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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Americans for Tax Reform

2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
Charlie Bass 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Philip English 100%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Jon Kyl 100%
Dan Miller 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 100%
Don Nickles 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
Rick Santorum 100%
John Shadegg 100%
John Sununu 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 100%
Richard Armey 97.5%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 97.5%
Thomas Davis III 97.5%
James DeMint 97.5%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 97.5%
Porter Goss 97.5%
Mark Green 97.5%
Wally Herger, Jr. 97.5%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 97.5%
Jim Ryun 97.5%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 97.5%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 97.5%
Wayne Allard 95%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 95%
Larry Combest 95%
Christopher Cox 95%
Larry Craig 95%
Philip Crane 95%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 95%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 95%
Peter Fitzgerald 95%
George Gekas 95%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 95%
Judd Gregg 95%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 95%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 95%
Joel Hefley 95%
Kay Hutchison 95%
Sue Kelly 95%
John Linder 95%
Trent Lott, Sr. 95%
Don Manzullo 95%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 95%
Frank Murkowski 95%
Sue Myrick 95%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 95%
George Radanovich 95%
Marge Roukema 95%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 95%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 95%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 95%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 95%
Gordon Smith 95%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 95%
Cliff Stearns 95%
Bob Stump 95%
Tom Tancredo 95%
William Tauzin 95%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 95%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 95%
Gerald Weller 95%
Richard Hugh Baker 93%
Judy Biggert 93%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 93%
Mary Bono Mack 93%
Ed Bryant 93%
Chris Cannon 93%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 93%
Kenny Hulshof 93%
James Kolbe 93%
Scott McInnis 93%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 93%
Anne Northup 93%
Michael Oxley 93%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 93%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 93%
David Weldon 93%
Cass Ballenger 90%
Robert Barr, Jr. 90%
Bob Bennett 90%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 90%
Conrad Burns 90%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 90%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 90%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 90%
John Cooksey 90%
Barbara Cubin 90%
Randall Cunningham 90%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 90%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 90%
William Frist 90%
Jim Gibbons 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 90%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 90%
Pete Hoekstra 90%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 90%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 90%
Ray LaHood 90%
Dick Lugar 90%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 90%
John Peterson 90%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 90%
James Ramstad 90%
Thomas Reynolds 90%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 90%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 90%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 90%
Bob Smith 90%
Ted Stevens 90%
Craig Thomas 90%
Fred Thompson 90%
Todd Tiahrt 90%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 90%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 90%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 90%
Roscoe Bartlett 87.5%
Michael Collins 87.5%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 87.5%
Jennifer Dunn 87.5%
Van Hilleary 87.5%
Asa Hutchinson 87.5%
Joseph Knollenberg 87.5%
James McCrery III 87.5%
Deborah Pryce 87.5%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 85%
Kit Bond 85%
Jim Bunning 85%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 85%
Dan Burton 85%
Ben Campbell 85%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 85%
John Doolittle 85%
David Dreier 85%
Ernest Fletcher 85%
Mark Foley 85%
Elton Gallegly 85%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 85%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 85%
James Hansen 85%
Jesse Helms 85%
David Lee Hobson 85%
Stephen Horn 85%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 85%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 85%
Ron Lewis 85%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 85%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 85%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 85%
James Nussle 85%
Doug Ose 85%
Bob Riley 85%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 85%
Joe Scarborough 85%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 85%
Donald Sherwood 85%
Nick Smith 85%
Heather Wilson 85%
John Ganske 83%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 83%
Christopher Shays 83%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 83%
Mark Souder 83%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 80%
Henry Bonilla 80%
Herbert Callahan 80%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 80%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 80%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 80%
Terry Everett 80%
Wayne Gilchrest 80%
Duncan Hunter 80%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 80%
Jerry Lewis 80%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 80%
Richard Pombo 80%
Jim Saxton 80%
Olympia Snowe 80%
William Thomas 80%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 80%
Zach Wamp 80%
John Warner 80%
W. Curtis Weldon 80%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 80%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 80%
Mike Castle 77.5%
James Greenwood 77.5%
Henry Hyde 77.5%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 77.5%
E.G. Shuster 77.5%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 75%
Michael Bilirakis 75%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 75%
Vern Ehlers 75%
Jo Ann Emerson 75%
Robert Hayes 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 75%
William Lewis Jenkins 75%
James Leach 75%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 75%
Robert William Ney 75%
Ron Paul 75%
Jack Quinn 75%
Ralph Regula 75%
Joseph Skeen 75%
Arlen Specter 75%
John Sweeney 75%
Strom Thurmond 75%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 75%
Douglas Bereuter 73%
Stephen Largent 73%
Steve LaTourette 73%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 70%
John Nathan Hostettler 70%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 70%
John McHugh 70%
Charles Taylor 70%
James Walsh 70%
Floyd Spence 67.5%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 67.5%
Steve Buyer 65%
Paul Gillmor 65%
Benjamin Gilman 65%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 65%
Wesley Watkins 65%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 63%
Nancy Johnson 63%
Sherwood Boehlert 60%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 60%
Ronnie Shows 60%
James Traficant, Jr. 60%
James Maloney 57.5%
Leonard Boswell 55%
Robert Cramer 55%
James Merrill Jeffords 55%
