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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Association of Counties

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 71%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 86%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 86%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 78%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 89%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 57%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 67%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 64%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 57%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 64%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 64%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 57%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 79%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 64%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 79%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 57%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 64%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 71%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 79%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 57%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 64%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 86%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 71%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 71%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 78%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 78%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 64%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 57%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 64%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 64%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 71%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 67%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 90%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 86%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 64%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 79%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 86%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 50%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 79%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 89%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 86%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 86%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 71%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 57%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 86%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 86%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 79%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 64%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 79%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 67%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 67%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 86%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 78%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 71%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 64%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 64%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 64%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 86%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 78%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 71%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 57%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 86%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 78%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 79%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 78%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 86%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 86%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 89%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 86%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 78%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 86%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 71%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 64%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 64%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 57%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 50%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 64%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 57%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 78%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 71%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 78%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 86%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 93%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 86%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 64%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 64%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 67%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 78%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 64%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 57%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 78%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 64%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 86%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 79%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 64%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 89%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 86%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 78%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 78%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 86%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 79%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 86%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 71%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 64%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 86%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 71%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 71%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 79%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 86%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 64%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 79%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 86%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 64%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 71%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 64%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 57%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 64%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 64%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 64%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 57%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 79%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 71%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 78%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 71%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 71%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 64%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 79%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 57%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 79%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 56%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 86%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 78%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 86%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 57%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 57%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 89%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 71%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 64%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 93%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 