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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Taxpayers Union

1998 Spending Score

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 48%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 64%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 74%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 46%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 59%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 73%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 88%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 14%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 14%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 73%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 31%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 38%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 48%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 51%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 54%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 83%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 44%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 49%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 53%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 81%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 52%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 24%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 21%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 82%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 17%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 13%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 12%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 66%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 54%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 63%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 50%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 28%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 53%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 49%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 69%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 22%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 29%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 73%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 15%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 9%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 12%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 56%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 10%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 23%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 48%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 51%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 18%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 22%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 63%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 50%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 63%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 17%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 51%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 56%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 55%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 68%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 63%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 47%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 46%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 9%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 13%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 16%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 16%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 18%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 21%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 14%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 10%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 27%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 22%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 66%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 14%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 49%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 53%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 16%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 14%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 50%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 14%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 51%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 15%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 22%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 12%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 28%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 54%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 51%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 57%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 53%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 12%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 22%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 15%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 45%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 75%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 77%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 18%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 62%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 25%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 73%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 17%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 10%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 47%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 13%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 14%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 27%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 46%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 48%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 14%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 18%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 57%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 14%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 24%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 52%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 26%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 14%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 14%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 15%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 34%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 73%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 82%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 66%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 18%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 22%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 42%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 69%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 17%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 49%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 74%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 78%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 55%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 21%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 23%
