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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2001 Conservative on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 94%
Ed Bryant 94%
Dan Burton 94%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 94%
Christopher Cox 94%
Larry Craig 94%
Philip Crane 94%
Barbara Cubin 94%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 94%
Thomas DeLay 94%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 94%
William Phillip Gramm 94%
James Hansen 94%
Jesse Helms 94%
Wally Herger, Jr. 94%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 94%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 94%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 94%
Ron Lewis 94%
Trent Lott, Sr. 94%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 94%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 94%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 94%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 94%
Jim Ryun 94%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 94%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 94%
John Shadegg 94%
Bob Smith 94%
Mark Souder 94%
Strom Thurmond 94%
Todd Tiahrt 94%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 94%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 94%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 94%
Todd Akin 89%
Richard Hugh Baker 89%
Robert Barr, Jr. 89%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 89%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 89%
Mary Bono Mack 89%
Chris Cannon 89%
Larry Combest 89%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 89%
John Doolittle 89%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 89%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 89%
Duncan Hunter 89%
Joseph Knollenberg 89%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 89%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 89%
James Nussle 89%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 89%
George Radanovich 89%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 89%
Edward Schrock 89%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 89%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 89%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 88%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 88%
Bob Bennett 86%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 86%
Jim Bunning 86%
Jon Kyl 86%
Jerry Lewis 86%
John Linder 86%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 86%
James McCrery III 86%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 86%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 86%
Rick Santorum 86%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 86%
Bob Stump 86%
Charles Taylor 86%
William Frist 84%
Richard Armey 82%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 82%
Henry Bonilla 82%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 82%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 82%
Randall Cunningham 82%
Robert Hayes 82%
James Kolbe 82%
Don Manzullo 82%
Sue Myrick 82%
Anne Northup 82%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 82%
Joseph Skeen 82%
William Tauzin 82%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 82%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 81%
Terry Everett 81%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 81%
Cass Ballenger 80%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 80%
Michael Oxley 80%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 80%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 80%
Herbert Callahan 79%
John Cooksey 79%
George Allen 77%
Conrad Burns 77%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 77%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 77%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 77%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 77%
Don Nickles 77%
Ben Campbell 75%
Craig Thomas 75%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 74%
Henry Brown, Jr. 74%
Steve Buyer 74%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 74%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 74%
Van Hilleary 74%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 74%
William Lewis Jenkins 74%
Brian Kerns 74%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 74%
John Peterson 74%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 74%
Richard Pombo 74%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 74%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 74%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 74%
Donald Sherwood 74%
Wesley Watkins 74%
David Weldon 74%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 74%
Kay Hutchison 73%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 73%
Ric Keller 73%
Dick Lugar 73%
Dan Miller 73%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 73%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 71%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 71%
Roscoe Bartlett 69%
Judy Biggert 69%
David Dreier 69%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 69%
Porter Goss 69%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 69%
David Lee Hobson 69%
Pete Hoekstra 69%
Kenny Hulshof 69%
Thomas William Osborne 69%
Deborah Pryce 69%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 69%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 69%
Tom Tancredo 69%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 69%
Gerald Weller 69%
Heather Wilson 69%
Michael Collins 68%
Jo Ann Davis 68%
Elton Gallegly 68%
Jim Gibbons 68%
Wayne Allard 66%
Kit Bond 66%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 66%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 66%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 66%
George Gekas 66%
Mark Green 66%
Gilbert Gutknecht 66%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 66%
Henry Hyde 66%
Ralph Regula 66%
Thomas Reynolds 66%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 66%
George Voinovich 66%
Jennifer Dunn 65%
William Thomas 65%
Mark Foley 63%
Melissa Hart 63%
John Nathan Hostettler 63%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 63%
Doug Ose 63%
Denny Rehberg 63%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 63%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 63%
Cliff Stearns 63%
James Walsh 63%
John Ensign 62%
Judd Gregg 62%
Scott McInnis 62%
Fred Thompson 62%
John Warner 62%
Vern Ehlers 61%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 61%
Joel Hefley 61%
Mark Kennedy 61%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 61%
Robert William Ney 61%
Gordon Smith 61%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 61%
Paul Gillmor 60%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 60%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 60%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 60%
Ted Stevens 60%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 59%
Thomas Davis III 58%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 58%
James Greenwood 58%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 58%
Nick Smith 58%
James Traficant, Jr. 58%
Zach Wamp 58%
Zell Bryan Miller 57%
Charlie Bass 56%
Douglas Bereuter 56%
Michael Bilirakis 56%
Peter Fitzgerald 56%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 56%
Wayne Gilchrest 56%
Steve LaTourette 56%
Christopher Shays 56%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 56%
John Sweeney 56%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 56%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 55%
John McHugh 55%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 54%
Jo Ann Emerson 54%
Philip English 54%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 54%
Olympia Snowe 54%
Stephen Horn 53%
Tim Johnson 53%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 53%
Todd Platts 53%
James Ramstad 53%
Marge Roukema 53%
Mike Castle 52%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 52%
Ray LaHood 52%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 52%
Ron Paul 52%
Nancy Johnson 51%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 51%
Jack Quinn 51%
Jim Saxton 51%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Michael Ferguson 50%
John Ganske 50%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Sue Kelly 50%
John Breaux 49%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 49%
James Merrill Jeffords 49%
Christopher John 49%
James Leach 49%
Ben Nelson 49%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 49%
