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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

2005 Liberal on Economic Policy Score

Issues: Liberal
State Office District Name Party Rating
NA President Barack Obama II Democratic 87%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 73%
AK U.S. Senate Sr Lisa Murkowski Republican 25%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AR U.S. Senate Sr Mark Pryor Democratic 59%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 8%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 47%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 47%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 75%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 90%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 71%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 63%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 78%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 15%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 14%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 31%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 83%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 16%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 94%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 49%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 25%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 30%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 56%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 24%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 86%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 91%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 53%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 78%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 71%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 13%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 6%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 6%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 54%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 36%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 95%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 77%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 92%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 85%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 82%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 6%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 95%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 92%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 39%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 67%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 33%
TN U.S. Senate Sr Lamar Alexander Republican 36%
TX U.S. Senate Sr John Cornyn Republican 32%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 20%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 88%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 94%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 88%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 68%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 92%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 77%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 36%
AL U.S. House 1 Jo Bonner, Jr. Republican 17%
AL U.S. House 3 Mike Rogers Republican 41%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 9%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 17%
AZ U.S. House 3 Raúl Grijalva Democratic 94%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 72%
AZ U.S. House 8 Trent Franks Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 6 Doris Matsui Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 16 Jim Costa Democratic 59%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 22 Devin Nunes Republican 26%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 82%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 27%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 38 Linda Sánchez Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 32%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 69%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 9%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 82%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 87%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 76%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 88%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 29%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 24%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 80%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 28%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 41%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 87%
FL U.S. House 23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic 85%
FL U.S. House 25 Mario Diaz-Balart Republican 18%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 27%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 13%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 56%
GA U.S. House 3 Lynn Westmoreland Republican 6%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 94%
GA U.S. House 6 Tom Price Republican 9%
GA U.S. House 11 Phil Gingrey Republican 14%
GA U.S. House 12 John Barrow Democratic 62%
GA U.S. House 13 David Scott Democratic 58%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 24%
IA U.S. House 4 Steve King Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 34%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 72%
IL U.S. House 3 Daniel Lipinski Democratic 65%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 87%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 69%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 94%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 30%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 71%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 29%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 9%
LA U.S. House 3 Charles Boustany, Jr. Republican 6%
