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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Population Connection

1997 Positions

Issues: Social Issues
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 13%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 56%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 89%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 89%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 75%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 75%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 89%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 89%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 0%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 11%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 50%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 25%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 0%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 33%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 11%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 22%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 11%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 11%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 75%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 0%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 11%
James Barcia 0%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 11%
Herbert Bateman 11%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 22%
Marion Berry 56%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 100%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 56%
Sonny Bono 11%
Robert Borski, Jr. 33%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 100%
John Breaux 0%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 11%
Robert Byrd 75%
Herbert Callahan 11%
Ben Campbell 75%
Thomas Campbell 100%
Chris Cannon 0%
Walter Holden Capps 100%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 100%
John Chafee 100%
Helen Chenoweth 11%
Jon Lynn Christensen 0%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 75%
Robert Clement 100%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 89%
Merrill Cook 11%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 67%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 11%
Randall Cunningham 11%
Alfonse D'Amato 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 56%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 100%
Thomas Davis III 89%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 14%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 50%
Jennifer Dunn 44%
Chet Edwards 100%
Vern Ehlers 11%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 100%
Philip English 0%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 100%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 11%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 0%
Harris Fawell 100%
Victor Fazio 100%
Russ Feingold 100%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 67%
Michael Patrick Forbes 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Wendell Ford 0%
Tillie Fowler 67%
Jon David Fox 22%
Robert Franks 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elizabeth Furse 100%
John Ganske 33%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 33%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 67%
Wayne Gilchrest 100%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Benjamin Gilman 100%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
William Goodling 0%
Bart Gordon 100%
Slade Gorton 25%
Porter Goss 11%
Daniel Graham 75%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 100%
Judd Gregg 25%
Gilbert Gutknecht 11%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 22%
Lee Hamilton 56%
James Hansen 11%
Jane Harman 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
W.G. Hefner 100%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 11%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 89%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 100%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 100%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 0%
William Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 100%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 11%
Jay Johnson 100%
Nancy Johnson 100%
Paul Kanjorski 33%
Sue Kelly 100%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 100%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Jay Kim 11%
Gerald Kleczka 56%
Ronald Klink 33%
Scott Klug 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 11%
James Kolbe 100%
John LaFalce 22%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 89%
James Leach 100%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 0%
Robert Livingston 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 100%
Thomas Manton 22%
Matthew Martinez 89%
Frank Mascara 22%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 11%
Joseph McDade 11%
Paul McHale 100%
John McHugh 13%
Scott McInnis 22%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 89%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 0%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 44%
David Minge 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 56%
Alan Mollohan 11%
Constance Morella 100%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 22%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 11%
Mark Neumann 0%
Robert William Ney 11%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 88%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 11%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 22%
Ronald Packard 11%
Michael Pappas 0%
Paul Michael Parker 0%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 0%
John Peterson 13%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 100%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 100%
Glenn Poshard 0%
Deborah Pryce 100%
Jack Quinn 0%
George Radanovich 11%
James Ramstad 100%
William Redmond 0%
Ralph Regula 56%
Frank Duncan Riggs 22%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 22%
James Rogan 11%
William Roth, Jr. 25%
Marge Roukema 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 100%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 11%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 11%
Joe Scarborough 0%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 100%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 56%
Christopher Shays 100%
E.G. Shuster 22%
Norman Sisisky 100%
David Skaggs 100%
Joseph Skeen 33%
Ike Skelton 0%
Gordon Smith 25%
Linda Smith 0%
Nick Smith 0%
Robert Smith 11%
Bob Smith 0%
Vincent Snowbarger 0%
Vic Snyder 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 0%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 100%
Floyd Spence 11%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 0%
Ted Stevens 100%
Louis Stokes 100%
Ted Strickland 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 22%
John Sununu 11%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 100%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 0%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 78%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 22%
James Turner 100%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 11%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 25%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 0%
Gerald Weller 0%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 25%
Rick White 75%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 100%
Sidney Yates 100%

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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