Rating Group: National Journal

1996 Liberal on Foreign\Defense Policy

Issues:
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 32%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 28%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 43%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 70%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 58%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 77%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 90%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 90%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 90%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 90%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 82%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 85%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 90%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 52%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 87%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 86%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 49%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 87%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 76%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 63%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 21%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 73%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 21%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 30%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 35%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 47%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 87%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 30%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 64%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 50%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 93%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 30%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 90%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 87%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 63%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 44%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 21%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 81%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 90%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 68%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 75%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 61%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 84%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 93%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 52%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 72%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 82%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 82%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 90%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 78%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 32%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 21%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 61%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 70%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 89%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 77%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 47%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 76%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 47%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 64%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 28%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 76%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 41%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 62%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 85%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 37%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 90%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 90%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 85%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 90%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 87%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 86%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 90%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 86%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 86%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 30%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 53%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 76%
OH Governor John Kasich R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 75%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 26%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 45%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 83%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 87%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 90%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 74%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 45%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 61%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 55%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 41%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 30%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 30%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 79%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 73%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 65%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 87%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 28%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 59%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 41%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 70%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 21%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 93%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 93%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 30%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 90%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 55%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 55%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 90%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 72%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 66%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 71%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 64%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 55%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 21%
William Baker Other 15%
John Baldacci Other 70%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 55%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Barrett Other 30%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 30%
Charlie Bass Other 38%
Herbert Bateman Other 36%
Anthony Beilenson Other 93%
Bob Bennett Other 42%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 70%
Douglas Bereuter Other 45%
Howard Berman Other 90%
Tom Bevill Other 52%
Brian Bilbray Other 41%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 76%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Peter Blute Other 48%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 37%
Kit Bond Other 35%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 79%
Sonny Bono Other 21%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 79%
Rick Boucher Other 76%
Bill Bradley Other 71%
John Breaux Other 49%
Bill Brewster Other 55%
Glen Browder Other 48%
George Brown, Jr. Other 90%
Hank Brown Other 50%
Richard Bryan Other 77%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
John Bryant Other 64%
Dale Bumpers Other 93%
Jim Bunn Other 36%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 66%
Herbert Callahan Other 28%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
Thomas Campbell Other 72%
Mike Castle Other 53%
John Chafee Other 43%
Jim Chapman Other 52%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 0%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 37%
Dick Chrysler Other 15%
William Clay, Sr. Other 90%
Eva Clayton Other 72%
Robert Clement Other 57%
William Clinger Other 51%
William Cohen Other 8%
Ronald Coleman Other 67%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 86%
Cardiss Collins Other 93%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 61%
Kent Conrad Other 70%
Wes Cooley Other 42%
Jerry Costello Other 61%
Paul Coverdell Other 0%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 87%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 42%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 35%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 73%
Thomas Daschle Other 73%
