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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: National Journal

1998 Conservative on Defense/Foreign Policy Score

Issues:
State Office District Name Party Rating
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 93%
Robert Barr, Jr. 93%
Roscoe Bartlett 93%
Mary Bono Mack 93%
Dan Burton 93%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage 93%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 93%
Barbara Cubin 93%
Thomas DeLay 93%
John Doolittle 93%
Jo Ann Emerson 93%
Terry Everett 93%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 93%
George Gekas 93%
James Hansen 93%
Van Hilleary 93%
William Lewis Jenkins 93%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 93%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 93%
Ron Lewis 93%
John Peterson 93%
Richard Pombo 93%
George Radanovich 93%
Bob Riley 93%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 93%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 93%
John Shadegg 93%
Zach Wamp 93%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 93%
John Ashcroft 88%
Kit Bond 88%
Larry Craig 88%
Jesse Helms 88%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 88%
Kay Hutchison 88%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 88%
Don Nickles 88%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 88%
Bob Smith 88%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 83%
Richard Hugh Baker 83%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 83%
Michael Bilirakis 83%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 83%
Ed Bryant 83%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 83%
Chris Cannon 83%
Larry Combest 83%
Merrill Cook 83%
John Cooksey 83%
Jay Dickey 83%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 83%
William Goodling 83%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 83%
Joel Hefley 83%
Wally Herger, Jr. 83%
Asa Hutchinson 83%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 83%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 83%
Bill McCollum 83%
Sue Myrick 83%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 83%
Ronald Packard 83%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 83%
Joe Scarborough 83%
Nick Smith 83%
Mark Souder 83%
Floyd Spence 83%
Cliff Stearns 83%
James Talent 83%
William Tauzin 83%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 83%
James Traficant, Jr. 83%
Wesley Watkins 83%
David Weldon 83%
Randall Cunningham 82%
J. Dennis Hastert 82%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 82%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 81%
Wayne Allard 75%
Henry Bonilla 75%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 75%
Conrad Burns 75%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 75%
Michael Collins 75%
William Frist 75%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 75%
Judd Gregg 75%
Gilbert Gutknecht 75%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 75%
Rick Hill 75%
John Nathan Hostettler 75%
Kenny Hulshof 75%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 75%
Trent Lott, Sr. 75%
James McCrery III 75%
David McIntosh 75%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 75%
Jack Metcalf 75%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 75%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 75%
Edward Pease 75%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 75%
James Rogan 75%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 75%
Jim Ryun 75%
AZ U.S. House 5 Matthew Salmon Republican 75%
Rick Santorum 75%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 75%
Gordon Smith 75%
Olympia Snowe 75%
Bob Stump 75%
Fred Thompson 75%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 75%
Todd Tiahrt 75%
John Warner 75%
Gerald Weller 75%
Philip Crane 74%
Elton Gallegly 74%
William Phillip Gramm 74%
Richard Armey 73%
Mark Foley 73%
Scott McInnis 73%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 73%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 71%
Craig Thomas 71%
Strom Thurmond 71%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 68%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 68%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 68%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 68%
Philip English 68%
Jim Gibbons 68%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 68%
David Lee Hobson 68%
Stephen Horn 68%
Duncan Hunter 68%
Don Manzullo 68%
Robert William Ney 68%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 68%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 68%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 68%
Jim Saxton 68%
E.G. Shuster 68%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 68%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 68%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 68%
Christopher Cox 67%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 67%
John Linder 67%
Charles Taylor 67%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 66%
Michael Patrick Forbes 66%
Dan Miller 66%
Bill Archer 62%
Cass Ballenger 62%
Brian Bilbray 62%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 62%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 62%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 62%
Tillie Fowler 62%
Robert Franks 62%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 62%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 62%
Pete Hoekstra 62%
Stephen Largent 62%
Robert Livingston 62%
Deborah Pryce 62%
SC U.S. House 1 Mark Sanford, Jr. Republican 62%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 62%
W. Curtis Weldon 62%
Charlie Bass 61%
Thomas Ewing 61%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 61%
William Lipinski 61%
John McHugh 61%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 61%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 58%
James Barcia 58%
Steve Buyer 58%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 58%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 58%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 58%
Paul Coverdell 58%
Patsy Ann Danner 58%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 58%
David Dreier 58%
Slade Gorton 58%
Rodney Grams 58%
Sue Kelly 58%
Jon Kyl 58%
Connie Mack 58%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 58%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 58%
Anne Northup 58%
James Nussle 58%
Ralph Regula 58%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 58%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 58%
Joseph Skeen 58%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 58%
William Thomas 58%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 57%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 57%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 56%
Frank Murkowski 56%
William Roth, Jr. 55%
Herbert Callahan 53%
Gary Condit 53%
Jennifer Dunn 53%
John Ganske 53%
Porter Goss 53%
Henry Hyde 53%
Joseph Knollenberg 53%
Ray LaHood 53%
Jerry Lewis 53%
Michael Oxley 53%
Mike Parker 53%
Ron Paul 53%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 53%
John Sununu 53%
Gene Taylor 53%
James Walsh 53%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 53%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 52%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 52%
Dick Lugar 52%
Bill Barrett 51%
Douglas Bereuter 51%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 51%
James Greenwood 51%
Daniel Inouye 51%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 51%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 51%
Jack Quinn 51%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 51%
Arlen Specter 49%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 48%
Sherwood Boehlert 48%
Thomas Davis III 48%
Paul Gillmor 48%
Benjamin Gilman 48%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 48%
Rick Lazio 48%
James Maloney 48%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 48%
Michael McNulty 48%
James Ramstad 48%
Ted Strickland 48%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 47%
