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 64%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 62%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 54%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 62%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 61%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 21%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 48%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 39%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 40%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 23%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 63%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 28%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 54%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 29%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 42%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 22%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 39%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 16%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 56%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 18%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 28%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 15%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 80%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 63%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 39%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 19%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 39%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 71%
Wayne Allard 69%
William Archer 66%
Richard Armey 62%
John Ashcroft 72%
Henry Scott Baesler 28%
Richard Hugh Baker 54%
William Baker 71%
John Baldacci 28%
Cass Ballenger 49%
James Barcia 53%
Robert Barr, Jr. 63%
William Barrett 52%
Herbert Bateman 42%
Anthony Beilenson 29%
Bob Bennett 57%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 29%
Douglas Bereuter 47%
Tom Bevill 46%
Michael Bilirakis 53%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 48%
Peter Blute 39%
Sherwood Boehlert 25%
Kit Bond 43%
Henry Bonilla 49%
David Edward Bonior 27%
Sonny Bono 48%
Robert Borski, Jr. 29%
Rick Boucher 26%
Bill Bradley 17%
Carol Moseley Braun 19%
John Breaux 31%
Bill Brewster 53%
Glen Browder 47%
George Brown, Jr. 22%
Hank Brown 71%
Richard Bryan 31%
Ed Bryant 55%
John Bryant 36%
Dale Bumpers 28%
Jim Bunn 54%
Jim Bunning 58%
Conrad Burns 61%
Steve Buyer 49%
Robert Byrd 37%
Herbert Callahan 48%
Ben Campbell 43%
Thomas Campbell 47%
Mike Castle 37%
John Chafee 37%
Jim Chapman 41%
Helen Chenoweth 70%
Jon Lynn Christensen 64%
Dick Chrysler 61%
William Clay, Sr. 34%
Eva Clayton 21%
Robert Clement 41%
William Clinger 32%
William Cohen 47%
Ronald Coleman 27%
Barbara-Rose Collins 36%
Cardiss Collins 29%
Mac Collins 58%
Larry Combest 59%
Gary Condit 58%
Wes Cooley 68%
Paul Coverdell 64%
Christopher Cox 67%
William Coyne 33%
Larry Craig 68%
Robert Cramer 46%
Philip Crane 73%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 60%
Barbara Cubin 58%
Randall Cunningham 58%
Alfonse D'Amato 60%
Patsy Ann Danner 53%
Thomas Daschle 12%
Thomas Davis III 34%
E. Kika de la Garza 40%
Thomas DeLay 62%
Ronald Dellums 34%
Peter Deutsch 28%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 40%
Jay Dickey 58%
Julian Dixon 21%
Chris Dodd 15%
Robert Dole 69%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 60%
Calvin Dooley 28%
John Doolittle 66%
Byron Dorgan 28%
Robert Dornan 60%
Jennifer Dunn 50%
Chet Edwards 36%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 51%
Bill Emerson 52%
Philip English 50%
John Ensign 64%
Lane Evans 32%
Terry Everett 54%
Thomas Ewing 49%
Jim Exon 24%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 71%
Harris Fawell 51%
Victor Fazio 27%
Russ Feingold 29%
Cleo Fields 34%
Jack Fields, Jr. 55%
Floyd Flake 27%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 56%
Thomas Foglietta 30%
Mark Foley 46%
Michael Patrick Forbes 59%
Harold Ford, Sr. 31%
Wendell Ford 27%
Tillie Fowler 48%
Jon David Fox 43%
Gary Franks 51%
Robert Franks 37%
Daniel Frisa 58%
William Frist 64%
Jonas Frost III 25%
David Funderburk 68%
Elizabeth Furse 18%
John Ganske 39%
Sam Gejdenson 28%
George Gekas 49%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 21%
Pete Geren 47%
Sam Gibbons 25%
Wayne Gilchrest 32%
Paul Gillmor 51%
Benjamin Gilman 32%
Newt Gingrich 40%
John Glenn 28%
Henry Gonzalez 22%
William Goodling 53%
Bart Gordon 44%
Slade Gorton 45%
Porter Goss 56%
Daniel Graham 20%
William Phillip Gramm 74%
Rodney Grams 71%
Enid Greene 58%
James Greenwood 39%
Judd Gregg 67%
Steven Gunderson 42%
Gilbert Gutknecht 56%
Tony Hall 33%
Lee Hamilton 41%
Melton Hancock 81%
James Hansen 56%
Jane Harman 40%
J. Dennis Hastert 53%
Mark Hatfield 48%
