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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: 60 Plus Association

1995-1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 90%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 94%
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 12%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 6%
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 10%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 6%
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 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 28 Howard Berman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 0%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 12%
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 100%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 88%
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 0%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 82%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 6%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 89%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 23%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 94%
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 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 77%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 6%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 100%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 17%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 6%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 76%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 0%
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 0%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 6%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 77%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 94%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 29%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 29%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 74%
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 9 Sue Myrick Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 6%
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 38%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 84%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 72%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 22%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 6%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 23%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 94%
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 0%
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 6%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 94%
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 6%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 88%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 100%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 83%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 6%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 6%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 6%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 6%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 100%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
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 0%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
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 0%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 80%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 6%
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%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 24%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 100%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 94%
Wayne Allard 100%
William Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 94%
Henry Scott Baesler 12%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
William Baker 100%
John Baldacci 0%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 6%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
William Barrett 100%
Herbert Bateman 84%
Anthony Beilenson 0%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 0%
Douglas Bereuter 84%
Tom Bevill 36%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Peter Blute 84%
Sherwood Boehlert 72%
Kit Bond 71%
Henry Bonilla 100%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Sonny Bono 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 0%
Rick Boucher 0%
Bill Bradley 6%
Carol Moseley Braun 23%
John Breaux 24%
Bill Brewster 34%
Glen Browder 16%
George Brown, Jr. 6%
Hank Brown 100%
Richard Bryan 29%
Ed Bryant 94%
John Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 0%
Jim Bunn 94%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 83%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 24%
Herbert Callahan 100%
Ben Campbell 83%
Mike Castle 100%
John Chafee 53%
Jim Chapman 6%
Helen Chenoweth 100%
Jon Lynn Christensen 100%
Dick Chrysler 100%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 0%
Robert Clement 16%
William Clinger 90%
William Cohen 71%
Ronald Coleman 0%
Barbara-Rose Collins 0%
Cardiss Collins 0%
Mac Collins 100%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 38%
Wes Cooley 100%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 6%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 42%
Philip Crane 100%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 100%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 83%
Patsy Ann Danner 22%
Thomas Daschle 6%
Thomas Davis III 80%
E. Kika de la Garza 6%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Ronald Dellums 0%
Peter Deutsch 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 88%
Jay Dickey 100%
Julian Dixon 0%
Chris Dodd 12%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 71%
Calvin Dooley 18%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 18%
Robert Dornan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 6%
Vern Ehlers 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 90%
Bill Emerson 100%
Philip English 100%
