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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Republican Liberty Caucus

2001 Positions

Issues: Conservative
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 76%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 88%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 88%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 79%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 71%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 57%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 85%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 35%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 25%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 73%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 78%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 73%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 20%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 28%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 85%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 79%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 23%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 20%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 15%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 20%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 23%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 23%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 29%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 17%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 70%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 25%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 73%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 70%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 23%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 66%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 76%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 73%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 73%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 75%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 36%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 21%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 70%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 23%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 88%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 13%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 75%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 88%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 78%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 82%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 11%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 63%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 15%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 23%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 20%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 23%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 78%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 30%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 78%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 90%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 70%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 90%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 90%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 75%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 70%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 45%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 33%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 75%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 15%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 20%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 26%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 19%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 13%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 25%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 30%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 18%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 65%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 10%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 15%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 73%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 68%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 25%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 29%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 24%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 18%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 52%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 10%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 72%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 28%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 70%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 76%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 75%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 35%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 34%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 17%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 81%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 10%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 68%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 68%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 20%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 78%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 35%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 19%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 78%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 23%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 55%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 55%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 18%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 10%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 70%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 20%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 15%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 15%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 65%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 15%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 24%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 18%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 77%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 75%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 75%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 24%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 80%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 81%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 87%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 73%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 22%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 70%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 22%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 23%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 80%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 28%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 25%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 68%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 33%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 73%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 25%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 10%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 