State Office Name Party Rating
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 70%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 94%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 90%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 95%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 72%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 93%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 89%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 41%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 67%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 35%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 94%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 80%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 72%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 88%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 75%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 82%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 56%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 84%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 89%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 53%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 37%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 65%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 75%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 47%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 61%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 83%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 89%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 56%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 56%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 89%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 53%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 71%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 83%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 72%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 76%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 53%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 67%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 39%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 93%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 94%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 90%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 61%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 50%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 39%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 28%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 89%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 39%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 94%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 89%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 94%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 67%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 94%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 90%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 74%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 56%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 47%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 28%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 33%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 63%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 72%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 65%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 56%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 80%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 90%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 71%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 94%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 74%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 53%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 47%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 67%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 94%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 97%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 94%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 60%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 85%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 83%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 72%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 71%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 75%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 61%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 35%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 94%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 93%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 55%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 56%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 61%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 63%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 50%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 47%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 94%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 61%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 47%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 70%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 87%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 65%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 83%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 63%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 56%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 47%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 78%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 83%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 65%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 71%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 53%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 78%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 53%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 40%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 95%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 35%
OH Governor John Kasich R 89%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 85%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 67%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 71%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 91%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 94%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 44%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 44%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 63%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 56%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 68%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 93%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 60%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 65%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 56%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 90%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 94%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 44%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 94%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 73%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 94%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 83%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 65%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 89%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 53%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 79%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 40%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 78%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 83%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 28%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 96%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 94%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 75%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 94%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 94%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 78%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 94%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 56%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 80%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 39%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 93%
Gary Ackerman Other 79%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 86%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 72%
Bill Archer Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 100%
John Ashcroft Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 60%
Brian Baird Other 78%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
John Baldacci Other 61%
Cass Ballenger Other 90%
James Barcia Other 56%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 68%
Bill Barrett Other 94%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 67%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Herbert Bateman Other 94%
