or Login to see your representatives.

Access Candidates' and Representatives' Biographies, Voting Records, Interest Group Ratings, Issue Positions, Public Statements, and Campaign Finances

Simply enter your zip code above to get to all of your candidates and representatives, or enter a name. Then, just click on the person you are interested in, and you can navigate to the categories of information we track for them.

Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: Citizens Against Government Waste

2000 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 65%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 89%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 89%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 71%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 78%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 83%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 13%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 44%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 7%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 13%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 14%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 25%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 54%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 8%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 92%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 9%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 87%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 4%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 58%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 21%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 88%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 4%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 17%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 17%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 87%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 8%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 4%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 83%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 55%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 8%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 67%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 67%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 63%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 88%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 48%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 9%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 67%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 9%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 89%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 11%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 75%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 88%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 67%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 11%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 4%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 0%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 9%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 71%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 13%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 79%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 75%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 89%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 84%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 70%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 58%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 50%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 37%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 75%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 13%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 8%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 11%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 17%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 4%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 5%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 8%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 4%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 0%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 68%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 21%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 83%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 75%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 8%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 9%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 8%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 33%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 71%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 79%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 63%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 9%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 11%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 26%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 84%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 28%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 77%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 83%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 17%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 88%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 33%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 13%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 79%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 8%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 25%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 79%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 54%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 14%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 21%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 71%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 33%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 17%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 11%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 16%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 46%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 33%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 4%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 17%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 6%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 13%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 5%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 24%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 8%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 13%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 92%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 100%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 70%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 9%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 4%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 79%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 79%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 63%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 21%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 67%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 14%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 22%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 87%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 4%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 4%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 13%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 83%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 8%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 21%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 47%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 82%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 13%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 21%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 58%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 