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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Center for Security Policy

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 89%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 86%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 100%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 95%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 95%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 46%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 30%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 7%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 84%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 45%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 32%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 32%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 80%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 80%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 20%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 6%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 95%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 36%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 25%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 40%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 94%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 32%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 85%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 95%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 94%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 55%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 15%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 100%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 21%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 7%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 53%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 86%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 35%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 65%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 14%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 28%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 47%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 85%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 85%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 36%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 50%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 95%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 46%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 95%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 86%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 79%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 85%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 85%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 8%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 25%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 22%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 15%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 20%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 18%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 45%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 58%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 95%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 11%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 57%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 57%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 14%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 21%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 45%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 70%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 21%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 25%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 89%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 95%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 38%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 90%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 50%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 8%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 85%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 79%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 21%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 65%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 95%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 15%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 0%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 65%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 45%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 33%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 79%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 35%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 30%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 65%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 0%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 7%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 75%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 45%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 32%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 11%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 32%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 67%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 55%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 82%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 65%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 35%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 84%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 70%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 30%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 64%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 82%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 90%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 5%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 30%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 15%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 35%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 85%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 60%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 80%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 45%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 95%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 70%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 86%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 79%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 30%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 42%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 37%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 84%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 35%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 35%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 90%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 50%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 40%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 65%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 25%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 90%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 7%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 35%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 7%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 90%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 50%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 30%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 7%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 10%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 68%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 60%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 20%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 7%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 33%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 77%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 79%
