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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Conservative on Social Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 67%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 90%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 72%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 88%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 88%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 88%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 25%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 69%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 67%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 64%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 64%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 26%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 11%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 0%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 76%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 11%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 13%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 62%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 79%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 56%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 90%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 90%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 44%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 16%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 97%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 79%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 14%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 14%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 15%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 75%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 37%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 79%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 67%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 79%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 67%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 76%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 88%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 26%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 32%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 13%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 23%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 25%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 24%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 41%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 67%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 52%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 16%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 31%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 25%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 57%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 72%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 30%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 58%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 90%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 37%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 26%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 79%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 81%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 28%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 90%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 53%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 76%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 64%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 34%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 41%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 28%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 48%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 64%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 12%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 41%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 16%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 19%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 72%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 63%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 90%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 90%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 88%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 97%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 14%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 26%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 21%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 15%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 47%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 81%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 69%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 15%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 81%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 26%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 90%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 55%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 76%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 28%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 7%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 81%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 28%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 16%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 55%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 81%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 27%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 69%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 38%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 90%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 7%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 28%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 32%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 81%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 71%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 23%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 45%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 0%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 79%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 79%
Gary Ackerman 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Wayne Allard 88%
Thomas Allen 7%
Bill Archer 89%
Richard Armey 90%
John Ashcroft 88%
Richard Hugh Baker 76%
John Baldacci 25%
Cass Ballenger 71%
James Barcia 51%
Robert Barr, Jr. 86%
Bill Barrett 64%
