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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Youth Advocacy Coalition

2001 Positions

Issues: Social Issues
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
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 0%
AR U.S. House 4 Mike Ross Democratic 33%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 66%
AZ U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake Republican 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 15 Mike Honda Democratic 66%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 66%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 66%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 66%
CA U.S. House 29 Adam Schiff Democratic 66%
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 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 33%
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 0%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 100%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 66%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 100%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
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 0%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 33%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 0%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 50%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 66%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 33%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 66%
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 66%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 33%
IL U.S. House 15 Tim Johnson Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 6 Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 100%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
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 66%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 66%
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 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 100%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 66%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 66%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 66%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 33%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 2 Todd Akin Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson 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 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
MT U.S. House At-Large Denny Rehberg Republican 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 0%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 0%
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 50%
NE U.S. Senate Sr Ben Nelson Democratic 100%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 33%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 66%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 66%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 66%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 66%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 33%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
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 66%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Steve Israel Democratic 66%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 0%
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 33%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley Democratic 66%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 66%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 66%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 66%
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 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 33%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
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 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
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 9 Bill Shuster Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 66%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 19 Todd Platts Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
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 50%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 33%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 66%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 66%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 66%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 66%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 2 Jim Matheson Democratic 66%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 66%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
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. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 66%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 0%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Capito Republican 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Brian Baird 66%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 0%
Evan Bayh 100%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Marion Berry 33%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 33%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Rick Boucher 66%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 100%
John Breaux 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 0%
Ben Campbell 0%
Chris Cannon 0%
Brad Carson 66%
Julia Carson 66%
Mike Castle 33%
Mac Collins 0%
Jon Corzine 100%
Christopher Cox 0%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 0%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 100%
Jo Ann Davis 0%
Thomas Davis III 33%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 66%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 0%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 66%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 50%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 66%
Vern Ehlers 0%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 66%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 100%
Michael Ferguson 33%
Peter Fitzgerald 0%
Mark Foley 66%
Harold Ford, Jr. 66%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 66%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 66%
Jim Gibbons 0%
Wayne Gilchrest 33%
Paul Gillmor 33%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 100%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 100%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 33%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Charles Hagel 50%
Jane Harman 100%
Melissa Hart 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Baron Hill 66%
David Lee Hobson 33%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 0%
Darlene Hooley 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 33%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Jay Inslee 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 100%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 0%
Nancy Johnson 33%
Paul Kanjorski 66%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 33%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 33%
Nicholas Lampson 66%
Tom Lantos 100%
James Leach 66%
Ron Lewis 0%
Blanche Lincoln 100%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 33%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Robert Matsui 66%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 33%
John McHugh 0%
Scott McInnis 0%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 33%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 50%
Alan Mollohan 66%
Dennis Moore 66%
Jack Murtha 66%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 0%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 66%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 66%
Thomas William Osborne 0%
Doug Ose 33%
Major Owens 66%
Michael Oxley 0%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 66%
Deborah Pryce 33%
Jack Quinn 0%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 0%
Ralph Regula 33%
Thomas Reynolds 0%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 66%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 100%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 0%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 33%
Christopher Shays 66%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 33%
Ike Skelton 33%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 66%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 0%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 100%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 33%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 33%
Ellen Tauscher 66%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 0%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 33%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 33%
George Voinovich 50%
James Walsh 33%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 0%
Diane Watson 33%
Anthony Weiner 66%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 0%
Gerald Weller 0%
Robert Wexler 66%
Heather Wilson 0%
David Wu 100%
Albert Wynn 66%

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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