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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Concord Coalition

2001-2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 51%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 47%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 8%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 50%
AR U.S. House 4 Mike Ross Democratic 8%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 95%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 92%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 43%
AZ U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake Republican 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 21%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 31%
CA U.S. House 1 Mike Thompson Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 61%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 99%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 15 Mike Honda Democratic 47%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 70%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 34%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 66%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 34%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 34%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 84%
CA U.S. House 29 Adam Schiff Democratic 34%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 68%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 73%
CA U.S. House 38 Grace Napolitano Democratic 43%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 99%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 49%
CA U.S. House 42 Gary Miller Republican 93%
CA U.S. House 43 Joe Baca, Sr. Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 53%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 8%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 97%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 58%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 70%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 70%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 75%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 77%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 70%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 43%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 98%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 92%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 43%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 94%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 58%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 36%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 38%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 8%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 25%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 17%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 8%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 17%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 69%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 25%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 45%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 8%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 69%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 31%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 63%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 34%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 43%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 8%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 25%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 58%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 77%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 37%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 36%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 76%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 70%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 63%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 87%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 58%
IL U.S. House 15 Tim Johnson Republican 8%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 56%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 77%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 74%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 55%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 66%
IN U.S. House 6 Mike Pence Republican 58%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 69%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 69%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 51%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 25%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 13%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 20%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 23%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 25%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 65%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 55%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 73%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 43%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 84%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 92%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 8 Mike Capuano Democratic 88%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 63%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 92%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 43%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 50%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 63%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 74%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 78%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 88%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 58%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 25%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 43%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 77%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 25%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 43%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 80%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 43%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 43%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 38%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 74%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 25%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 78%
MO U.S. House 2 Todd Akin Republican 87%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 25%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 34%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 2%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 25%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 54%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 0%
MT U.S. House At-Large Denny Rehberg Republican 25%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 58%
NA U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Democratic 73%
NA U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Democratic 58%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 8%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 68%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 43%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 50%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 4%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 81%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 67%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 88%
NE U.S. Senate Sr Ben Nelson Democratic 36%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 59%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 90%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 63%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 75%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 50%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 92%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 63%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 91%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 89%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 92%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 40%
NM U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Udall Democratic 18%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 36%
NV U.S. House 1 Shelley Berkley Democratic 50%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 36%
