Rating Group: Vietnam Veterans of America

1997-1998 Positions

Issues: Veterans
How to Interpret these Evaluations
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 25%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 17%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 33%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 50%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 33%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 33%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 33%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 33%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 50%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 40%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 40%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 33%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 17%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 17%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 50%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 17%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 60%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 17%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 17%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 50%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 50%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 67%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 50%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 20%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 33%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 33%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 33%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 50%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 40%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 50%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 17%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 60%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 50%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 50%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 33%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 17%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 33%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 33%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 33%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 50%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 17%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 17%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 33%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 33%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 50%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 33%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 67%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 60%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 50%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 50%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 33%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 17%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 33%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 33%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 17%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 33%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 33%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 40%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 40%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 33%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 60%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 20%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 33%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 50%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 50%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 67%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 50%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 67%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 33%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 50%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 50%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 33%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 33%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 50%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 50%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 33%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 40%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 50%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 40%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 40%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 50%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 50%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 25%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 60%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 50%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 33%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 67%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 33%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 50%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 20%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 33%
OH Governor John Kasich R 33%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 33%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 17%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 67%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 17%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 50%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 33%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 80%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 40%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 33%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 60%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 40%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 50%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 33%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 40%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 67%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 20%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 17%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 50%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 40%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 33%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 33%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 40%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 17%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 50%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 17%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 17%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 17%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 33%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 60%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 33%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 50%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 33%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 33%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 17%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 50%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 60%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 60%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 17%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 33%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 40%
Wayne Allard Other 17%
Thomas Allen Other 33%
Bill Archer Other 20%
Richard Armey Other 17%
John Ashcroft Other 17%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 50%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 33%
John Baldacci Other 33%
Cass Ballenger Other 60%
James Barcia Other 33%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 33%
Bill Barrett Other 33%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 50%
Charlie Bass Other 17%
Herbert Bateman Other 20%
Bob Bennett Other 17%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 33%
Douglas Bereuter Other 17%
Howard Berman Other 50%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Brian Bilbray Other 50%
Michael Bilirakis Other 50%
Jeff Bingaman Other 50%
Rod Blagojevich Other 17%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 17%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 17%
Kit Bond Other 17%
Henry Bonilla Other 67%
David Edward Bonior Other 33%
Mary Bono Mack Other 33%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 33%
Rick Boucher Other 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
John Breaux Other 50%
George Brown, Jr. Other 17%
Richard Bryan Other 50%
Ed Bryant Other 50%
Dale Bumpers Other 60%
Jim Bunning Other 33%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 25%
Steve Buyer Other 33%
Robert Byrd Other 50%
Herbert Callahan Other 20%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Thomas Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 17%
Julia Carson Other 33%
Mike Castle Other 50%
John Chafee Other 0%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 50%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 50%
