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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: The John Birch Society

2002 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 90%
John Nathan Hostettler 90%
Ron Paul 89%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 85%
Jon Kyl 85%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 80%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 80%
Michael Collins 75%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 75%
Don Nickles 75%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 75%
Robert Hayes 74%
Trent Lott, Sr. 74%
Rick Santorum 74%
Craig Thomas 74%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 71%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 70%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 70%
Jo Ann Davis 70%
Peter Fitzgerald 70%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 70%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 70%
Zach Wamp 70%
Cliff Stearns 69%
Roscoe Bartlett 68%
John Ensign 68%
Tom Tancredo 68%
George Voinovich 68%
Wayne Allard 65%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 65%
James DeMint 65%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 65%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 65%
Gilbert Gutknecht 65%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 65%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 65%
Joel Hefley 65%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 65%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 65%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 65%
John Shadegg 65%
Charles Taylor 65%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 65%
Larry Craig 63%
Philip Crane 63%
Terry Everett 63%
Kay Hutchison 63%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 63%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 61%
Todd Akin 60%
George Allen 60%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 60%
Jerry Costello 60%
Christopher Cox 60%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 60%
William Frist 60%
Jim Gibbons 60%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 60%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 60%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 60%
Jim Ryun 60%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 60%
Nick Smith 60%
John Sullivan 60%
Todd Tiahrt 60%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 60%
David Weldon 60%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 60%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 58%
Jim Bunning 58%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 58%
Judd Gregg 58%
William Lewis Jenkins 58%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 56%
Dan Burton 56%
Ben Campbell 56%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 56%
John Peterson 56%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 55%
Cass Ballenger 55%
Bob Bennett 55%
Marion Berry 55%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 55%
Conrad Burns 55%
Chris Cannon 55%
Mike Castle 55%
Barbara Cubin 55%
John Doolittle 55%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 55%
Mark Green 55%
Pete Hoekstra 55%
Duncan Hunter 55%
Henry Hyde 55%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 55%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 55%
John Linder 55%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 55%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 55%
Dick Lugar 55%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 55%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 55%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 55%
Todd Platts 55%
Mike Ross 55%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 55%
Gene Taylor 55%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 55%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 55%
John Warner 55%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 55%
Richard Hugh Baker 53%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 53%
Kit Bond 53%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 53%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 53%
Jo Ann Emerson 53%
Melissa Hart 53%
Ric Keller 53%
Don Manzullo 53%
John McHugh 53%
Scott McInnis 53%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 53%
Charlie Bass 50%
Henry Bonilla 50%
Leonard Boswell 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. 50%
Steve Buyer 50%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 50%
Thomas DeLay 50%
Russ Feingold 50%
Ernest Fletcher 50%
Mark Foley 50%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 50%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. 50%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 50%
Kenny Hulshof 50%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 50%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 50%
Sue Kelly 50%
Mark Kennedy 50%
Steve LaTourette 50%
Ron Lewis 50%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 50%
Alan Mollohan 50%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 50%
Sue Myrick 50%
James Nussle 50%
Ralph Regula 50%
Thomas Reynolds 50%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 50%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 50%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 50%
Edward Schrock 50%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 50%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 50%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 50%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
Bart Stupak 50%
William Tauzin 50%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
Gerald Weller 50%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 50%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 50%
Michael Bilirakis 47%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 47%
Philip English 47%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 47%
Nicholas Lampson 47%
Anne Northup 47%
Michael Oxley 47%
Richard Pombo 47%
Silvestre Reyes 47%
John Tanner 47%
William Thomas 47%
W. Curtis Weldon 47%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 47%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 45%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 45%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 45%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 45%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 45%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 45%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 45%
Robert Cramer 45%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 45%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 45%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 45%
Chet Edwards 45%
Elton Gallegly 45%
Bart Gordon 45%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 45%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 45%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 45%
David Lee Hobson 45%
Thomas Holden 45%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 45%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 45%
Jerry Lewis 45%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 45%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 45%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 45%
Robert William Ney 45%
Thomas William Osborne 45%
Doug Ose 45%
Deborah Pryce 45%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 45%
James Ramstad 45%
Denny Rehberg 45%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 45%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 45%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 45%
Donald Sherwood 45%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 45%
Olympia Snowe 45%
Mark Souder 45%
Ted Strickland 45%
John Sununu 45%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 45%
Heather Wilson 45%
David Wu 45%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 45%
Randall Cunningham 44%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 44%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 44%
J. Dennis Hastert 43%
Shelley Berkley 42%
Brad Carson 42%
Thomas Davis III 42%
Paul Gillmor 42%
Darlene Hooley 42%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 42%
Joseph Knollenberg 42%
Dennis Kucinich 42%
James McCrery III 42%
George Radanovich 42%
James Walsh 42%
Wayne Gilchrest 41%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 41%
