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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Business-Industry Political Action Committee

1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
Edmond Spencer Abraham 95%
Gary Ackerman 0%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 0%
Wayne Allard 97%
Bill Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 13%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
William Baker 100%
John Baldacci 0%
Cass Ballenger 97%
James Barcia 7%
Robert Barr, Jr. 100%
Bill Barrett 100%
Roscoe Bartlett 100%
Charlie Bass 93%
Herbert Bateman 93%
Anthony Beilenson 3%
Bob Bennett 94%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 3%
Douglas Bereuter 87%
Howard Berman 0%
Tom Bevill 7%
Brian Bilbray 90%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Jeff Bingaman 0%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Peter Blute 57%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Kit Bond 90%
Henry Bonilla 100%
David Edward Bonior 0%
Sonny Bono 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 0%
Rick Boucher 7%
Bill Bradley 10%
John Breaux 19%
Bill Brewster 41%
Glen Browder 18%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Hank Brown 100%
Richard Bryan 0%
Ed Bryant 100%
John Bryant 0%
Dale Bumpers 0%
Jim Bunn 77%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Dan Burton 100%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 14%
Herbert Callahan 100%
Ben Campbell 78%
Thomas Campbell 80%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 97%
Mike Castle 90%
John Chafee 71%
Jim Chapman 0%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 93%
Jon Lynn Christensen 97%
Dick Chrysler 100%
William Clay, Sr. 0%
Eva Clayton 0%
Robert Clement 14%
William Clinger 90%
William Cohen 40%
Ronald Coleman 0%
Barbara-Rose Collins 0%
Cardiss Collins 0%
Michael Collins 97%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 33%
Kent Conrad 5%
Wes Cooley 93%
Jerry Costello 1%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 0%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 20%
Philip Crane 100%
Frank Arnold Cremeans 100%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 76%
Patsy Ann Danner 10%
Thomas Daschle 0%
Thomas Davis III 83%
E. Kika de la Garza 14%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Ronald Dellums 0%
Peter Deutsch 3%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 83%
Jay Dickey 100%
Norm Dicks 3%
Julian Dixon 7%
Chris Dodd 10%
Robert Dole 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 90%
Calvin Dooley 10%
John Doolittle 100%
Byron Dorgan 19%
Robert Dornan 100%
David Dreier 100%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 3%
Vern Ehlers 83%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 100%
Bill Emerson 100%
Philip English 70%
John Ensign 87%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 14%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 100%
Harris Fawell 93%
Victor Fazio 0%
Russ Feingold 0%
Cleo Fields 0%
Jack Fields, Jr. 96%
Floyd Flake 0%
Michael Patrick Flanagan 83%
Thomas Foglietta 0%
Mark Foley 100%
Michael Patrick Forbes 71%
Harold Ford, Sr. 0%
Wendell Ford 14%
Tillie Fowler 100%
Jon David Fox 80%
Barney Frank 0%
Gary Franks 93%
Robert Franks 76%
Dan Frisa 77%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 0%
David Funderburk 93%
Elizabeth Furse 3%
Elton Gallegly 100%
John Ganske 100%
Sam Gejdenson 0%
George Gekas 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Pete Geren 67%
Sam Gibbons 0%
Wayne Gilchrest 93%
Paul Gillmor 93%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 14%
Henry Gonzalez 0%
William Goodling 93%
Bart Gordon 17%
Slade Gorton 86%
Porter Goss 97%
Daniel Graham 10%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 100%
James Greenwood 93%
Judd Gregg 90%
Steven Gunderson 90%
Gilbert Gutknecht 93%
Tony Hall 0%
Lee Hamilton 10%
Melton Hancock 97%
James Hansen 100%
Jane Harman 10%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 75%
James Hayes 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 97%
Joel Hefley 90%
W.G. Hefner 0%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman 87%
Jesse Helms 90%
Wally Herger, Jr. 97%
Van Hilleary 97%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
Maurice Hinchey 0%
David Lee Hobson 100%
Pete Hoekstra 97%
Martin Hoke 90%
Thomas Holden 14%
Ernest Hollings 11%
Stephen Horn 77%
John Nathan Hostettler 90%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 74%
Duncan Hunter 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 100%
Kay Hutchison 100%
Henry Hyde 100%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 100%
Daniel Inouye 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 97%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 4%
William Jefferson 0%
James Merrill Jeffords 55%
Nancy Johnson 80%
Harry Johnston 0%
J. Bennett Johnston 29%
Paul Kanjorski 0%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 84%
Sue Kelly 97%
Dirk Kempthorne 95%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 5%
Joseph Kennedy II 0%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 0%
Bob Kerrey 10%
Dale Kildee 0%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 3%
Ronald Klink 0%
Scott Klug 83%
Joseph Knollenberg 97%
Herb Kohl 14%
James Kolbe 100%
Jon Kyl 100%
John LaFalce 0%
Ray LaHood 80%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 93%
Steve LaTourette 83%
Greg Laughlin 100%
Rick Lazio 86%
James Leach 63%
Jerry Lewis 93%
Ron Lewis 100%
Joe Lieberman 30%
Jim Lightfoot 100%
Blanche Lincoln 24%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 10%
Robert Livingston 100%
James Longley, Jr. 81%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
Dick Lugar 90%
William Luther 0%
Connie Mack 95%
Thomas Manton 0%
Don Manzullo 100%
Matthew Martinez 14%
Bill Martini 60%
Frank Mascara 0%
Robert Matsui 0%
Karen McCarthy 7%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 88%
Paul McHale 3%
John McHugh 69%
Scott McInnis 97%
David McIntosh 97%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 0%
Michael McNulty 0%
Martin Meehan 0%
Carrie Meek 0%
Jack Metcalf 90%
Jan Meyers 90%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 0%
Dan Miller 100%
David Minge 7%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 0%
John Moakley 0%
Susan Molinari 100%
Alan Mollohan 0%
