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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2001 Liberal on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 20%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 22%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 32%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 33%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 34%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 90%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 70%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 68%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 74%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 35%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 74%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 74%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 42%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 83%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 90%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 90%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 90%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 74%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 83%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 81%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 70%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 74%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 90%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 48%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 20%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 60%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 78%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 95%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 20%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 31%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 20%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 35%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 60%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 58%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 80%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 74%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 70%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 29%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 33%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 22%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 20%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 59%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 65%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 83%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 79%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 81%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 83%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 81%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 83%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 53%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 95%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 94%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 20%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 43%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 38%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 83%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 68%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 90%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 83%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 54%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 95%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 83%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 22%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 72%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 60%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 81%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 33%
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 83%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 41%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 90%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 35%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 65%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 74%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 38%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 35%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 74%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 64%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 54%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 72%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 79%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 70%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 43%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 65%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 68%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 43%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 20%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 70%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 43%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 78%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 20%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 83%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 81%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 34%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 54%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 83%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 81%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 58%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 55%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 68%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 53%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 35%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 43%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 69%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 62%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 35%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 90%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 57%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 72%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 70%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 71%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 81%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 95%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 68%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 20%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 64%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 83%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 90%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 65%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 34%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 90%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 69%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 43%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 51%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Gary Ackerman 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 81%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 29%
Thomas Allen 83%
Richard Armey 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. 69%
Brian Baird 62%
Richard Hugh Baker 20%
Cass Ballenger 41%
James Barcia 52%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Charlie Bass 58%
Evan Bayh 60%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 70%
Douglas Bereuter 35%
Shelley Berkley 74%
Howard Berman 83%
Marion Berry 47%
Judy Biggert 58%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Jeff Bingaman 65%
Sherwood Boehlert 60%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 20%
David Edward Bonior 65%
Mary Bono Mack 49%
Robert Borski, Jr. 57%
Leonard Boswell 65%
Rick Boucher 71%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 56%
John Breaux 46%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 20%
Robert Byrd 47%
Herbert Callahan 32%
Ben Campbell 33%
Chris Cannon 0%
Jean Carnahan 55%
Brad Carson 58%
Julia Carson 83%
Mike Castle 54%
Eva Clayton 90%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 70%
Robert Clement 50%
Hillary Clinton 70%
Michael Collins 20%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 62%
Kent Conrad 48%
John Cooksey 32%
Jon Corzine 95%
Jerry Costello 49%
Christopher Cox 32%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 46%
Philip Crane 20%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 20%
Thomas Daschle 81%
James Davis 65%
Jo Ann Davis 0%
Thomas Davis III 49%
Bill Delahunt 90%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 74%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 43%
Norm Dicks 68%
Chris Dodd 70%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 42%
Calvin Dooley 69%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 48%
David Dreier 46%
Jennifer Dunn 47%
John Edwards 60%
Chet Edwards 60%
Vern Ehlers 41%
Jo Ann Emerson 20%
Philip English 43%
John Ensign 31%
Bob Etheridge 65%
Lane Evans 83%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 65%
Michael Ferguson 46%
Peter Fitzgerald 33%
Mark Foley 52%
Harold Ford, Jr. 70%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 38%
Barney Frank 90%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 70%
Elton Gallegly 20%
John Ganske 35%
George Gekas 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 81%
Jim Gibbons 20%
Wayne Gilchrest 51%
Paul Gillmor 38%
Benjamin Gilman 64%
Charlie Gonzalez 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 54%
Porter Goss 20%
Daniel Graham 70%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 59%
Judd Gregg 0%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 46%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Tony Hall 46%
James Hansen 0%
Jane Harman 72%
Melissa Hart 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 20%
Baron Hill 59%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 72%
Maurice Hinchey 90%
David Lee Hobson 43%
Pete Hoekstra 35%
Thomas Holden 43%
Ernest Hollings 65%
Darlene Hooley 81%
Stephen Horn 62%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 61%
Kenny Hulshof 20%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 33%
Kay Hutchison 33%
Henry Hyde 0%
Daniel Inouye 81%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 90%
William Jefferson 79%
James Merrill Jeffords 58%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 38%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Tim Johnson 41%
Paul Kanjorski 50%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 54%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 81%
Mark Kennedy 20%
Patrick Kennedy 83%
Brian Kerns 0%
Dale Kildee 58%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 90%
Gerald Kleczka 79%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
Herb Kohl 81%
James Kolbe 56%
Dennis Kucinich 59%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 54%
Ray LaHood 46%
Nicholas Lampson 62%
Tom Lantos 74%
Steve LaTourette 38%
James Leach 62%
Jerry Lewis 40%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 70%
Blanche Lincoln 60%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 51%
Trent Lott, Sr. 28%
Dick Lugar 22%
William Luther 74%
James Maloney 65%
Don Manzullo 41%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 83%
Karen McCarthy 83%
James McCrery III 38%
John McHugh 43%
Scott McInnis 34%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 78%
Michael McNulty 58%
Martin Meehan 83%
Carrie Meek 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 81%
Dan Miller 49%
Zell Bryan Miller 33%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 79%
Alan Mollohan 48%
Dennis Moore 72%
Constance Morella 74%
Jack Murtha 52%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 51%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Robert William Ney 20%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 20%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 20%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 57%
Dave Obey 65%
John Olver 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 52%
Thomas William Osborne 20%
Doug Ose 52%
Major Owens 90%
Michael Oxley 20%
Ron Paul 50%
Donald Payne 90%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Todd Platts 20%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 60%
Deborah Pryce 54%
Jack Quinn 48%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 38%
Denny Rehberg 32%
Silvestre Reyes 68%
Thomas Reynolds 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Ciro Rodriguez 74%
Timothy Roemer 50%
Mike Ross 54%
Steve Rothman 74%
Marge Roukema 56%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 65%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 81%
Jim Saxton 20%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 34%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 43%
Christopher Shays 63%
Donald Sherwood 32%
Ronnie Shows 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 60%
Joseph Skeen 20%
Ike Skelton 38%
Gordon Smith 43%
Nick Smith 20%
Bob Smith 0%
Olympia Snowe 51%
Vic Snyder 62%
Hilda Solis 90%
Mark Souder 35%
Arlen Specter 57%
John Spratt, Jr. 54%
Pete Stark 90%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 43%
Ted Stevens 22%
Ted Strickland 64%
Bob Stump 35%
Bart Stupak 50%
John Sweeney 47%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 54%
Ellen Tauscher 83%
William Tauzin 20%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 35%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 52%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 60%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 65%
Ed Towns 81%
James Traficant, Jr. 20%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 78%
James Turner 52%
George Voinovich 43%
James Walsh 38%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 33%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Diane Watson 90%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 83%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 41%
Gerald Weller 20%
Paul Wellstone 95%
Robert Wexler 83%
Heather Wilson 20%
Lynn Woolsey 90%
David Wu 67%
Albert Wynn 65%

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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