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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Maryland Business for Responsive Government

2003 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate Sr Lisa Murkowski Republican 79%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 88%
AL U.S. House 1 Jo Bonner, Jr. Republican 99%
AL U.S. House 3 Mike Rogers Republican 99%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 90%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 96%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 79%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 100%
AR U.S. Senate Sr Mark Pryor Democratic 35%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 98%
AZ U.S. House 3 Raúl Grijalva Democratic 7%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 15%
AZ U.S. House 8 Trent Franks Republican 97%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 56%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 78%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 30%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 22 Devin Nunes Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 98%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 16%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 15%
CA U.S. House 38 Linda Sánchez Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 92%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 6%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 87%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 99%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 16%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 18%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 7%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 6%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 18%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 18%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 10%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 12%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 34%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 90%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 98%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 14%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 98%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 92%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 7%
FL U.S. House 25 Mario Diaz-Balart Republican 97%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 96%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 20%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 98%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 98%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 41%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 6%
GA U.S. House 11 Phil Gingrey Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 13 David Scott Democratic 51%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 93%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 93%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 16%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 99%
IA U.S. House 4 Steve King Republican 97%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 100%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 11%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 98%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 93%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 98%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 19%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 10%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 7%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 96%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 15%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 86%
IL Mayor At-Large Rahm Emanuel Democratic 20%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 20%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 95%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 100%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 88%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 100%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 97%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 99%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 100%
LA U.S. House 5 Rodney Alexander Republican 59%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 49%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 16%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 7%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 9%
MD U.S. House 2 Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 20%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 11%
MD U.S. House 8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. Democratic 16%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 16%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 19%
ME U.S. House 2 Mike Michaud Democratic 16%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 85%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. House 10 Candice Miller Republican 93%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 15%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 10%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 20%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 19%
MN U.S. House 2 John Kline Republican 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 8%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 58%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 15%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 17%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 99%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 23%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 100%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 98%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 51%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 9%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 93%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 78%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 20%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 85%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 34%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 7%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 93%
NH State Senate 3 Jeb Bradley Republican 91%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 13%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 65%
NJ U.S. House 5 Scott Garrett Republican 94%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 9%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 12%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 90%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 9%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Bob Menendez Democratic 16%
NM U.S. House 2 Steve Pearce Republican 99%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 8%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 1 Tim Bishop Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 72%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 31%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 12%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 20%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 7%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 9%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 9%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 16%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 93%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 7%
OH U.S. House 10 Mike Turner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 13 Tim Ryan Democratic 17%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 8%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 98%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 96%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 99%
OK U.S. House 4 Tom Cole Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 99%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 14%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 6%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 17%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 17%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 5%
