| State | Office | District | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 100% | ||||
| Jeff Bingaman | 100% | ||||
| David Edward Bonior | 100% | ||||
| Rick Boucher | 100% | ||||
| John Breaux | 100% | ||||
| George Brown, Jr. | 100% | ||||
| Richard Bryan | 100% | ||||
| Dale Bumpers | 100% | ||||
| Robert Byrd | 100% | ||||
| Thomas Daschle | 100% | ||||
| E. Kika de la Garza | 100% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 12 | John Dingell | Democratic | 100% |
| Chris Dodd | 100% | ||||
| IL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 100% |
| NY | U.S. House | 16 | Eliot Engel | Democratic | 100% |
| Lane Evans | 100% | ||||
| Victor Fazio | 100% | ||||
| Wendell Ford | 100% | ||||
| Barney Frank | 100% | ||||
| William Frist | 100% | ||||
| Sam Gejdenson | 100% | ||||
| John Glenn | 100% | ||||
| Albert Gore, Jr. | 100% | ||||
| Daniel Graham | 100% | ||||
| MD | U.S. House | 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 100% |
| Daniel Inouye | 100% | ||||
| Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 100% | ||||
| Bob Kerrey | 100% | ||||
| Dale Kildee | 100% | ||||
| Gerald Kleczka | 100% | ||||
| VT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Patrick Leahy | Democratic | 100% |
| MA | U.S. House | 5 | Ed Markey | Democratic | 100% |
| MD | U.S. Senate | Sr | Barbara Mikulski | Democratic | 100% |
| Patsy Takemoto Mink | 100% | ||||
| John Moakley | 100% | ||||
| MA | U.S. House | 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 100% |
| David Pryor | 100% | ||||
| NV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Harry Reid | Democratic | 100% |
| Charles Robb | 100% | ||||
| Martin Olav Sabo | 100% | ||||
| Paul Sarbanes | 100% | ||||
| David Skaggs | 100% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 25 | Louise Slaughter | Democratic | 100% |
| Esteban Edward Torres | 100% | ||||
| IN | U.S. House | 1 | Pete Visclosky | Democratic | 100% |
| Bob Wise, Jr. | 100% | ||||
| Sherwood Boehlert | 93% | ||||
| Norm Dicks | 93% | ||||
| Jonas Frost III | 93% | ||||
| Benjamin Gilman | 93% | ||||
| Henry Gonzalez | 93% | ||||
| Lee Hamilton | 93% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 9 | Sandy Levin | Democratic | 93% |
| Thomas Manton | 93% | ||||
| Michael McNulty | 93% | ||||
| Alan Mollohan | 93% | ||||
| Jim Oberstar | 93% | ||||
| Glenn Poshard | 93% | ||||
| Patricia Schroeder | 93% | ||||
| Gerry Studds | 93% | ||||
| Bruce Vento | 93% | ||||
| Harold Volkmer | 93% | ||||
| Gary Ackerman | 92% | ||||
| Howard Berman | 92% | ||||
| Ronald Coleman | 92% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 13 | John Conyers, Jr. | Democratic | 92% |
| Julian Dixon | 92% | ||||
| Richard Andrew Gephardt | 92% | ||||
| Harry Johnston | 92% | ||||
| Joseph Kennedy II | 92% | ||||
| Barbara Bailey Kennelly | 92% | ||||
| Tom Lantos | 92% | ||||
| Robert Matsui | 92% | ||||
| Bill Richardson | 92% | ||||
| Charles Rose III | 92% | ||||
| Tony Hall | 91% | ||||
| Robert Torricelli | 91% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 15 | José Serrano | Democratic | 90% |
| MT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Max Baucus | Democratic | 88% |
| NA | Vice President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 88% | |
| Conrad Burns | 88% | ||||
| Jim Exon | 88% | ||||
| Ernest Hollings | 88% | ||||
| James Merrill Jeffords | 88% | ||||
| Frank Lautenberg | 88% | ||||
| MI | U.S. Senate | Sr | Carl Levin | Democratic | 88% |
| Sam Nunn | 88% | ||||
| Claiborne Pell | 88% | ||||
| Paul Simon | 88% | ||||
| Arlen Specter | 88% | ||||
| CA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 86% |
| MD | U.S. Senate | Jr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 86% |
| Jerry Costello | 86% | ||||
| W.G. Hefner | 86% | ||||
| GA | U.S. House | 5 | John Lewis | Democratic | 86% |
| NY | U.S. House | 17 | Nita Lowey | Democratic | 86% |
| Matthew Martinez | 86% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 11 | George Miller | Democratic | 86% |
| Constance Morella | 86% | ||||
| Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | 86% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 12 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 86% |
| WV | U.S. House | 3 | Nick Rahall II | Democratic | 86% |
| NY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 86% |
| Norman Sisisky | 86% | ||||
| Pete Stark | 86% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 33 | Henry Waxman | Democratic | 86% |
| Dave Obey | 85% | ||||
| Sidney Yates | 85% | ||||
| John Bryant | 83% | ||||
| Floyd Flake | 83% | ||||
| Sam Gibbons | 83% | ||||
| John LaFalce | 83% | ||||
| William Lipinski | 80% | ||||
| Tom Bevill | 79% | ||||
| Byron Dorgan | 79% | ||||
| Andrew Jacobs, Jr. | 79% | ||||
| Ben Campbell | 77% | ||||
| William Clay, Sr. | 77% | ||||
| Cardiss Collins | 77% | ||||
| Gary Condit | 77% | ||||
