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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2000 Conservative on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 67%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 72%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 67%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 75%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 75%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 24%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 52%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 34%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 39%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 76%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 94%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 94%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 72%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 38%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 94%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 39%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 6%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 10%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 71%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 29%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 20%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 11%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 11%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 76%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 66%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 15%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 64%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 94%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 45%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 76%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 76%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 85%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 33%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 72%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 64%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 7%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 67%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 75%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 64%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 7%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 24%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 75%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 85%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 68%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 83%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 76%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 86%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 52%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 31%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 85%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 24%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 11%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 11%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 76%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 58%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 29%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 15%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 20%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 42%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 25%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 85%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 32%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 86%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 85%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 18%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 30%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 86%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 11%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 36%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 60%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 46%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 34%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 85%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 33%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 49%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 48%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 22%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 29%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 54%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 39%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 5%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 5%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 42%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 20%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 11%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 85%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 94%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 30%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 11%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 10%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 67%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 53%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 85%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 86%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 67%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 8%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 29%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 18%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 19%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 35%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 72%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 72%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 11%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 44%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 40%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 94%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 28%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 64%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 76%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 94%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 67%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 16%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 94%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 31%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 19%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 5%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 86%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 16%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 94%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 39%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 64%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 17%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 16%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 85%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 11%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 34%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 22%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 37%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 76%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 22%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 85%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 58%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 5%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 31%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 20%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 86%
