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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Liberal on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 32%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 3%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 26%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 29%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 11%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 73%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 74%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 63%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 81%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 32%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 76%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 87%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 34%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 34%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 88%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 93%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 21%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 89%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 87%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 37%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 21%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 93%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 44%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 3%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 3%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 3%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 55%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 93%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 3%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 81%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 12%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 74%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 74%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 24%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 63%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 12%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 32%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 12%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 32%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 21%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 63%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 68%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 87%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 93%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 74%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 76%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 73%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 57%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 74%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 32%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 47%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 81%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 69%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 93%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 42%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 28%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 39%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 3%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 69%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 62%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 63%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 74%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 21%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 14%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 70%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 3%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 47%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 93%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 74%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 72%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 70%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 38%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 36%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 70%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 65%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 59%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 34%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 81%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 80%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 80%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 26%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 3%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 3%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 58%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 3%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 81%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 36%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 3%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 63%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 93%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 85%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 79%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 85%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 53%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 14%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 74%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 14%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 29%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 84%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 63%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 3%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 45%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 21%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 93%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 81%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 43%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 93%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 14%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 73%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 29%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 60%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 93%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 74%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 3%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 70%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 14%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 29%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 76%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 74%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 55%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 12%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 12%
Gary Ackerman 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 74%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 90%