Roscoe Bartlett 72%
Charlie Bass 48%
Herbert Bateman 74%
Bob Bennett 53%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 28%
Douglas Bereuter 58%
Howard Berman 11%
Marion Berry 52%
Brian Bilbray 54%
Michael Bilirakis 81%
Jeff Bingaman 0%
Rod Blagojevich 30%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 69%
Sherwood Boehlert 31%
Kit Bond 61%
Henry Bonilla 58%
David Edward Bonior 32%
Mary Bono Mack 56%
Robert Borski, Jr. 38%
Leonard Boswell 37%
Rick Boucher 27%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 36%
John Breaux 46%
George Brown, Jr. 7%
Richard Bryan 26%
Ed Bryant 81%
Conrad Burns 73%
Dan Burton 76%
Steve Buyer 66%
Robert Byrd 43%
Herbert Callahan 97%
Ben Campbell 64%
Thomas Campbell 37%
Chris Cannon 79%
Julia Carson 0%
Mike Castle 41%
John Chafee 26%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 97%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 13%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 0%
Robert Clement 43%
Michael Collins 90%
Larry Combest 81%
Gary Condit 46%
Kent Conrad 45%
Merrill Cook 59%
John Cooksey 58%
Jerry Costello 52%
Paul Coverdell 76%
Christopher Cox 66%
William Coyne 7%
Larry Craig 79%
Robert Cramer 51%
Philip Crane 89%
Barbara Cubin 89%
Randall Cunningham 79%
Patsy Ann Danner 45%
Thomas Daschle 26%
James Davis 38%
Thomas Davis III 47%
Bill Delahunt 0%
Thomas DeLay 75%
Peter Deutsch 23%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 55%
Jay Dickey 71%
Norm Dicks 28%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 51%
Calvin Dooley 23%
John Doolittle 88%
Byron Dorgan 43%
David Dreier 63%
Jennifer Dunn 72%
Chet Edwards 32%
Vern Ehlers 53%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 50%
Jo Ann Emerson 90%
Philip English 53%
Bob Etheridge 38%
Lane Evans 14%
Terry Everett 97%
Thomas Ewing 75%
Russ Feingold 0%
Mark Foley 46%
Michael Patrick Forbes 54%
Harold Ford, Jr. 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 97%
Tillie Fowler 55%
Barney Frank 7%
Robert Franks 43%
William Frist 64%
Jonas Frost III 30%
Elton Gallegly 60%
John Ganske 49%
Sam Gejdenson 11%
George Gekas 64%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 31%
Jim Gibbons 60%
Wayne Gilchrest 40%
Paul Gillmor 67%
Benjamin Gilman 34%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 60%
William Goodling 75%
Bart Gordon 49%
Slade Gorton 54%
Porter Goss 64%
Daniel Graham 0%
William Phillip Gramm 88%
Rodney Grams 79%
James Greenwood 33%
Judd Gregg 69%
Gilbert Gutknecht 76%
Tony Hall 51%
James Hansen 87%
J. Dennis Hastert 81%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 81%
Joel Hefley 81%
Jesse Helms 77%
Wally Herger, Jr. 97%
Rick Hill 86%
Van Hilleary 81%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 16%
Maurice Hinchey 11%
David Lee Hobson 56%
Pete Hoekstra 69%
Thomas Holden 48%
Ernest Hollings 62%
Darlene Hooley 16%
Stephen Horn 38%
John Nathan Hostettler 72%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 35%
Kenny Hulshof 81%
Duncan Hunter 90%
Asa Hutchinson 87%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 88%
Kay Hutchison 78%
Henry Hyde 88%
Daniel Inouye 26%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 81%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 33%
James Merrill Jeffords 38%
William Lewis Jenkins 81%
Christopher John 59%
Nancy Johnson 28%
Paul Kanjorski 44%
Sue Kelly 38%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 16%
Bob Kerrey 0%
Dale Kildee 44%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 38%
Ronald Klink 43%
Joseph Knollenberg 69%
Herb Kohl 0%
James Kolbe 42%
Dennis Kucinich 41%
Jon Kyl 88%
John LaFalce 45%
Ray LaHood 59%
Nicholas Lampson 34%
Tom Lantos 19%
Stephen Largent 81%
Steve LaTourette 50%
Rick Lazio 47%
James Leach 38%
Jerry Lewis 53%
Ron Lewis 90%
Joe Lieberman 0%
John Linder 90%
William Lipinski 63%
Robert Livingston 90%
Trent Lott, Sr. 88%
Dick Lugar 58%
William Luther 23%
Connie Mack 55%
James Maloney 31%
Don Manzullo 90%
Matthew Martinez 22%
Frank Mascara 48%
Robert Matsui 27%
Karen McCarthy 22%
Bill McCollum 60%
James McCrery III 66%
John McHugh 64%
Scott McInnis 60%
David McIntosh 97%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 7%
Michael McNulty 42%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 19%
Jack Metcalf 81%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 55%
David Minge 35%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 7%
John Moakley 34%
Alan Mollohan 47%
Constance Morella 25%
Patrick Moynihan 26%
Frank Murkowski 64%
Jack Murtha 48%
Sue Myrick 72%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 72%
Robert William Ney 76%
Don Nickles 79%
Anne Northup 69%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 80%
James Nussle 81%
Jim Oberstar 35%
Dave Obey 31%
John Olver 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 49%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 60%
Ronald Packard 87%
Ron Paul 56%
Donald Payne 0%
Edward Pease 90%
John Peterson 71%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 97%
Owen Pickett 40%
Richard Pombo 76%
Earl Pomeroy 38%
John Edward Porter 42%
Deborah Pryce 50%
Jack Quinn 56%
George Radanovich 86%
James Ramstad 51%
Ralph Regula 60%
Silvestre Reyes 37%
Bob Riley 90%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 16%
Charles Robb 26%
Ciro Rodriguez 27%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 88%
William Roth, Jr. 50%
Steve Rothman 23%
Marge Roukema 55%
Jim Ryun 97%
Martin Olav Sabo 21%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 42%
Rick Santorum 73%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 53%
Joe Scarborough 90%
John Shadegg 97%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 50%
Christopher Shays 34%
E.G. Shuster 69%
Norman Sisisky 41%
Joseph Skeen 58%
Ike Skelton 57%
Gordon Smith 58%
Nick Smith 60%
Bob Smith 88%
Olympia Snowe 48%
Vic Snyder 35%
Mark Souder 69%
Arlen Specter 40%
Floyd Spence 81%
John Spratt, Jr. 40%
Pete Stark 0%
Cliff Stearns 90%
Charles Stenholm 63%
Ted Stevens 46%
Ted Strickland 36%
Bob Stump 76%
Bart Stupak 46%
John Sununu 72%
James Talent 72%
John Tanner 52%
Ellen Tauscher 25%
William Tauzin 69%
Charles Taylor 81%
Gene Taylor 67%
Craig Thomas 73%
William Thomas 48%
Fred Thompson 71%
Karen Thurman 25%
Strom Thurmond 64%
Todd Tiahrt 97%
Robert Torricelli 0%
Ed Towns 16%
James Traficant, Jr. 58%
James Turner 51%
Bruce Vento 21%
James Walsh 56%
Zach Wamp 76%
John Warner 57%
Wesley Watkins 76%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 60%
David Weldon 81%
W. Curtis Weldon 63%
Gerald Weller 71%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 19%
Bob Weygand 37%
Bob Wise, Jr. 22%
Lynn Woolsey 15%
Albert Wynn 20%

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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