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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Communications Workers of America

2002 Positions

Issues: Labor Unions
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 22%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 14%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 22%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 22%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 22%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 17%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 11%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 86%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 22%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 22%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 89%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 22%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 11%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 78%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 89%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 89%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 71%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 86%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 11%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 22%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 33%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 22%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 22%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 11%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 11%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 100%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 11%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 89%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 83%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 11%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 11%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 22%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 11%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 89%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 33%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 22%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 22%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 33%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 25%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 22%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 86%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 22%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 57%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 11%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 22%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 11%
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 89%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 89%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 78%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 14%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 11%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 22%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 71%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 86%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 11%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 44%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 89%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 22%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 89%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 89%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 33%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 89%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 44%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 44%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 89%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 11%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 89%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 89%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 25%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 89%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 89%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 22%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 11%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 89%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 11%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 11%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 71%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 22%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 89%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 89%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 25%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 89%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 33%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 89%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 11%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 89%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 29%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 44%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 33%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 44%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 13%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 22%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 78%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 78%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 11%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 89%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 78%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 89%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 22%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 33%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 67%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 11%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 89%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 71%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 86%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 78%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 89%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 78%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 89%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 11%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 89%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 11%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 22%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 33%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Todd Akin 22%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. 100%
Brian Baird 78%
Richard Hugh Baker 22%
Cass Ballenger 22%
Roscoe Bartlett 33%
Charlie Bass 22%
Evan Bayh 86%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Shelley Berkley 89%
Howard Berman 88%
Marion Berry 89%
Judy Biggert 0%
Michael Bilirakis 33%
Jeff Bingaman 71%
Sherwood Boehlert 22%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 13%
Mary Bono Mack 11%
Leonard Boswell 67%
Rick Boucher 89%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 75%
John Breaux 71%
Henry Brown, Jr. 22%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 14%
Dan Burton 25%
Steve Buyer 13%
Robert Byrd 86%
Ben Campbell 14%
Chris Cannon 0%
Brad Carson 67%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 11%
Hillary Clinton 86%
Michael Collins 11%
Kent Conrad 100%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 89%
Christopher Cox 11%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 44%
Philip Crane 11%
Barbara Cubin 13%
Randall Cunningham 33%
Thomas Daschle 71%
James Davis 67%
Jo Ann Davis 44%
Thomas Davis III 0%
Bill Delahunt 88%
Thomas DeLay 11%
James DeMint 11%
Peter Deutsch 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 13%
Norm Dicks 78%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 44%
John Doolittle 13%
Byron Dorgan 100%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 100%
Chet Edwards 78%
Vern Ehlers 22%
Jo Ann Emerson 13%
Philip English 11%
John Ensign 0%
Bob Etheridge 67%
Lane Evans 89%
Terry Everett 22%
Russ Feingold 71%
Michael Ferguson 33%
Peter Fitzgerald 0%
Ernest Fletcher 22%
Mark Foley 22%
Harold Ford, Jr. 78%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 22%
Barney Frank 89%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 89%
Elton Gallegly 11%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 11%
Wayne Gilchrest 11%
Paul Gillmor 22%
Charlie Gonzalez 89%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 33%
Bart Gordon 78%
Porter Goss 11%
Daniel Graham 86%
Mark Green 11%
James Greenwood 11%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 33%
Jane Harman 56%
Melissa Hart 11%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 44%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 11%
Joel Hefley 22%
Wally Herger, Jr. 11%
Baron Hill 67%
Maurice Hinchey 89%
David Lee Hobson 22%
Pete Hoekstra 33%
Thomas Holden 89%
Ernest Hollings 86%
Darlene Hooley 88%
John Nathan Hostettler 44%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 13%
Kenny Hulshof 11%
Duncan Hunter 56%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 11%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 22%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 89%
James Merrill Jeffords 67%
William Lewis Jenkins 22%
Christopher John 78%
Nancy Johnson 11%
Tim Johnson 22%
Paul Kanjorski 89%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 22%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 22%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Dale Kildee 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 89%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
Herb Kohl 86%
James Kolbe 11%
Dennis Kucinich 89%
Jon Kyl 0%
Ray LaHood 33%
Nicholas Lampson 88%
Tom Lantos 100%
Steve LaTourette 33%
James Leach 11%
Jerry Lewis 33%
Ron Lewis 33%
Joe Lieberman 86%
Blanche Lincoln 71%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 71%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
Don Manzullo 33%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 89%
James McCrery III 11%
John McHugh 33%
Scott McInnis 11%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 86%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 57%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Dennis Moore 67%
Jack Murtha 100%
Sue Myrick 11%
Ben Nelson 57%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 22%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 11%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 33%
James Nussle 22%
Jim Oberstar 88%
Dave Obey 89%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Thomas William Osborne 11%
Doug Ose 22%
Major Owens 89%
Michael Oxley 11%
Ron Paul 33%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 11%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 22%
Todd Platts 11%
Richard Pombo 25%
Earl Pomeroy 67%
Deborah Pryce 22%
Jack Quinn 33%
George Radanovich 22%
James Ramstad 0%
Ralph Regula 22%
Denny Rehberg 11%
Silvestre Reyes 100%
Thomas Reynolds 22%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Mike Ross 100%
Steve Rothman 78%
Jim Ryun 33%
Martin Olav Sabo 89%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 89%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 33%
Edward Schrock 22%
John Shadegg 22%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 33%
Christopher Shays 0%
Donald Sherwood 22%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 33%
Ike Skelton 67%
Gordon Smith 57%
Nick Smith 22%
Olympia Snowe 43%
Vic Snyder 78%
Hilda Solis 89%
Mark Souder 33%
Arlen Specter 57%
John Spratt, Jr. 89%
Pete Stark 89%
Cliff Stearns 38%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 0%
Ted Strickland 89%
Bart Stupak 89%
John Sullivan 33%
John Sununu 22%
John Sweeney 22%
Tom Tancredo 25%
John Tanner 75%
Ellen Tauscher 67%
William Tauzin 22%
Charles Taylor 38%
Gene Taylor 67%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 11%
Todd Tiahrt 22%
Ed Towns 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 89%
George Voinovich 17%
James Walsh 33%
Zach Wamp 13%
John Warner 14%
Diane Watson 100%
Anthony Weiner 89%
David Weldon 22%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 11%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 11%
Lynn Woolsey 89%
David Wu 67%
Albert Wynn 89%

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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