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Special Interest Groups

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. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 95%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 95%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 86%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 95%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 30%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 46%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 45%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 32%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 80%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 7%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 0%
CA Mayor At-Large 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. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 25%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 40%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 94%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 85%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 32%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 85%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 85%
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 U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 95%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 53%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 65%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 86%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 28%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 85%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 14%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 50%
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. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 85%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 85%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 79%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 22%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 15%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 58%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 11%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 18%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 45%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 57%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 60%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 70%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 21%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 5%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 14%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 21%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 25%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 89%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 50%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 38%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 90%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 8%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 0%
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 12 Mel Watt Democratic 15%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 79%
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 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 65%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 45%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 75%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 45%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 11%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 25%
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 State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 30%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 32%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 67%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 64%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 70%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 90%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 82%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 5%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 30%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 0%
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%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 0%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 79%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 45%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 80%
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. 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 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 30%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 37%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 84%
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%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 10%
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. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 90%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 30%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray 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. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 33%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 7%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 77%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 79%
Gary Ackerman 24%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 7%
Wayne Allard 86%
Thomas Allen 20%
Bill 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%
Bill Barrett 82%
Roscoe Bartlett 95%
Charlie Bass 65%
Herbert Bateman 65%
Bob Bennett 86%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 32%
Douglas Bereuter 58%
Howard Berman 32%
Marion Berry 35%
Brian Bilbray 80%
Michael Bilirakis 90%
Jeff Bingaman 0%
Rod Blagojevich 25%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 72%
Sherwood Boehlert 55%
Kit Bond 69%
Henry Bonilla 79%
David Edward Bonior 30%
Mary Bono Mack 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 47%
Leonard Boswell 35%
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%
Dan Burton 95%
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-Hage 94%
William Clay, Sr. 18%
Eva Clayton 35%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 7%
Robert Clement 40%
Michael Collins 95%
Larry Combest 85%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 0%
Merrill Cook 100%
John Cooksey 89%
Jerry Costello 47%
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%
Norm Dicks 50%
Julian Dixon 45%
Chris Dodd 21%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 25%
John Doolittle 94%
Byron Dorgan 0%
David Dreier 84%
Jennifer Dunn 89%
Chet Edwards 32%
Vern Ehlers 56%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 80%
Jo Ann Emerson 95%
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%
Barney Frank 10%
Robert Franks 65%
William Frist 43%
Jonas Frost III 40%
Elton Gallegly 85%
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%
Tony Hall 35%
James Hansen 89%
J. Dennis Hastert 80%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 95%
Joel Hefley 95%
Jesse Helms 93%
Wally Herger, Jr. 90%
Rick Hill 90%
Van Hilleary 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 25%
Maurice Hinchey 32%
David Lee Hobson 85%
Pete Hoekstra 58%
Thomas Holden 60%
Ernest Hollings 21%
Darlene Hooley 10%
Stephen Horn 70%
John Nathan Hostettler 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 53%
Kenny Hulshof 95%
Duncan Hunter 95%
Asa Hutchinson 95%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Kay Hutchison 86%
Henry Hyde 70%
Daniel Inouye 21%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 95%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 10%
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%
Dale Kildee 45%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 16%
Gerald Kleczka 20%
Ronald Klink 50%
Joseph Knollenberg 75%
Herb Kohl 7%
James Kolbe 55%
Dennis Kucinich 35%
Jon Kyl 100%
John LaFalce 20%
Ray LaHood 85%
Nicholas Lampson 25%
Tom Lantos 25%
Stephen Largent 83%
Steve LaTourette 84%
Rick Lazio 84%
James Leach 70%
Jerry Lewis 75%
Ron Lewis 100%
Joe Lieberman 36%
John Linder 74%
William Lipinski 67%
Robert Livingston 90%
Trent Lott, Sr. 86%
Dick Lugar 36%
William Luther 10%
Connie Mack 100%
James Maloney 50%
Don Manzullo 85%
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%
Patrick Moynihan 7%
Frank Murkowski 79%
Jack Murtha 55%
Sue Myrick 95%
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%
John Olver 25%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 55%
Major Owens 16%
Michael Oxley 60%
Ronald Packard 80%
Ron Paul 50%
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%
Silvestre Reyes 42%
Bob Riley 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 30%
Charles Robb 14%
Ciro Rodriguez 47%
Timothy Roemer 30%
James Rogan 90%
William Roth, Jr. 38%
Steve Rothman 30%
Marge Roukema 55%
Jim Ryun 95%
Martin Olav Sabo 11%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 47%
Rick Santorum 64%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim 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%
Olympia Snowe 57%
Vic Snyder 35%
Mark Souder 89%
Arlen Specter 43%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 47%
Pete Stark 19%
Cliff Stearns 100%
Charles Stenholm 56%
Ted Stevens 50%
Ted Strickland 45%
Bob 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%
Ed Towns 24%
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%
Bob Weygand 44%
Bob Wise, Jr. 24%
Lynn Woolsey 15%
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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