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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Business-Industry Political Action Committee

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kit Bond 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 100%
John Cooksey 100%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Larry Craig 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 100%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
John Peterson 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Gordon Smith 100%
Bill Archer 98%
Richard Armey 98%
Cass Ballenger 98%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 98%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 98%
Henry Bonilla 98%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 98%
Steve Buyer 98%
Chris Cannon 98%
Larry Combest 98%
Thomas DeLay 98%
Jennifer Dunn 98%
Elton Gallegly 98%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 98%
James Hansen 98%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 98%
Pete Hoekstra 98%
Asa Hutchinson 98%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 98%
John Linder 98%
Don Manzullo 98%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 98%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 98%
John Shadegg 98%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 98%
Robert Smith 98%
Vincent Snowbarger 98%
Charles Taylor 98%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 98%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 98%
Bill Redmond 97%
Robert Barr, Jr. 96%
Ed Bryant 96%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 96%
Philip Crane 96%
Randall Cunningham 96%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 96%
David Dreier 96%
Terry Everett 96%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 96%
Gilbert Gutknecht 96%
J. Dennis Hastert 96%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 96%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 96%
William Lewis Jenkins 96%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 96%
James Kolbe 96%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 96%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 96%
Sue Myrick 96%
Anne Northup 96%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 96%
James Nussle 96%
Ronald Packard 96%
William Paxon 96%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 96%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 96%
Deborah Pryce 96%
Frank Duncan Riggs 96%
Jim Ryun 96%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 96%
Joseph Skeen 96%
Floyd Spence 96%
Bob Stump 96%
William Thomas 96%
Wesley Watkins 96%
David Weldon 96%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 95%
Wayne Allard 95%
John Ashcroft 95%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 95%
Barbara Cubin 95%
Slade Gorton 95%
William Phillip Gramm 95%
Rodney Grams 95%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 95%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 95%
Jesse Helms 95%
Wally Herger, Jr. 95%
Kay Hutchison 95%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 95%
Jon Kyl 95%
Ron Lewis 95%
Dick Lugar 95%
Frank Murkowski 95%
Don Nickles 95%
Mike Parker 95%
George Radanovich 95%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 95%
E.G. Shuster 95%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 95%
Craig Thomas 95%
Roscoe Bartlett 93%
Sonny Bono 93%
Jim Bunning 93%
Herbert Callahan 93%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 93%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 93%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 93%
Michael Collins 93%
Merrill Cook 93%
Jay Dickey 93%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 93%
Jo Ann Emerson 93%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 93%
Van Hilleary 93%
John Nathan Hostettler 93%
Duncan Hunter 93%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 93%
Jay Kim 93%
James McCrery III 93%
Michael Oxley 93%
Bob Riley 93%
James Rogan 93%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 93%
Mark Souder 93%
John Sununu 93%
William Tauzin 93%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 93%
Todd Tiahrt 93%
Rick White 93%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 93%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 92%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 91%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 91%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 91%
Charlie Bass 91%
Michael Bilirakis 91%
Conrad Burns 91%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 91%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 91%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 91%
Jon Lynn Christensen 91%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 91%
Christopher Cox 91%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 91%
John Doolittle 91%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 91%
Tillie Fowler 91%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 91%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 91%
Joseph Knollenberg 91%
Stephen Largent 91%
Connie Mack 91%
Bill McCollum 91%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 91%
Mark Neumann 91%
Edward Pease 91%
Richard Pombo 91%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 91%
Rick Santorum 91%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 91%
Cliff Stearns 91%
James Talent 91%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 91%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 90%
William Frist 90%
David McIntosh 90%
John Warner 90%
Brian Bilbray 89%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 89%
Dan Burton 89%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 89%
George Gekas 89%
Porter Goss 89%
Joel Hefley 89%
Kenny Hulshof 89%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 89%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 89%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 89%
Joe Scarborough 89%
Nick Smith 89%
Zach Wamp 89%
Scott McInnis 88%
Paul Gillmor 87%
William Goodling 87%
Rick Hill 87%
David Lee Hobson 87%
Dan Miller 87%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 87%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 87%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 87%
Ben Campbell 86%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 86%
Jim Gibbons 86%
Judd Gregg 86%
Bob Smith 86%
Ted Stevens 86%
Strom Thurmond 86%
Robert Livingston 85%
Ralph Regula 85%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 85%
John Ensign 84%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 84%
Thomas Davis III 83%
John Ganske 83%
Ron Paul 83%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 83%
Herbert Bateman 82%
Douglas Bereuter 82%
Newt Gingrich 82%
James Greenwood 82%
Henry Hyde 82%
Robert William Ney 82%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 81%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 81%
Mark Foley 81%
Jerry Lewis 81%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 81%
William Roth, Jr. 81%
Bill Barrett 80%
Ray LaHood 80%
Michael Pappas 80%
Steven Schiff 80%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 80%
Vern Ehlers 78%
Thomas Ewing 78%
Linda Smith 78%
Scott Klug 77%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 76%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 76%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 76%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 76%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 76%
Fred Thompson 76%
Gerald Weller 76%
Thomas Campbell 74%
Jack Metcalf 73%
Wayne Gilchrest 72%
John McHugh 72%
John Chafee 71%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 71%
Gene Taylor 70%
W. Curtis Weldon 69%
Steve LaTourette 68%
Joseph McDade 68%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 68%
Harris Fawell 67%
James Walsh 67%
Sherwood Boehlert 65%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 65%
James Ramstad 65%
Charles Stenholm 64%
Sue Kelly 63%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 63%
Alfonse D'Amato 62%
James Merrill Jeffords 62%
Mike Castle 61%
Jon David Fox 61%
Robert Franks 61%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 60%
John Edward Porter 60%
Jack Quinn 60%
