State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 50%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 13%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 13%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 40%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 13%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 90%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 63%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 88%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 90%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 90%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
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 90%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 20%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 90%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 20%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 60%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 90%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 40%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 90%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 30%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 90%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 20%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 90%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 50%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 20%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 40%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 60%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 40%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 30%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 20%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 20%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 90%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 30%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 70%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 25%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 20%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 25%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 20%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 88%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 80%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 80%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 90%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 40%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 80%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 25%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 20%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 25%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 13%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 20%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 20%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 40%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 88%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 20%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 90%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 88%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 20%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 40%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 90%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 80%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 20%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 40%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 90%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 88%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 30%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 40%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 90%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 30%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 60%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 20%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 90%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 50%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 50%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 90%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 88%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 70%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 90%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 70%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 90%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 90%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 30%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 20%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 20%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 90%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 38%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 20%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 88%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 20%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 90%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 40%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 90%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 90%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 20%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 63%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 30%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 88%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 30%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 30%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 40%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 20%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 20%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 20%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 20%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 20%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 70%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 20%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 38%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 90%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 20%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 90%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 30%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 20%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 90%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 80%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 90%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 90%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 30%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 30%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 88%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 90%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 25%
Gary Ackerman Other 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 25%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 20%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 20%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 20%
James Barcia Other 70%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 50%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 20%
Charlie Bass Other 30%
Evan Bayh Other 88%
Bob Bennett Other 38%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 20%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 60%
Judy Biggert Other 30%
Michael Bilirakis Other 20%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 80%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 25%
Henry Bonilla Other 30%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 30%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 70%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 60%
John Breaux Other 63%
Ed Bryant Other 20%
Jim Bunning Other 25%
Conrad Burns Other 38%
Dan Burton Other 40%
Steve Buyer Other 20%
Robert Byrd Other 50%
Herbert Callahan Other 20%
Ben Campbell Other 25%
Chris Cannon Other 20%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 40%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 88%
Robert Clement Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 30%
Larry Combest Other 20%
Gary Condit Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
John Cooksey Other 20%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 20%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 25%
Robert Cramer Other 60%
Philip Crane Other 30%
Barbara Cubin Other 20%
Randall Cunningham Other 20%
Thomas Daschle Other 88%
James Davis Other 90%
Thomas Davis III Other 40%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 20%
James DeMint Other 20%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 60%
Norm Dicks Other 70%
Chris Dodd Other 88%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 38%
Calvin Dooley Other 90%
John Doolittle Other 20%
Byron Dorgan Other 88%
David Dreier Other 20%
Jennifer Dunn Other 20%
John Edwards Other 88%
Chet Edwards Other 90%
Vern Ehlers Other 30%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 30%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 30%
Philip English Other 50%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 90%
Terry Everett Other 20%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 38%
Ernest Fletcher Other 20%
Mark Foley Other 30%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 90%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 30%
Barney Frank Other 90%
William Frist Other 25%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 50%
John Ganske Other 30%
George Gekas Other 20%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 40%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 40%
Paul Gillmor Other 30%
Benjamin Gilman Other 40%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 30%
Bart Gordon Other 90%
Porter Goss Other 20%
Daniel Graham Other 88%
William Phillip Gramm Other 25%
Mark Green Other 40%
James Greenwood Other 40%
Judd Gregg Other 25%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 30%
Tony Hall Other 90%
James Hansen Other 20%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 20%
Robert Hayes Other 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 20%
Joel Hefley Other 30%
Jesse Helms Other 25%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 20%
Baron Hill Other 90%
Van Hilleary Other 20%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 90%
David Lee Hobson Other 20%
Pete Hoekstra Other 20%
Thomas Holden Other 90%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Stephen Horn Other 50%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 30%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Kenny Hulshof Other 20%
Duncan Hunter Other 20%
Asa Hutchinson Other 20%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 13%
Kay Hutchison Other 25%
Henry Hyde Other 30%
Daniel Inouye Other 88%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 20%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 90%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 63%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 10%
Christopher John Other 70%
Nancy Johnson Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 80%
Sue Kelly Other 40%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 80%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 90%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 30%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 30%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 25%
John LaFalce Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 50%
Nicholas Lampson Other 90%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Stephen Largent Other 20%
Steve LaTourette Other 30%
James Leach Other 40%
Jerry Lewis Other 30%
Ron Lewis Other 20%
Joe Lieberman Other 50%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 20%
William Lipinski Other 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 13%
Dick Lugar Other 38%
William Luther Other 100%
James Maloney Other 90%
Don Manzullo Other 20%
Frank Mascara Other 90%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 90%
James McCrery III Other 30%
John McHugh Other 30%
Scott McInnis Other 20%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 70%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 20%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 70%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 70%
Dennis Moore Other 90%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 25%
Jack Murtha Other 60%
Sue Myrick Other 20%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 20%
Robert William Ney Other 30%
Don Nickles Other 25%
Anne Northup Other 30%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 30%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 90%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 80%
Doug Ose Other 20%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 20%
Ron Paul Other 60%
Donald Payne Other 80%
John Peterson Other 20%
David Phelps Other 90%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 20%
Richard Pombo Other 20%
Earl Pomeroy Other 90%
Deborah Pryce Other 20%
Jack Quinn Other 40%
George Radanovich Other 20%
James Ramstad Other 20%
Ralph Regula Other 30%
Silvestre Reyes Other 90%
Thomas Reynolds Other 30%
Bob Riley Other 30%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 90%
Marge Roukema Other 30%
Jim Ryun Other 20%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 25%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
Joe Scarborough Other 10%
John Shadegg Other 40%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 30%
Christopher Shays Other 40%
Donald Sherwood Other 30%
Ronnie Shows Other 40%
Joseph Skeen Other 20%
Ike Skelton Other 90%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Nick Smith Other 20%
Bob Smith Other 25%
Olympia Snowe Other 63%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 20%
Arlen Specter Other 63%
Floyd Spence Other 10%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 90%
Pete Stark Other 80%
Cliff Stearns Other 20%
Charles Stenholm Other 60%
Ted Stevens Other 50%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 20%
Bart Stupak Other 90%
John Sununu Other 20%
John Sweeney Other 30%
Tom Tancredo Other 40%
John Tanner Other 90%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 20%
Charles Taylor Other 20%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 25%
William Thomas Other 20%
Fred Thompson Other 13%
Karen Thurman Other 90%
Strom Thurmond Other 25%
Todd Tiahrt Other 20%
Robert Torricelli Other 75%
Ed Towns Other 90%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 40%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 90%
James Turner Other 90%
George Voinovich Other 38%
James Walsh Other 60%
Zach Wamp Other 20%
John Warner Other 13%
Wesley Watkins Other 20%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 20%
Anthony Weiner Other 90%
David Weldon Other 40%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 30%
Gerald Weller Other 40%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 40%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 90%

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.