| State | Office | District | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Archer | 100% | ||||
| Thomas Bliley, Jr. | 100% | ||||
| OH | U.S. House | 8 | John Boehner | Republican | 100% |
| Jim Bunning | 100% | ||||
| Dan Burton | 100% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 4 | Dave Camp | Republican | 100% |
| IN | U.S. Senate | Sr | Daniel Coats | Republican | 100% |
| NC | U.S. House | 6 | Howard Coble | Republican | 100% |
| Larry Combest | 100% | ||||
| John Doolittle | 100% | ||||
| Robert Dornan | 100% | ||||
| Thomas Ewing | 100% | ||||
| Newt Gingrich | 100% | ||||
| Porter Goss | 100% | ||||
| William Phillip Gramm | 100% | ||||
| J. Dennis Hastert | 100% | ||||
| Joel Hefley | 100% | ||||
| Jesse Helms | 100% | ||||
| Wally Herger, Jr. | 100% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 3 | Sam Johnson | Republican | 100% |
| Trent Lott, Sr. | 100% | ||||
| AZ | U.S. Senate | Sr | John McCain III | Republican | 100% |
| James McCrery III | 100% | ||||
| Don Nickles | 100% | ||||
| James Nussle | 100% | ||||
| William Paxon | 100% | ||||
| KY | U.S. House | 5 | Hal Rogers | Republican | 100% |
| Toby Roth | 100% | ||||
| Daniel Schaefer | 100% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 5 | Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. | Republican | 100% |
| Bob Smith | 100% | ||||
| Cliff Stearns | 100% | ||||
| Charles Taylor | 100% | ||||
| James Walsh | 100% | ||||
| Wayne Allard | 93% | ||||
| Richard Armey | 93% | ||||
| Richard Hugh Baker | 93% | ||||
| Cass Ballenger | 93% | ||||
| Bill Barrett | 93% | ||||
| Herbert Bateman | 93% | ||||
| Michael Bilirakis | 93% | ||||
| Christopher Cox | 93% | ||||
| Larry Craig | 93% | ||||
| Philip Crane | 93% | ||||
| Thomas DeLay | 93% | ||||
| Robert Dole | 93% | ||||
| David Dreier | 93% | ||||
| Bill Emerson | 93% | ||||
| Elton Gallegly | 93% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Grassley | Republican | 93% |
| Melton Hancock | 93% | ||||
| UT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Orrin Hatch | Republican | 93% |
| Duncan Hunter | 93% | ||||
| Jon Kyl | 93% | ||||
| Jim Lightfoot | 93% | ||||
| Bill McCollum | 93% | ||||
| Carlos Moorhead | 93% | ||||
| Larry Pressler | 93% | ||||
| KS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Pat Roberts | Republican | 93% |
| CA | U.S. House | 48 | Dana Rohrabacher | Republican | 93% |
| FL | U.S. House | 27 | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Republican | 93% |
| Jim Saxton | 93% | ||||
| E. Clay Shaw, Jr. | 93% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 93% |
| Gerald B.H. Solomon | 93% | ||||
| Bob Stump | 93% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 13 | Bill Young | Republican | 93% |
| TX | U.S. House | 6 | Joe Barton | Republican | 92% |
| Herbert Callahan | 92% | ||||
| Randall Cunningham | 92% | ||||
| Jack Fields, Jr. | 92% | ||||
| James Hansen | 92% | ||||
| Ronald Packard | 92% | ||||
| Barbara Vucanovich | 92% | ||||
| Henry Hyde | 91% | ||||
| Hank Brown | 86% | ||||
| Conrad Burns | 86% | ||||
| MS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Thad Cochran | Republican | 86% |
| Pete Domenici, Jr. | 86% | ||||
| Gary Franks | 86% | ||||
| Connie Mack | 86% | ||||
| KY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Mitch McConnell | Republican | 86% |
| John Myers | 86% | ||||
| Michael Oxley | 86% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 6 | Tom Petri | Republican | 86% |
| William Tauzin | 86% | ||||
| Strom Thurmond | 86% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 10 | Frank Wolf | Republican | 86% |
| Bill Zeliff | 86% | ||||
| Paul Gillmor | 85% | ||||
| Steven Gunderson | 85% | ||||
| Craig Thomas | 85% | ||||
| Kit Bond | 83% | ||||
| Jerry Lewis | 83% | ||||
| Robert Livingston | 83% | ||||
| AK | U.S. House | At-Large | Don Young | Republican | 83% |
| Harris Fawell | 79% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 4 | Ralph Hall | Republican | 79% |
