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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Association of Social Workers

1999-2000 Positions

Issues: Social Issues
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 10%
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 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 17%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 90%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 89%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 1 Mike Thompson 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 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
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 38 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 42 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Joe Baca, Sr. Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 30%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 89%
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 89%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 90%
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 22%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 10%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 60%
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 20%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 80%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 10%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 20%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 11%
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 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 70%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 20%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 20%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 30%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 70%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 10%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 10%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 10%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 10%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 10%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 40%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 80%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 11%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
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%
MA U.S. House 8 Mike Capuano Democratic 90%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 90%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 10%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 50%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 30%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 80%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 30%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 10%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 10%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 80%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 30%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 90%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 60%
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 67%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 10%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 20%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
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 90%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 90%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 80%
NM U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NV U.S. House 1 Shelley Berkley Democratic 90%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley 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 11%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 10%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 89%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 80%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 38%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 40%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 11%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 90%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 80%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 10%
SC U.S. Senate Jr James DeMint Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 80%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 0%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 10%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 30%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 20%
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 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 20%
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 10%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 60%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 10%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 70%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 10%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 90%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 80%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 90%
Richard Armey 10%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
John Baldacci 90%
Cass Ballenger 10%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
Evan Bayh 80%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 90%
Douglas Bereuter 40%
Marion Berry 50%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 70%
Kit Bond 10%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 90%
Robert Borski, Jr. 90%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
John Breaux 80%
Ed Bryant 10%
Jim Bunning 10%
Conrad Burns 11%
Steve Buyer 10%
Robert Byrd 60%
Herbert Callahan 20%
Ben Campbell 20%
Chris Cannon 10%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 40%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 90%
Robert Clement 60%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 50%
John Cooksey 20%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 40%
Philip Crane 10%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 90%
Thomas Davis III 40%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 80%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 80%
Jennifer Dunn 10%
John Edwards 80%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 10%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 10%
Philip English 40%
Bob Etheridge 80%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 80%
Peter Fitzgerald 30%
Ernest Fletcher 10%
Mark Foley 40%
Harold Ford, Jr. 90%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 20%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 90%
John Ganske 40%
George Gekas 11%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 40%
Wayne Gilchrest 33%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 70%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 50%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Mark Green 10%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 10%
Charles Hagel 10%
Tony Hall 67%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 10%
Jesse Helms 0%
Baron Hill 60%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 90%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 89%
Darlene Hooley 90%
Stephen Horn 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 43%
Kenny Hulshof 22%
Duncan Hunter 10%
William Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 20%
Henry Hyde 20%
Jay Inslee 90%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 63%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
William Lewis Jenkins 10%
Christopher John 44%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 80%
Sue Kelly 40%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 90%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
James Kolbe 20%
John LaFalce 70%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 0%
Blanche Lincoln 80%
John Linder 10%
William Lipinski 33%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
William Luther 90%
James Maloney 80%
Frank Mascara 78%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 20%
John McHugh 40%
Scott McInnis 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 0%
Zell Bryan Miller 0%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 70%
Dennis Moore 90%
Constance Morella 100%
Frank Murkowski 10%
Jack Murtha 90%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 10%
Robert William Ney 30%
Don Nickles 10%
Anne Northup 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 20%
James Nussle 10%
Jim Oberstar 70%
Dave Obey 80%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 70%
Doug Ose 30%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 10%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 40%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 90%
Deborah Pryce 10%
Jack Quinn 75%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 30%
Ralph Regula 20%
Thomas Reynolds 22%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 50%
Marge Roukema 40%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 78%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 80%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 30%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 40%
Christopher Shays 56%
Donald Sherwood 30%
Ronnie Shows 30%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Norman Sisisky 70%
Joseph Skeen 10%
Ike Skelton 60%
Gordon Smith 30%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 80%
Mark Souder 20%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 10%
John Spratt, Jr. 90%
Charles Stenholm 40%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 80%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 10%
John Sweeney 40%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 50%
Ellen Tauscher 70%
William Tauzin 10%
Charles Taylor 10%
Gene Taylor 40%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 13%
Fred Thompson 10%
Karen Thurman 80%
Strom Thurmond 10%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 90%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 70%
Robert Anacletus Underwood 0%
George Voinovich 20%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 20%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 10%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 10%
W. Curtis Weldon 33%
Gerald Weller 30%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 30%
David Wu 90%
Albert Wynn 80%

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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