State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 6%
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 11%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 11%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 11%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 38%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 17%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 94%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 81%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 63%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 83%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 78%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 83%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 83%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 78%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 67%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 78%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 78%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 72%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 17%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 72%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 83%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 6%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 89%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 67%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 83%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 83%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 17%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 78%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 89%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 6%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 6%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 72%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 94%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 72%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 72%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 89%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 81%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 10%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 6%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 83%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 6%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 11%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 89%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 22%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 17%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 11%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 6%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 6%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 72%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 89%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 6%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 72%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 19%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 81%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 11%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 19%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 17%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 22%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 88%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 22%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 72%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 83%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 89%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 83%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 6%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 72%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 11%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 13%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 28%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 13%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 19%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 17%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 17%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 17%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 81%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 6%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 83%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 83%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 83%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 83%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 89%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 80%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 78%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 78%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 89%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 38%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 88%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 88%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 6%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 11%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 78%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 78%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 89%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 78%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 56%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 81%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 6%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 89%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 11%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 19%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 6%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 83%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 69%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 88%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 19%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 81%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 11%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 17%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 72%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 6%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 56%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 94%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 11%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 83%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 78%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 17%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 28%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 83%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 78%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 11%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 72%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 89%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 88%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 94%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 17%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 61%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 72%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 78%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 83%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 72%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 72%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 89%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 83%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 89%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 78%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 83%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 72%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 83%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 11%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 17%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 61%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 11%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 31%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 6%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 17%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 88%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 11%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 72%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 72%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 11%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 89%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 12%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 72%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 6%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 67%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 88%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 72%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 44%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 6%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 14%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 83%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 81%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 17%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 6%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 