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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Taxpayers for Common Sense

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 6%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 31%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 34%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 17%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 31%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 50%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 44%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 36%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 50%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 53%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 56%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 56%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 72%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 53%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 53%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 19%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 44%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 53%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 69%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 53%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 47%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 42%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 75%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 53%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 64%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 33%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 58%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 28%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 17%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 14%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 42%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 39%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 25%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 25%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 47%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 8%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 64%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 36%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 44%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 41%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 63%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 33%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 25%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 56%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 53%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 61%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 22%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 50%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 44%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 28%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 44%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 28%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 31%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 6%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 38%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 69%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 78%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 31%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 50%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 19%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 53%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 47%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 38%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 61%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 42%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 69%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 61%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 36%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 64%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 58%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 28%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 19%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 11%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 25%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 31%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 44%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 53%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 31%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 47%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 56%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 25%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 44%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 56%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 53%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 64%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 64%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 42%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 58%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 44%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 41%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 69%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 14%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 61%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 72%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 64%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 56%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 69%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 53%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 75%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 58%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 81%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 19%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 36%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 67%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 42%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 38%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 34%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 44%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 14%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 69%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 67%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 75%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 56%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 56%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 33%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 59%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 19%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 78%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 33%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 47%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 31%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 72%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 19%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 31%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 22%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 19%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 19%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 17%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 33%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 36%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 17%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 72%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 22%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 36%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 47%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 28%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 56%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 72%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 41%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 19%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 61%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 53%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 83%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 83%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 72%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 86%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 56%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 28%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 31%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 38%