William Clay, Sr. Other 50%
Eva Clayton Other 20%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 17%
Robert Clement Other 33%
Michael Collins Other 33%
Larry Combest Other 17%
Gary Condit Other 17%
Kent Conrad Other 50%
Merrill Cook Other 33%
John Cooksey Other 33%
Jerry Costello Other 33%
Paul Coverdell Other 17%
Christopher Cox Other 50%
William Coyne Other 50%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 33%
Philip Crane Other 33%
Barbara Cubin Other 33%
Randall Cunningham Other 33%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 33%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 33%
Thomas Daschle Other 50%
James Davis Other 40%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 33%
Thomas DeLay Other 33%
Peter Deutsch Other 20%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 17%
Jay Dickey Other 50%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Julian Dixon Other 25%
Chris Dodd Other 40%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 40%
John Doolittle Other 50%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 17%
Jennifer Dunn Other 17%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 33%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 50%
Philip English Other 33%
John Ensign Other 33%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 33%
Terry Everett Other 33%
Thomas Ewing Other 17%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 50%
Harris Fawell Other 0%
Victor Fazio Other 40%
Russ Feingold Other 50%
Mark Foley Other 20%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 40%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Wendell Ford Other 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 40%
Tillie Fowler Other 17%
Jon David Fox Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 50%
Robert Franks Other 33%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 33%
Elizabeth Furse Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 33%
John Ganske Other 33%
Sam Gejdenson Other 33%
George Gekas Other 33%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 50%
Jim Gibbons Other 33%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 17%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 25%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 50%
William Goodling Other 33%
Bart Gordon Other 33%
Slade Gorton Other 17%
Porter Goss Other 33%
Daniel Graham Other 33%
William Phillip Gramm Other 17%
Rodney Grams Other 17%
James Greenwood Other 17%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Tony Hall Other 33%
Lee Hamilton Other 40%
James Hansen Other 33%
Jane Harman Other 25%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 33%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 60%
Joel Hefley Other 60%
W.G. Hefner Other 33%
Jesse Helms Other 25%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 33%
Rick Hill Other 33%
Van Hilleary Other 50%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 50%
Maurice Hinchey Other 50%
David Lee Hobson Other 50%
Pete Hoekstra Other 40%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Ernest Hollings Other 67%
Darlene Hooley Other 33%
Stephen Horn Other 33%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 33%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 17%
Kenny Hulshof Other 20%
Duncan Hunter Other 50%
Asa Hutchinson Other 40%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 17%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 40%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 50%
Daniel Inouye Other 33%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 40%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 50%
William Jefferson Other 33%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 33%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 33%
Christopher John Other 33%
Jay Johnson Other 33%
Nancy Johnson Other 33%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Sue Kelly Other 33%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 60%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 20%
Patrick Kennedy Other 67%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 33%
Bob Kerrey Other 33%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 33%
Jay Kim Other 17%
Gerald Kleczka Other 33%
Ronald Klink Other 33%
Scott Klug Other 40%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 17%
Dennis Kucinich Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 25%
John LaFalce Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Nicholas Lampson Other 40%
Tom Lantos Other 33%
Stephen Largent Other 50%
Steve LaTourette Other 17%
Rick Lazio Other 17%
James Leach Other 17%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 33%
Joe Lieberman Other 33%
John Linder Other 20%
William Lipinski Other 50%
Robert Livingston Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 17%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 33%
Thomas Manton Other 33%
Don Manzullo Other 20%
Matthew Martinez Other 33%
Frank Mascara Other 33%
Robert Matsui Other 50%
Karen McCarthy Other 33%
Bill McCollum Other 50%
James McCrery III Other 20%
Joseph McDade Other 0%
Paul McHale Other 33%
John McHugh Other 17%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
David McIntosh Other 33%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 83%
Martin Meehan Other 50%
Carrie Meek Other 17%
Jack Metcalf Other 33%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 33%
Dan Miller Other 50%
David Minge Other 50%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 50%
John Moakley Other 50%
Alan Mollohan Other 25%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 50%
Patrick Moynihan Other 33%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 33%
Mark Neumann Other 33%
Robert William Ney Other 33%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 33%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 33%
James Nussle Other 17%
Jim Oberstar Other 33%
Dave Obey Other 60%
John Olver Other 17%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 33%
Major Owens Other 33%
Michael Oxley Other 17%
Ronald Packard Other 40%
Michael Pappas Other 33%
Mike Parker Other 20%
Ron Paul Other 80%
William Paxon Other 17%
Donald Payne Other 33%
Edward Pease Other 17%
John Peterson Other 33%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 17%
Owen Pickett Other 33%
Richard Pombo Other 50%
Earl Pomeroy Other 20%
John Edward Porter Other 50%
Glenn Poshard Other 33%
Deborah Pryce Other 17%
Jack Quinn Other 60%
George Radanovich Other 33%
James Ramstad Other 17%
Bill Redmond Other 17%
Ralph Regula Other 33%
Silvestre Reyes Other 50%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 25%
Bob Riley Other 33%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 50%
Charles Robb Other 17%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 33%
Timothy Roemer Other 33%
James Rogan Other 17%
William Roth, Jr. Other 20%
Steve Rothman Other 33%
Marge Roukema Other 33%
Jim Ryun Other 50%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 40%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 33%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 50%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
Joe Scarborough Other 50%
Daniel Schaefer Other 50%
John Shadegg Other 67%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 17%
Christopher Shays Other 33%
E.G. Shuster Other 33%
Norman Sisisky Other 33%
David Skaggs Other 0%
Joseph Skeen Other 17%
Ike Skelton Other 33%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Linda Smith Other 100%
Nick Smith Other 33%
Robert Smith Other 20%
Bob Smith Other 17%
Vincent Snowbarger Other 50%
Olympia Snowe Other 17%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 33%
Mark Souder Other 75%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
Floyd Spence Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 50%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Charles Stenholm Other 40%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Louis Stokes Other 33%
Ted Strickland Other 67%
Bob Stump Other 50%
Bart Stupak Other 50%
John Sununu Other 17%
James Talent Other 33%
John Tanner Other 20%
Ellen Tauscher Other 33%
William Tauzin Other 33%
Charles Taylor Other 20%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 17%
Fred Thompson Other 17%
Karen Thurman Other 50%
Strom Thurmond Other 17%
Todd Tiahrt Other 50%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 40%
Robert Torricelli Other 40%
Ed Towns Other 75%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 50%
James Turner Other 60%
Bruce Vento Other 33%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 40%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 17%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 33%
David Weldon Other 50%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 17%
Gerald Weller Other 17%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 40%
Bob Weygand Other 33%
Rick White Other 33%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 33%
Albert Wynn Other 33%
Sidney Yates Other 100%

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.

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