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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Competitive Enterprise Institute

1994 Trade Score

Issues: Trade
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 50%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 100%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 50%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 50%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 0%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 50%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 50%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 50%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 50%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 50%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Coats Republican 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 50%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 50%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 50%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 0%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 50%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 50%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 0%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 0%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 0%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 50%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 100%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 0%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 50%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 50%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 0%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 0%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 50%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 50%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 0%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 50%
Wayne Allard 50%
Bill Archer 100%
Richard Armey 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 100%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
William Baker 100%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 0%
Bill Barrett 100%
Roscoe Bartlett 50%
Herbert Bateman 100%
Anthony Beilenson 100%
Bob Bennett 100%
Douglas Bereuter 100%
Howard Berman 100%
Tom Bevill 100%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Jeff Bingaman 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 100%
Peter Blute 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 50%
Kit Bond 50%
Henry Bonilla 50%
David Edward Bonior 50%
Rick Boucher 100%
Bill Bradley 100%
John Breaux 50%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Hank Brown 50%
Richard Bryan 50%
John Bryant 100%
Dale Bumpers 50%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 0%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 50%
Robert Byrd 0%
Herbert Callahan 50%
Ben Campbell 0%
Mike Castle 100%
John Chafee 100%
William Clay, Sr. 50%
Eva Clayton 100%
William Cohen 100%
Ronald Coleman 100%
Barbara-Rose Collins 50%
Cardiss Collins 50%
Michael Collins 0%
Larry Combest 50%
Gary Condit 0%
Kent Conrad 50%
Jerry Costello 0%
Paul Coverdell 50%
Christopher Cox 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 0%
Philip Crane 100%
Randall Cunningham 50%
Alfonse D'Amato 100%
Patsy Ann Danner 0%
Thomas Daschle 50%
E. Kika de la Garza 100%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Ronald Dellums 50%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 0%
Jay Dickey 0%
Norm Dicks 100%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 50%
Robert Dole 50%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 50%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 0%
Robert Dornan 0%
David Dreier 100%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 100%
Vern Ehlers 50%
Bill Emerson 50%
Lane Evans 0%
Terry Everett 0%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 0%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 50%
Harris Fawell 100%
Victor Fazio 100%
Russ Feingold 50%
Cleo Fields 50%
Jack Fields, Jr. 100%
Floyd Flake 100%
Wendell Ford 50%
Tillie Fowler 100%
Barney Frank 50%
Gary Franks 100%
Robert Franks 100%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elton Gallegly 0%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Pete Geren 100%
Sam Gibbons 100%
Wayne Gilchrest 100%
Paul Gillmor 50%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 50%
Henry Gonzalez 50%
Slade Gorton 100%
Porter Goss 100%
Daniel Graham 50%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 100%
Judd Gregg 100%
Steven Gunderson 0%
Tony Hall 100%
Lee Hamilton 100%
Melton Hancock 50%
James Hansen 100%
Jane Harman 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 100%
Joel Hefley 0%
W.G. Hefner 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 0%
Maurice Hinchey 0%
David Lee Hobson 100%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Ernest Hollings 0%
Stephen Horn 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 100%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Kay Hutchison 100%
Henry Hyde 100%
Daniel Inouye 50%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 50%
Nancy Johnson 100%
Harry Johnston 100%
J. Bennett Johnston 50%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 50%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 100%
Bob Kerrey 50%
Dale Kildee 0%
Jay Kim 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Scott Klug 0%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
Herb Kohl 100%
James Kolbe 100%
Jon Kyl 100%
John LaFalce 100%
Tom Lantos 0%
Stephen Largent 0%
Greg Laughlin 100%
Rick Lazio 100%
James Leach 100%
Jerry Lewis 100%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 100%
Jim Lightfoot 100%
Blanche Lincoln 100%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 0%
Robert Livingston 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. 50%
Dick Lugar 100%
Connie Mack 100%
Thomas Manton 100%
Don Manzullo 100%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Robert Matsui 100%
Bill McCollum 100%
James McCrery III 100%
John McHugh 0%
Scott McInnis 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 50%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jan Meyers 100%
Dan Miller 100%
David Minge 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 50%
John Moakley 50%
Susan Molinari 100%
Alan Mollohan 0%
G.V. Montgomery 50%
Carlos Moorhead 0%
Constance Morella 100%
Carol Moseley Braun 50%
Patrick Moynihan 50%
Frank Murkowski 100%
John Myers 0%
Don Nickles 100%
Sam Nunn 50%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 50%
Dave Obey 0%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Bill Orton 100%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 100%
Ronald Packard 100%
Mike Parker 100%
William Paxon 100%
Donald Payne 50%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 0%
Claiborne Pell 100%
Pete Peterson 100%
Owen Pickett 100%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 100%
Glenn Poshard 100%
Larry Pressler 50%
David Pryor 50%
Jack Quinn 0%
James Ramstad 100%
Bill Richardson 100%
Charles Robb 50%
Timothy Roemer 100%
Charles Rose III 0%
Toby Roth 0%
William Roth, Jr. 100%
Marge Roukema 100%
Martin Olav Sabo 50%
Paul Sarbanes 50%
Jim Saxton 100%
Daniel Schaefer 0%
Steven Schiff 0%
Patricia Schroeder 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 100%
Christopher Shays 100%
Paul Simon 50%
Alan Simpson 50%
Norman Sisisky 50%
David Skaggs 100%
Joseph Skeen 50%
Ike Skelton 100%
Nick Smith 100%
Bob Smith 50%
Olympia Snowe 0%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 50%
Arlen Specter 100%
Pete Stark 50%
Cliff Stearns 50%
Charles Stenholm 100%
Ted Stevens 0%
Gerry Studds 100%
Bob Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 0%
James Talent 100%
William Tauzin 100%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 0%
Frank Tejeda 100%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 100%
Ray Thornton 100%
Karen Thurman 0%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Peter Torkildsen 50%
Esteban Edward Torres 100%
Robert Torricelli 100%
Ed Towns 50%
Bruce Vento 100%
Harold Volkmer 0%
Barbara Vucanovich 50%
James Walsh 50%
John Warner 50%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Pat Williams 50%
Charles Wilson 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. 0%
Lynn Woolsey 0%
Albert Wynn 100%
Sidney Yates 100%
Bill Zeliff 50%
Richard Zimmer 100%

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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