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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2002 Composite Liberal Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 98%
Pete Stark 98%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 97%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 96%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 96%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 95%
Donald Payne 95%
Hilda Solis 95%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 95%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 94%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 94%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 94%
Lynn Woolsey 94%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 93%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 93%
Diane Watson 93%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 92%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 92%
John Olver 92%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 92%
Paul Sarbanes 92%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 91%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 91%
Maurice Hinchey 91%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 91%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 91%
Major Owens 91%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 91%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 91%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 91%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 91%
Lane Evans 90%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 89%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 89%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 89%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 89%
Julia Carson 88%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 88%
Hillary Clinton 87%
Jon Corzine 87%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 87%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 87%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 87%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 86%
Barney Frank 86%
Martin Olav Sabo 86%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 86%
Ed Towns 86%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 86%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 85%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 85%
Bill Delahunt 85%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 85%
Russ Feingold 85%
Dennis Kucinich 85%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 85%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 84%
Howard Berman 84%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 84%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 83%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 83%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 83%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 83%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 83%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 83%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 83%
Charlie Gonzalez 82%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 82%
Robert Matsui 82%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 82%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 81%
Chris Dodd 81%
James Merrill Jeffords 81%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 80%
Jim Oberstar 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 80%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 79%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 79%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 79%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 79%
Anthony Weiner 79%
Gary Ackerman 78%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 78%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 78%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 78%
Gerald Kleczka 78%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 78%
Joe Lieberman 78%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 78%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 78%
Thomas Allen 77%
Jeff Bingaman 77%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 77%
Karen McCarthy 77%
Michael McNulty 77%
Martin Meehan 77%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 77%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 77%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 77%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 76%
Kent Conrad 76%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 76%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 76%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 76%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 76%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 75%
Jonas Frost III 75%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 75%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 75%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 75%
Dave Obey 75%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 75%
Tom Lantos 74%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 74%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 74%
Robert Wexler 74%
Albert Wynn 74%
Joe Baca, Sr. 73%
Brian Baird 73%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 73%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 73%
Daniel Inouye 73%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 73%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 73%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 72%
Patrick Kennedy 72%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 72%
Norm Dicks 71%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 70%
Darlene Hooley 70%
Dale Kildee 70%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 70%
David Wu 70%
Thomas Daschle 69%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 69%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 69%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 69%
Shelley Berkley 68%
Steve Rothman 68%
Bart Stupak 68%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 67%
Rick Boucher 67%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 67%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 67%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 67%
John Spratt, Jr. 67%
Peter Deutsch 66%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 66%
William Jefferson 66%
Paul Kanjorski 66%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 66%
Ted Strickland 66%
Ellen Tauscher 66%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 65%
Herb Kohl 65%
Byron Dorgan 64%
Harold Ford, Jr. 64%
Nicholas Lampson 64%
Dennis Moore 64%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 64%
Robert Byrd 63%
Calvin Dooley 63%
John Edwards 63%
Silvestre Reyes 63%
Vic Snyder 63%
Bob Etheridge 62%
Daniel Graham 62%
Baron Hill 62%
Ernest Hollings 62%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 62%
James Davis 61%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 61%
Leonard Boswell 60%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 60%
Alan Mollohan 60%
Evan Bayh 59%
Chet Edwards 59%
Jane Harman 59%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 59%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 58%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 58%
Jack Murtha 58%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 58%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 58%
Marion Berry 57%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 57%
James Leach 57%
Ike Skelton 57%
James Turner 57%
Jerry Costello 56%
Bart Gordon 56%
Mike Ross 56%
Brad Carson 55%
Nancy Johnson 55%
Earl Pomeroy 55%
John Tanner 54%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 53%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Blanche Lincoln 53%
