Rating Group: The John Birch Society

2003 Positions (Summer)

Issues: Conservative
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 38%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 38%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 38%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 38%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 38%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 38%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 88%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 38%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 38%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 75%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 25%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 38%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 25%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 38%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 14%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 38%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 38%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 38%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 38%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 25%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 38%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 25%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 25%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 57%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 25%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 38%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 17%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 25%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 50%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 25%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 38%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 25%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 29%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 38%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 38%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 25%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 38%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 33%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 38%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 25%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 25%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 75%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 38%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 38%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 38%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 38%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 38%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 43%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 38%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 38%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 43%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 38%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 38%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 38%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 38%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 50%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 25%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 38%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 57%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 38%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 50%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 25%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 50%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 25%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 38%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 38%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 38%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 38%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 38%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 50%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 67%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 38%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 50%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 38%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 25%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 25%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 38%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 38%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 29%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 25%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 25%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 38%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 38%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 38%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 25%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 25%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 38%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 38%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 38%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 38%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 38%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 38%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 50%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 38%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 13%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 38%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 38%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 38%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 38%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 38%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 38%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 63%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 25%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 38%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 25%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 38%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 38%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 38%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 25%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 13%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 25%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 25%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 63%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 25%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 14%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 25%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 25%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 25%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 38%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 25%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 25%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 13%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 25%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 38%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 25%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 25%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 25%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 25%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 38%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 25%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 25%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 25%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 17%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 43%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 38%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 50%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 38%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 25%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 38%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 43%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 38%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 29%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 38%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 38%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 38%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 50%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 38%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 25%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 25%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 38%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 38%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 50%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 38%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 25%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 25%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 43%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 43%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 50%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 