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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: 60 Plus Association

1997-1998 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 90%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 90%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 80%
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 30%
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 23 Lois Capps Democratic 10%
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 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 20%
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 40 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 40%
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 60%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
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 10%
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 60%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 40%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 90%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 100%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 70%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 10%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 80%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 90%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 80%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 80%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 80%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 40%
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 10%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 10%
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 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 50%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 10%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 100%
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 10%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 20%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 100%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 90%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 70%
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 10%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 60%
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 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 20%
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 20%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 100%
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 30%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 90%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 70%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 80%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 0%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 10%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 0%
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 20%
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 80%
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 0%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 10%
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 70%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 80%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 30%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer 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 10%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 100%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 10%
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 10%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 100%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 10%
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 10%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 70%
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 20%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 100%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 20%
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%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 10%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 20%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 10%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 100%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 80%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 10%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 10%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 30%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 90%
Wayne Allard 100%
Thomas Allen 0%
William Archer 80%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
John Baldacci 10%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 90%
William Barrett 80%
Herbert Bateman 70%
Bob Bennett 70%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 0%
Douglas Bereuter 70%
Marion Berry 20%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Rod Blagojevich 0%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 80%
Kit Bond 70%
Henry Bonilla 90%
David Edward Bonior 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. 10%
Rick Boucher 20%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 10%
John Breaux 50%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Richard Bryan 10%
Ed Bryant 100%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 90%
Steve Buyer 80%
Robert Byrd 30%
Herbert Callahan 90%
Ben Campbell 70%
Thomas Campbell 70%
Chris Cannon 100%
Julia Carson 0%
Mike Castle 50%
John Chafee 30%
Helen Chenoweth 80%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 0%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 20%
Robert Clement 10%
Mac Collins 100%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 70%
Merrill Cook 90%
John Cooksey 100%
Paul Coverdell 90%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 0%
Larry Craig 90%
Robert Cramer 60%
Philip Crane 100%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 90%
Patsy Ann Danner 80%
Thomas Daschle 10%
James Davis 10%
Thomas Davis III 80%
Bill Delahunt 0%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Peter Deutsch 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 80%
Jay Dickey 100%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 20%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 10%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 20%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 0%
Vern Ehlers 80%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 100%
Philip English 100%
Bob Etheridge 20%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Russ Feingold 10%
Mark Foley 100%
Michael Patrick Forbes 80%
Harold Ford, Jr. 0%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 100%
Tillie Fowler 90%
Robert Franks 90%
William Frist 70%
Jonas Frost III 0%
John Ganske 70%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 10%
Jim Gibbons 100%
Wayne Gilchrest 70%
Paul Gillmor 90%
Benjamin Gilman 90%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 80%
William Goodling 100%
Bart Gordon 30%
Slade Gorton 60%
Porter Goss 80%
Daniel Graham 10%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 90%
James Greenwood 90%
Judd Gregg 70%
Gilbert Gutknecht 70%
Charles Hagel 90%
Tony Hall 10%
James Hansen 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 100%
Jesse Helms 80%
Rick Hill 70%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
David Lee Hobson 80%
Pete Hoekstra 80%
Ernest Hollings 20%
Darlene Hooley 20%
Stephen Horn 80%
John Nathan Hostettler 90%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 60%
Kenny Hulshof 100%
Duncan Hunter 100%
William Hutchinson 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Henry Hyde 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 10%
James Merrill Jeffords 20%
William Lewis Jenkins 100%
Christopher John 20%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Paul Kanjorski 10%
Sue Kelly 90%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 10%
Bob Kerrey 10%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 10%
Ronald Klink 10%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
James Kolbe 90%
John LaFalce 10%
Nicholas Lampson 10%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 100%
Rick Lazio 70%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 100%
John Linder 90%
William Lipinski 10%
Trent Lott, Sr. 70%
William Luther 0%
Connie Mack 100%
James Maloney 10%
Matthew Martinez 30%
Frank Mascara 10%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 20%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
John McHugh 100%
Scott McInnis 90%
David McIntosh 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 10%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 100%
Dan Miller 100%
David Minge 10%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 10%
Alan Mollohan 10%
Constance Morella 20%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 20%
Frank Murkowski 80%
Jack Murtha 10%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 100%
Robert William Ney 100%
Don Nickles 70%
Anne Northup 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
James Nussle 80%
Jim Oberstar 10%
Dave Obey 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 10%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 90%
Ronald Packard 100%
Donald Payne 0%
Edward Pease 100%
John Peterson 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 90%
Owen Pickett 0%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 10%
John Edward Porter 90%
Deborah Pryce 80%
Jack Quinn 70%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 90%
Ralph Regula 80%
Bob Riley 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 0%
Charles Robb 20%
Timothy Roemer 50%
James Rogan 100%
William Roth, Jr. 60%
Marge Roukema 40%
Jim Ryun 100%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Matthew Salmon 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 20%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 50%
Rick Santorum 90%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
H. James Saxton 80%
Joe Scarborough 100%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 90%
Christopher Shays 70%
E.G. Shuster 100%
Norman Sisisky 10%
Joseph Skeen 100%
Ike Skelton 20%
Gordon Smith 90%
Nick Smith 100%
Bob Smith 100%
Vic Snyder 0%
Mark Souder 80%
Arlen Specter 40%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 10%
Charles Stenholm 20%
Ted Stevens 60%
Ted Strickland 10%
Robert Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 10%
John Sununu 100%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 10%
Ellen Tauscher 10%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 50%
Craig Thomas 90%
William Thomas 80%
Fred Thompson 80%
Karen Thurman 0%
Strom Thurmond 100%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Robert Torricelli 20%
James Traficant, Jr. 60%
James Turner 20%
Bruce Vento 0%
James Walsh 90%
Zach Wamp 100%
John Warner 70%
Wesley Watkins 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 100%
W. Curtis Weldon 90%
Gerald Weller 80%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 0%
Robert Weygand 10%
Heather Wilson 100%
Robert Wise, Jr. 0%
Albert Wynn 0%

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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