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Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Business-Industry Political Action Committee

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 92%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 76%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 95%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 91%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 91%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 81%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 95%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 11%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 10%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 98%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 96%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 96%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 87%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 96%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 89%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 89%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 7%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 7%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 91%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 14%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 2%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 7%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 91%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 98%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 68%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 5%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 91%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 93%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 89%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 35%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 4%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 96%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 21%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 16%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 4%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 95%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 28%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 98%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 91%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 5%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 2%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 2%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 2%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 2%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 98%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 85%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 95%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 90%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 9%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 89%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 98%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 95%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 93%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 93%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 19%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 2%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 2%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 2%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 4%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 10%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 9%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 11%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 93%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 4%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 57%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 71%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 10%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 4%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 93%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 2%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 87%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 4%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 7%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 10%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 40%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 89%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 93%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 91%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 98%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 10%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 38%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 80%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 91%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 89%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 7%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 36%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 96%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 2%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 5%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 91%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 2%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 9%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 11%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 7%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 76%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 21%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 5%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 65%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 2%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 2%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 2%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 2%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 5%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 91%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 93%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 98%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 2%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 2%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 68%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 95%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 2%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 81%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 91%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 89%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 96%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 14%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 9%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 2%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 24%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 96%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 26%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 5%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 93%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 7%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 20%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 93%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 91%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 95%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 76%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 91%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 9%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 2%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 4%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 98%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 95%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 4%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 96%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 16%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 80%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 19%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 2%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 19%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 98%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 11%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 7%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 11%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 24%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 9%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 84%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 83%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 7%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 14%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 9%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 86%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 95%