38%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 38%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 63%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 25%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 63%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 50%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 63%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 38%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 38%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 33%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 38%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 38%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 38%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 63%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 43%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 25%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 50%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 50%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 38%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 50%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 50%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 43%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 38%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 38%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 38%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 25%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 38%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 38%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 13%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 38%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 38%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 25%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 25%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 38%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 50%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 25%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 63%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 63%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 38%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 38%
Gary Ackerman Other 38%
Todd Akin Other 50%
Thomas Allen Other 29%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 38%
Brian Baird Other 25%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 50%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 38%
Cass Ballenger Other 38%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 38%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 88%
Charlie Bass Other 38%
Bob Beauprez Other 38%
Chris Bell Other 25%
Douglas Bereuter Other 25%
Shelley Berkley Other 25%
Howard Berman Other 29%
Marion Berry Other 25%
Judy Biggert Other 38%
Michael Bilirakis Other 25%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Henry Bonilla Other 57%
Mary Bono Mack Other 38%
Leonard Boswell Other 25%
Rick Boucher Other 38%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 17%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 38%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 50%
Max Burns Other 38%
Dan Burton Other 38%
Steve Buyer Other 40%
Chris Cannon Other 50%
Dennis Cardoza Other 13%
Brad Carson Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 38%
Edward Case Other 13%
Mike Castle Other 38%
Chris Chocola Other 38%
Michael Collins Other 43%
Jerry Costello Other 63%
Christopher Cox Other 50%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Philip Crane Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 57%
Randall Cunningham Other 38%
Artur Davis Other 38%
James Davis Other 25%
Jo Ann Davis Other 50%
Lincoln Davis Other 38%
Thomas Davis III Other 25%
Bill Delahunt Other 38%
Thomas DeLay Other 38%
James DeMint Other 38%
Peter Deutsch Other 50%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 38%
Norm Dicks Other 13%
Calvin Dooley Other 13%
John Doolittle Other 43%
David Dreier Other 50%
Jennifer Dunn Other 38%
Chet Edwards Other 25%
Vern Ehlers Other 25%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 43%
Philip English Other 38%
Bob Etheridge Other 38%
Lane Evans Other 29%
Terry Everett Other 57%
Tom Feeney Other 57%
Michael Ferguson Other 43%
Mark Foley Other 38%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 25%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 38%
Barney Frank Other 38%
Jonas Frost III Other 25%
Elton Gallegly Other 38%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 67%
Jim Gibbons Other 50%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 25%
Paul Gillmor Other 38%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 38%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 50%
Bart Gordon Other 29%
Porter Goss Other 38%
Mark Green Other 50%
James Greenwood Other 25%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 50%
Jane Harman Other 13%
Katherine Harris Other 38%
Melissa Hart Other 38%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 25%
Robert Hayes Other 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 38%
Joel Hefley Other 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 38%
Baron Hill Other 13%
Maurice Hinchey Other 38%
David Lee Hobson Other 38%
Pete Hoekstra Other 50%
Thomas Holden Other 38%
Darlene Hooley Other 25%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 88%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 29%
Kenny Hulshof Other 38%
Duncan Hunter Other 38%
Henry Hyde Other 29%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 50%
William Jefferson Other 50%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 50%
Christopher John Other 38%
Nancy Johnson Other 38%
Tim Johnson Other 38%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ric Keller Other 50%
Sue Kelly Other 25%
Mark Kennedy Other 38%
Patrick Kennedy Other 25%
Dale Kildee Other 38%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 38%
Gerald Kleczka Other 25%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 38%
James Kolbe Other 38%
Dennis Kucinich Other 38%
Ray LaHood Other 29%
Nicholas Lampson Other 25%
Tom Lantos Other 25%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
James Leach Other 13%
Jerry Lewis Other 43%
Ron Lewis Other 38%
John Linder Other 43%
William Lipinski Other 20%
Denise Majette Other 25%
Don Manzullo Other 38%
Jim Marshall Other 38%
Robert Matsui Other 25%
Karen McCarthy Other 0%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 38%
James McCrery III Other 38%
John McHugh Other 57%
Scott McInnis Other 25%
Michael McNulty Other 25%
Martin Meehan Other 25%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 38%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 25%
Brad Miller Other 25%
Alan Mollohan Other 38%
Dennis Moore Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 75%
Sue Myrick Other 38%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 38%
Robert William Ney Other 38%
Anne Northup Other 29%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 50%
James Nussle Other 38%
Jim Oberstar Other 25%
Dave Obey Other 29%
John Olver Other 25%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 43%
Thomas William Osborne Other 38%
Doug Ose Other 38%
Major Owens Other 17%
Michael Oxley Other 50%
Ron Paul Other 100%
Donald Payne Other 29%
John Peterson Other 38%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 38%
Todd Platts Other 38%
Richard Pombo Other 38%
Earl Pomeroy Other 25%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 38%
Deborah Pryce Other 38%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 38%
James Ramstad Other 50%
Ralph Regula Other 38%
Denny Rehberg Other 38%
Richard Renzi Other 38%
Silvestre Reyes Other 38%
Thomas Reynolds Other 25%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 38%
Mike Ross Other 38%
Steve Rothman Other 25%
Jim Ryun Other 50%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 43%
Jim Saxton Other 29%
Edward Schrock Other 43%
John Shadegg Other 75%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 38%
Christopher Shays Other 25%
Donald Sherwood Other 38%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 38%
Ike Skelton Other 25%
Nick Smith Other 75%
Vic Snyder Other 0%
Hilda Solis Other 25%
Mark Souder Other 38%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 25%
Pete Stark Other 38%
Cliff Stearns Other 50%
Charles Stenholm Other 25%
Ted Strickland Other 38%
Bart Stupak Other 38%
John Sullivan Other 38%
John Sweeney Other 38%
Tom Tancredo Other 75%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 38%
William Tauzin Other 38%
Charles Taylor Other 38%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
William Thomas Other 38%
Todd Tiahrt Other 38%
Ed Towns Other 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 38%
James Turner Other 25%
James Walsh Other 38%
Zach Wamp Other 38%
Diane Watson Other 38%
Anthony Weiner Other 38%
David Weldon Other 38%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 25%
Gerald Weller Other 38%
Robert Wexler Other 38%
Heather Wilson Other 38%
Lynn Woolsey Other 38%
David Wu Other 13%
Albert Wynn Other 25%

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.