Gary Ackerman 10%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 4%
Wayne Allard 75%
Thomas Allen 5%
Richard Armey 85%
Joe Baca, Sr. 33%
Brian Baird 35%
Richard Hugh Baker 76%
John Baldacci 19%
Cass Ballenger 85%
James Barcia 46%
Robert Barr, Jr. 85%
Roscoe Bartlett 94%
Charlie Bass 57%
Evan Bayh 34%
Bob Bennett 86%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 24%
Douglas Bereuter 54%
Shelley Berkley 42%
Howard Berman 8%
Marion Berry 41%
Judy Biggert 64%
Michael Bilirakis 67%
Jeff Bingaman 33%
Rod Blagojevich 37%
Sherwood Boehlert 48%
Kit Bond 86%
Henry Bonilla 94%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Mary Bono Mack 76%
Robert Borski, Jr. 15%
Leonard Boswell 43%
Rick Boucher 39%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 44%
John Breaux 46%
Ed Bryant 94%
Jim Bunning 86%
Conrad Burns 55%
Dan Burton 85%
Steve Buyer 85%
Robert Byrd 40%
Herbert Callahan 63%
Ben Campbell 57%
Chris Cannon 85%
Julia Carson 28%
Mike Castle 52%
Eva Clayton 36%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 41%
Robert Clement 45%
Michael Collins 85%
Larry Combest 76%
Gary Condit 48%
Kent Conrad 29%
John Cooksey 66%
Jerry Costello 38%
Christopher Cox 94%
William Coyne 5%
Larry Craig 75%
Robert Cramer 49%
Philip Crane 82%
Barbara Cubin 94%
Randall Cunningham 83%
Thomas Daschle 24%
James Davis 22%
Thomas Davis III 60%
Bill Delahunt 29%
Thomas DeLay 85%
James DeMint 94%
Peter Deutsch 33%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 55%
Norm Dicks 11%
Chris Dodd 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 59%
Calvin Dooley 46%
John Doolittle 67%
Byron Dorgan 27%
David Dreier 67%
Jennifer Dunn 76%
John Edwards 7%
Chet Edwards 31%
Vern Ehlers 52%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 58%
Jo Ann Emerson 76%
Philip English 52%
Bob Etheridge 42%
Lane Evans 22%
Terry Everett 82%
Russ Feingold 4%
Peter Fitzgerald 49%
Ernest Fletcher 76%
Mark Foley 64%
Harold Ford, Jr. 37%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 67%
Barney Frank 26%
William Frist 86%
Jonas Frost III 26%
Elton Gallegly 67%
John Ganske 50%
George Gekas 85%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 15%
Jim Gibbons 58%
Wayne Gilchrest 54%
Paul Gillmor 63%
Benjamin Gilman 47%
Charlie Gonzalez 11%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 94%
Bart Gordon 46%
Porter Goss 64%
Daniel Graham 22%
William Phillip Gramm 57%
Mark Green 76%
James Greenwood 56%
Judd Gregg 62%
Gilbert Gutknecht 67%
Tony Hall 30%
James Hansen 76%
Robert Hayes 76%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 94%
Joel Hefley 85%
Jesse Helms 73%
Wally Herger, Jr. 94%
Baron Hill 28%
Van Hilleary 94%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 26%
Maurice Hinchey 0%
David Lee Hobson 67%
Pete Hoekstra 67%
Thomas Holden 37%
Ernest Hollings 32%
Darlene Hooley 36%
Stephen Horn 49%
John Nathan Hostettler 55%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 55%
Kenny Hulshof 85%
Duncan Hunter 67%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 86%
Kay Hutchison 64%
Henry Hyde 58%
Daniel Inouye 25%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 60%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 32%
James Merrill Jeffords 47%
William Lewis Jenkins 75%
Christopher John 46%
Nancy Johnson 51%
Paul Kanjorski 20%
Sue Kelly 55%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 11%
Dale Kildee 16%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 16%
Gerald Kleczka 11%
Joseph Knollenberg 85%
Herb Kohl 38%
James Kolbe 72%
Dennis Kucinich 16%
Jon Kyl 64%
John LaFalce 11%
Ray LaHood 55%
Nicholas Lampson 38%
Tom Lantos 20%
Stephen Largent 94%
Steve LaTourette 60%
James Leach 54%
Jerry Lewis 62%
Ron Lewis 85%
Joe Lieberman 36%
Blanche Lincoln 41%
John Linder 85%
William Lipinski 40%
Trent Lott, Sr. 63%
Dick Lugar 68%
William Luther 29%
James Maloney 45%
Don Manzullo 94%
Frank Mascara 34%
Robert Matsui 11%
Karen McCarthy 8%
James McCrery III 76%
John McHugh 56%
Scott McInnis 60%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 26%
Michael McNulty 31%
Martin Meehan 8%
Carrie Meek 15%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 5%
Dan Miller 67%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 33%
Alan Mollohan 37%
Dennis Moore 41%
Constance Morella 44%
Frank Murkowski 75%
Jack Murtha 33%
Sue Myrick 82%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 67%
Robert William Ney 60%
Don Nickles 68%
Anne Northup 76%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 67%
James Nussle 71%
Jim Oberstar 8%
Dave Obey 11%
John Olver 11%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 26%
Doug Ose 85%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 85%
Ron Paul 51%
Donald Payne 0%
John Peterson 83%
David Phelps 41%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 85%
Richard Pombo 94%
Earl Pomeroy 11%
Deborah Pryce 76%
Jack Quinn 48%
George Radanovich 76%
James Ramstad 57%
Ralph Regula 72%
Silvestre Reyes 11%
Thomas Reynolds 76%
Bob Riley 85%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 8%
Ciro Rodriguez 20%
Timothy Roemer 44%
Steve Rothman 16%
Marge Roukema 57%
Jim Ryun 94%
Martin Olav Sabo 24%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 44%
Rick Santorum 86%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 50%
John Shadegg 72%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 59%
Christopher Shays 52%
Donald Sherwood 62%
Ronnie Shows 47%
Joseph Skeen 76%
Ike Skelton 41%
Gordon Smith 64%
Nick Smith 66%
Bob Smith 75%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 22%
Mark Souder 72%
Arlen Specter 45%
John Spratt, Jr. 42%
Pete Stark 20%
Cliff Stearns 94%
Charles Stenholm 43%
Ted Stevens 75%
Ted Strickland 26%
Bob Stump 72%
Bart Stupak 29%
John Sununu 64%
John Sweeney 67%
Tom Tancredo 85%
John Tanner 44%
Ellen Tauscher 40%
William Tauzin 83%
Charles Taylor 94%
Gene Taylor 41%
Craig Thomas 75%
William Thomas 85%
Fred Thompson 86%
Karen Thurman 16%
Strom Thurmond 68%
Todd Tiahrt 94%
Robert Torricelli 43%
Ed Towns 8%
James Traficant, Jr. 46%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 5%
James Turner 39%
George Voinovich 48%
James Walsh 51%
Zach Wamp 83%
John Warner 68%
Wesley Watkins 83%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 85%
Anthony Weiner 24%
David Weldon 85%
W. Curtis Weldon 52%
Gerald Weller 52%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 28%
Heather Wilson 64%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
David Wu 34%
Albert Wynn 28%

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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