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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Population Connection

2002 Positions

Issues: Social
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 14%
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 13%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed 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 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 89%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 100%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 14%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 13%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 11%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 33%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 78%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 86%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 11%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 89%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 22%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 11%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 11%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 78%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 89%
IN Governor Mike Pence 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 11%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 11%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 40%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 67%
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 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 40%
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 11%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 33%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 11%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 44%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 11%
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 78%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 80%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 11%
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 11%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 33%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 56%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 33%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 89%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 67%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 80%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 22%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 11%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 11%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 88%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 20%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 11%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 33%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 11%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 78%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 13%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 33%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 56%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 40%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 75%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. 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 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 22%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 89%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 78%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 89%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 78%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor 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. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 11%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 11%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 33%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 80%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 44%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 56%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 20%
George Allen 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. 89%
Brian Baird 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 11%
Cass Ballenger 11%
Roscoe Bartlett 13%
Charlie Bass 89%
Evan Bayh 100%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Shelley Berkley 100%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 33%
Judy Biggert 56%
Michael Bilirakis 22%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 89%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 11%
Mary Bono Mack 22%
Leonard Boswell 89%
Rick Boucher 78%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 78%
John Breaux 0%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 13%
Robert Byrd 60%
Ben Campbell 0%
Chris Cannon 0%
Brad Carson 78%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 89%
Hillary Clinton 100%
Michael Collins 13%
Larry Combest 0%
Kent Conrad 80%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 33%
Christopher Cox 13%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 13%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 11%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 89%
Jo Ann Davis 11%
Thomas Davis III 22%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 11%
Norm Dicks 89%
Chris Dodd 80%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 20%
Calvin Dooley 75%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 80%
David Dreier 11%
Jennifer Dunn 38%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 67%
Vern Ehlers 33%
Jo Ann Emerson 11%
Philip English 22%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 89%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 80%
Michael Ferguson 33%
Peter Fitzgerald 20%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 33%
Harold Ford, Jr. 89%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 13%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elton Gallegly 11%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 11%
Wayne Gilchrest 44%
Paul Gillmor 13%
Charlie Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 78%
Porter Goss 11%
Daniel Graham 100%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 67%
Judd Gregg 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Jane Harman 89%
Melissa Hart 11%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 11%
Baron Hill 78%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 11%
Pete Hoekstra 11%
Thomas Holden 33%
Ernest Hollings 100%
Darlene Hooley 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 75%
Kenny Hulshof 11%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 11%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 89%
James Merrill Jeffords 40%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 25%
Nancy Johnson 100%
Tim Johnson 33%
Paul Kanjorski 33%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 78%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 25%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Dale Kildee 56%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 89%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
Herb Kohl 100%
James Kolbe 44%
Dennis Kucinich 89%
Jon Kyl 0%
Ray LaHood 11%
Nicholas Lampson 67%
Tom Lantos 100%
James Leach 75%
Jerry Lewis 13%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 100%
Blanche Lincoln 100%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 14%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
Don Manzullo 0%
Robert Matsui 89%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 13%
John McHugh 13%
Scott McInnis 14%
Michael McNulty 67%
Martin Meehan 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 0%
Alan Mollohan 33%
Dennis Moore 100%
Jack Murtha 33%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 20%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 13%
Robert William Ney 22%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 22%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 11%
James Nussle 22%
Jim Oberstar 56%
Dave Obey 89%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 33%
Thomas William Osborne 11%
Doug Ose 38%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 11%
Ron Paul 22%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Todd Platts 13%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 78%
Deborah Pryce 44%
Jack Quinn 25%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 67%
Ralph Regula 11%
Denny Rehberg 11%
Silvestre Reyes 63%
Thomas Reynolds 11%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Mike Ross 44%
Steve Rothman 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 78%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 44%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 22%
Christopher Shays 100%
Donald Sherwood 11%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 89%
Ike Skelton 44%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 22%
Olympia Snowe 40%
Vic Snyder 67%
Hilda Solis 100%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 40%
John Spratt, Jr. 89%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 22%
Ted Stevens 25%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bart Stupak 56%
John Sullivan 0%
John Sununu 25%
John Sweeney 33%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 67%
Ellen Tauscher 89%
William Tauzin 11%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 25%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 57%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Ed Towns 88%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 67%
George Voinovich 0%
James Walsh 22%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 20%
Diane Watson 100%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 25%
Gerald Weller 11%
Robert Wexler 89%
Heather Wilson 11%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 100%
Albert Wynn 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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