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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: United States Chamber of Commerce

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 80%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 90%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 70%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 80%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 90%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 70%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 50%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 50%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 90%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 80%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 80%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 30%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 22%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 90%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 30%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 44%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 20%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 90%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 100%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 88%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 80%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 60%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 20%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 90%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 30%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 70%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 70%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 40%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 40%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 13%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 80%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 50%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 50%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 90%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 90%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 90%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 70%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 50%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 20%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 44%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 40%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 40%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 30%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 80%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 50%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 90%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 30%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 70%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 90%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 90%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 100%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 40%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 70%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 70%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 50%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 90%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 80%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 90%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 30%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 33%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 67%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 30%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 90%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 50%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 40%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 40%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 30%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 40%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 30%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 22%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 90%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 22%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 80%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 50%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 80%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 50%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 78%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 90%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 70%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 40%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 20%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 50%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 70%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 44%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 90%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 60%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 30%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 70%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 90%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 80%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 60%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 44%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 60%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 40%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 90%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 40%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 40%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 90%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 60%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 20%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 70%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 20%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 50%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 50%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 80%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 80%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 40%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 67%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 20%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 70%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 90%
Gary Ackerman 33%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 60%
Wayne Allard 80%
Thomas Allen 50%
Bill Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
John Ashcroft 70%
Henry Scott Baesler 70%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
John Baldacci 60%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 60%
Robert Barr, Jr. 80%
Bill Barrett 100%
Roscoe Bartlett 90%
Charlie Bass 90%
Herbert Bateman 100%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 60%
Douglas Bereuter 90%
Howard Berman 33%
Marion Berry 60%
Brian Bilbray 80%
Michael Bilirakis 100%
Jeff Bingaman 60%
Rod Blagojevich 40%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Sherwood Boehlert 67%
Kit Bond 100%
Henry Bonilla 90%
David Edward Bonior 40%
Sonny Bono 90%
Robert Borski, Jr. 30%
Leonard Boswell 70%
Rick Boucher 40%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 80%
John Breaux 70%
George Brown, Jr. 30%
Richard Bryan 70%
Ed Bryant 100%
Dale Bumpers 40%
Jim Bunning 90%
Conrad Burns 78%
