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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1999 Conservative on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 75%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 92%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 84%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 96%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 82%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 66%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 75%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 26%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 65%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 26%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 71%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 26%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 66%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 13%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 19%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 13%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 84%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 24%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 13%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 79%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 66%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 55%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 79%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 82%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 53%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 85%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 40%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 79%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 58%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 12%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 71%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 83%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 69%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 13%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 13%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 85%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 29%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 77%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 61%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 87%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 72%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 85%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 91%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 85%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 26%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 85%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 32%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 13%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 48%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 33%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 69%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 56%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 13%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 37%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 64%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 91%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 72%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 91%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 22%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 79%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 12%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 96%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 24%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 77%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 66%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 79%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 23%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 69%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 61%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 38%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 20%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 23%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 42%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 61%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 38%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 13%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 69%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 91%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 76%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 36%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 76%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 52%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 97%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 76%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 90%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 12%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 55%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 17%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 17%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 58%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 13%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 47%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 91%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 13%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 44%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 0%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 79%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 60%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 28%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 79%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 91%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 79%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 72%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 61%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 69%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 27%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 72%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 46%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 19%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 67%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 91%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 20%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 72%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 31%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 82%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 33%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 31%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 0%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 69%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 26%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 82%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 59%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 48%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 94%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 59%
Gary Ackerman 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 20%
Wayne Allard 93%
Thomas Allen 0%
Bill Archer 82%
Richard Armey 91%
John Ashcroft 77%
Brian Baird 32%
