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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: FreedomWorks

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 85%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 85%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 90%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 100%
AR U.S. House 4 Mike Ross Democratic 20%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 5%
AZ U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 1 Mike Thompson Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 15 Mike Honda Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 29 Adam Schiff Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 38 Grace Napolitano Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 42 Gary Miller Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 43 Joe Baca, Sr. Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 15%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 10%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 0%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 10%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 5%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 95%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 90%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 65%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 5%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 85%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 80%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 85%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 90%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 35%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 15%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 30%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 75%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 85%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 90%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 70%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 90%
IL U.S. House 15 Tim Johnson Republican 65%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 90%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 90%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 5%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 85%
IN U.S. House 6 Mike Pence Republican 90%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 85%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 85%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 80%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 60%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 85%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 8 Mike Capuano Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 9 Stephen Lynch Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 5%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 5%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 85%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 90%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 80%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 85%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 15%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 5%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 10%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 35%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 90%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 10%
MO U.S. House 2 Todd Akin Republican 90%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 85%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 85%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 85%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 20%
MT U.S. House At-Large Denny Rehberg Republican 85%
NA U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Democratic 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 70%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 90%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 40%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 95%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 80%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 80%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 15%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 70%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 70%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 75%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 10%
NM U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Udall Democratic 5%
NV U.S. House 1 Shelley Berkley Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 2 Steve Israel Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 75%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 5%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 5%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 95%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 10%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 10%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 70%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 90%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 85%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 5%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 5%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 95%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 15%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 10%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 95%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 15%
PA U.S. House 19 Todd Platts Republican 75%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 5%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 5%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 80%
SC U.S. Senate Jr James DeMint Republican 95%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 90%
UT U.S. House 2 Jim Matheson Democratic 15%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 10%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 91%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 90%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 90%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 15%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 75%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 10%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 85%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 10%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 95%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 5%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 5%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 90%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 80%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Capito Republican 80%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 15%
Thomas Allen 0%
Brian Baird 10%
Richard Hugh Baker 85%
Cass Ballenger 80%
Douglas Bereuter 60%
Marion Berry 30%
Michael Bilirakis 80%
Sherwood Boehlert 60%
Henry Bonilla 85%
Rick Boucher 25%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 30%
Henry Brown, Jr. 85%
Steve Buyer 85%
Chris Cannon 90%
Brad Carson 40%
Julia Carson 10%
Mike Castle 70%
Mac Collins 85%
Christopher Cox 90%
Robert Cramer 60%
Philip Crane 95%
Barbara Cubin 75%
Randall Cunningham 85%
James Davis 5%
Jo Ann Davis 90%
Thomas Davis III 80%
Bill Delahunt 5%
Thomas DeLay 90%
Peter Deutsch 10%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 80%
Calvin Dooley 25%
John Doolittle 95%
Jennifer Dunn 85%
Chet Edwards 15%
Vern Ehlers 75%
Philip English 80%
Bob Etheridge 25%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 90%
Michael Ferguson 70%
Ernest Fletcher 80%
Mark Foley 75%
Harold Ford, Jr. 15%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 90%
Jonas Frost III 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 10%
Jim Gibbons 90%
Wayne Gilchrest 70%
Paul Gillmor 75%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 90%
Bart Gordon 45%
Porter Goss 90%
Mark Green 90%
James Greenwood 70%
Gilbert Gutknecht 90%
Jane Harman 35%
Melissa Hart 85%
J. Dennis Hastert 55%
Robert Hayes 85%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 90%
Joel Hefley 80%
Baron Hill 10%
David Lee Hobson 85%
Pete Hoekstra 95%
Darlene Hooley 10%
John Nathan Hostettler 80%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 55%
Kenny Hulshof 85%
Duncan Hunter 90%
Henry Hyde 75%
Jay Inslee 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 85%
William Jefferson 15%
William Lewis Jenkins 85%
Christopher John 40%
Nancy Johnson 65%
Paul Kanjorski 15%
Ric Keller 90%
Sue Kelly 75%
Mark Kennedy 80%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 5%
Gerald Kleczka 10%
Joseph Knollenberg 85%
James Kolbe 85%
Nicholas Lampson 5%
Tom Lantos 0%
James Leach 60%
Ron Lewis 90%
John Linder 90%
William Lipinski 20%
Robert Matsui 5%
Karen McCarthy 5%
James McCrery III 85%
John McHugh 75%
Scott McInnis 85%
Michael McNulty 5%
Martin Meehan 5%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Alan Mollohan 15%
Dennis Moore 15%
Jack Murtha 25%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 90%
Robert William Ney 85%
Anne Northup 90%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 85%
James Nussle 85%
Jim Oberstar 15%
Dave Obey 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 20%
Thomas William Osborne 80%
Doug Ose 80%
Major Owens 15%
Michael Oxley 80%
Donald Payne 5%
John Peterson 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 85%
Richard Pombo 90%
Earl Pomeroy 5%
Deborah Pryce 85%
Jack Quinn 65%
George Radanovich 85%
James Ramstad 75%
Ralph Regula 85%
Thomas Reynolds 85%
Ciro Rodriguez 10%
Jim Ryun 90%
Martin Olav Sabo 5%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 35%
H. James Saxton 70%
Edward Schrock 95%
John Shadegg 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 80%
Christopher Shays 75%
Donald Sherwood 90%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 80%
Ike Skelton 30%
Nick Smith 75%
Vic Snyder 0%
Mark Souder 85%
John Spratt, Jr. 10%
Charles Stenholm 35%
Ted Strickland 5%
Bart Stupak 5%
John Sununu 95%
John Sweeney 80%
Tom Tancredo 95%
John Tanner 25%
Ellen Tauscher 15%
William Tauzin 85%
Charles Taylor 85%
Gene Taylor 35%
William Thomas 75%
Todd Tiahrt 90%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 10%
James Turner 20%
James Walsh 75%
Zach Wamp 85%
Diane Watson 0%
Anthony Weiner 5%
David Weldon 85%
W. Curtis Weldon 65%
Gerald Weller 85%
Robert Wexler 0%
Heather Wilson 85%
David Wu 5%
Albert Wynn 10%

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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