State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 13%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 19%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 20%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 17%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 8%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 27%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 92%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 94%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 92%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 92%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 8%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 83%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 92%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 8%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 8%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 17%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 92%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 17%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 83%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
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 8%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 92%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 93%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 17%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 17%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 17%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 17%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 17%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 18%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 17%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 9%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 8%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 9%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 92%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 13%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 8%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 19%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 17%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 8%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 94%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 25%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 25%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 13%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 19%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 6%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 8%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 17%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 33%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 88%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 8%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 92%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch 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 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 17%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 25%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 17%
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 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 75%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 17%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 17%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 8%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 81%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 25%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 17%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 18%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 17%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 82%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 8%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 42%
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 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 92%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 27%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 75%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 83%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 92%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 92%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 91%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 92%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 8%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 8%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 8%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 25%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 25%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 17%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 91%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 8%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 30%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 63%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 17%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 92%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 94%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 33%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 25%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 25%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 8%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 8%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 75%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 8%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 9%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 6%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 75%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 13%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 17%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 8%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 83%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 17%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 83%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 8%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 83%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 92%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 17%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 92%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 8%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 17%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 20%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 6%
George Allen Other 13%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 8%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 83%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 9%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 83%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 9%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 17%
Charlie Bass Other 17%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 13%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 82%
Douglas Bereuter Other 17%
Shelley Berkley Other 92%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 92%
Judy Biggert Other 17%
Michael Bilirakis Other 25%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 19%
Henry Bonilla Other 8%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 17%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 92%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 82%
John Breaux Other 75%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 8%
Ed Bryant Other 8%
Jim Bunning Other 13%
Conrad Burns Other 19%
Dan Burton Other 9%
Steve Buyer Other 18%
Robert Byrd Other 75%
Herbert Callahan Other 8%
Ben Campbell Other 40%
Chris Cannon Other 8%
Jean Carnahan Other 93%
Brad Carson Other 67%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 25%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 88%
Robert Clement Other 73%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 17%
Larry Combest Other 17%
Gary Condit Other 75%
Kent Conrad Other 94%
John Cooksey Other 8%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 13%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Philip Crane Other 8%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 17%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 83%
Jo Ann Davis Other 17%
Thomas Davis III Other 17%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 8%
Norm Dicks Other 82%
Chris Dodd Other 94%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 21%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 17%
Byron Dorgan Other 94%
David Dreier Other 8%
Jennifer Dunn Other 8%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 8%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 17%
Philip English Other 25%
John Ensign Other 19%
Bob Etheridge Other 92%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 8%
Russ Feingold Other 94%
Michael Ferguson Other 33%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 38%
Ernest Fletcher Other 8%
Mark Foley Other 25%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 91%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 9%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 13%
Jonas Frost III Other 92%
Elton Gallegly Other 17%
John Ganske Other 42%
George Gekas Other 17%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 17%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 17%
Paul Gillmor Other 18%
Benjamin Gilman Other 42%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 78%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 25%
Bart Gordon Other 83%
Porter Goss Other 8%
Daniel Graham Other 94%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 17%
James Greenwood Other 8%
Judd Gregg Other 13%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 33%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 17%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 8%
Jane Harman Other 83%
Melissa Hart Other 17%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 8%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 8%
Joel Hefley Other 18%
Jesse Helms Other 6%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 82%
Van Hilleary Other 17%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 17%
Pete Hoekstra Other 17%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 88%
Darlene Hooley Other 83%
Stephen Horn Other 33%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 11%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 18%
Kenny Hulshof Other 17%
Duncan Hunter Other 17%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 19%
Kay Hutchison Other 19%
Henry Hyde Other 17%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 8%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 91%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 56%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 8%
Christopher John Other 45%
Nancy Johnson Other 17%
Tim Johnson Other 33%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Ric Keller Other 9%
Sue Kelly Other 25%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 17%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Brian Kerns Other 8%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 8%
Herb Kohl Other 88%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 6%
John LaFalce Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 36%
James Leach Other 42%
Jerry Lewis Other 8%
Ron Lewis Other 8%
Joe Lieberman Other 93%
Blanche Lincoln Other 88%
John Linder Other 8%
William Lipinski Other 80%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 13%
William Luther Other 100%
James Maloney Other 91%
Don Manzullo Other 17%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 91%
Karen McCarthy Other 91%
James McCrery III Other 8%
John McHugh Other 42%
Scott McInnis Other 8%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 0%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 56%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 92%
Dennis Moore Other 75%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Frank Murkowski Other 7%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 81%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 8%
Robert William Ney Other 25%
Don Nickles Other 13%
Anne Northup Other 8%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 25%
James Nussle Other 17%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 75%
Thomas William Osborne Other 17%
Doug Ose Other 17%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 10%
Ron Paul Other 27%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 8%
David Phelps Other 100%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 17%
Todd Platts Other 18%
Richard Pombo Other 25%
Earl Pomeroy Other 92%
Deborah Pryce Other 17%
Jack Quinn Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 17%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Denny Rehberg Other 17%
Silvestre Reyes Other 83%
Thomas Reynolds Other 17%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 83%
Mike Ross Other 92%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 36%
Jim Ryun Other 8%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 92%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 83%
Rick Santorum Other 13%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
Edward Schrock Other 8%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 8%
Christopher Shays Other 17%
Donald Sherwood Other 17%
Ronnie Shows Other 82%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 25%
Joseph Skeen Other 8%
Ike Skelton Other 67%
Gordon Smith Other 44%
Nick Smith Other 8%
Bob Smith Other 13%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 9%
Arlen Specter Other 63%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 92%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 18%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 25%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 9%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 18%
Tom Tancredo Other 8%
John Tanner Other 64%
Ellen Tauscher Other 83%
William Tauzin Other 17%
Charles Taylor Other 8%
Gene Taylor Other 64%
Craig Thomas Other 13%
William Thomas Other 8%
Fred Thompson Other 13%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 6%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 94%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 42%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 75%
George Voinovich Other 13%
James Walsh Other 10%
Zach Wamp Other 9%
John Warner Other 25%
Wesley Watkins Other 8%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 8%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 8%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 42%
Gerald Weller Other 17%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 17%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 92%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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.