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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: People for the American Way

2001-2002 Positions

Issues: Liberal
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate Sr Lisa Murkowski Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 8%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 8%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AR U.S. House 4 Mike Ross Democratic 53%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 23%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
AZ U.S. House 6 Jeff Flake Republican 12%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 85%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 1 Mike Thompson Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 15 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 77%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 6%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 12%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 29 Adam Schiff Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 94%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 38 Grace Napolitano Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 6%
CA U.S. House 42 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Joe Baca, Sr. Democratic 77%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 18%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 6%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 12%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 94%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 85%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 88%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 94%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 77%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 77%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 88%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 6%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 6%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 88%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 59%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 85%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 85%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 88%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 8%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 85%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 77%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 15%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 6%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 6%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 92%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 53%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 65%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 88%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 94%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 47%
IL U.S. House 13 Judy Biggert Republican 41%
IL U.S. House 15 Tim Johnson Republican 18%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 6%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 6%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 8%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 71%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 6 Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 8%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 12%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 8%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 18%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 69%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 71%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 94%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 8 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 9 Stephen Lynch Democratic 50%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 92%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 94%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 88%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 94%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 38%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 31%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 92%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 92%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 59%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 6%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 18%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 94%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 94%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 77%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 94%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 59%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 92%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 12%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 94%
MO U.S. House 2 Todd Akin Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 12%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 12%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 8%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 88%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 69%
MT U.S. House At-Large Denny Rehberg Republican 12%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 85%
NA U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Democratic 92%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 18%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 88%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 24%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 77%
NE U.S. Senate Sr Ben Nelson Democratic 54%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 29%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 18%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 6%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 77%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 88%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 24%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 94%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 85%
NM U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Udall Democratic 94%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 77%
NV U.S. House 1 Shelley Berkley Democratic 88%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 92%
NY U.S. House 2 Steve Israel Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 0%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 82%
NY U.S. House 7 Joe Crowley Democratic 71%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 65%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 88%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 77%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 94%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 94%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 94%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 6%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 71%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 71%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 12%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 15%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 1 John Sullivan Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 6%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 85%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 12%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 88%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 94%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 13%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 59%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 19 Todd Platts Republican 12%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 94%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 92%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 59%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 62%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 82%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 77%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 8%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 41%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 77%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 71%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 20 Charlie Gonzalez Democratic 88%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 82%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 8%
UT U.S. House 2 Jim Matheson Democratic 77%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 82%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 85%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 85%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 92%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 88%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 94%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 82%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 77%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 2 Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 88%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 12%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 92%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Capito Republican 12%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 65%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 8%
Wayne Allard 0%
George Allen 8%
Thomas Allen 94%
Brian Baird 82%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 6%
Evan Bayh 77%
Bob Bennett 8%
Douglas Bereuter 18%
Marion Berry 53%
Michael Bilirakis 6%
Sherwood Boehlert 47%
Kit Bond 8%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Rick Boucher 94%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 65%
John Breaux 54%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 15%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 62%
Ben Campbell 8%
Chris Cannon 0%
Brad Carson 71%
Julia Carson 94%
Mike Castle 29%
Mac Collins 0%
Jon Corzine 92%
Christopher Cox 0%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 24%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 6%
Thomas Daschle 85%
James Davis 77%
Jo Ann Davis 0%
Thomas Davis III 24%
Bill Delahunt 77%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 88%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 0%
Chris Dodd 77%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 8%
Calvin Dooley 82%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 69%
Jennifer Dunn 6%
John Edwards 85%
Chet Edwards 82%
Vern Ehlers 12%
Philip English 12%
John Ensign 8%
Bob Etheridge 71%
Lane Evans 88%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 92%
Michael Ferguson 12%
Peter Fitzgerald 8%
Mark Foley 29%
Harold Ford, Jr. 77%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 6%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 82%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 71%
Jim Gibbons 6%
Wayne Gilchrest 29%
Paul Gillmor 12%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Bart Gordon 53%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 85%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 41%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Charles Hagel 23%
Jane Harman 88%
Melissa Hart 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Baron Hill 71%
David Lee Hobson 12%
Pete Hoekstra 12%
Ernest Hollings 77%
Darlene Hooley 88%
John Nathan Hostettler 12%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 35%
Kenny Hulshof 12%
Duncan Hunter 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Jay Inslee 94%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 82%
James Merrill Jeffords 77%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 29%
Nancy Johnson 47%
Paul Kanjorski 59%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 35%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 92%
Mark Kennedy 6%
Patrick Kennedy 82%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 94%
Gerald Kleczka 88%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
James Kolbe 29%
Nicholas Lampson 71%
Tom Lantos 82%
James Leach 41%
Ron Lewis 0%
Blanche Lincoln 69%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 29%
Trent Lott, Sr. 8%
Robert Matsui 94%
Karen McCarthy 94%
James McCrery III 6%
John McHugh 18%
Scott McInnis 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 82%
Michael McNulty 59%
Martin Meehan 88%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 88%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 94%
Zell Bryan Miller 38%
Alan Mollohan 35%
Dennis Moore 82%
Jack Murtha 59%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 12%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 71%
Dave Obey 71%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 59%
Thomas William Osborne 12%
Doug Ose 24%
Major Owens 88%
Michael Oxley 0%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Richard Pombo 6%
Earl Pomeroy 65%
Deborah Pryce 24%
Jack Quinn 18%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 24%
Ralph Regula 12%
Thomas Reynolds 6%
Ciro Rodriguez 88%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 71%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 92%
H. James Saxton 6%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 6%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 12%
Christopher Shays 47%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 41%
Ike Skelton 35%
Gordon Smith 31%
Nick Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 82%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 38%
John Spratt, Jr. 71%
Charles Stenholm 35%
Ted Stevens 15%
Ted Strickland 77%
Bart Stupak 59%
John Sweeney 12%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 47%
Ellen Tauscher 94%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 35%
Craig Thomas 8%
William Thomas 24%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 88%
James Turner 53%
George Voinovich 8%
James Walsh 0%
Zach Wamp 6%
John Warner 8%
Diane Watson 85%
Anthony Weiner 94%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 12%
Gerald Weller 0%
Robert Wexler 94%
Heather Wilson 6%
David Wu 94%
Albert Wynn 88%

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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