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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Liberal on Social Policy Score

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