64%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 86%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 86%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 79%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 71%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 67%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 78%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 79%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 86%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 67%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 79%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 79%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 79%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 57%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 64%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 79%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 43%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 57%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 79%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 89%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 57%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 79%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 86%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 86%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 64%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 79%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 89%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 64%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 64%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 86%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 50%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 64%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 89%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 89%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 71%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 79%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 64%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 64%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 57%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 57%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 93%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 57%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 67%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 78%
Gary Ackerman 57%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 78%
Todd Akin 79%
Wayne Allard 89%
George Allen 89%
Thomas Allen 71%
Joe Baca, Sr. 79%
Brian Baird 79%
Richard Hugh Baker 86%
Cass Ballenger 86%
Roscoe Bartlett 86%
Charlie Bass 71%
Evan Bayh 78%
Bob Bennett 89%
Douglas Bereuter 93%
Shelley Berkley 79%
Howard Berman 64%
Marion Berry 71%
Judy Biggert 79%
Michael Bilirakis 86%
Jeff Bingaman 78%
Sherwood Boehlert 86%
Kit Bond 89%
Henry Bonilla 86%
Mary Bono Mack 79%
Leonard Boswell 71%
Rick Boucher 71%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 79%
John Breaux 78%
Henry Brown, Jr. 93%
Jim Bunning 89%
Conrad Burns 89%
Dan Burton 57%
Steve Buyer 79%
Robert Byrd 67%
Ben Campbell 89%
Chris Cannon 64%
Brad Carson 79%
Julia Carson 64%
Mike Castle 71%
Hillary Clinton 67%
Michael Collins 64%
Larry Combest 79%
Kent Conrad 67%
Jon Corzine 89%
Jerry Costello 57%
Christopher Cox 79%
Larry Craig 78%
Robert Cramer 86%
Philip Crane 79%
Barbara Cubin 64%
Randall Cunningham 86%
Thomas Daschle 67%
James Davis 71%
Jo Ann Davis 86%
Thomas Davis III 71%
Bill Delahunt 50%
Thomas DeLay 79%
James DeMint 86%
Peter Deutsch 64%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 79%
Norm Dicks 79%
Chris Dodd 89%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 89%
Calvin Dooley 79%
John Doolittle 79%
Byron Dorgan 67%
David Dreier 79%
Jennifer Dunn 71%
John Edwards 78%
Chet Edwards 79%
Vern Ehlers 93%
Jo Ann Emerson 79%
Philip English 93%
John Ensign 89%
Bob Etheridge 71%
Lane Evans 64%
Terry Everett 86%
Russ Feingold 22%
Michael Ferguson 86%
Peter Fitzgerald 67%
Ernest Fletcher 86%
Mark Foley 86%
Harold Ford, Jr. 71%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 86%
Barney Frank 50%
William Frist 78%
Jonas Frost III 71%
Elton Gallegly 79%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 64%
Jim Gibbons 79%
Wayne Gilchrest 93%
Paul Gillmor 86%
Charlie Gonzalez 57%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 79%
Bart Gordon 79%
Porter Goss 79%
Daniel Graham 67%
Mark Green 79%
James Greenwood 93%
Judd Gregg 89%
Gilbert Gutknecht 86%
Jane Harman 71%
Melissa Hart 93%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Robert Hayes 86%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 86%
Joel Hefley 86%
Wally Herger, Jr. 93%
Baron Hill 57%
Maurice Hinchey 71%
David Lee Hobson 86%
Pete Hoekstra 79%
Thomas Holden 79%
Ernest Hollings 67%
Darlene Hooley 79%
John Nathan Hostettler 71%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 79%
Kenny Hulshof 86%
Duncan Hunter 79%
Kay Hutchison 78%
Henry Hyde 86%
Daniel Inouye 78%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 86%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 71%
William Jefferson 79%
James Merrill Jeffords 67%
William Lewis Jenkins 93%
Christopher John 79%
Nancy Johnson 79%
Tim Johnson 79%
Paul Kanjorski 86%
Ric Keller 86%
Sue Kelly 93%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 67%
Mark Kennedy 79%
Patrick Kennedy 71%
Dale Kildee 71%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 57%
Gerald Kleczka 64%
Joseph Knollenberg 86%
Herb Kohl 89%
James Kolbe 79%
Dennis Kucinich 43%
Jon Kyl 67%
Ray LaHood 86%
Nicholas Lampson 71%
Tom Lantos 57%
Steve LaTourette 100%
James Leach 79%
Jerry Lewis 71%
Ron Lewis 86%
Joe Lieberman 89%
Blanche Lincoln 67%
John Linder 79%
William Lipinski 64%
Trent Lott, Sr. 78%
Dick Lugar 89%
Don Manzullo 79%
Robert Matsui 64%
Karen McCarthy 64%
James McCrery III 86%
John McHugh 93%
Scott McInnis 86%
Michael McNulty 71%
Martin Meehan 64%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 71%
Zell Bryan Miller 89%
Alan Mollohan 50%
Dennis Moore 71%
Jack Murtha 57%
Sue Myrick 79%
Ben Nelson 67%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 86%
Robert William Ney 79%
Don Nickles 78%
Anne Northup 79%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 79%
James Nussle 86%
Jim Oberstar 64%
Dave Obey 64%
John Olver 57%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 86%
Thomas William Osborne 86%
Doug Ose 86%
Major Owens 50%
Michael Oxley 79%
Ron Paul 29%
Donald Payne 50%
John Peterson 93%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 86%
Todd Platts 100%
Richard Pombo 79%
Earl Pomeroy 71%
Deborah Pryce 79%
Jack Quinn 93%
George Radanovich 86%
James Ramstad 79%
Ralph Regula 93%
Denny Rehberg 86%
Silvestre Reyes 71%
Thomas Reynolds 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 57%
Mike Ross 79%
Steve Rothman 64%
Jim Ryun 79%
Martin Olav Sabo 64%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 93%
Rick Santorum 56%
Paul Sarbanes 67%
Jim Saxton 79%
Edward Schrock 79%
John Shadegg 64%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 79%
Christopher Shays 79%
Donald Sherwood 93%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 79%
Ike Skelton 71%
Gordon Smith 78%
Nick Smith 79%
Olympia Snowe 89%
Vic Snyder 71%
Hilda Solis 71%
Mark Souder 86%
Arlen Specter 78%
John Spratt, Jr. 71%
Pete Stark 43%
Cliff Stearns 71%
Charles Stenholm 71%
Ted Stevens 89%
Ted Strickland 71%
Bart Stupak 64%
John Sullivan 86%
John Sununu 86%
John Sweeney 71%
Tom Tancredo 64%
John Tanner 71%
Ellen Tauscher 71%
William Tauzin 86%
Charles Taylor 71%
Gene Taylor 79%
Craig Thomas 56%
William Thomas 79%
Todd Tiahrt 86%
Ed Towns 79%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 50%
James Turner 86%
George Voinovich 56%
James Walsh 86%
Zach Wamp 79%
John Warner 89%
Diane Watson 57%
Anthony Weiner 64%
David Weldon 86%
W. Curtis Weldon 100%
Gerald Weller 86%
Robert Wexler 71%
Heather Wilson 93%
Lynn Woolsey 64%
David Wu 71%
Albert Wynn 71%

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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