NY U.S. House 2 Steve Israel Democratic 58%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 2%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 43%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley Democratic 84%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 73%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 43%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 63%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 55%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 72%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 75%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 97%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 38%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 1%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 81%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 87%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 13%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 69%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 43%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 8%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 36%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 25%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 78%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 79%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 94%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 52%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 80%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 37%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 83%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 81%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 43%
PA U.S. House 19 Todd Platts Republican 25%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 35%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 81%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 89%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 72%
SC U.S. Senate Jr James DeMint Republican 87%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 48%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 8%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 97%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 29%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 81%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 15%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 87%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 58%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 14%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 99%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 43%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 43%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 53%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 52%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 94%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 43%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 43%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 55%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 27%
UT U.S. House 2 Jim Matheson Democratic 25%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 43%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 95%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 25%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 67%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 91%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 34%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 16%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 67%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 31%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 84%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 8%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 8%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 43%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 47%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 94%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 23%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 52%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 73%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 92%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 97%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 67%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 27%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Capito Republican 8%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 1%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 55%
Wayne Allard 43%
George Allen 12%
Thomas Allen 70%
Brian Baird 63%
Richard Hugh Baker 25%
Cass Ballenger 60%
Evan Bayh 88%
Bob Bennett 51%
Douglas Bereuter 54%
Marion Berry 63%
Michael Bilirakis 58%
Sherwood Boehlert 8%
Kit Bond 18%
Henry Bonilla 8%
Rick Boucher 43%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 51%
John Breaux 1%
Henry Brown, Jr. 50%
Jim Bunning 51%
Conrad Burns 25%
Steve Buyer 15%
Robert Byrd 47%
Ben Campbell 5%
Chris Cannon 38%
Brad Carson 8%
Julia Carson 43%
Mike Castle 87%
Mac Collins 75%
Jon Corzine 81%
Christopher Cox 97%
Larry Craig 43%
Robert Cramer 0%
Philip Crane 76%
Barbara Cubin 82%
Randall Cunningham 52%
Thomas Daschle 36%
James Davis 84%
Jo Ann Davis 87%
Thomas Davis III 36%
Bill Delahunt 81%
Thomas DeLay 79%
Peter Deutsch 84%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 14%
Chris Dodd 74%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 65%
Calvin Dooley 55%
John Doolittle 36%
Byron Dorgan 36%
Jennifer Dunn 34%
John Edwards 69%
Chet Edwards 43%
Vern Ehlers 50%
Philip English 67%
John Ensign 84%
Bob Etheridge 43%
Lane Evans 34%
Terry Everett 25%
Russ Feingold 99%
Michael Ferguson 75%
Peter Fitzgerald 27%
Ernest Fletcher 8%
Mark Foley 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. 43%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 87%
William Frist 62%
Jonas Frost III 48%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 43%
Jim Gibbons 58%
Wayne Gilchrest 8%
Paul Gillmor 17%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 25%
Bart Gordon 3%
Porter Goss 25%
Daniel Graham 95%
Mark Green 25%
James Greenwood 31%
Judd Gregg 97%
Gilbert Gutknecht 25%
Charles Hagel 12%
Jane Harman 84%
Melissa Hart 25%
Robert Hayes 25%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 87%
Joel Hefley 89%
Baron Hill 75%
David Lee Hobson 34%
Pete Hoekstra 97%
Ernest Hollings 58%
Darlene Hooley 13%
John Nathan Hostettler 76%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 18%
Kenny Hulshof 8%
Duncan Hunter 8%
Henry Hyde 32%
Jay Inslee 63%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 56%
William Jefferson 60%
James Merrill Jeffords 8%
William Lewis Jenkins 31%
Christopher John 2%
Nancy Johnson 58%
Paul Kanjorski 43%
Ric Keller 67%
Sue Kelly 75%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 63%
Mark Kennedy 25%
Patrick Kennedy 70%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 43%
Gerald Kleczka 88%
Joseph Knollenberg 8%
James Kolbe 92%
Nicholas Lampson 20%
Tom Lantos 84%
James Leach 15%
Ron Lewis 8%
Blanche Lincoln 8%
John Linder 87%
William Lipinski 51%
Trent Lott, Sr. 78%
Robert Matsui 70%
Karen McCarthy 17%
James McCrery III 8%
John McHugh 8%
Scott McInnis 77%
Michael McNulty 63%
Martin Meehan 79%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 55%
Zell Bryan Miller 3%
Alan Mollohan 53%
Dennis Moore 25%
Jack Murtha 68%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 8%
Robert William Ney 8%
Don Nickles 92%
Anne Northup 34%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 12%
James Nussle 25%
Jim Oberstar 3%
Dave Obey 70%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 43%
Thomas William Osborne 8%
Doug Ose 8%
Major Owens 63%
Michael Oxley 66%
Donald Payne 96%
John Peterson 31%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 25%
Richard Pombo 2%
Earl Pomeroy 43%
Deborah Pryce 58%
Jack Quinn 17%
George Radanovich 60%
James Ramstad 87%
Ralph Regula 8%
Thomas Reynolds 25%
Ciro Rodriguez 17%
Jim Ryun 58%
Martin Olav Sabo 43%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 3%
Rick Santorum 84%
Paul Sarbanes 58%
H. James Saxton 60%
Edward Schrock 77%
John Shadegg 99%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 82%
Christopher Shays 97%
Donald Sherwood 8%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 25%
Ike Skelton 43%
Gordon Smith 15%
Nick Smith 92%
Vic Snyder 43%
Mark Souder 25%
Arlen Specter 8%
John Spratt, Jr. 43%
Charles Stenholm 100%
Ted Stevens 14%
Ted Strickland 18%
Bart Stupak 63%
John Sununu 89%
John Sweeney 14%
Tom Tancredo 95%
John Tanner 73%
Ellen Tauscher 34%
William Tauzin 25%
Charles Taylor 50%
Gene Taylor 100%
Craig Thomas 81%
William Thomas 34%
Todd Tiahrt 25%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 56%
James Turner 31%
George Voinovich 69%
James Walsh 17%
Zach Wamp 97%
John Warner 12%
Diane Watson 4%
Anthony Weiner 79%
David Weldon 77%
W. Curtis Weldon 58%
Gerald Weller 25%
Robert Wexler 53%
Heather Wilson 8%
David Wu 63%
Albert Wynn 18%

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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