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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Concord Coalition

1998 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 21%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 54%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 16%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 36%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 73%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 75%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 29%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 34%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 48%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 79%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 57%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 68%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 47%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 16%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 26%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 44%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 60%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 46%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 44%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 51%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 55%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 16%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 16%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 12%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 71%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 54%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 46%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 57%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 59%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 38%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 43%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 37%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 37%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 48%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 41%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 8%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 22%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 46%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 18%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 8%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 41%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 13%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 55%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 53%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 65%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 30%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 37%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 72%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 36%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 13%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 16%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 18%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 25%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 37%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 37%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 34%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 37%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 54%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 40%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 16%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 70%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 42%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 11%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 23%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 16%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 45%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 30%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 26%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 16%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 40%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 40%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 28%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 37%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 29%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 47%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 34%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 44%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 31%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 74%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 59%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 48%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 37%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 48%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 48%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 58%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 29%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 16%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 29%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 36%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 47%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 37%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 39%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 66%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 9%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 26%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 51%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 10%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 29%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 64%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 34%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 47%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 58%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 53%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 54%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 41%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 34%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 43%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 52%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 34%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 21%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 31%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 37%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 52%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 21%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 23%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 32%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 42%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 47%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 31%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 49%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 55%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 41%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 25%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 42%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 38%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 42%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 41%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 37%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 54%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 53%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 37%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 34%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 34%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 29%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 31%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 66%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 66%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 63%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 36%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 44%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 42%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 26%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 43%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 54%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 55%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 54%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 63%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 18%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 45%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 52%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 59%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 60%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 42%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 