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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Transportation Communications Union

1998 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 80%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 60%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 40%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 60%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
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 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 20%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 40%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 20%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 20%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 75%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 20%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
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 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 20%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 100%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 20%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 20%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 20%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 60%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 100%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 20%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 20%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 40%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 20%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 40%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 25%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 100%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
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%
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 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 80%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 80%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 60%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 40%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 20%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 20%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 80%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 80%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 20%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 100%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 40%
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 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 60%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 80%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 20%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 80%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 20%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 80%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 20%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 40%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 20%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 20%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 40%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 20%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 20%
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 60%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 20%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 20%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 20%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 20%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 100%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 40%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 20%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Wayne Allard 20%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 20%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 25%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 100%
Robert Barr, Jr. 20%
William Barrett 40%
Herbert Bateman 20%
Bob Bennett 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 33%
Marion Berry 100%
Michael Bilirakis 25%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 80%
Kit Bond 20%
Henry Bonilla 33%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 80%
John Breaux 100%
Richard Bryan 100%
Ed Bryant 0%
Conrad Burns 20%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 20%
Ben Campbell 40%
Thomas Campbell 60%
Chris Cannon 0%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 40%
Helen Chenoweth 40%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 100%
Robert Clement 100%
Mac Collins 20%
Larry Combest 20%
Gary Condit 100%
Merrill Cook 0%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 20%
Robert Cramer 100%
Philip Crane 20%
Barbara Cubin 20%
Randall Cunningham 20%
Patsy Ann Danner 100%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 100%
Thomas Davis III 40%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 20%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 100%
Jay Dickey 20%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 20%
Calvin Dooley 100%
John Doolittle 20%
Byron Dorgan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 20%
Chet Edwards 100%
Vern Ehlers 60%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Philip English 40%
Bob Etheridge 100%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 20%
Thomas Ewing 0%
Russ Feingold 100%
Mark Foley 60%
Michael Patrick Forbes 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 20%
Tillie Fowler 0%
Robert Franks 80%
William Frist 20%
Jonas Frost III 100%
John Ganske 40%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 25%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 20%
Wayne Gilchrest 0%
Paul Gillmor 25%
Benjamin Gilman 75%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 20%
William Goodling 20%
Bart Gordon 100%
Slade Gorton 20%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 80%
William Phillip Gramm 20%
Rodney Grams 20%
James Greenwood 40%
Judd Gregg 20%
Gilbert Gutknecht 20%
Charles Hagel 20%
Tony Hall 100%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 20%
Jesse Helms 20%
Rick Hill 0%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 40%
Pete Hoekstra 20%
Ernest Hollings 80%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 40%
John Nathan Hostettler 20%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 100%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 33%
William Hutchinson 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 40%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 20%
James Merrill Jeffords 80%
William Lewis Jenkins 20%
Christopher John 75%
Nancy Johnson 80%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Sue Kelly 80%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 80%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 20%
James Kolbe 0%
John LaFalce 100%
Nicholas Lampson 100%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 20%
Rick Lazio 80%
James Leach 60%
Ron Lewis 20%
William Lipinski 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 20%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 100%
Matthew Martinez 100%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 40%
John McHugh 80%
Scott McInnis 20%
David McIntosh 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 60%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 60%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 100%
Frank Murkowski 20%
Jack Murtha 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 20%
Robert William Ney 60%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 40%
James Nussle 20%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 20%
Ronald Packard 20%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 60%
John Peterson 20%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 20%
Owen Pickett 100%
Richard Pombo 20%
Earl Pomeroy 100%
John Edward Porter 20%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 80%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 40%
Ralph Regula 60%
Bob Riley 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 80%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 100%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 40%
Marge Roukema 20%
Jim Ryun 20%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 100%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 20%
Rick Santorum 20%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 60%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 20%
Christopher Shays 60%
Ronnie Shows 20%
E.G. Shuster 0%
Norman Sisisky 100%
Joseph Skeen 20%
Ike Skelton 100%
Gordon Smith 20%
Nick Smith 20%
Bob Smith 0%
Vic Snyder 100%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 80%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 100%
Charles Stenholm 60%
Ted Stevens 40%
Ted Strickland 100%
Robert Stump 20%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
James Talent 20%
John Tanner 80%
Ellen Tauscher 100%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 20%
Gene Taylor 40%
Craig Thomas 20%
William Thomas 0%
Fred Thompson 60%
Karen Thurman 100%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 20%
Robert Torricelli 100%
James Traficant, Jr. 75%
James Turner 100%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 60%
Zach Wamp 40%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 20%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 60%
Gerald Weller 60%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 100%
Heather Wilson 100%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 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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