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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2000 Liberal on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 96%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 96%
Paul Sarbanes 96%
Paul Wellstone 96%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 95%
David Edward Bonior 95%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 95%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 95%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 95%
Maurice Hinchey 95%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 95%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 95%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 95%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 95%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 95%
Major Owens 95%
Donald Payne 95%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 95%
Lynn Woolsey 95%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 94%
Russ Feingold 94%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 93%
Thomas Allen 92%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 92%
Howard Berman 92%
William Coyne 92%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 92%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 92%
Karen McCarthy 92%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 92%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 92%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 92%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 92%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 90%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 90%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 90%
John Edwards 90%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 90%
Martin Meehan 90%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 90%
Jim Oberstar 90%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Ed Towns 90%
Gary Ackerman 89%
Chris Dodd 89%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 89%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 85%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 85%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 85%
Norm Dicks 85%
Charlie Gonzalez 85%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 85%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 85%
Patrick Kennedy 85%
Gerald Kleczka 85%
John LaFalce 85%
Robert Matsui 85%
Carrie Meek 85%
Dave Obey 85%
John Olver 85%
Earl Pomeroy 85%
Silvestre Reyes 85%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 85%
Robert Borski, Jr. 84%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 84%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 84%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 84%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 84%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 84%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 84%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 84%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 81%
Dale Kildee 81%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 81%
Dennis Kucinich 81%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 81%
Steve Rothman 81%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 81%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 81%
Karen Thurman 81%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 81%
John Baldacci 80%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 80%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 80%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 80%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 80%
Pete Stark 80%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 78%
Paul Kanjorski 78%
Tom Lantos 78%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 78%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 78%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 78%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 78%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 78%
Ciro Rodriguez 78%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 78%
James Davis 77%
Lane Evans 77%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 77%
Vic Snyder 77%
Daniel Graham 76%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 76%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 76%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 75%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 75%
Thomas Daschle 75%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 75%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 75%
Martin Olav Sabo 75%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 75%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 75%
Anthony Weiner 75%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 74%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 74%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 74%
Barney Frank 73%
Jonas Frost III 73%
Daniel Inouye 73%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 73%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 73%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 73%
Ted Strickland 73%
Byron Dorgan 72%
Baron Hill 72%
Albert Wynn 72%
Julia Carson 71%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 71%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 71%
Robert Wexler 71%
Kent Conrad 70%
Bill Delahunt 70%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 70%
William Luther 70%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 70%
Bart Stupak 70%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 70%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 69%
Tony Hall 69%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 69%
Chet Edwards 68%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 68%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 68%
Michael McNulty 68%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 68%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 68%
Joe Baca, Sr. 67%
Peter Deutsch 67%
Ernest Hollings 67%
William Jefferson 67%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 67%
Jack Murtha 67%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 66%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 66%
Jeff Bingaman 66%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 66%
Frank Mascara 65%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 65%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 65%
David Wu 65%
Brian Baird 64%
Evan Bayh 64%
Eva Clayton 64%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 64%
Rod Blagojevich 63%
Harold Ford, Jr. 63%
Darlene Hooley 63%
Joe Lieberman 63%
Alan Mollohan 63%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 63%
Thomas Holden 62%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 62%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 62%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 61%
Jerry Costello 61%
Herb Kohl 61%
Nicholas Lampson 61%
James Turner 61%
Rick Boucher 60%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 60%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 60%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 60%
William Lipinski 60%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 60%
Ellen Tauscher 60%
Robert Byrd 59%
David Phelps 59%
Ike Skelton 59%
Marion Berry 58%
Bob Etheridge 58%
Dennis Moore 58%
John Spratt, Jr. 58%