39%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 16%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 52%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 49%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 58%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 37%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 49%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 16%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 41%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 30%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 27%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 46%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 53%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 33%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 16%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 38%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 72%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 37%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 32%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 29%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 16%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 79%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 26%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 32%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 38%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 30%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 54%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 18%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 60%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 53%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 34%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 34%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 34%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 18%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 44%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 59%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 74%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 73%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 84%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 48%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 41%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 84%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 44%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 37%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 63%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 51%
Wayne Allard 60%
Thomas Allen 37%
William Archer 25%
Richard Armey 22%
John Ashcroft 66%
Richard Hugh Baker 18%
John Baldacci 37%
Cass Ballenger 58%
James Barcia 16%
Robert Barr, Jr. 58%
William Barrett 38%
Herbert Bateman 10%
Bob Bennett 21%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 59%
Douglas Bereuter 21%
Marion Berry 35%
Michael Bilirakis 8%
Rod Blagojevich 42%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 16%
Sherwood Boehlert 26%
Kit Bond 33%
Henry Bonilla 28%
David Edward Bonior 37%
Robert Borski, Jr. 42%
Rick Boucher 32%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 69%
John Breaux 34%
George Brown, Jr. 34%
Richard Bryan 40%
Ed Bryant 16%
Jim Bunning 8%
Conrad Burns 30%
Steve Buyer 16%
Robert Byrd 49%
Herbert Callahan 15%
Ben Campbell 12%
Thomas Campbell 71%
Chris Cannon 15%
Julia Carson 44%
Mike Castle 82%
John Chafee 55%
Helen Chenoweth 26%
William Clay, Sr. 37%
Eva Clayton 54%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 46%
Robert Clement 37%
Mac Collins 36%
Larry Combest 26%
Gary Condit 40%
Merrill Cook 16%
John Cooksey 16%
Paul Coverdell 21%
Christopher Cox 51%
William Coyne 42%
Larry Craig 30%
Robert Cramer 16%
Philip Crane 58%
Barbara Cubin 31%
Randall Cunningham 18%
Patsy Ann Danner 16%
Thomas Daschle 40%
James Davis 64%
Thomas Davis III 31%
Bill Delahunt 29%
Thomas DeLay 21%
Peter Deutsch 66%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 16%
Jay Dickey 21%
Julian Dixon 34%
Chris Dodd 44%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 42%
Calvin Dooley 64%
John Doolittle 16%
Byron Dorgan 34%
Jennifer Dunn 16%
Chet Edwards 59%
Vern Ehlers 36%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 31%
Philip English 13%
Bob Etheridge 49%
Lane Evans 39%
Terry Everett 26%
Thomas Ewing 21%
Russ Feingold 79%
Mark Foley 10%
Michael Patrick Forbes 16%
Harold Ford, Jr. 37%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 21%
Tillie Fowler 23%
Robert Franks 26%
William Frist 30%
Jonas Frost III 37%
John Ganske 29%
Sam Gejdenson 34%
George Gekas 16%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 42%
Jim Gibbons 8%
Wayne Gilchrest 16%
Paul Gillmor 33%
Benjamin Gilman 8%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 23%
William Goodling 16%
Bart Gordon 8%
Slade Gorton 42%
Porter Goss 33%
Daniel Graham 34%
William Phillip Gramm 69%
Rodney Grams 75%
James Greenwood 21%
Judd Gregg 45%
Gilbert Gutknecht 24%
Charles Hagel 57%
Tony Hall 39%
James Hansen 19%
J. Dennis Hastert 21%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 43%
Joel Hefley 41%
Jesse Helms 35%
Rick Hill 59%
Van Hilleary 18%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 37%
David Lee Hobson 43%
Pete Hoekstra 47%
Ernest Hollings 47%
Darlene Hooley 31%
Stephen Horn 21%
John Nathan Hostettler 41%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 21%
Kenny Hulshof 18%
Duncan Hunter 31%
William Hutchinson 26%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 49%
Henry Hyde 30%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 38%
William Jefferson 40%
James Merrill Jeffords 37%
William Lewis Jenkins 16%
Christopher John 32%
Nancy Johnson 39%
Paul Kanjorski 57%
Sue Kelly 13%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 43%
Patrick Kennedy 59%
Bob Kerrey 64%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 37%
Gerald Kleczka 59%
Ronald Klink 60%
Joseph Knollenberg 16%
James Kolbe 41%
John LaFalce 55%
Nicholas Lampson 29%
Tom Lantos 39%
Stephen Largent 58%
Rick Lazio 16%
James Leach 23%
Ron Lewis 8%
John Linder 21%
William Lipinski 42%
Trent Lott, Sr. 30%
William Luther 79%
Connie Mack 51%
James Maloney 13%
Matthew Martinez 34%
Frank Mascara 42%
Robert Matsui 37%
Karen McCarthy 44%
Bill McCollum 23%
James McCrery III 13%
John McHugh 16%
Scott McInnis 21%
David McIntosh 33%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 57%
Michael McNulty 34%
Martin Meehan 64%
Carrie Meek 37%
Jack Metcalf 8%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 37%
Dan Miller 63%
David Minge 79%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 37%
John Moakley 23%
Alan Mollohan 30%
Constance Morella 57%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 76%
Frank Murkowski 46%
Jack Murtha 37%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 38%
Robert William Ney 23%
Don Nickles 60%
Anne Northup 16%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 18%
James Nussle 31%
Jim Oberstar 37%
Dave Obey 59%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 37%
Major Owens 42%
Michael Oxley 16%
Ronald Packard 16%
Donald Payne 58%
Edward Pease 16%
John Peterson 16%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 16%
Owen Pickett 39%
Richard Pombo 16%
Earl Pomeroy 59%
John Edward Porter 51%
Deborah Pryce 33%
Jack Quinn 20%
George Radanovich 31%
James Ramstad 26%
Ralph Regula 8%
Bob Riley 16%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 64%
Charles Robb 76%
Ciro Rodriguez 29%
Timothy Roemer 41%
James Rogan 38%
William Roth, Jr. 40%
Marge Roukema 23%
Jim Ryun 16%
Martin Olav Sabo 50%
Matthew Salmon 63%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 8%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 86%
Rick Santorum 54%
Paul Sarbanes 25%
H. James Saxton 23%
Joe Scarborough 58%
John Shadegg 43%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 26%
Christopher Shays 63%
E.G. Shuster 21%
Norman Sisisky 44%
Joseph Skeen 16%
Ike Skelton 32%
Gordon Smith 39%
Nick Smith 38%
Bob Smith 60%
Vic Snyder 62%
Mark Souder 41%
Arlen Specter 47%
Floyd Spence 16%
John Spratt, Jr. 59%
Charles Stenholm 73%
Ted Stevens 51%
Ted Strickland 34%
Robert Stump 38%
Bart Stupak 49%
John Sununu 46%
James Talent 8%
John Tanner 47%
Ellen Tauscher 21%
William Tauzin 16%
Charles Taylor 10%
Gene Taylor 66%
Craig Thomas 54%
William Thomas 8%
Fred Thompson 45%
Karen Thurman 69%
Strom Thurmond 30%
Todd Tiahrt 8%
Robert Torricelli 31%
James Traficant, Jr. 32%
James Turner 23%
Bruce Vento 47%
James Walsh 21%
Zach Wamp 41%
John Warner 39%
Wesley Watkins 18%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 18%
David Weldon 31%
W. Curtis Weldon 28%
Gerald Weller 16%
Paul Wellstone 61%
Robert Wexler 70%
Robert Weygand 54%
Robert Wise, Jr. 37%
Albert Wynn 31%

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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