28%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 11%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 6%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 6%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 11%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 11%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 78%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 89%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 6%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 72%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 78%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 22%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 78%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 19%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 61%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 89%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 11%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 61%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 11%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 75%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 78%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 81%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 88%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 72%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 78%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 89%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 11%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 78%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 17%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 17%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 88%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 11%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 78%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 13%
Gary Ackerman Other 72%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 69%
Todd Akin Other 11%
Wayne Allard Other 19%
George Allen Other 25%
Thomas Allen Other 78%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 78%
Brian Baird Other 56%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 6%
Cass Ballenger Other 17%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 6%
Charlie Bass Other 22%
Evan Bayh Other 88%
Bob Bennett Other 13%
Douglas Bereuter Other 6%
Shelley Berkley Other 67%
Howard Berman Other 72%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Judy Biggert Other 11%
Michael Bilirakis Other 11%
Jeff Bingaman Other 81%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 13%
Henry Bonilla Other 22%
Mary Bono Mack Other 17%
Leonard Boswell Other 61%
Rick Boucher Other 78%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 56%
John Breaux Other 56%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 11%
Jim Bunning Other 19%
Conrad Burns Other 13%
Dan Burton Other 6%
Steve Buyer Other 11%
Robert Byrd Other 69%
Ben Campbell Other 31%
Chris Cannon Other 6%
Brad Carson Other 56%
Julia Carson Other 89%
Mike Castle Other 17%
Hillary Clinton Other 88%
Michael Collins Other 17%
Kent Conrad Other 75%
Jon Corzine Other 88%
Jerry Costello Other 67%
Christopher Cox Other 6%
Larry Craig Other 19%
Robert Cramer Other 39%
Philip Crane Other 11%
Barbara Cubin Other 6%
Randall Cunningham Other 11%
Thomas Daschle Other 88%
James Davis Other 72%
Jo Ann Davis Other 6%
Thomas Davis III Other 17%
Bill Delahunt Other 72%
Thomas DeLay Other 6%
James DeMint Other 6%
Peter Deutsch Other 72%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 22%
Norm Dicks Other 78%
Chris Dodd Other 75%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 25%
Calvin Dooley Other 56%
John Doolittle Other 11%
Byron Dorgan Other 81%
David Dreier Other 22%
Jennifer Dunn Other 6%
John Edwards Other 88%
Chet Edwards Other 67%
Vern Ehlers Other 22%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 11%
Philip English Other 11%
John Ensign Other 13%
Bob Etheridge Other 67%
Lane Evans Other 78%
Terry Everett Other 17%
Russ Feingold Other 69%
Michael Ferguson Other 22%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 31%
Ernest Fletcher Other 11%
Mark Foley Other 17%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 89%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 11%
Barney Frank Other 78%
William Frist Other 13%
Jonas Frost III Other 83%
Elton Gallegly Other 11%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 83%
Jim Gibbons Other 11%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 17%
Paul Gillmor Other 17%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 11%
Bart Gordon Other 61%
Porter Goss Other 11%
Daniel Graham Other 81%
Mark Green Other 17%
James Greenwood Other 17%
Judd Gregg Other 19%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 11%
Jane Harman Other 67%
Melissa Hart Other 11%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 11%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 11%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 11%
Baron Hill Other 72%
Maurice Hinchey Other 72%
David Lee Hobson Other 17%
Pete Hoekstra Other 11%
Thomas Holden Other 67%
Ernest Hollings Other 81%
Darlene Hooley Other 67%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 22%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 22%
Kenny Hulshof Other 11%
Duncan Hunter Other 6%
Kay Hutchison Other 19%
Henry Hyde Other 11%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 11%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 89%
William Jefferson Other 83%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 56%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 11%
Christopher John Other 56%
Nancy Johnson Other 28%
Tim Johnson Other 28%
Paul Kanjorski Other 78%
Ric Keller Other 6%
Sue Kelly Other 22%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 88%
Mark Kennedy Other 6%
Patrick Kennedy Other 83%
Dale Kildee Other 83%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 78%
Gerald Kleczka Other 89%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 11%
Herb Kohl Other 81%
James Kolbe Other 17%
Dennis Kucinich Other 83%
Jon Kyl Other 6%
Ray LaHood Other 22%
Nicholas Lampson Other 72%
Tom Lantos Other 78%
Steve LaTourette Other 17%
James Leach Other 28%
Jerry Lewis Other 17%
Ron Lewis Other 11%
Joe Lieberman Other 88%
Blanche Lincoln Other 81%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 56%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 19%
Dick Lugar Other 19%
Don Manzullo Other 11%
Robert Matsui Other 78%
Karen McCarthy Other 72%
James McCrery III Other 6%
John McHugh Other 22%
Scott McInnis Other 6%
Michael McNulty Other 78%
Martin Meehan Other 78%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 83%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 38%
Alan Mollohan Other 78%
Dennis Moore Other 67%
Jack Murtha Other 72%
Sue Myrick Other 6%
Ben Nelson Other 69%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 6%
Robert William Ney Other 11%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 11%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 6%
James Nussle Other 11%
Jim Oberstar Other 78%
Dave Obey Other 78%
John Olver Other 83%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 78%
Thomas William Osborne Other 11%
Doug Ose Other 22%
Major Owens Other 83%
Michael Oxley Other 17%
Ron Paul Other 39%
Donald Payne Other 94%
John Peterson Other 11%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 6%
Todd Platts Other 6%
Richard Pombo Other 11%
Earl Pomeroy Other 61%
Deborah Pryce Other 22%
Jack Quinn Other 33%
George Radanovich Other 6%
James Ramstad Other 6%
Ralph Regula Other 11%
Denny Rehberg Other 6%
Silvestre Reyes Other 78%
Thomas Reynolds Other 11%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 83%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 78%
Jim Ryun Other 11%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 89%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 78%
Rick Santorum Other 13%
Paul Sarbanes Other 88%
Jim Saxton Other 17%
Edward Schrock Other 11%
John Shadegg Other 6%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 22%
Christopher Shays Other 17%
Donald Sherwood Other 22%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 22%
Ike Skelton Other 61%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Nick Smith Other 17%
Olympia Snowe Other 38%
Vic Snyder Other 67%
Hilda Solis Other 83%
Mark Souder Other 28%
Arlen Specter Other 44%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 61%
Pete Stark Other 83%
Cliff Stearns Other 11%
Charles Stenholm Other 61%
Ted Stevens Other 13%
Ted Strickland Other 83%
Bart Stupak Other 78%
John Sullivan Other 14%
John Sununu Other 6%
John Sweeney Other 22%
Tom Tancredo Other 11%
John Tanner Other 56%
Ellen Tauscher Other 72%
William Tauzin Other 11%
Charles Taylor Other 6%
Gene Taylor Other 33%
Craig Thomas Other 13%
William Thomas Other 22%
Todd Tiahrt Other 17%
Ed Towns Other 78%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 89%
James Turner Other 67%
George Voinovich Other 25%
James Walsh Other 28%
Zach Wamp Other 11%
John Warner Other 31%
Diane Watson Other 92%
Anthony Weiner Other 78%
David Weldon Other 11%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 17%
Gerald Weller Other 17%
Robert Wexler Other 72%
Heather Wilson Other 17%
Lynn Woolsey Other 83%
David Wu Other 56%
Albert Wynn Other 83%

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.