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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

1995-1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 27%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 14%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 27%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 29%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 14%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 91%
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 27%
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 90%
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 27%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 27%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 27%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 91%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 91%
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 90%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 18%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 27%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 27%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 27%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 82%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 86%
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 27%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 18%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 27%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 27%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 27%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 27%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 27%
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 14%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 86%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 27%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 18%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 86%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 91%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 27%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 21%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 7%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 55%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 27%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 14%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 36%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 27%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 93%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 91%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 18%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 29%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 27%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 91%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 27%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 64%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 14%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 27%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 91%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 93%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 79%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 27%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 18%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 27%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 36%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 91%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 100%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 27%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 93%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 82%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 36%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 91%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 30%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 93%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 93%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 27%
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 90%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 80%
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 91%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 80%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 27%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 27%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 91%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 27%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 27%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 91%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 21%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 14%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 27%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 27%
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 70%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 91%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 27%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 91%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 27%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 27%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 45%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 27%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 18%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 27%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 91%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 14%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 27%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 91%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 27%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 91%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 27%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 86%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 27%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 36%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 91%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 93%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 91%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 14%
William Archer 27%
Richard Armey 27%
John Ashcroft 8%
Henry Scott Baesler 64%
Richard Hugh Baker 27%
William Baker 18%
John Baldacci 91%
Cass Ballenger 27%
James Barcia 90%
Robert Barr, Jr. 18%
William Barrett 27%
Herbert Bateman 27%
Anthony Beilenson 91%
Bob Bennett 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 91%
Douglas Bereuter 27%
Tom Bevill 82%
Michael Bilirakis 27%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 27%
Peter Blute 27%
Sherwood Boehlert 27%
Kit Bond 7%
Henry Bonilla 27%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Sonny Bono 27%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 91%
Bill Bradley 92%
Carol Moseley Braun 71%
John Breaux 93%
Bill Brewster 60%
Glen Browder 73%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Hank Brown 21%
Richard Bryan 86%
Ed Bryant 27%
John Bryant 75%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunn 27%
Jim Bunning 27%
Conrad Burns 14%
Steve Buyer 27%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 27%
Ben Campbell 15%
Thomas Campbell 50%
Mike Castle 27%
