Rating Group: Taxpayers for Common Sense

2000 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 13%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 18%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 18%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 33%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 17%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 47%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 17%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 59%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 65%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 29%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 50%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 38%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 50%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 42%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 29%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 38%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 38%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 25%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 38%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 50%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 29%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 33%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 33%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 79%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 21%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 38%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 29%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 75%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 38%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 54%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 50%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 58%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 17%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 21%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 21%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 46%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 17%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 33%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 38%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 38%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 29%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 50%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 8%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 58%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 54%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 38%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 29%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 71%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 21%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 18%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 17%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 71%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 38%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 42%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 38%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 42%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 38%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 25%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 24%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 50%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 29%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 18%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 38%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 13%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 21%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 53%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 42%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 50%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 33%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 54%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 42%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 59%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 25%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 21%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 33%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 53%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 65%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 29%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 58%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 29%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 25%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 42%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 38%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 29%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 25%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 29%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 25%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 17%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 41%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 76%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 29%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 59%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 29%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 46%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 29%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 50%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 13%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 33%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 38%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 54%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 58%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 50%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 46%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 33%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 50%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 29%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 65%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 59%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 21%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 13%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 25%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 42%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 46%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 38%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 29%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 29%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 38%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 25%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 33%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 38%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 42%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 38%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 71%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 25%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 25%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 21%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 41%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 24%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 33%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 65%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 33%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 46%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 63%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 63%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 17%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 25%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 17%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 46%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 71%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 76%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 50%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 53%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 38%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 75%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 21%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 33%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 42%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 21%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 33%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 8%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 29%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 29%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 38%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 50%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 54%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 75%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 18%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 21%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 50%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 17%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 25%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 71%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 35%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 25%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 38%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 29%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 54%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 46%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 67%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 50%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 83%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 79%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 54%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 65%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 21%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 24%
