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Rating Group: Friends Committee on National Legislation

2001 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
Russ Feingold 100%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
Paul Wellstone 100%
William Coyne 93%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 93%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 93%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 93%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 93%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 93%
Dennis Kucinich 93%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 93%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 93%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 93%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 93%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 93%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 93%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 93%
Anthony Weiner 93%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 92%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 92%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 92%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 92%
Jon Corzine 92%
Thomas Daschle 92%
Bill Delahunt 92%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 92%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 92%
Maurice Hinchey 92%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 92%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 92%
Herb Kohl 92%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 92%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 92%
John Olver 92%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 92%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 92%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 92%
Hilda Solis 92%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 92%
Diane Watson 88%
David Edward Bonior 86%
Eva Clayton 86%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 86%
Karen McCarthy 86%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 86%
Martin Meehan 86%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 86%
Jim Oberstar 86%
Donald Payne 86%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 86%
Ciro Rodriguez 86%
Martin Olav Sabo 86%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 86%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 86%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 86%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 86%
Lynn Woolsey 86%
David Wu 86%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 85%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 85%
Chris Dodd 85%
John Edwards 85%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 85%
Barney Frank 85%
Daniel Graham 85%
Ernest Hollings 85%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 85%
Robert Matsui 85%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 85%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 85%
Major Owens 85%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 85%
Paul Sarbanes 85%
Pete Stark 85%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 83%
Jeff Bingaman 83%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 83%
Daniel Inouye 83%
Carrie Meek 83%
Gary Ackerman 79%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 79%
Howard Berman 79%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 79%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 79%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 79%
Julia Carson 79%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 79%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 79%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 79%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 79%
Charlie Gonzalez 79%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 79%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 79%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 79%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 79%
William Jefferson 79%
Gerald Kleczka 79%
John LaFalce 79%
William Luther 79%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 79%
Michael McNulty 79%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 79%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 79%
Earl Pomeroy 79%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 79%
Albert Wynn 79%
Thomas Allen 77%
Evan Bayh 77%
Rick Boucher 77%
Robert Byrd 77%
Hillary Clinton 77%
Kent Conrad 77%
Byron Dorgan 77%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 77%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 77%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 77%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 77%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 75%
Brian Baird 71%
John Baldacci 71%
Shelley Berkley 71%
Rod Blagojevich 71%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 71%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 71%
Peter Deutsch 71%
Norm Dicks 71%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 71%
Lane Evans 71%
Harold Ford, Jr. 71%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 71%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 71%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 71%
Darlene Hooley 71%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 71%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 71%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 71%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 71%
Constance Morella 71%
Dave Obey 71%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 71%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 71%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 71%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 71%
Karen Thurman 71%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 71%
Robert Wexler 71%
James Merrill Jeffords 69%
Nicholas Lampson 69%
Joe Lieberman 69%
Blanche Lincoln 69%
Vic Snyder 69%
Ed Towns 69%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 67%
Robert Borski, Jr. 64%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 64%
James Davis 64%
Tony Hall 64%
Baron Hill 64%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 64%
Tom Lantos 64%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 64%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 64%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 64%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 64%
Timothy Roemer 64%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 64%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 62%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 62%
Jane Harman 62%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 62%
Patrick Kennedy 62%
Leonard Boswell 57%
Robert Clement 57%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 57%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 57%
Jonas Frost III 57%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 57%
Dale Kildee 57%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 57%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 57%
James Leach 57%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 57%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 57%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 57%
Ted Strickland 57%
Bart Stupak 57%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 54%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 54%
Steve Rothman 54%
Arlen Specter 54%
Robert Torricelli 54%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 54%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 50%
Joe Baca, Sr. 50%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 50%
Jean Carnahan 50%
Chet Edwards 50%
Bob Etheridge 50%
Bart Gordon 50%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 50%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 50%
Dennis Moore 50%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 50%
Ellen Tauscher 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 46%
Ron Paul 46%
Olympia Snowe 46%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 43%
Sherwood Boehlert 43%
Brad Carson 43%
Mike Castle 43%
Gary Condit 43%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 43%
Calvin Dooley 43%
Wayne Gilchrest 43%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 43%
Thomas Holden 43%
Sue Kelly 43%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 43%
James Ramstad 43%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 43%
Christopher Shays 43%
James Turner 43%
