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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

2002 Positions

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

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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