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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2004 Liberal on Economic Policy Score

Issues: Liberal
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate Sr Lisa Murkowski Republican 43%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 17%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 42%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 11%
AL U.S. House 1 Jo Bonner, Jr. Republican 13%
AL U.S. House 3 Mike Rogers Republican 26%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 27%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 17%
AR U.S. Senate Sr Mark Pryor Democratic 56%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 17%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 49%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 32%
AZ U.S. House 3 Raúl Grijalva Democratic 97%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 85%
AZ U.S. House 8 Trent Franks Republican 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 65%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 62%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 22 Devin Nunes Republican 12%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 96%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 38 Linda Sánchez Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 41%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 97%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 21%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 41%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 75%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 73%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 71%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 83%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 75%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 89%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 89%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 79%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 78%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 35%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 92%
FL U.S. House 25 Mario Diaz-Balart Republican 9%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 35%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 5%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 54%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 98%
GA U.S. House 11 Phil Gingrey Republican 15%
GA U.S. House 13 David Scott Democratic 58%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 74%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 29%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 79%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 37%
IA U.S. House 4 Steve King Republican 9%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 11%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 23%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 15%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 90%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 50%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 98%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 44%
IL Mayor At-Large Rahm Emanuel Democratic 89%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 74%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 31%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 38%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 5%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 11%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 40%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 65%
LA U.S. House 5 Rodney Alexander Republican 50%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 97%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 98%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 98%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 72%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 74%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 81%
MD U.S. House 2 Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic 64%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 93%
MD U.S. House 8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. Democratic 82%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 47%
ME U.S. House 2 Mike Michaud Democratic 63%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 93%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 79%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 41%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 49%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 37%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 87%
MI U.S. House 10 Candice Miller Republican 41%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 82%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 95%
MN U.S. House 2 John Kline Republican 13%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 94%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 53%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 69%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 7%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 79%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 24%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 18%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 22%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 67%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 54%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 93%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 37%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 52%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 66%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 33%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 63%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 84%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 29%
NH State Senate 3 Jeb Bradley Republican 45%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 76%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 77%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 85%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 54%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 56%
NJ U.S. House 5 Scott Garrett Republican 24%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 89%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 37%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 89%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 82%
NM U.S. House 2 Steve Pearce Republican 13%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 64%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 58%
NY U.S. House 1 Tim Bishop Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 47%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 77%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 77%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 86%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 89%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 30%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 33%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 8%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 85%
OH U.S. House 10 Mike Turner Republican 33%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 27%
OH U.S. House 13 Tim Ryan Democratic 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 46%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 17%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 22%
OK U.S. House 4 Tom Cole Republican 9%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 65%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 29%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 79%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 75%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 98%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 98%
PA U.S. House 6 Jim Gerlach Republican 44%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 25%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 77%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 9%