Bill Archer 10%
Richard Armey 3%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 21%
John Baldacci 73%
Cass Ballenger 28%
James Barcia 48%
Robert Barr, Jr. 13%
Bill Barrett 34%
Roscoe Bartlett 26%
Charlie Bass 52%
Herbert Bateman 25%
Bob Bennett 46%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 70%
Douglas Bereuter 41%
Howard Berman 89%
Marion Berry 47%
Brian Bilbray 46%
Michael Bilirakis 14%
Jeff Bingaman 74%
Rod Blagojevich 70%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 29%
Sherwood Boehlert 69%
Kit Bond 38%
Henry Bonilla 41%
David Edward Bonior 68%
Mary Bono Mack 44%
Robert Borski, Jr. 60%
Leonard Boswell 63%
Rick Boucher 73%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 63%
John Breaux 52%
George Brown, Jr. 90%
Richard Bryan 63%
Ed Bryant 14%
Conrad Burns 24%
Dan Burton 21%
Steve Buyer 34%
Robert Byrd 55%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 31%
Thomas Campbell 62%
Chris Cannon 20%
Julia Carson 93%
Mike Castle 59%
John Chafee 63%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 0%
William Clay, Sr. 93%
Eva Clayton 87%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 74%
Robert Clement 57%
Michael Collins 3%
Larry Combest 14%
Gary Condit 53%
Kent Conrad 54%
Merrill Cook 40%
John Cooksey 42%
Jerry Costello 47%
Paul Coverdell 23%
Christopher Cox 33%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 12%
Robert Cramer 49%
Philip Crane 10%
Barbara Cubin 10%
Randall Cunningham 21%
Patsy Ann Danner 55%
Thomas Daschle 63%
James Davis 60%
Thomas Davis III 53%
Bill Delahunt 93%
Thomas DeLay 24%
Peter Deutsch 76%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 45%
Jay Dickey 28%
Norm Dicks 72%
Julian Dixon 93%
Chris Dodd 74%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 48%
Calvin Dooley 76%
John Doolittle 11%
Byron Dorgan 55%
David Dreier 36%
Jennifer Dunn 26%
Chet Edwards 67%
Vern Ehlers 46%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 49%
Jo Ann Emerson 3%
Philip English 46%
Bob Etheridge 60%
Lane Evans 85%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 25%
Russ Feingold 74%
Mark Foley 53%
Michael Patrick Forbes 46%
Harold Ford, Jr. 66%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Tillie Fowler 44%
Barney Frank 90%
Robert Franks 57%
William Frist 31%
Jonas Frost III 69%
Elton Gallegly 38%
John Ganske 51%
Sam Gejdenson 88%
George Gekas 34%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 69%
Jim Gibbons 38%
Wayne Gilchrest 59%
Paul Gillmor 32%
Benjamin Gilman 66%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 38%
William Goodling 25%
Bart Gordon 51%
Slade Gorton 45%
Porter Goss 36%
Daniel Graham 74%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 12%
James Greenwood 67%
Judd Gregg 29%
Gilbert Gutknecht 21%
Tony Hall 48%
James Hansen 12%
J. Dennis Hastert 14%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 14%
Joel Hefley 14%
Jesse Helms 22%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Rick Hill 13%
Van Hilleary 14%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 81%
Maurice Hinchey 88%
David Lee Hobson 44%
Pete Hoekstra 29%
Thomas Holden 51%
Ernest Hollings 37%
Darlene Hooley 81%
Stephen Horn 62%
John Nathan Hostettler 26%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 64%
Kenny Hulshof 14%
Duncan Hunter 3%
Asa Hutchinson 13%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 21%
Henry Hyde 11%
Daniel Inouye 63%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 19%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 93%
William Jefferson 67%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 14%
Christopher John 41%
Nancy Johnson 70%
Paul Kanjorski 56%
Sue Kelly 62%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 74%
Patrick Kennedy 81%
Bob Kerrey 74%
Dale Kildee 56%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 93%
Gerald Kleczka 60%
Ronald Klink 56%
Joseph Knollenberg 29%
Herb Kohl 74%
James Kolbe 58%
Dennis Kucinich 59%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 54%
Ray LaHood 40%
Nicholas Lampson 65%
Tom Lantos 80%
Stephen Largent 14%
Steve LaTourette 50%
Rick Lazio 53%
James Leach 60%
Jerry Lewis 46%
Ron Lewis 3%
Joe Lieberman 74%
John Linder 3%
William Lipinski 36%
Robert Livingston 3%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 39%
William Luther 77%
Connie Mack 43%
James Maloney 69%
Don Manzullo 3%
Matthew Martinez 77%
Frank Mascara 51%
Robert Matsui 72%
Karen McCarthy 77%
Bill McCollum 38%
James McCrery III 33%
John McHugh 34%
Scott McInnis 40%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 90%
Michael McNulty 58%
Martin Meehan 93%
Carrie Meek 81%
Jack Metcalf 14%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 93%
Dan Miller 44%
David Minge 64%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 90%
John Moakley 66%
Alan Mollohan 52%
Constance Morella 73%
Patrick Moynihan 63%
Frank Murkowski 31%
Jack Murtha 52%
Sue Myrick 26%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 26%
Robert William Ney 21%
Don Nickles 12%
Anne Northup 29%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 19%
James Nussle 14%
Jim Oberstar 65%
Dave Obey 68%
John Olver 93%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 50%
Major Owens 93%
Michael Oxley 40%
Ronald Packard 12%
Mike Parker 20%
Ron Paul 43%
Donald Payne 93%
Edward Pease 3%
John Peterson 29%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 59%
Richard Pombo 21%
Earl Pomeroy 60%
John Edward Porter 58%
Deborah Pryce 50%
Jack Quinn 43%
George Radanovich 13%
James Ramstad 48%
Ralph Regula 38%
Silvestre Reyes 63%
Bob Riley 3%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 81%
Charles Robb 63%
Ciro Rodriguez 73%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 11%
William Roth, Jr. 49%
Steve Rothman 76%
Marge Roukema 45%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 78%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 57%
Rick Santorum 24%
Paul Sarbanes 74%
Jim Saxton 47%
Joe Scarborough 3%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 50%
Christopher Shays 65%
E.G. Shuster 31%
Norman Sisisky 59%
Joseph Skeen 41%
Ike Skelton 42%
Gordon Smith 39%
Nick Smith 38%
Bob Smith 0%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 65%
Mark Souder 29%
Arlen Specter 59%
Floyd Spence 14%
John Spratt, Jr. 60%
Pete Stark 93%
Cliff Stearns 3%
Charles Stenholm 36%
Ted Stevens 52%
Ted Strickland 64%
Bob Stump 21%
Bart Stupak 53%
John Sununu 26%
James Talent 26%
John Tanner 47%
Ellen Tauscher 73%
William Tauzin 31%
Charles Taylor 14%
Gene Taylor 32%
Craig Thomas 24%
William Thomas 52%
Fred Thompson 28%
Karen Thurman 73%
Strom Thurmond 31%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 74%
Ed Towns 84%
James Traficant, Jr. 42%
James Turner 48%
Bruce Vento 78%
James Walsh 43%
Zach Wamp 21%
John Warner 42%
Wesley Watkins 21%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 38%
David Weldon 14%
W. Curtis Weldon 36%
Gerald Weller 29%
Paul Wellstone 74%
Robert Wexler 81%
Bob Weygand 62%
Bob Wise, Jr. 77%
Lynn Woolsey 85%
Albert Wynn 79%

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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