Rating Group: National Foreign Trade Council

1999 Positions

Issues: Trade
State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 17%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 33%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 17%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 50%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 83%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 33%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 17%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 17%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 83%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 50%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 50%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 83%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 50%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 33%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 83%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 50%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 17%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 17%
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 17%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 33%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 33%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 50%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 50%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 17%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 50%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 17%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 33%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 17%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 17%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 17%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 17%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 17%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 17%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 33%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 50%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 50%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 83%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 33%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 17%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 17%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 17%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 83%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 17%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 83%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 33%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 50%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 83%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 50%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 33%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 17%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 17%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 17%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 50%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 50%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 50%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 17%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 50%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 83%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 83%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 50%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 17%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 17%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 50%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 83%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 17%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 83%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 50%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 50%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 17%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 17%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 17%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 0%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 17%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 17%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 17%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 50%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 33%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 17%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 17%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 50%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 17%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 50%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 33%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 17%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 17%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 50%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 83%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 33%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 17%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 33%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 50%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 17%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 83%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 17%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 33%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 50%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 83%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 83%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 83%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 17%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 17%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 17%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 50%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 17%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 50%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 50%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 50%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 50%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 33%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 50%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 17%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 50%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 50%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 17%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 50%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 33%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 83%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 50%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 17%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 83%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 50%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 50%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 17%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 50%
Gary Ackerman Other 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 50%
Thomas Allen Other 50%
Brian Baird Other 50%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 50%
Bob Bennett Other 33%
Shelley Berkley Other 50%
Howard Berman Other 83%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 17%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 83%
Mary Bono Mack Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 50%
Rick Boucher Other 50%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 33%
Jim Bunning Other 17%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 17%
Robert Byrd Other 17%
Chris Cannon Other 50%
Mike Castle Other 83%
Kent Conrad Other 50%
Jerry Costello Other 17%
Larry Craig Other 33%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Thomas Davis III Other 83%
Bill Delahunt Other 17%
James DeMint Other 50%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 17%
Norm Dicks Other 83%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 50%
David Dreier Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 83%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 33%
Philip English Other 50%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Terry Everett Other 17%
Russ Feingold Other 17%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 83%
Barney Frank Other 17%
Elton Gallegly Other 50%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 33%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 33%
Pete Hoekstra Other 50%
Thomas Holden Other 17%
Darlene Hooley Other 50%
Kenny Hulshof Other 83%
Kay Hutchison Other 83%
Daniel Inouye Other 50%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 17%
William Jefferson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 33%
Patrick Kennedy Other 17%
Dale Kildee Other 17%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 33%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 17%
Jon Kyl Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 83%
Jerry Lewis Other 83%
Ron Lewis Other 50%
Joe Lieberman Other 50%
Blanche Lincoln Other 83%
John Linder Other 83%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 50%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Alan Mollohan Other 17%
Dennis Moore Other 83%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 33%
Jim Oberstar Other 33%
Dave Obey Other 17%
John Olver Other 33%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Ron Paul Other 17%
Donald Payne Other 50%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 33%
Earl Pomeroy Other 50%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 83%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 50%
Silvestre Reyes Other 50%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 17%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
John Shadegg Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 83%
Gordon Smith Other 83%
Olympia Snowe Other 17%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Mark Souder Other 17%
Arlen Specter Other 33%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 17%
Pete Stark Other 17%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Ted Stevens Other 17%
Bart Stupak Other 17%
Tom Tancredo Other 33%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 83%
Gene Taylor Other 17%
Todd Tiahrt Other 50%
Ed Towns Other 33%
George Voinovich Other 50%
James Walsh Other 33%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 50%
David Weldon Other 50%
Gerald Weller Other 83%
Robert Wexler Other 50%
Heather Wilson Other 83%
Lynn Woolsey Other 17%
David Wu Other 33%

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