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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Tax Limitation Committee

1999-2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 80%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 97%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 76%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 67%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 94%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 12%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 20%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 66%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 82%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 94%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 61%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 97%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 12%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 9%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 12%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 88%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 13%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 12%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 12%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 78%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 53%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 16%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 66%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 76%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 76%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 87%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 33%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 15%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 82%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 21%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 97%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 72%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 73%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 6%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 15%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 9%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 12%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 79%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 16%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 94%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 76%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 97%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 67%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 70%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 52%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 17%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 85%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 12%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 9%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 9%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 18%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 16%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 6%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 18%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 15%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 9%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 80%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 76%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 76%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 12%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 12%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 15%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 22%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 79%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 9%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 94%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 73%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 23%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 6%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 14%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 97%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 3%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 87%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 94%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 15%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 91%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 36%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 6%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 85%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 12%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 85%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 85%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 12%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 61%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 22%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 19%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 6%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 58%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 12%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 12%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 42%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 12%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 12%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 13%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 13%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 70%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 97%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 72%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 16%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 12%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 91%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 76%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 9%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 70%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 6%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 26%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 94%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 12%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 6%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 21%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 88%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 15%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 41%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 94%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 16%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 9%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 76%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 82%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 87%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 84%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 72%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 73%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 14%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 12%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 84%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 33%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 12%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 30%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 97%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 12%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 91%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 12%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 58%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 6%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 16%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 94%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 82%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 10%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 41%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 45%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 16%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 88%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 12%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 88%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 85%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 15%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 9%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 94%
