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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Liberal on Economic Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 47%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 42%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 15%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 18%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 15%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 79%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 29%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 61%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 58%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 28%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 15%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 61%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 28%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 65%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 83%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 79%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 79%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 79%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 79%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 26%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 22%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 79%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 51%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 34%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 15%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 56%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 79%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 23%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 12%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 79%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 15%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 48%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 81%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 72%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 79%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 79%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 37%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 90%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 71%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 18%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 30%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 12%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 30%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 26%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 18%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 72%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 79%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 72%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 79%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 75%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 79%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 49%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 23%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 46%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 79%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 72%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 79%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 64%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 56%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 28%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 79%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 31%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 69%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 64%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 31%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 83%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 12%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 63%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 15%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 56%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 79%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 15%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 63%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 72%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 79%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 45%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 72%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 65%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 43%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 61%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 79%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 15%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 71%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 79%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 79%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 46%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 19%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 26%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 79%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 67%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 69%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 79%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 79%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 61%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 15%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 83%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 43%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 79%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 12%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 90%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 28%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 41%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 23%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 68%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 79%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 64%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 78%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 67%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 31%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 79%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 23%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 58%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 39%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 83%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 72%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 15%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 79%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 64%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 72%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 61%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 30%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 30%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 79%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 71%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 81%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 30%