PA U.S. House 6 Jim Gerlach Republican 92%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 96%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 20%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 100%
PA U.S. House 18 Tim Murphy Republican 94%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 9%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 7%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 39%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 93%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 20%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 78%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 16%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 87%
TN U.S. House 5 Jim Cooper Democratic 29%
TN U.S. House 7 Marsha Blackburn Republican 99%
TN U.S. Senate Sr Lamar Alexander Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 5 Jeb Hensarling Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 99%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 94%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 98%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 38%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 18%
TX U.S. House 19 Randy Neugebauer Republican 96%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 26 Michael Burgess Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 24%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 13%
TX U.S. House 31 John Carter Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 100%
TX U.S. Senate Sr John Cornyn Republican 99%
UT U.S. House 1 Rob Bishop Republican 100%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 62%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 10%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 98%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 97%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 29%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 93%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 15%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 5%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 30%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 98%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 7%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 25%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 17%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 18%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 17%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 95%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 16%
WI U.S. House 4 Gwen Moore Democratic 9%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 86%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 85%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 8%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 88%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 19%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 10%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 100%
Gary Ackerman 9%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 11%
Todd Akin 89%
Wayne Allard 99%
George Allen 100%
Thomas Allen 9%
Joe Baca, Sr. 22%
Brian Baird 15%
Richard Hugh Baker 100%
J. Gresham Barrett 88%
Roscoe Bartlett 86%
Charlie Bass 89%
Evan Bayh 32%
Bob Beauprez 100%
Bob Bennett 100%
Shelley Berkley 17%
Howard Berman 18%
Marion Berry 31%
Judy Biggert 100%
Michael Bilirakis 93%
Jeff Bingaman 23%
Sherwood Boehlert 72%
Kit Bond 100%
Henry Bonilla 100%
Mary Bono Mack 96%
Leonard Boswell 31%
Rick Boucher 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 47%
Henry Brown, Jr. 98%
Ginny Brown-Waite 92%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 100%
Dan Burton 93%
Steve Buyer 98%
Robert Byrd 15%
Chris Cannon 99%
Dennis Cardoza 34%
Julia Carson 13%
Edward Case 28%
Mike Castle 72%
Chris Chocola 100%
Hillary Clinton 17%
Norm Coleman 93%
Kent Conrad 38%
Jon Corzine 8%
Jerry Costello 26%
Christopher Cox 98%
Larry Craig 93%
Robert Cramer 86%
Barbara Cubin 99%
Randall Cunningham 98%
Artur Davis 33%
James Davis 18%
Jo Ann Davis 88%
Lincoln Davis 57%
Thomas Davis III 89%
Bill Delahunt 5%
Thomas DeLay 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 89%
Norm Dicks 17%
Chris Dodd 12%
Elizabeth Dole 93%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 100%
John Doolittle 89%
Byron Dorgan 31%
Thelma Drake 97%
David Dreier 100%
Vern Ehlers 85%
Jo Ann Emerson 92%
Philip English 94%
John Ensign 94%
Bob Etheridge 23%
Lane Evans 10%
Terry Everett 93%
Tom Feeney 93%
Russ Feingold 10%
Michael Ferguson 87%
Mark Foley 96%
Harold Ford, Jr. 30%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 98%
Barney Frank 8%
William Frist 96%
Elton Gallegly 98%
Jim Gibbons 99%
Wayne Gilchrest 82%
Paul Gillmor 94%
Charlie Gonzalez 30%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 88%
Bart Gordon 37%
Mark Green 90%
Judd Gregg 78%
Gilbert Gutknecht 91%
Jane Harman 28%
Katherine Harris 98%
Melissa Hart 100%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Robert Hayes 93%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 97%
Joel Hefley 82%
Wally Herger, Jr. 99%
Maurice Hinchey 9%
David Lee Hobson 100%
Pete Hoekstra 91%
Thomas Holden 27%
Darlene Hooley 20%
John Nathan Hostettler 84%
Kenny Hulshof 100%
Duncan Hunter 88%
Kay Hutchison 100%
Henry Hyde 96%
Daniel Inouye 17%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 89%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 6%
William Jefferson 28%
James Merrill Jeffords 17%
William Lewis Jenkins 89%
Nancy Johnson 72%
Tim Johnson 71%
Paul Kanjorski 17%
Ric Keller 97%
Sue Kelly 71%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 8%
Mark Kennedy 94%
Patrick Kennedy 9%
Dale Kildee 11%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 11%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
Herb Kohl 14%
James Kolbe 98%
Dennis Kucinich 6%
Jon Kyl 96%
Ray LaHood 89%
Tom Lantos 9%
Steve LaTourette 78%
Frank Lautenberg 8%
James Leach 51%
Jerry Lewis 100%
Ron Lewis 99%
Joe Lieberman 9%
Blanche Lincoln 51%
John Linder 100%
Trent Lott, Sr. 95%
Dick Lugar 96%
Don Manzullo 98%
Jim Marshall 33%
Thaddeus McCotter 95%
James McCrery III 99%
John McHugh 69%
Michael McNulty 8%
Martin Meehan 15%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. 29%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 10%
Brad Miller 10%
Alan Mollohan 20%
Dennis Moore 28%
Jack Murtha 28%
Marilyn Musgrave 93%
Sue Myrick 97%
Ben Nelson 67%
Robert William Ney 99%
Anne Northup 97%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 83%
James Nussle 86%
Jim Oberstar 10%
Dave Obey 6%
John Olver 8%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 33%
Thomas William Osborne 97%
Major Owens 7%
Michael Oxley 99%
Ron Paul 60%
Donald Payne 10%
John Peterson 96%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 99%
Todd Platts 88%
Richard Pombo 98%
Earl Pomeroy 41%
Jon Porter, Sr. 99%
Deborah Pryce 100%
George Radanovich 99%
James Ramstad 84%
Ralph Regula 99%
Denny Rehberg 97%
Richard Renzi 96%
Silvestre Reyes 32%
Thomas Reynolds 97%
Mike Ross 33%
Steve Rothman 18%
Jim Ryun 95%
Martin Olav Sabo 8%
Rick Santorum 99%
Paul Sarbanes 7%
Jim Saxton 75%
John Shadegg 92%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 94%
Christopher Shays 74%
Donald Sherwood 97%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 85%
Ike Skelton 44%
Gordon Smith 91%
Olympia Snowe 47%
Vic Snyder 27%
Hilda Solis 5%
Mark Souder 100%
Arlen Specter 78%
John Spratt, Jr. 11%
Pete Stark 6%
Cliff Stearns 96%
Ted Stevens 86%
Ted Strickland 14%
Bart Stupak 13%
John Sullivan 100%
John Sununu 84%
John Sweeney 77%
James Talent 100%
Tom Tancredo 82%
John Tanner 47%
Ellen Tauscher 19%
Charles Taylor 90%
Gene Taylor 35%
Craig Thomas 100%
William Thomas 100%
Todd Tiahrt 95%
Ed Towns 17%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 9%
George Voinovich 99%
James Walsh 94%
Zach Wamp 92%
John Warner 100%
Diane Watson 12%
Anthony Weiner 15%
David Weldon 97%
W. Curtis Weldon 91%
Gerald Weller 98%
Robert Wexler 9%
Heather Wilson 97%
Lynn Woolsey 3%
David Wu 17%
Albert Wynn 26%

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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