Brian Baird 40%
Judy Biggert 40%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 40%
Rick Boucher 40%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 40%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 40%
Larry Combest 40%
David Dreier 40%
Jennifer Dunn 40%
Michael Ferguson 40%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 40%
Porter Goss 40%
Christopher John 40%
Tim Johnson 40%
Paul Kanjorski 40%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 40%
Patrick Kennedy 40%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 40%
James Kolbe 40%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 40%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 40%
James Leach 40%
William Lipinski 40%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 40%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 40%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 40%
Earl Pomeroy 40%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 40%
Ciro Rodriguez 40%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 40%
Jim Saxton 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 40%
Christopher Shays 40%
Ike Skelton 40%
Gordon Smith 40%
Ted Stevens 40%
John Sweeney 40%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 40%
James Turner 40%
Douglas Bereuter 39%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 39%
Jack Murtha 39%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 39%
Jack Quinn 39%
Joe Baca, Sr. 37%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 37%
Ray LaHood 37%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 37%
Major Owens 37%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 37%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 36%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 35%
Sherwood Boehlert 35%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 35%
Kent Conrad 35%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 35%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 35%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 35%
Vern Ehlers 35%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 35%
Bob Etheridge 35%
Lane Evans 35%
Harold Ford, Jr. 35%
Barney Frank 35%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 35%
James Greenwood 35%
Jane Harman 35%
Baron Hill 35%
Ernest Hollings 35%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 35%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 35%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 35%
Nancy Johnson 35%
Dale Kildee 35%
Gerald Kleczka 35%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 35%
Michael McNulty 35%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 35%
Ben Nelson 35%
Jim Oberstar 35%
Dave Obey 35%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 35%
Steve Rothman 35%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 35%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 35%
Vic Snyder 35%
John Spratt, Jr. 35%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 35%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 35%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 35%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 35%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 35%
Albert Wynn 35%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 33%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 33%
William Jefferson 33%
Tom Lantos 33%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 33%
Ed Towns 33%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 33%
Gary Ackerman 32%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 32%
Mary Bono Mack 32%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 32%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 32%
Julia Carson 32%
Peter Deutsch 32%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 32%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 32%
Zell Bryan Miller 32%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 32%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 32%
Thomas Allen 30%
Evan Bayh 30%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 30%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 30%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 30%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 30%
James Davis 30%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 30%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 30%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 30%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 30%
Charlie Gonzalez 30%
Daniel Graham 30%
Maurice Hinchey 30%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 30%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 30%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 30%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 30%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 30%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 30%
Dennis Moore 30%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 30%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 30%
Donald Payne 30%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 30%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 30%
Pete Stark 30%
Charles Stenholm 30%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 30%
Diane Watson 30%
Lynn Woolsey 30%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 29%
Martin Meehan 28%
John Olver 28%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 26%
John Breaux 26%
Daniel Inouye 26%
Karen McCarthy 26%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 26%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 26%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 25%
Robert Byrd 25%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 25%
Hillary Clinton 25%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 25%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 25%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 25%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 25%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 25%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 25%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 25%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 25%
Blanche Lincoln 25%
Robert Matsui 25%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 25%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 25%
Martin Olav Sabo 25%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 25%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 25%
Hilda Solis 25%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 25%
Robert Wexler 25%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 22%
Howard Berman 21%
Jeff Bingaman 21%
Bill Delahunt 21%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 21%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 21%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 21%
Anthony Weiner 21%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 20%
Jon Corzine 20%
Calvin Dooley 20%
Byron Dorgan 20%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 20%
John Edwards 20%
Jonas Frost III 20%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 20%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 20%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 20%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 20%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 20%
Ellen Tauscher 20%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 20%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 20%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 16%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 15%
Norm Dicks 15%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 15%
Paul Sarbanes 15%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 15%
Arlen Specter 15%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 11%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 11%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 10%
Chris Dodd 10%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 10%
James Merrill Jeffords 10%
Herb Kohl 10%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 10%
Thomas Daschle 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 6%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 5%
Joe Lieberman 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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