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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: American Foreign Service Association

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 45%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 94%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 80%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 45%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 88%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 55%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 79%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 55%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 81%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 88%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 65%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 59%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 88%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 78%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 35%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 88%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 29%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 90%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 78%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 81%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 78%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 94%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 94%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 94%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 94%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 35%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 88%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 88%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 78%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 88%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 78%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 88%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 55%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 78%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 88%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 49%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 78%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 65%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 59%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 88%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 93%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 88%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 88%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 88%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 45%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 81%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 94%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 78%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 78%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 88%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 81%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 55%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 51%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 87%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 94%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 65%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 94%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 68%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 88%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 94%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 81%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 75%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 74%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 88%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 88%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 65%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 81%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 81%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 78%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 71%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 78%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 94%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 88%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 69%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 88%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 55%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 80%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 71%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 65%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 78%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 94%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 78%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 71%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 94%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 88%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 71%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 16%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 84%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 33%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 65%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 88%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 71%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 75%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 84%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 65%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 75%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 71%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 88%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 88%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 78%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 81%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 75%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 61%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 71%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 88%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 88%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 78%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 78%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 71%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 68%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 41%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 94%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 78%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 71%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 59%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 68%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 59%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 78%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 61%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 88%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 88%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 81%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 71%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 81%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 50%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 94%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 81%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 55%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 