State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 25%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 25%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 100%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100%
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 100%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
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 75%
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 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 25%
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 100%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
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 25%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 75%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 25%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 25%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 50%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 75%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 25%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 75%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 25%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 25%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 25%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
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%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
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 25%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 100%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
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%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 50%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 25%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 25%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
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 25%
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 75%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 50%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 25%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 25%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 25%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 25%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 25%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 75%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 50%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 25%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 75%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 75%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 75%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 75%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 75%
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 75%
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 25%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 25%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 25%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 50%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 25%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 33%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 50%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts 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 50%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 75%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 25%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 25%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 50%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 25%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 75%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
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-4 Jim Matheson D 75%
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 100%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 75%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 75%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 25%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 100%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 100%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 50%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 50%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 25%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 25%
James Barcia Other 50%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 75%
Evan Bayh Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 100%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 75%
Michael Bilirakis Other 25%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 75%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 25%
David Edward Bonior Other 75%
Mary Bono Mack Other 25%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 50%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 75%
John Breaux Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 25%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 25%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Jean Carnahan Other 100%
Brad Carson Other 75%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 75%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 75%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 25%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 100%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
John Cooksey Other 25%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 25%
Christopher Cox Other 25%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 75%
Philip Crane Other 25%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 25%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 75%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Thomas Davis III Other 50%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 25%
Norm Dicks Other 100%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 100%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 25%
Jennifer Dunn Other 50%
John Edwards Other 100%
Chet Edwards Other 75%
Vern Ehlers Other 25%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 25%
Philip English Other 25%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 100%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 0%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 100%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 75%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 25%
John Ganske Other 25%
George Gekas Other 25%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 25%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 75%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 75%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 75%
Porter Goss Other 25%
Daniel Graham Other 100%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 75%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 0%
Tony Hall Other 50%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 100%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 25%
Baron Hill Other 75%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 25%
Pete Hoekstra Other 25%
Thomas Holden Other 50%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 75%
Stephen Horn Other 75%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 75%
Kenny Hulshof Other 25%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 75%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 50%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 50%
Nancy Johnson Other 75%
Tim Johnson Other 25%
Paul Kanjorski Other 50%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 50%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 25%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Brian Kerns Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 50%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 25%
Herb Kohl Other 100%
James Kolbe Other 50%
Dennis Kucinich Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 50%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 100%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 25%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 100%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 100%
James Maloney Other 100%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 25%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 25%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 75%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 50%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 100%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 75%
Alan Mollohan Other 50%
Dennis Moore Other 100%
Constance Morella Other 100%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 25%
Robert William Ney Other 25%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 25%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 25%
James Nussle Other 25%
Jim Oberstar Other 50%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Thomas William Osborne Other 25%
Doug Ose Other 75%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 25%
Ron Paul Other 25%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 25%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 25%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 75%
Deborah Pryce Other 75%
Jack Quinn Other 25%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 75%
Ralph Regula Other 25%
Denny Rehberg Other 25%
Silvestre Reyes Other 75%
Thomas Reynolds Other 25%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 100%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
Mike Ross Other 75%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 75%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 100%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 25%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 25%
Christopher Shays Other 75%
Donald Sherwood Other 25%
Ronnie Shows Other 25%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 75%
Joseph Skeen Other 25%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Gordon Smith Other 50%
Nick Smith Other 25%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 50%
Vic Snyder Other 100%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 50%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 75%
Pete Stark Other 75%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 75%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 50%
John Sununu Other 25%
John Sweeney Other 50%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 75%
Ellen Tauscher Other 100%
William Tauzin Other 25%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 25%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 50%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 100%
Ed Towns Other 75%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 25%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 75%
James Turner Other 75%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 25%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 50%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 25%
Gerald Weller Other 25%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 25%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 75%
Albert Wynn Other 75%

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.