W. Curtis Weldon 49%
Robert Cramer 48%
Constance Morella 48%
Ronnie Shows 48%
Arlen Specter 48%
Charles Stenholm 48%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 47%
Robert Clement 47%
Gary Condit 47%
Calvin Dooley 47%
Bart Gordon 47%
Gene Taylor 47%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 46%
Blanche Lincoln 46%
William Lipinski 46%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 46%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 46%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 45%
Brad Carson 45%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 45%
Mike Ross 45%
John Tanner 45%
Marion Berry 44%
Leonard Boswell 44%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 44%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 44%
Ike Skelton 44%
Harold Ford, Jr. 43%
Jane Harman 43%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 43%
Dennis Moore 43%
Ellen Tauscher 43%
James Turner 43%
James Barcia 42%
Jean Carnahan 42%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 42%
James Maloney 42%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 42%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 41%
Ed Towns 41%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 40%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 40%
Bob Etheridge 40%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 40%
David Phelps 40%
Timothy Roemer 40%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 40%
Shelley Berkley 39%
Rick Boucher 39%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 39%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 39%
James Davis 38%
Darlene Hooley 38%
Alan Mollohan 38%
Evan Bayh 37%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 37%
Jerry Costello 37%
Chet Edwards 37%
Thomas Holden 37%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 37%
Robert Torricelli 37%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 36%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 36%
Baron Hill 36%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 36%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 36%
John Spratt, Jr. 36%
Brian Baird 35%
Robert Byrd 35%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 35%
Herb Kohl 35%
Nicholas Lampson 35%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 35%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 35%
Tony Hall 34%
Ernest Hollings 34%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 33%
Byron Dorgan 33%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 33%
Frank Mascara 33%
Earl Pomeroy 33%
Vic Snyder 33%
Albert Wynn 33%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 32%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 32%
William Jefferson 32%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 32%
Ted Strickland 32%
Jeff Bingaman 31%
Kent Conrad 31%
Charlie Gonzalez 31%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 31%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 31%
Patrick Kennedy 31%
Silvestre Reyes 31%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 30%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 29%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 29%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 29%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 29%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 29%
Ciro Rodriguez 29%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 29%
David Wu 29%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 27%
Joe Baca, Sr. 27%
Jonas Frost III 27%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 27%
Joe Lieberman 27%
Karen McCarthy 27%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 27%
Jack Murtha 27%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 27%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 27%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 27%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 27%
Robert Borski, Jr. 25%
Norm Dicks 25%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 25%
Paul Kanjorski 25%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 25%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 25%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 24%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 24%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 23%
Peter Deutsch 23%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 23%
John Edwards 23%
Lane Evans 23%
Daniel Graham 23%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 23%
William Luther 23%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 23%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 23%
Daniel Inouye 22%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 22%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 21%
Julia Carson 21%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 21%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 21%
Gerald Kleczka 21%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 21%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 19%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 19%
Russ Feingold 19%
Dale Kildee 19%
John LaFalce 19%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 19%
Dave Obey 19%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 19%
Bart Stupak 19%
Karen Thurman 19%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 19%
Carrie Meek 18%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 18%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 15%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 15%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 15%
Thomas Daschle 15%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 15%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 15%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 15%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 15%
Major Owens 15%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 15%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 15%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 15%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 15%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 14%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 14%
Martin Meehan 14%
Jim Oberstar 14%
Hillary Clinton 13%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 13%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 13%
Martin Olav Sabo 13%
David Edward Bonior 11%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 11%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 11%
Dennis Kucinich 11%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 11%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 11%
Robert Matsui 11%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 11%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 11%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 11%
Anthony Weiner 11%
Howard Berman 10%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 10%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 10%
Thomas Allen 9%
Chris Dodd 9%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 9%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 9%
Tom Lantos 9%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 9%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 9%
Hilda Solis 9%
Gary Ackerman 8%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 8%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 8%
Steve Rothman 8%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 7%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 7%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 7%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 6%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 6%
John Olver 6%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 0%
Eva Clayton 0%
Jon Corzine 0%
William Coyne 0%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 0%
Bill Delahunt 0%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
Barney Frank 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
Maurice Hinchey 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 0%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 0%
Michael McNulty 0%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
Donald Payne 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
Pete Stark 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 0%
Lynn Woolsey 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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