PA U.S. House 18 Tim Murphy Republican 40%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 79%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 74%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 52%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 39%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 71%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 72%
TN U.S. Senate Sr Lamar Alexander Republican 5%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 43%
TN U.S. House 5 Jim Cooper Democratic 60%
TN U.S. House 7 Marsha Blackburn Republican 25%
TX U.S. Senate Sr John Cornyn Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 28%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 38%
TX U.S. House 5 Jeb Hensarling Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 15%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 28%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 61%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 71%
TX U.S. House 19 Randy Neugebauer Republican 23%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 26 Michael Burgess Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 67%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 69%
TX U.S. House 31 John Carter Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 79%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 18%
UT U.S. House 1 Rob Bishop Republican 24%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 54%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 97%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 16%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 5%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 63%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 46%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 76%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 70%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 57%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 58%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 68%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 8%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 96%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 67%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 72%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 87%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 26%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 66%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 35%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 42%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 93%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 50%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 59%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 4%
Gary Ackerman 83%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 90%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 2%
George Allen 31%
Thomas Allen 69%
Joe Baca, Sr. 77%
Brian Baird 69%
Richard Hugh Baker 28%
J. Gresham Barrett 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 29%
Charlie Bass 46%
Evan Bayh 58%
Bob Beauprez 9%
Bob Bennett 23%
Shelley Berkley 68%
Howard Berman 88%
Marion Berry 57%
Judy Biggert 33%
Michael Bilirakis 38%
Jeff Bingaman 79%
Sherwood Boehlert 51%
Kit Bond 31%
Henry Bonilla 29%
Mary Bono Mack 35%
Leonard Boswell 57%
Rick Boucher 57%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 53%
Henry Brown, Jr. 17%
Ginny Brown-Waite 33%
Jim Bunning 11%
Conrad Burns 5%
Dan Burton 13%
Steve Buyer 25%
Robert Byrd 93%
Chris Cannon 0%
Dennis Cardoza 59%
Julia Carson 92%
Edward Case 61%
Mike Castle 50%
Ben Chandler III 69%
Chris Chocola 9%
Hillary Clinton 63%
Norm Coleman 43%
Kent Conrad 61%
Jon Corzine 79%
Jerry Costello 62%
Christopher Cox 0%
Larry Craig 11%
Robert Cramer 50%
Barbara Cubin 5%
Randall Cunningham 26%
Artur Davis 60%
James Davis 69%
Jo Ann Davis 43%
Lincoln Davis 55%
Thomas Davis III 25%
Bill Delahunt 93%
Thomas DeLay 5%
James DeMint 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 38%
Norm Dicks 64%
Chris Dodd 79%
Elizabeth Dole 39%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 16%
John Doolittle 17%
Byron Dorgan 76%
David Dreier 17%
Chet Edwards 55%
Vern Ehlers 44%
Jo Ann Emerson 47%
Philip English 47%
John Ensign 30%
Bob Etheridge 63%
Lane Evans 75%
Terry Everett 25%
Tom Feeney 0%
Russ Feingold 90%
Michael Ferguson 47%
Mark Foley 33%
Harold Ford, Jr. 62%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 45%
Barney Frank 89%
William Frist 18%
Elton Gallegly 22%
Jim Gibbons 31%
Wayne Gilchrest 47%
Paul Gillmor 35%
Charlie Gonzalez 61%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 44%
Bart Gordon 57%
Mark Green 38%
Judd Gregg 22%
Gilbert Gutknecht 29%
Jane Harman 66%
Katherine Harris 5%
Melissa Hart 30%
Robert Hayes 37%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 12%
Joel Hefley 40%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 60%
Maurice Hinchey 93%
David Lee Hobson 17%
Pete Hoekstra 17%
Thomas Holden 63%
Darlene Hooley 61%
John Nathan Hostettler 35%
Kenny Hulshof 28%
Duncan Hunter 31%
Kay Hutchison 26%
Henry Hyde 41%
Daniel Inouye 79%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 16%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 89%
William Jefferson 65%
James Merrill Jeffords 69%
William Lewis Jenkins 39%
Nancy Johnson 47%
Tim Johnson 52%
Paul Kanjorski 73%
Ric Keller 5%
Sue Kelly 52%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 88%
Mark Kennedy 23%
Patrick Kennedy 82%
Dale Kildee 77%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 96%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
Herb Kohl 93%
James Kolbe 23%
Dennis Kucinich 87%
Jon Kyl 2%
Ray LaHood 46%
Tom Lantos 84%
Steve LaTourette 48%
James Leach 51%
Jerry Lewis 20%
Ron Lewis 31%
Joe Lieberman 62%
Blanche Lincoln 65%
John Linder 17%
Trent Lott, Sr. 31%
Dick Lugar 35%
Don Manzullo 29%
Jim Marshall 57%
Robert Matsui 86%
Thaddeus McCotter 43%
James McCrery III 22%
John McHugh 44%
Michael McNulty 82%
Martin Meehan 96%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 74%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 75%
Brad Miller 66%
Alan Mollohan 68%
Dennis Moore 61%
Jack Murtha 64%
Marilyn Musgrave 12%
Sue Myrick 7%
Ben Nelson 53%
Robert William Ney 36%
Anne Northup 37%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 38%
Jim Oberstar 82%
Dave Obey 77%
John Olver 98%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 59%
Thomas William Osborne 35%
Major Owens 88%
Michael Oxley 9%
Ron Paul 47%
Donald Payne 94%
John Peterson 38%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 26%
Todd Platts 46%
Richard Pombo 7%
Earl Pomeroy 56%
Jon Porter, Sr. 31%
Deborah Pryce 27%
George Radanovich 9%
James Ramstad 42%
Ralph Regula 17%
Denny Rehberg 20%
Richard Renzi 40%
Silvestre Reyes 59%
Thomas Reynolds 26%
Mike Ross 56%
Steve Rothman 72%
Jim Ryun 16%
Martin Olav Sabo 89%
Rick Santorum 24%
Paul Sarbanes 93%
Jim Saxton 51%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 17%
Christopher Shays 53%
Donald Sherwood 21%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 52%
Ike Skelton 59%
Gordon Smith 45%
Olympia Snowe 48%
Vic Snyder 65%
Hilda Solis 94%
Mark Souder 32%
Arlen Specter 49%
John Spratt, Jr. 63%
Pete Stark 98%
Cliff Stearns 17%
Ted Stevens 18%
Ted Strickland 75%
Bart Stupak 70%
John Sullivan 0%
John Sununu 9%
John Sweeney 47%
James Talent 39%
Tom Tancredo 13%
John Tanner 55%
Ellen Tauscher 71%
Charles Taylor 31%
Gene Taylor 56%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 20%
Todd Tiahrt 16%
Ed Towns 81%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 79%
George Voinovich 38%
James Walsh 49%
Zach Wamp 23%
John Warner 36%
Diane Watson 95%
Anthony Weiner 81%
David Weldon 16%
W. Curtis Weldon 45%
Gerald Weller 27%
Robert Wexler 92%
Heather Wilson 49%
Lynn Woolsey 89%
David Wu 67%
Albert Wynn 58%

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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