State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 12%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 33%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 14%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 12%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 16%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 16%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 16%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 75%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 16%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 12%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 83%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 83%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 87%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 85%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui 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-16 Jim Costa 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-22 Devin Nunes R 0%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 16%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100%
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-38 Linda Sánchez 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 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 0%
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 16%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 83%
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 Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 83%
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 87%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 62%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
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 50%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 12%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 12%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 16%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 0%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 16%
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 100%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 16%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 12%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 87%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 16%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 12%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 87%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 50%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski 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 33%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 12%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 33%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 12%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 12%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 33%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 16%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 37%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 12%
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 16%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 33%
LA Governor Bobby Jindal R 16%
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%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 87%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 100%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 37%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 87%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 85%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 33%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 20%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 16%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson 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-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 12%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 71%
NA President Barack Obama II D 75%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 87%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 12%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 75%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 25%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 83%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100%
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 16%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 100%
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 0%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 16%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 85%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 66%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 66%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 16%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 16%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 0%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 87%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 87%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 50%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 83%
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 100%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 83%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 16%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 33%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 12%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 25%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 33%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 87%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 16%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 100%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 16%
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 50%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 50%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 87%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 12%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 0%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 87%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 12%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 12%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 83%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 0%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 12%
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 20%
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 33%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 16%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0%
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-9 Al Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 16%
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 0%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 0%
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 83%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0%
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 12%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 20%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 83%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 16%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 16%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 83%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 85%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 85%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 75%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 83%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 20%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 83%
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-4 Gwen Moore D 100%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 75%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 50%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 12%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 87%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 12%
Thomas Allen Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 83%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 87%
Melissa Bean Other 83%
Bob Bennett Other 12%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 100%
Judy Biggert Other 16%
Brian Bilbray Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 87%
Kit Bond Other 12%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Dan Boren Other 83%
Leonard Boswell Other 100%
Rick Boucher Other 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 33%
Jim Bunning Other 12%
Dan Burton Other 16%
Steve Buyer Other 16%
Robert Byrd Other 75%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Dennis Cardoza Other 100%
Russ Carnahan Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 33%
Ben Chandler III Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 75%
Norm Coleman Other 25%
Kent Conrad Other 87%
Jerry Costello Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 12%
Robert Cramer Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Artur Davis Other 100%
Geoff Davis Other 33%
Jo Ann Davis Other 50%
Lincoln Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 33%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
James DeMint Other 12%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 16%
Norm Dicks Other 83%
Chris Dodd Other 87%
Elizabeth Dole Other 25%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 12%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 87%
Thelma Drake Other 0%
David Dreier Other 0%
Chet Edwards Other 83%
Vern Ehlers Other 16%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 50%
Philip English Other 50%
John Ensign Other 12%
Bob Etheridge Other 83%
Terry Everett Other 16%
Tom Feeney Other 16%
Russ Feingold Other 87%
Michael Ferguson Other 50%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 33%
Barney Frank Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 50%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 66%
Bart Gordon Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 14%
Jane Harman Other 83%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 50%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 16%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 12%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 87%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 83%
Tim Johnson Other 83%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 87%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 87%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
John Kuhl, Jr. Other 50%
Jon Kyl Other 12%
Ray LaHood Other 33%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 66%
Frank Lautenberg Other 87%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 33%
Joe Lieberman Other 66%
Blanche Lincoln Other 75%
John Linder Other 0%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 12%
Dick Lugar Other 25%
Dan Lungren Other 16%
Connie Mack IV Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Jim Marshall Other 100%
Melquiades Martinez Other 12%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 66%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 100%
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 100%
Brad Miller Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 100%
Dennis Moore Other 83%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 0%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 25%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 50%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 16%
Todd Platts Other 50%
Earl Pomeroy Other 100%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 33%
Deborah Pryce Other 50%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 66%
Ralph Regula Other 40%
Denny Rehberg Other 33%
Richard Renzi Other 50%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 16%
Mike Ross Other 100%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Ken Salazar Other 75%
Jim Saxton Other 50%
Jean Schmidt Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 50%
Ike Skelton Other 83%
Gordon Smith Other 12%
Olympia Snowe Other 37%
Vic Snyder Other 83%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 16%
Arlen Specter Other 60%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 16%
Ted Stevens Other 12%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sullivan Other 16%
John Sununu Other 12%
Tom Tancredo Other 16%
John Tanner Other 83%
Ellen Tauscher Other 83%
Gene Taylor Other 100%
Craig Thomas Other 12%
Todd Tiahrt Other 20%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 25%
James Walsh Other 66%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 25%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 50%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 66%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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.