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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1996 Conservative on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
Paul Coverdell 94%
William Phillip Gramm 94%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 94%
Trent Lott, Sr. 94%
Connie Mack 94%
Don Nickles 94%
Larry Craig 91%
Dirk Kempthorne 91%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 89%
Craig Thomas 89%
Hank Brown 88%
Robert Dole 87%
John Ashcroft 86%
Jesse Helms 86%
Kay Hutchison 86%
Jon Kyl 85%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 84%
Richard Armey 82%
Cass Ballenger 82%
Bill Barrett 82%
Roscoe Bartlett 82%
Charlie Bass 82%
Bob Bennett 82%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 82%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 82%
Ed Bryant 82%
Jim Bunning 82%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 82%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 82%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 82%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 82%
Jon Lynn Christensen 82%
Michael Collins 82%
Larry Combest 82%
Christopher Cox 82%
Philip Crane 82%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 82%
Barbara Cubin 82%
Randall Cunningham 82%
Thomas DeLay 82%
Jay Dickey 82%
John Doolittle 82%
David Dreier 82%
Jennifer Dunn 82%
Terry Everett 82%
Thomas Ewing 82%
Elton Gallegly 82%
George Gekas 82%
William Goodling 82%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 82%
Gilbert Gutknecht 82%
James Hansen 82%
J. Dennis Hastert 82%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 82%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 82%
Wally Herger, Jr. 82%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 82%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 82%
Jay Kim 82%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 82%
James Kolbe 82%
Ron Lewis 82%
John Linder 82%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 82%
Don Manzullo 82%
Scott McInnis 82%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 82%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 82%
Sue Myrick 82%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 82%
James Nussle 82%
Mike Parker 82%
William Paxon 82%
Richard Pombo 82%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 82%
Daniel Schaefer 82%
John Shadegg 82%
E.G. Shuster 82%
Nick Smith 82%
Floyd Spence 82%
Cliff Stearns 82%
Bob Stump 82%
Charles Taylor 82%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 82%
Todd Tiahrt 82%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 82%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 82%
Herbert Callahan 80%
Pete Hoekstra 80%
Rick White 80%
Rodney Grams 79%
Frank Murkowski 79%
Bob Smith 79%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 78%
Bill Archer 76%
Michael Bilirakis 76%
Sonny Bono 76%
Conrad Burns 76%
Dan Burton 76%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 76%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 76%
Joel Hefley 76%
Van Hilleary 76%
Duncan Hunter 76%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 76%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 76%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 76%
Dick Lugar 76%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 76%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 76%
David Weldon 76%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 76%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 75%
William Baker 74%
Dick Chrysler 74%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 74%
Wes Cooley 74%
Robert Dornan 74%
Bill Emerson 74%
Jack Fields, Jr. 74%
Gary Franks 74%
Enid Greene 74%
Melton Hancock 74%
Carlos Moorhead 74%
Toby Roth 74%
Andrea Seastrand 74%
Barbara Vucanovich 74%
Robert Walker 74%
Bill Zeliff 74%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 73%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 73%
Dan Miller 73%
Susan Molinari 73%
Michael Oxley 73%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 73%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 73%
James Talent 73%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 73%
Robert Barr, Jr. 71%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 71%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 71%
Harris Fawell 71%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 71%
Bill McCollum 71%
Richard Hugh Baker 70%
David McIntosh 70%
George Radanovich 70%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 69%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 69%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 69%
Fred Thompson 69%
Strom Thurmond 69%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 68%
Henry Bonilla 68%
Steve Buyer 68%
William Frist 68%
John Ganske 68%
Joseph Knollenberg 68%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 68%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 68%
Mark Souder 68%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 67%
David Funderburk 67%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 67%
James McCrery III 67%
Ronald Packard 67%
Ted Stevens 67%
William Clinger 64%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 64%
John Ensign 64%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 64%
David Lee Hobson 64%
John Nathan Hostettler 64%
Henry Hyde 64%
Ray LaHood 64%
Frank Duncan Riggs 64%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 64%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 64%
Randy Tate 64%
William Tauzin 64%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 64%
Gerald Weller 64%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 64%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 63%
Tillie Fowler 63%
Judd Gregg 63%
Stephen Largent 63%
Larry Pressler 63%
Joe Scarborough 63%
Herbert Bateman 61%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 61%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 61%
Paul Gillmor 61%
Jerry Lewis 61%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 61%
Deborah Pryce 61%
Jim Saxton 61%
Joseph Skeen 61%
William Thomas 61%
Slade Gorton 60%
Martin Hoke 60%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 60%
Jim Lightfoot 60%
Jan Meyers 60%
John Myers 60%
James Quillen 60%
TX U.S. House 36 Steve Stockman Republican 60%
Thomas Campbell 58%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 58%
Mark Foley 58%
Porter Goss 58%
Jack Metcalf 58%
Robert William Ney 58%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 58%
William Roth, Jr. 58%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 58%
Zach Wamp 58%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 58%
Alan Simpson 57%
Kit Bond 56%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 56%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 56%
Wayne Gilchrest 56%
James Greenwood 56%
Steven Gunderson 56%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 56%
Sue Kelly 56%
Steve LaTourette 56%
Rick Lazio 56%
G.V. Montgomery 56%
Mark Neumann 56%
John Warner 56%
Douglas Bereuter 55%
Michael Patrick Forbes 55%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 55%
Robert Livingston 55%
John Edward Porter 55%
Linda Smith 55%
Alfonse D'Amato 54%
Vern Ehlers 54%
Rick Santorum 54%
Brian Bilbray 53%
Ben Campbell 53%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 53%
Dan Frisa 53%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 53%
W. Curtis Weldon 53%
Thomas Davis III 52%
Philip English 52%
Mark Hatfield 52%
Nancy Johnson 52%
Joseph McDade 52%
Olympia Snowe 52%
