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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Americans for Democratic Action

2001 Positions

Issues: Liberal
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 5%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 5%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 5%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 10%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 40%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 5%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 85%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 85%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 5%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 90%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 10%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 90%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 95%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 95%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 5%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 90%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 95%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 90%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 95%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 95%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 5%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 10%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 5%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 5%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 70%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 5%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 90%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 5%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 10%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 5%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 0%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 95%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 25%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 75%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 5%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 85%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 5%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 5%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 10%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 25%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 85%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 85%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 90%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 95%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 95%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 95%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 95%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 35%
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 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 10%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 5%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 95%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 90%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 50%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 5%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 100%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 5%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 15%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 85%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 80%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 95%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 95%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 10%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 60%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 95%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 90%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 30%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 30%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 95%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 20%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 90%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 10%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 90%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 80%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 95%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 95%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 95%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 5%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 85%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 25%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 10%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 5%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 95%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 10%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 90%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 95%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 5%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 85%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 100%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 85%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 65%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 15%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 70%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 85%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 10%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 10%
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 5%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 85%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 90%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 95%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 85%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 5%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 70%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 85%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 10%
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 85%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 85%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 95%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 80%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 90%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 90%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 10%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 25%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 95%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 100%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 20%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 80%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 10%
Gary Ackerman 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 95%
Todd Akin 5%
Wayne Allard 5%
George Allen 15%
Thomas Allen 95%
Richard Armey 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. 85%
Brian Baird 85%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 95%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 75%
Robert Barr, Jr. 5%
Roscoe Bartlett 15%
Charlie Bass 25%
Evan Bayh 100%
Bob Bennett 5%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 75%
Douglas Bereuter 10%
Shelley Berkley 90%
Howard Berman 95%
Marion Berry 60%
Judy Biggert 20%
Michael Bilirakis 10%
Jeff Bingaman 90%
Rod Blagojevich 90%
Sherwood Boehlert 35%
Kit Bond 10%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 95%
Mary Bono Mack 15%
Robert Borski, Jr. 90%
Leonard Boswell 85%
Rick Boucher 90%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 70%
John Breaux 55%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 10%
Dan Burton 5%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 85%
Herbert Callahan 0%
Ben Campbell 15%
Chris Cannon 0%
Jean Carnahan 85%
Brad Carson 65%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 30%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 85%
Robert Clement 60%
Hillary Clinton 95%
Michael Collins 5%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 80%
Kent Conrad 85%
John Cooksey 0%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 80%
Christopher Cox 5%
William Coyne 95%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 45%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 5%
Randall Cunningham 5%
Thomas Daschle 100%
James Davis 80%
Jo Ann Davis 5%
Thomas Davis III 15%
Bill Delahunt 95%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 90%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 5%
Norm Dicks 90%
Chris Dodd 95%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 10%
Calvin Dooley 65%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 85%
David Dreier 10%
Jennifer Dunn 10%
John Edwards 95%
Chet Edwards 80%
Vern Ehlers 10%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 15%
Jo Ann Emerson 5%
Philip English 10%
John Ensign 20%
Bob Etheridge 85%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 5%
Russ Feingold 95%
Michael Ferguson 20%
Peter Fitzgerald 15%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 30%
Harold Ford, Jr. 85%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 10%
Jonas Frost III 85%
Elton Gallegly 0%
John Ganske 25%
George Gekas 5%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 95%
Jim Gibbons 5%
Wayne Gilchrest 25%
Paul Gillmor 15%
Benjamin Gilman 40%
Charlie Gonzalez 95%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 10%
Bart Gordon 65%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 100%
William Phillip Gramm 5%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 25%
Judd Gregg 0%
Felix Grucci, Jr. 10%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Tony Hall 75%
James Hansen 5%
Jane Harman 90%
Melissa Hart 5%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 5%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 5%
Joel Hefley 5%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 75%
Van Hilleary 5%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 85%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 15%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
Thomas Holden 80%
Ernest Hollings 90%
Darlene Hooley 90%
Stephen Horn 30%
John Nathan Hostettler 15%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 30%
Kenny Hulshof 5%
Duncan Hunter 5%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 10%
Kay Hutchison 10%
Henry Hyde 5%
Daniel Inouye 90%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 95%
William Jefferson 80%
James Merrill Jeffords 40%
William Lewis Jenkins 5%
Christopher John 40%
Nancy Johnson 30%
Tim Johnson 15%
Paul Kanjorski 65%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 25%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 10%
Patrick Kennedy 95%
Brian Kerns 0%
Dale Kildee 85%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 95%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 90%
James Kolbe 20%
Dennis Kucinich 85%
Jon Kyl 5%
John LaFalce 85%
Ray LaHood 15%
Nicholas Lampson 85%
Tom Lantos 95%
Steve LaTourette 20%
James Leach 45%
Jerry Lewis 5%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 95%
Blanche Lincoln 85%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 40%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 15%
William Luther 90%
James Maloney 85%
Don Manzullo 0%
Frank Mascara 75%
Robert Matsui 95%
Karen McCarthy 95%
James McCrery III 5%
John McHugh 15%
Scott McInnis 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 90%
Michael McNulty 80%
Martin Meehan 90%
Carrie Meek 80%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 90%
Dan Miller 10%
Zell Bryan Miller 35%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
Alan Mollohan 65%
Dennis Moore 85%
Constance Morella 50%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 65%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 70%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 10%
Don Nickles 10%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 10%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 75%
Dave Obey 95%
John Olver 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 70%
Thomas William Osborne 5%
Doug Ose 20%
Major Owens 95%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ron Paul 20%
Donald Payne 100%
John Peterson 0%
David Phelps 65%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 5%
Todd Platts 5%
Richard Pombo 10%
Earl Pomeroy 85%
Deborah Pryce 15%
Jack Quinn 20%
George Radanovich 5%
James Ramstad 20%
Ralph Regula 20%
Denny Rehberg 5%
Silvestre Reyes 90%
Thomas Reynolds 5%
Bob Riley 5%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Ciro Rodriguez 85%
Timothy Roemer 70%
Mike Ross 65%
Steve Rothman 85%
Marge Roukema 30%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 80%
Rick Santorum 10%
Paul Sarbanes 95%
Jim Saxton 15%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 5%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 10%
Christopher Shays 35%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Ronnie Shows 40%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 35%
Joseph Skeen 0%
Ike Skelton 50%
Gordon Smith 25%
Nick Smith 5%
Bob Smith 5%
Olympia Snowe 40%
Vic Snyder 85%
Hilda Solis 100%
Mark Souder 10%
Arlen Specter 40%
John Spratt, Jr. 85%
Pete Stark 95%
Cliff Stearns 5%
Charles Stenholm 50%
Ted Stevens 20%
Ted Strickland 90%
Bob Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 75%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 15%
Tom Tancredo 5%
John Tanner 60%
Ellen Tauscher 85%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 10%
Gene Taylor 55%
Craig Thomas 5%
William Thomas 15%
Fred Thompson 20%
Karen Thurman 90%
Strom Thurmond 5%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Robert Torricelli 90%
Ed Towns 65%
James Traficant, Jr. 20%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 100%
James Turner 60%
George Voinovich 15%
James Walsh 10%
Zach Wamp 15%
John Warner 20%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Diane Watson 50%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
Anthony Weiner 95%
David Weldon 5%
W. Curtis Weldon 15%
Gerald Weller 0%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 5%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 100%
Albert Wynn 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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