Thomas Davis III Other 37%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 59%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Ronald Dellums Other 90%
Peter Deutsch Other 79%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 21%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 61%
Julian Dixon Other 75%
Chris Dodd Other 61%
Robert Dole Other 81%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 37%
Calvin Dooley Other 76%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 84%
Robert Dornan Other 0%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 53%
Vern Ehlers Other 67%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Bill Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 48%
John Ensign Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 90%
Terry Everett Other 21%
Thomas Ewing Other 30%
Jim Exon Other 65%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 0%
Harris Fawell Other 44%
Victor Fazio Other 67%
Russ Feingold Other 89%
Cleo Fields Other 79%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 0%
Floyd Flake Other 84%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 28%
Thomas Foglietta Other 90%
Mark Foley Other 45%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 21%
Harold Ford, Sr. Other 93%
Wendell Ford Other 51%
Tillie Fowler Other 0%
Jon David Fox Other 47%
Barney Frank Other 90%
Gary Franks Other 15%
Robert Franks Other 67%
Dan Frisa Other 0%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 55%
David Funderburk Other 0%
Elizabeth Furse Other 90%
Elton Gallegly Other 28%
John Ganske Other 66%
Sam Gejdenson Other 76%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 73%
Pete Geren Other 42%
Sam Gibbons Other 79%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 36%
Paul Gillmor Other 35%
Benjamin Gilman Other 21%
John Glenn Other 73%
Henry Gonzalez Other 52%
William Goodling Other 38%
Bart Gordon Other 70%
Slade Gorton Other 38%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 62%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 26%
Enid Greene Other 27%
James Greenwood Other 41%
Judd Gregg Other 38%
Steven Gunderson Other 48%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 50%
Tony Hall Other 64%
Lee Hamilton Other 59%
Melton Hancock Other 0%
James Hansen Other 21%
Jane Harman Other 57%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 21%
Mark Hatfield Other 93%
James Hayes Other 48%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
W.G. Hefner Other 61%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 28%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 72%
Maurice Hinchey Other 87%
David Lee Hobson Other 21%
Pete Hoekstra Other 58%
Martin Hoke Other 42%
Thomas Holden Other 54%
Ernest Hollings Other 60%
Stephen Horn Other 38%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 45%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 21%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 30%
Daniel Inouye Other 57%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 90%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 55%
William Jefferson Other 60%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 64%
Nancy Johnson Other 44%
Harry Johnston Other 88%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 60%
Paul Kanjorski Other 76%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 53%
Sue Kelly Other 30%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 77%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 90%
Patrick Kennedy Other 58%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 66%
Bob Kerrey Other 69%
Dale Kildee Other 61%
Jay Kim Other 0%
Gerald Kleczka Other 87%
Ronald Klink Other 67%
Scott Klug Other 67%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 21%
Herb Kohl Other 84%
James Kolbe Other 44%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 82%
Ray LaHood Other 41%
Tom Lantos Other 82%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 46%
Greg Laughlin Other 36%
Frank Lautenberg Other 88%
Rick Lazio Other 38%
James Leach Other 52%
Jerry Lewis Other 21%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 51%
Jim Lightfoot Other 28%
Blanche Lincoln Other 64%
John Linder Other 36%
William Lipinski Other 59%
Robert Livingston Other 21%
James Longley, Jr. Other 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 30%
William Luther Other 84%
Connie Mack Other 32%
Thomas Manton Other 64%
Don Manzullo Other 30%
Matthew Martinez Other 52%
Bill Martini Other 50%
Frank Mascara Other 70%
Robert Matsui Other 73%
Karen McCarthy Other 85%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 21%
Joseph McDade Other 30%
Paul McHale Other 67%
John McHugh Other 29%
Scott McInnis Other 48%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 90%
Michael McNulty Other 59%
Martin Meehan Other 87%
Carrie Meek Other 60%
Jack Metcalf Other 41%
Jan Meyers Other 51%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 78%
Dan Miller Other 30%
David Minge Other 90%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 79%
John Moakley Other 90%
Susan Molinari Other 30%
Alan Mollohan Other 52%
G.V. Montgomery Other 56%
Carlos Moorhead Other 0%
Constance Morella Other 81%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 89%
Patrick Moynihan Other 77%
Frank Murkowski Other 26%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
John Myers Other 0%
Sue Myrick Other 30%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Mark Neumann Other 55%
Robert William Ney Other 47%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
Sam Nunn Other 48%
James Nussle Other 44%
Jim Oberstar Other 79%
Dave Obey Other 82%
John Olver Other 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Bill Orton Other 73%
Major Owens Other 90%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 21%
Mike Parker Other 36%
William Paxon Other 0%
Donald Payne Other 90%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 56%
Claiborne Pell Other 86%
Pete Peterson Other 61%
Owen Pickett Other 50%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 75%
John Edward Porter Other 50%
Glenn Poshard Other 64%
Larry Pressler Other 38%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
David Pryor Other 97%
James Quillen Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 67%
Ralph Regula Other 41%
Bill Richardson Other 64%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 41%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 82%
Charles Robb Other 58%
Timothy Roemer Other 75%
Charles Rose III Other 66%
Toby Roth Other 48%
William Roth, Jr. Other 30%
Marge Roukema Other 67%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 79%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 73%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
Daniel Schaefer Other 0%
Steven Schiff Other 0%
Patricia Schroeder Other 73%
Andrea Seastrand Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 21%
Christopher Shays Other 72%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Paul Simon Other 86%
Alan Simpson Other 45%
Norman Sisisky Other 47%
David Skaggs Other 82%
Joseph Skeen Other 21%
Ike Skelton Other 52%
Linda Smith Other 30%
Nick Smith Other 57%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 38%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 0%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 47%
Floyd Spence Other 21%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 70%
Pete Stark Other 90%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 58%
Ted Stevens Other 38%
Louis Stokes Other 86%
Gerry Studds Other 93%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 82%
James Talent Other 0%
John Tanner Other 57%
Randy Tate Other 15%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 21%
Gene Taylor Other 49%
Frank Tejeda Other 58%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 30%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Ray Thornton Other 79%
Karen Thurman Other 64%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 38%
Peter Torkildsen Other 52%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 79%
Ed Towns Other 90%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 41%
Bruce Vento Other 90%
Harold Volkmer Other 68%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 36%
Robert Walker Other 0%
James Walsh Other 28%
Zach Wamp Other 30%
Michael Ward Other 79%
John Warner Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 36%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 30%
Gerald Weller Other 41%
Paul Wellstone Other 89%
Rick White Other 0%
Pat Williams Other 70%
Charles Wilson Other 54%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 69%
Lynn Woolsey Other 90%
Albert Wynn Other 82%
Sidney Yates Other 90%
Bill Zeliff Other 15%
Richard Zimmer Other 51%

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