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 16%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 15%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 54%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 20%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 10%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 72%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 13%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 12%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 48%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 65%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 64%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 63%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 60%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 49%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 69%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 10%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 14%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 50%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 28%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 24%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 15%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 70%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 57%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 14%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 61%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 32%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 66%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 14%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 21%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 13%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 59%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 14%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 25%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 29%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 28%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 40%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 87%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 70%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 42%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 6%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 14%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 70%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 65%
Wayne Allard 74%
Thomas Allen 12%
William Archer 65%
Richard Armey 55%
John Ashcroft 80%
Richard Hugh Baker 51%
John Baldacci 13%
Cass Ballenger 69%
James Barcia 24%
Robert Barr, Jr. 76%
William Barrett 61%
Herbert Bateman 43%
Bob Bennett 50%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 27%
Douglas Bereuter 33%
Marion Berry 30%
Michael Bilirakis 53%
Rod Blagojevich 14%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 50%
Sherwood Boehlert 28%
Kit Bond 53%
Henry Bonilla 66%
David Edward Bonior 16%
Robert Borski, Jr. 13%
Rick Boucher 13%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 28%
John Breaux 15%
Richard Bryan 13%
Ed Bryant 50%
Jim Bunning 46%
Conrad Burns 64%
Steve Buyer 45%
Robert Byrd 27%
Herbert Callahan 50%
Ben Campbell 54%
Thomas Campbell 68%
Chris Cannon 62%
Julia Carson 17%
Mike Castle 54%
John Chafee 36%
Helen Chenoweth 60%
William Clay, Sr. 12%
Eva Clayton 14%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 14%
Robert Clement 14%
Mac Collins 61%
Larry Combest 52%
Gary Condit 49%
Merrill Cook 48%
John Cooksey 48%
Paul Coverdell 66%
Christopher Cox 75%
William Coyne 17%
Larry Craig 65%
Robert Cramer 30%
Philip Crane 83%
Barbara Cubin 63%
Randall Cunningham 54%
Patsy Ann Danner 34%
Thomas Daschle 12%
James Davis 22%
Thomas Davis III 41%
Bill Delahunt 18%
Thomas DeLay 57%
Peter Deutsch 31%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 44%
Jay Dickey 51%
Julian Dixon 9%
Chris Dodd 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 58%
Calvin Dooley 25%
John Doolittle 55%
Byron Dorgan 12%
Jennifer Dunn 51%
Chet Edwards 31%
Vern Ehlers 51%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 55%
Philip English 46%
Bob Etheridge 21%
Lane Evans 15%
Terry Everett 51%
Thomas Ewing 50%
Russ Feingold 35%
Mark Foley 60%
Michael Patrick Forbes 38%
Harold Ford, Jr. 14%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 50%
Tillie Fowler 46%
Robert Franks 50%
William Frist 59%
Jonas Frost III 14%
John Ganske 36%
Sam Gejdenson 14%
George Gekas 46%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 14%
Jim Gibbons 52%
Wayne Gilchrest 42%
Paul Gillmor 42%
Benjamin Gilman 42%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 53%
William Goodling 52%
Bart Gordon 22%
Slade Gorton 56%
Porter Goss 72%
Daniel Graham 12%
William Phillip Gramm 73%
Rodney Grams 73%
James Greenwood 47%
Judd Gregg 63%
Gilbert Gutknecht 48%
Charles Hagel 66%
Tony Hall 17%
James Hansen 56%
J. Dennis Hastert 51%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 72%
Joel Hefley 72%
Jesse Helms 71%
Rick Hill 46%
Van Hilleary 61%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 15%
David Lee Hobson 65%
Pete Hoekstra 83%
Ernest Hollings 17%
Darlene Hooley 22%
Stephen Horn 42%
John Nathan Hostettler 58%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 29%
Kenny Hulshof 48%
Duncan Hunter 66%
William Hutchinson 50%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 70%
Henry Hyde 61%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 64%
William Jefferson 14%
James Merrill Jeffords 32%
William Lewis Jenkins 50%
Christopher John 24%
Nancy Johnson 28%
Paul Kanjorski 20%
Sue Kelly 43%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 9%
Patrick Kennedy 19%
Bob Kerrey 22%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 15%
Gerald Kleczka 27%
Ronald Klink 20%
Joseph Knollenberg 50%
James Kolbe 63%
John LaFalce 23%
Nicholas Lampson 8%
Tom Lantos 14%
Stephen Largent 79%
Rick Lazio 43%
James Leach 42%
Ron Lewis 51%
John Linder 53%
William Lipinski 18%
Trent Lott, Sr. 61%
William Luther 27%
Connie Mack 64%
James Maloney 31%
Matthew Martinez 10%
Frank Mascara 14%
Robert Matsui 10%
Karen McCarthy 20%
Bill McCollum 61%
James McCrery III 60%
John McHugh 42%
Scott McInnis 53%
David McIntosh 66%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 23%
Michael McNulty 19%
Martin Meehan 18%
Carrie Meek 11%
Jack Metcalf 49%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 14%
Dan Miller 78%
David Minge 41%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 16%
John Moakley 10%
Alan Mollohan 14%
Constance Morella 40%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 16%
Frank Murkowski 68%
Jack Murtha 14%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 64%
Robert William Ney 47%
Don Nickles 80%
Anne Northup 47%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 50%
James Nussle 49%
Jim Oberstar 19%
Dave Obey 35%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 13%
Major Owens 20%
Michael Oxley 48%
Ronald Packard 50%
Donald Payne 24%
Edward Pease 51%
John Peterson 51%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 52%
Owen Pickett 17%
Richard Pombo 56%
Earl Pomeroy 25%
John Edward Porter 51%
Deborah Pryce 54%
Jack Quinn 41%
George Radanovich 65%
James Ramstad 48%
Ralph Regula 42%
Bob Riley 49%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 27%
Charles Robb 26%
Ciro Rodriguez 12%
Timothy Roemer 33%
James Rogan 59%
William Roth, Jr. 59%
Marge Roukema 52%
Jim Ryun 54%
Martin Olav Sabo 24%
Matthew Salmon 82%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 29%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 90%
Rick Santorum 69%
Paul Sarbanes 7%
H. James Saxton 46%
Joe Scarborough 77%
John Shadegg 76%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 36%
Christopher Shays 67%
E.G. Shuster 52%
Norman Sisisky 19%
Joseph Skeen 44%
Ike Skelton 24%
Gordon Smith 54%
Nick Smith 62%
Bob Smith 81%
Vic Snyder 17%
Mark Souder 63%
Arlen Specter 44%
Floyd Spence 53%
John Spratt, Jr. 18%
Charles Stenholm 37%
Ted Stevens 54%
Ted Strickland 21%
Robert Stump 79%
Bart Stupak 22%
John Sununu 56%
James Talent 51%
John Tanner 21%
Ellen Tauscher 22%
William Tauzin 47%
Charles Taylor 62%
Gene Taylor 53%
Craig Thomas 72%
William Thomas 52%
Fred Thompson 70%
Karen Thurman 27%
Strom Thurmond 62%
Todd Tiahrt 57%
Robert Torricelli 18%
James Traficant, Jr. 29%
James Turner 19%
Bruce Vento 21%
James Walsh 30%
Zach Wamp 71%
John Warner 63%
Wesley Watkins 54%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 50%
David Weldon 54%
W. Curtis Weldon 51%
Gerald Weller 47%
Paul Wellstone 18%
Robert Wexler 31%
Robert Weygand 15%
Heather Wilson 43%
Robert Wise, Jr. 11%
Albert Wynn 13%

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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