Gary Ackerman 79%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 90%
Wayne Allard 18%
Thomas Allen 72%
Bill Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 71%
Cass Ballenger 21%
James Barcia 64%
Robert Barr, Jr. 34%
Bill Barrett 37%
Roscoe Bartlett 12%
Charlie Bass 42%
Herbert Bateman 39%
Bob Bennett 38%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 67%
Douglas Bereuter 43%
Howard Berman 79%
Marion Berry 58%
Brian Bilbray 46%
Michael Bilirakis 26%
Jeff Bingaman 69%
Rod Blagojevich 72%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 30%
Sherwood Boehlert 54%
Kit Bond 43%
Henry Bonilla 28%
David Edward Bonior 79%
Mary Bono Mack 36%
Robert Borski, Jr. 72%
Leonard Boswell 57%
Rick Boucher 64%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 54%
John Breaux 57%
George Brown, Jr. 79%
Richard Bryan 90%
Ed Bryant 0%
Conrad Burns 18%
Dan Burton 22%
Steve Buyer 36%
Robert Byrd 68%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 38%
Thomas Campbell 51%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 79%
Mike Castle 48%
John Chafee 51%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 48%
William Clay, Sr. 79%
Eva Clayton 68%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 59%
Robert Clement 59%
Michael Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 52%
Kent Conrad 75%
Merrill Cook 12%
John Cooksey 0%
Jerry Costello 77%
Paul Coverdell 18%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 79%
Larry Craig 18%
Robert Cramer 54%
Philip Crane 19%
Barbara Cubin 15%
Randall Cunningham 22%
Patsy Ann Danner 52%
Thomas Daschle 83%
James Davis 59%
Thomas Davis III 39%
Bill Delahunt 79%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 67%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 51%
Jay Dickey 0%
Norm Dicks 79%
Julian Dixon 79%
Chris Dodd 83%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 44%
Calvin Dooley 60%
John Doolittle 15%
Byron Dorgan 75%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 19%
Chet Edwards 72%
Vern Ehlers 42%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 26%
Jo Ann Emerson 34%
Philip English 47%
Bob Etheridge 63%
Lane Evans 72%
Terry Everett 12%
Thomas Ewing 0%
Russ Feingold 61%
Mark Foley 15%
Michael Patrick Forbes 52%
Harold Ford, Jr. 70%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 30%
Tillie Fowler 33%
Barney Frank 72%
Robert Franks 45%
William Frist 37%
Jonas Frost III 68%
Elton Gallegly 23%
John Ganske 48%
Sam Gejdenson 79%
George Gekas 37%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 79%
Jim Gibbons 23%
Wayne Gilchrest 43%
Paul Gillmor 39%
Benjamin Gilman 49%
Newt Gingrich 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 30%
William Goodling 36%
Bart Gordon 58%
Slade Gorton 31%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 61%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 12%
James Greenwood 42%
Judd Gregg 31%
Gilbert Gutknecht 37%
Tony Hall 64%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 19%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 19%
Rick Hill 43%
Van Hilleary 12%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 79%
Maurice Hinchey 79%
David Lee Hobson 34%
Pete Hoekstra 12%
Thomas Holden 61%
Ernest Hollings 61%
Darlene Hooley 67%
Stephen Horn 43%
John Nathan Hostettler 28%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 23%
Duncan Hunter 23%
Asa Hutchinson 41%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 17%
Henry Hyde 28%
Daniel Inouye 80%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 72%
William Jefferson 79%
James Merrill Jeffords 55%
William Lewis Jenkins 12%
Christopher John 53%
Nancy Johnson 53%
Paul Kanjorski 79%
Sue Kelly 39%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 83%
Patrick Kennedy 72%
Bob Kerrey 75%
Dale Kildee 77%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 79%
Gerald Kleczka 64%
Ronald Klink 66%
Joseph Knollenberg 15%
Herb Kohl 58%
James Kolbe 28%
Dennis Kucinich 72%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 77%
Ray LaHood 48%
Nicholas Lampson 79%
Tom Lantos 79%
Stephen Largent 26%
Steve LaTourette 45%
Rick Lazio 46%
James Leach 52%
Jerry Lewis 33%
Ron Lewis 15%
Joe Lieberman 55%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 54%
Robert Livingston 21%
Trent Lott, Sr. 16%
Dick Lugar 38%
William Luther 61%
Connie Mack 31%
James Maloney 58%
Don Manzullo 15%
Matthew Martinez 79%
Frank Mascara 72%
Robert Matsui 79%
Karen McCarthy 68%
Bill McCollum 23%
James McCrery III 30%
John McHugh 52%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 72%
Michael McNulty 79%
Martin Meehan 72%
Carrie Meek 79%
Jack Metcalf 39%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 79%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 60%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 79%
John Moakley 79%
Alan Mollohan 63%
Constance Morella 55%
Patrick Moynihan 90%
Frank Murkowski 12%
Jack Murtha 61%
Sue Myrick 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 34%
Robert William Ney 46%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 28%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 15%
James Nussle 39%
Jim Oberstar 79%
Dave Obey 79%
John Olver 79%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 70%
Major Owens 79%
Michael Oxley 15%
Ronald Packard 19%
Mike Parker 23%
Ron Paul 49%
Donald Payne 79%
Edward Pease 30%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 55%
Richard Pombo 12%
Earl Pomeroy 68%
John Edward Porter 48%
Deborah Pryce 33%
Jack Quinn 46%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 48%
Ralph Regula 39%
Silvestre Reyes 77%
Bob Riley 28%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 68%
Charles Robb 59%
Ciro Rodriguez 77%
Timothy Roemer 55%
James Rogan 30%
William Roth, Jr. 45%
Steve Rothman 72%
Marge Roukema 49%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 79%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 57%
Rick Santorum 18%
Paul Sarbanes 90%
Jim Saxton 37%
Joe Scarborough 12%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 43%
Christopher Shays 53%
E.G. Shuster 26%
Norman Sisisky 59%
Joseph Skeen 37%
Ike Skelton 59%
Gordon Smith 38%
Nick Smith 26%
Bob Smith 0%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 66%
Mark Souder 34%
Arlen Specter 52%
Floyd Spence 23%
John Spratt, Jr. 64%
Pete Stark 79%
Cliff Stearns 12%
Charles Stenholm 55%
Ted Stevens 46%
Ted Strickland 61%
Bob Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 72%
John Sununu 0%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 56%
Ellen Tauscher 57%
William Tauzin 33%
Charles Taylor 12%
Gene Taylor 44%
Craig Thomas 18%
William Thomas 30%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 64%
Strom Thurmond 15%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 67%
Ed Towns 79%
James Traficant, Jr. 53%
James Turner 55%
Bruce Vento 79%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 23%
John Warner 38%
Wesley Watkins 23%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 34%
David Weldon 19%
W. Curtis Weldon 45%
Gerald Weller 39%
Paul Wellstone 90%
Robert Wexler 79%
Bob Weygand 64%
Bob Wise, Jr. 79%
Lynn Woolsey 79%
Albert Wynn 72%

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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