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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Conservative on Defense/Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 68%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 58%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 88%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 93%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 83%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 58%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 58%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 19%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 21%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 12%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 83%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 37%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 27%
CA U.S. House 9 Barbara Lee Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 18%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 23 Lois Capps Democratic 31%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 74%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 58%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 40%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 11%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 5%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 68%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 53%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 62%
CA U.S. House 45 Mary Bono Mack Republican 93%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 75%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 27%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 62%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 27%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 5%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 93%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 36%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 19%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 19%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 75%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 57%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 18%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 83%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 62%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 75%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 48%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 5%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 68%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 51%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 27%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 19%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 71%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 45%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 51%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 15%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 2%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 19%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 40%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 16%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 44%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 68%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 75%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 52%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 31%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 93%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 75%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 75%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 75%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 58%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 68%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 68%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 36%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 12%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 0%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 5%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 16%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 16%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 15%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 31%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 11%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 93%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 5%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 75%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 58%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 21%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 29%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 58%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 37%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 51%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 31%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 16%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 4%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 51%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 83%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 93%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 58%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 53%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 31%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 27%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 21%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 53%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 81%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 93%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 31%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 66%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 48%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 83%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 15%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 61%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 5%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 37%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 44%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 83%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 58%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 40%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 42%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 31%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 67%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 35%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 21%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 48%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 37%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 6 Gregory Meeks Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 19%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 23%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 2%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 31%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 10%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 36%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 31%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 19%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 23%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 53%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 75%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 51%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 47%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 44%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 45%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 61%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 5%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 58%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 88%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 93%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 83%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 14%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 5%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 45%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 10%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 42%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 