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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: Bread for the World

1997 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 67%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 0%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 25%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 25%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 75%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 80%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 50%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 25%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 33%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 25%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 100%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 75%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 50%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 25%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 67%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 25%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 25%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 50%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 75%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 80%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 75%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 75%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 50%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 50%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 25%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 20%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 50%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 50%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 25%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 50%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 80%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 80%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 75%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 50%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 25%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 20%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 20%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 75%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 50%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 25%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 75%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 20%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 50%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 75%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 25%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 25%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 80%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 50%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 80%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 50%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 33%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 75%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 75%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 75%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 75%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 75%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 80%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 60%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 50%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 75%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 50%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 25%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 75%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 75%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 50%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 25%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 25%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 80%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 25%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 75%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 25%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 50%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 60%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 25%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 75%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 33%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 75%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 25%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 50%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 75%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 25%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 100%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 33%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 75%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 40%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 75%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 100%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 60%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 75%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 0%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 75%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Henry Scott Baesler 75%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 25%
James Barcia 75%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 25%
Herbert Bateman 25%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 100%
Douglas Bereuter 50%
Marion Berry 75%
Michael Bilirakis 25%
Rod Blagojevich 75%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 25%
Sherwood Boehlert 75%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Sonny Bono 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. 75%
Rick Boucher 75%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 50%
Carol Moseley Braun 80%
John Breaux 40%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Richard Bryan 40%
Ed Bryant 25%
Dale Bumpers 100%
Jim Bunning 50%
Conrad Burns 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 60%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 0%
Thomas Campbell 100%
Chris Cannon 25%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 75%
John Chafee 40%
Helen Chenoweth 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen 25%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 40%
Robert Clement 75%
Mac Collins 0%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 50%
Merrill Cook 25%
John Cooksey 25%
Paul Coverdell 0%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 25%
Randall Cunningham 25%
Alfonse D'Amato 40%
Patsy Ann Danner 50%
Thomas Daschle 75%
James Davis 67%
Thomas Davis III 50%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Ronald Dellums 100%
Peter Deutsch 50%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 50%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 75%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 75%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 80%
Jennifer Dunn 25%
Chet Edwards 50%
Vern Ehlers 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Philip English 75%
John Ensign 50%
Bob Etheridge 75%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 25%
Thomas Ewing 25%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 0%
Harris Fawell 75%
Victor Fazio 75%
Russ Feingold 80%
Thomas Foglietta 100%
Mark Foley 75%
Michael Patrick Forbes 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. 75%
Wendell Ford 60%
Tillie Fowler 25%
Jon David Fox 100%
Robert Franks 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 75%
Elizabeth Furse 100%
John Ganske 75%
Sam Gejdenson 75%
George Gekas 50%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 75%
Jim Gibbons 67%
Wayne Gilchrest 75%
Paul Gillmor 25%
Benjamin Gilman 50%
Newt Gingrich 0%
John Glenn 100%
Henry Gonzalez 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 50%
William Goodling 25%
Bart Gordon 75%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 25%
Daniel Graham 40%
William Phillip Gramm 0%
Rodney Grams 0%
James Greenwood 100%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 50%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 75%
Lee Hamilton 50%
James Hansen 0%
Jane Harman 67%
J. Dennis Hastert 25%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 25%
Joel Hefley 0%
W.G. Hefner 67%
Jesse Helms 0%
Rick Hill 25%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 75%
David Lee Hobson 25%
Pete Hoekstra 25%
Ernest Hollings 60%
Darlene Hooley 100%
Stephen Horn 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 33%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 33%
Kenny Hulshof 50%
Duncan Hunter 0%
William Hutchinson 25%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 50%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 0%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 75%
James Merrill Jeffords 40%
William Lewis Jenkins 25%
Christopher John 50%
Jay Johnson 75%
Nancy Johnson 75%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Sue Kelly 100%
Dirk Kempthorne 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Joseph Kennedy II 100%
Patrick Kennedy 67%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 75%
Bob Kerrey 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Jay Kim 25%
Gerald Kleczka 100%
Ronald Klink 75%
Scott Klug 75%
Joseph Knollenberg 25%
James Kolbe 50%
John LaFalce 75%
Nicholas Lampson 75%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 67%
James Leach 100%
Ron Lewis 25%
Blanche Lincoln 100%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 75%
Robert Livingston 25%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 100%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 75%
Thomas Manton 75%
Matthew Martinez 50%
Frank Mascara 75%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
Bill McCollum 33%
James McCrery III 0%
Joseph McDade 25%
Paul McHale 75%
John McHugh 50%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 33%
Jack Metcalf 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 50%
Dan Miller 0%
David Minge 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 75%
Alan Mollohan 50%
Constance Morella 100%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 60%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Mark Neumann 33%
Robert William Ney 33%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 50%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 50%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 25%
Ronald Packard 25%
Michael Pappas 25%
Paul Michael Parker 25%
William Paxon 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 25%
John Peterson 25%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 50%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 75%
John Edward Porter 100%
Glenn Poshard 100%
Deborah Pryce 67%
Jack Quinn 67%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 100%
William Redmond 0%
Ralph Regula 50%
Frank Duncan Riggs 50%
Bob Riley 25%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 20%
Ciro Rodriguez 75%
Timothy Roemer 75%
James Rogan 25%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Marge Roukema 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 50%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 50%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 25%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 50%
Joe Scarborough 25%
Daniel Schaefer 25%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 100%
E.G. Shuster 25%
Norman Sisisky 50%
David Skaggs 100%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 33%
Gordon Smith 0%
Linda Smith 25%
Nick Smith 75%
Robert Smith 0%
Bob Smith 0%
Vincent Snowbarger 0%
Vic Snyder 50%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 25%
Mark Souder 25%
Arlen Specter 80%
Floyd Spence 25%
John Spratt, Jr. 33%
Charles Stenholm 25%
Ted Stevens 0%
Louis Stokes 100%
Ted Strickland 75%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 25%
James Talent 25%
John Tanner 50%
Ellen Tauscher 75%
William Tauzin 25%
Charles Taylor 33%
Gene Taylor 25%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 50%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 75%
Strom Thurmond 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Esteban Edward Torres 75%
Robert Torricelli 80%
James Traficant, Jr. 50%
James Turner 75%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 75%
Zach Wamp 25%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 25%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 25%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 75%
Robert Weygand 67%
Rick White 25%
Robert Wise, Jr. 50%
Albert Wynn 75%
Sidney Yates 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.

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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