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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Federation of Independent Business

1995-1996 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 86%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 79%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 97%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 100%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 96%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 24%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 38%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 24%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 100%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 22%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 19%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 29%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 27%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 97%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 97%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 92%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 23%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 17%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 92%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 97%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 95%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 92%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 19%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 46%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 22%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 19%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 100%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 92%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 89%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 16%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 95%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 100%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 43%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 17%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 89%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 30%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 29%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 16%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 90%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 34%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 100%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 15%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 22%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 22%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 39%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 100%
IN U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Coats Republican 100%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 19%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 94%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 97%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 92%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 89%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 34%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 22%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 25%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 19%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 22%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 33%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 30%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 27%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 100%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 20%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 93%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 25%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 100%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 24%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 95%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 19%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 11%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 19%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 70%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 92%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 95%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 16%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 41%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 38%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 86%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 92%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 100%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 8%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 34%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 100%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 28%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 24%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 34%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 84%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 72%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 35%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 92%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 34%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 28%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 27%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 81%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 18%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 11%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 24%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 35%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 97%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 32%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 92%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 97%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 24%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 93%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 100%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 100%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 100%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 33%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 0%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 24%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 18%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 49%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 57%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 92%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 27%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 95%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 100%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 89%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 22%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 97%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 27%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 36%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 22%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 100%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 24%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 97%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 38%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 89%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 29%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 19%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 36%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 97%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 27%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 22%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 52%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 95%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 95%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 24%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 39%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 24%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 97%