Wayne Allard 86%
Thomas Allen 20%
William Archer 85%
Richard Armey 85%
John Ashcroft 93%
Richard Hugh Baker 95%
John Baldacci 25%
Cass Ballenger 71%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
William Barrett 82%
Herbert Bateman 65%
Bob Bennett 86%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 32%
Douglas Bereuter 58%
Marion Berry 35%
Michael Bilirakis 90%
Rod Blagojevich 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 72%
Sherwood Boehlert 55%
Kit Bond 69%
Henry Bonilla 79%
David Edward Bonior 30%
Robert Borski, Jr. 47%
Rick Boucher 25%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 60%
John Breaux 7%
George Brown, Jr. 13%
Richard Bryan 7%
Ed Bryant 85%
Jim Bunning 95%
Conrad Burns 100%
Steve Buyer 82%
Robert Byrd 7%
Herbert Callahan 89%
Ben Campbell 93%
Thomas Campbell 75%
Chris Cannon 80%
Julia Carson 29%
Mike Castle 65%
John Chafee 29%
Helen Chenoweth 94%
William Clay, Sr. 18%
Eva Clayton 35%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 7%
Robert Clement 40%
Mac Collins 95%
Larry Combest 85%
Gary Condit 60%
Merrill Cook 100%
John Cooksey 89%
Paul Coverdell 93%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 20%
Larry Craig 86%
Robert Cramer 70%
Philip Crane 88%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 90%
Patsy Ann Danner 55%
Thomas Daschle 0%
James Davis 35%
Thomas Davis III 75%
Bill Delahunt 15%
Thomas DeLay 90%
Peter Deutsch 29%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 95%
Jay Dickey 95%
Julian Dixon 45%
Chris Dodd 21%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 25%
John Doolittle 94%
Byron Dorgan 0%
Jennifer Dunn 89%
Chet Edwards 32%
Vern Ehlers 56%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 80%
Philip English 75%
Bob Etheridge 39%
Lane Evans 10%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 85%
Russ Feingold 14%
Mark Foley 70%
Michael Patrick Forbes 86%
Harold Ford, Jr. 25%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 100%
Tillie Fowler 100%
Robert Franks 65%
William Frist 43%
Jonas Frost III 40%
John Ganske 60%
Sam Gejdenson 40%
George Gekas 75%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 29%
Jim Gibbons 89%
Wayne Gilchrest 70%
Paul Gillmor 89%
Benjamin Gilman 75%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 85%
William Goodling 80%
Bart Gordon 61%
Slade Gorton 43%
Porter Goss 89%
Daniel Graham 14%
William Phillip Gramm 86%
Rodney Grams 86%
James Greenwood 60%
Judd Gregg 64%
Gilbert Gutknecht 60%
Charles Hagel 50%
Tony Hall 35%
James Hansen 89%
J. Dennis Hastert 80%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 95%
Joel Hefley 95%
Jesse Helms 93%
Rick Hill 90%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 25%
David Lee Hobson 85%
Pete Hoekstra 58%
Ernest Hollings 21%
Darlene Hooley 10%
Stephen Horn 70%
John Nathan Hostettler 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Kenny Hulshof 95%
Duncan Hunter 95%
William Hutchinson 95%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Henry Hyde 70%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 95%
William Jefferson 50%
James Merrill Jeffords 23%
William Lewis Jenkins 85%
Christopher John 58%
Nancy Johnson 60%
Paul Kanjorski 15%
Sue Kelly 60%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 32%
Bob Kerrey 0%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 16%
Gerald Kleczka 20%
Ronald Klink 50%
Joseph Knollenberg 75%
James Kolbe 55%
John LaFalce 20%
Nicholas Lampson 25%
Tom Lantos 25%
Stephen Largent 83%
Rick Lazio 84%
James Leach 70%
Ron Lewis 100%
John Linder 74%
William Lipinski 67%
Robert Livingston 90%
Trent Lott, Sr. 86%
William Luther 10%
Connie Mack 100%
James Maloney 50%
Matthew Martinez 45%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 30%
Karen McCarthy 5%
Bill McCollum 85%
James McCrery III 94%
John McHugh 89%
Scott McInnis 100%
David McIntosh 75%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 47%
Michael McNulty 42%
Martin Meehan 10%
Carrie Meek 47%
Jack Metcalf 85%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 32%
Dan Miller 80%
David Minge 10%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 25%
John Moakley 10%
Alan Mollohan 42%
Constance Morella 35%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 7%
Frank Murkowski 79%
Jack Murtha 55%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 89%
Robert William Ney 83%
Don Nickles 79%
Anne Northup 85%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 90%
James Nussle 65%
Jim Oberstar 24%
Dave Obey 20%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 55%
Major Owens 16%
Michael Oxley 60%
Ronald Packard 80%
Donald Payne 26%
Edward Pease 75%
John Peterson 90%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 100%
Owen Pickett 35%
Richard Pombo 88%
Earl Pomeroy 35%
John Edward Porter 45%
Deborah Pryce 70%
Jack Quinn 74%
George Radanovich 90%
James Ramstad 50%
Ralph Regula 75%
Bob Riley 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 30%
Charles Robb 14%
Ciro Rodriguez 47%
Timothy Roemer 30%
James Rogan 90%
William Roth, Jr. 38%
Marge Roukema 55%
Jim Ryun 95%
Martin Olav Sabo 11%
Matthew Salmon 95%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 47%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 79%
Rick Santorum 64%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
H. James Saxton 90%
Joe Scarborough 95%
John Shadegg 95%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 85%
Christopher Shays 30%
E.G. Shuster 68%
Norman Sisisky 55%
Joseph Skeen 80%
Ike Skelton 50%
Gordon Smith 46%
Nick Smith 70%
Bob Smith 100%
Vic Snyder 35%
Mark Souder 89%
Arlen Specter 43%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 47%
Charles Stenholm 56%
Ted Stevens 50%
Ted Strickland 45%
Robert Stump 95%
Bart Stupak 25%
John Sununu 85%
James Talent 90%
John Tanner 40%
Ellen Tauscher 15%
William Tauzin 89%
Charles Taylor 87%
Gene Taylor 79%
Craig Thomas 79%
William Thomas 80%
Fred Thompson 100%
Karen Thurman 50%
Strom Thurmond 93%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Robert Torricelli 21%
James Traficant, Jr. 95%
James Turner 60%
Bruce Vento 10%
James Walsh 89%
Zach Wamp 90%
John Warner 64%
Wesley Watkins 80%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 95%
David Weldon 88%
W. Curtis Weldon 58%
Gerald Weller 90%
Paul Wellstone 7%
Robert Wexler 39%
Robert Weygand 44%
Robert Wise, Jr. 24%
Albert Wynn 45%

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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