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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

2001 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
Wayne Allard 88%
Jon Kyl 88%
Ron Paul 88%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 87%
William Phillip Gramm 87%
Jesse Helms 87%
Don Nickles 87%
Bob Smith 87%
George Voinovich 87%
Tom Tancredo 86%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 85%
Jim Bunning 85%
Judd Gregg 85%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 85%
Strom Thurmond 85%
John Ensign 84%
William Frist 84%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 84%
Fred Thompson 84%
Bob Bennett 83%
Kit Bond 83%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 83%
Craig Thomas 83%
Larry Craig 82%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 82%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 82%
Frank Murkowski 82%
Rick Santorum 82%
Conrad Burns 81%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 81%
Trent Lott, Sr. 81%
Dick Lugar 81%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 81%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 81%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 81%
George Allen 80%
John Shadegg 80%
Ben Campbell 79%
Philip Crane 79%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 79%
Kay Hutchison 79%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 79%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 78%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 78%
Joel Hefley 78%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 77%
Barbara Cubin 77%
Peter Fitzgerald 77%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 77%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 77%
John Warner 77%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 76%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 76%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 76%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 76%
Gordon Smith 76%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 76%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 75%
Jim Ryun 75%
Todd Akin 74%
Robert Barr, Jr. 74%
Christopher Cox 74%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 74%
Pete Hoekstra 74%
John Nathan Hostettler 74%
Cliff Stearns 74%
Thomas DeLay 73%
James DeMint 73%
John Doolittle 73%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 73%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 73%
Ted Stevens 73%
Dan Burton 72%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 72%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 72%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 72%
Wally Herger, Jr. 72%
Brian Kerns 72%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 71%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 71%
Sue Myrick 71%
Richard Pombo 71%
David Weldon 71%
Roscoe Bartlett 70%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 70%
Don Manzullo 70%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 69%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 69%
Scott McInnis 69%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 69%
John Sununu 69%
Duncan Hunter 68%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 68%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 68%
Ron Lewis 68%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 68%
Todd Tiahrt 68%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 68%
Richard Armey 67%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 67%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 67%
Chris Cannon 67%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 67%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 67%
Terry Everett 67%
Jim Gibbons 67%
James Hansen 67%
Dan Miller 67%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 67%
Edward Schrock 67%
Mark Souder 67%
Ed Bryant 66%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 66%
Jo Ann Davis 66%
Jennifer Dunn 66%
Ric Keller 66%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 66%
Bob Riley 66%
Christopher Shays 66%
Nick Smith 66%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 66%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 66%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 65%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 65%
Mark Green 65%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 65%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 65%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 65%
Olympia Snowe 65%
Bob Stump 65%
Charles Taylor 65%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 65%
Richard Hugh Baker 64%
Michael Collins 64%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 64%
John Linder 64%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 64%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 64%
Mary Bono Mack 63%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 63%
David Dreier 63%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 63%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 63%
Zell Bryan Miller 63%
James Nussle 63%
George Radanovich 63%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 63%
Steve Buyer 62%
Herbert Callahan 62%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 62%
Larry Combest 62%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 62%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 62%
Elton Gallegly 62%
Porter Goss 62%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 62%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 62%
Van Hilleary 62%
Mark Kennedy 62%
Joseph Knollenberg 62%
James Kolbe 62%
Jerry Lewis 62%
James McCrery III 62%
Anne Northup 62%
James Ramstad 62%
Thomas Reynolds 62%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 62%
Donald Sherwood 62%
Zach Wamp 62%
Charlie Bass 61%
Judy Biggert 61%
Henry Bonilla 61%
Henry Brown, Jr. 61%
Randall Cunningham 61%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 61%
Ernest Fletcher 61%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 61%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 61%
Gilbert Gutknecht 61%
Robert Hayes 61%
Kenny Hulshof 61%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 61%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 61%
John Peterson 61%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 61%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 61%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 61%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 61%
William Tauzin 61%
Wesley Watkins 61%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 61%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 60%
Cass Ballenger 60%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 60%
Thomas Davis III 60%
Vern Ehlers 60%
Mark Foley 60%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 60%
William Lewis Jenkins 60%
Doug Ose 60%
Michael Oxley 60%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 60%
Todd Platts 60%
Joseph Skeen 60%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 60%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 60%
Gerald Weller 60%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 60%
Heather Wilson 60%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 60%
Michael Bilirakis 59%
Wayne Gilchrest 59%
Melissa Hart 59%
David Lee Hobson 59%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 59%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 59%
Thomas William Osborne 59%
Deborah Pryce 59%
Denny Rehberg 59%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 59%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 59%
Arlen Specter 59%
John Sweeney 59%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 59%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 59%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 59%
Philip English 58%
Michael Ferguson 58%
George Gekas 58%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 58%
Robert William Ney 58%
Jack Quinn 58%
Ralph Regula 58%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 58%
James Walsh 58%
John Cooksey 57%
Jo Ann Emerson 57%
James Greenwood 57%
Sue Kelly 57%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 57%
Ray LaHood 57%
Steve LaTourette 57%
Marge Roukema 57%
William Thomas 57%
Mike Castle 56%
Henry Hyde 56%
Tim Johnson 56%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 56%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 56%
Jim Saxton 56%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 56%
James Traficant, Jr. 56%
John Ganske 55%
Paul Gillmor 55%
John McHugh 55%
W. Curtis Weldon 55%
Stephen Horn 54%
James Leach 53%
Benjamin Gilman 52%
Nancy Johnson 52%
Sherwood Boehlert 51%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 49%
James Merrill Jeffords 49%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 48%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 43%
Constance Morella 43%
Ben Nelson 43%
John Breaux 42%
Robert Cramer 40%
Gary Condit 38%
Christopher John 36%
