Rating Group: National Journal

2000 Conservative on Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 67%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 86%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 95%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 53%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 62%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 64%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 16%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 15%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 0%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 28%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 10%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 10%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 16%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 10%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 6%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 6%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 28%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 78%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 28%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 78%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 15%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 6%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 8%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 88%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 21%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 57%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 9%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 26%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 53%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 16%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 10%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 51%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 21%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 16%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 27%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 78%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 61%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 10%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 69%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 76%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 78%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 78%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 45%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 9%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 69%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 21%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 67%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 51%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 73%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 69%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 12%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 0%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 26%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 3%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 62%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 16%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 75%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 78%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 75%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 86%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 79%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 88%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 53%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 31%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 88%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 16%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 0%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 16%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 16%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 9%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 14%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 33%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 40%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 15%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 48%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 15%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 69%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 45%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 21%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 28%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 4%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 28%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 88%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 6%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 58%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 69%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 24%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 15%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 28%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 53%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 28%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 88%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 88%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 6%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 78%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 62%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 6%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 78%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 38%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 49%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 62%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 51%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 38%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 42%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 62%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 16%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 10%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 34%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 15%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 57%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 39%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 3%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 10%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 0%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 24%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 5%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 37%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 0%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 24%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 3%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 16%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 6%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 62%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 57%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 68%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 26%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 3%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 53%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 95%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 78%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 5%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 78%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 28%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 78%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 24%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 8%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 45%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 88%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 34%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 15%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 45%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 88%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 23%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 5%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 62%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 49%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 88%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 78%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 88%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 88%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 88%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 78%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 31%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 15%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 78%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 42%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 16%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 62%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 16%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 58%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 57%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 24%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 53%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 16%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 0%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 88%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 27%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 24%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 6%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 62%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 10%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 45%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 49%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 10%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 11%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 40%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 86%
