State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 9%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 45%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 64%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 67%
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 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 73%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 83%
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 83%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
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 83%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 17%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 17%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100%
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 83%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 45%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 73%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 33%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 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 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 67%
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 17%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 82%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 91%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 33%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 83%
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 0%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 83%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 67%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 33%
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 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 17%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 18%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 17%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100%
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 64%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 55%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 83%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 73%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 73%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 0%
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 0%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 64%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves 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 83%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 36%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 64%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 18%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 27%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 17%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 33%
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 83%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 17%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 33%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 33%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 33%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 17%
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 17%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 82%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 83%
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 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
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 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 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 17%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 82%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
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 17%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 83%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy 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 55%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 55%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 0%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 83%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 17%
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 67%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 67%
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 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 67%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 0%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 0%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
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 91%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 91%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 91%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 83%
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 67%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
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 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 50%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 33%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 91%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 0%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 83%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 91%
Todd Akin Other 17%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 67%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Frank Ballance, Jr. Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 17%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 33%
Evan Bayh Other 64%
Bob Beauprez Other 0%
Chris Bell Other 67%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 83%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 91%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 33%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 33%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 33%
John Breaux Other 18%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Max Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 33%
Steve Buyer Other 17%
Robert Byrd Other 73%
Ben Campbell Other 18%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 67%
Brad Carson Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Edward Case Other 83%
Mike Castle Other 33%
Chris Chocola Other 0%
Hillary Clinton Other 91%
Norm Coleman Other 0%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Kent Conrad Other 45%
Jon Corzine Other 82%
Jerry Costello Other 67%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 0%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 73%
Artur Davis Other 67%
James Davis Other 100%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Lincoln Davis Other 33%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 33%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 17%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 82%
Elizabeth Dole Other 0%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 17%
John Doolittle Other 33%
Byron Dorgan Other 45%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 45%
Chet Edwards Other 50%
Vern Ehlers Other 17%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 17%
Philip English Other 17%
John Ensign Other 18%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 83%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Tom Feeney Other 17%
Russ Feingold Other 82%
Michael Ferguson Other 0%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 9%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 83%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 17%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 9%
Jonas Frost III Other 83%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 50%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 17%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 17%
Bart Gordon Other 50%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 73%
Mark Green Other 33%
James Greenwood Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 45%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Jane Harman Other 83%
Katherine Harris Other 0%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 83%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 33%
Ernest Hollings Other 73%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 33%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 73%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 20%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Janklow Other 0%
William Jefferson Other 67%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 55%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 17%
Christopher John Other 33%
Nancy Johnson Other 17%
Tim Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 83%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 17%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 82%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 55%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 27%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 67%
Tom Lantos Other 83%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
Frank Lautenberg Other 100%
James Leach Other 17%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 36%
Blanche Lincoln Other 18%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 67%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Denise Majette Other 83%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 83%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 83%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 0%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 83%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 0%
Alan Mollohan Other 83%
Dennis Moore Other 67%
Jack Murtha Other 67%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 9%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 33%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 67%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 33%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 67%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 17%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 0%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Richard Renzi Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 67%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 67%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 33%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 67%
Rick Santorum Other 9%
Paul Sarbanes Other 91%
Jim Saxton Other 33%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 33%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 33%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 83%
Gordon Smith Other 18%
Nick Smith Other 33%
Olympia Snowe Other 55%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 9%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 17%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 0%
John Sununu Other 36%
John Sweeney Other 17%
James Talent Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 33%
John Tanner Other 83%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 67%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 67%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 50%
George Voinovich Other 9%
James Walsh Other 0%
Zach Wamp Other 17%
John Warner Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 83%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 83%
Albert Wynn Other 83%

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.

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