Dan Burton 80%
Steve Buyer 100%
Robert Byrd 40%
Herbert Callahan 90%
Ben Campbell 60%
Thomas Campbell 80%
Chris Cannon 90%
Walter Holden Capps 50%
Julia Carson 30%
Mike Castle 90%
John Chafee 100%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 70%
Jon Lynn Christensen 100%
William Clay, Sr. 20%
Eva Clayton 40%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 80%
Robert Clement 80%
Michael Collins 80%
Larry Combest 100%
Gary Condit 60%
Kent Conrad 50%
Merrill Cook 80%
John Cooksey 100%
Jerry Costello 40%
Paul Coverdell 90%
Christopher Cox 75%
William Coyne 20%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 80%
Philip Crane 80%
Barbara Cubin 71%
Randall Cunningham 100%
Alfonse D'Amato 70%
Patsy Ann Danner 70%
Thomas Daschle 60%
James Davis 60%
Thomas Davis III 100%
Bill Delahunt 20%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Ronald Dellums 20%
Peter Deutsch 60%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 70%
Jay Dickey 80%
Norm Dicks 60%
Julian Dixon 30%
Chris Dodd 50%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
Calvin Dooley 90%
John Doolittle 80%
Byron Dorgan 50%
David Dreier 100%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 70%
Vern Ehlers 90%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 90%
Jo Ann Emerson 90%
Philip English 70%
John Ensign 80%
Bob Etheridge 70%
Lane Evans 20%
Terry Everett 80%
Thomas Ewing 80%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 60%
Harris Fawell 90%
Victor Fazio 60%
Russ Feingold 20%
Thomas Foglietta 40%
Mark Foley 100%
Michael Patrick Forbes 60%
Harold Ford, Jr. 60%
Wendell Ford 30%
Tillie Fowler 90%
Jon David Fox 90%
Barney Frank 30%
Robert Franks 90%
William Frist 100%
Jonas Frost III 60%
Elizabeth Furse 40%
Elton Gallegly 100%
John Ganske 70%
Sam Gejdenson 40%
George Gekas 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 11%
Jim Gibbons 80%
Wayne Gilchrest 90%
Paul Gillmor 89%
Benjamin Gilman 60%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 40%
Henry Gonzalez 33%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 80%
William Goodling 90%
Bart Gordon 70%
Slade Gorton 100%
Porter Goss 80%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 80%
Rodney Grams 80%
James Greenwood 90%
Judd Gregg 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht 100%
Tony Hall 50%
Lee Hamilton 60%
James Hansen 90%
Jane Harman 80%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 90%
Joel Hefley 80%
W.G. Hefner 38%
Jesse Helms 70%
Wally Herger, Jr. 90%
Rick Hill 80%
Van Hilleary 90%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 44%
Maurice Hinchey 20%
David Lee Hobson 90%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Thomas Holden 70%
Ernest Hollings 20%
Darlene Hooley 50%
Stephen Horn 60%
John Nathan Hostettler 80%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 90%
Kenny Hulshof 90%
Duncan Hunter 80%
Asa Hutchinson 90%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 80%
Kay Hutchison 100%
Henry Hyde 70%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 90%
Daniel Inouye 50%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 89%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 20%
William Jefferson 50%
James Merrill Jeffords 100%
William Lewis Jenkins 100%
Christopher John 100%
Jay Johnson 50%
Nancy Johnson 80%
Paul Kanjorski 40%
Sue Kelly 70%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 40%
Joseph Kennedy II 20%
Patrick Kennedy 20%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 60%
Bob Kerrey 60%
Dale Kildee 40%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 30%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 50%
Ronald Klink 33%
Scott Klug 70%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
Herb Kohl 80%
James Kolbe 100%
Dennis Kucinich 20%
Jon Kyl 70%
John LaFalce 40%
Ray LaHood 80%
Nicholas Lampson 50%
Tom Lantos 33%
Stephen Largent 90%
Steve LaTourette 90%
Frank Lautenberg 60%
Rick Lazio 80%
James Leach 100%
Jerry Lewis 80%
Ron Lewis 78%
Joe Lieberman 60%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 40%
Robert Livingston 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 90%
Dick Lugar 90%
William Luther 60%
Connie Mack 80%
James Maloney 60%
Thomas Manton 44%
Don Manzullo 90%
Matthew Martinez 60%
Frank Mascara 50%
Robert Matsui 40%
Karen McCarthy 60%
Bill McCollum 90%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 80%
Paul McHale 50%
John McHugh 80%
Scott McInnis 90%
David McIntosh 67%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 30%
Michael McNulty 30%
Martin Meehan 44%
Carrie Meek 40%
Jack Metcalf 60%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 30%
Dan Miller 100%
David Minge 70%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 20%
John Moakley 30%
Alan Mollohan 30%
Constance Morella 90%
Carol Moseley Braun 70%
Patrick Moynihan 50%
Frank Murkowski 100%
Jack Murtha 56%
Sue Myrick 90%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 100%
Mark Neumann 90%
Robert William Ney 80%
Don Nickles 100%
Anne Northup 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 90%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 40%
Dave Obey 30%
John Olver 30%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 60%
Major Owens 20%
Michael Oxley 100%
Ronald Packard 100%
Michael Pappas 70%
Mike Parker 90%
Ron Paul 60%
William Paxon 90%
Donald Payne 20%
Edward Pease 90%
John Peterson 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 90%
Owen Pickett 80%
Richard Pombo 60%
Earl Pomeroy 60%
John Edward Porter 90%
Glenn Poshard 50%
Deborah Pryce 100%
Jack Quinn 78%
George Radanovich 80%
James Ramstad 90%
Bill Redmond 100%
Ralph Regula 90%
Silvestre Reyes 40%
Frank Duncan Riggs 100%
Bob Riley 78%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 30%
Charles Robb 70%
Ciro Rodriguez 56%
Timothy Roemer 70%
James Rogan 80%
William Roth, Jr. 100%
Steve Rothman 40%
Marge Roukema 80%
Jim Ryun 100%
Martin Olav Sabo 30%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 70%
Rick Santorum 90%
Paul Sarbanes 30%
Jim Saxton 80%
Joe Scarborough 70%
Daniel Schaefer 90%
Steven Schiff 0%
John Shadegg 80%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 100%
Christopher Shays 70%
E.G. Shuster 90%
Norman Sisisky 70%
David Skaggs 40%
Joseph Skeen 100%
Ike Skelton 78%
Gordon Smith 100%
Linda Smith 70%
Nick Smith 90%
Robert Smith 100%
Bob Smith 50%
Vincent Snowbarger 100%
Olympia Snowe 70%
Vic Snyder 60%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 78%
Mark Souder 80%
Arlen Specter 50%
Floyd Spence 90%
John Spratt, Jr. 50%
Pete Stark 10%
Cliff Stearns 70%
Charles Stenholm 90%
Ted Stevens 80%
Louis Stokes 20%
Ted Strickland 44%
Bob Stump 90%
Bart Stupak 40%
John Sununu 100%
James Talent 80%
John Tanner 80%
Ellen Tauscher 50%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 100%
Gene Taylor 80%
Craig Thomas 90%
William Thomas 100%
Fred Thompson 60%
Karen Thurman 60%
Strom Thurmond 80%
Todd Tiahrt 90%
Esteban Edward Torres 30%
Robert Torricelli 40%
Ed Towns 33%
James Traficant, Jr. 60%
James Turner 80%
Bruce Vento 40%
James Walsh 80%
Zach Wamp 80%
John Warner 100%
Wesley Watkins 89%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 89%
David Weldon 67%
W. Curtis Weldon 89%
Gerald Weller 80%
Paul Wellstone 10%
Robert Wexler 40%
Bob Weygand 30%
Rick White 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. 40%
Lynn Woolsey 30%
Albert Wynn 40%
Sidney Yates 33%

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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