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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: United States Chamber of Commerce

2001 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
Wayne Allard 100%
George Allen 100%
Richard Armey 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
Bob Bennett 100%
Judy Biggert 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
Mary Bono Mack 100%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 100%
Ed Bryant 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Herbert Callahan 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
Chris Cannon 100%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 100%
John Cooksey 100%
Larry Craig 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 100%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
David Dreier 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 100%
Ernest Fletcher 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 100%
William Frist 100%
Elton Gallegly 100%
George Gekas 100%
Porter Goss 100%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 100%
Judd Gregg 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Kenny Hulshof 100%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 100%
Ric Keller 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
Jon Kyl 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 100%
Jerry Lewis 100%
John Linder 100%
Dick Lugar 100%
James McCrery III 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
Dan Miller 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 100%
Don Nickles 100%
Anne Northup 100%
James Nussle 100%
Thomas William Osborne 100%
Doug Ose 100%
Michael Oxley 100%
John Peterson 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
Deborah Pryce 100%
Denny Rehberg 100%
Edward Schrock 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 100%
Donald Sherwood 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 100%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 100%
Joseph Skeen 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
John Sununu 100%
William Tauzin 100%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 100%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 100%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 100%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 100%
Wesley Watkins 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
Gerald Weller 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 100%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 100%
Henry Bonilla 96%
Henry Brown, Jr. 96%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 96%
Steve Buyer 96%
Larry Combest 96%
Philip Crane 96%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 96%
Randall Cunningham 96%
James DeMint 96%
Jim Gibbons 96%
Paul Gillmor 96%
Mark Green 96%
Melissa Hart 96%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 96%
Wally Herger, Jr. 96%
David Lee Hobson 96%
Henry Hyde 96%
James Kolbe 96%
Ron Lewis 96%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 96%
Don Manzullo 96%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 96%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 96%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 96%
Robert William Ney 96%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 96%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 96%
Thomas Reynolds 96%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 96%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 96%
Jim Ryun 96%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 96%
John Shadegg 96%
John Sweeney 96%
Todd Tiahrt 96%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 96%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 95%
Cass Ballenger 95%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 95%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 95%
Jennifer Dunn 95%
Philip English 95%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 95%
Sue Myrick 95%
George Radanovich 95%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 95%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 94%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 94%
Kit Bond 93%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 93%
Jim Bunning 93%
Barbara Cubin 93%
John Ensign 93%
Jesse Helms 93%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 93%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 93%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 93%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 93%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 93%
Fred Thompson 93%
George Voinovich 93%
William Phillip Gramm 92%
Todd Akin 91%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 91%
Charlie Bass 91%
Douglas Bereuter 91%
Michael Bilirakis 91%
Michael Collins 91%
Christopher Cox 91%
John Doolittle 91%
Vern Ehlers 91%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 91%
Jo Ann Emerson 91%
Mark Foley 91%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 91%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 91%
James Greenwood 91%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 91%
James Hansen 91%
Pete Hoekstra 91%
Duncan Hunter 91%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 91%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 91%
Sue Kelly 91%
Mark Kennedy 91%
Brian Kerns 91%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 91%
John McHugh 91%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 91%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 91%
Ralph Regula 91%
Bob Riley 91%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 91%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 91%
Mark Souder 91%
Cliff Stearns 91%
Bob Stump 91%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 91%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 91%
James Walsh 91%
Heather Wilson 91%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 91%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 91%
Thomas Davis III 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 90%
Marge Roukema 90%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 89%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 87%
Robert Barr, Jr. 87%
Dan Burton 87%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 87%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 87%
Terry Everett 87%
Michael Ferguson 87%
Wayne Gilchrest 87%
Robert Hayes 87%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 87%
William Lewis Jenkins 87%
Nancy Johnson 87%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 87%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 87%
Richard Pombo 87%
James Ramstad 87%
Nick Smith 87%
Zach Wamp 87%
David Weldon 87%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 86%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 86%
John Ganske 86%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 86%
Van Hilleary 86%
Stephen Horn 86%
Ray LaHood 86%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 86%
Rick Santorum 86%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 86%
Bob Smith 86%
Ted Stevens 86%
Strom Thurmond 86%
John Warner 86%
Ben Campbell 85%
John Nathan Hostettler 85%
Kay Hutchison 85%
Trent Lott, Sr. 85%
Zell Bryan Miller 85%
Frank Murkowski 85%
Sherwood Boehlert 83%
Mike Castle 83%
Jo Ann Davis 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 83%
Gilbert Gutknecht 83%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 83%
Christopher John 83%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 83%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 83%
Scott McInnis 83%
Todd Platts 83%
Christopher Shays 83%
Robert Cramer 82%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 82%
Jack Quinn 82%
Jim Saxton 82%
Charles Taylor 82%
W. Curtis Weldon 82%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 81%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 80%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 79%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 79%
Blanche Lincoln 79%
Gordon Smith 79%
Olympia Snowe 79%
Arlen Specter 79%
Roscoe Bartlett 78%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 78%
James Leach 78%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 78%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 78%
James Traficant, Jr. 78%
Calvin Dooley 77%
Steve LaTourette 77%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 74%
Joel Hefley 74%
Tim Johnson 74%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 74%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 74%
Charles Stenholm 74%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 73%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 71%
John Breaux 71%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 71%
Peter Fitzgerald 71%
Ben Nelson 71%
Brad Carson 70%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 70%
William Jefferson 70%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 70%
Constance Morella 70%
Tom Tancredo 70%
John Tanner 70%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 69%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 65%
Bart Gordon 65%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 65%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 65%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 65%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 64%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 64%