Jo Ann Emerson 42%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 38%
John Ganske 38%
Christopher John 38%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 38%
Ben Nelson 38%
Gordon Smith 38%
John Spratt, Jr. 38%
John Tanner 38%
James Barcia 36%
Douglas Bereuter 36%
Marion Berry 36%
Judy Biggert 36%
Jerry Costello 36%
Thomas Davis III 36%
Tim Johnson 36%
Mark Kennedy 36%
Ray LaHood 36%
James Maloney 36%
Alan Mollohan 36%
Jack Murtha 36%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 36%
Silvestre Reyes 36%
Charles Stenholm 36%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 36%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 33%
John Breaux 31%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 31%
John McHugh 31%
Zell Bryan Miller 31%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 31%
Robert Cramer 29%
Vern Ehlers 29%
Philip English 29%
Michael Ferguson 29%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 29%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 29%
James Greenwood 29%
Stephen Horn 29%
Kenny Hulshof 29%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 29%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 29%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 29%
Thomas William Osborne 29%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 29%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 29%
Denny Rehberg 29%
Mike Ross 29%
Marge Roukema 29%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 29%
Ronnie Shows 29%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 29%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 29%
Ike Skelton 29%
John Sweeney 29%
Gene Taylor 29%
James Walsh 29%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 27%
George Allen 23%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 23%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 23%
John Ensign 23%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 23%
Jim Saxton 23%
George Voinovich 23%
John Warner 23%
W. Curtis Weldon 23%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 21%
Charlie Bass 21%
Mary Bono Mack 21%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 21%
Henry Brown, Jr. 21%
Jennifer Dunn 21%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 21%
George Gekas 21%
Benjamin Gilman 21%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 21%
Porter Goss 21%
Mark Green 21%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 21%
Gilbert Gutknecht 21%
Wally Herger, Jr. 21%
Pete Hoekstra 21%
James Kolbe 21%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 21%
Don Manzullo 21%
Frank Mascara 21%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 21%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 21%
James Nussle 21%
Doug Ose 21%
John Peterson 21%
David Phelps 21%
Todd Platts 21%
Deborah Pryce 21%
Thomas Reynolds 21%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 21%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 21%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 21%
Nick Smith 21%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 21%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 21%
Heather Wilson 21%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 21%
J. Dennis Hastert 20%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 20%
Frank Murkowski 17%
Craig Thomas 17%
Wayne Allard 15%
Kit Bond 15%
Conrad Burns 15%
Ben Campbell 15%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 15%
Paul Gillmor 15%
William Phillip Gramm 15%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 15%
Kay Hutchison 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. 15%
Dan Miller 15%
Don Nickles 15%
Jack Quinn 15%
Rick Santorum 15%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 15%
Strom Thurmond 15%
Richard Hugh Baker 14%
Cass Ballenger 14%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 14%
Henry Bonilla 14%
Ed Bryant 14%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 14%
Steve Buyer 14%
Herbert Callahan 14%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 14%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 14%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 14%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 14%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 14%
Larry Combest 14%
John Cooksey 14%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 14%
Randall Cunningham 14%
David Dreier 14%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 14%
Ernest Fletcher 14%
Mark Foley 14%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 14%
Elton Gallegly 14%
Jim Gibbons 14%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 14%
David Lee Hobson 14%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 14%
Joseph Knollenberg 14%
Steve LaTourette 14%
Jerry Lewis 14%
John Linder 14%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 14%
James McCrery III 14%
Scott McInnis 14%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 14%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 14%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 14%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 14%
Sue Myrick 14%
Anne Northup 14%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 14%
Michael Oxley 14%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 14%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 14%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 14%
Ralph Regula 14%
Edward Schrock 14%
Donald Sherwood 14%
Joseph Skeen 14%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 14%
John Sununu 14%
William Tauzin 14%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 14%
William Thomas 14%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 14%
Todd Tiahrt 14%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 14%
Zach Wamp 14%
Wesley Watkins 14%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 14%
Gerald Weller 14%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 14%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 14%
William Lipinski 10%
Ted Stevens 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 9%
Bob Bennett 8%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 8%
Jim Bunning 8%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 8%
James DeMint 8%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 8%
Peter Fitzgerald 8%
William Frist 8%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 8%
Judd Gregg 8%
James Hansen 8%
Duncan Hunter 8%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 8%
Jon Kyl 8%
Dick Lugar 8%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 8%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 8%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 8%
Bob Smith 8%
Bob Stump 8%
Fred Thompson 8%
Richard Armey 7%
Roscoe Bartlett 7%
Michael Bilirakis 7%
Chris Cannon 7%
Christopher Cox 7%
Philip Crane 7%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 7%
Jo Ann Davis 7%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 7%
John Doolittle 7%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 7%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 7%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 7%
Melissa Hart 7%
Robert Hayes 7%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 7%
Van Hilleary 7%
John Nathan Hostettler 7%
Henry Hyde 7%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 7%
William Lewis Jenkins 7%
Ric Keller 7%
Brian Kerns 7%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 7%
Ron Lewis 7%
Robert William Ney 7%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 7%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 7%
Richard Pombo 7%
George Radanovich 7%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 7%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 7%
Jim Ryun 7%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 7%
John Shadegg 7%
Mark Souder 7%
Cliff Stearns 7%
Tom Tancredo 7%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 7%
James Traficant, Jr. 7%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 7%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
Todd Akin 0%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
Dan Burton 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
Michael Collins 0%
Larry Craig 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Terry Everett 0%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
Bob Riley 0%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
David Weldon 0%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%

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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