LA U.S. House 5 Rodney Alexander Republican 9%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 88%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 94%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 94%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 92%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 2 Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic 65%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 72%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. Democratic 92%
ME U.S. House 2 Mike Michaud Democratic 71%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 23%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 42%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 24%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 10 Candice Miller Republican 37%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 69%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 75%
MN U.S. House 2 John Kline Republican 19%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 94%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 54%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 67%
MO U.S. House 5 Emanuel Cleaver II Democratic 74%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 36%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 65%
NC U.S. House 1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. Democratic 77%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 51%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 85%
NC U.S. House 5 Virginia Foxx Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 34%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 56%
NC U.S. House 10 Patrick McHenry Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 88%
NE U.S. House 1 Jeff Fortenberry Republican 14%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 41%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 77%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 53%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 53%
NJ U.S. House 5 Scott Garrett Republican 14%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 85%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 82%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 46%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 92%
NM U.S. House 2 Steve Pearce Republican 19%
NY U.S. House 1 Tim Bishop Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 47%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 69%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 65%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 76%
NY U.S. House 26 Brian Higgins Democratic 71%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 19%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 3%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 78%
OH U.S. House 10 Mike Turner Republican 45%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 18%
OH U.S. House 13 Tim Ryan Democratic 69%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 17%
OK U.S. House 4 Tom Cole Republican 19%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 14%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 82%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 78%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 71%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 84%
PA U.S. House 6 Jim Gerlach Republican 50%
PA U.S. House 8 Mike Fitzpatrick Republican 53%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 3%
PA U.S. House 13 Allyson Schwartz Democratic 78%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 69%
PA U.S. House 15 Charlie Dent Republican 9%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 14%
PA U.S. House 18 Tim Murphy Republican 38%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 78%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 3%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 68%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 35%
TN U.S. House 5 Jim Cooper Democratic 61%
TN U.S. House 7 Marsha Blackburn Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 1 Louie Gohmert Republican 28%
TX U.S. House 2 Ted Poe Republican 26%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 5 Jeb Hensarling Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 26%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 9 Al Green Democratic 65%
TX U.S. House 10 Michael McCaul Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 11 Mike Conaway Republican 21%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 24%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 58%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 64%
TX U.S. House 19 Randy Neugebauer Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 24 Kenny Marchant Republican 19%
TX U.S. House 26 Michael Burgess Republican 6%
TX U.S. House 28 Henry Cuellar Democratic 53%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 63%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 82%
TX U.S. House 31 John Carter Republican 9%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 81%
UT U.S. House 1 Rob Bishop Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 54%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 78%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 29%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 24%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 9%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 71%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 47%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 66%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 23%
WA U.S. House 5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers Republican 19%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 94%
WA U.S. House 8 Dave Reichert Republican 45%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 68%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 26%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 68%
WI U.S. House 4 Gwen Moore Democratic 92%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 42%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 46%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 33%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 64%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 6%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 66%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 41%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 16%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal Republican 3%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 81%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 57%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 82%
