State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 14%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 16%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 57%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 80%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 71%
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-18 Anna Eshoo D 57%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 71%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 85%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 71%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
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 85%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 83%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 14%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 71%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 85%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 14%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 85%
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 14%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 28%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 14%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 71%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 14%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 85%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 85%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 85%
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 14%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 14%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 57%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 71%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 85%
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%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 85%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 85%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
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 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 85%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 71%
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%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 85%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 71%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 85%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 14%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 14%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 71%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 14%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 57%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 85%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 85%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 42%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 57%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 85%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 85%
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%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 57%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 71%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 85%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 85%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 85%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 85%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 85%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 85%
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 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH Governor John Kasich R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 85%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 14%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 28%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 71%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 14%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 83%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
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 85%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 57%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 14%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 42%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 85%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 14%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 16%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 85%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 85%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 85%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 85%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 42%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 14%
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 71%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 83%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 75%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 57%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 14%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 14%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 85%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 85%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 85%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 85%
Bill Archer Other 0%
Richard Armey Other 0%
John Ashcroft Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 83%
Brian Baird Other 71%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 71%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 14%
Bill Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 14%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Herbert Bateman Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 85%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 85%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 85%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 42%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 14%
Jeff Bingaman Other 85%
Rod Blagojevich Other 85%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 0%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 28%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 100%
Leonard Boswell Other 71%
Rick Boucher Other 85%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 28%
John Breaux Other 28%
Richard Bryan Other 85%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 14%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 16%
Steve Buyer Other 14%
Robert Byrd Other 85%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 16%
Thomas Campbell Other 20%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Julia Carson Other 85%
Mike Castle Other 0%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 28%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 85%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 57%
Robert Clement Other 57%
Michael Collins Other 14%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 71%
Kent Conrad Other 85%
Merrill Cook Other 25%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jerry Costello Other 85%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 57%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 83%
James Davis Other 71%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 83%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 85%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 42%
Jay Dickey Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 85%
Julian Dixon Other 85%
Chris Dodd Other 85%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 42%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 85%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 85%
Chet Edwards Other 71%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 14%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 14%
Philip English Other 28%
Bob Etheridge Other 57%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Thomas Ewing Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 14%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 85%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 71%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Tillie Fowler Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Robert Franks Other 14%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 85%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
John Ganske Other 14%
Sam Gejdenson Other 100%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 14%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 60%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 85%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 14%
William Goodling Other 14%
Bart Gordon Other 85%
Slade Gorton Other 0%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 85%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Rodney Grams Other 0%
Mark Green Other 14%
James Greenwood Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 14%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 16%
Joel Hefley Other 14%
Jesse Helms Other 14%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 85%
Rick Hill Other 0%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 14%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 85%
Darlene Hooley Other 71%
Stephen Horn Other 42%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 28%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 16%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 14%
Asa Hutchinson Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 20%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 14%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 20%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 71%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 57%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 28%
Nancy Johnson Other 14%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 14%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 85%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Bob Kerrey Other 71%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Ronald Klink Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 71%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Steven Kuykendall Other 0%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 85%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 85%
Tom Lantos Other 85%
Stephen Largent Other 0%
Steve LaTourette Other 28%
Rick Lazio Other 0%
James Leach Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 83%
Blanche Lincoln Other 57%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 85%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 100%
Connie Mack Other 0%
James Maloney Other 71%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Matthew Martinez Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 100%
Robert Matsui Other 85%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
Bill McCollum Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 28%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
David McIntosh Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 83%
Martin Meehan Other 85%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 28%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 0%
David Minge Other 85%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 85%
John Moakley Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 85%
Dennis Moore Other 57%
Constance Morella Other 42%
Patrick Moynihan Other 83%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 42%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 14%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 85%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ronald Packard Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 57%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Edward Pease Other 0%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 85%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Owen Pickett Other 42%
Richard Pombo Other 14%
Earl Pomeroy Other 85%
John Edward Porter Other 14%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 57%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 14%
Silvestre Reyes Other 85%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 14%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Charles Robb Other 71%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 66%
James Rogan Other 0%
William Roth, Jr. Other 0%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 71%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 42%
Joe Scarborough Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 14%
Donald Sherwood Other 14%
Ronnie Shows Other 71%
E.G. Shuster Other 0%
Norman Sisisky Other 42%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 57%
Gordon Smith Other 0%
Nick Smith Other 20%
Bob Smith Other 14%
Olympia Snowe Other 0%
Vic Snyder Other 85%
Mark Souder Other 14%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
Floyd Spence Other 14%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 71%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 14%
Charles Stenholm Other 42%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 28%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 14%
John Tanner Other 28%
Ellen Tauscher Other 57%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 16%
Gene Taylor Other 57%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 85%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 57%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 42%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 57%
Bruce Vento Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 14%
James Walsh Other 0%
Zach Wamp Other 14%
John Warner Other 0%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 85%
David Weldon Other 14%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 28%
Gerald Weller Other 33%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Bob Weygand Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 85%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 85%
Albert Wynn Other 85%

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.