State Office Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 15%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 15%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 85%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 7%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 15%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 13%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 92%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 83%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 77%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 77%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 15%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 85%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 7%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 27%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 77%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 87%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 85%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 85%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 62%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 93%
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 85%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 13%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 92%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 17%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 85%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 85%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 85%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 92%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 21%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 7%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 7%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 20%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 13%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 7%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 87%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 87%
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 85%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 87%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 7%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 87%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 7%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 87%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 85%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 87%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 7%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 7%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 13%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 7%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 87%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 86%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 93%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 7%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 7%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 7%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 7%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 7%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 13%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 0%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 87%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 13%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 7%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 85%
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 27%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 21%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 7%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 87%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 80%
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. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 93%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 87%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 87%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 7%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 27%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 7%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 87%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 13%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 0%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 87%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 87%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 33%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 80%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 13%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 93%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 53%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 33%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 13%
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 13%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 93%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 27%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 80%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 93%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 87%
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 80%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 83%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 80%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 87%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 7%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 7%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 7%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 7%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 7%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 7%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 13%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 87%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 7%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 20%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 7%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 27%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 13%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 13%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 87%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 7%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 7%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 13%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 87%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 7%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 93%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 73%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 7%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 7%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 86%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 27%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 87%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 80%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 7%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 80%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 7%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 31%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 87%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 7%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 8%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 7%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 87%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 29%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 93%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 20%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 20%
Charlie Bass Other 7%
Evan Bayh Other 85%
Bob Beauprez Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 87%
Marion Berry Other 93%
Judy Biggert Other 13%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 85%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 47%
Kit Bond Other 8%
Henry Bonilla Other 7%
Mary Bono Mack Other 7%
Leonard Boswell Other 80%
Rick Boucher Other 93%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 71%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 7%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 7%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 13%
Steve Buyer Other 7%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 93%
Julia Carson Other 93%
Edward Case Other 86%
Mike Castle Other 20%
Chris Chocola Other 0%
Hillary Clinton Other 85%
Norm Coleman Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 77%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 93%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 15%
Robert Cramer Other 58%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 7%
Artur Davis Other 87%
James Davis Other 87%
Jo Ann Davis Other 27%
Lincoln Davis Other 79%
Thomas Davis III Other 15%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 13%
Norm Dicks Other 87%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Elizabeth Dole Other 8%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
John Doolittle Other 7%
Byron Dorgan Other 92%
David Dreier Other 7%
Vern Ehlers Other 7%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 31%
Philip English Other 21%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 87%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 13%
Tom Feeney Other 8%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 20%
Mark Foley Other 13%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 86%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 20%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 8%
Elton Gallegly Other 7%
Jim Gibbons Other 8%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 7%
Paul Gillmor Other 20%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 80%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 20%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Mark Green Other 13%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 21%
Jane Harman Other 75%
Katherine Harris Other 7%
Melissa Hart Other 13%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 20%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 7%
Joel Hefley Other 27%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 7%
Pete Hoekstra Other 23%
Thomas Holden Other 93%
Darlene Hooley Other 87%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 40%
Kenny Hulshof Other 7%
Duncan Hunter Other 20%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 8%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 87%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 92%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 7%
Nancy Johnson Other 13%
Tim Johnson Other 47%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 33%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 7%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 7%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 29%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 33%
James Leach Other 53%
Jerry Lewis Other 7%
Ron Lewis Other 13%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 77%
John Linder Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 13%
Jim Marshall Other 87%
Robert Matsui Other 87%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 7%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 67%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 87%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 87%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 80%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 7%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 62%
Robert William Ney Other 20%
Anne Northup Other 73%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 27%
James Nussle Other 20%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 87%
Thomas William Osborne Other 13%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 7%
Ron Paul Other 47%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 13%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 27%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 73%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 13%
Deborah Pryce Other 7%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 20%
Ralph Regula Other 7%
Denny Rehberg Other 7%
Richard Renzi Other 20%
Silvestre Reyes Other 87%
Thomas Reynolds Other 7%
Mike Ross Other 93%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 7%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 93%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 38%
John Shadegg Other 7%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 13%
Christopher Shays Other 27%
Donald Sherwood Other 7%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 27%
Ike Skelton Other 80%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 31%
Vic Snyder Other 79%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 7%
Arlen Specter Other 46%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 7%
Ted Stevens Other 15%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 47%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 20%
John Tanner Other 80%
Ellen Tauscher Other 80%
Charles Taylor Other 21%
Gene Taylor Other 87%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 7%
Todd Tiahrt Other 14%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 15%
James Walsh Other 14%
Zach Wamp Other 7%
John Warner Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 87%
Anthony Weiner Other 87%
David Weldon Other 7%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 13%
Gerald Weller Other 7%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 13%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 80%
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.