State Office Name Party Rating
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 19%
Gary Ackerman Other 69%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 86%
Bill Archer Other 15%
Richard Armey Other 19%
John Ashcroft Other 5%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 57%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 15%
William Baker Other 15%
John Baldacci Other 73%
Cass Ballenger Other 7%
James Barcia Other 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 15%
Bill Barrett Other 11%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 23%
Charlie Bass Other 23%
Herbert Bateman Other 3%
Anthony Beilenson Other 80%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 50%
Douglas Bereuter Other 23%
Howard Berman Other 73%
Tom Bevill Other 30%
Brian Bilbray Other 34%
Michael Bilirakis Other 34%
Jeff Bingaman Other 81%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 7%
Peter Blute Other 38%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 46%
Kit Bond Other 5%
Henry Bonilla Other 19%
David Edward Bonior Other 84%
Sonny Bono Other 15%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 88%
Rick Boucher Other 53%
Bill Bradley Other 95%
John Breaux Other 52%
Bill Brewster Other 26%
Glen Browder Other 53%
George Brown, Jr. Other 69%
Hank Brown Other 19%
Richard Bryan Other 86%
Ed Bryant Other 7%
John Bryant Other 73%
Dale Bumpers Other 90%
Jim Bunn Other 23%
Jim Bunning Other 19%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 23%
Steve Buyer Other 15%
Robert Byrd Other 90%
Herbert Callahan Other 3%
Ben Campbell Other 14%
Thomas Campbell Other 73%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 23%
Mike Castle Other 34%
John Chafee Other 52%
Jim Chapman Other 46%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 19%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 26%
Dick Chrysler Other 30%
William Clay, Sr. Other 84%
Eva Clayton Other 80%
Robert Clement Other 50%
William Clinger Other 7%
William Cohen Other 71%
Ronald Coleman Other 57%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 73%
Cardiss Collins Other 69%
Michael Collins Other 15%
Larry Combest Other 15%
Gary Condit Other 42%
Kent Conrad Other 81%
Wes Cooley Other 23%
Jerry Costello Other 84%
Paul Coverdell Other 10%
Christopher Cox Other 19%
William Coyne Other 88%
Larry Craig Other 10%
Robert Cramer Other 42%
Philip Crane Other 7%
Frank Arnold Cremeans Other 19%
Barbara Cubin Other 11%
Randall Cunningham Other 19%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 24%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 42%
Thomas Daschle Other 86%
Thomas Davis III Other 23%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 46%
Thomas DeLay Other 3%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 73%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 30%
Jay Dickey Other 19%
Norm Dicks Other 73%
Julian Dixon Other 76%
Chris Dodd Other 67%
Robert Dole Other 730%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 10%
Calvin Dooley Other 34%
John Doolittle Other 15%
Byron Dorgan Other 81%
Robert Dornan Other 30%
David Dreier Other 11%
Jennifer Dunn Other 23%
Chet Edwards Other 42%
Vern Ehlers Other 30%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 19%
Philip English Other 30%
John Ensign Other 46%
Lane Evans Other 88%
Terry Everett Other 11%
Thomas Ewing Other 15%
Jim Exon Other 71%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 10%
Harris Fawell Other 23%
Victor Fazio Other 57%
Russ Feingold Other 95%
Cleo Fields Other 69%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 11%
Floyd Flake Other 61%
Michael Patrick Flanagan Other 23%
Thomas Foglietta Other 84%
Mark Foley Other 34%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 23%
Wendell Ford Other 71%
Tillie Fowler Other 34%
Jon David Fox Other 30%
Sheila Frahm Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 80%
Gary Franks Other 23%
Robert Franks Other 38%
Dan Frisa Other 23%
William Frist Other 14%
Jonas Frost III Other 42%
David Funderburk Other 19%
Elizabeth Furse Other 84%
Elton Gallegly Other 11%
John Ganske Other 23%
Sam Gejdenson Other 80%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 80%
Pete Geren Other 19%
Sam Gibbons Other 61%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 30%
Paul Gillmor Other 30%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 90%
Henry Gonzalez Other 46%
William Goodling Other 38%
Bart Gordon Other 50%
Slade Gorton Other 5%
Porter Goss Other 26%
Daniel Graham Other 86%
William Phillip Gramm Other 10%
Rodney Grams Other 5%
Enid Greene Other 34%
James Greenwood Other 30%
Judd Gregg Other 19%
Steven Gunderson Other 23%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 34%
Tony Hall Other 61%
Lee Hamilton Other 53%
Melton Hancock Other 26%
James Hansen Other 23%
Jane Harman Other 57%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 7%
Mark Hatfield Other 29%
James Hayes Other 11%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 23%
Joel Hefley Other 30%
W.G. Hefner Other 38%
Fredrick Kenneth Fred' Heineman Other 15%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 11%
Van Hilleary Other 26%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 65%
Maurice Hinchey Other 92%
David Lee Hobson Other 23%
Pete Hoekstra Other 38%
Martin Hoke Other 38%
Thomas Holden Other 46%
Ernest Hollings Other 71%
Stephen Horn Other 57%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 23%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 19%
Duncan Hunter Other 11%
Kay Hutchison Other 5%
Henry Hyde Other 15%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 30%
Daniel Inouye Other 67%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 23%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 82%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 88%
William Jefferson Other 65%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 43%
Nancy Johnson Other 26%
Harry Johnston Other 76%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 33%
Paul Kanjorski Other 80%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 33%
Sue Kelly Other 19%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 10%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 95%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 84%
