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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 51%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 61%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 56%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 64%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 84%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 20%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 14%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 23%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 26%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 24%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 53%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 54%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 64%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 19%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 54%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 9%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 59%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 64%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 63%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 64%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 26%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 59%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 9%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 21%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 40%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 11%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 12%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 56%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 52%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 53%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 32%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 57%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 19%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 21%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 11%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 15%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 28%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 59%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 64%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 25%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 66%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 16%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 54%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 14%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 63%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 14%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 22%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 19%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 20%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 27%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 10%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 73%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 53%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 54%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 57%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 27%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 32%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 26%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 57%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 64%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 70%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 58%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 64%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 61%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 24%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 26%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 23%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 18%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 66%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 55%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 19%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 60%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 58%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 22%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 56%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 55%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 25%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 22%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 56%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 56%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 19%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 17%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 22%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 23%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 58%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 20%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 55%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 52%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 19%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 21%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 23%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 24%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 30%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 23%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 18%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 55%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 58%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 56%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 18%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 26%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 25%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 26%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 20%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 58%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 18%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 62%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 14%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 58%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 31%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 25%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 23%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 52%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 49%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 29%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 15%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 56%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 29%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 53%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 25%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 27%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 20%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 68%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 62%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 20%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 62%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 55%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 56%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 28%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 31%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 20%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 20%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 56%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 22%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 64%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 20%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 57%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 61%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 42%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 