| David Lee Hobson | 79% | ||||
| Jan Meyers | 79% | ||||
| Frank Murkowski | 79% | ||||
| James Ramstad | 79% | ||||
| Charles Stenholm | 79% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 6 | Fred Upton | Republican | 79% |
| Douglas Bereuter | 77% | ||||
| Alfonse D'Amato | 75% | ||||
| Wayne Gilchrest | 71% | ||||
| Susan Molinari | 71% | ||||
| Mike Parker | 71% | ||||
| Glenn Poshard | 71% | ||||
| Joseph Skeen | 71% | ||||
| Ike Skelton | 71% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 21 | Lamar Smith | Republican | 71% |
| Olympia Snowe | 71% | ||||
| Gene Taylor | 71% | ||||
| William Thomas | 71% | ||||
| Richard Zimmer | 71% | ||||
| William Roth, Jr. | 69% | ||||
| Marge Roukema | 69% | ||||
| Alan Simpson | 69% | ||||
| Greg Laughlin | 67% | ||||
| Dick Lugar | 64% | ||||
| G.V. Montgomery | 64% | ||||
| Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | 64% | ||||
| Bill Orton | 64% | ||||
| WV | U.S. House | 3 | Nick Rahall II | Democratic | 64% |
| AL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Richard Shelby | Republican | 64% |
| Ted Stevens | 64% | ||||
| E. Kika de la Garza | 62% | ||||
| John Breaux | 57% | ||||
| Gary Condit | 57% | ||||
| Pete Geren | 57% | ||||
| Scott Klug | 57% | ||||
| James Kolbe | 57% | ||||
| Alan Mollohan | 57% | ||||
| John Edward Porter | 57% | ||||
| Steven Schiff | 57% | ||||
| Christopher Shays | 57% | ||||
| Harold Volkmer | 57% | ||||
| John Warner | 57% | ||||
| Charles Wilson | 54% | ||||
| Tom Bevill | 50% | ||||
| Sherwood Boehlert | 50% | ||||
| Jerry Costello | 50% | ||||
| Sam Gibbons | 50% | ||||
| Slade Gorton | 50% | ||||
| Ernest Hollings | 50% | ||||
| Amory Houghton, Jr. | 50% | ||||
| Nancy Johnson | 50% | ||||
| J. Bennett Johnston | 50% | ||||
| Lewis Payne, Jr. | 50% | ||||
| MN | U.S. House | 7 | Collin Peterson | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 50% |
| Timothy Roemer | 50% | ||||
| Pete Peterson | 46% | ||||
| Chet Edwards | 43% | ||||
| Wendell Ford | 43% | ||||
| Jonas Frost III | 43% | ||||
| Tony Hall | 43% | ||||
| William Lipinski | 43% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 43% |
| Arlen Specter | 43% | ||||
| Thomas Manton | 38% | ||||
| Robert Cramer | 36% | ||||
| Thomas Daschle | 36% | ||||
| Benjamin Gilman | 36% | ||||
| Daniel Graham | 36% | ||||
| Nancy Landon Kassebaum | 36% | ||||
| John LaFalce | 36% | ||||
| NV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Harry Reid | Democratic | 36% |
| Norman Sisisky | 36% | ||||
| James Leach | 33% | ||||
| John Bryant | 31% | ||||
| Michael McNulty | 31% | ||||
| Bob Wise, Jr. | 31% | ||||
| Ben Campbell | 30% | ||||
| Richard Bryan | 29% | ||||
| Robert Byrd | 29% | ||||
| William Cohen | 29% | ||||
| Kent Conrad | 29% | ||||
| Byron Dorgan | 29% | ||||
| Jim Exon | 29% | ||||
| Lee Hamilton | 29% | ||||
| Constance Morella | 29% | ||||
| Sam Nunn | 29% | ||||
| Jim Oberstar | 29% | ||||
| Owen Pickett | 29% | ||||
| Charles Robb | 29% | ||||
| Ray Thornton | 29% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 12 | John Dingell | Democratic | 25% |
| Rick Boucher | 23% | ||||
| Andrew Jacobs, Jr. | 23% | ||||
| John Chafee | 21% | ||||
| Ronald Coleman | 21% | ||||
| Mark Hatfield | 21% | ||||
| Harry Johnston | 21% | ||||
| Dale Kildee | 21% | ||||
| Joe Lieberman | 21% | ||||
| Bill Richardson | 21% | ||||
| W.G. Hefner | 18% | ||||
| Calvin Dooley | 17% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 16 | Eliot Engel | Democratic | 17% |
| Robert Torricelli | 17% | ||||
| Gary Ackerman | 15% | ||||
| Matthew Martinez | 15% | ||||
| John Moakley | 15% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 15 | José Serrano | Democratic | 15% |
| NJ | U.S. House | 1 | Rob Andrews | Democratic | 14% |
| Bill Bradley | 14% | ||||
| Dale Bumpers | 14% | ||||
| John Glenn | 14% | ||||
| Henry Gonzalez | 14% | ||||
| MD | U.S. House | 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 14% |
| James Merrill Jeffords | 14% | ||||
| Herb Kohl | 14% | ||||