NH State Senate 3 Jeb Bradley Republican 49%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 52%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 91%
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar No Party Affiliation 60%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 24%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 81%
IL Mayor At-Large Rahm Emanuel Democratic 74%
Gary Ackerman 94%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 69%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 16%
Thomas Allen 81%
Joe Baca, Sr. 63%
Brian Baird 69%
Richard Hugh Baker 14%
J. Gresham Barrett 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 45%
Charlie Bass 43%
Evan Bayh 66%
Melissa Bean 59%
Bob Beauprez 21%
Bob Bennett 20%
Shelley Berkley 74%
Howard Berman 88%
Marion Berry 57%
Judy Biggert 42%
Michael Bilirakis 41%
Jeff Bingaman 65%
Sherwood Boehlert 52%
Kit Bond 6%
Henry Bonilla 9%
Mary Bono Mack 30%
Dan Boren 50%
Leonard Boswell 62%
Rick Boucher 63%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 56%
Henry Brown, Jr. 9%
Ginny Brown-Waite 40%
Jim Bunning 6%
Conrad Burns 29%
Dan Burton 13%
Steve Buyer 21%
Robert Byrd 60%
Chris Cannon 0%
Dennis Cardoza 57%
Russ Carnahan 82%
Julia Carson 79%
Edward Case 60%
Mike Castle 51%
Ben Chandler III 64%
Chris Chocola 14%
Hillary Clinton 84%
Norm Coleman 49%
Kent Conrad 62%
Jerry Costello 62%
Larry Craig 22%
Robert Cramer 50%
Barbara Cubin 23%
Artur Davis 62%
Geoff Davis 30%
James Davis 76%
Jo Ann Davis 33%
Lincoln Davis 52%
Thomas Davis III 47%
Bill Delahunt 91%
Thomas DeLay 21%
James DeMint 22%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 38%
Norm Dicks 75%
Chris Dodd 81%
Elizabeth Dole 29%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 39%
John Doolittle 40%
Byron Dorgan 70%
Thelma Drake 9%
David Dreier 19%
Chet Edwards 55%
Vern Ehlers 46%
Jo Ann Emerson 38%
Philip English 37%
John Ensign 28%
Bob Etheridge 78%
Lane Evans 82%
Terry Everett 12%
Tom Feeney 30%
Russ Feingold 76%
Michael Ferguson 43%
Mark Foley 44%
Harold Ford, Jr. 58%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 38%
Barney Frank 94%
William Frist 12%
Elton Gallegly 30%
Jim Gibbons 38%
Wayne Gilchrest 48%
Paul Gillmor 30%
Charlie Gonzalez 60%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 44%
Bart Gordon 55%
Mark Green 48%
Judd Gregg 41%
Gilbert Gutknecht 38%
Jane Harman 64%
Katherine Harris 35%
Melissa Hart 14%
Robert Hayes 30%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 33%
Wally Herger, Jr. 3%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin 59%
Maurice Hinchey 88%
David Lee Hobson 27%
Pete Hoekstra 24%
Thomas Holden 57%
Darlene Hooley 67%
John Nathan Hostettler 35%
Kenny Hulshof 35%
Duncan Hunter 9%
Kay Hutchison 35%
Henry Hyde 35%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 38%
Daniel Inouye 64%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 29%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 92%
William Jefferson 62%
James Merrill Jeffords 78%
William Lewis Jenkins 29%
Nancy Johnson 51%
Tim Johnson 52%
Paul Kanjorski 66%
Ric Keller 23%
Sue Kelly 48%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 95%
Mark Kennedy 34%
Patrick Kennedy 92%
Dale Kildee 74%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 77%
Joseph Knollenberg 34%
Herb Kohl 72%
James Kolbe 27%
Dennis Kucinich 88%
John Kuhl, Jr. 38%
Jon Kyl 16%
Ray LaHood 46%
Tom Lantos 88%
Steve LaTourette 50%
James Leach 54%
Jerry Lewis 28%
Ron Lewis 14%
Joe Lieberman 74%
Blanche Lincoln 58%
John Linder 3%
Trent Lott, Sr. 11%
Dick Lugar 45%
Dan Lungren 9%
Connie Mack IV 21%
Don Manzullo 37%
Jim Marshall 56%
Melquiades Martinez 36%
Thaddeus McCotter 42%
James McCrery III 17%
John McHugh 44%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 94%
Michael McNulty 78%
Martin Meehan 88%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 71%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. 55%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 87%
Brad Miller 92%
Alan Mollohan 58%
Dennis Moore 63%
Jack Murtha 60%
Marilyn Musgrave 3%
Sue Myrick 8%
Ben Nelson 50%
Robert William Ney 38%
Anne Northup 24%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 28%
Jim Oberstar 79%
Dave Obey 85%
John Olver 94%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 59%
Thomas William Osborne 14%
Major Owens 88%
Michael Oxley 21%
Ron Paul 54%
Donald Payne 94%
John Peterson 32%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 35%
Todd Platts 49%
Richard Pombo 17%
Earl Pomeroy 60%
Jon Porter, Sr. 28%
Deborah Pryce 17%
George Radanovich 13%
James Ramstad 52%
Ralph Regula 30%
Denny Rehberg 14%
Richard Renzi 42%
Silvestre Reyes 59%
Thomas Reynolds 36%
Mike Ross 60%
Steve Rothman 74%
Jim Ryun 9%
Martin Olav Sabo 82%
Ken Salazar 61%
Rick Santorum 34%
Paul Sarbanes 95%
Jim Saxton 50%
John Schwarz 45%
John Shadegg 21%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 40%
Christopher Shays 53%
Donald Sherwood 30%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 51%
Ike Skelton 57%
Gordon Smith 48%
Olympia Snowe 55%
Vic Snyder 66%
Mike Sodrel 9%
Hilda Solis 94%
Mark Souder 3%
Arlen Specter 51%
John Spratt, Jr. 72%
Pete Stark 94%
Cliff Stearns 43%
Ted Stevens 25%
Ted Strickland 67%
Bart Stupak 68%
John Sullivan 3%
John Sununu 44%
John Sweeney 44%
James Talent 42%
Tom Tancredo 44%
John Tanner 56%
Ellen Tauscher 68%
Charles Taylor 9%
Gene Taylor 55%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 33%
Todd Tiahrt 6%
Ed Towns 67%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 81%
George Voinovich 46%
James Walsh 43%
Zach Wamp 35%
John Warner 43%
Diane Watson 94%
Anthony Weiner 94%
David Weldon 36%
W. Curtis Weldon 48%
Gerald Weller 26%
Robert Wexler 94%
Heather Wilson 49%
Lynn Woolsey 88%
David Wu 69%
Albert Wynn 60%

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.

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