Gary Ackerman 33%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 31%
Wayne Allard 38%
Thomas Allen 61%
Bill Archer 33%
Richard Armey 36%
John Ashcroft 44%
Henry Scott Baesler 19%
Richard Hugh Baker 8%
John Baldacci 58%
Cass Ballenger 28%
James Barcia 42%
Robert Barr, Jr. 42%
Bill Barrett 19%
Roscoe Bartlett 28%
Charlie Bass 58%
Herbert Bateman 6%
Bob Bennett 22%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 39%
Douglas Bereuter 28%
Howard Berman 42%
Marion Berry 36%
Brian Bilbray 39%
Michael Bilirakis 31%
Jeff Bingaman 34%
Rod Blagojevich 67%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 25%
Sherwood Boehlert 31%
Kit Bond 19%
Henry Bonilla 11%
David Edward Bonior 53%
Robert Borski, Jr. 44%
Leonard Boswell 36%
Rick Boucher 31%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 22%
John Breaux 28%
George Brown, Jr. 44%
Richard Bryan 56%
Ed Bryant 28%
Dale Bumpers 63%
Jim Bunning 11%
Conrad Burns 22%
Dan Burton 28%
Steve Buyer 14%
Robert Byrd 44%
Herbert Callahan 25%
Ben Campbell 25%
Thomas Campbell 75%
Chris Cannon 39%
Julia Carson 64%
Mike Castle 61%
John Chafee 44%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 25%
Jon Lynn Christensen 47%
William Clay, Sr. 47%
Eva Clayton 44%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 28%
Robert Clement 36%
Michael Collins 42%
Larry Combest 25%
Gary Condit 61%
Kent Conrad 50%
Merrill Cook 33%
John Cooksey 17%
Jerry Costello 58%
Paul Coverdell 22%
Christopher Cox 50%
William Coyne 61%
Larry Craig 34%
Robert Cramer 17%
Philip Crane 44%
Barbara Cubin 17%
Randall Cunningham 33%
Alfonse D'Amato 22%
Patsy Ann Danner 50%
Thomas Daschle 28%
James Davis 53%
Thomas Davis III 25%
Bill Delahunt 67%
Thomas DeLay 31%
Peter Deutsch 44%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 17%
Jay Dickey 22%
Norm Dicks 25%
Julian Dixon 25%
Chris Dodd 47%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 22%
Calvin Dooley 33%
John Doolittle 19%
Byron Dorgan 38%
David Dreier 22%
Jennifer Dunn 28%
Chet Edwards 19%
Vern Ehlers 47%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 42%
Jo Ann Emerson 17%
Philip English 31%
John Ensign 61%
Bob Etheridge 28%
Lane Evans 64%
Terry Everett 14%
Thomas Ewing 17%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 34%
Harris Fawell 50%
Victor Fazio 19%
Russ Feingold 81%
Mark Foley 53%
Michael Patrick Forbes 28%
Harold Ford, Jr. 42%
Wendell Ford 31%
Tillie Fowler 28%
Jon David Fox 56%
Barney Frank 72%
Robert Franks 64%
William Frist 34%
Jonas Frost III 11%
Elizabeth Furse 56%
Elton Gallegly 19%
John Ganske 58%
Sam Gejdenson 56%
George Gekas 25%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 39%
Jim Gibbons 31%
Wayne Gilchrest 22%
Paul Gillmor 31%
Benjamin Gilman 28%
John Glenn 56%
Henry Gonzalez 19%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 39%
William Goodling 42%
Bart Gordon 31%
Slade Gorton 31%
Porter Goss 44%
Daniel Graham 44%
William Phillip Gramm 44%
Rodney Grams 34%
James Greenwood 50%
Judd Gregg 66%
Gilbert Gutknecht 50%
Tony Hall 44%
Lee Hamilton 42%
James Hansen 17%
Jane Harman 44%
J. Dennis Hastert 25%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 42%
Joel Hefley 42%
W.G. Hefner 25%
Jesse Helms 31%
Wally Herger, Jr. 19%
Rick Hill 25%
Van Hilleary 31%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 36%
Maurice Hinchey 61%
David Lee Hobson 31%
Pete Hoekstra 75%
Thomas Holden 22%
Ernest Hollings 47%
Darlene Hooley 69%
Stephen Horn 44%
John Nathan Hostettler 36%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 25%
Kenny Hulshof 36%
Duncan Hunter 22%
Asa Hutchinson 36%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 44%
Kay Hutchison 41%
Henry Hyde 17%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 53%
Daniel Inouye 19%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 33%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 61%
William Jefferson 17%
James Merrill Jeffords 41%
William Lewis Jenkins 14%
Christopher John 14%
Jay Johnson 39%
Nancy Johnson 31%
Paul Kanjorski 61%
Sue Kelly 47%
Dirk Kempthorne 31%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 56%
Joseph Kennedy II 75%
Patrick Kennedy 53%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 50%
Bob Kerrey 59%
Dale Kildee 47%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 47%
Jay Kim 17%
Gerald Kleczka 67%
Ronald Klink 31%
Scott Klug 83%
Joseph Knollenberg 17%
Herb Kohl 78%
James Kolbe 31%
Dennis Kucinich 64%
Jon Kyl 50%
John LaFalce 58%
Ray LaHood 8%
Nicholas Lampson 44%
Tom Lantos 53%
Stephen Largent 50%
Steve LaTourette 19%
Rick Lazio 50%
James Leach 64%
Jerry Lewis 8%
Ron Lewis 11%
Joe Lieberman 56%
John Linder 31%
William Lipinski 36%
Robert Livingston 14%
Trent Lott, Sr. 31%
Dick Lugar 38%
William Luther 92%
Connie Mack 31%
James Maloney 56%
Thomas Manton 22%
Don Manzullo 42%
Matthew Martinez 17%
Frank Mascara 42%
Robert Matsui 39%
Karen McCarthy 69%
Bill McCollum 28%
James McCrery III 11%
Joseph McDade 14%
Paul McHale 53%
John McHugh 28%
Scott McInnis 33%
David McIntosh 39%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 69%
Michael McNulty 58%
Martin Meehan 89%
Carrie Meek 25%
Jack Metcalf 28%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 36%
Dan Miller 64%
David Minge 72%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 50%
John Moakley 56%
Alan Mollohan 6%
Constance Morella 75%
Carol Moseley Braun 53%
Patrick Moynihan 50%
Frank Murkowski 19%
Jack Murtha 8%
Sue Myrick 28%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 25%
Mark Neumann 69%
Robert William Ney 25%
Don Nickles 44%
Anne Northup 17%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 42%
James Nussle 47%
Jim Oberstar 39%
Dave Obey 69%
John Olver 69%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 11%
Major Owens 61%
Michael Oxley 17%
Ronald Packard 11%
Michael Pappas 47%
Mike Parker 17%
Ron Paul 94%
William Paxon 39%
Donald Payne 61%
Edward Pease 28%
John Peterson 14%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 19%
Owen Pickett 19%
Richard Pombo 14%
Earl Pomeroy 31%
John Edward Porter 64%
Glenn Poshard 58%
Deborah Pryce 36%
Jack Quinn 33%
George Radanovich 22%
James Ramstad 89%
Bill Redmond 15%
Ralph Regula 22%
Silvestre Reyes 14%
Frank Duncan Riggs 33%
Bob Riley 14%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 78%
Charles Robb 59%
Ciro Rodriguez 19%
Timothy Roemer 64%
James Rogan 31%
William Roth, Jr. 38%
Steve Rothman 53%
Marge Roukema 69%
Jim Ryun 39%
Martin Olav Sabo 53%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 14%
Rick Santorum 34%
Paul Sarbanes 34%
Jim Saxton 22%
Joe Scarborough 47%
Daniel Schaefer 22%
John Shadegg 42%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 36%
Christopher Shays 89%
E.G. Shuster 28%
Norman Sisisky 23%
David Skaggs 47%
Joseph Skeen 11%
Ike Skelton 22%
Gordon Smith 38%
Linda Smith 41%
Nick Smith 53%
Robert Smith 11%
Bob Smith 41%
Vincent Snowbarger 31%
Olympia Snowe 38%
Vic Snyder 42%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 25%
Mark Souder 44%
Arlen Specter 28%
Floyd Spence 11%
John Spratt, Jr. 39%
Pete Stark 56%
Cliff Stearns 39%
Charles Stenholm 33%
Ted Stevens 22%
Louis Stokes 47%
Ted Strickland 58%
Bob Stump 25%
Bart Stupak 50%
John Sununu 58%
James Talent 42%
John Tanner 36%
Ellen Tauscher 64%
William Tauzin 14%
Charles Taylor 25%
Gene Taylor 39%
Craig Thomas 44%
William Thomas 19%
Fred Thompson 50%
Karen Thurman 22%
Strom Thurmond 25%
Todd Tiahrt 39%
Esteban Edward Torres 36%
Robert Torricelli 50%
Ed Towns 42%
James Traficant, Jr. 25%
James Turner 22%
Bruce Vento 75%
James Walsh 17%
Zach Wamp 47%
John Warner 34%
Wesley Watkins 19%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 28%
David Weldon 25%
W. Curtis Weldon 39%
Gerald Weller 14%
Paul Wellstone 66%
Robert Wexler 44%
Bob Weygand 61%
Rick White 39%
Bob Wise, Jr. 19%
Lynn Woolsey 67%
Albert Wynn 25%
Sidney Yates 44%

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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