Evan Bayh Other 93%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 78%
Douglas Bereuter Other 90%
Shelley Berkley Other 72%
Howard Berman Other 68%
Marion Berry Other 78%
Judy Biggert Other 94%
Brian Bilbray Other 94%
Michael Bilirakis Other 78%
Jeff Bingaman Other 97%
Rod Blagojevich Other 56%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 94%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 93%
Henry Bonilla Other 94%
David Edward Bonior Other 28%
Mary Bono Mack Other 90%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 56%
Leonard Boswell Other 83%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 89%
John Breaux Other 82%
Richard Bryan Other 88%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 56%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 72%
Steve Buyer Other 83%
Robert Byrd Other 67%
Herbert Callahan Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 78%
Thomas Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 94%
Julia Carson Other 72%
Mike Castle Other 94%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 44%
William Clay, Sr. Other 59%
Eva Clayton Other 72%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 85%
Robert Clement Other 78%
Michael Collins Other 74%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 61%
Kent Conrad Other 81%
Merrill Cook Other 64%
John Cooksey Other 94%
Jerry Costello Other 44%
Christopher Cox Other 88%
William Coyne Other 50%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 94%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 89%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 63%
Thomas Daschle Other 93%
James Davis Other 90%
Thomas Davis III Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 37%
Thomas DeLay Other 94%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 67%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 61%
Jay Dickey Other 88%
Norm Dicks Other 88%
Julian Dixon Other 82%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 100%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 83%
Byron Dorgan Other 83%
David Dreier Other 100%
Jennifer Dunn Other 100%
John Edwards Other 90%
Chet Edwards Other 75%
Vern Ehlers Other 94%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 78%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 89%
Philip English Other 95%
Bob Etheridge Other 88%
Lane Evans Other 44%
Thomas Ewing Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 46%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 100%
Ernest Fletcher Other 94%
Mark Foley Other 94%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 61%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 78%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Tillie Fowler Other 88%
Barney Frank Other 42%
Robert Franks Other 100%
William Frist Other 91%
Jonas Frost III Other 82%
Elton Gallegly Other 90%
John Ganske Other 61%
Sam Gejdenson Other 65%
George Gekas Other 95%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 50%
Jim Gibbons Other 71%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 94%
Paul Gillmor Other 94%
Benjamin Gilman Other 60%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 67%
William Goodling Other 79%
Bart Gordon Other 72%
Slade Gorton Other 100%
Porter Goss Other 100%
Daniel Graham Other 93%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Rodney Grams Other 100%
Mark Green Other 89%
James Greenwood Other 94%
Judd Gregg Other 89%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 94%
Tony Hall Other 65%
James Hansen Other 94%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 72%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 72%
Joel Hefley Other 78%
Jesse Helms Other 67%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 83%
Rick Hill Other 100%
Van Hilleary Other 83%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 83%
Pete Hoekstra Other 83%
Thomas Holden Other 72%
Ernest Hollings Other 45%
Darlene Hooley Other 78%
Stephen Horn Other 78%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 61%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 95%
Duncan Hunter Other 56%
Asa Hutchinson Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 70%
Kay Hutchison Other 91%
Henry Hyde Other 85%
Daniel Inouye Other 85%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 94%
William Jefferson Other 83%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 80%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 90%
Christopher John Other 94%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 78%
Patrick Kennedy Other 44%
Bob Kerrey Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 44%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 53%
Gerald Kleczka Other 67%
Ronald Klink Other 47%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 94%
Herb Kohl Other 79%
James Kolbe Other 94%
Dennis Kucinich Other 22%
Steven Kuykendall Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 85%
John LaFalce Other 67%
Ray LaHood Other 94%
Nicholas Lampson Other 72%
Tom Lantos Other 47%
Stephen Largent Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 88%
Rick Lazio Other 100%
James Leach Other 94%
Jerry Lewis Other 94%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 94%
William Lipinski Other 38%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 91%
Dick Lugar Other 100%
William Luther Other 67%
Connie Mack Other 100%
James Maloney Other 61%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Matthew Martinez Other 84%
Frank Mascara Other 56%
Robert Matsui Other 76%
Karen McCarthy Other 67%
Bill McCollum Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 95%
John McHugh Other 94%
Scott McInnis Other 100%
David McIntosh Other 100%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 42%
Michael McNulty Other 74%
Martin Meehan Other 78%
Carrie Meek Other 50%
Jack Metcalf Other 83%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 72%
Dan Miller Other 94%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
David Minge Other 83%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 39%
John Moakley Other 59%
Alan Mollohan Other 53%
Dennis Moore Other 78%
Constance Morella Other 94%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 71%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 61%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 94%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 72%
James Nussle Other 95%
Jim Oberstar Other 44%
Dave Obey Other 41%
John Olver Other 44%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 83%
Doug Ose Other 100%
Major Owens Other 53%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ronald Packard Other 94%
Ron Paul Other 41%
Donald Payne Other 45%
Edward Pease Other 100%
John Peterson Other 93%
David Phelps Other 56%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 88%
Owen Pickett Other 83%
Richard Pombo Other 78%
Earl Pomeroy Other 89%
John Edward Porter Other 89%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
Jack Quinn Other 78%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 94%
Silvestre Reyes Other 88%
Thomas Reynolds Other 94%
Bob Riley Other 71%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 50%
Charles Robb Other 96%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 72%
Timothy Roemer Other 88%
James Rogan Other 100%
William Roth, Jr. Other 96%
Steve Rothman Other 30%
Marge Roukema Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 50%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 83%
Rick Santorum Other 90%
Paul Sarbanes Other 60%
Jim Saxton Other 72%
Joe Scarborough Other 85%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 95%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 94%
Ronnie Shows Other 56%
E.G. Shuster Other 94%
Norman Sisisky Other 67%
Joseph Skeen Other 94%
Ike Skelton Other 83%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Nick Smith Other 94%
Bob Smith Other 69%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 78%
Mark Souder Other 67%
Arlen Specter Other 58%
Floyd Spence Other 76%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 53%
Pete Stark Other 21%
Cliff Stearns Other 78%
Charles Stenholm Other 89%
Ted Strickland Other 50%
Bart Stupak Other 50%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 78%
James Talent Other 94%
Tom Tancredo Other 75%
John Tanner Other 95%
Ellen Tauscher Other 94%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 71%
Gene Taylor Other 44%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 95%
Fred Thompson Other 77%
Karen Thurman Other 84%
Strom Thurmond Other 92%
Todd Tiahrt Other 83%
Robert Torricelli Other 77%
Ed Towns Other 72%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 61%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 53%
James Turner Other 89%
Bruce Vento Other 38%
George Voinovich Other 80%
James Walsh Other 83%
Zach Wamp Other 61%
John Warner Other 100%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 94%
Anthony Weiner Other 70%
David Weldon Other 78%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 60%
Robert Wexler Other 50%
Bob Weygand Other 47%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 57%
Lynn Woolsey Other 44%
David Wu Other 67%
Albert Wynn Other 65%

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.