Ronnie Shows 36%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 34%
Bart Gordon 33%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 32%
Gene Taylor 32%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 30%
Blanche Lincoln 29%
William Lipinski 29%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 29%
Robert Torricelli 29%
Charles Stenholm 28%
James Barcia 27%
Baron Hill 27%
Dennis Moore 27%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 25%
Timothy Roemer 25%
Ike Skelton 25%
John Tanner 25%
Jane Harman 24%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 24%
James Maloney 24%
Jack Murtha 24%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 24%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 23%
Mike Ross 23%
Shelley Berkley 22%
Leonard Boswell 22%
Robert Clement 22%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 22%
Calvin Dooley 22%
Jean Carnahan 21%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 21%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 21%
Bob Etheridge 21%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 21%
David Phelps 21%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 21%
Evan Bayh 20%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 20%
Brad Carson 20%
Paul Kanjorski 20%
Herb Kohl 20%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 20%
Ellen Tauscher 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 19%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 19%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 19%
Jerry Costello 19%
Vic Snyder 19%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 18%
Marion Berry 18%
James Davis 18%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 18%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 18%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 18%
Harold Ford, Jr. 18%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 18%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 18%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 18%
Ed Towns 18%
James Turner 18%
Russ Feingold 17%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 17%
Thomas Holden 17%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 17%
Alan Mollohan 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 17%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 17%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 17%
David Wu 17%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 17%
Barney Frank 16%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 16%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 16%
William Jefferson 16%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 16%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 16%
Frank Mascara 16%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 16%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 16%
Pete Stark 16%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 16%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 15%
Peter Deutsch 15%
Chet Edwards 15%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 15%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 15%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 15%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 15%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 15%
Major Owens 15%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 15%
Bart Stupak 15%
Brian Baird 14%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 14%
Robert Borski, Jr. 14%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 14%
Tony Hall 14%
Darlene Hooley 14%
Nicholas Lampson 14%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 14%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 14%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 14%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 14%
Joe Baca, Sr. 13%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 13%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 13%
Robert Byrd 13%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 13%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 13%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 13%
John Edwards 13%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 13%
William Luther 13%
Karen McCarthy 13%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 13%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 13%
Silvestre Reyes 13%
Martin Olav Sabo 13%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 13%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 13%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 13%
Howard Berman 12%
Rick Boucher 12%
Bill Delahunt 12%
Norm Dicks 12%
Charlie Gonzalez 12%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 12%
Dennis Kucinich 12%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 12%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 12%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 12%
Donald Payne 12%
Earl Pomeroy 12%
Ciro Rodriguez 12%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 12%
Ted Strickland 12%
Thomas Allen 11%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 11%
Rod Blagojevich 11%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 11%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 11%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 11%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 11%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 11%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 11%
Maurice Hinchey 11%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 11%
Gerald Kleczka 11%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 11%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 11%
Martin Meehan 11%
Carrie Meek 11%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 11%
John Spratt, Jr. 11%
Karen Thurman 11%
Anthony Weiner 11%
Lynn Woolsey 11%
John Baldacci 10%
David Edward Bonior 10%
Julia Carson 10%
William Coyne 10%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 10%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 10%
Lane Evans 10%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 10%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 10%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 10%
Dale Kildee 10%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 10%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 10%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 10%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 10%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 10%
Steve Rothman 10%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 10%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 10%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 10%
Albert Wynn 10%
Gary Ackerman 9%
Jon Corzine 9%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 9%
Jonas Frost III 9%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 9%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 9%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 9%
Tom Lantos 9%
Michael McNulty 9%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 9%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 9%
Jim Oberstar 9%
Dave Obey 9%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 9%
Hilda Solis 9%
Eva Clayton 8%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 8%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 8%
Daniel Graham 8%
Patrick Kennedy 8%
John LaFalce 8%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 8%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 8%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 8%
John Olver 8%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 8%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 8%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 8%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 8%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 7%
Jeff Bingaman 7%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 7%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 7%
Ernest Hollings 7%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 7%
Joe Lieberman 7%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 7%
Robert Matsui 7%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 7%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 7%
Paul Wellstone 7%
Robert Wexler 7%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 6%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 6%
Thomas Daschle 6%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 6%
Chris Dodd 6%
Byron Dorgan 6%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 6%
Daniel Inouye 6%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 6%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 6%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 6%
Kent Conrad 5%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 5%
Paul Sarbanes 5%
Hillary Clinton 3%

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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