Jim Bunn 51%
Pete Geren 51%
Stephen Horn 51%
Greg Laughlin 51%
James Longley, Jr. 51%
Robert Franks 50%
Steven Schiff 50%
Peter Blute 49%
Mike Castle 49%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 49%
James Ramstad 49%
Ralph Regula 49%
Richard Zimmer 49%
Jon David Fox 48%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 48%
James Merrill Jeffords 48%
Scott Klug 48%
James Leach 48%
Christopher Shays 48%
Arlen Specter 48%
John Chafee 47%
Gary Condit 47%
Robert Cramer 47%
John McHugh 47%
Peter Torkildsen 47%
James Walsh 47%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 46%
Bill Brewster 46%
William Cohen 46%
James Hayes 46%
Marge Roukema 46%
John Breaux 45%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 45%
Benjamin Gilman 45%
Bill Martini 45%
Constance Morella 45%
Sam Nunn 45%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 45%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 45%
Gene Taylor 45%
Jim Exon 44%
Bart Gordon 44%
Joe Lieberman 44%
Norman Sisisky 44%
Sherwood Boehlert 43%
Lee Hamilton 43%
Blanche Lincoln 43%
Jack Quinn 43%
Charles Stenholm 43%
Jane Harman 42%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 42%
Timothy Roemer 42%
John Tanner 42%
Charles Wilson 42%
James Barcia 41%
Robert Clement 41%
Thomas Holden 41%
Bill Orton 41%
Owen Pickett 41%
Tom Bevill 40%
Glen Browder 40%
Calvin Dooley 40%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 40%
Charles Rose III 40%
Ike Skelton 40%
James Traficant, Jr. 40%
Henry Scott Baesler 39%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 39%
Jim Chapman 39%
Patsy Ann Danner 39%
Wendell Ford 39%
Daniel Graham 39%
W.G. Hefner 39%
William Lipinski 39%
E. Kika de la Garza 38%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 38%
Pete Peterson 38%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 36%
Peter Deutsch 36%
Chet Edwards 36%
Elizabeth Furse 36%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 36%
Paul McHale 36%
David Minge 36%
Glenn Poshard 36%
John Spratt, Jr. 36%
Frank Tejeda 36%
Rick Boucher 35%
Tony Hall 35%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 35%
Harold Volkmer 35%
Richard Bryan 34%
Byron Dorgan 34%
Herb Kohl 34%
Charles Robb 34%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 33%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 33%
Victor Fazio 33%
J. Bennett Johnston 33%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 33%
Frank Mascara 33%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 33%
Claiborne Pell 33%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 32%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 32%
Albert Wynn 32%
Jerry Costello 31%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 31%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 31%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 31%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 30%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 30%
Ray Thornton 29%
Gary Ackerman 28%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 28%
Sam Gibbons 28%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 28%
Gerald Kleczka 28%
Michael McNulty 28%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 28%
Earl Pomeroy 28%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 28%
Bart Stupak 28%
Karen Thurman 28%
Thomas Daschle 27%
Jonas Frost III 27%
Carol Moseley Braun 27%
John Bryant 26%
Michael Ward 26%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 26%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 25%
William Jefferson 25%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 25%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 25%
William Luther 25%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 25%
Bill Richardson 25%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 25%
Norm Dicks 24%
Cleo Fields 23%
Harold Ford, Sr. 23%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 22%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 22%
Henry Gonzalez 22%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 22%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 22%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 22%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 22%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 22%
Anthony Beilenson 21%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 21%
Thomas Manton 21%
Alan Mollohan 21%
David Pryor 21%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 21%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 19%
Robert Byrd 19%
Kent Conrad 19%
Russ Feingold 19%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 19%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 19%
John Baldacci 18%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 18%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 18%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 18%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 18%
Floyd Flake 18%
Sam Gejdenson 18%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 18%
Dale Kildee 18%
Matthew Martinez 18%
Carrie Meek 18%
Jack Murtha 18%
Harry Johnston 17%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 16%
Robert Matsui 16%
Martin Meehan 16%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 16%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 16%
Dave Obey 16%
Donald Payne 16%
Bob Wise, Jr. 16%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 15%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 15%
Gerry Studds 15%
Pat Williams 15%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 14%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 14%
Patrick Moynihan 14%
Daniel Inouye 13%
Ronald Coleman 12%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 11%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 11%
David Edward Bonior 11%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 11%
Dale Bumpers 11%
Lane Evans 11%
Maurice Hinchey 11%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 11%
Paul Kanjorski 11%
Joseph Kennedy II 11%
Patrick Kennedy 11%
John LaFalce 11%
Tom Lantos 11%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 11%
Karen McCarthy 11%
John Olver 11%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 11%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 11%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 11%
Bill Bradley 6%
Patricia Schroeder 6%
Paul Simon 06%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 5%
Jeff Bingaman 5%
Chris Dodd 5%
John Glenn 5%
Frank Lautenberg 5%
Paul Wellstone 5%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
Howard Berman 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. 0%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 0%
Barbara-Rose Collins 00%
Cardiss Collins 0%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
William Coyne 0%
Ronald Dellums 0%
Julian Dixon 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
Thomas Foglietta 0%
Barney Frank 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
Bob Kerrey 0%
Ronald Klink 0%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
John Moakley 0%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Major Owens 0%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
David Skaggs 0%
Pete Stark 0%
Louis Stokes 0%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
Ed Towns 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
Bruce Vento 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
Sidney Yates 0%

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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