Robert Clement 64%
James Merrill Jeffords 64%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 64%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 64%
Ike Skelton 64%
Ron Paul 62%
Ronnie Shows 62%
Robert Torricelli 62%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 61%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 61%
Benjamin Gilman 59%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 58%
Rick Boucher 57%
Jean Carnahan 57%
Chet Edwards 57%
Bob Etheridge 57%
James Maloney 57%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 57%
Dennis Moore 57%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 57%
David Phelps 57%
James Turner 57%
Harold Ford, Jr. 55%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 55%
Herb Kohl 54%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 52%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 52%
Jane Harman 52%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 52%
Jack Murtha 52%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 52%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 50%
Evan Bayh 50%
Jeff Bingaman 50%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 50%
Kent Conrad 50%
Norm Dicks 50%
Byron Dorgan 50%
John Edwards 50%
Jonas Frost III 50%
Baron Hill 50%
Ernest Hollings 50%
William Lipinski 50%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 50%
Ed Towns 50%
Joe Baca, Sr. 48%
Leonard Boswell 48%
Gary Condit 48%
Jerry Costello 48%
James Davis 48%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 48%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 48%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 48%
Nicholas Lampson 48%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 48%
Frank Mascara 48%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 48%
Karen McCarthy 48%
Alan Mollohan 48%
Mike Ross 48%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 48%
Ellen Tauscher 48%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 48%
Carrie Meek 47%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 45%
John Spratt, Jr. 45%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 44%
James Barcia 43%
Shelley Berkley 43%
Marion Berry 43%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 43%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 43%
Hillary Clinton 43%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 43%
Thomas Daschle 43%
Peter Deutsch 43%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 43%
Charlie Gonzalez 43%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 43%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 43%
Darlene Hooley 43%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 43%
Daniel Inouye 43%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 43%
Paul Kanjorski 43%
Gerald Kleczka 43%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 43%
Joe Lieberman 43%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 43%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 43%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 43%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 43%
Silvestre Reyes 43%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 43%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 43%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 43%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 43%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 42%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 41%
Brian Baird 41%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 41%
Thomas Holden 41%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 41%
Timothy Roemer 41%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 40%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 39%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 39%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 39%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 39%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 39%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 39%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 39%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 39%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 39%
Earl Pomeroy 39%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 39%
Ciro Rodriguez 39%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 39%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 39%
Gene Taylor 39%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 39%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 38%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 38%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 38%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 38%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 38%
Vic Snyder 38%
Bart Stupak 38%
Howard Berman 36%
Jon Corzine 36%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 36%
Chris Dodd 36%
Daniel Graham 36%
Tony Hall 36%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 36%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 36%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 36%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 36%
Paul Sarbanes 36%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 36%
Paul Wellstone 36%
Gary Ackerman 35%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 35%
Rod Blagojevich 35%
Robert Borski, Jr. 35%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 35%
Julia Carson 35%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 35%
Eva Clayton 35%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 35%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 35%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 35%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 35%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 35%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 35%
Dale Kildee 35%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 35%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 35%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 35%
Robert Matsui 35%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 35%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 35%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 35%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 35%
Jim Oberstar 35%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 35%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 35%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 35%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 35%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 35%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 35%
Ted Strickland 35%
Karen Thurman 35%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 35%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 35%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 35%
Anthony Weiner 35%
Albert Wynn 35%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 32%
William Coyne 32%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 32%
Patrick Kennedy 32%
Michael McNulty 32%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 32%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 31%
Thomas Allen 30%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 30%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 30%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 30%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 30%
Tom Lantos 30%
Dave Obey 30%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 30%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 30%
Hilda Solis 30%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 30%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 30%
Robert Wexler 30%
David Wu 30%
Russ Feingold 29%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 29%
William Luther 29%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 29%
Martin Meehan 29%
David Edward Bonior 27%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 27%
Lane Evans 27%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 27%
John LaFalce 27%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 27%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 27%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 27%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 27%
John Baldacci 26%
Bill Delahunt 26%
Maurice Hinchey 26%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 26%
Steve Rothman 26%
Martin Olav Sabo 26%
Pete Stark 26%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 26%
Lynn Woolsey 26%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 25%
Diane Watson 25%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 23%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 23%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 23%
John Olver 23%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 23%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 22%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 22%
Barney Frank 22%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 22%
Donald Payne 22%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 22%
Robert Byrd 21%
Major Owens 19%
Dennis Kucinich 17%

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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