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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1999 Liberal on Defense/Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
Thomas Allen 95%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 95%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 95%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 95%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 95%
Maurice Hinchey 95%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 95%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 95%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 95%
Carrie Meek 95%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 95%
Jim Oberstar 95%
John Olver 95%
Donald Payne 95%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 95%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 95%
Martin Olav Sabo 95%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 95%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 95%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 95%
Anthony Weiner 95%
William Coyne 93%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 93%
Bill Delahunt 93%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 93%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 93%
Sam Gejdenson 93%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 93%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 93%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 93%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 93%
Eva Clayton 92%
Karen McCarthy 92%
Dave Obey 92%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 89%
David Edward Bonior 89%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 89%
Julia Carson 89%
Julian Dixon 89%
Lane Evans 89%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 89%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 89%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 89%
Major Owens 89%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 89%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 89%
Bruce Vento 89%
Patrick Kennedy 88%
Tom Lantos 88%
William Luther 88%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 88%
Albert Wynn 88%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 87%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 87%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 87%
Thomas Daschle 87%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 87%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 87%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 87%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 87%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 87%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 87%
Paul Sarbanes 87%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 87%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 87%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 85%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 85%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 85%
Charlie Gonzalez 85%
William Jefferson 85%
Nicholas Lampson 85%
Matthew Martinez 85%
Robert Matsui 85%
Martin Meehan 85%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 85%
Earl Pomeroy 85%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 85%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 85%
Howard Berman 84%
William Clay, Sr. 84%
Gary Ackerman 83%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 83%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 83%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 83%
Lynn Woolsey 83%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 78%
John Baldacci 78%
Chris Dodd 78%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 78%
Harold Ford, Jr. 78%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 78%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 78%
Darlene Hooley 78%
Daniel Inouye 78%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 78%
Bob Kerrey 78%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 78%
John LaFalce 78%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 78%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 78%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 78%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 78%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 78%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 78%
Steve Rothman 78%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 78%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 78%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 78%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 78%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 78%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 78%
Robert Wexler 78%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 77%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 77%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 77%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 77%
Vic Snyder 77%
Ted Strickland 77%
Patrick Moynihan 76%
Marion Berry 74%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 74%
James Davis 74%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 74%
Calvin Dooley 74%
Tony Hall 74%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 74%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 74%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 74%
John Moakley 74%
Ciro Rodriguez 74%
Ike Skelton 74%
Bob Weygand 74%
Robert Borski, Jr. 73%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 73%
Bart Stupak 73%
Ed Towns 73%
David Wu 73%
Brian Baird 71%
Shelley Berkley 71%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 71%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 71%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 71%
John Edwards 71%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 71%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 71%
Herb Kohl 71%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 71%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 71%
Charles Robb 71%
Karen Thurman 71%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 70%
Norm Dicks 70%
Jonas Frost III 70%
Silvestre Reyes 70%
John Spratt, Jr. 70%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 68%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 68%
Rick Boucher 68%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 68%
Chet Edwards 68%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 68%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 68%
Ellen Tauscher 68%
Paul Kanjorski 67%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 67%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 67%
Baron Hill 66%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 66%
Leonard Boswell 65%
Barney Frank 65%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 65%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 65%
David Minge 65%
Dennis Moore 65%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 64%
Robert Clement 63%
Peter Deutsch 63%
Dale Kildee 63%
Constance Morella 63%
Owen Pickett 63%
Jeff Bingaman 62%
John Breaux 62%
Richard Bryan 62%
Kent Conrad 62%
Joe Lieberman 62%
Blanche Lincoln 62%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 62%
Gordon Smith 62%
Paul Wellstone 62%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 61%
Rod Blagojevich 61%
Bob Etheridge 61%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 61%
Gerald Kleczka 61%
Ronald Klink 61%
Michael McNulty 61%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 61%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 61%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 61%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 61%
James Turner 61%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 60%
Byron Dorgan 60%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 60%
Alan Mollohan 60%
Thomas Holden 59%
Christopher John 59%
Jack Murtha 59%
Norman Sisisky 59%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 58%
James Maloney 58%
Frank Mascara 58%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 58%
Charles Stenholm 58%
John Tanner 58%
Bob Wise, Jr. 58%
Jerry Costello 57%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 57%
David Phelps 57%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 57%
Evan Bayh 56%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 56%
Daniel Graham 56%
Ronnie Shows 56%
Robert Torricelli 56%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 55%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 55%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 55%
Michael Patrick Forbes 55%
Bart Gordon 55%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 55%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 55%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 55%
John Edward Porter 55%
Robert Cramer 54%
Russ Feingold 54%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 54%