| Tom Lantos | 14% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 17 | Nita Lowey | Democratic | 14% |
| Dave Obey | 14% | ||||
| Claiborne Pell | 14% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 13 | Charlie Rangel | Democratic | 14% |
| Charles Rose III | 14% | ||||
| Patricia Schroeder | 14% | ||||
| Paul Simon | 14% | ||||
| IN | U.S. House | 1 | Pete Visclosky | Democratic | 14% |
| Pat Williams | 14% | ||||
| Albert Gore, Jr. | 9% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Tom Harkin | Democratic | 9% |
| Bob Kerrey | 9% | ||||
| David Pryor | 9% | ||||
| David Edward Bonior | 8% | ||||
| CA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 8% |
| William Clay, Sr. | 8% | ||||
| Julian Dixon | 8% | ||||
| William Jefferson | 8% | ||||
| Gerald Kleczka | 8% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 9 | Sandy Levin | Democratic | 8% |
| Robert Matsui | 8% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 8 | Jim Moran, Jr. | Democratic | 8% |
| AZ | U.S. House | 7 | Ed Pastor | Democratic | 8% |
| Ed Towns | 8% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 8% |
| HI | Governor | Neil Abercrombie | Democratic | 7% | |
| MT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Max Baucus | Democratic | 7% |
| Howard Berman | 7% | ||||
| NA | Vice President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 7% | |
| Jeff Bingaman | 7% | ||||
| MD | U.S. Senate | Jr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 7% |
| MI | U.S. House | 13 | John Conyers, Jr. | Democratic | 7% |
| CT | U.S. House | 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 7% |
| Ronald Dellums | 7% | ||||
| Norm Dicks | 7% | ||||
| Chris Dodd | 7% | ||||
| IL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 7% |
| Lane Evans | 7% | ||||
| Victor Fazio | 7% | ||||
| Floyd Flake | 7% | ||||
| Barney Frank | 7% | ||||
| Sam Gejdenson | 7% | ||||
| Richard Andrew Gephardt | 7% | ||||
| Joseph Kennedy II | 7% | ||||
| Barbara Bailey Kennelly | 7% | ||||
| NA | U.S. Secretary of State | John Kerry | Democratic | 7% | |
| NJ | U.S. Senate | Sr | Frank Lautenberg | Democratic | 7% |
| MI | U.S. Senate | Sr | Carl Levin | Democratic | 7% |
| GA | U.S. House | 5 | John Lewis | Democratic | 7% |
| MA | U.S. House | 5 | Ed Markey | Democratic | 7% |
| WA | U.S. House | 7 | Jim McDermott | Democratic | 7% |
| Patrick Moynihan | 7% | ||||
| MA | U.S. House | 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 7% |
| Donald Payne | 7% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 12 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 7% |
| WV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Jay Rockefeller IV | Democratic | 7% |
| Martin Olav Sabo | 7% | ||||
| VT | U.S. Senate | Jr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 7% |
| Paul Sarbanes | 7% | ||||
| David Skaggs | 7% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 25 | Louise Slaughter | Democratic | 7% |
| Gerry Studds | 7% | ||||
| Esteban Edward Torres | 7% | ||||
| Bruce Vento | 7% | ||||
| Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 0% | ||||
| Anthony Beilenson | 0% | ||||
| George Brown, Jr. | 0% | ||||
| Barbara-Rose Collins | 0% | ||||
| Cardiss Collins | 0% | ||||
| Daniel Inouye | 0% | ||||
| Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 0% | ||||
| VT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Patrick Leahy | Democratic | 0% |
| MD | U.S. Senate | Sr | Barbara Mikulski | Democratic | 0% |
| CA | U.S. House | 11 | George Miller | Democratic | 0% |
| Patsy Takemoto Mink | 0% | ||||
| John Olver | 0% | ||||
| Major Owens | 0% | ||||
| NY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 0% |
| Pete Stark | 0% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 33 | Henry Waxman | Democratic | 0% |
| Paul Wellstone | 0% | ||||
| Sidney Yates | 0% |
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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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