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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Right to Life Committee

1997-1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 100%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 100%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 90%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 80%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 5%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 13%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 89%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 60%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 0%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 7%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 5%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 5%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 11%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 30%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 6%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 90%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 8%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 7%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 10%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 7%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 25%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 100%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 90%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 93%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 25%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 93%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 100%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 27%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 55%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 6%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 7%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 5%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 5%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 5%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 27%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 27%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 7%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 29%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 100%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 100%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 93%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 100%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 5%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 7%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 5%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 5%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 33%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 30%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 6%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 90%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 30%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 13%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 53%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 5%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 5%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 68%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 90%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 90%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 100%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 5%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 7%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 5%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 89%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 100%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 90%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 7%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 90%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 5%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 27%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 95%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 90%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 30%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 10%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 21%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 100%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 20%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 5%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 7%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 100%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 5%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 5%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 13%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 20%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 100%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 95%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 20%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 8%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 100%
Wayne Allard 100%
Thomas Allen 5%
William Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 45%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
John Baldacci 5%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 90%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
William Barrett 90%
Herbert Bateman 100%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 5%
Douglas Bereuter 85%
Marion Berry 75%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Rod Blagojevich 5%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 10%
Kit Bond 100%
Henry Bonilla 89%
David Edward Bonior 65%
Robert Borski, Jr. 84%
Rick Boucher 11%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 40%
Carol Moseley Braun 7%
John Breaux 67%
George Brown, Jr. 5%
Richard Bryan 7%
Ed Bryant 100%
Dale Bumpers 7%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 27%
Herbert Callahan 100%
Ben Campbell 73%
Thomas Campbell 5%
Chris Cannon 100%
Julia Carson 0%
Mike Castle 35%
John Chafee 14%
Helen Chenoweth 100%
Jon Lynn Christensen 100%
William Clay, Sr. 6%
Eva Clayton 5%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 13%
Robert Clement 45%
Mac Collins 100%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 40%
Merrill Cook 90%
John Cooksey 95%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 5%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 60%
Philip Crane 100%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 93%
Patsy Ann Danner 70%
Thomas Daschle 20%
James Davis 32%
Thomas Davis III 65%
Bill Delahunt 5%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Peter Deutsch 6%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 100%
Jay Dickey 100%
Julian Dixon 5%
Chris Dodd 7%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
Calvin Dooley 5%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 33%
Jennifer Dunn 80%
Chet Edwards 20%
Vern Ehlers 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 55%
Philip English 100%
John Ensign 100%
Bob Etheridge 40%
Lane Evans 5%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 100%
Harris Fawell 45%
Victor Fazio 5%
Russ Feingold 7%
Mark Foley 55%
Michael Patrick Forbes 90%
Harold Ford, Jr. 6%
Wendell Ford 60%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 100%
Tillie Fowler 70%
Jon David Fox 85%
Robert Franks 35%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 5%
Elizabeth Furse 5%
John Ganske 80%
Sam Gejdenson 5%
George Gekas 90%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 24%
Jim Gibbons 84%
Wayne Gilchrest 35%
Paul Gillmor 90%
Benjamin Gilman 5%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 8%
Henry Gonzalez 17%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 100%
William Goodling 100%
Bart Gordon 42%
Slade Gorton 87%
Porter Goss 100%
Daniel Graham 13%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 100%
James Greenwood 5%
Judd Gregg 93%
Gilbert Gutknecht 95%
Charles Hagel 100%
Tony Hall 84%
Lee Hamilton 74%
James Hansen 100%
Jane Harman 6%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 100%
W.G. Hefner 26%
Jesse Helms 100%
Rick Hill 94%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 12%
David Lee Hobson 70%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Ernest Hollings 33%
Darlene Hooley 5%
Stephen Horn 5%
John Nathan Hostettler 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 30%
Kenny Hulshof 95%
Duncan Hunter 100%
William Hutchinson 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Henry Hyde 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 28%
James Merrill Jeffords 20%
William Lewis Jenkins 100%
Christopher John 100%
Jay Johnson 30%
Nancy Johnson 5%
Paul Kanjorski 85%
Sue Kelly 25%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 7%
Joseph Kennedy II 5%
Patrick Kennedy 20%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 5%
Bob Kerrey 13%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Jay Kim 95%
Gerald Kleczka 65%
Ronald Klink 85%
Scott Klug 45%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
James Kolbe 35%
John LaFalce 85%
Nicholas Lampson 40%
Tom Lantos 6%
Stephen Largent 100%
Rick Lazio 50%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 100%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 89%
Robert Livingston 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
William Luther 5%
Connie Mack 93%
James Maloney 20%
Thomas Manton 89%
Matthew Martinez 32%
Frank Mascara 90%
Robert Matsui 5%
Karen McCarthy 5%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 89%
Paul McHale 45%
John McHugh 95%
Scott McInnis 95%
David McIntosh 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 59%
Martin Meehan 5%
Carrie Meek 5%
Jack Metcalf 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 5%
Dan Miller 70%
David Minge 35%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 10%
John Moakley 67%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 5%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 27%
Frank Murkowski 100%
Jack Murtha 95%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 100%
Mark Neumann 100%
Robert William Ney 100%
Don Nickles 100%
Anne Northup 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 94%
Dave Obey 44%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 94%
Major Owens 5%
Michael Oxley 100%
Ronald Packard 95%
Michael Pappas 100%
Paul Michael Parker 89%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 6%
Edward Pease 100%
John Peterson 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 100%
Owen Pickett 10%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 35%
John Edward Porter 28%
Glenn Poshard 95%
Deborah Pryce 56%
Jack Quinn 90%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 40%
William Redmond 100%
Ralph Regula 75%
Frank Duncan Riggs 95%
Bob Riley 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 5%
Charles Robb 7%
Ciro Rodriguez 0%
Timothy Roemer 90%
James Rogan 100%
William Roth, Jr. 79%
Marge Roukema 30%
Jim Ryun 100%
Martin Olav Sabo 5%
Matthew Salmon 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 25%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 90%
Rick Santorum 100%
Paul Sarbanes 7%
H. James Saxton 90%
Joe Scarborough 100%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 70%
Christopher Shays 20%
E.G. Shuster 100%
Norman Sisisky 20%
David Skaggs 5%
Joseph Skeen 95%
Ike Skelton 90%
Gordon Smith 87%
Linda Smith 90%
Nick Smith 89%
Robert Smith 100%
Bob Smith 100%
Vincent Snowbarger 100%
Vic Snyder 25%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 100%
Mark Souder 100%
Arlen Specter 29%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 35%
Charles Stenholm 90%
Ted Stevens 60%
Louis Stokes 5%
Ted Strickland 30%
Robert Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 100%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 40%
Ellen Tauscher 5%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 90%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 58%
Fred Thompson 87%
Karen Thurman 15%
Strom Thurmond 93%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Esteban Edward Torres 5%
Robert Torricelli 13%
James Traficant, Jr. 95%
James Turner 56%
Bruce Vento 10%
James Walsh 90%
Zach Wamp 90%
John Warner 87%
Wesley Watkins 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 100%
W. Curtis Weldon 90%
Gerald Weller 100%
Paul Wellstone 7%
Robert Wexler 5%
Robert Weygand 90%
Rick White 53%
Heather Wilson 100%
Robert Wise, Jr. 5%
Albert Wynn 5%
Sidney Yates 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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