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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: United States Public Interest Research Group

1999-2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 5%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 7%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 5%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 20%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 20%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 5%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 75%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 87%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 80%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 80%
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 80%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 95%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 5%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 85%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 85%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 10%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 65%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 20%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 10%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 10%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 12%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 40%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 95%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 7%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 93%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 5%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 87%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 70%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 85%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 90%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 5%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 85%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 33%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 5%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 25%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 40%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 6%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 80%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 95%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 95%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 73%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 80%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 60%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 40%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 67%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 5%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 30%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 90%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 45%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 80%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 73%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 73%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 87%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 70%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 85%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 20%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 73%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 85%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 70%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 85%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 45%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 90%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 90%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 67%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 87%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 30%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 70%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 65%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 85%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 90%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 30%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 25%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 80%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 10%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 95%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 7%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 30%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 5%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 87%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 10%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 85%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 25%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 80%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 90%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 10%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 90%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 93%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 33%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 25%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 30%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 85%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 73%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 15%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 15%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 5%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 60%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 70%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 10%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 90%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 75%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 10%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 55%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 30%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 73%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 73%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 70%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 80%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 95%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 20%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 70%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 10%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 20%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 80%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 80%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Gary Ackerman 85%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 80%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 80%
Bill Archer 15%
Richard Armey 5%
John Ashcroft 0%
Brian Baird 75%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 75%
Cass Ballenger 5%
James Barcia 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. 15%
Bill Barrett 10%
Roscoe Bartlett 10%
Charlie Bass 35%
Herbert Bateman 5%
Evan Bayh 73%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 65%
Douglas Bereuter 25%
Shelley Berkley 65%
Howard Berman 80%
Marion Berry 40%
Judy Biggert 15%
Brian Bilbray 60%