Gary Ackerman Other 27%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 30%
Wayne Allard Other 86%
Thomas Allen Other 6%
Richard Armey Other 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 40%
Brian Baird Other 10%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 88%
John Baldacci Other 26%
Cass Ballenger Other 88%
James Barcia Other 40%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 88%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 88%
Charlie Bass Other 76%
Evan Bayh Other 15%
Bob Bennett Other 75%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 42%
Douglas Bereuter Other 69%
Shelley Berkley Other 42%
Howard Berman Other 5%
Marion Berry Other 21%
Judy Biggert Other 57%
Michael Bilirakis Other 78%
Jeff Bingaman Other 15%
Rod Blagojevich Other 33%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 47%
Kit Bond Other 67%
Henry Bonilla Other 57%
David Edward Bonior Other 16%
Mary Bono Mack Other 57%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 33%
Leonard Boswell Other 47%
Rick Boucher Other 28%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 51%
John Breaux Other 15%
Ed Bryant Other 88%
Jim Bunning Other 86%
Conrad Burns Other 58%
Dan Burton Other 68%
Steve Buyer Other 69%
Robert Byrd Other 34%
Herbert Callahan Other 62%
Ben Campbell Other 75%
Chris Cannon Other 88%
Julia Carson Other 20%
Mike Castle Other 53%
Eva Clayton Other 28%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 34%
Robert Clement Other 34%
Michael Collins Other 69%
Larry Combest Other 62%
Gary Condit Other 45%
Kent Conrad Other 43%
John Cooksey Other 88%
Jerry Costello Other 38%
Christopher Cox Other 88%
William Coyne Other 10%
Larry Craig Other 75%
Robert Cramer Other 42%
Philip Crane Other 75%
Barbara Cubin Other 57%
Randall Cunningham Other 62%
Thomas Daschle Other 15%
James Davis Other 38%
Thomas Davis III Other 62%
Bill Delahunt Other 9%
Thomas DeLay Other 88%
James DeMint Other 76%
Peter Deutsch Other 40%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 57%
Norm Dicks Other 28%
Chris Dodd Other 15%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 57%
Calvin Dooley Other 10%
John Doolittle Other 88%
Byron Dorgan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 78%
Jennifer Dunn Other 78%
John Edwards Other 15%
Chet Edwards Other 28%
Vern Ehlers Other 47%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 78%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 69%
Philip English Other 47%
Bob Etheridge Other 34%
Lane Evans Other 21%
Terry Everett Other 75%
Russ Feingold Other 31%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 52%
Ernest Fletcher Other 78%
Mark Foley Other 88%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 20%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 61%
Barney Frank Other 10%
William Frist Other 67%
Jonas Frost III Other 33%
Elton Gallegly Other 62%
John Ganske Other 42%
George Gekas Other 88%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 33%
Jim Gibbons Other 78%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 49%
Paul Gillmor Other 69%
Benjamin Gilman Other 69%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 16%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 57%
Bart Gordon Other 51%
Porter Goss Other 88%
Daniel Graham Other 38%
William Phillip Gramm Other 75%
Mark Green Other 53%
James Greenwood Other 78%
Judd Gregg Other 86%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 57%
Tony Hall Other 36%
James Hansen Other 78%
Robert Hayes Other 88%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 88%
Joel Hefley Other 78%
Jesse Helms Other 86%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 61%
Baron Hill Other 21%
Van Hilleary Other 76%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 21%
Maurice Hinchey Other 6%
David Lee Hobson Other 69%
Pete Hoekstra Other 57%
Thomas Holden Other 47%
Ernest Hollings Other 38%
Darlene Hooley Other 28%
Stephen Horn Other 49%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 78%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 49%
Kenny Hulshof Other 78%
Duncan Hunter Other 69%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 95%
Kay Hutchison Other 67%
Henry Hyde Other 78%
Daniel Inouye Other 34%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 57%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 6%
William Jefferson Other 24%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 5%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 88%
Christopher John Other 38%
Nancy Johnson Other 49%
Paul Kanjorski Other 21%
Sue Kelly Other 47%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 15%
Patrick Kennedy Other 42%
Dale Kildee Other 40%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 10%
Gerald Kleczka Other 28%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 69%
Herb Kohl Other 44%
James Kolbe Other 62%
Dennis Kucinich Other 31%
Jon Kyl Other 95%
John LaFalce Other 15%
Ray LaHood Other 53%
Nicholas Lampson Other 28%
Tom Lantos Other 10%
Stephen Largent Other 56%
Steve LaTourette Other 49%
James Leach Other 40%
Jerry Lewis Other 53%
Ron Lewis Other 78%
Joe Lieberman Other 42%
Blanche Lincoln Other 12%
John Linder Other 62%
William Lipinski Other 44%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 86%
Dick Lugar Other 48%
William Luther Other 21%
James Maloney Other 34%
Don Manzullo Other 57%
Frank Mascara Other 40%
Robert Matsui Other 10%
Karen McCarthy Other 10%
James McCrery III Other 78%
John McHugh Other 69%
Scott McInnis Other 88%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 15%
Michael McNulty Other 39%
Martin Meehan Other 15%
Carrie Meek Other 24%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 10%
Dan Miller Other 88%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 23%
Alan Mollohan Other 34%
Dennis Moore Other 40%
Constance Morella Other 32%
Frank Murkowski Other 74%
Jack Murtha Other 39%
Sue Myrick Other 56%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 78%
Robert William Ney Other 78%
Don Nickles Other 86%
Anne Northup Other 62%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 76%
James Nussle Other 42%
Jim Oberstar Other 0%
Dave Obey Other 0%
John Olver Other 6%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 49%
Doug Ose Other 69%
Major Owens Other 3%
Michael Oxley Other 62%
Ron Paul Other 42%
Donald Payne Other 0%
John Peterson Other 69%
David Phelps Other 38%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 78%
Richard Pombo Other 88%
Earl Pomeroy Other 3%
Deborah Pryce Other 88%
Jack Quinn Other 75%
George Radanovich Other 88%
James Ramstad Other 45%
Ralph Regula Other 68%
Silvestre Reyes Other 42%
Thomas Reynolds Other 69%
Bob Riley Other 88%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 20%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 34%
Timothy Roemer Other 36%
Steve Rothman Other 45%
Marge Roukema Other 69%
Jim Ryun Other 78%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 28%
Rick Santorum Other 84%
Paul Sarbanes Other 31%
Jim Saxton Other 62%
John Shadegg Other 88%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 78%
Christopher Shays Other 45%
Donald Sherwood Other 69%
Ronnie Shows Other 57%
Joseph Skeen Other 78%
Ike Skelton Other 45%
Gordon Smith Other 47%
Nick Smith Other 69%
Bob Smith Other 95%
Olympia Snowe Other 48%
Vic Snyder Other 10%
Mark Souder Other 88%
Arlen Specter Other 83%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 36%
Pete Stark Other 16%
Cliff Stearns Other 88%
Charles Stenholm Other 47%
Ted Stevens Other 58%
Ted Strickland Other 24%
Bob Stump Other 69%
Bart Stupak Other 32%
John Sununu Other 57%
John Sweeney Other 62%
Tom Tancredo Other 88%
John Tanner Other 28%
Ellen Tauscher Other 16%
William Tauzin Other 88%
Charles Taylor Other 78%
Gene Taylor Other 53%
Craig Thomas Other 75%
William Thomas Other 78%
Fred Thompson Other 75%
Karen Thurman Other 34%
Strom Thurmond Other 67%
Todd Tiahrt Other 67%
Robert Torricelli Other 46%
Ed Towns Other 5%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 51%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 0%
James Turner Other 42%
George Voinovich Other 64%
James Walsh Other 57%
Zach Wamp Other 76%
John Warner Other 58%
Wesley Watkins Other 78%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 88%
Anthony Weiner Other 5%
David Weldon Other 88%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 88%
Gerald Weller Other 76%
Paul Wellstone Other 5%
Robert Wexler Other 34%
Heather Wilson Other 56%
Lynn Woolsey Other 21%
David Wu Other 45%
Albert Wynn Other 24%

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