G.V. Montgomery 57%
Carlos Moorhead 100%
Constance Morella 60%
Carol Moseley Braun 10%
Patrick Moynihan 10%
Frank Murkowski 95%
Jack Murtha 3%
John Myers 100%
Sue Myrick 97%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 97%
Mark Neumann 93%
Robert William Ney 97%
Don Nickles 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
Sam Nunn 43%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 0%
Dave Obey 3%
John Olver 0%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 3%
Bill Orton 20%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 97%
Ronald Packard 100%
Mike Parker 100%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 0%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 7%
Claiborne Pell 10%
Pete Peterson 0%
Owen Pickett 27%
Richard Pombo 100%
Earl Pomeroy 3%
John Edward Porter 90%
Glenn Poshard 7%
Larry Pressler 100%
Deborah Pryce 100%
David Pryor 10%
James Quillen 92%
Jack Quinn 45%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 87%
Ralph Regula 93%
Bill Richardson 0%
Frank Duncan Riggs 90%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 0%
Charles Robb 10%
Timothy Roemer 17%
Charles Rose III 4%
Toby Roth 100%
William Roth, Jr. 81%
Marge Roukema 70%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Rick Santorum 95%
Paul Sarbanes 0%
Jim Saxton 90%
Joe Scarborough 89%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 83%
Patricia Schroeder 0%
Andrea Seastrand 100%
John Shadegg 97%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 100%
Christopher Shays 77%
E.G. Shuster 97%
Paul Simon 0%
Alan Simpson 81%
Norman Sisisky 24%
David Skaggs 0%
Joseph Skeen 97%
Ike Skelton 10%
Linda Smith 89%
Nick Smith 100%
Bob Smith 100%
Olympia Snowe 62%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 93%
Mark Souder 93%
Arlen Specter 38%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 0%
Pete Stark 0%
Cliff Stearns 97%
Charles Stenholm 30%
Ted Stevens 86%
Louis Stokes 0%
Gerry Studds 0%
Bob Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 0%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 21%
Randy Tate 97%
William Tauzin 93%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 35%
Frank Tejeda 7%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 97%
Fred Thompson 90%
Ray Thornton 0%
Karen Thurman 0%
Strom Thurmond 100%
Todd Tiahrt 97%
Peter Torkildsen 45%
Esteban Edward Torres 0%
Robert Torricelli 0%
Ed Towns 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 20%
Bruce Vento 0%
Harold Volkmer 0%
Barbara Vucanovich 100%
Robert Walker 100%
James Walsh 63%
Zach Wamp 97%
Michael Ward 11%
John Warner 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 100%
W. Curtis Weldon 84%
Gerald Weller 80%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Rick White 100%
Pat Williams 7%
Charles Wilson 4%
Bob Wise, Jr. 0%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
Albert Wynn 7%
Sidney Yates 0%
Bill Zeliff 100%
Richard Zimmer 80%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 3%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 3%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 10%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 7%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 5%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 0%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 7%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 0%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 3%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 10%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 10%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 3%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 3%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 0%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 7%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 10%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 0%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 0%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 0%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 13%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 3%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 3%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 0%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 3%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 5%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 0%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 3%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 0%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 13%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 89%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 93%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 95%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 97%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 90%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 93%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 90%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 77%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 90%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 80%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 95%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 97%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 90%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 96%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 80%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 95%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 100%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 93%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 97%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 82%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 93%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 90%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 97%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 84%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 36 Steve Stockman Republican 85%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 97%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 93%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 100%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 90%

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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