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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2002 Liberal on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 32%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 84%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 40%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 32%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 74%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 98%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 74%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 32%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 67%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 39%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 74%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 68%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 82%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 94%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 94%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 94%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 83%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 84%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 56%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 84%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 97%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 29%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 56%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 59%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 97%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 32%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 82%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 39%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 76%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 32%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 92%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 84%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 92%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 84%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 82%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 59%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 74%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 39%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 64%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 66%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 58%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 74%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 67%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 82%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 67%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 46%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 39%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 39%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 74%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 66%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 98%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 82%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 77%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 84%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 44%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 82%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 92%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 0%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 74%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 66%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 64%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 82%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 74%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 51%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 32%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 74%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 44%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 25%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 84%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 63%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 53%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 84%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 82%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 62%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 0%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 74%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 92%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 77%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 32%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 65%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 74%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 25%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 38%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 44%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 94%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 67%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 77%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 84%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 84%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 55%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 74%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 53%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 82%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 46%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 92%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 77%
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 25%
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 25%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 71%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 84%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 74%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 84%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 72%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 65%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
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 74%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 32%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 82%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 74%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 67%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 98%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 67%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 72%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 72%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 84%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 25%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 39%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 39%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 84%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 44%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 49%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 68%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Gary Ackerman 83%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 82%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 0%
Thomas Allen 74%
Joe Baca, Sr. 74%
Brian Baird 74%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 32%
Roscoe Bartlett 0%
Charlie Bass 55%
Evan Bayh 56%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 48%
Shelley Berkley 74%
Howard Berman 98%
Marion Berry 53%
Judy Biggert 56%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Jeff Bingaman 82%
Sherwood Boehlert 61%
Kit Bond 42%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Mary Bono Mack 49%
Leonard Boswell 56%
Rick Boucher 73%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 54%
John Breaux 55%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 32%
Steve Buyer 38%
Robert Byrd 50%
Ben Campbell 0%
Chris Cannon 30%
Brad Carson 56%
Julia Carson 83%
Mike Castle 58%
Hillary Clinton 82%
Michael Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Kent Conrad 77%
Jon Corzine 82%
Jerry Costello 50%
Christopher Cox 30%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 49%
Philip Crane 30%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 68%
James Davis 63%
Jo Ann Davis 0%
Thomas Davis III 39%
Bill Delahunt 83%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 73%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 29%
Norm Dicks 74%
Chris Dodd 68%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 74%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 56%
David Dreier 39%
Jennifer Dunn 43%
John Edwards 56%
Chet Edwards 61%
Vern Ehlers 48%
Jo Ann Emerson 30%
Philip English 32%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 63%
Lane Evans 84%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 82%
Michael Ferguson 46%
Peter Fitzgerald 0%
Mark Foley 47%
Harold Ford, Jr. 65%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 37%
Barney Frank 84%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 74%
Elton Gallegly 25%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 72%
Jim Gibbons 39%
Wayne Gilchrest 50%
Paul Gillmor 29%
Charlie Gonzalez 84%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 56%
Porter Goss 32%
Daniel Graham 50%
Mark Green 25%
James Greenwood 62%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 25%
Jane Harman 67%
Melissa Hart 29%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 62%
Maurice Hinchey 82%
David Lee Hobson 39%
Pete Hoekstra 38%
Thomas Holden 44%
Ernest Hollings 52%
Darlene Hooley 67%
John Nathan Hostettler 32%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 58%
Kenny Hulshof 25%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Daniel Inouye 67%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 84%
William Jefferson 66%
James Merrill Jeffords 82%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 48%
Nancy Johnson 61%
Tim Johnson 44%
Paul Kanjorski 54%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 52%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 82%
Mark Kennedy 0%
Patrick Kennedy 66%
Dale Kildee 53%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 73%
Gerald Kleczka 63%
Joseph Knollenberg 38%
Herb Kohl 63%
James Kolbe 56%
Dennis Kucinich 65%
Jon Kyl 0%
Ray LaHood 32%
Nicholas Lampson 61%
Tom Lantos 74%
Steve LaTourette 44%
James Leach 54%
Jerry Lewis 37%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 82%
Blanche Lincoln 52%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 48%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
Don Manzullo 0%
Robert Matsui 84%
Karen McCarthy 74%
James McCrery III 25%
John McHugh 0%
Scott McInnis 0%
Michael McNulty 58%
Martin Meehan 74%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 83%
Zell Bryan Miller 54%
Alan Mollohan 52%
Dennis Moore 67%
Jack Murtha 52%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 49%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 0%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 44%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 32%
Jim Oberstar 56%
Dave Obey 63%
John Olver 92%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 53%
Thomas William Osborne 32%
Doug Ose 51%
Major Owens 74%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ron Paul 49%
Donald Payne 94%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 25%
Todd Platts 44%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 54%
Deborah Pryce 44%
Jack Quinn 47%
George Radanovich 25%
James Ramstad 47%
Ralph Regula 0%
Denny Rehberg 25%
Silvestre Reyes 60%
Thomas Reynolds 32%
Ciro Rodriguez 74%
Mike Ross 49%
Steve Rothman 74%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 94%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 62%
Rick Santorum 39%
Paul Sarbanes 82%
Jim Saxton 32%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 32%
Christopher Shays 59%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 59%
Ike Skelton 49%
Gordon Smith 48%
Nick Smith 39%
Olympia Snowe 45%
Vic Snyder 63%
Hilda Solis 97%
Mark Souder 38%
Arlen Specter 43%
John Spratt, Jr. 63%
Pete Stark 98%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 44%
Ted Stevens 44%
Ted Strickland 59%
Bart Stupak 52%
John Sullivan 0%
John Sweeney 48%
Tom Tancredo 25%
John Tanner 51%
Ellen Tauscher 67%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 39%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 52%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Ed Towns 97%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 97%
James Turner 56%
George Voinovich 40%
James Walsh 43%
Zach Wamp 32%
John Warner 0%
Diane Watson 83%
Anthony Weiner 74%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 47%
Gerald Weller 0%
Robert Wexler 74%
Heather Wilson 39%
Lynn Woolsey 84%
David Wu 65%
Albert Wynn 67%

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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