State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 23%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 29%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 31%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 15%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 21%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 21%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 21%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 21%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 46%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 21%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 54%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 21%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 86%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 86%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 14%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 46%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 62%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 79%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 86%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 86%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 86%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 86%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 71%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 79%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 79%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 21%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 86%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 21%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 86%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 86%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 14%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 86%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 86%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 86%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 86%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 21%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 86%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 21%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 86%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 86%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 21%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 21%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 86%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 86%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 86%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 86%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 86%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 86%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 38%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 46%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 29%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 21%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 86%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 21%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 21%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 79%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 21%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 21%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 21%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 23%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 21%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 21%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 64%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 79%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 21%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 57%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 21%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 79%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 54%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 21%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 14%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 23%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 21%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 21%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 46%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 21%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 79%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 79%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 79%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 71%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 21%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 86%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 79%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 36%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 23%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 29%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 15%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 23%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 21%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 21%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 38%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 21%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 43%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 79%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 86%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 86%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 79%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 86%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 86%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 54%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 86%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 71%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 86%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 86%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 86%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 23%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 79%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 62%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 54%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 21%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 36%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 21%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 86%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 29%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 86%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 64%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 21%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 79%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 43%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 62%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 21%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 79%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 21%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 23%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 21%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 86%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 38%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 62%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 23%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 38%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 29%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 29%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 79%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 21%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 64%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 86%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 21%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 21%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 86%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 86%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 29%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 29%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 21%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 86%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 86%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 21%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 79%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 86%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 21%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 54%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 46%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 79%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 29%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 57%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 64%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 86%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 86%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 79%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 79%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 86%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 79%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 86%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 79%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 86%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 86%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 79%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 21%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 29%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 21%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 86%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 21%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 21%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 79%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 23%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 15%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 21%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 21%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 54%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 14%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 79%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 79%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 86%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 86%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 