Gary Ackerman 13%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Wayne Allard 100%
Thomas Allen 12%
Richard Armey 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. 0%
Brian Baird 21%
Richard Hugh Baker 73%
John Baldacci 12%
Cass Ballenger 85%
James Barcia 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
Roscoe Bartlett 94%
Charlie Bass 79%
Evan Bayh 3%
Bob Bennett 97%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 15%
Douglas Bereuter 55%
Shelley Berkley 30%
Howard Berman 12%
Marion Berry 24%
Judy Biggert 70%
Michael Bilirakis 64%
Jeff Bingaman 6%
Rod Blagojevich 21%
Sherwood Boehlert 55%
Kit Bond 91%
Henry Bonilla 66%
David Edward Bonior 12%
Mary Bono Mack 66%
Robert Borski, Jr. 10%
Leonard Boswell 27%
Rick Boucher 22%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 9%
John Breaux 20%
Ed Bryant 82%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 94%
Dan Burton 91%
Steve Buyer 72%
Robert Byrd 14%
Herbert Callahan 65%
Ben Campbell 94%
Chris Cannon 100%
Julia Carson 16%
Mike Castle 70%
Eva Clayton 12%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 17%
Robert Clement 24%
Michael Collins 97%
Larry Combest 84%
Gary Condit 55%
Kent Conrad 12%
John Cooksey 73%
Jerry Costello 16%
Christopher Cox 94%
William Coyne 9%
Larry Craig 97%
Robert Cramer 41%
Philip Crane 93%
Barbara Cubin 85%
Randall Cunningham 76%
Thomas Daschle 0%
James Davis 16%
Thomas Davis III 64%
Bill Delahunt 19%
Thomas DeLay 85%
James DeMint 94%
Peter Deutsch 21%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 62%
Norm Dicks 10%
Chris Dodd 3%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 88%
Calvin Dooley 21%
John Doolittle 88%
Byron Dorgan 9%
David Dreier 64%
Jennifer Dunn 79%
John Edwards 9%
Chet Edwards 15%
Vern Ehlers 59%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 84%
Jo Ann Emerson 61%
Philip English 73%
Bob Etheridge 27%
Lane Evans 19%
Terry Everett 72%
Russ Feingold 9%
Peter Fitzgerald 94%
Ernest Fletcher 76%
Mark Foley 79%
Harold Ford, Jr. 15%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 88%
Barney Frank 19%
William Frist 97%
Jonas Frost III 15%
Elton Gallegly 67%
John Ganske 59%
George Gekas 70%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 12%
Jim Gibbons 88%
Wayne Gilchrest 61%
Paul Gillmor 56%
Benjamin Gilman 41%
Charlie Gonzalez 15%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 15%
Bart Gordon 36%
Porter Goss 76%
Daniel Graham 3%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Mark Green 82%
James Greenwood 69%
Judd Gregg 97%
Gilbert Gutknecht 85%
Tony Hall 18%
James Hansen 76%
J. Dennis Hastert 48%
Robert Hayes 85%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 100%
Jesse Helms 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. 88%
Baron Hill 15%
Van Hilleary 91%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 12%
Maurice Hinchey 9%
David Lee Hobson 61%
Pete Hoekstra 91%
Thomas Holden 21%
Ernest Hollings 0%
Darlene Hooley 21%
Stephen Horn 62%
John Nathan Hostettler 88%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 45%
Kenny Hulshof 79%
Duncan Hunter 73%
Asa Hutchinson 67%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 97%
Kay Hutchison 100%
Henry Hyde 58%
Daniel Inouye 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 85%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 12%
William Jefferson 6%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 75%
Christopher John 24%
Nancy Johnson 53%
Paul Kanjorski 12%
Sue Kelly 64%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 16%
Dale Kildee 9%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 10%
Gerald Kleczka 27%
Joseph Knollenberg 61%
Herb Kohl 12%
James Kolbe 64%
Dennis Kucinich 64%
Jon Kyl 100%
John LaFalce 18%
Ray LaHood 73%
Nicholas Lampson 18%
Tom Lantos 6%
Stephen Largent 97%
Steve LaTourette 61%
James Leach 58%
Jerry Lewis 59%
Ron Lewis 85%
Joe Lieberman 9%
Blanche Lincoln 3%
John Linder 82%
William Lipinski 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. 97%
Dick Lugar 94%
William Luther 36%
James Maloney 19%
Don Manzullo 94%
Frank Mascara 19%
Robert Matsui 15%
Karen McCarthy 12%
James McCrery III 64%
John McHugh 56%
Scott McInnis 90%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 37%
Michael McNulty 17%
Martin Meehan 22%
Carrie Meek 10%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 13%
Dan Miller 75%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 24%
John Moakley 9%
Alan Mollohan 17%
Dennis Moore 24%
Constance Morella 27%
Frank Murkowski 94%
Jack Murtha 12%
Sue Myrick 90%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 72%
Robert William Ney 70%
Don Nickles 100%
Anne Northup 64%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 77%
James Nussle 79%
Jim Oberstar 9%
Dave Obey 12%
John Olver 9%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 12%
Doug Ose 61%
Major Owens 14%
Michael Oxley 68%
Ron Paul 91%
Donald Payne 12%
John Peterson 67%
David Phelps 15%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 78%
Richard Pombo 88%
Earl Pomeroy 15%
Deborah Pryce 65%
Jack Quinn 52%
George Radanovich 85%
James Ramstad 79%
Ralph Regula 55%
Silvestre Reyes 12%
Thomas Reynolds 70%
Bob Riley 85%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 26%
Ciro Rodriguez 15%
Timothy Roemer 35%
Steve Rothman 16%
Marge Roukema 76%
Jim Ryun 97%
Martin Olav Sabo 16%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 30%
Rick Santorum 94%
Paul Sarbanes 6%
Jim Saxton 64%
Joe Scarborough 93%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 61%
Christopher Shays 76%
Donald Sherwood 63%
Ronnie Shows 42%
Joseph Skeen 61%
Ike Skelton 30%
Gordon Smith 94%
Nick Smith 88%
Bob Smith 97%
Olympia Snowe 71%
Vic Snyder 15%
Mark Souder 79%
Arlen Specter 60%
Floyd Spence 70%
John Spratt, Jr. 16%
Pete Stark 13%
Cliff Stearns 88%
Charles Stenholm 25%
Ted Stevens 91%
Ted Strickland 15%
Bob Stump 88%
Bart Stupak 21%
John Sununu 97%
John Sweeney 73%
Tom Tancredo 100%
John Tanner 25%
Ellen Tauscher 24%
William Tauzin 76%
Charles Taylor 82%
Gene Taylor 33%
Craig Thomas 94%
William Thomas 67%
Fred Thompson 97%
Karen Thurman 23%
Strom Thurmond 100%
Todd Tiahrt 85%
Robert Torricelli 20%
Ed Towns 9%
James Traficant, Jr. 42%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 94%
James Turner 18%
George Voinovich 68%
James Walsh 48%
Zach Wamp 85%
John Warner 94%
Wesley Watkins 79%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 88%
Anthony Weiner 10%
David Weldon 85%
W. Curtis Weldon 68%
Gerald Weller 73%
Paul Wellstone 3%
Robert Wexler 22%
Heather Wilson 64%
Lynn Woolsey 16%
David Wu 24%
Albert Wynn 3%

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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