George Voinovich 55%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 53%
Timothy Roemer 53%
Shelley Berkley 50%
Gary Condit 50%
Constance Morella 50%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 45%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 45%
Christopher John 45%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 45%
Norman Sisisky 45%
Gene Taylor 43%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 40%
Robert Clement 40%
Bob Etheridge 40%
Bart Gordon 40%
Darlene Hooley 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 40%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 40%
James Barcia 37.5%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 35%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 35%
Dennis Moore 35%
Ike Skelton 35%
Ellen Tauscher 35%
Robert Torricelli 35%
William Lipinski 33%
Zell Bryan Miller 33%
Brian Baird 30%
Marion Berry 30%
John Breaux 30%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 30%
David Phelps 30%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 30%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 30%
John Tanner 30%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 27.5%
Peter Deutsch 27.5%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 27.5%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 27.5%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 25%
Rod Blagojevich 25%
Rick Boucher 25%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 25%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 25%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 25%
Herb Kohl 25%
William Luther 25%
Martin Meehan 25%
David Wu 25%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 23%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 23%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 23%
Jerry Costello 20%
Calvin Dooley 20%
Harold Ford, Jr. 20%
Baron Hill 20%
William Jefferson 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 20%
Alan Mollohan 20%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 20%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 20%
Charles Stenholm 20%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 20%
James Turner 20%
Anthony Weiner 20%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 17.5%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 17.5%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 17.5%
Ted Strickland 17.5%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 17.5%
Robert Wexler 17.5%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 15%
Thomas Allen 15%
Evan Bayh 15%
Jeff Bingaman 15%
Robert Byrd 15%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 15%
Julia Carson 15%
Eva Clayton 15%
Chet Edwards 15%
Russ Feingold 15%
Daniel Graham 15%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 15%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 15%
Nicholas Lampson 15%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 15%
Joe Lieberman 15%
Blanche Lincoln 15%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 15%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 15%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 15%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 15%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 15%
Vic Snyder 15%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 15%
Karen Thurman 15%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 15%
Gary Ackerman 13%
James Davis 13%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 13%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 13%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 13%
Gerald Kleczka 13%
John LaFalce 13%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 13%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 13%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 13%
John Spratt, Jr. 13%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 10%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 10%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 10%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. 10%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 10%
Kent Conrad 10%
Thomas Daschle 10%
Norm Dicks 10%
Chris Dodd 10%
Byron Dorgan 10%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 10%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 10%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 10%
Jonas Frost III 10%
Charlie Gonzalez 10%
Tony Hall 10%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 10%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 10%
Daniel Inouye 10%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 10%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 10%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 10%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 10%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 10%
Frank Mascara 10%
Robert Matsui 10%
Karen McCarthy 10%
Michael McNulty 10%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 10%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 10%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 10%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 10%
Earl Pomeroy 10%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 10%
Silvestre Reyes 10%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 10%
Martin Olav Sabo 10%
Paul Sarbanes 10%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 10%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 10%
Bart Stupak 10%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 10%
Albert Wynn 10%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 7.5%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 7.5%
Bill Delahunt 7.5%
Barney Frank 7.5%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 7.5%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 7.5%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 7.5%
John Olver 7.5%
Steve Rothman 7.5%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 7.5%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 7.5%
Howard Berman 5%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 5%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 5%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 5%
William Coyne 5%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 5%
John Edwards 5%
Lane Evans 5%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 5%
Maurice Hinchey 5%
Thomas Holden 5%
Paul Kanjorski 5%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 5%
Dennis Kucinich 5%
Tom Lantos 5%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 5%
Carrie Meek 5%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 5%
Jack Murtha 5%
Major Owens 5%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 5%
Donald Payne 5%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 5%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 5%
Ciro Rodriguez 5%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 5%
Pete Stark 5%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 5%
Ed Towns 5%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 5%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 5%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 3%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 3%
Dale Kildee 3%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 3%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 3%
John Moakley 3%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 3%
John Baldacci 0%
David Edward Bonior 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 0%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 0%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Lynn Woolsey 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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