John Ensign 100%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 30%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 100%
Harris Fawell 100%
Victor Fazio 0%
Russ Feingold 6%
Cleo Fields 0%
Jack Fields, Jr. 100%
Floyd Flake 0%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 94%
Thomas Foglietta 0%
Mark Foley 100%
Michael Patrick Forbes 94%
Harold Ford, Sr. 0%
Wendell Ford 23%
Tillie Fowler 100%
Jon David Fox 100%
Gary Franks 100%
Robert Franks 100%
Daniel Frisa 100%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 0%
David Funderburk 100%
Elizabeth Furse 0%
John Ganske 84%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Pete Geren 94%
Sam Gibbons 6%
Wayne Gilchrest 100%
Paul Gillmor 90%
Benjamin Gilman 94%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 0%
Henry Gonzalez 0%
William Goodling 100%
Bart Gordon 16%
Slade Gorton 65%
Porter Goss 100%
Daniel Graham 29%
William Phillip Gramm 94%
Rodney Grams 100%
Enid Greene 94%
James Greenwood 100%
Judd Gregg 89%
Steven Gunderson 80%
Gilbert Gutknecht 100%
Tony Hall 6%
Lee Hamilton 6%
Melton Hancock 100%
James Hansen 100%
Jane Harman 6%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 42%
James Hayes 66%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 94%
W.G. Hefner 0%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 100%
Jesse Helms 100%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
David Lee Hobson 100%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Martin Hoke 100%
Ernest Hollings 12%
Stephen Horn 90%
John Nathan Hostettler 84%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 68%
Duncan Hunter 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Henry Hyde 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 0%
James Merrill Jeffords 71%
Nancy Johnson 66%
Harry Johnston 0%
J. Bennett Johnston 18%
Paul Kanjorski 0%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 59%
Sue Kelly 100%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 6%
Joseph Kennedy II 0%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 0%
Bob Kerrey 30%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 6%
Ronald Klink 6%
Scott Klug 90%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
James Kolbe 100%
John LaFalce 0%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 100%
Greg Laughlin 88%
Rick Lazio 100%
James Leach 90%
Ron Lewis 100%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 90%
Blanche Lincoln 22%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 22%
Robert Livingston 100%
James Longley, Jr. 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
William Luther 0%
Connie Mack 88%
Thomas Manton 0%
Matthew Martinez 0%
Bill Martini 100%
Frank Mascara 0%
Robert Matsui 6%
Karen McCarthy 0%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 90%
Paul McHale 0%
John McHugh 100%
Scott McInnis 100%
David McIntosh 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 12%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 100%
Jan Meyers 100%
Dan Miller 100%
David Minge 0%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 0%
Susan Molinari 100%
Alan Mollohan 6%
G.V. Montgomery 72%
Carlos Moorhead 100%
Constance Morella 42%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 6%
Frank Murkowski 94%
Jack Murtha 6%
John Myers 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 100%
Mark Neumann 100%
Robert William Ney 100%
Don Nickles 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
Sam Nunn 18%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 6%
Dave Obey 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 0%
William Orton 12%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 100%
Ronald Packard 100%
Paul Michael Parker 88%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 0%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 6%
Claiborne Pell 6%
Pete Peterson 6%
Owen Pickett 6%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 0%
John Edward Porter 73%
Glenn Poshard 6%
Larry Pressler 89%
Deborah Pryce 100%
David Pryor 0%
James Quillen 94%
Jack Quinn 94%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 93%
Ralph Regula 100%
Bill Richardson 0%
Frank Duncan Riggs 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 0%
Charles Robb 30%
Timothy Roemer 12%
Charles Rose III 16%
Toby Roth 100%
William Roth, Jr. 100%
Marge Roukema 74%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Matthew Salmon 100%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 100%
Rick Santorum 94%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
H. James Saxton 84%
Joe Scarborough 82%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 90%
Patricia Schroeder 0%
Andrea Seastrand 100%
John Shadegg 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 100%
Christopher Shays 94%
E.G. Shuster 94%
Paul Simon 41%
Alan Simpson 77%
Norman Sisisky 0%
David Skaggs 6%
Joseph Skeen 100%
Ike Skelton 28%
Linda Smith 100%
Nick Smith 100%
Bob Smith 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 100%
Mark Souder 94%
Arlen Specter 71%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 0%
Charles Stenholm 18%
Ted Stevens 83%
Steve Stockman 100%
Louis Stokes 0%
Gerry Studds 0%
Robert Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 0%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 12%
Randy Tate 100%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 36%
Frank Tejeda 0%
Craig Thomas 89%
William Thomas 90%
Fred Thompson 94%
Ray Thornton 0%
Karen Thurman 0%
Strom Thurmond 100%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Peter Torkildsen 72%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
Robert Torricelli 16%
James Traficant, Jr. 38%
Bruce Vento 0%
Harold Volkmer 0%
Barbara Vucanovich 100%
Robert Walker 100%
James Walsh 90%
Zach Wamp 100%
Michael Ward 0%
John Warner 89%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 94%
W. Curtis Weldon 94%
Gerald Weller 100%
Paul Wellstone 6%
Rick White 100%
Pat Williams 0%
Charles Wilson 22%
Robert Wise, Jr. 0%
Albert Wynn 0%
Sidney Yates 6%
Bill Zeliff 100%
Richard Zimmer 84%

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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