Leonard Boswell 45%
Thomas Campbell 45%
Mike Castle 45%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 45%
Steve LaTourette 45%
Marge Roukema 45%
Christopher Shays 45%
Charles Stenholm 45%
John Tanner 45%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 44%
Jerry Costello 44%
Dennis Kucinich 44%
John Edward Porter 44%
James Turner 44%
Herbert Bateman 42%
Robert Cramer 42%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 42%
Bob Etheridge 42%
Wayne Gilchrest 42%
Bart Gordon 42%
Nancy Johnson 42%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 42%
Earl Pomeroy 42%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 42%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 41%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 40%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 40%
Tom Lantos 40%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 40%
Timothy Roemer 40%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 40%
Norman Sisisky 40%
Robert Clement 37%
Vern Ehlers 37%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 37%
Thomas Holden 37%
Patrick Kennedy 37%
Dale Kildee 37%
Ronald Klink 37%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 37%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 37%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 37%
Vic Snyder 37%
Bob Bennett 36%
John Breaux 36%
Ben Campbell 36%
Julia Carson 36%
John Chafee 36%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 36%
Daniel Graham 36%
Tony Hall 36%
Ernest Hollings 36%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 36%
Joe Lieberman 36%
Jack Murtha 36%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 36%
Charles Robb 36%
Ted Stevens 36%
Robert Torricelli 36%
Jeff Bingaman 35%
Marion Berry 31%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 31%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 31%
Lane Evans 31%
Sam Gejdenson 31%
Christopher John 31%
Nicholas Lampson 31%
James Leach 31%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 31%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 31%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 31%
Alan Mollohan 31%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 31%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 31%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 31%
Steve Rothman 31%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 31%
Ike Skelton 31%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 31%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 31%
William Clay, Sr. 30%
John Spratt, Jr. 30%
Matthew Martinez 29%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 29%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 27%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 27%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 27%
Peter Deutsch 27%
Chris Dodd 27%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 27%
Bob Kerrey 27%
Frank Mascara 27%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 27%
Patrick Moynihan 27%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 27%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 27%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 27%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 27%
Ellen Tauscher 27%
Robert Wexler 27%
William Jefferson 26%
Carrie Meek 26%
Bob Wise, Jr. 26%
David Edward Bonior 25%
Jonas Frost III 25%
Silvestre Reyes 25%
Rod Blagojevich 23%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 23%
William Coyne 23%
James Davis 23%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 23%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 23%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 23%
Karen Thurman 23%
Ed Towns 23%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 22%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 22%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 21%
Russ Feingold 21%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 21%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 21%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 21%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 21%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 19%
Gary Ackerman 19%
John Baldacci 19%
Rick Boucher 19%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 19%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 19%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 19%
James Kolbe 19%
Martin Meehan 19%
John Moakley 19%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 19%
Dave Obey 19%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 19%
Owen Pickett 19%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 19%
Julian Dixon 18%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 18%
Constance Morella 18%
Pete Stark 18%
Bart Stupak 18%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 16%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 16%
Barney Frank 16%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 16%
Karen McCarthy 16%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 16%
Kent Conrad 15%
Thomas Daschle 15%
Byron Dorgan 15%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 15%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 15%
Paul Sarbanes 15%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 14%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 12%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 11%
Howard Berman 11%
Robert Borski, Jr. 11%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 11%
Bill Delahunt 11%
Chet Edwards 11%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 11%
Harold Ford, Jr. 11%
Darlene Hooley 11%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 11%
James Merrill Jeffords 11%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 11%
Gerald Kleczka 11%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 11%
William Luther 11%
David Minge 11%
Donald Payne 11%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 11%
Bob Weygand 11%
Lynn Woolsey 11%
Albert Wynn 11%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 10%
John LaFalce 10%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 10%
Major Owens 10%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 10%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 10%
Robert Byrd 9%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 5%
Richard Bryan 5%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 5%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 5%
Norm Dicks 5%
Calvin Dooley 5%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 5%
Maurice Hinchey 5%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 5%
Paul Kanjorski 5%
Herb Kohl 5%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 5%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 5%
Robert Matsui 5%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 5%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 5%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 5%
Ciro Rodriguez 5%
Martin Olav Sabo 5%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 5%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 5%
Bruce Vento 5%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 5%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 4%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 4%
Thomas Allen 2%
Eva Clayton 2%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 2%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 2%
Jim Oberstar 2%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 2%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 2%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 2%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 0%
George Brown, Jr. 0%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 0%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 0%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 0%
John Olver 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 0%
Paul Wellstone 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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