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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Americans for Democratic Action

2002 Positions

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

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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