92%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 63%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 78%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 83%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 57%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 4%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 4%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 71%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 13%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 5%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 88%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 25%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 79%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 8%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 86%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 22%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 54%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 17%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 4%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 22%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 83%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 8%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 42%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 42%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 4%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 92%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 30%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 92%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 92%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 21%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 11%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 4%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 79%
Gary Ackerman 9%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 6%
Wayne Allard 89%
Thomas Allen 4%
Richard Armey 88%
Joe Baca, Sr. 8%
Brian Baird 17%
Richard Hugh Baker 71%
John Baldacci 0%
Cass Ballenger 78%
James Barcia 38%
Robert Barr, Jr. 92%
Roscoe Bartlett 83%
Charlie Bass 83%
Evan Bayh 16%
Bob Bennett 78%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 4%
Douglas Bereuter 63%
Shelley Berkley 42%
Howard Berman 4%
Marion Berry 21%
Judy Biggert 63%
Michael Bilirakis 67%
Jeff Bingaman 16%
Rod Blagojevich 17%
Sherwood Boehlert 42%
Kit Bond 79%
Henry Bonilla 70%
David Edward Bonior 4%
Mary Bono Mack 63%
Robert Borski, Jr. 0%
Leonard Boswell 25%
Rick Boucher 26%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 35%
John Breaux 37%
Ed Bryant 92%
Jim Bunning 83%
Conrad Burns 74%
Dan Burton 75%
Steve Buyer 75%
Robert Byrd 26%
Herbert Callahan 64%
Ben Campbell 74%
Chris Cannon 83%
Julia Carson 8%
Mike Castle 67%
Eva Clayton 17%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 32%
Robert Clement 33%
Michael Collins 83%
Larry Combest 75%
Gary Condit 50%
Kent Conrad 21%
John Cooksey 62%
Jerry Costello 22%
Christopher Cox 86%
William Coyne 5%
Larry Craig 79%
Robert Cramer 46%
Philip Crane 95%
Barbara Cubin 78%
Randall Cunningham 74%
Thomas Daschle 5%
James Davis 13%
Thomas Davis III 74%
Bill Delahunt 13%
Thomas DeLay 86%
James DeMint 96%
Peter Deutsch 29%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 63%
Norm Dicks 4%
Chris Dodd 11%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 72%
Calvin Dooley 33%
John Doolittle 67%
Byron Dorgan 11%
David Dreier 75%
Jennifer Dunn 67%
John Edwards 11%
Chet Edwards 8%
Vern Ehlers 67%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 88%
Jo Ann Emerson 63%
Philip English 71%
Bob Etheridge 29%
Lane Evans 8%
Terry Everett 74%
Russ Feingold 16%
Peter Fitzgerald 79%
Ernest Fletcher 67%
Mark Foley 67%
Harold Ford, Jr. 17%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 83%
Barney Frank 25%
William Frist 89%
Jonas Frost III 4%
Elton Gallegly 54%
John Ganske 75%
George Gekas 70%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 0%
Jim Gibbons 71%
Wayne Gilchrest 68%
Paul Gillmor 52%
Benjamin Gilman 41%
Charlie Gonzalez 4%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 79%
Bart Gordon 43%
Porter Goss 88%
Daniel Graham 16%
William Phillip Gramm 89%
Mark Green 92%
James Greenwood 71%
Judd Gregg 83%
Gilbert Gutknecht 75%
Tony Hall 8%
James Hansen 73%
J. Dennis Hastert 100%
Robert Hayes 71%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 92%
Joel Hefley 92%
Jesse Helms 79%
Wally Herger, Jr. 87%
Baron Hill 9%
Van Hilleary 92%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 9%
Maurice Hinchey 4%
David Lee Hobson 63%
Pete Hoekstra 92%
Thomas Holden 21%
Ernest Hollings 11%
Darlene Hooley 21%
Stephen Horn 54%
John Nathan Hostettler 88%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 62%
Kenny Hulshof 83%
Duncan Hunter 67%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 78%
Kay Hutchison 89%
Henry Hyde 67%
Daniel Inouye 19%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 70%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 17%
James Merrill Jeffords 47%
William Lewis Jenkins 71%
Christopher John 38%
Nancy Johnson 54%
Paul Kanjorski 17%
Sue Kelly 71%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 16%
Patrick Kennedy 0%
Dale Kildee 8%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 0%
Gerald Kleczka 13%
Joseph Knollenberg 63%
Herb Kohl 37%
James Kolbe 67%
Dennis Kucinich 4%
Jon Kyl 95%
John LaFalce 8%
Ray LaHood 63%
Nicholas Lampson 13%
Tom Lantos 4%
Stephen Largent 95%
Steve LaTourette 61%
James Leach 70%
Jerry Lewis 57%
Ron Lewis 63%
Joe Lieberman 14%
Blanche Lincoln 32%
John Linder 92%
William Lipinski 19%
Trent Lott, Sr. 79%
Dick Lugar 79%
William Luther 38%
James Maloney 42%
Don Manzullo 92%
Frank Mascara 8%
Robert Matsui 4%
Karen McCarthy 4%
James McCrery III 74%
John McHugh 54%
Scott McInnis 88%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 21%
Michael McNulty 16%
Martin Meehan 33%
Carrie Meek 4%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 4%
Dan Miller 92%
Zell Bryan Miller 60%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 17%
Alan Mollohan 13%
Dennis Moore 38%
Constance Morella 38%
Frank Murkowski 89%
Jack Murtha 13%
Sue Myrick 96%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 63%
Robert William Ney 58%
Don Nickles 89%
Anne Northup 63%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 74%
James Nussle 75%
Jim Oberstar 9%
Dave Obey 4%
John Olver 13%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 8%
Doug Ose 54%
Major Owens 0%
Michael Oxley 78%
Ron Paul 83%
Donald Payne 0%
John Peterson 67%
David Phelps 21%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 79%
Richard Pombo 75%
Earl Pomeroy 9%
Deborah Pryce 70%
Jack Quinn 45%
George Radanovich 77%
James Ramstad 88%
Ralph Regula 54%
Silvestre Reyes 4%
Thomas Reynolds 64%
Bob Riley 67%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 17%
Ciro Rodriguez 4%
Timothy Roemer 46%
Steve Rothman 4%
Marge Roukema 79%
Jim Ryun 88%
Martin Olav Sabo 0%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 39%
Rick Santorum 79%
Paul Sarbanes 5%
Jim Saxton 58%
John Shadegg 92%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 75%
Christopher Shays 83%
Donald Sherwood 54%
Ronnie Shows 58%
Joseph Skeen 58%
Ike Skelton 25%
Gordon Smith 84%
Nick Smith 77%
Bob Smith 74%
Olympia Snowe 74%
Vic Snyder 9%
Mark Souder 67%
Arlen Specter 65%
John Spratt, Jr. 22%
Pete Stark 13%
Cliff Stearns 92%
Charles Stenholm 33%
Ted Stevens 74%
Ted Strickland 17%
Bob Stump 75%
Bart Stupak 4%
John Sununu 88%
John Sweeney 67%
Tom Tancredo 92%
John Tanner 33%
Ellen Tauscher 21%
William Tauzin 65%
Charles Taylor 71%
Gene Taylor 46%
Craig Thomas 79%
William Thomas 63%
Fred Thompson 89%
Karen Thurman 13%
Strom Thurmond 74%
Todd Tiahrt 71%
Robert Torricelli 17%
Ed Towns 0%
James Traficant, Jr. 38%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 0%
James Turner 25%
George Voinovich 63%
James Walsh 50%
Zach Wamp 83%
John Warner 84%
Wesley Watkins 63%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 71%
Anthony Weiner 17%
David Weldon 79%
W. Curtis Weldon 61%
Gerald Weller 70%
Paul Wellstone 5%
Robert Wexler 14%
Heather Wilson 63%
Lynn Woolsey 4%
David Wu 25%
Albert Wynn 9%

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.

Back to top