Gene Taylor 58%
Shelley Berkley 57%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 57%
Blanche Lincoln 57%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 57%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 57%
Leonard Boswell 56%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 56%
Constance Morella 56%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 56%
Charles Stenholm 56%
Robert Torricelli 56%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 55%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 55%
James Maloney 55%
Timothy Roemer 55%
John Tanner 55%
James Barcia 54%
Robert Clement 54%
Calvin Dooley 54%
Arlen Specter 54%
John Breaux 53%
Benjamin Gilman 53%
Bart Gordon 53%
Christopher John 53%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 53%
James Traficant, Jr. 53%
Sherwood Boehlert 52%
Gary Condit 52%
James Merrill Jeffords 52%
Jack Quinn 52%
Ronnie Shows 52%
Stephen Horn 51%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 51%
George Voinovich 51%
Robert Cramer 50%
Peter Fitzgerald 50%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 50%
Jim Saxton 50%
John Ganske 49%
Nancy Johnson 49%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 49%
Ron Paul 49%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 48%
Philip English 48%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 48%
Christopher Shays 48%
Olympia Snowe 48%
James Walsh 48%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 47%
Mike Castle 46%
Vern Ehlers 46%
Wayne Gilchrest 46%
James Leach 46%
W. Curtis Weldon 46%
Gerald Weller 46%
Douglas Bereuter 45%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 45%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 45%
Conrad Burns 44%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 44%
John Nathan Hostettler 44%
Sue Kelly 44%
Ray LaHood 44%
John McHugh 44%
James Greenwood 43%
Charlie Bass 42%
Henry Hyde 42%
James Ramstad 42%
Marge Roukema 42%
Ben Campbell 41%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 41%
Jim Gibbons 41%
William Phillip Gramm 41%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 41%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 41%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 40%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 40%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 40%
Scott McInnis 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 40%
Thomas Davis III 39%
Steve LaTourette 39%
Robert William Ney 39%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 39%
Donald Sherwood 38%
Judd Gregg 37%
Jerry Lewis 37%
Judy Biggert 36%
Herbert Callahan 36%
Paul Gillmor 36%
Trent Lott, Sr. 36%
Mark Foley 34%
Porter Goss 34%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 34%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 34%
John Sununu 34%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 34%
Heather Wilson 34%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 34%
John Cooksey 33%
Nick Smith 33%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 33%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 33%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 32%
Kay Hutchison 32%
Jon Kyl 32%
Gordon Smith 32%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 29%
Michael Bilirakis 29%
John Doolittle 29%
David Dreier 29%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 29%
Elton Gallegly 29%
Gilbert Gutknecht 29%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 29%
David Lee Hobson 29%
Pete Hoekstra 29%
Duncan Hunter 29%
Dan Miller 29%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 29%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 29%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 29%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 29%
John Sweeney 29%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 29%
James Nussle 28%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 28%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 27%
Dick Lugar 27%
Don Nickles 27%
Strom Thurmond 27%
John Warner 27%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 25%
Jesse Helms 25%
James Kolbe 25%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 25%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 25%
Ralph Regula 25%
John Shadegg 25%
Mark Souder 25%
Bob Stump 25%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 25%
William Lewis Jenkins 24%
Richard Hugh Baker 18%
Mary Bono Mack 18%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 18%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 18%
Larry Combest 18%
Philip Crane 18%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 18%
Jennifer Dunn 18%
Jo Ann Emerson 18%
Ernest Fletcher 18%
Mark Green 18%
James Hansen 18%
Robert Hayes 18%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 18%
James McCrery III 18%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 18%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 18%
Sue Myrick 18%
Anne Northup 18%
Deborah Pryce 18%
George Radanovich 18%
Thomas Reynolds 18%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 18%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 18%
Joseph Skeen 18%
Terry Everett 17%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 17%
Randall Cunningham 15%
Thomas DeLay 15%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 15%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 15%
John Peterson 15%
William Tauzin 15%
Zach Wamp 15%
Wesley Watkins 15%
Wayne Allard 14%
Larry Craig 14%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 14%
Frank Murkowski 14%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 14%
Bob Smith 14%
Ted Stevens 14%
Craig Thomas 14%
Richard Armey 6%
Cass Ballenger 6%
Robert Barr, Jr. 6%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 6%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 6%
Dan Burton 6%
Steve Buyer 6%
Chris Cannon 6%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 6%
Michael Collins 6%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 6%
George Gekas 6%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 6%
Joel Hefley 6%
Kenny Hulshof 6%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 6%
Joseph Knollenberg 6%
Ron Lewis 6%
John Linder 6%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 6%
Doug Ose 6%
Michael Oxley 6%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 6%
Bob Riley 6%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 6%
Tom Tancredo 6%
William Thomas 6%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 6%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 6%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 6%
David Weldon 6%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 6%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
James DeMint 0%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
William Frist 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Van Hilleary 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
Stephen Largent 0%
Don Manzullo 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
Richard Pombo 0%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
Jim Ryun 0%
Rick Santorum 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Fred Thompson 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%

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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