State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 25%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 20%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 15%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 10%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 10%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 95%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 90%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 90%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 90%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 95%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 95%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 10%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 90%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 10%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 10%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 95%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 15%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 95%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 95%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 15%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 20%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 70%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 10%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 10%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 75%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 95%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 30%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 15%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 85%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 15%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 10%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 85%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 90%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 95%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 15%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 75%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 15%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 10%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 20%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 15%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 15%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 90%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 95%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 90%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 75%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 80%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 20%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 85%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 85%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 55%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 15%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 10%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 75%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 90%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 10%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 10%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 15%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 95%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 75%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 40%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 40%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 80%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 30%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 80%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 90%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 45%
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 95%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 90%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 95%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 90%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 85%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 90%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 15%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 15%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 10%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 75%
OH Governor John Kasich R 20%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 35%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 10%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 10%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 10%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 79%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 75%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 75%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 80%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 5%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 20%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 85%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 55%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 15%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 10%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 15%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 15%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 10%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 10%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 80%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 95%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 90%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 20%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 15%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 75%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 10%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 90%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 10%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 10%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 15%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 95%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 85%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 90%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 25%
Gary Ackerman Other 90%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 95%
Wayne Allard Other 15%
Bill Archer Other 10%
Richard Armey Other 15%
John Ashcroft Other 10%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 70%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 10%
William Baker Other 21%
John Baldacci Other 85%
Cass Ballenger Other 10%
James Barcia Other 65%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 10%
Bill Barrett Other 10%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 10%
Charlie Bass Other 10%
Herbert Bateman Other 10%
Anthony Beilenson Other 93%
Bob Bennett Other 15%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 85%
Douglas Bereuter Other 20%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Tom Bevill Other 57%
Brian Bilbray Other 30%
Michael Bilirakis Other 15%
Jeff Bingaman Other 95%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 15%
Peter Blute Other 36%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 50%
Kit Bond Other 20%
Henry Bonilla Other 25%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Sonny Bono Other 10%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 85%
Rick Boucher Other 70%
Bill Bradley Other 100%
John Breaux Other 85%
Bill Brewster Other 36%
George Brown, Jr. Other 95%
Hank Brown Other 14%
Richard Bryan Other 70%
Ed Bryant Other 10%
John Bryant Other 93%
Dale Bumpers Other 85%
Jim Bunning Other 10%
Conrad Burns Other 10%
Dan Burton Other 10%
Steve Buyer Other 15%
Robert Byrd Other 75%
Herbert Callahan Other 10%
Ben Campbell Other 50%
Thomas Campbell Other 40%
Mike Castle Other 30%
John Chafee Other 55%
Jim Chapman Other 79%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 10%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 15%
William Clay, Sr. Other 90%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 55%
William Clinger Other 7%
William Cohen Other 36%
Ronald Coleman Other 79%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 93%
Cardiss Collins Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 10%
Larry Combest Other 10%
Gary Condit Other 60%
Kent Conrad Other 85%
Jerry Costello Other 70%
Paul Coverdell Other 10%
Christopher Cox Other 10%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 10%
Robert Cramer Other 55%
Philip Crane Other 15%
Barbara Cubin Other 10%
Randall Cunningham Other 10%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 40%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 65%
