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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 8%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 8%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 14%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 86%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 92%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 93%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 93%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 27%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 8%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 8%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 8%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 93%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 25%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 17%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 17%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 25%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 90%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 17%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 8%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 17%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 25%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 85%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 92%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 21%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 93%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 8%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 58%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 8%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 8%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 79%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 93%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 8%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 92%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 75%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 17%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 17%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 25%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 8%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 92%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 27%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 8%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 8%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 17%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 83%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 8%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 14%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 8%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 93%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 8%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 10%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 92%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 50%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 71%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 92%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 83%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 83%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 8%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 83%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 8%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 73%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 8%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 8%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 17%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 93%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 8%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 7%
Thomas Allen 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. 100%
Brian Baird 82%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 8%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Charlie Bass 17%
Evan Bayh 93%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 8%
Shelley Berkley 100%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 83%
Judy Biggert 25%
Michael Bilirakis 8%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 25%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 17%
Mary Bono Mack 17%
Leonard Boswell 83%
Rick Boucher 92%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 67%
John Breaux 62%
Henry Brown, Jr. 8%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 71%
Ben Campbell 15%
Chris Cannon 9%
Brad Carson 83%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 25%
Hillary Clinton 100%
Michael Collins 8%
Larry Combest 0%
Kent Conrad 79%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 92%
Christopher Cox 8%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 45%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 18%
Thomas Daschle 93%
James Davis 92%
Jo Ann Davis 0%
Thomas Davis III 25%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 8%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 25%
Norm Dicks 100%
Chris Dodd 86%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 8%
Calvin Dooley 91%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 79%
David Dreier 25%
Jennifer Dunn 17%
John Edwards 93%
Chet Edwards 83%
Vern Ehlers 25%
Jo Ann Emerson 9%
Philip English 17%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 92%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 8%
Russ Feingold 93%
Michael Ferguson 17%
Peter Fitzgerald 8%
Ernest Fletcher 17%
Mark Foley 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. 92%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 17%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 92%
Elton Gallegly 8%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 17%
Wayne Gilchrest 20%
Paul Gillmor 25%
Charlie Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 75%
Porter Goss 17%
Daniel Graham 93%
Mark Green 17%
James Greenwood 8%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Jane Harman 100%
Melissa Hart 17%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 8%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 8%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 91%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 17%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Thomas Holden 92%
Ernest Hollings 93%
Darlene Hooley 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 8%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 18%
Kenny Hulshof 8%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Kay Hutchison 7%
Henry Hyde 17%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 71%
William Lewis Jenkins 8%
Christopher John 67%
Nancy Johnson 33%
Tim Johnson 25%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Ric Keller 8%
Sue Kelly 25%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 8%
Patrick Kennedy 92%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 8%
Herb Kohl 93%
James Kolbe 25%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Jon Kyl 0%
Ray LaHood 17%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
Steve LaTourette 18%
James Leach 42%
Jerry Lewis 17%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 100%
Blanche Lincoln 93%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 73%
Trent Lott, Sr. 7%
Dick Lugar 0%
Don Manzullo 0%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 25%
Scott McInnis 0%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 38%
Alan Mollohan 75%
Dennis Moore 100%
Jack Murtha 100%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 64%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 17%
Robert William Ney 17%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 17%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 8%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 92%
Thomas William Osborne 25%
Doug Ose 25%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 17%
Ron Paul 33%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 8%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 8%
Todd Platts 8%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 83%
Deborah Pryce 18%
Jack Quinn 36%
George Radanovich 9%
James Ramstad 17%
Ralph Regula 17%
Denny Rehberg 8%
Silvestre Reyes 92%
Thomas Reynolds 17%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Mike Ross 75%
Steve Rothman 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 92%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 92%
Rick Santorum 7%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 8%
Edward Schrock 8%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 42%
Donald Sherwood 17%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 25%
Ike Skelton 75%
Gordon Smith 23%
Nick Smith 8%
Olympia Snowe 29%
Vic Snyder 91%
Hilda Solis 100%
Mark Souder 17%
Arlen Specter 36%
John Spratt, Jr. 91%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 58%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 92%
Bart Stupak 92%
John Sullivan 0%
John Sununu 17%
John Sweeney 18%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 73%
Ellen Tauscher 92%
William Tauzin 17%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 33%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 17%
Todd Tiahrt 17%
Ed Towns 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 83%
George Voinovich 14%
James Walsh 25%
Zach Wamp 8%
John Warner 7%
Diane Watson 100%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 8%
Gerald Weller 25%
Robert Wexler 91%
Heather Wilson 25%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 83%
Albert Wynn 100%

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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