20%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 47%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 73%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 35%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 37%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 57%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 82%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 32%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 74%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 28%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 70%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 30%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 88%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 37%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 25%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 73%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 73%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 75%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 31%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 69%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 13%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 20%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 10%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 12%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 30%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 80%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 20%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 30%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 25%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 26%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 80%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 30%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 76%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 83%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 8%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 68%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 33%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 88%
Gary Ackerman 21%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 17%
Todd Akin 83%
Wayne Allard 93%
George Allen 93%
Thomas Allen 24%
Joe Baca, Sr. 30%
Brian Baird 31%
Richard Hugh Baker 75%
Cass Ballenger 75%
Roscoe Bartlett 70%
Charlie Bass 80%
Evan Bayh 26%
Bob Bennett 93%
Douglas Bereuter 73%
Shelley Berkley 20%
Howard Berman 25%
Marion Berry 50%
Judy Biggert 75%
Michael Bilirakis 68%
Jeff Bingaman 17%
Sherwood Boehlert 65%
Kit Bond 88%
Henry Bonilla 75%
Mary Bono Mack 73%
Leonard Boswell 23%
Rick Boucher 38%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 28%
John Breaux 49%
Henry Brown, Jr. 80%
Jim Bunning 90%
Conrad Burns 87%
Dan Burton 82%
Steve Buyer 70%
Robert Byrd 20%
Ben Campbell 84%
Chris Cannon 77%
Brad Carson 33%
Julia Carson 23%
Mike Castle 65%
Hillary Clinton 10%
Michael Collins 73%
Kent Conrad 21%
Jon Corzine 10%
Jerry Costello 33%
Christopher Cox 76%
Larry Craig 88%
Robert Cramer 42%
Philip Crane 83%
Barbara Cubin 75%
Randall Cunningham 73%
Thomas Daschle 17%
James Davis 25%
Jo Ann Davis 78%
Thomas Davis III 65%
Bill Delahunt 21%
Thomas DeLay 78%
James DeMint 80%
Peter Deutsch 13%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 71%
Norm Dicks 29%
Chris Dodd 9%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 81%
Calvin Dooley 40%
John Doolittle 72%
Byron Dorgan 22%
David Dreier 80%
Jennifer Dunn 68%
John Edwards 16%
Chet Edwards 42%
Vern Ehlers 73%
Jo Ann Emerson 68%
Philip English 75%
John Ensign 88%
Bob Etheridge 23%
Lane Evans 20%
Terry Everett 75%
Russ Feingold 21%
Michael Ferguson 63%
Peter Fitzgerald 75%
Ernest Fletcher 75%
Mark Foley 63%
Harold Ford, Jr. 28%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 73%
Barney Frank 25%
William Frist 87%
Jonas Frost III 29%
Elton Gallegly 72%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 13%
Jim Gibbons 78%
Wayne Gilchrest 73%
Paul Gillmor 80%
Charlie Gonzalez 28%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 75%
Bart Gordon 36%
Porter Goss 75%
Daniel Graham 17%
Mark Green 75%
James Greenwood 73%
Judd Gregg 90%
Gilbert Gutknecht 75%
Jane Harman 33%
Melissa Hart 73%
Robert Hayes 75%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 78%
Joel Hefley 70%
Wally Herger, Jr. 75%
Baron Hill 44%
Maurice Hinchey 25%
David Lee Hobson 78%
Pete Hoekstra 75%
Thomas Holden 35%
Ernest Hollings 31%
Darlene Hooley 21%
John Nathan Hostettler 80%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 56%
Kenny Hulshof 70%
Duncan Hunter 73%
Kay Hutchison 85%
Henry Hyde 73%
Daniel Inouye 11%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 75%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 23%
William Jefferson 24%
James Merrill Jeffords 40%
William Lewis Jenkins 80%
Christopher John 44%
Nancy Johnson 68%
Tim Johnson 63%
Paul Kanjorski 40%
Ric Keller 74%
Sue Kelly 65%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 10%
Mark Kennedy 73%
Patrick Kennedy 22%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 26%
Gerald Kleczka 23%
Joseph Knollenberg 74%
Herb Kohl 25%
James Kolbe 82%
Dennis Kucinich 15%
Jon Kyl 93%
Ray LaHood 65%
Nicholas Lampson 23%
Tom Lantos 20%
Steve LaTourette 76%
James Leach 52%
Jerry Lewis 72%
Ron Lewis 73%
Joe Lieberman 23%
Blanche Lincoln 26%
John Linder 76%
William Lipinski 47%
Trent Lott, Sr. 90%
Dick Lugar 86%
Don Manzullo 75%
Robert Matsui 23%
Karen McCarthy 20%
James McCrery III 75%
John McHugh 67%
Scott McInnis 76%
Michael McNulty 18%
Martin Meehan 23%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 25%
Zell Bryan Miller 61%
Alan Mollohan 37%
Dennis Moore 40%
Jack Murtha 50%
Sue Myrick 73%
Ben Nelson 52%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 77%
Robert William Ney 73%
Don Nickles 93%
Anne Northup 75%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 69%
James Nussle 75%
Jim Oberstar 25%
Dave Obey 21%
John Olver 20%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 40%
Thomas William Osborne 78%
Doug Ose 75%
Major Owens 22%
Michael Oxley 75%
Ron Paul 86%
Donald Payne 20%
John Peterson 77%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 75%
Todd Platts 73%
Richard Pombo 75%
Earl Pomeroy 25%
Deborah Pryce 73%
Jack Quinn 58%
George Radanovich 78%
James Ramstad 55%
Ralph Regula 75%
Denny Rehberg 77%
Silvestre Reyes 30%
Thomas Reynolds 73%
Ciro Rodriguez 25%
Mike Ross 40%
Steve Rothman 19%
Jim Ryun 75%
Martin Olav Sabo 20%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 35%
Rick Santorum 90%
Paul Sarbanes 6%
Jim Saxton 63%
Edward Schrock 79%
John Shadegg 83%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 75%
Christopher Shays 68%
Donald Sherwood 75%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 73%
Ike Skelton 51%
Gordon Smith 88%
Nick Smith 80%
Olympia Snowe 58%
Vic Snyder 38%
Hilda Solis 20%
Mark Souder 70%
Arlen Specter 58%
John Spratt, Jr. 33%
Pete Stark 28%
Cliff Stearns 75%
Charles Stenholm 54%
Ted Stevens 75%
Ted Strickland 20%
Bart Stupak 29%
John Sununu 72%
John Sweeney 70%
Tom Tancredo 78%
John Tanner 48%
Ellen Tauscher 30%
William Tauzin 70%
Charles Taylor 77%
Gene Taylor 52%
Craig Thomas 88%
William Thomas 70%
Todd Tiahrt 80%
Ed Towns 26%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 21%
James Turner 40%
George Voinovich 85%
James Walsh 68%
Zach Wamp 85%
John Warner 88%
Diane Watson 29%
Anthony Weiner 23%
David Weldon 72%
W. Curtis Weldon 64%
Gerald Weller 70%
Robert Wexler 16%
Heather Wilson 78%
Lynn Woolsey 20%
David Wu 20%
Albert Wynn 18%

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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