William Archer 95%
Richard Armey 97%
John Ashcroft 100%
Henry Scott Baesler 59%
Richard Hugh Baker 97%
William Baker 100%
John Baldacci 35%
Cass Ballenger 100%
James Barcia 67%
Robert Barr, Jr. 97%
William Barrett 100%
Herbert Bateman 83%
Anthony Beilenson 10%
Bob Bennett 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 32%
Douglas Bereuter 84%
Tom Bevill 40%
Michael Bilirakis 92%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 97%
Peter Blute 90%
Sherwood Boehlert 62%
Kit Bond 93%
Henry Bonilla 100%
David Edward Bonior 19%
Sonny Bono 94%
Robert Borski, Jr. 19%
Rick Boucher 33%
Bill Bradley 6%
Carol Moseley Braun 45%
John Breaux 45%
Bill Brewster 67%
George Brown, Jr. 24%
Hank Brown 100%
Richard Bryan 31%
Ed Bryant 100%
John Bryant 20%
Dale Bumpers 34%
Jim Bunning 100%
Conrad Burns 97%
Steve Buyer 97%
Robert Byrd 24%
Herbert Callahan 97%
Ben Campbell 86%
Thomas Campbell 78%
Mike Castle 86%
John Chafee 86%
Helen Chenoweth 97%
Jon Lynn Christensen 97%
William Clay, Sr. 16%
Eva Clayton 19%
Robert Clement 65%
William Clinger 100%
William Cohen 81%
Ronald Coleman 20%
Barbara-Rose Collins 11%
Cardiss Collins 0%
Mac Collins 97%
Larry Combest 97%
Gary Condit 78%
Paul Coverdell 100%
Christopher Cox 100%
William Coyne 16%
Larry Craig 100%
Robert Cramer 81%
Philip Crane 100%
Barbara Cubin 100%
Randall Cunningham 97%
Alfonse D'Amato 72%
Patsy Ann Danner 76%
Thomas Daschle 34%
Thomas Davis III 89%
E. Kika de la Garza 44%
Thomas DeLay 94%
Ronald Dellums 11%
Peter Deutsch 34%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 78%
Jay Dickey 100%
Julian Dixon 22%
Chris Dodd 34%
Robert Dole 94%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 93%
Calvin Dooley 70%
John Doolittle 97%
Byron Dorgan 45%
Robert Dornan 100%
Jennifer Dunn 100%
Chet Edwards 62%
Vern Ehlers 91%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 89%
Bill Emerson 100%
Philip English 92%
John Ensign 97%
Lane Evans 19%
Terry Everett 100%
Thomas Ewing 100%
Jim Exon 44%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth 97%
Harris Fawell 95%
Victor Fazio 41%
Russ Feingold 38%
Cleo Fields 10%
Jack Fields, Jr. 100%
Floyd Flake 23%
Thomas Foglietta 17%
Mark Foley 89%
Michael Patrick Forbes 83%
Wendell Ford 38%
Tillie Fowler 100%
Jon David Fox 86%
Gary Franks 100%
Robert Franks 86%
William Frist 97%
Jonas Frost III 40%
Elizabeth Furse 27%
John Ganske 95%
Sam Gejdenson 16%
George Gekas 97%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 26%
Pete Geren 100%
Sam Gibbons 30%
Wayne Gilchrest 86%
Paul Gillmor 95%
Benjamin Gilman 81%
Newt Gingrich 100%
John Glenn 41%
Henry Gonzalez 19%
William Goodling 100%
Bart Gordon 70%
Slade Gorton 86%
Porter Goss 89%
Daniel Graham 43%
William Phillip Gramm 100%
Rodney Grams 97%
James Greenwood 84%
Judd Gregg 90%
Steven Gunderson 90%
Gilbert Gutknecht 97%
Tony Hall 35%
Lee Hamilton 62%
Melton Hancock 100%
James Hansen 97%
Jane Harman 70%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Mark Hatfield 69%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 100%
Joel Hefley 95%
W.G. Hefner 51%
Jesse Helms 100%
Van Hilleary 97%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 29%
David Lee Hobson 97%
Pete Hoekstra 100%
Martin Hoke 80%
Ernest Hollings 38%
Stephen Horn 89%
John Nathan Hostettler 89%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 81%
Duncan Hunter 88%
Henry Hyde 97%
Bob Inglis, Sr. 97%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 92%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. 30%
William Jefferson 21%
James Merrill Jeffords 77%
Nancy Johnson 74%
Harry Johnston 10%
J. Bennett Johnston 31%
Paul Kanjorski 22%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum 94%
Sue Kelly 92%
Dirk Kempthorne 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 31%
Joseph Kennedy II 24%
Patrick Kennedy 22%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly 35%
Bob Kerrey 41%
Jay Kim 97%
Gerald Kleczka 31%
Ronald Klink 27%
Scott Klug 92%
Joseph Knollenberg 100%
James Kolbe 95%
John LaFalce 19%
Tom Lantos 30%
Stephen Largent 100%
Greg Laughlin 70%
Rick Lazio 89%
James Leach 86%
Ron Lewis 100%
Jim Ross Lightfoot 90%
Blanche Lincoln 60%
John Linder 100%
William Lipinski 37%
Robert Livingston 95%
Trent Lott, Sr. 100%
William Luther 32%
Connie Mack 100%
Thomas Manton 27%
Matthew Martinez 28%
Frank Mascara 41%
Robert Matsui 22%
Karen McCarthy 40%
Bill McCollum 95%
James McCrery III 100%
Joseph McDade 91%
Paul McHale 32%
John McHugh 84%
Scott McInnis 100%
David McIntosh 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 8%
Michael McNulty 58%
Martin Meehan 30%
Carrie Meek 16%
Jack Metcalf 89%
Jan Meyers 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 20%
Dan Miller 92%
David Minge 54%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 16%
John Moakley 17%
Susan Molinari 91%
Alan Mollohan 35%
G.V. Montgomery 80%
Carlos Moorhead 100%
Constance Morella 67%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 28%
Frank Murkowski 90%
Jack Murtha 28%
John Myers 89%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 100%
Mark Neumann 92%
Robert William Ney 92%
Don Nickles 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 100%
Sam Nunn 69%
James Nussle 100%
Jim Oberstar 22%
Dave Obey 27%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 50%
William Orton 80%
Major Owens 15%
Michael Oxley 95%
Ronald Packard 97%
Paul Michael Parker 97%
William Paxon 97%
Donald Payne 16%
Lewis Payne, Jr. 70%
Claiborne Pell 25%
Pete Peterson 30%
Owen Pickett 59%
Richard Pombo 97%
Earl Pomeroy 46%
John Edward Porter 78%
Glenn Poshard 57%
Larry Pressler 94%
Deborah Pryce 100%
David Pryor 33%
James Quillen 89%
Jack Quinn 86%
George Radanovich 100%
James Ramstad 89%
Ralph Regula 92%
Bill Richardson 33%
Frank Duncan Riggs 95%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 27%
Charles Robb 48%
Timothy Roemer 57%
Charles Rose III 30%
Toby Roth 90%
William Roth, Jr. 79%
Marge Roukema 59%
Martin Olav Sabo 16%
Matthew Salmon 97%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 92%
Rick Santorum 97%
Paul Sarbanes 28%
H. James Saxton 92%
Joe Scarborough 92%
Daniel Schaefer 100%
Steven Schiff 84%
Patricia Schroeder 20%
John Shadegg 97%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 95%
Christopher Shays 70%
E.G. Shuster 97%
Paul Simon 25%
Alan Simpson 86%
Norman Sisisky 69%
David Skaggs 22%
Joseph Skeen 97%
Ike Skelton 67%
Linda Smith 97%
Nick Smith 97%
Bob Smith 100%
Gerald B.H. Solomon 92%
Mark Souder 97%
Arlen Specter 76%
Floyd Spence 100%
John Spratt, Jr. 43%
Charles Stenholm 67%
Ted Stevens 82%
Louis Stokes 15%
Gerry Studds 20%
Robert Stump 100%
Bart Stupak 35%
James Talent 100%
John Tanner 73%
William Tauzin 92%
Charles Taylor 97%
Gene Taylor 76%
Frank Tejeda 46%
Craig Thomas 97%
William Thomas 95%
Fred Thompson 90%
Ray Thornton 40%
Karen Thurman 43%
Strom Thurmond 97%
Todd Tiahrt 100%
Peter Torkildsen 100%
Esteban Edward Torres 22%
James Traficant, Jr. 62%
Bruce Vento 16%
Harold Volkmer 30%
Barbara Vucanovich 100%
Robert Walker 100%
James Walsh 89%
Zach Wamp 100%
John Warner 93%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 100%
David Weldon 100%
W. Curtis Weldon 88%
Gerald Weller 94%
Paul Wellstone 34%
Rick White 100%
Pat Williams 30%
Charles Wilson 40%
Robert Wise, Jr. 24%
Albert Wynn 22%
Sidney Yates 21%
Bill Zeliff 100%
Richard Zimmer 90%

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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