Jim Saxton 60%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 60%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 59%
Philip English 58%
Stephen Horn 57%
Olympia Snowe 57%
Rick Lazio 55%
Marge Roukema 53%
Christopher Shays 53%
James Leach 52%
Michael Patrick Forbes 51%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
Nancy Johnson 49%
Constance Morella 46%
John Tanner 44%
Benjamin Gilman 43%
Arlen Specter 43%
Gary Condit 42%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 40%
Owen Pickett 39%
Henry Scott Baesler 38%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 38%
John Breaux 38%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 37%
Robert Cramer 37%
Christopher John 37%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 36%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 35%
Norman Sisisky 35%
Marion Berry 33%
Robert Byrd 33%
Patsy Ann Danner 33%
James Turner 33%
Ike Skelton 32%
James Barcia 31%
Calvin Dooley 31%
Bob Kerrey 29%
Leonard Boswell 28%
Bart Gordon 28%
Chet Edwards 26%
Thomas Holden 26%
Richard Bryan 24%
Thomas Daschle 24%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 24%
Daniel Graham 24%
Herb Kohl 24%
Charles Robb 24%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 24%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 23%
Timothy Roemer 22%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 22%
Jeff Bingaman 21%
Daniel Inouye 21%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 20%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 20%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 19%
Robert Clement 19%
Ernest Hollings 19%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 19%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 19%
Patrick Moynihan 19%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 19%
Ronald Klink 18%
Jim Oberstar 18%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 16%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 16%
Jack Murtha 16%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 15%
John Glenn 15%
Lee Hamilton 15%
William Lipinski 15%
Dale Bumpers 14%
Chris Dodd 14%
Wendell Ford 14%
Joe Lieberman 14%
Matthew Martinez 14%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 14%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 14%
Jonas Frost III 13%
Jane Harman 13%
Paul McHale 13%
Earl Pomeroy 13%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 13%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 12%
Alan Mollohan 12%
Ted Strickland 12%
Peter Deutsch 11%
Norm Dicks 11%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 11%
William Luther 11%
James Maloney 11%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 11%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 11%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 11%
Bart Stupak 11%
Ellen Tauscher 11%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 10%
Byron Dorgan 10%
Russ Feingold 10%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 10%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
William Jefferson 10%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 10%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 10%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 10%
Carol Moseley Braun 10%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 10%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 10%
John Baldacci 9%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 9%
George Brown, Jr. 9%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 9%
Bob Etheridge 9%
Victor Fazio 9%
Harold Ford, Jr. 9%
Tony Hall 9%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 9%
Jay Johnson 9%
Paul Kanjorski 9%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 9%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 9%
Frank Mascara 9%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 9%
Karen McCarthy 9%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 9%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 9%
Vic Snyder 9%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 9%
Robert Wexler 9%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 7%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 7%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 7%
Howard Berman 7%
Rick Boucher 7%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 7%
Walter Holden Capps 7%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 7%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 7%
James Davis 7%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 7%
Julian Dixon 7%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 7%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 7%
Darlene Hooley 7%
Gerald Kleczka 7%
Robert Matsui 7%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 7%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 7%
Carrie Meek 7%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 7%
David Minge 7%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 7%
Steve Rothman 7%
David Skaggs 7%
Bob Wise, Jr. 7%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 5%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 5%
Kent Conrad 5%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 5%
Elizabeth Furse 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 5%
Henry Gonzalez 5%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 5%
W.G. Hefner 5%
John LaFalce 5%
Tom Lantos 5%
Thomas Manton 5%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 5%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 5%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 5%
Silvestre Reyes 5%
Ciro Rodriguez 5%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 5%
Paul Sarbanes 5%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 5%
Ed Towns 5%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 5%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 4%
Gary Ackerman 4%
Thomas Allen 4%
Rod Blagojevich 4%
Robert Borski, Jr. 4%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 4%
Sam Gejdenson 4%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 4%
Nicholas Lampson 4%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 4%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 4%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 4%
Martin Meehan 4%
John Moakley 4%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 4%
Major Owens 4%
Glenn Poshard 4%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 4%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 4%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 4%
Louis Stokes 4%
Karen Thurman 4%
Lynn Woolsey 4%
Albert Wynn 4%
Bob Weygand 3%
David Edward Bonior 2%
Julia Carson 2%
William Clay, Sr. 2%
Eva Clayton 2%
Jerry Costello 2%
William Coyne 2%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 2%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 2%
Bill Delahunt 2%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 2%
Ronald Dellums 2%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 2%
Lane Evans 2%
Thomas Foglietta 2%
Barney Frank 2%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 2%
Maurice Hinchey 2%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 2%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 2%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 2%
Joseph Kennedy II 2%
Dale Kildee 2%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 2%
Dennis Kucinich 2%
Michael McNulty 2%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 2%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 2%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 2%
Dave Obey 2%
John Olver 2%
Donald Payne 2%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 2%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 2%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 2%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 2%
Pete Stark 2%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 2%
Esteban Edward Torres 2%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 2%
Bruce Vento 2%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 2%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 2%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 0%
Robert Torricelli 0%
Paul Wellstone 0%
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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