83%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 37%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 27%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 83%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 11%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 83%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 83%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 93%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 68%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 62%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 75%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 53%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 25%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 68%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 37%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 93%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 75%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 23%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 75%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 16%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 57%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 0%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 31%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 21%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 62%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 5%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 5%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 5%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 11%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 58%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 68%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 27%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 36%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 52%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 58%
Wayne Allard 75%
Thomas Allen 2%
William Archer 62%
Richard Armey 73%
John Ashcroft 88%
Richard Hugh Baker 83%
John Baldacci 19%
Cass Ballenger 62%
James Barcia 58%
Robert Barr, Jr. 93%
William Barrett 51%
Herbert Bateman 42%
Bob Bennett 36%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 11%
Douglas Bereuter 51%
Marion Berry 31%
Michael Bilirakis 83%
Rod Blagojevich 23%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 62%
Sherwood Boehlert 48%
Kit Bond 88%
Henry Bonilla 75%
David Edward Bonior 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. 11%
Rick Boucher 19%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 40%
John Breaux 36%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
Richard Bryan 5%
Ed Bryant 83%
Conrad Burns 75%
Steve Buyer 58%
Robert Byrd 9%
Herbert Callahan 53%
Ben Campbell 36%
Thomas Campbell 45%
Chris Cannon 83%
Julia Carson 36%
Mike Castle 45%
John Chafee 36%
Helen Chenoweth 93%
William Clay, Sr. 30%
Eva Clayton 2%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 27%
Robert Clement 37%
Mac Collins 75%
Larry Combest 83%
Gary Condit 53%
Merrill Cook 83%
John Cooksey 83%
Paul Coverdell 58%
Christopher Cox 67%
William Coyne 23%
Larry Craig 88%
Robert Cramer 42%
Philip Crane 74%
Barbara Cubin 93%
Randall Cunningham 82%
Patsy Ann Danner 58%
Thomas Daschle 15%
James Davis 23%
Thomas Davis III 48%
Bill Delahunt 11%
Thomas DeLay 93%
Peter Deutsch 27%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 68%
Jay Dickey 83%
Julian Dixon 18%
Chris Dodd 27%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 56%
Calvin Dooley 5%
John Doolittle 93%
Byron Dorgan 15%
Jennifer Dunn 53%
Chet Edwards 11%
Vern Ehlers 37%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 68%
Philip English 68%
Bob Etheridge 42%
Lane Evans 31%
Terry Everett 93%
Thomas Ewing 61%
Russ Feingold 21%
Mark Foley 73%
Michael Patrick Forbes 66%
Harold Ford, Jr. 11%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 93%
Tillie Fowler 62%
Robert Franks 62%
William Frist 75%
Jonas Frost III 25%
John Ganske 53%
Sam Gejdenson 31%
George Gekas 93%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 41%
Jim Gibbons 68%
Wayne Gilchrest 42%
Paul Gillmor 48%
Benjamin Gilman 48%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 83%
William Goodling 83%
Bart Gordon 42%
Slade Gorton 58%
Porter Goss 53%
Daniel Graham 36%
William Phillip Gramm 74%
Rodney Grams 58%
James Greenwood 51%
Judd Gregg 75%
Gilbert Gutknecht 75%
Charles Hagel 52%
Tony Hall 36%
James Hansen 93%
J. Dennis Hastert 82%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 68%
Joel Hefley 83%
Jesse Helms 88%
Rick Hill 75%
Van Hilleary 93%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 5%
David Lee Hobson 68%
Pete Hoekstra 62%
Ernest Hollings 36%
Darlene Hooley 11%
Stephen Horn 68%
John Nathan Hostettler 75%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 5%
Kenny Hulshof 75%
Duncan Hunter 68%
William Hutchinson 83%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 88%
Henry Hyde 53%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 82%
William Jefferson 26%
James Merrill Jeffords 11%
William Lewis Jenkins 93%
Christopher John 31%
Nancy Johnson 42%
Paul Kanjorski 5%
Sue Kelly 58%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
Patrick Kennedy 37%
Bob Kerrey 27%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 4%
Gerald Kleczka 11%
Ronald Klink 37%
Joseph Knollenberg 53%
James Kolbe 19%
John LaFalce 10%
Nicholas Lampson 31%
Tom Lantos 40%
Stephen Largent 62%
Rick Lazio 48%
James Leach 31%
Ron Lewis 93%
John Linder 67%
William Lipinski 61%
Robert Livingston 62%
Trent Lott, Sr. 75%
William Luther 11%
Connie Mack 58%
James Maloney 48%
Matthew Martinez 29%
Frank Mascara 27%
Robert Matsui 5%
Karen McCarthy 16%
Bill McCollum 83%
James McCrery III 75%
John McHugh 61%
Scott McInnis 73%
David McIntosh 75%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 27%
Michael McNulty 48%
Martin Meehan 19%
Carrie Meek 26%
Jack Metcalf 75%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 5%
Dan Miller 66%
David Minge 11%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 5%
John Moakley 19%
Alan Mollohan 31%
Constance Morella 18%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 27%
Frank Murkowski 56%
Jack Murtha 36%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 61%
Robert William Ney 68%
Don Nickles 88%
Anne Northup 58%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 83%
James Nussle 58%
Jim Oberstar 2%
Dave Obey 19%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 31%
Major Owens 10%
Michael Oxley 53%
Ronald Packard 83%
Paul Michael Parker 53%
Donald Payne 11%
Edward Pease 75%
John Peterson 93%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 73%
Owen Pickett 19%
Richard Pombo 93%
Earl Pomeroy 42%
John Edward Porter 44%
Deborah Pryce 62%
Jack Quinn 51%
George Radanovich 93%
James Ramstad 48%
Ralph Regula 58%
Bob Riley 93%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 31%
Charles Robb 36%
Ciro Rodriguez 5%
Timothy Roemer 40%
James Rogan 75%
William Roth, Jr. 55%
Marge Roukema 45%
Jim Ryun 75%
Martin Olav Sabo 5%
Matthew Salmon 75%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 42%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 62%
Rick Santorum 75%
Paul Sarbanes 15%
H. James Saxton 68%
Joe Scarborough 83%
John Shadegg 93%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 62%
Christopher Shays 45%
E.G. Shuster 68%
Norman Sisisky 40%
Joseph Skeen 58%
Ike Skelton 31%
Gordon Smith 75%
Nick Smith 83%
Bob Smith 88%
Vic Snyder 37%
Mark Souder 83%
Arlen Specter 49%
Floyd Spence 83%
John Spratt, Jr. 30%
Charles Stenholm 45%
Ted Stevens 36%
Ted Strickland 48%
Robert Stump 75%
Bart Stupak 18%
John Sununu 53%
James Talent 83%
John Tanner 45%
Ellen Tauscher 27%
William Tauzin 83%
Charles Taylor 67%
Gene Taylor 53%
Craig Thomas 71%
William Thomas 58%
Fred Thompson 75%
Karen Thurman 23%
Strom Thurmond 71%
Todd Tiahrt 75%
Robert Torricelli 36%
James Traficant, Jr. 83%
James Turner 44%
Bruce Vento 5%
James Walsh 53%
Zach Wamp 93%
John Warner 75%
Wesley Watkins 83%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 93%
David Weldon 83%
W. Curtis Weldon 62%
Gerald Weller 75%
Paul Wellstone 0%
Robert Wexler 27%
Robert Weygand 11%
Robert Wise, Jr. 26%
Albert Wynn 11%

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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