Gary Ackerman Other 25%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 53%
Wayne Allard Other 18%
Thomas Allen Other 29%
Richard Armey Other 38%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 8%
Brian Baird Other 29%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 25%
John Baldacci Other 25%
Cass Ballenger Other 29%
James Barcia Other 25%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 50%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 50%
Charlie Bass Other 50%
Evan Bayh Other 59%
Bob Bennett Other 18%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 21%
Douglas Bereuter Other 46%
Shelley Berkley Other 33%
Howard Berman Other 29%
Marion Berry Other 21%
Judy Biggert Other 38%
Michael Bilirakis Other 25%
Jeff Bingaman Other 41%
Rod Blagojevich Other 33%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 25%
Kit Bond Other 24%
Henry Bonilla Other 21%
David Edward Bonior Other 38%
Mary Bono Mack Other 33%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 17%
Leonard Boswell Other 17%
Rick Boucher Other 21%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 21%
John Breaux Other 35%
Ed Bryant Other 38%
Jim Bunning Other 12%
Dan Burton Other 46%
Steve Buyer Other 17%
Robert Byrd Other 65%
Herbert Callahan Other 13%
Ben Campbell Other 18%
Chris Cannon Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 29%
Mike Castle Other 54%
Eva Clayton Other 21%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 59%
Robert Clement Other 13%
Michael Collins Other 50%
Larry Combest Other 42%
Gary Condit Other 29%
Kent Conrad Other 41%
John Cooksey Other 25%
Jerry Costello Other 29%
Christopher Cox Other 71%
William Coyne Other 25%
Larry Craig Other 18%
Robert Cramer Other 8%
Philip Crane Other 46%
Barbara Cubin Other 25%
Randall Cunningham Other 46%
Thomas Daschle Other 35%
James Davis Other 25%
Thomas Davis III Other 46%
Bill Delahunt Other 46%
Thomas DeLay Other 50%
James DeMint Other 42%
Peter Deutsch Other 46%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 29%
Norm Dicks Other 21%
Chris Dodd Other 53%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 18%
Calvin Dooley Other 13%
John Doolittle Other 17%
Byron Dorgan Other 53%
David Dreier Other 21%
Jennifer Dunn Other 29%
John Edwards Other 59%
Chet Edwards Other 13%
Vern Ehlers Other 50%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 42%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 21%
Philip English Other 38%
Bob Etheridge Other 17%
Lane Evans Other 38%
Terry Everett Other 25%
Russ Feingold Other 82%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 41%
Ernest Fletcher Other 29%
Mark Foley Other 42%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 21%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 46%
Barney Frank Other 42%
William Frist Other 24%
Jonas Frost III Other 21%
Elton Gallegly Other 33%
John Ganske Other 58%
George Gekas Other 25%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 29%
Jim Gibbons Other 29%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 29%
Paul Gillmor Other 29%
Benjamin Gilman Other 38%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 17%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 50%
Bart Gordon Other 8%
Porter Goss Other 42%
Daniel Graham Other 53%
William Phillip Gramm Other 29%
Mark Green Other 50%
James Greenwood Other 33%
Judd Gregg Other 35%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 54%
Tony Hall Other 25%
James Hansen Other 33%
Robert Hayes Other 33%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 46%
Joel Hefley Other 63%
Jesse Helms Other 18%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 42%
Baron Hill Other 33%
Van Hilleary Other 42%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 25%
Maurice Hinchey Other 42%
David Lee Hobson Other 21%
Pete Hoekstra Other 67%
Thomas Holden Other 17%
Ernest Hollings Other 35%
Darlene Hooley Other 38%
Stephen Horn Other 54%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 33%
Kenny Hulshof Other 42%
Duncan Hunter Other 38%
Asa Hutchinson Other 25%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 29%
Kay Hutchison Other 18%
Henry Hyde Other 29%
Daniel Inouye Other 47%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 42%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 42%
William Jefferson Other 17%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 71%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 33%
Christopher John Other 8%
Nancy Johnson Other 42%
Paul Kanjorski Other 17%
Sue Kelly Other 46%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 65%
Patrick Kennedy Other 25%
Dale Kildee Other 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 25%
Gerald Kleczka Other 29%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 17%
Herb Kohl Other 82%
James Kolbe Other 33%
Dennis Kucinich Other 46%
Jon Kyl Other 35%
John LaFalce Other 25%
Ray LaHood Other 38%
Nicholas Lampson Other 8%
Tom Lantos Other 17%
Stephen Largent Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 25%
James Leach Other 50%
Jerry Lewis Other 17%
Ron Lewis Other 25%
Joe Lieberman Other 59%
Blanche Lincoln Other 53%
John Linder Other 50%
William Lipinski Other 25%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 24%
Dick Lugar Other 29%
William Luther Other 79%
James Maloney Other 33%
Don Manzullo Other 63%
Frank Mascara Other 17%
Robert Matsui Other 21%
Karen McCarthy Other 46%
James McCrery III Other 29%
John McHugh Other 17%
Scott McInnis Other 50%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 63%
Michael McNulty Other 17%
Martin Meehan Other 58%
Carrie Meek Other 25%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 25%
Dan Miller Other 46%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 0%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 33%
John Moakley Other 33%
Alan Mollohan Other 4%
Dennis Moore Other 29%
Constance Morella Other 50%
Frank Murkowski Other 18%
Jack Murtha Other 8%
Sue Myrick Other 50%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 33%
Robert William Ney Other 21%
Don Nickles Other 18%
Anne Northup Other 21%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 38%
James Nussle Other 42%
Jim Oberstar Other 25%
Dave Obey Other 33%
John Olver Other 54%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 13%
Doug Ose Other 17%
Major Owens Other 33%
Michael Oxley Other 29%
Ron Paul Other 83%
Donald Payne Other 38%
John Peterson Other 29%
David Phelps Other 29%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 33%
Richard Pombo Other 38%
Earl Pomeroy Other 17%
Deborah Pryce Other 38%
Jack Quinn Other 4%
George Radanovich Other 42%
James Ramstad Other 75%
Ralph Regula Other 13%
Silvestre Reyes Other 13%
Thomas Reynolds Other 17%
Bob Riley Other 29%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 58%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 17%
Timothy Roemer Other 46%
Steve Rothman Other 33%
Marge Roukema Other 50%
Jim Ryun Other 42%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 25%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 17%
Rick Santorum Other 24%
Paul Sarbanes Other 65%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
Joe Scarborough Other 50%
John Shadegg Other 50%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 42%
Christopher Shays Other 67%
Donald Sherwood Other 25%
Ronnie Shows Other 29%
Norman Sisisky Other 13%
Joseph Skeen Other 17%
Ike Skelton Other 17%
Gordon Smith Other 24%
Nick Smith Other 50%
Bob Smith Other 24%
Olympia Snowe Other 41%
Vic Snyder Other 17%
Mark Souder Other 29%
Arlen Specter Other 59%
Floyd Spence Other 25%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 50%
Cliff Stearns Other 54%
Charles Stenholm Other 33%
Ted Stevens Other 18%
Ted Strickland Other 33%
Bob Stump Other 25%
Bart Stupak Other 17%
John Sununu Other 63%
John Sweeney Other 21%
Tom Tancredo Other 75%
John Tanner Other 25%
Ellen Tauscher Other 21%
William Tauzin Other 33%
Charles Taylor Other 13%
Gene Taylor Other 54%
Craig Thomas Other 24%
William Thomas Other 21%
Fred Thompson Other 29%
Karen Thurman Other 25%
Strom Thurmond Other 18%
Todd Tiahrt Other 25%
Robert Torricelli Other 35%
Ed Towns Other 29%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 25%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 25%
James Turner Other 13%
George Voinovich Other 35%
James Walsh Other 21%
Zach Wamp Other 42%
John Warner Other 24%
Wesley Watkins Other 17%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 33%
Anthony Weiner Other 33%
David Weldon Other 38%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 29%
Gerald Weller Other 33%
Paul Wellstone Other 65%
Robert Wexler Other 42%
Heather Wilson Other 21%
Lynn Woolsey Other 50%
David Wu Other 38%
Albert Wynn Other 21%

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.