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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: State PIRGs Working Together

2003 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 10%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 5%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 19%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 14%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 86%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 48%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 95%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 76%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 95%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 95%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 71%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 71%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 18%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 5%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 81%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 19%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 86%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 19%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 81%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 62%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 90%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 5%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 5%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 95%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 5%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 14%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 86%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 10%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 76%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 86%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 90%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 33%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 81%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 5%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 5%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 14%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 10%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 24%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 33%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 86%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 76%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 95%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 81%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 95%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 62%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 19%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 81%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 90%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 81%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 81%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 95%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 43%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 90%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 86%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 0%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 5%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 81%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 67%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 5%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 95%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 19%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 14%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 76%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 86%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 5%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 10%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 48%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 52%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 86%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 33%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 90%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 19%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 76%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 76%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 86%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 86%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 86%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 95%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 14%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 24%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 5%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 10%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 86%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 95%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 86%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 81%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 81%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 90%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 95%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 62%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 18%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 71%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 19%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 67%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
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 71%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 86%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 62%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 81%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 95%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 71%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 90%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 5%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 71%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 5%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 86%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 86%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 76%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 86%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 86%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 19%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 19%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 38%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 24%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 95%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 81%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 5%
Gary Ackerman 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 71%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 14%
George Allen 10%
Thomas Allen 90%
Joe Baca, Sr. 81%
Brian Baird 90%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 29%
Charlie Bass 19%
Evan Bayh 57%
Bob Bennett 10%
Douglas Bereuter 10%
Shelley Berkley 90%
Howard Berman 90%
Marion Berry 67%
Judy Biggert 5%
Michael Bilirakis 24%
Jeff Bingaman 71%
Sherwood Boehlert 38%
Kit Bond 14%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Mary Bono Mack 5%
Leonard Boswell 81%
Rick Boucher 71%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 71%
John Breaux 43%
Henry Brown, Jr. 5%
Jim Bunning 5%
Conrad Burns 14%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 71%
Ben Campbell 14%
Chris Cannon 5%
Brad Carson 48%
Julia Carson 95%
Mike Castle 38%
Hillary Clinton 81%
Michael Collins 0%
Kent Conrad 90%
Jon Corzine 95%
Jerry Costello 81%
Christopher Cox 5%
Larry Craig 5%
Robert Cramer 38%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 5%
Randall Cunningham 5%
Thomas Daschle 71%
James Davis 81%
Jo Ann Davis 14%
Thomas Davis III 29%
Bill Delahunt 95%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 90%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 24%
Norm Dicks 81%
Chris Dodd 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 14%
Calvin Dooley 48%
John Doolittle 10%
Byron Dorgan 76%
David Dreier 5%
Jennifer Dunn 14%
John Edwards 81%
Chet Edwards 57%
Vern Ehlers 38%
Jo Ann Emerson 0%
Philip English 24%
John Ensign 24%
Bob Etheridge 81%
Lane Evans 95%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 86%
Michael Ferguson 38%
Peter Fitzgerald 48%
Mark Foley 19%
Harold Ford, Jr. 67%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 19%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 5%
Jonas Frost III 71%
Elton Gallegly 19%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 90%
Jim Gibbons 5%
Wayne Gilchrest 24%
Paul Gillmor 10%
Charlie Gonzalez 86%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
Bart Gordon 76%
Porter Goss 14%
Daniel Graham 76%
Mark Green 19%
James Greenwood 29%
Judd Gregg 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht 5%
Jane Harman 76%
Melissa Hart 5%
Robert Hayes 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 14%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 67%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 0%
Pete Hoekstra 19%
Thomas Holden 67%
Ernest Hollings 81%
Darlene Hooley 90%
John Nathan Hostettler 14%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 19%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 10%
Kay Hutchison 14%
Henry Hyde 10%
Daniel Inouye 76%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 10%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 95%
William Jefferson 62%
James Merrill Jeffords 62%
William Lewis Jenkins 5%
Christopher John 29%
Nancy Johnson 43%
Tim Johnson 43%
Paul Kanjorski 81%
Ric Keller 5%
Sue Kelly 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 90%
Mark Kennedy 24%
Patrick Kennedy 95%
Dale Kildee 90%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 81%
Gerald Kleczka 95%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 67%
James Kolbe 0%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Jon Kyl 14%
Ray LaHood 29%
Nicholas Lampson 57%
Tom Lantos 95%
Steve LaTourette 14%
James Leach 43%
Jerry Lewis 10%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 81%
Blanche Lincoln 38%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 38%
Trent Lott, Sr. 5%
Dick Lugar 10%
Don Manzullo 10%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 90%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 19%
Scott McInnis 19%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 81%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 29%
Alan Mollohan 52%
Dennis Moore 81%
Jack Murtha 48%
Sue Myrick 10%
Ben Nelson 43%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 14%
Don Nickles 5%
Anne Northup 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 5%
James Nussle 14%
Jim Oberstar 95%
Dave Obey 90%
John Olver 95%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 67%
Thomas William Osborne 0%
Doug Ose 19%
Major Owens 95%
Michael Oxley 5%
Ron Paul 38%
Donald Payne 90%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Todd Platts 24%
Richard Pombo 5%
Earl Pomeroy 76%
Deborah Pryce 5%
Jack Quinn 24%
George Radanovich 5%
James Ramstad 48%
Ralph Regula 10%
Denny Rehberg 0%
Silvestre Reyes 67%
Thomas Reynolds 10%
Ciro Rodriguez 81%
Mike Ross 62%
Steve Rothman 95%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 52%
Rick Santorum 5%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 43%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 14%
Christopher Shays 38%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 29%
Ike Skelton 62%
Gordon Smith 43%
Nick Smith 5%
Olympia Snowe 57%
Vic Snyder 81%
Hilda Solis 95%
Mark Souder 10%
Arlen Specter 43%
John Spratt, Jr. 71%
Pete Stark 81%
Cliff Stearns 19%
Charles Stenholm 24%
Ted Stevens 5%
Ted Strickland 86%
Bart Stupak 90%
John Sullivan 0%
John Sununu 19%
John Sweeney 19%
Tom Tancredo 5%
John Tanner 48%
Ellen Tauscher 86%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 5%
Gene Taylor 43%
Craig Thomas 5%
William Thomas 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Ed Towns 67%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 90%
James Turner 43%
George Voinovich 14%
James Walsh 29%
Zach Wamp 5%
John Warner 24%
Diane Watson 95%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 14%
W. Curtis Weldon 24%
Gerald Weller 10%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 5%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 86%
Albert Wynn 81%

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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