Michael Bilirakis 10%
Jeff Bingaman 67%
Rod Blagojevich 85%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 55%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 5%
David Edward Bonior 95%
Mary Bono Mack 5%
Robert Borski, Jr. 85%
Leonard Boswell 50%
Rick Boucher 65%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 40%
John Breaux 27%
Richard Bryan 80%
Ed Bryant 5%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 5%
Robert Byrd 47%
Herbert Callahan 5%
Ben Campbell 7%
Thomas Campbell 55%
Chris Cannon 10%
Julia Carson 85%
Mike Castle 60%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 15%
William Clay, Sr. 95%
Eva Clayton 80%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 73%
Robert Clement 40%
Michael Collins 15%
Larry Combest 5%
Gary Condit 45%
Kent Conrad 60%
Merrill Cook 25%
John Cooksey 15%
Jerry Costello 70%
Christopher Cox 5%
William Coyne 90%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 25%
Philip Crane 10%
Barbara Cubin 5%
Randall Cunningham 10%
Patsy Ann Danner 45%
Thomas Daschle 60%
James Davis 65%
Thomas Davis III 15%
Bill Delahunt 95%
Thomas DeLay 5%
James DeMint 5%
Peter Deutsch 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 30%
Jay Dickey 0%
Norm Dicks 80%
Julian Dixon 95%
Chris Dodd 87%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 45%
John Doolittle 15%
Byron Dorgan 80%
David Dreier 5%
Jennifer Dunn 5%
John Edwards 67%
Chet Edwards 60%
Vern Ehlers 25%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 20%
Jo Ann Emerson 10%
Philip English 20%
Bob Etheridge 60%
Lane Evans 95%
Terry Everett 5%
Thomas Ewing 10%
Russ Feingold 93%
Peter Fitzgerald 33%
Ernest Fletcher 10%
Mark Foley 45%
Michael Patrick Forbes 80%
Harold Ford, Jr. 75%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 20%
Tillie Fowler 10%
Barney Frank 85%
Robert Franks 50%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 60%
Elton Gallegly 25%
John Ganske 30%
Sam Gejdenson 90%
George Gekas 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 85%
Jim Gibbons 15%
Wayne Gilchrest 45%
Paul Gillmor 10%
Benjamin Gilman 60%
Charlie Gonzalez 85%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 20%
William Goodling 10%
Bart Gordon 45%
Slade Gorton 7%
Porter Goss 25%
Daniel Graham 73%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 7%
Mark Green 10%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 27%
Gilbert Gutknecht 5%
Tony Hall 70%
James Hansen 10%
Robert Hayes 10%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 10%
Joel Hefley 20%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 5%
Baron Hill 45%
Rick Hill 10%
Van Hilleary 15%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 70%
Maurice Hinchey 95%
David Lee Hobson 0%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
Thomas Holden 45%
Ernest Hollings 60%
Darlene Hooley 80%
Stephen Horn 45%
John Nathan Hostettler 10%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 20%
Kenny Hulshof 25%
Duncan Hunter 15%
Asa Hutchinson 5%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 7%
Kay Hutchison 7%
Henry Hyde 5%
Daniel Inouye 53%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 5%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 55%
James Merrill Jeffords 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 15%
Christopher John 10%
Nancy Johnson 45%
Paul Kanjorski 80%
Sue Kelly 65%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 73%
Patrick Kennedy 90%
Bob Kerrey 67%
Dale Kildee 95%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 90%
Gerald Kleczka 95%
Ronald Klink 60%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 53%
James Kolbe 10%
Dennis Kucinich 95%
Steven Kuykendall 30%
Jon Kyl 0%
John LaFalce 95%
Ray LaHood 20%
Nicholas Lampson 75%
Tom Lantos 90%
Stephen Largent 5%
Steve LaTourette 25%
Rick Lazio 55%
James Leach 45%
Jerry Lewis 5%
Ron Lewis 5%
Joe Lieberman 87%
Blanche Lincoln 27%
John Linder 5%
William Lipinski 65%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 13%
William Luther 85%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 70%
Don Manzullo 10%
Matthew Martinez 70%
Frank Mascara 60%
Robert Matsui 95%
Karen McCarthy 80%
Bill McCollum 15%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 35%
Scott McInnis 15%
David McIntosh 10%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 95%
Michael McNulty 80%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 80%
Jack Metcalf 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 95%
Dan Miller 15%
David Minge 75%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 95%
John Moakley 90%
Alan Mollohan 50%
Dennis Moore 75%
Constance Morella 75%
Patrick Moynihan 60%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 40%
Sue Myrick 5%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Robert William Ney 10%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 5%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 5%
Jim Oberstar 75%
Dave Obey 95%
John Olver 95%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 55%
Doug Ose 10%
Major Owens 95%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ronald Packard 0%
Ron Paul 35%
Donald Payne 95%
Edward Pease 15%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 65%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 5%
Owen Pickett 35%
Richard Pombo 5%
Earl Pomeroy 60%
John Edward Porter 40%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 45%
George Radanovich 10%
James Ramstad 60%
Ralph Regula 20%
Silvestre Reyes 70%
Thomas Reynolds 25%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 65%
Charles Robb 67%
Ciro Rodriguez 90%
Timothy Roemer 65%
James Rogan 5%
William Roth, Jr. 47%
Steve Rothman 80%
Marge Roukema 50%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 85%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 30%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 87%
Jim Saxton 55%
Joe Scarborough 15%
John Shadegg 10%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 10%
Christopher Shays 80%
Donald Sherwood 15%
Ronnie Shows 45%
E.G. Shuster 0%
Norman Sisisky 20%
Joseph Skeen 10%
Ike Skelton 55%
Gordon Smith 20%
Nick Smith 15%
Bob Smith 0%
Olympia Snowe 40%
Vic Snyder 70%
Mark Souder 10%
Arlen Specter 33%
Floyd Spence 15%
John Spratt, Jr. 65%
Pete Stark 90%
Cliff Stearns 10%
Charles Stenholm 20%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 65%
Bob Stump 5%
Bart Stupak 85%
John Sununu 15%
John Sweeney 10%
James Talent 15%
Tom Tancredo 10%
John Tanner 30%
Ellen Tauscher 75%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 5%
Gene Taylor 40%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 7%
Karen Thurman 65%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 73%
Ed Towns 90%
James Traficant, Jr. 40%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 85%
James Turner 50%
Bruce Vento 80%
George Voinovich 7%
James Walsh 35%
Zach Wamp 25%
John Warner 13%
Wesley Watkins 5%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 5%
Anthony Weiner 90%
David Weldon 10%
W. Curtis Weldon 25%
Gerald Weller 10%
Paul Wellstone 87%
Robert Wexler 90%
Bob Weygand 75%
Heather Wilson 5%
Bob Wise, Jr. 55%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 80%
Albert Wynn 70%

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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