William Lipinski 53%
Thomas Holden 52%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 52%
Ron Paul 52%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 52%
Robert Cramer 51%
Christopher John 51%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 51%
Christopher Shays 51%
John Breaux 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 50%
Wayne Gilchrest 49%
Arlen Specter 49%
Charles Stenholm 49%
Gene Taylor 49%
Sherwood Boehlert 48%
Ben Nelson 48%
W. Curtis Weldon 48%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 47%
Gordon Smith 46%
Mike Castle 45%
James Greenwood 45%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 45%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 45%
Olympia Snowe 45%
Mary Bono Mack 44%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 44%
Tim Johnson 44%
Steve LaTourette 44%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 44%
John Nathan Hostettler 43%
Charlie Bass 42%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 42%
Jack Quinn 42%
James Ramstad 42%
Nick Smith 42%
Douglas Bereuter 41%
William Thomas 41%
James Walsh 41%
David Dreier 40%
Vern Ehlers 40%
Michael Ferguson 40%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 40%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 40%
Todd Platts 40%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 40%
Doug Ose 39%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 39%
George Voinovich 39%
Gilbert Gutknecht 38%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 38%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 37%
Zell Bryan Miller 37%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 37%
Heather Wilson 37%
Sue Kelly 36%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 36%
Judy Biggert 35%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 35%
Mark Foley 35%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 35%
James Kolbe 35%
Ray LaHood 35%
Jo Ann Emerson 34%
Pete Hoekstra 34%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 34%
James Nussle 34%
Thomas William Osborne 34%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 34%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 34%
Christopher Cox 33%
Peter Fitzgerald 33%
Deborah Pryce 33%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 33%
Mark Souder 33%
Roscoe Bartlett 32%
Jennifer Dunn 32%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 32%
Ben Campbell 31%
Thomas Davis III 31%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 31%
Jerry Lewis 31%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 31%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 31%
John Sweeney 31%
John Warner 31%
Dan Burton 30%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 30%
Duncan Hunter 30%
Don Manzullo 30%
George Radanovich 30%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 30%
Philip English 29%
Elton Gallegly 29%
Porter Goss 29%
Judd Gregg 29%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 29%
Paul Gillmor 28%
Mark Green 28%
John McHugh 28%
John Peterson 28%
Ralph Regula 28%
Jim Saxton 28%
Tom Tancredo 28%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 28%
Zach Wamp 28%
George Allen 27%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 27%
Steve Buyer 27%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 27%
David Lee Hobson 27%
Kenny Hulshof 27%
Anne Northup 27%
Charles Taylor 27%
John Ensign 26%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 26%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 26%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 26%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 25%
Chris Cannon 25%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 25%
Ted Stevens 25%
Conrad Burns 24%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 24%
Jim Gibbons 24%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 24%
Thomas Reynolds 24%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 24%
Kit Bond 23%
Jim Bunning 23%
Jo Ann Davis 23%
Denny Rehberg 23%
Cliff Stearns 23%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 23%
Randall Cunningham 22%
Joseph Knollenberg 22%
Dick Lugar 22%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 22%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 22%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 22%
Henry Brown, Jr. 21%
Michael Collins 21%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 21%
Robert Hayes 21%
Henry Hyde 21%
James McCrery III 21%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 21%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 21%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 21%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 21%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 21%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 20%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 20%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 20%
Mark Kennedy 20%
Scott McInnis 20%
Robert William Ney 20%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 20%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 20%
Rick Santorum 20%
Cass Ballenger 19%
Michael Bilirakis 19%
Larry Combest 19%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 19%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 19%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 18%
Terry Everett 18%
Melissa Hart 18%
Wally Herger, Jr. 18%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 18%
Todd Tiahrt 18%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 17%
Bob Bennett 17%
Larry Craig 17%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 17%
John Doolittle 17%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 17%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 17%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 17%
Joel Hefley 17%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 17%
Michael Oxley 17%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 17%
John Sullivan 17%
David Weldon 17%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 16%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 16%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 16%
Wayne Allard 15%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 15%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 15%
Kay Hutchison 15%
William Lewis Jenkins 15%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 15%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 15%
Sue Myrick 15%
Donald Sherwood 15%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 15%
Henry Bonilla 14%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 14%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 14%
Philip Crane 14%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 14%
Richard Hugh Baker 13%
William Frist 13%
Ron Lewis 13%
Trent Lott, Sr. 13%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 13%
Jim Ryun 13%
Edward Schrock 13%
John Shadegg 13%
Thomas DeLay 12%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 12%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 12%
William Tauzin 12%
Gerald Weller 12%
Barbara Cubin 11%
Ric Keller 11%
Jon Kyl 11%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 11%
Don Nickles 11%
Craig Thomas 11%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 10%
Richard Pombo 10%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 10%
Todd Akin 8%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 8%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 8%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 8%
John Linder 8%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 8%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 8%

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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