John Chafee 14%
Jim Chapman 75%
Helen Chenoweth 20%
Jon Lynn Christensen 27%
Dick Chrysler 27%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Robert Clement 82%
William Clinger 27%
William Cohen 43%
Ronald Coleman 82%
Barbara-Rose Collins 100%
Cardiss Collins 100%
Mac Collins 27%
Larry Combest 27%
Gary Condit 46%
Wes Cooley 18%
Paul Coverdell 14%
Christopher Cox 18%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 21%
Robert Cramer 73%
Philip Crane 27%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 27%
Barbara Cubin 27%
Randall Cunningham 27%
Alfonse D'Amato 14%
Patsy Ann Danner 82%
Thomas Daschle 93%
Thomas Davis III 27%
E. Kika de la Garza 91%
Thomas DeLay 27%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 73%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 20%
Jay Dickey 18%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 79%
Robert Dole 360%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 14%
Calvin Dooley 82%
John Doolittle 18%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Robert Dornan 18%
Jennifer Dunn 27%
Chet Edwards 82%
Vern Ehlers 27%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 27%
Bill Emerson 27%
Philip English 27%
John Ensign 18%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 27%
Thomas Ewing 27%
Jim Exon 86%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 15%
Harris Fawell 27%
Victor Fazio 100%
Russ Feingold 100%
Cleo Fields 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. 27%
Floyd Flake 100%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 45%
Thomas Foglietta 91%
Mark Foley 27%
Michael Patrick Forbes 18%
Wendell Ford 100%
Tillie Fowler 20%
Jon David Fox 27%
Sheila Frahm 0%
Gary Franks 27%
Robert Franks 27%
Daniel Frisa 27%
William Frist 14%
Jonas Frost III 91%
David Funderburk 27%
Elizabeth Furse 100%
John Ganske 27%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 27%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 91%
Pete Geren 27%
Sam Gibbons 91%
Wayne Gilchrest 27%
Paul Gillmor 30%
Benjamin Gilman 27%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
William Goodling 27%
Bart Gordon 82%
Slade Gorton 7%
Porter Goss 27%
Daniel Graham 93%
William Phillip Gramm 15%
Rodney Grams 7%
Enid Greene 20%
James Greenwood 27%
Judd Gregg 14%
Steven Gunderson 27%
Gilbert Gutknecht 36%
Tony Hall 100%
Lee Hamilton 82%
Melton Hancock 18%
James Hansen 18%
Jane Harman 80%
J. Dennis Hastert 20%
Mark Hatfield 14%
James Hayes 50%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 18%
Joel Hefley 18%
W.G. Hefner 91%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 27%
Jesse Helms 14%
Van Hilleary 27%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 91%
David Lee Hobson 27%
Pete Hoekstra 27%
Martin Hoke 27%
Ernest Hollings 93%
Stephen Horn 27%
John Nathan Hostettler 45%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 20%
Duncan Hunter 27%
Henry Hyde 27%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 27%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 27%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 82%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 21%
Nancy Johnson 27%
Harry Johnston 82%
J. Bennett Johnston 93%
Paul Kanjorski 91%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 14%
Sue Kelly 27%
Dirk Kempthorne 21%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 82%
Patrick Kennedy 91%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 100%
Bob Kerrey 86%
Jay Kim 27%
Gerald Kleczka 91%
Ronald Klink 91%
Scott Klug 27%
Joseph Knollenberg 27%
James Kolbe 27%
John LaFalce 91%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 27%
Greg Laughlin 27%
Rick Lazio 27%
James Leach 27%
Ron Lewis 27%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 36%
Blanche Lincoln 80%
John Linder 27%
William Lipinski 91%
Robert Livingston 27%
James Longley, Jr. 27%
Trent Lott, Sr. 14%
William Luther 82%
Connie Mack 0%
Thomas Manton 100%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Bill Martini 27%
Frank Mascara 91%
Robert Matsui 91%
Karen McCarthy 91%
Bill McCollum 36%
James McCrery III 27%
Joseph McDade 30%
Paul McHale 82%
John McHugh 27%
Scott McInnis 18%
David McIntosh 18%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 91%
Martin Meehan 82%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 18%
Jan Meyers 27%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 27%
David Minge 64%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 91%
John Moakley 89%
Susan Molinari 27%
Alan Mollohan 82%
G.V. Montgomery 45%
Carlos Moorhead 27%
Constance Morella 27%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 14%
Jack Murtha 100%
John Myers 20%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 27%
Mark Neumann 44%
Robert William Ney 27%
Don Nickles 14%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 18%
Sam Nunn 79%
James Nussle 18%
Jim Oberstar 91%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 82%
William Orton 73%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 27%
Ronald Packard 27%
Paul Michael Parker 27%
William Paxon 27%
Donald Payne 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 82%
Claiborne Pell 92%
Pete Peterson 82%
Owen Pickett 73%
Richard Pombo 18%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 27%
Glenn Poshard 82%
Larry Pressler 21%
Deborah Pryce 27%
David Pryor 100%
James Quillen 27%
Jack Quinn 27%
George Radanovich 18%
James Ramstad 27%
Ralph Regula 27%
Bill Richardson 91%
Frank Duncan Riggs 27%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 86%
Timothy Roemer 64%
Charles Rose III 82%
Toby Roth 27%
William Roth, Jr. 14%
Marge Roukema 27%
Martin Olav Sabo 91%
Matthew Salmon 27%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 36%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 36%
Joe Scarborough 27%
Daniel Schaefer 18%
Steven Schiff 27%
Patricia Schroeder 91%
Andrea Seastrand 27%
John Shadegg 27%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 27%
Christopher Shays 18%
E.G. Shuster 27%
Paul Simon 86%
Alan Simpson 8%
Norman Sisisky 70%
David Skaggs 91%
Joseph Skeen 27%
Ike Skelton 73%
Linda Smith 27%
Nick Smith 27%
Bob Smith 21%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 27%
Mark Souder 36%
Arlen Specter 36%
Floyd Spence 27%
John Spratt, Jr. 82%
Charles Stenholm 64%
Ted Stevens 14%
Steve Stockman 18%
Louis Stokes 100%
Gerry Studds 90%
Robert Stump 27%
Bart Stupak 91%
James Talent 27%
John Tanner 64%
Randy Tate 27%
William Tauzin 27%
Charles Taylor 20%
Gene Taylor 36%
Frank Tejeda 91%
Craig Thomas 7%
William Thomas 18%
Fred Thompson 7%
Ray Thornton 91%
Karen Thurman 91%
Strom Thurmond 14%
Todd Tiahrt 27%
Peter Torkildsen 36%
Esteban Edward Torres 91%
James Traficant, Jr. 91%
Bruce Vento 91%
Harold Volkmer 80%
Barbara Vucanovich 20%
Robert Walker 27%
James Walsh 27%
Zach Wamp 27%
Michael Ward 91%
John Warner 14%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 18%
David Weldon 27%
W. Curtis Weldon 20%
Gerald Weller 27%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Rick White 27%
Pat Williams 91%
Charles Wilson 89%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 100%
Sidney Yates 100%
Bill Zeliff 27%
Richard Zimmer 36%

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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