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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1999 Liberal on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 24%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 16%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 7%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 13%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 25%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 87%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 76%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 34%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 28%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 32%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 88%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 88%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 83%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 83%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 15%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 80%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 76%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 87%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 83%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 19%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 32%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 87%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 44%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 19%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 58%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 87%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 16%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 47%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 19%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 87%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 29%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 41%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 81%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 29%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 16%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 87%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 83%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 87%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 83%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 10%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 88%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 70%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 21%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 37%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 12%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 4%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 23%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 10%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 73%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 15%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 68%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 83%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 87%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 79%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 87%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 88%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 79%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 51%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 29%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 42%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 83%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 63%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 87%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 88%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 66%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 35%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 9%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 78%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 23%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 4%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 59%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 18%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 81%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 75%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 22%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 32%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 87%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 19%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 71%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 29%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 39%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 74%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 61%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 58%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 79%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 76%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 76%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 56%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 37%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 61%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 87%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 88%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 4%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 23%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 64%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 29%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 46%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 24%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 9%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 23%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 44%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 82%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 82%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 81%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 83%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 87%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 53%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 4%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 41%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 83%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 88%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 55%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 39%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 79%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 19%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 69%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 19%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 4%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 19%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 37%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 29%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 72%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 87%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 54%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 87%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 32%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 87%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 4%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 79%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 28%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 64%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 87%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 16%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 87%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 67%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 88%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 69%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 29%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 73%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 16%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 40%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 87%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 87%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 51%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 88%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 3%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 36%