Richard Hugh Baker 85%
John Baldacci 20%
Cass Ballenger 66%
James Barcia 55%
Robert Barr, Jr. 85%
Bill Barrett 72%
Roscoe Bartlett 85%
Charlie Bass 48%
Herbert Bateman 56%
Evan Bayh 36%
Bob Bennett 59%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 28%
Douglas Bereuter 56%
Shelley Berkley 26%
Howard Berman 0%
Marion Berry 51%
Judy Biggert 42%
Brian Bilbray 49%
Michael Bilirakis 79%
Jeff Bingaman 20%
Rod Blagojevich 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 85%
Sherwood Boehlert 36%
Kit Bond 72%
Henry Bonilla 60%
David Edward Bonior 33%
Mary Bono Mack 53%
Robert Borski, Jr. 42%
Leonard Boswell 43%
Rick Boucher 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 42%
John Breaux 47%
Richard Bryan 12%
Ed Bryant 91%
Jim Bunning 88%
Conrad Burns 94%
Dan Burton 84%
Steve Buyer 91%
Robert Byrd 38%
Herbert Callahan 85%
Ben Campbell 64%
Thomas Campbell 36%
Chris Cannon 72%
Julia Carson 0%
Mike Castle 35%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 84%
William Clay, Sr. 13%
Eva Clayton 0%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 28%
Robert Clement 47%
Michael Collins 91%
Larry Combest 96%
Gary Condit 39%
Kent Conrad 42%
Merrill Cook 66%
John Cooksey 52%
Jerry Costello 54%
Paul Coverdell 84%
Christopher Cox 71%
William Coyne 0%
Larry Craig 79%
Robert Cramer 52%
Philip Crane 85%
Barbara Cubin 78%
Randall Cunningham 85%
Patsy Ann Danner 55%
Thomas Daschle 31%
James Davis 34%
Thomas Davis III 49%
Bill Delahunt 17%
Thomas DeLay 91%
James DeMint 91%
Peter Deutsch 28%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 55%
Jay Dickey 76%
Norm Dicks 22%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 12%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 59%
Calvin Dooley 31%
John Doolittle 64%
Byron Dorgan 41%
David Dreier 64%
Jennifer Dunn 56%
John Edwards 12%
Chet Edwards 37%
Vern Ehlers 54%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 47%
Jo Ann Emerson 91%
Philip English 72%
Bob Etheridge 40%
Lane Evans 24%
Terry Everett 96%
Thomas Ewing 61%
Russ Feingold 28%
Peter Fitzgerald 51%
Ernest Fletcher 78%
Mark Foley 43%
Michael Patrick Forbes 51%
Harold Ford, Jr. 28%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 56%
Tillie Fowler 52%
Barney Frank 0%
Robert Franks 46%
William Frist 59%
Jonas Frost III 30%
Elton Gallegly 64%
John Ganske 49%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 66%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 21%
Jim Gibbons 61%
Wayne Gilchrest 45%
Paul Gillmor 72%
Benjamin Gilman 40%
Charlie Gonzalez 19%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 85%
William Goodling 60%
Bart Gordon 51%
Slade Gorton 55%
Porter Goss 64%
Daniel Graham 20%
William Phillip Gramm 97%
Rodney Grams 88%
Mark Green 69%
James Greenwood 33%
Judd Gregg 68%
Gilbert Gutknecht 91%
Tony Hall 50%
James Hansen 91%
Robert Hayes 91%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 85%
Joel Hefley 82%
Jesse Helms 88%
Wally Herger, Jr. 96%
Baron Hill 44%
Rick Hill 82%
Van Hilleary 91%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 32%
Maurice Hinchey 22%
David Lee Hobson 59%
Pete Hoekstra 60%
Thomas Holden 53%
Ernest Hollings 25%
Darlene Hooley 30%
Stephen Horn 37%
John Nathan Hostettler 76%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 30%
Kenny Hulshof 66%
Duncan Hunter 96%
Asa Hutchinson 64%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 72%
Kay Hutchison 64%
Henry Hyde 66%
Daniel Inouye 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 96%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 25%
James Merrill Jeffords 45%
William Lewis Jenkins 91%
Christopher John 63%
Nancy Johnson 38%
Paul Kanjorski 44%
Sue Kelly 44%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 19%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Bob Kerrey 20%
Dale Kildee 44%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 32%
Ronald Klink 40%
Joseph Knollenberg 72%
Herb Kohl 20%
James Kolbe 45%
Dennis Kucinich 40%
Steven Kuykendall 40%
Jon Kyl 69%
John LaFalce 42%
Ray LaHood 59%
Nicholas Lampson 39%
Tom Lantos 23%
Stephen Largent 91%
Steve LaTourette 52%
Rick Lazio 49%
James Leach 45%
Jerry Lewis 59%
Ron Lewis 96%
Joe Lieberman 31%
Blanche Lincoln 36%
John Linder 75%
William Lipinski 53%
Trent Lott, Sr. 79%
Dick Lugar 55%
William Luther 36%
Connie Mack 82%
James Maloney 35%
Don Manzullo 66%
Matthew Martinez 28%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 13%
Karen McCarthy 13%
Bill McCollum 58%
James McCrery III 82%
John McHugh 66%
Scott McInnis 79%
David McIntosh 85%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 13%
Michael McNulty 42%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 72%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 48%
David Minge 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 36%
Alan Mollohan 52%
Dennis Moore 33%
Constance Morella 23%
Patrick Moynihan 27%
Frank Murkowski 71%
Jack Murtha 50%
Sue Myrick 78%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 61%
Robert William Ney 79%
Don Nickles 84%
Anne Northup 56%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 91%
James Nussle 69%
Jim Oberstar 43%
Dave Obey 34%
John Olver 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 54%
Doug Ose 46%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 72%
Ronald Packard 96%
Ron Paul 53%
Donald Payne 0%
Edward Pease 61%
John Peterson 96%
David Phelps 59%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 96%
Owen Pickett 36%
Richard Pombo 72%
Earl Pomeroy 42%
John Edward Porter 37%
Deborah Pryce 47%
Jack Quinn 59%
George Radanovich 96%
James Ramstad 48%
Ralph Regula 58%
Silvestre Reyes 39%
Thomas Reynolds 82%
Bob Riley 96%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 18%
Charles Robb 31%
Ciro Rodriguez 28%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 64%
William Roth, Jr. 50%
Steve Rothman 31%
Marge Roukema 48%
Jim Ryun 91%
Martin Olav Sabo 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 45%
Rick Santorum 72%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 78%
Joe Scarborough 63%
John Shadegg 85%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 51%
Christopher Shays 34%
Donald Sherwood 81%
Ronnie Shows 76%
E.G. Shuster 72%
Norman Sisisky 35%
Joseph Skeen 69%
Ike Skelton 68%
Gordon Smith 59%
Nick Smith 61%
Bob Smith 97%
Olympia Snowe 49%
Vic Snyder 25%
Mark Souder 79%
Arlen Specter 46%
Floyd Spence 91%
John Spratt, Jr. 39%
Pete Stark 0%
Cliff Stearns 85%
Charles Stenholm 75%
Ted Stevens 52%
Ted Strickland 35%
Bob Stump 85%
Bart Stupak 44%
John Sununu 69%
John Sweeney 58%
James Talent 82%
Tom Tancredo 85%
John Tanner 46%
Ellen Tauscher 26%
William Tauzin 72%
Charles Taylor 96%
Gene Taylor 85%
Craig Thomas 94%
William Thomas 58%
Fred Thompson 88%
Karen Thurman 31%
Strom Thurmond 69%
Todd Tiahrt 79%
Robert Torricelli 31%
Ed Towns 17%
James Traficant, Jr. 66%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 0%
James Turner 56%
Bruce Vento 19%
George Voinovich 55%
James Walsh 64%
Zach Wamp 76%
John Warner 54%
Wesley Watkins 96%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 96%
Anthony Weiner 22%
David Weldon 85%
W. Curtis Weldon 66%
Gerald Weller 72%
Paul Wellstone 12%
Robert Wexler 20%
Bob Weygand 39%
Heather Wilson 54%
Bob Wise, Jr. 40%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
David Wu 29%
Albert Wynn 25%

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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