21%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 21%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 86%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 21%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 29%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 69%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 86%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 46%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 46%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 21%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 79%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 62%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 23%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 14%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 86%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 21%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 31%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 14%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 14%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 14%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 21%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 21%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 21%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 14%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 21%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 71%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 71%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 21%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 14%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 71%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 79%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 14%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 21%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 79%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 23%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 21%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 43%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 86%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 21%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 21%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 21%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 79%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 21%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 54%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 86%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 46%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 46%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 79%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 21%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 86%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 86%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 86%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 21%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 79%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 21%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 21%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 62%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 29%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 79%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 31%
Gary Ackerman Other 79%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 54%
Todd Akin Other 29%
Wayne Allard Other 31%
George Allen Other 23%
Thomas Allen Other 86%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 86%
Brian Baird Other 86%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 21%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 29%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 14%
Charlie Bass Other 21%
Evan Bayh Other 62%
Bob Beauprez Other 21%
Bob Bennett Other 15%
Shelley Berkley Other 71%
Howard Berman Other 86%
Marion Berry Other 71%
Judy Biggert Other 21%
Michael Bilirakis Other 21%
Jeff Bingaman Other 46%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 36%
Kit Bond Other 23%
Henry Bonilla Other 14%
Mary Bono Mack Other 21%
Leonard Boswell Other 57%
Rick Boucher Other 71%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 50%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 21%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 21%
Jim Bunning Other 23%
Conrad Burns Other 15%
Dan Burton Other 36%
Steve Buyer Other 29%
Robert Byrd Other 62%
Chris Cannon Other 21%
Dennis Cardoza Other 57%
Julia Carson Other 64%
Edward Case Other 71%
Mike Castle Other 43%
Chris Chocola Other 21%
Hillary Clinton Other 62%
Norm Coleman Other 15%
Kent Conrad Other 46%
Jon Corzine Other 62%
Jerry Costello Other 64%
Christopher Cox Other 21%
Larry Craig Other 23%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Barbara Cubin Other 14%
Randall Cunningham Other 21%
Artur Davis Other 79%
James Davis Other 86%
Jo Ann Davis Other 14%
Lincoln Davis Other 43%
Thomas Davis III Other 29%
Bill Delahunt Other 86%
Thomas DeLay Other 14%
James DeMint Other 36%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 21%
Norm Dicks Other 86%
Chris Dodd Other 54%
Elizabeth Dole Other 23%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 23%
John Doolittle Other 14%
Byron Dorgan Other 54%
David Dreier Other 21%
Chet Edwards Other 57%
Vern Ehlers Other 29%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 29%
Philip English Other 14%
John Ensign Other 31%
Bob Etheridge Other 86%
Lane Evans Other 79%
Terry Everett Other 21%
Tom Feeney Other 14%
Russ Feingold Other 62%
Michael Ferguson Other 29%
Mark Foley Other 21%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 64%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 21%
Barney Frank Other 86%
William Frist Other 23%
Elton Gallegly Other 21%
Jim Gibbons Other 21%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 21%
Paul Gillmor Other 21%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 71%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 29%
Bart Gordon Other 79%
Mark Green Other 21%
Judd Gregg Other 31%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 43%
Jane Harman Other 79%
Katherine Harris Other 21%
Melissa Hart Other 21%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 21%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 21%
Joel Hefley Other 21%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 21%
Maurice Hinchey Other 86%
David Lee Hobson Other 21%
Pete Hoekstra Other 21%
Thomas Holden Other 79%
Darlene Hooley Other 64%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 29%
Kenny Hulshof Other 21%
Duncan Hunter Other 21%
Kay Hutchison Other 23%
Henry Hyde Other 14%
Daniel Inouye Other 38%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 31%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 79%
William Jefferson Other 86%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 54%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 21%
Nancy Johnson Other 29%
Tim Johnson Other 29%
Paul Kanjorski Other 86%
Ric Keller Other 21%
Sue Kelly Other 29%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 62%
Mark Kennedy Other 21%
Patrick Kennedy Other 86%
Dale Kildee Other 86%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 86%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 21%
Herb Kohl Other 69%
James Kolbe Other 21%
Dennis Kucinich Other 86%
Jon Kyl Other 23%
Ray LaHood Other 29%
Tom Lantos Other 79%
Steve LaTourette Other 29%
Frank Lautenberg Other 62%
James Leach Other 43%
Jerry Lewis Other 14%
Ron Lewis Other 21%
Joe Lieberman Other 38%
Blanche Lincoln Other 38%
John Linder Other 21%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 38%
Dick Lugar Other 15%
Don Manzullo Other 21%
Jim Marshall Other 64%
Robert Matsui Other 86%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 29%
James McCrery III Other 21%
John McHugh Other 36%
Michael McNulty Other 86%
Martin Meehan Other 86%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 86%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 86%
Brad Miller Other 86%
Alan Mollohan Other 86%
Dennis Moore Other 79%
Jack Murtha Other 79%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 29%
Sue Myrick Other 21%
Ben Nelson Other 31%
Robert William Ney Other 21%
Anne Northup Other 21%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 36%
James Nussle Other 29%
Jim Oberstar Other 86%
Dave Obey Other 86%
John Olver Other 86%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 79%
Thomas William Osborne Other 29%
Major Owens Other 86%
Michael Oxley Other 21%
Ron Paul Other 14%
Donald Payne Other 86%
John Peterson Other 21%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 21%
Todd Platts Other 21%
Richard Pombo Other 21%
Earl Pomeroy Other 64%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 21%
Deborah Pryce Other 21%
George Radanovich Other 21%
James Ramstad Other 21%
Ralph Regula Other 21%
Denny Rehberg Other 21%
Richard Renzi Other 21%
Silvestre Reyes Other 79%
Thomas Reynolds Other 21%
Mike Ross Other 71%
Steve Rothman Other 86%
Jim Ryun Other 36%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 71%
Rick Santorum Other 31%
Paul Sarbanes Other 69%
Jim Saxton Other 21%
John Shadegg Other 29%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 21%
Christopher Shays Other 29%
Donald Sherwood Other 21%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 21%
Ike Skelton Other 64%
Gordon Smith Other 15%
Olympia Snowe Other 38%
Vic Snyder Other 79%
Hilda Solis Other 86%
Mark Souder Other 21%
Arlen Specter Other 23%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 86%
Pete Stark Other 86%
Cliff Stearns Other 21%
Ted Stevens Other 31%
Ted Strickland Other 86%
Bart Stupak Other 79%
John Sullivan Other 29%
John Sununu Other 38%
John Sweeney Other 29%
James Talent Other 15%
Tom Tancredo Other 21%
John Tanner Other 71%
Ellen Tauscher Other 79%
Charles Taylor Other 21%
Gene Taylor Other 79%
Craig Thomas Other 23%
William Thomas Other 21%
Todd Tiahrt Other 29%
Ed Towns Other 86%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 86%
George Voinovich Other 15%
James Walsh Other 21%
Zach Wamp Other 21%
John Warner Other 15%
Diane Watson Other 79%
Anthony Weiner Other 86%
David Weldon Other 21%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 21%
Gerald Weller Other 21%
Robert Wexler Other 86%
Heather Wilson Other 21%
Lynn Woolsey Other 86%
David Wu Other 64%
Albert Wynn Other 71%

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.