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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Right to Life Committee

1996 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. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 86%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 0%
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 0%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 67%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 0%
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 13%
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 11%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 100%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 0%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
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 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 11%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 100%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 38%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 14%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 89%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 44%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 100%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 100%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 43%
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 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 57%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 56%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 78%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 11%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 0%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 57%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 0%
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 56%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 100%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 100%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 89%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 89%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 88%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 38%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 89%
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 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 33%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 100%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 29%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 100%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 0%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 100%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 22%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 100%
Wayne Allard 100%
William Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 44%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
William Baker 95%
John Baldacci 0%
Cass Ballenger 89%
James Barcia 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
William Barrett 100%
Herbert Bateman 89%
Anthony Beilenson 10%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 0%
Douglas Bereuter 89%
Tom Bevill 100%
Michael Bilirakis 89%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Peter Blute 74%
Sherwood Boehlert 0%
Kit Bond 100%
Henry Bonilla 67%
David Edward Bonior 78%
Sonny Bono 78%
Robert Borski, Jr. 89%
Rick Boucher 11%
Bill Bradley 8%
Carol Moseley Braun 0%
John Breaux 86%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Hank Brown 50%
Richard Bryan 14%
Ed Bryant 100%
John Bryant 16%
Dale Bumpers 0%
Jim Bunn 100%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 0%
Herbert Callahan 100%
Ben Campbell 33%
Thomas Campbell 22%
Mike Castle 67%
John Chafee 14%
Helen Chenoweth 100%
Jon Lynn Christensen 100%
Dick Chrysler 94%
William Clay, Sr. 13%
Eva Clayton 0%
Robert Clement 38%
William Cohen 7%
Ronald Coleman 11%
Barbara-Rose Collins 11%
Cardiss Collins 5%
Mac Collins 100%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 44%
Wes Cooley 95%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 0%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 33%
Philip Crane 100%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 95%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 100%
Patsy Ann Danner 89%
Thomas Daschle 0%
Thomas Davis III 78%
E. Kika de la Garza 90%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Ronald Dellums 0%
Peter Deutsch 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 100%
Jay Dickey 100%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Robert Dole 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 86%
Calvin Dooley 13%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 57%
Robert Dornan 95%
Jennifer Dunn 63%
Chet Edwards 11%
Vern Ehlers 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 67%
Bill Emerson 95%
Philip English 100%
John Ensign 100%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 69%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 100%
Harris Fawell 56%
Victor Fazio 0%
Russ Feingold 0%
Cleo Fields 7%
Jack Fields, Jr. 90%
Floyd Flake 25%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 95%
Thomas Foglietta 22%
Mark Foley 67%
Michael Patrick Forbes 89%
Wendell Ford 86%
Tillie Fowler 71%
Jon David Fox 89%
Gary Franks 5%
Robert Franks 44%
Daniel Frisa 95%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 22%
David Funderburk 95%
Elizabeth Furse 0%
John Ganske 88%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 25%
Pete Geren 68%
Sam Gibbons 10%
Wayne Gilchrest 56%
Paul Gillmor 100%
Benjamin Gilman 0%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 0%
Henry Gonzalez 11%
William Goodling 100%
Bart Gordon 33%
Slade Gorton 86%
Porter Goss 100%
Daniel Graham 14%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 100%
Enid Greene 89%
James Greenwood 11%
Judd Gregg 100%
Steven Gunderson 35%
Gilbert Gutknecht 100%
Tony Hall 86%
Lee Hamilton 89%
Melton Hancock 95%
James Hansen 100%
Jane Harman 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 85%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 100%
W.G. Hefner 33%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 95%
Jesse Helms 100%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
David Lee Hobson 89%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Ernest Hollings 0%
Stephen Horn 11%
John Nathan Hostettler 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 44%
Duncan Hunter 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Henry Hyde 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 45%
William Jefferson 25%
James Merrill Jeffords 29%
Nancy Johnson 11%
Harry Johnston 11%
J. Bennett Johnston 85%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 29%
Sue Kelly 22%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Joseph Kennedy II 0%
Patrick Kennedy 22%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 0%
Bob Kerrey 0%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 56%
Ronald Klink 100%
Scott Klug 56%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
James Kolbe 33%
John LaFalce 89%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 100%
Greg Laughlin 100%
Rick Lazio 67%
James Leach 56%
Ron Lewis 100%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 95%
Blanche Lincoln 20%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 89%
Robert Livingston 100%
James Longley, Jr. 50%
Trent Lott, Sr. 86%
William Luther 0%
Connie Mack 100%
Thomas Manton 89%
Matthew Martinez 33%
Bill Martini 20%
Frank Mascara 89%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 0%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 100%
Paul McHale 44%
John McHugh 89%
Scott McInnis 78%
David McIntosh 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 78%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 89%
Jan Meyers 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 67%
David Minge 33%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 44%
Susan Molinari 50%
Alan Mollohan 88%
G.V. Montgomery 95%
Carlos Moorhead 95%
Constance Morella 13%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 33%
Frank Murkowski 100%
Jack Murtha 100%
John Myers 95%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 100%
Mark Neumann 100%
Robert William Ney 100%
Don Nickles 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
Sam Nunn 36%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 33%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
William Orton 100%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 100%
Ronald Packard 100%
Paul Michael Parker 100%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 0%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 25%
Claiborne Pell 7%
Pete Peterson 6%
Owen Pickett 11%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 33%
John Edward Porter 56%
Glenn Poshard 100%
Larry Pressler 100%
Deborah Pryce 71%
David Pryor 9%
Jack Quinn 89%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 67%
Ralph Regula 89%
Bill Richardson 15%
Frank Duncan Riggs 88%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 0%
Charles Robb 0%
Timothy Roemer 89%
Charles Rose III 15%
Toby Roth 95%
William Roth, Jr. 67%
Marge Roukema 38%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Matthew Salmon 100%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 100%
Rick Santorum 100%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
H. James Saxton 89%
Joe Scarborough 100%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 78%
Patricia Schroeder 15%
Andrea Seastrand 100%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 75%
Christopher Shays 0%
E.G. Shuster 100%
Paul Simon 7%
Alan Simpson 29%
Norman Sisisky 44%
David Skaggs 0%
Joseph Skeen 100%
Ike Skelton 100%
Linda Smith 100%
Nick Smith 100%
Bob Smith 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 100%
Mark Souder 100%
Arlen Specter 14%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 22%
Charles Stenholm 100%
Ted Stevens 67%
Steve Stockman 95%
Louis Stokes 0%
Gerry Studds 10%
Robert Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 89%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 38%
Randy Tate 95%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 100%
Frank Tejeda 100%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 57%
Fred Thompson 86%
Ray Thornton 47%
Karen Thurman 0%
Strom Thurmond 100%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Peter Torkildsen 5%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
Robert Torricelli 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 44%
Bruce Vento 0%
Harold Volkmer 100%
Barbara Vucanovich 100%
James Walsh 100%
Zach Wamp 100%
Michael Ward 11%
John Warner 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 100%
W. Curtis Weldon 100%
Gerald Weller 100%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Rick White 56%
Pat Williams 17%
Charles Wilson 11%
Robert Wise, Jr. 0%
Albert Wynn 11%
Sidney Yates 0%
Bill Zeliff 50%
Richard Zimmer 10%

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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