Patrick Kennedy Other 84%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 57%
Bob Kerrey Other 81%
Dale Kildee Other 88%
Jay Kim Other 15%
Gerald Kleczka Other 76%
Ronald Klink Other 76%
Scott Klug Other 46%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 15%
Herb Kohl Other 76%
James Kolbe Other 23%
Jon Kyl Other 14%
John LaFalce Other 76%
Ray LaHood Other 23%
Tom Lantos Other 88%
Stephen Largent Other 30%
Steve LaTourette Other 26%
Greg Laughlin Other 3%
Rick Lazio Other 23%
James Leach Other 42%
Jerry Lewis Other 7%
Ron Lewis Other 19%
Joe Lieberman Other 71%
Jim Lightfoot Other 7%
Blanche Lincoln Other 30%
John Linder Other 23%
William Lipinski Other 76%
Robert Livingston Other 7%
James Longley, Jr. Other 34%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 19%
William Luther Other 88%
Connie Mack Other 10%
Thomas Manton Other 65%
Don Manzullo Other 26%
Matthew Martinez Other 69%
Bill Martini Other 50%
Frank Mascara Other 65%
Robert Matsui Other 73%
Karen McCarthy Other 69%
Bill McCollum Other 11%
James McCrery III Other 15%
Joseph McDade Other 3%
Paul McHale Other 80%
John McHugh Other 26%
Scott McInnis Other 30%
David McIntosh Other 7%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 84%
Michael McNulty Other 61%
Martin Meehan Other 76%
Carrie Meek Other 69%
Jack Metcalf Other 42%
Jan Meyers Other 38%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 91%
Dan Miller Other 26%
David Minge Other 61%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 80%
John Moakley Other 61%
Susan Molinari Other 34%
Alan Mollohan Other 61%
G.V. Montgomery Other 23%
Carlos Moorhead Other 11%
Constance Morella Other 57%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 62%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 57%
John Myers Other 7%
Sue Myrick Other 19%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 19%
Mark Neumann Other 46%
Robert William Ney Other 11%
Don Nickles Other 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 7%
Sam Nunn Other 43%
James Nussle Other 19%
Jim Oberstar Other 84%
Dave Obey Other 80%
John Olver Other 80%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 42%
Bill Orton Other 57%
Major Owens Other 92%
Michael Oxley Other 11%
Ronald Packard Other 11%
Mike Parker Other 7%
William Paxon Other 15%
Donald Payne Other 84%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 42%
Claiborne Pell Other 67%
Pete Peterson Other 38%
Owen Pickett Other 30%
Richard Pombo Other 19%
Earl Pomeroy Other 65%
John Edward Porter Other 42%
Glenn Poshard Other 69%
Larry Pressler Other 14%
Deborah Pryce Other 26%
David Pryor Other 76%
James Quillen Other 3%
Jack Quinn Other 30%
George Radanovich Other 19%
James Ramstad Other 38%
Ralph Regula Other 19%
Bill Richardson Other 57%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 23%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 96%
Charles Robb Other 81%
Timothy Roemer Other 53%
Charles Rose III Other 42%
Toby Roth Other 15%
William Roth, Jr. Other 38%
Marge Roukema Other 46%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 84%
Rick Santorum Other 14%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 34%
Joe Scarborough Other 30%
Daniel Schaefer Other 15%
Steven Schiff Other 15%
Patricia Schroeder Other 80%
Andrea Seastrand Other 23%
John Shadegg Other 26%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 30%
Christopher Shays Other 61%
E.G. Shuster Other 23%
Paul Simon Other 86%
Alan Simpson Other 24%
Norman Sisisky Other 26%
David Skaggs Other 73%
Joseph Skeen Other 3%
Ike Skelton Other 38%
Linda Smith Other 46%
Nick Smith Other 19%
Bob Smith Other 14%
Olympia Snowe Other 48%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 26%
Mark Souder Other 34%
Arlen Specter Other 57%
Floyd Spence Other 15%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 61%
Pete Stark Other 92%
Cliff Stearns Other 19%
Charles Stenholm Other 30%
Ted Stevens Other 5%
Louis Stokes Other 92%
Gerry Studds Other 80%
Bob Stump Other 15%
Bart Stupak Other 73%
James Talent Other 26%
John Tanner Other 26%
Randy Tate Other 34%
William Tauzin Other 15%
Charles Taylor Other 11%
Gene Taylor Other 53%
Frank Tejeda Other 38%
Craig Thomas Other 14%
William Thomas Other 7%
Fred Thompson Other 43%
Ray Thornton Other 50%
Karen Thurman Other 65%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 34%
Peter Torkildsen Other 50%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 76%
Ed Towns Other 73%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 46%
Bruce Vento Other 84%
Harold Volkmer Other 50%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 7%
Robert Walker Other 15%
James Walsh Other 19%
Zach Wamp Other 26%
Michael Ward Other 69%
John Warner Other 24%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 23%
David Weldon Other 26%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 34%
Gerald Weller Other 11%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Rick White Other 23%
Pat Williams Other 57%
Charles Wilson Other 53%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 73%
Lynn Woolsey Other 92%
Albert Wynn Other 76%
Sidney Yates Other 84%
Bill Zeliff Other 11%
Richard Zimmer Other 53%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 73%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 65%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 92%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 76%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 69%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 57%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 60%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 95%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 73%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 88%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 80%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 69%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 96%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 82%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 84%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 80%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 69%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 80%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 65%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 80%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 76%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 80%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 69%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 86%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 65%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 61%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 80%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 71%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 76%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 65%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 69%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 65%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 84%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 95%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 86%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 90%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 80%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 73%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 80%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 80%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 88%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 80%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 73%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 76%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 96%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 61%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 86%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 92%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 84%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 88%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 53%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 84%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 84%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 73%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 81%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 71%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 80%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 73%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 76%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 76%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 73%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 80%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 73%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 76%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 92%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 80%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 92%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 73%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 96%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 86%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 88%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 23%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 7%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 7%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 15%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 7%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 23%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 34%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 15%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 24%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 30%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 26%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 11%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 42%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 24%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 30%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 23%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 19%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 26%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 14%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 15%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 11%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 10%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 11%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 23%
OH Governor John Kasich R 26%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 34%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 23%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 7%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 42%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 3%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 38%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 11%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 15%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 34%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 19%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 11%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 26%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 34%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 34%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 30%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 46%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 38%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 24%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 53%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 19%
TX U.S. House-36 Steve Stockman R 19%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 7%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 30%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 19%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 3%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 46%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 19%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 15%

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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