Gary Ackerman 87%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 75%
Wayne Allard 6%
Thomas Allen 87%
Bill Archer 16%
Richard Armey 4%
John Ashcroft 21%
Brian Baird 68%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
John Baldacci 79%
Cass Ballenger 32%
James Barcia 44%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
Bill Barrett 25%
Roscoe Bartlett 10%
Charlie Bass 52%
Herbert Bateman 42%
Evan Bayh 62%
Bob Bennett 36%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 71%
Douglas Bereuter 42%
Shelley Berkley 73%
Howard Berman 87%
Marion Berry 48%
Judy Biggert 58%
Brian Bilbray 50%
Michael Bilirakis 19%
Jeff Bingaman 75%
Rod Blagojevich 74%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 10%
Sherwood Boehlert 63%
Kit Bond 23%
Henry Bonilla 40%
David Edward Bonior 66%
Mary Bono Mack 46%
Robert Borski, Jr. 57%
Leonard Boswell 56%
Rick Boucher 67%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 58%
John Breaux 52%
Richard Bryan 81%
Ed Bryant 4%
Jim Bunning 8%
Conrad Burns 3%
Dan Burton 15%
Steve Buyer 4%
Robert Byrd 60%
Herbert Callahan 10%
Ben Campbell 34%
Thomas Campbell 63%
Chris Cannon 25%
Julia Carson 87%
Mike Castle 65%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 16%
William Clay, Sr. 87%
Eva Clayton 87%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 69%
Robert Clement 53%
Michael Collins 4%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 56%
Merrill Cook 32%
John Cooksey 48%
Jerry Costello 45%
Paul Coverdell 13%
Christopher Cox 29%
William Coyne 87%
Larry Craig 18%
Robert Cramer 48%
Philip Crane 10%
Barbara Cubin 21%
Randall Cunningham 15%
Patsy Ann Danner 45%
Thomas Daschle 64%
James Davis 65%
Thomas Davis III 51%
Bill Delahunt 82%
Thomas DeLay 4%
James DeMint 4%
Peter Deutsch 71%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 44%
Jay Dickey 23%
Norm Dicks 78%
Julian Dixon 87%
Chris Dodd 81%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 36%
Calvin Dooley 68%
John Doolittle 35%
Byron Dorgan 58%
David Dreier 35%
Jennifer Dunn 42%
John Edwards 81%
Chet Edwards 62%
Vern Ehlers 46%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 52%
Jo Ann Emerson 9%
Philip English 25%
Bob Etheridge 60%
Lane Evans 76%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 39%
Russ Feingold 69%
Peter Fitzgerald 48%
Ernest Fletcher 22%
Mark Foley 56%
Michael Patrick Forbes 49%
Harold Ford, Jr. 72%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 42%
Tillie Fowler 48%
Barney Frank 87%
Robert Franks 54%
William Frist 36%
Jonas Frost III 70%
Elton Gallegly 35%
John Ganske 51%
Sam Gejdenson 87%
George Gekas 32%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 78%
Jim Gibbons 37%
Wayne Gilchrest 55%
Paul Gillmor 25%
Benjamin Gilman 58%
Charlie Gonzalez 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
William Goodling 39%
Bart Gordon 49%
Slade Gorton 42%
Porter Goss 35%
Daniel Graham 75%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 8%
Mark Green 29%
James Greenwood 67%
Judd Gregg 31%
Gilbert Gutknecht 4%
Tony Hall 50%
James Hansen 4%
Robert Hayes 4%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 10%
Joel Hefley 16%
Jesse Helms 8%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 55%
Rick Hill 16%
Van Hilleary 4%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 67%
Maurice Hinchey 77%
David Lee Hobson 40%
Pete Hoekstra 39%
Thomas Holden 47%
Ernest Hollings 74%
Darlene Hooley 69%
Stephen Horn 62%
John Nathan Hostettler 23%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 70%
Kenny Hulshof 32%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Asa Hutchinson 35%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 23%
Kay Hutchison 34%
Henry Hyde 32%
Daniel Inouye 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 87%
William Jefferson 75%
James Merrill Jeffords 54%
William Lewis Jenkins 4%
Christopher John 36%
Nancy Johnson 61%
Paul Kanjorski 55%
Sue Kelly 55%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 80%
Patrick Kennedy 87%
Bob Kerrey 75%
Dale Kildee 55%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 87%
Gerald Kleczka 68%
Ronald Klink 58%
Joseph Knollenberg 25%
Herb Kohl 75%
James Kolbe 55%
Dennis Kucinich 58%
Steven Kuykendall 58%
Jon Kyl 29%
John LaFalce 57%
Ray LaHood 40%
Nicholas Lampson 61%
Tom Lantos 77%
Stephen Largent 9%
Steve LaTourette 48%
Rick Lazio 51%
James Leach 54%
Jerry Lewis 41%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 64%
Blanche Lincoln 62%
John Linder 25%
William Lipinski 46%
Trent Lott, Sr. 18%
Dick Lugar 42%
William Luther 64%
Connie Mack 17%
James Maloney 65%
Don Manzullo 32%
Matthew Martinez 72%
Frank Mascara 49%
Robert Matsui 83%
Karen McCarthy 83%
Bill McCollum 42%
James McCrery III 16%
John McHugh 32%
Scott McInnis 19%
David McIntosh 10%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 83%
Michael McNulty 58%
Martin Meehan 87%
Carrie Meek 87%
Jack Metcalf 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 87%
Dan Miller 52%
David Minge 70%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 87%
John Moakley 63%
Alan Mollohan 47%
Dennis Moore 67%
Constance Morella 76%
Patrick Moynihan 72%
Frank Murkowski 28%
Jack Murtha 50%
Sue Myrick 21%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 37%
Robert William Ney 19%
Don Nickles 13%
Anne Northup 42%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 4%
James Nussle 29%
Jim Oberstar 56%
Dave Obey 66%
John Olver 87%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 45%
Doug Ose 54%
Major Owens 87%
Michael Oxley 25%
Ronald Packard 0%
Ron Paul 46%
Donald Payne 87%
Edward Pease 37%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 63%
Richard Pombo 25%
Earl Pomeroy 58%
John Edward Porter 63%
Deborah Pryce 53%
Jack Quinn 41%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 52%
Ralph Regula 41%
Silvestre Reyes 61%
Thomas Reynolds 16%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 81%
Charles Robb 64%
Ciro Rodriguez 71%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 35%
William Roth, Jr. 49%
Steve Rothman 69%
Marge Roukema 52%
Jim Ryun 4%
Martin Olav Sabo 83%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 55%
Rick Santorum 23%
Paul Sarbanes 88%
Jim Saxton 21%
Joe Scarborough 37%
John Shadegg 10%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 49%
Christopher Shays 66%
Donald Sherwood 18%
Ronnie Shows 23%
E.G. Shuster 25%
Norman Sisisky 65%
Joseph Skeen 29%
Ike Skelton 31%
Gordon Smith 36%
Nick Smith 37%
Bob Smith 0%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 74%
Mark Souder 19%
Arlen Specter 53%
Floyd Spence 4%
John Spratt, Jr. 61%
Pete Stark 87%
Cliff Stearns 10%
Charles Stenholm 24%
Ted Stevens 46%
Ted Strickland 64%
Bob Stump 10%
Bart Stupak 56%
John Sununu 31%
John Sweeney 41%
James Talent 16%
Tom Tancredo 10%
John Tanner 53%
Ellen Tauscher 73%
William Tauzin 25%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 10%
Craig Thomas 3%
William Thomas 42%
Fred Thompson 8%
Karen Thurman 69%
Strom Thurmond 29%
Todd Tiahrt 19%
Robert Torricelli 64%
Ed Towns 82%
James Traficant, Jr. 32%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 87%
James Turner 42%
Bruce Vento 80%
George Voinovich 42%
James Walsh 35%
Zach Wamp 23%
John Warner 45%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 77%
David Weldon 10%
W. Curtis Weldon 32%
Gerald Weller 25%
Paul Wellstone 81%
Robert Wexler 79%
Bob Weygand 60%
Heather Wilson 46%
Bob Wise, Jr. 60%
Lynn Woolsey 87%
David Wu 70%
Albert Wynn 75%

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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