James Hayes 56%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 68%
Joel Hefley 64%
W.G. Hefner 41%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 51%
Jesse Helms 74%
Van Hilleary 63%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 40%
David Lee Hobson 56%
Pete Hoekstra 71%
Martin Hoke 51%
Ernest Hollings 40%
Stephen Horn 41%
John Nathan Hostettler 70%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 23%
Duncan Hunter 60%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 65%
Henry Hyde 50%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 64%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 64%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 48%
William Jefferson 26%
James Merrill Jeffords 28%
Nancy Johnson 34%
Harry Johnston 24%
J. Bennett Johnston 33%
Paul Kanjorski 39%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 47%
Sue Kelly 44%
Dirk Kempthorne 68%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 21%
Joseph Kennedy II 33%
Patrick Kennedy 39%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 28%
Bob Kerrey 21%
Jay Kim 54%
Gerald Kleczka 33%
Ronald Klink 41%
Scott Klug 44%
Joseph Knollenberg 49%
James Kolbe 41%
John LaFalce 34%
Tom Lantos 30%
Stephen Largent 71%
Greg Laughlin 49%
Rick Lazio 38%
James Leach 32%
Ron Lewis 58%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 43%
Blanche Lincoln 41%
John Linder 53%
William Lipinski 50%
Robert Livingston 49%
James Longley, Jr. 47%
Trent Lott, Sr. 63%
William Luther 34%
Connie Mack 68%
Thomas Manton 22%
Matthew Martinez 33%
Bill Martini 41%
Frank Mascara 34%
Robert Matsui 21%
Karen McCarthy 25%
Bill McCollum 45%
James McCrery III 49%
Joseph McDade 43%
Paul McHale 31%
John McHugh 53%
Scott McInnis 61%
David McIntosh 69%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 30%
Michael McNulty 39%
Martin Meehan 33%
Carrie Meek 24%
Jack Metcalf 61%
Jan Meyers 42%
Dan Miller 54%
David Minge 47%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 24%
John Moakley 31%
Susan Molinari 46%
Alan Mollohan 38%
G.V. Montgomery 51%
Carlos Moorhead 59%
Constance Morella 27%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 31%
Frank Murkowski 62%
Jack Murtha 29%
John Myers 62%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 53%
Mark Neumann 74%
Robert William Ney 59%
Don Nickles 73%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 59%
Sam Nunn 33%
James Nussle 49%
Jim Oberstar 35%
Dave Obey 37%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 42%
William Orton 42%
Major Owens 38%
Michael Oxley 49%
Ronald Packard 53%
Paul Michael Parker 54%
William Paxon 57%
Donald Payne 34%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 41%
Claiborne Pell 21%
Pete Peterson 23%
Owen Pickett 41%
Richard Pombo 66%
Earl Pomeroy 31%
John Edward Porter 38%
Glenn Poshard 44%
Larry Pressler 61%
Deborah Pryce 46%
David Pryor 21%
James Quillen 55%
Jack Quinn 45%
George Radanovich 55%
James Ramstad 47%
Ralph Regula 52%
Bill Richardson 19%
Frank Duncan Riggs 48%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 34%
Charles Robb 22%
Timothy Roemer 51%
Charles Rose III 36%
Toby Roth 64%
William Roth, Jr. 61%
Marge Roukema 40%
Martin Olav Sabo 24%
Matthew Salmon 71%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 73%
Rick Santorum 68%
Paul Sarbanes 20%
H. James Saxton 47%
Joe Scarborough 80%
Daniel Schaefer 63%
Steven Schiff 31%
Patricia Schroeder 39%
Andrea Seastrand 66%
John Shadegg 71%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 53%
Christopher Shays 41%
E.G. Shuster 55%
Paul Simon 12%
Alan Simpson 49%
Norman Sisisky 36%
David Skaggs 31%
Joseph Skeen 49%
Ike Skelton 42%
Linda Smith 70%
Nick Smith 60%
Bob Smith 83%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 64%
Mark Souder 76%
Arlen Specter 46%
Floyd Spence 49%
John Spratt, Jr. 29%
Charles Stenholm 54%
Ted Stevens 54%
Steve Stockman 77%
Louis Stokes 29%
Gerry Studds 30%
Robert Stump 71%
Bart Stupak 36%
James Talent 61%
John Tanner 51%
Randy Tate 66%
William Tauzin 54%
Charles Taylor 57%
Gene Taylor 68%
Frank Tejeda 42%
Craig Thomas 63%
William Thomas 41%
Fred Thompson 73%
Ray Thornton 30%
Karen Thurman 36%
Strom Thurmond 63%
Todd Tiahrt 68%
Peter Torkildsen 36%
Esteban Edward Torres 25%
Robert Torricelli 30%
James Traficant, Jr. 56%
Bruce Vento 29%
Harold Volkmer 47%
Barbara Vucanovich 46%
Robert Walker 54%
James Walsh 42%
Zach Wamp 68%
Michael Ward 26%
John Warner 66%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 52%
David Weldon 54%
W. Curtis Weldon 52%
Gerald Weller 51%
Paul Wellstone 22%
Rick White 47%
Pat Williams 31%
Charles Wilson 38%
Robert Wise, Jr. 29%
Albert Wynn 21%
Sidney Yates 31%
Bill Zeliff 62%
Richard Zimmer 54%

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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