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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Association of Social Workers

1999-2000 Positions

Issues: Social
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. House 7 Ed 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 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 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 90%
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 10%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 90%
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 10%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA Mayor At-Large 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. House 1 John Larson Democratic 90%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
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 22%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 50%
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 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 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 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 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 70%
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. 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 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 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr 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 6 Fred Upton Republican 40%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
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%
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 Defense Charles Hagel Republican 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 90%
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 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 10%
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 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 90%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 40%
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 10%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 89%
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 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. 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. 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 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 13%
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%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
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 Doc Hastings Republican 10%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 90%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 60%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 90%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 10%
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%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 90%
Richard Armey 10%
Joe Baca, Sr. 100%
Brian Baird 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
John Baldacci 90%
Cass Ballenger 10%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 10%
Roscoe Bartlett 10%
Charlie Bass 20%
Evan Bayh 80%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 90%
Douglas Bereuter 40%
Shelley Berkley 90%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 50%
Judy Biggert 20%
Michael Bilirakis 20%
Jeff Bingaman 80%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 70%
Kit Bond 10%
Henry Bonilla 10%
David Edward Bonior 90%
Mary Bono Mack 30%
Robert Borski, Jr. 90%
Leonard Boswell 80%
Rick Boucher 80%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
John Breaux 80%
Ed Bryant 10%
Jim Bunning 10%
Conrad Burns 11%
Dan Burton 10%
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%
Michael Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 50%
Kent Conrad 67%
John Cooksey 20%
Jerry Costello 70%
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%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Norm Dicks 90%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 90%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 80%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 80%
David Dreier 10%
Jennifer Dunn 10%
John Edwards 80%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 10%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 10%
Jo Ann Emerson 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%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 90%
Elton Gallegly 40%
John Ganske 40%
George Gekas 11%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 40%
Wayne Gilchrest 33%
Paul Gillmor 20%
Benjamin Gilman 70%
Charlie Gonzalez 100%
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%
Tony Hall 67%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 10%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 60%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 90%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 10%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Thomas Holden 80%
Ernest Hollings 89%
Darlene Hooley 90%
Stephen Horn 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 43%
Kenny Hulshof 22%
Duncan Hunter 10%
Asa Hutchinson 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 20%
Kay Hutchison 20%
Henry Hyde 20%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
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%
Dale Kildee 90%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 90%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
Herb Kohl 80%
James Kolbe 20%
Dennis Kucinich 80%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 70%
Ray LaHood 30%
Nicholas Lampson 90%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Steve LaTourette 38%
James Leach 50%
Jerry Lewis 10%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 89%
Blanche Lincoln 80%
John Linder 10%
William Lipinski 33%
Trent Lott, Sr. 10%
Dick Lugar 30%
William Luther 90%
James Maloney 80%
Don Manzullo 0%
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%
Sue Myrick 0%
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%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 70%
Doug Ose 30%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 10%
Ron Paul 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%
Silvestre Reyes 90%
Thomas Reynolds 22%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 90%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 50%
Steve Rothman 90%
Marge Roukema 40%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 78%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 80%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim 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%
Olympia Snowe 50%
Vic Snyder 80%
Mark Souder 20%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 10%
John Spratt, Jr. 90%
Pete Stark 90%
Cliff Stearns 0%
Charles Stenholm 40%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 80%
Bob 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%
Ed Towns 100%
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%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
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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