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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2002 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. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 63%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 75%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 62%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 62%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 75%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 8%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 58%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 63%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 63%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 57%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 19%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 28%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 3%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 3%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 6%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 16%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 8%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 38%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 75%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 75%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 8%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 75%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 75%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 3%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 70%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 38%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 75%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 75%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 40%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 2%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 68%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 18%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 57%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 62%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 23%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 75%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 62%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 63%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 6%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 6%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 75%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 40%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 26%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 75%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 62%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 57%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 62%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 75%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 75%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 62%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 75%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 34%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 34%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 41%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 19%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 29%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 29%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 52%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 57%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 57%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 19%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 34%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 18%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 8%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 54%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 8%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 75%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 75%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 19%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 62%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 75%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 33%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 34%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 62%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 19%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 71%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 49%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 26%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 54%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 71%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 8%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 37%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 47%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 29%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 8%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 18%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 37%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 75%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 29%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 29%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 27%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 27%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 29%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 6%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 18%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 75%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 63%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 35%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 75%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 19%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 71%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 61%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 75%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 62%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 54%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 6%
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 8%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 8%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 75%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 44%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 75%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 75%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 19%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 46%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 52%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 75%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 6%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 18%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 28%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 8%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 19%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 8%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 27%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 34%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 62%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 75%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 75%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 75%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 19%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 63%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 0%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 19%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 29%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 75%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 29%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 25%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 25%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 8%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 71%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 29%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 57%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 57%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 8%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 54%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 51%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 28%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 62%
Gary Ackerman 16%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Todd Akin 75%
Wayne Allard 62%
George Allen 62%
Thomas Allen 19%
Joe Baca, Sr. 19%
Brian Baird 19%
Richard Hugh Baker 75%
Cass Ballenger 63%
Roscoe Bartlett 75%
Charlie Bass 44%
Evan Bayh 38%
Bob Bennett 62%
Douglas Bereuter 52%
Shelley Berkley 19%
Howard Berman 0%
Marion Berry 46%
Judy Biggert 42%
Michael Bilirakis 75%
Jeff Bingaman 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 39%
Kit Bond 57%
Henry Bonilla 75%
Mary Bono Mack 51%
Leonard Boswell 42%
Rick Boucher 26%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 45%
John Breaux 44%
Henry Brown, Jr. 75%
Jim Bunning 62%
Conrad Burns 62%
Dan Burton 68%
Steve Buyer 62%
Robert Byrd 48%
Ben Campbell 62%
Chris Cannon 68%
Brad Carson 42%
Julia Carson 16%
Mike Castle 42%
Hillary Clinton 0%
Michael Collins 75%
Larry Combest 75%
Kent Conrad 18%
Jon Corzine 0%
Jerry Costello 49%
Christopher Cox 68%
Larry Craig 62%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 68%
Barbara Cubin 75%
Randall Cunningham 75%
Thomas Daschle 28%
James Davis 35%
Jo Ann Davis 75%
Thomas Davis III 57%
Bill Delahunt 16%
Thomas DeLay 75%
Peter Deutsch 27%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 70%
Norm Dicks 19%
Chris Dodd 28%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 62%
Calvin Dooley 19%
John Doolittle 75%
Byron Dorgan 38%
David Dreier 57%
Jennifer Dunn 57%
John Edwards 38%
Chet Edwards 39%
Vern Ehlers 52%
Jo Ann Emerson 68%
Philip English 63%
John Ensign 62%
Bob Etheridge 35%
Lane Evans 8%
Terry Everett 75%
Russ Feingold 0%
Michael Ferguson 53%
Peter Fitzgerald 62%
Mark Foley 53%
Harold Ford, Jr. 35%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 62%
Barney Frank 8%
William Frist 62%
Jonas Frost III 19%
Elton Gallegly 71%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 28%
Jim Gibbons 57%
Wayne Gilchrest 49%
Paul Gillmor 70%
Charlie Gonzalez 8%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 75%
Bart Gordon 42%
Porter Goss 63%
Daniel Graham 48%
Mark Green 71%
James Greenwood 37%
Judd Gregg 62%
Gilbert Gutknecht 71%
Jane Harman 29%
Melissa Hart 70%
Robert Hayes 75%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 75%
Joel Hefley 75%
Wally Herger, Jr. 75%
Baron Hill 37%
Maurice Hinchey 18%
David Lee Hobson 57%
Pete Hoekstra 61%
Thomas Holden 54%
Ernest Hollings 46%
Darlene Hooley 29%
John Nathan Hostettler 63%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 42%
Kenny Hulshof 71%
Duncan Hunter 75%
Kay Hutchison 62%
Henry Hyde 75%
Daniel Inouye 32%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 75%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 8%
William Jefferson 33%
James Merrill Jeffords 0%
William Lewis Jenkins 75%
Christopher John 51%
Nancy Johnson 39%
Tim Johnson 54%
Paul Kanjorski 46%
Ric Keller 75%
Sue Kelly 48%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Mark Kennedy 75%
Patrick Kennedy 34%
Dale Kildee 46%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 26%
Gerald Kleczka 35%
Joseph Knollenberg 62%
Herb Kohl 36%
James Kolbe 42%
Dennis Kucinich 35%
Jon Kyl 62%
Ray LaHood 63%
Nicholas Lampson 38%
Tom Lantos 19%
Steve LaTourette 56%
James Leach 45%
Jerry Lewis 63%
Ron Lewis 75%
Joe Lieberman 0%
Blanche Lincoln 46%
John Linder 75%
William Lipinski 52%
Trent Lott, Sr. 62%
Dick Lugar 62%
Don Manzullo 75%
Robert Matsui 8%
Karen McCarthy 19%
James McCrery III 71%
John McHugh 75%
Scott McInnis 75%
Michael McNulty 41%
Martin Meehan 19%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 17%
Zell Bryan Miller 45%
Alan Mollohan 48%
Dennis Moore 29%
Jack Murtha 47%
Sue Myrick 75%
Ben Nelson 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 75%
Robert William Ney 75%
Don Nickles 62%
Anne Northup 54%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 75%
James Nussle 63%
Jim Oberstar 44%
Dave Obey 37%
John Olver 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 47%
Thomas William Osborne 63%
Doug Ose 49%
Major Owens 19%
Michael Oxley 75%
Ron Paul 51%
Donald Payne 3%
John Peterson 75%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 71%
Todd Platts 54%
Richard Pombo 75%
Earl Pomeroy 45%
Deborah Pryce 56%
Jack Quinn 53%
George Radanovich 71%
James Ramstad 53%
Ralph Regula 75%
Denny Rehberg 71%
Silvestre Reyes 39%
Thomas Reynolds 63%
Ciro Rodriguez 19%
Mike Ross 50%
Steve Rothman 19%
Jim Ryun 75%
Martin Olav Sabo 3%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 37%
Rick Santorum 60%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 63%
Edward Schrock 75%
John Shadegg 75%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 63%
Christopher Shays 40%
Donald Sherwood 75%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 40%
Ike Skelton 50%
Gordon Smith 51%
Nick Smith 57%
Olympia Snowe 54%
Vic Snyder 35%
Hilda Solis 2%
Mark Souder 61%
Arlen Specter 56%
John Spratt, Jr. 35%
Pete Stark 0%
Cliff Stearns 75%
Charles Stenholm 54%
Ted Stevens 55%
Ted Strickland 40%
Bart Stupak 48%
John Sullivan 75%
John Sweeney 52%
Tom Tancredo 71%
John Tanner 48%
Ellen Tauscher 29%
William Tauzin 75%
Charles Taylor 75%
Gene Taylor 57%
Craig Thomas 62%
William Thomas 48%
Todd Tiahrt 75%
Ed Towns 3%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 2%
James Turner 42%
George Voinovich 58%
James Walsh 56%
Zach Wamp 63%
John Warner 62%
Diane Watson 17%
Anthony Weiner 19%
David Weldon 75%
W. Curtis Weldon 52%
Gerald Weller 75%
Robert Wexler 19%
Heather Wilson 57%
Lynn Woolsey 8%
David Wu 34%
Albert Wynn 29%

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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