Pete Stark 54%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 54%
Sherwood Boehlert 53%
Robert Byrd 53%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 53%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 53%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 53%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 52%
Jerry Lewis 52%
William Lipinski 52%
Doug Ose 52%
Timothy Roemer 52%
Ernest Hollings 51%
James Merrill Jeffords 51%
Herbert Callahan 50%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 50%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Sue Kelly 50%
James Kolbe 50%
Dennis Kucinich 50%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 50%
James Barcia 49%
Thomas Davis III 49%
David Dreier 49%
David Lee Hobson 49%
Joseph Knollenberg 49%
Mike Castle 48%
Gary Condit 48%
Benjamin Gilman 48%
Dick Lugar 48%
Deborah Pryce 48%
Arlen Specter 48%
James Walsh 48%
John Warner 48%
James Greenwood 47%
Henry Hyde 47%
Donald Sherwood 47%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 46%
John Cooksey 46%
Vern Ehlers 46%
Steve LaTourette 46%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 46%
William Roth, Jr. 46%
Mary Bono Mack 45%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 45%
Duncan Hunter 45%
John McHugh 45%
Michael Oxley 45%
Connie Mack 44%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 44%
Patsy Ann Danner 43%
Jennifer Dunn 43%
Wayne Gilchrest 43%
Porter Goss 43%
Stephen Horn 43%
Ralph Regula 43%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 43%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 42%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 42%
Steve Buyer 42%
Jack Quinn 42%
Herbert Bateman 41%
Judy Biggert 41%
Thomas Campbell 41%
Philip English 41%
Gene Taylor 41%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 40%
Douglas Bereuter 40%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 40%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 40%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 40%
Rick Lazio 40%
James Leach 40%
Christopher Shays 40%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 40%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 40%
Robert Franks 39%
Paul Gillmor 39%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 39%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 39%
James Traficant, Jr. 39%
Christopher Cox 38%
Heather Wilson 38%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 37%
Jo Ann Emerson 37%
George Gekas 37%
Rodney Grams 37%
Mark Green 37%
Jon Kyl 37%
Joseph Skeen 37%
W. Curtis Weldon 37%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 37%
Robert Hayes 36%
Steven Kuykendall 36%
Anne Northup 36%
Olympia Snowe 36%
Gerald Weller 36%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 36%
Richard Armey 35%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 35%
Jim Saxton 35%
George Voinovich 35%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 34%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 34%
Marge Roukema 34%
Kit Bond 33%
Bill Barrett 31%
Mark Foley 31%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 31%
Tillie Fowler 31%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 31%
James Hansen 31%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 31%
Bill McCollum 31%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 31%
Bob Riley 31%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 31%
Nick Smith 31%
Floyd Spence 31%
James Talent 31%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 31%
David Weldon 31%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 30%
John Peterson 30%
Charlie Bass 28%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 28%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 28%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 28%
Ray LaHood 28%
Ron Paul 28%
George Radanovich 28%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 28%
William Thomas 28%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 28%
Cass Ballenger 27%
Thomas Ewing 27%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 27%
Joe Scarborough 27%
Bob Bennett 23%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 23%
Ben Campbell 23%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 23%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 23%
Ernest Fletcher 23%
William Frist 23%
Elton Gallegly 23%
John Ganske 23%
Slade Gorton 23%
Asa Hutchinson 23%
Stephen Largent 23%
Trent Lott, Sr. 23%
James McCrery III 23%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 23%
Dan Miller 23%
Frank Murkowski 23%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 23%
James Nussle 23%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 23%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 23%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 23%
Ted Stevens 23%
Craig Thomas 23%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 23%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 23%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 23%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 23%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 23%
Ronald Packard 22%
Thomas Reynolds 22%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 20%
Merrill Cook 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 20%
William Lewis Jenkins 20%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 20%
Ron Lewis 20%
David McIntosh 20%
Robert William Ney 20%
Bob Stump 20%
Todd Tiahrt 20%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 20%
Kenny Hulshof 19%
John Ashcroft 16%
Conrad Burns 16%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 16%
Paul Coverdell 16%
Kay Hutchison 16%
Bob Smith 16%
Fred Thompson 16%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 15%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 15%
Brian Bilbray 15%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 15%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 15%
Barbara Cubin 15%
Randall Cunningham 15%
Thomas DeLay 15%
Jay Dickey 15%
William Goodling 15%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 15%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 15%
John Linder 15%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 15%
Jim Ryun 15%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 15%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 15%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 15%
Mark Souder 15%
William Tauzin 15%
Charles Taylor 15%
John Doolittle 14%
Wayne Allard 10%
Richard Hugh Baker 10%
Roscoe Bartlett 10%
Henry Bonilla 10%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 10%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 10%
Michael Collins 10%
Larry Combest 10%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 10%
Terry Everett 10%
Peter Fitzgerald 10%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 10%
Pete Hoekstra 10%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 10%
Scott McInnis 10%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 10%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 10%
Richard Pombo 10%
James Ramstad 10%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 10%
Rick Santorum 10%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 10%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 10%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 10%
Tom Tancredo 10%
Wesley Watkins 10%
Bill Archer 9%
Dan Burton 9%
Jim Gibbons 9%
Don Manzullo 9%
James Rogan 9%
John Sweeney 8%
William Phillip Gramm 6%
Judd Gregg 6%
Don Nickles 6%
Strom Thurmond 6%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 3%
Michael Bilirakis 3%
Ed Bryant 3%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 3%
Philip Crane 3%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 3%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 3%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 3%
Joel Hefley 3%
Rick Hill 3%
John Nathan Hostettler 3%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 3%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 3%
Jack Metcalf 3%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 3%
Edward Pease 3%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 3%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 3%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 3%
Cliff Stearns 3%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 3%
Zach Wamp 3%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Chris Cannon 0%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
Larry Craig 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 0%
James DeMint 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Jesse Helms 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Van Hilleary 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
Sue Myrick 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E.G. Shuster 0%
John Sununu 0%

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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