63%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 61%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 53%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 58%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 21%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 20%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 51%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 16%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 18%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 62%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 32%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 27%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 17%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 61%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 60%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 57%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 30%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 57%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 27%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 56%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 28%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 28%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 63%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 24%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 72%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 63%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 49%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 20%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 63%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 24%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 60%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 59%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 67%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 14%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 52%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 19%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 62%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 69%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 18%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 57%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 43%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 25%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 16%
Gary Ackerman 21%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 17%
Todd Akin 65%
Wayne Allard 66%
George Allen 55%
Thomas Allen 18%
Joe Baca, Sr. 16%
Brian Baird 19%
Richard Hugh Baker 55%
Cass Ballenger 55%
Roscoe Bartlett 57%
Charlie Bass 60%
Evan Bayh 31%
Bob Bennett 61%
Douglas Bereuter 46%
Shelley Berkley 25%
Howard Berman 23%
Marion Berry 27%
Judy Biggert 59%
Michael Bilirakis 60%
Jeff Bingaman 25%
Sherwood Boehlert 45%
Kit Bond 59%
Henry Bonilla 53%
Mary Bono Mack 48%
Leonard Boswell 27%
Rick Boucher 22%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 16%
John Breaux 29%
Henry Brown, Jr. 53%
Jim Bunning 65%
Conrad Burns 53%
Dan Burton 58%
Steve Buyer 54%
Robert Byrd 15%
Ben Campbell 52%
Chris Cannon 65%
Brad Carson 26%
Julia Carson 21%
Mike Castle 58%
Hillary Clinton 17%
Michael Collins 73%
Larry Combest 48%
Kent Conrad 15%
Jon Corzine 20%
Jerry Costello 28%
Christopher Cox 64%
Larry Craig 60%
Robert Cramer 36%
Philip Crane 67%
Barbara Cubin 61%
Randall Cunningham 53%
Thomas Daschle 18%
James Davis 28%
Jo Ann Davis 56%
Thomas Davis III 57%
Bill Delahunt 26%
Thomas DeLay 59%
James DeMint 62%
Peter Deutsch 19%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 55%
Norm Dicks 19%
Chris Dodd 8%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 56%
Calvin Dooley 32%
John Doolittle 60%
Byron Dorgan 14%
David Dreier 52%
Jennifer Dunn 57%
John Edwards 18%
Chet Edwards 21%
Vern Ehlers 59%
Jo Ann Emerson 55%
Philip English 53%
John Ensign 70%
Bob Etheridge 24%
Lane Evans 18%
Terry Everett 58%
Russ Feingold 43%
Michael Ferguson 55%
Peter Fitzgerald 55%
Ernest Fletcher 53%
Mark Foley 56%
Harold Ford, Jr. 24%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 59%
Barney Frank 26%
William Frist 67%
Jonas Frost III 13%
Elton Gallegly 57%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 18%
Jim Gibbons 59%
Wayne Gilchrest 51%
Paul Gillmor 49%
Charlie Gonzalez 17%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 65%
Bart Gordon 33%
Porter Goss 57%
Daniel Graham 24%
Mark Green 60%
James Greenwood 55%
Judd Gregg 59%
Gilbert Gutknecht 64%
Jane Harman 37%
Melissa Hart 57%
Robert Hayes 52%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 61%
Joel Hefley 65%
Wally Herger, Jr. 60%
Baron Hill 25%
Maurice Hinchey 21%
David Lee Hobson 59%
Pete Hoekstra 62%
Thomas Holden 18%
Ernest Hollings 19%
Darlene Hooley 21%
John Nathan Hostettler 65%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 47%
Kenny Hulshof 56%
Duncan Hunter 52%
Kay Hutchison 68%
Henry Hyde 53%
Daniel Inouye 15%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 61%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 24%
William Jefferson 26%
James Merrill Jeffords 18%
William Lewis Jenkins 56%
Christopher John 28%
Nancy Johnson 49%
Tim Johnson 51%
Paul Kanjorski 22%
Ric Keller 57%
Sue Kelly 53%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 13%
Mark Kennedy 59%
Patrick Kennedy 16%
Dale Kildee 16%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 23%
Gerald Kleczka 27%
Joseph Knollenberg 55%
Herb Kohl 18%
James Kolbe 57%
Dennis Kucinich 32%
Jon Kyl 82%
Ray LaHood 53%
Nicholas Lampson 21%
Tom Lantos 21%
Steve LaTourette 51%
James Leach 44%
Jerry Lewis 56%
Ron Lewis 55%
Joe Lieberman 20%
Blanche Lincoln 36%
John Linder 60%
William Lipinski 21%
Trent Lott, Sr. 69%
Dick Lugar 70%
Don Manzullo 64%
Robert Matsui 20%
Karen McCarthy 19%
James McCrery III 56%
John McHugh 49%
Scott McInnis 61%
Michael McNulty 17%
Martin Meehan 20%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 18%
Zell Bryan Miller 41%
Alan Mollohan 24%
Dennis Moore 24%
Jack Murtha 21%
Sue Myrick 61%
Ben Nelson 35%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 55%
Robert William Ney 56%
Don Nickles 77%
Anne Northup 57%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 59%
James Nussle 57%
Jim Oberstar 26%
Dave Obey 25%
John Olver 24%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 14%
Thomas William Osborne 55%
Doug Ose 54%
Major Owens 27%
Michael Oxley 60%
Ron Paul 88%
Donald Payne 30%
John Peterson 56%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 55%
Todd Platts 58%
Richard Pombo 55%
Earl Pomeroy 18%
Deborah Pryce 58%
Jack Quinn 42%
George Radanovich 56%
James Ramstad 59%
Ralph Regula 53%
Denny Rehberg 56%
Silvestre Reyes 15%
Thomas Reynolds 56%
Ciro Rodriguez 18%
Mike Ross 27%
Steve Rothman 18%
Jim Ryun 63%
Martin Olav Sabo 18%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 31%
Rick Santorum 77%
Paul Sarbanes 10%
Jim Saxton 56%
Edward Schrock 59%
John Shadegg 67%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 52%
Christopher Shays 58%
Donald Sherwood 56%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 49%
Ike Skelton 21%
Gordon Smith 42%
Nick Smith 67%
Olympia Snowe 41%
Vic Snyder 24%
Hilda Solis 18%
Mark Souder 58%
Arlen Specter 42%
John Spratt, Jr. 16%
Pete Stark 31%
Cliff Stearns 65%
Charles Stenholm 27%
Ted Stevens 53%
Ted Strickland 16%
Bart Stupak 22%
John Sullivan 61%
John Sununu 61%
John Sweeney 54%
Tom Tancredo 71%
John Tanner 26%
Ellen Tauscher 22%
William Tauzin 58%
Charles Taylor 56%
Gene Taylor 30%
Craig Thomas 73%
William Thomas 52%
Todd Tiahrt 56%
Ed Towns 22%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 26%
James Turner 17%
George Voinovich 69%
James Walsh 49%
Zach Wamp 59%
John Warner 51%
Diane Watson 26%
Anthony Weiner 21%
David Weldon 60%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 56%
Robert Wexler 17%
Heather Wilson 53%
Lynn Woolsey 24%
David Wu 17%
Albert Wynn 21%

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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