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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Tax Limitation Committee

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 82%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 88%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 94%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 89%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 91%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 67%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 3%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 9%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 91%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 83%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 86%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 86%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 9%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 0%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 36%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 8%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 3%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 15%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 40%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 3%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 86%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 71%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 89%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 89%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 83%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 94%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 25%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 89%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 8%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 91%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 83%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 87%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 81%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 97%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 83%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 9%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 6%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 6%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 89%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 85%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 83%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 94%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 97%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 83%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 83%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 72%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 15%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 94%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 3%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 3%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 3%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 3%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 6%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 3%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 62%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 86%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 86%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 83%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 6%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 3%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 32%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 91%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 9%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 86%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 82%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 89%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 8%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 24%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 85%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 3%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 86%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 89%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 92%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 26%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 3%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 86%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 3%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 22%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 72%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 86%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 11%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 8%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 77%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 8%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 6%
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 89%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 3%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 3%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 3%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 92%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 97%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 10%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 89%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 74%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 91%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 86%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 21%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 78%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 6%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 0%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 6%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 3%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 93%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 3%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 100%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 8%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 3%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 36%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 89%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 6%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 9%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 89%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 94%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 94%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 8%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 3%
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 19%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 94%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 28%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 6%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 91%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 97%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 11%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 78%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 3%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 3%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 3%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 6%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 17%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 89%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 3%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 12%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 0%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 3%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 97%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 8%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 97%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 86%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 6%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 72%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 14%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 94%
Gary Ackerman 3%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Todd Akin 97%
Wayne Allard 100%
George Allen 85%
Thomas Allen 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. 0%
Brian Baird 3%
Richard Hugh Baker 85%
Cass Ballenger 80%
Roscoe Bartlett 97%
Charlie Bass 81%
Evan Bayh 21%
Bob Bennett 97%
Douglas Bereuter 60%
Shelley Berkley 14%
Howard Berman 3%
Marion Berry 31%
Judy Biggert 83%
Michael Bilirakis 85%
Jeff Bingaman 6%
Sherwood Boehlert 61%
Kit Bond 91%
Henry Bonilla 83%
Mary Bono Mack 78%
Leonard Boswell 14%
Rick Boucher 17%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 17%
John Breaux 26%
Henry Brown, Jr. 86%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 94%
Dan Burton 97%
Steve Buyer 85%
Robert Byrd 12%
Ben Campbell 91%
Chris Cannon 94%
Brad Carson 6%
Julia Carson 6%
Mike Castle 72%
Hillary Clinton 0%
Michael Collins 92%
Kent Conrad 6%
Jon Corzine 0%
Jerry Costello 8%
Christopher Cox 100%
Larry Craig 94%
Robert Cramer 47%
Philip Crane 100%
Barbara Cubin 93%
Randall Cunningham 89%
Thomas Daschle 0%
James Davis 8%
Jo Ann Davis 94%
Thomas Davis III 69%
Bill Delahunt 0%
Thomas DeLay 100%
James DeMint 100%
Peter Deutsch 9%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 80%
Norm Dicks 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 76%
Calvin Dooley 29%
John Doolittle 94%
Byron Dorgan 6%
David Dreier 89%
Jennifer Dunn 92%
John Edwards 6%
Chet Edwards 8%
Vern Ehlers 83%
Jo Ann Emerson 82%
Philip English 78%
John Ensign 94%
Bob Etheridge 8%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 89%
Russ Feingold 14%
Michael Ferguson 74%
Peter Fitzgerald 88%
Ernest Fletcher 83%
Mark Foley 81%
Harold Ford, Jr. 12%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 86%
Barney Frank 3%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 0%
Elton Gallegly 86%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jim Gibbons 89%
Wayne Gilchrest 72%
Paul Gillmor 74%
Charlie Gonzalez 3%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 97%
Bart Gordon 29%
Porter Goss 86%
Daniel Graham 6%
Mark Green 94%
James Greenwood 80%
Judd Gregg 97%
Gilbert Gutknecht 86%
Jane Harman 29%
Melissa Hart 86%
J. Dennis Hastert 36%
Robert Hayes 83%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 97%
Joel Hefley 97%
Wally Herger, Jr. 94%
Baron Hill 21%
Maurice Hinchey 3%
David Lee Hobson 81%
Pete Hoekstra 94%
Thomas Holden 11%
Ernest Hollings 9%
Darlene Hooley 8%
John Nathan Hostettler 92%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 69%
Kenny Hulshof 86%
Duncan Hunter 86%
Kay Hutchison 97%
Henry Hyde 83%
Daniel Inouye 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 97%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 14%
William Jefferson 6%
James Merrill Jeffords 16%
William Lewis Jenkins 89%
Christopher John 29%
Nancy Johnson 66%
Tim Johnson 72%
Paul Kanjorski 14%
Ric Keller 100%
Sue Kelly 75%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Mark Kennedy 92%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Dale Kildee 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 3%
Joseph Knollenberg 86%
Herb Kohl 6%
James Kolbe 85%
Dennis Kucinich 8%
Jon Kyl 100%
Ray LaHood 71%
Nicholas Lampson 6%
Tom Lantos 3%
Steve LaTourette 72%
James Leach 56%
Jerry Lewis 80%
Ron Lewis 86%
Joe Lieberman 12%
Blanche Lincoln 17%
John Linder 92%
William Lipinski 30%
Trent Lott, Sr. 97%
Dick Lugar 94%
Don Manzullo 100%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 8%
James McCrery III 89%
John McHugh 73%
Scott McInnis 91%
Michael McNulty 3%
Martin Meehan 3%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Zell Bryan Miller 58%
Alan Mollohan 14%
Dennis Moore 19%
Jack Murtha 24%
Sue Myrick 100%
Ben Nelson 9%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 86%
Robert William Ney 89%
Don Nickles 100%
Anne Northup 86%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 91%
James Nussle 92%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 3%
John Olver 3%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 3%
Thomas William Osborne 81%
Doug Ose 75%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 85%
Ron Paul 89%
Donald Payne 0%
John Peterson 88%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 89%
Todd Platts 75%
Richard Pombo 91%
Earl Pomeroy 6%
Deborah Pryce 82%
Jack Quinn 70%
George Radanovich 89%
James Ramstad 81%
Ralph Regula 81%
Denny Rehberg 83%
Silvestre Reyes 0%
Thomas Reynolds 86%
Ciro Rodriguez 3%
Mike Ross 22%
Steve Rothman 3%
Jim Ryun 97%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 22%
Rick Santorum 97%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 75%
Edward Schrock 89%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 78%
Christopher Shays 83%
Donald Sherwood 89%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 75%
Ike Skelton 15%
Gordon Smith 91%
Nick Smith 86%
Olympia Snowe 59%
Vic Snyder 17%
Hilda Solis 0%
Mark Souder 100%
Arlen Specter 56%
John Spratt, Jr. 0%
Pete Stark 3%
Cliff Stearns 97%
Charles Stenholm 31%
Ted Stevens 77%
Ted Strickland 3%
Bart Stupak 0%
John Sullivan 100%
John Sununu 85%
John Sweeney 75%
Tom Tancredo 100%
John Tanner 21%
Ellen Tauscher 19%
William Tauzin 92%
Charles Taylor 89%
Gene Taylor 37%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 81%
Todd Tiahrt 94%
Ed Towns 9%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 0%
James Turner 14%
George Voinovich 88%
James Walsh 75%
Zach Wamp 81%
John Warner 82%
Diane Watson 3%
Anthony Weiner 6%
David Weldon 91%
W. Curtis Weldon 67%
Gerald Weller 86%
Robert Wexler 6%
Heather Wilson 86%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
David Wu 14%
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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