68%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 58%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 81%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 81%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 94%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 48%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 78%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 87%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 88%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 92%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 68%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 88%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 94%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 81%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 81%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 65%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 94%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 94%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 78%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 58%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 78%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 78%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 71%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 88%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 78%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 84%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 19%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 61%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 81%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 65%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 55%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 93%
Gary Ackerman 94%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 74%
Todd Akin 49%
Wayne Allard 93%
George Allen 100%
Thomas Allen 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. 71%
Brian Baird 78%
Richard Hugh Baker 88%
Cass Ballenger 65%
Roscoe Bartlett 49%
Charlie Bass 88%
Evan Bayh 87%
Bob Bennett 100%
Douglas Bereuter 88%
Shelley Berkley 78%
Howard Berman 88%
Marion Berry 61%
Judy Biggert 88%
Michael Bilirakis 61%
Jeff Bingaman 87%
Sherwood Boehlert 88%
Kit Bond 93%
Henry Bonilla 78%
Mary Bono Mack 78%
Leonard Boswell 78%
Rick Boucher 94%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 71%
John Breaux 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. 78%
Jim Bunning 87%
Conrad Burns 100%
Dan Burton 49%
Steve Buyer 81%
Robert Byrd 68%
Ben Campbell 80%
Chris Cannon 51%
Brad Carson 78%
Julia Carson 81%
Mike Castle 88%
Hillary Clinton 81%
Michael Collins 49%
Larry Combest 51%
Kent Conrad 81%
Jon Corzine 81%
Jerry Costello 71%
Christopher Cox 75%
Larry Craig 87%
Robert Cramer 88%
Philip Crane 68%
Barbara Cubin 29%
Randall Cunningham 68%
Thomas Daschle 80%
James Davis 90%
Jo Ann Davis 55%
Thomas Davis III 94%
Bill Delahunt 78%
Thomas DeLay 55%
James DeMint 68%
Peter Deutsch 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 88%
Norm Dicks 78%
Chris Dodd 68%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
Calvin Dooley 84%
John Doolittle 58%
Byron Dorgan 81%
David Dreier 88%
Jennifer Dunn 78%
John Edwards 94%
Chet Edwards 78%
Vern Ehlers 100%
Jo Ann Emerson 65%
Philip English 94%
John Ensign 79%
Bob Etheridge 84%
Lane Evans 78%
Terry Everett 33%
Russ Feingold 54%
Michael Ferguson 88%
Peter Fitzgerald 93%
Ernest Fletcher 88%
Mark Foley 61%
Harold Ford, Jr. 84%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 88%
Barney Frank 75%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 94%
Elton Gallegly 78%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 78%
Jim Gibbons 78%
Wayne Gilchrest 94%
Paul Gillmor 81%
Charlie Gonzalez 94%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 26%
Bart Gordon 78%
Porter Goss 88%
Daniel Graham 93%
Mark Green 78%
James Greenwood 88%
Judd Gregg 94%
Gilbert Gutknecht 61%
Jane Harman 71%
Melissa Hart 71%
J. Dennis Hastert 35%
Robert Hayes 71%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 61%
Joel Hefley 35%
Wally Herger, Jr. 78%
Baron Hill 84%
Maurice Hinchey 61%
David Lee Hobson 81%
Pete Hoekstra 81%
Thomas Holden 71%
Ernest Hollings 81%
Darlene Hooley 84%
John Nathan Hostettler 19%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 100%
Kenny Hulshof 68%
Duncan Hunter 71%
Kay Hutchison 94%
Henry Hyde 81%
Daniel Inouye 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 68%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 81%
William Jefferson 90%
James Merrill Jeffords 87%
William Lewis Jenkins 61%
Christopher John 84%
Nancy Johnson 84%
Tim Johnson 78%
Paul Kanjorski 88%
Ric Keller 68%
Sue Kelly 84%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 67%
Mark Kennedy 78%
Patrick Kennedy 88%
Dale Kildee 81%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 75%
Gerald Kleczka 88%
Joseph Knollenberg 81%
Herb Kohl 94%
James Kolbe 94%
Dennis Kucinich 81%
Jon Kyl 86%
Ray LaHood 81%
Nicholas Lampson 78%
Tom Lantos 81%
Steve LaTourette 65%
James Leach 100%
Jerry Lewis 88%
Ron Lewis 68%
Joe Lieberman 94%
Blanche Lincoln 100%
John Linder 88%
William Lipinski 53%
Trent Lott, Sr. 87%
Dick Lugar 94%
Don Manzullo 51%
Robert Matsui 71%
Karen McCarthy 84%
James McCrery III 88%
John McHugh 71%
Scott McInnis 55%
Michael McNulty 84%
Martin Meehan 84%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 75%
Zell Bryan Miller 100%
Alan Mollohan 75%
Dennis Moore 90%
Jack Murtha 81%
Sue Myrick 68%
Ben Nelson 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 68%
Robert William Ney 58%
Don Nickles 93%
Anne Northup 88%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 39%
James Nussle 88%
Jim Oberstar 94%
Dave Obey 81%
John Olver 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 94%
Thomas William Osborne 78%
Doug Ose 78%
Major Owens 78%
Michael Oxley 88%
Ron Paul 23%
Donald Payne 75%
John Peterson 78%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 71%
Todd Platts 78%
Richard Pombo 29%
Earl Pomeroy 78%
Deborah Pryce 94%
Jack Quinn 71%
George Radanovich 41%
James Ramstad 78%
Ralph Regula 75%
Denny Rehberg 78%
Silvestre Reyes 61%
Thomas Reynolds 78%
Ciro Rodriguez 84%
Mike Ross 65%
Steve Rothman 81%
Jim Ryun 48%
Martin Olav Sabo 71%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 71%
Rick Santorum 93%
Paul Sarbanes 81%
Jim Saxton 65%
Edward Schrock 81%
John Shadegg 78%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 84%
Christopher Shays 94%
Donald Sherwood 78%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 81%
Ike Skelton 88%
Gordon Smith 100%
Nick Smith 78%
Olympia Snowe 100%
Vic Snyder 81%
Hilda Solis 61%
Mark Souder 71%
Arlen Specter 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 81%
Pete Stark 55%
Cliff Stearns 45%
Charles Stenholm 88%
Ted Stevens 100%
Ted Strickland 71%
Bart Stupak 71%
John Sununu 71%
John Sweeney 88%
Tom Tancredo 29%
John Tanner 68%
Ellen Tauscher 78%
William Tauzin 88%
Charles Taylor 45%
Gene Taylor 29%
Craig Thomas 86%
William Thomas 84%
Todd Tiahrt 78%
Ed Towns 88%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 75%
James Turner 78%
George Voinovich 87%
James Walsh 88%
Zach Wamp 61%
John Warner 88%
Diane Watson 61%
Anthony Weiner 94%
David Weldon 55%
W. Curtis Weldon 71%
Gerald Weller 78%
Robert Wexler 88%
Heather Wilson 71%
Lynn Woolsey 71%
David Wu 88%
Albert Wynn 88%

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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