Thomas Daschle Other 95%
Thomas Davis III Other 25%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 57%
Thomas DeLay Other 10%
Ronald Dellums Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 75%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 70%
Jay Dickey Other 5%
Norm Dicks Other 85%
Julian Dixon Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 90%
Robert Dole Other 7%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 35%
Calvin Dooley Other 65%
John Doolittle Other 15%
Byron Dorgan Other 80%
Robert Dornan Other 14%
David Dreier Other 10%
Jennifer Dunn Other 15%
Chet Edwards Other 70%
Vern Ehlers Other 25%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 5%
Bill Emerson Other 14%
Philip English Other 35%
John Ensign Other 25%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 10%
Thomas Ewing Other 10%
Jim Exon Other 71%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 15%
Harris Fawell Other 30%
Victor Fazio Other 90%
Russ Feingold Other 90%
Cleo Fields Other 93%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 14%
Floyd Flake Other 90%
Thomas Foglietta Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 20%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 25%
Wendell Ford Other 85%
Tillie Fowler Other 20%
Jon David Fox Other 50%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Gary Franks Other 21%
Robert Franks Other 40%
William Frist Other 25%
Jonas Frost III Other 75%
Elizabeth Furse Other 85%
Elton Gallegly Other 15%
John Ganske Other 20%
Sam Gejdenson Other 95%
George Gekas Other 10%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 95%
Pete Geren Other 43%
Sam Gibbons Other 86%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 30%
Paul Gillmor Other 15%
Benjamin Gilman Other 50%
John Glenn Other 85%
Henry Gonzalez Other 85%
William Goodling Other 20%
Bart Gordon Other 60%
Slade Gorton Other 25%
Porter Goss Other 10%
Daniel Graham Other 85%
William Phillip Gramm Other 10%
Rodney Grams Other 15%
James Greenwood Other 30%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
Steven Gunderson Other 29%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 15%
Tony Hall Other 85%
Lee Hamilton Other 60%
Melton Hancock Other 14%
James Hansen Other 15%
Jane Harman Other 60%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 10%
Mark Hatfield Other 79%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 15%
Joel Hefley Other 10%
W.G. Hefner Other 65%
Jesse Helms Other 10%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 10%
Van Hilleary Other 15%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 95%
Maurice Hinchey Other 80%
David Lee Hobson Other 15%
Pete Hoekstra Other 15%
Martin Hoke Other 29%
Thomas Holden Other 65%
Ernest Hollings Other 65%
Stephen Horn Other 35%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 15%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 40%
Duncan Hunter Other 10%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 10%
Kay Hutchison Other 15%
Henry Hyde Other 15%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 10%
Daniel Inouye Other 90%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 10%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 86%
William Jefferson Other 95%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 70%
Nancy Johnson Other 40%
Harry Johnston Other 79%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 57%
Paul Kanjorski Other 75%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 50%
Sue Kelly Other 35%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 10%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 95%
Patrick Kennedy Other 95%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 85%
Bob Kerrey Other 90%
Dale Kildee Other 85%
Jay Kim Other 20%
Gerald Kleczka Other 85%
Ronald Klink Other 75%
Scott Klug Other 35%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 15%
Herb Kohl Other 80%
James Kolbe Other 10%
Jon Kyl Other 10%
John LaFalce Other 95%
Ray LaHood Other 35%
Tom Lantos Other 95%
Stephen Largent Other 10%
Steve LaTourette Other 35%
Greg Laughlin Other 57%
Rick Lazio Other 35%
James Leach Other 45%
Jerry Lewis Other 30%
Ron Lewis Other 10%
Joe Lieberman Other 75%
Jim Lightfoot Other 14%
Blanche Lincoln Other 64%
John Linder Other 15%
William Lipinski Other 60%
Robert Livingston Other 15%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 10%
Dick Lugar Other 20%
William Luther Other 80%
Connie Mack Other 20%
Thomas Manton Other 80%
Don Manzullo Other 15%
Matthew Martinez Other 95%
Frank Mascara Other 70%
Robert Matsui Other 90%
Karen McCarthy Other 85%
Bill McCollum Other 15%
James McCrery III Other 15%
Joseph McDade Other 25%
Paul McHale Other 75%
John McHugh Other 35%
Scott McInnis Other 15%
David McIntosh Other 15%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 70%
Martin Meehan Other 85%
Carrie Meek Other 95%
Jack Metcalf Other 25%
Jan Meyers Other 36%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 20%
David Minge Other 65%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
John Moakley Other 85%
Susan Molinari Other 20%
Alan Mollohan Other 90%
G.V. Montgomery Other 43%
Carlos Moorhead Other 14%
Constance Morella Other 65%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 90%
Patrick Moynihan Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 20%
Jack Murtha Other 80%
John Myers Other 14%
Sue Myrick Other 15%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 15%
Mark Neumann Other 15%
Robert William Ney Other 25%
Don Nickles Other 10%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 10%
Sam Nunn Other 50%
James Nussle Other 10%
Jim Oberstar Other 95%
Dave Obey Other 70%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 85%
Bill Orton Other 50%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 10%
Ronald Packard Other 15%
Mike Parker Other 15%
William Paxon Other 15%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 43%
Claiborne Pell Other 93%
Pete Peterson Other 64%
Owen Pickett Other 60%
Richard Pombo Other 15%
Earl Pomeroy Other 80%
John Edward Porter Other 25%
Glenn Poshard Other 65%
Larry Pressler Other 14%
Deborah Pryce Other 30%
David Pryor Other 64%
James Quillen Other 14%
Jack Quinn Other 55%
George Radanovich Other 10%
James Ramstad Other 30%
Ralph Regula Other 35%
Bill Richardson Other 80%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 20%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 90%
Charles Robb Other 85%
Timothy Roemer Other 65%
Charles Rose III Other 93%
Toby Roth Other 15%
William Roth, Jr. Other 25%
Marge Roukema Other 35%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 30%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 30%
Joe Scarborough Other 10%
Daniel Schaefer Other 15%
Steven Schiff Other 45%
Patricia Schroeder Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 10%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 15%
Christopher Shays Other 30%
E.G. Shuster Other 10%
Paul Simon Other 93%
Alan Simpson Other 7%
Norman Sisisky Other 50%
David Skaggs Other 90%
Joseph Skeen Other 15%
Ike Skelton Other 60%
Linda Smith Other 15%
Nick Smith Other 15%
Bob Smith Other 10%
Olympia Snowe Other 65%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 15%
Mark Souder Other 25%
Arlen Specter Other 65%
Floyd Spence Other 10%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 60%
Pete Stark Other 75%
Cliff Stearns Other 15%
Charles Stenholm Other 35%
Ted Stevens Other 35%
Louis Stokes Other 80%
Gerry Studds Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 10%
Bart Stupak Other 85%
James Talent Other 10%
John Tanner Other 45%
William Tauzin Other 15%
Charles Taylor Other 10%
Gene Taylor Other 40%
Frank Tejeda Other 90%
Craig Thomas Other 10%
William Thomas Other 15%
Fred Thompson Other 25%
Ray Thornton Other 79%
Karen Thurman Other 75%
Strom Thurmond Other 15%
Todd Tiahrt Other 15%
Peter Torkildsen Other 36%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 70%
Ed Towns Other 100%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 65%
Bruce Vento Other 95%
Harold Volkmer Other 71%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 21%
Robert Walker Other 14%
James Walsh Other 45%
Zach Wamp Other 10%
John Warner Other 20%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 15%
David Weldon Other 20%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 35%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Rick White Other 20%
Pat Williams Other 79%
Charles Wilson Other 71%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 75%
Lynn Woolsey Other 95%
Albert Wynn Other 95%
Sidney Yates Other 100%
Bill Zeliff Other 14%
Richard Zimmer Other 36%

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.