Wayne Allard 95%
Thomas Allen 4%
William Archer 98%
Richard Armey 98%
John Ashcroft 95%
Henry Scott Baesler 38%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
John Baldacci 9%
Cass Ballenger 98%
James Barcia 31%
Robert Barr, Jr. 96%
William Barrett 80%
Herbert Bateman 82%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 7%
Douglas Bereuter 82%
Marion Berry 33%
Michael Bilirakis 91%
Rod Blagojevich 4%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 98%
Sherwood Boehlert 65%
Kit Bond 100%
Henry Bonilla 98%
David Edward Bonior 2%
Sonny Bono 93%
Robert Borski, Jr. 4%
Rick Boucher 7%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 37%
Carol Moseley Braun 10%
John Breaux 38%
George Brown, Jr. 9%
Richard Bryan 24%
Ed Bryant 96%
Dale Bumpers 14%
Jim Bunning 93%
Conrad Burns 91%
Steve Buyer 98%
Robert Byrd 33%
Herbert Callahan 93%
Ben Campbell 86%
Thomas Campbell 74%
Chris Cannon 98%
Walter Holden Capps 7%
Julia Carson 2%
Mike Castle 61%
John Chafee 71%
Helen Chenoweth 91%
Jon Lynn Christensen 91%
William Clay, Sr. 2%
Eva Clayton 2%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 19%
Robert Clement 19%
Mac Collins 93%
Larry Combest 98%
Gary Condit 42%
Merrill Cook 93%
John Cooksey 100%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 91%
William Coyne 2%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 37%
Philip Crane 96%
Barbara Cubin 95%
Randall Cunningham 96%
Alfonse D'Amato 62%
Patsy Ann Danner 33%
Thomas Daschle 24%
James Davis 7%
Thomas Davis III 83%
Bill Delahunt 2%
Thomas DeLay 98%
Ronald Dellums 2%
Peter Deutsch 11%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 60%
Jay Dickey 93%
Julian Dixon 7%
Chris Dodd 14%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
Calvin Dooley 31%
John Doolittle 91%
Byron Dorgan 10%
Jennifer Dunn 98%
Chet Edwards 26%
Vern Ehlers 78%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 93%
Philip English 58%
John Ensign 84%
Bob Etheridge 9%
Lane Evans 2%
Terry Everett 96%
Thomas Ewing 78%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 81%
Harris Fawell 67%
Victor Fazio 9%
Russ Feingold 10%
Thomas Foglietta 2%
Mark Foley 81%
Michael Patrick Forbes 51%
Harold Ford, Jr. 9%
Wendell Ford 14%
Tillie Fowler 91%
Jon David Fox 61%
Robert Franks 61%
William Frist 90%
Jonas Frost III 13%
Elizabeth Furse 5%
John Ganske 83%
Sam Gejdenson 4%
George Gekas 89%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 5%
Jim Gibbons 86%
Wayne Gilchrest 72%
Paul Gillmor 87%
Benjamin Gilman 43%
Newt Gingrich 82%
John Glenn 15%
Henry Gonzalez 5%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 76%
William Goodling 87%
Bart Gordon 28%
Slade Gorton 95%
Porter Goss 89%
Daniel Graham 24%
William Phillip Gramm 95%
Rodney Grams 95%
James Greenwood 82%
Judd Gregg 86%
Gilbert Gutknecht 96%
Charles Hagel 100%
Tony Hall 9%
Lee Hamilton 15%
James Hansen 98%
Jane Harman 13%
J. Dennis Hastert 96%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 96%
Joel Hefley 89%
W.G. Hefner 5%
Jesse Helms 95%
Rick Hill 87%
Van Hilleary 93%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 12%
David Lee Hobson 87%
Pete Hoekstra 98%
Ernest Hollings 19%
Darlene Hooley 7%
Stephen Horn 57%
John Nathan Hostettler 93%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 59%
Kenny Hulshof 89%
Duncan Hunter 93%
William Hutchinson 98%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 91%
Henry Hyde 82%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 93%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 96%
William Jefferson 10%
James Merrill Jeffords 62%
William Lewis Jenkins 96%
Christopher John 37%
Jay Johnson 9%
Nancy Johnson 49%
Paul Kanjorski 9%
Sue Kelly 63%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Joseph Kennedy II 2%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 9%
Bob Kerrey 29%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 2%
Jay Kim 93%
Gerald Kleczka 7%
Ronald Klink 18%
Scott Klug 77%
Joseph Knollenberg 91%
James Kolbe 96%
John LaFalce 5%
Nicholas Lampson 4%
Tom Lantos 5%
Stephen Largent 91%
Rick Lazio 55%
James Leach 52%
Ron Lewis 95%
John Linder 98%
William Lipinski 15%
Robert Livingston 85%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
William Luther 11%
Connie Mack 91%
James Maloney 11%
Thomas Manton 5%
Matthew Martinez 14%
Frank Mascara 9%
Robert Matsui 7%
Karen McCarthy 9%
Bill McCollum 91%
James McCrery III 93%
Joseph McDade 68%
Paul McHale 13%
John McHugh 72%
Scott McInnis 88%
David McIntosh 90%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 7%
Michael McNulty 2%
Martin Meehan 4%
Carrie Meek 7%
Jack Metcalf 73%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 7%
Dan Miller 87%
David Minge 7%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 2%
John Moakley 4%
Alan Mollohan 12%
Constance Morella 46%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 19%
Frank Murkowski 95%
Jack Murtha 16%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 91%
Mark Neumann 91%
Robert William Ney 82%
Don Nickles 95%
Anne Northup 96%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 96%
James Nussle 96%
Jim Oberstar 18%
Dave Obey 2%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 23%
Major Owens 4%
Michael Oxley 93%
Ronald Packard 96%
Michael Pappas 80%
Paul Michael Parker 95%
William Paxon 96%
Donald Payne 2%
Edward Pease 91%
John Peterson 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 96%
Owen Pickett 39%
Richard Pombo 91%
Earl Pomeroy 13%
John Edward Porter 60%
Glenn Poshard 4%
Deborah Pryce 96%
Jack Quinn 60%
George Radanovich 95%
James Ramstad 65%
William Redmond 97%
Ralph Regula 85%
Frank Duncan Riggs 96%
Bob Riley 93%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 2%
Charles Robb 24%
Ciro Rodriguez 5%
Timothy Roemer 22%
James Rogan 93%
William Roth, Jr. 81%
Marge Roukema 53%
Jim Ryun 96%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Matthew Salmon 96%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 24%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 76%
Rick Santorum 91%
Paul Sarbanes 5%
H. James Saxton 60%
Joe Scarborough 89%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 80%
John Shadegg 98%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 87%
Christopher Shays 53%
E.G. Shuster 95%
Norman Sisisky 35%
David Skaggs 7%
Joseph Skeen 96%
Ike Skelton 32%
Gordon Smith 100%
Linda Smith 78%
Nick Smith 89%
Robert Smith 98%
Bob Smith 86%
Vincent Snowbarger 98%
Vic Snyder 9%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 95%
Mark Souder 93%
Arlen Specter 43%
Floyd Spence 96%
John Spratt, Jr. 0%
Charles Stenholm 64%
Ted Stevens 86%
Louis Stokes 4%
Ted Strickland 12%
Robert Stump 96%
Bart Stupak 11%
John Sununu 93%
James Talent 91%
John Tanner 44%
Ellen Tauscher 11%
William Tauzin 93%
Charles Taylor 98%
Gene Taylor 70%
Craig Thomas 95%
William Thomas 96%
Fred Thompson 76%
Karen Thurman 4%
Strom Thurmond 86%
Todd Tiahrt 93%
Esteban Edward Torres 2%
Robert Torricelli 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
James Turner 33%
Bruce Vento 2%
James Walsh 67%
Zach Wamp 89%
John Warner 90%
Wesley Watkins 96%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 91%
David Weldon 96%
W. Curtis Weldon 69%
Gerald Weller 76%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 9%
Robert Weygand 3%
Rick White 93%
Robert Wise, Jr. 7%
Albert Wynn 4%
Sidney Yates 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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