| Pete Geren | 77% | ||||
| Major Owens | 77% | ||||
| Donald Payne | 77% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 13 | Charlie Rangel | Democratic | 77% |
| Charles Wilson | 77% | ||||
| John Chafee | 75% | ||||
| Mark Hatfield | 75% | ||||
| J. Bennett Johnston | 75% | ||||
| Herb Kohl | 75% | ||||
| Joe Lieberman | 75% | ||||
| Patrick Moynihan | 75% | ||||
| WV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Jay Rockefeller IV | Democratic | 75% |
| AL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Richard Shelby | Republican | 75% |
| Ed Towns | 73% | ||||
| Anthony Beilenson | 71% | ||||
| Ronald Dellums | 71% | ||||
| WA | U.S. House | 7 | Jim McDermott | Democratic | 71% |
| NJ | U.S. House | 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 71% |
| Lewis Payne, Jr. | 71% | ||||
| Pat Williams | 71% | ||||
| Susan Molinari | 66% | ||||
| Steven Schiff | 64% | ||||
| Bill Bradley | 63% | ||||
| William Cohen | 63% | ||||
| Kent Conrad | 63% | ||||
| Pete Domenici, Jr. | 63% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Tom Harkin | Democratic | 63% |
| Nancy Landon Kassebaum | 63% | ||||
| NA | U.S. Secretary of State | John Kerry | Democratic | 63% | |
| Frank Murkowski | 63% | ||||
| John Warner | 63% | ||||
| Ike Skelton | 62% | ||||
| James Walsh | 62% | ||||
| Douglas Bereuter | 57% | ||||
| Owen Pickett | 57% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 57% |
| Charles Stenholm | 57% | ||||
| Michael Bilirakis | 54% | ||||
| Greg Laughlin | 54% | ||||
| G.V. Montgomery | 54% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 27 | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Republican | 53% |
| MS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Thad Cochran | Republican | 50% |
| Alfonse D'Amato | 50% | ||||
| Robert Dole | 50% | ||||
| UT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Orrin Hatch | Republican | 50% |
| Nancy Johnson | 50% | ||||
| Dick Lugar | 50% | ||||
| AZ | U.S. Senate | Sr | John McCain III | Republican | 50% |
| Jan Meyers | 50% | ||||
| Mike Parker | 50% | ||||
| Alan Simpson | 50% | ||||
| Strom Thurmond | 50% | ||||
| Marge Roukema | 44% | ||||
| Herbert Bateman | 43% | ||||
| Bill Emerson | 43% | ||||
| Paul Gillmor | 43% | ||||
| Amory Houghton, Jr. | 43% | ||||
| James Leach | 43% | ||||
| Jim Saxton | 43% | ||||
| Christopher Shays | 43% | ||||
| Joseph Skeen | 43% | ||||
| Gene Taylor | 43% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 10 | Frank Wolf | Republican | 43% |
| FL | U.S. House | 13 | Bill Young | Republican | 43% |
| AK | U.S. House | At-Large | Don Young | Republican | 43% |
| TX | U.S. House | 4 | Ralph Hall | Republican | 42% |
| Kit Bond | 38% | ||||
| IN | U.S. Senate | Sr | Daniel Coats | Republican | 38% |
| Slade Gorton | 38% | ||||
| William Phillip Gramm | 38% | ||||
| Trent Lott, Sr. | 38% | ||||
| Connie Mack | 38% | ||||
| KY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Mitch McConnell | Republican | 38% |
| Don Nickles | 38% | ||||
| Thomas Bliley, Jr. | 36% | ||||
| J. Dennis Hastert | 36% | ||||
| John Myers | 36% | ||||
| Gerald B.H. Solomon | 36% | ||||
| Ted Stevens | 36% | ||||
| Richard Hugh Baker | 34% | ||||
| Herbert Callahan | 33% | ||||
| Elton Gallegly | 31% | ||||
| Steven Gunderson | 31% | ||||
| Henry Hyde | 31% | ||||
| James Kolbe | 29% | ||||
| Michael Oxley | 29% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 21 | Lamar Smith | Republican | 29% |
| Craig Thomas | 29% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 6 | Fred Upton | Republican | 29% |
| Barbara Vucanovich | 29% | ||||
| Jesse Helms | 25% | ||||
| Larry Pressler | 25% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 6 | Joe Barton | Republican | 23% |
| James Hansen | 23% | ||||
| Cass Ballenger | 21% | ||||
| NC | U.S. House | 6 | Howard Coble | Republican | 21% |
| Harris Fawell | 21% | ||||
| Porter Goss | 21% | ||||
| Jerry Lewis | 21% | ||||
| Bill McCollum | 21% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 6 | Tom Petri | Republican | 21% |
| KY | U.S. House | 5 | Hal Rogers | Republican | 21% |
| Daniel Schaefer | 21% | ||||
| Cliff Stearns | 21% | ||||
| William Thomas | 21% | ||||
| E. Clay Shaw, Jr. | 16% | ||||
| Dan Burton | 15% | ||||
| Ronald Packard | 15% | ||||
| Toby Roth | 15% | ||||
| Wally Herger, Jr. | 14% | ||||
| Jim Lightfoot | 14% | ||||
| Carlos Moorhead | 14% | ||||
| John Edward Porter | 14% | ||||
| KS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Pat Roberts | Republican | 14% |
| CA | U.S. House | 48 | Dana Rohrabacher | Republican | 14% |
| Newt Gingrich | 8% | ||||
| Bill Archer | 7% | ||||
| Richard Armey | 7% | ||||
| Jim Bunning | 7% | ||||
| Thomas DeLay | 7% | ||||
| David Dreier | 7% | ||||
| Jack Fields, Jr. | 7% | ||||
| Melton Hancock | 7% | ||||
| Joel Hefley | 7% | ||||
| Duncan Hunter | 7% | ||||
| Jon Kyl | 7% | ||||
| William Paxon | 7% | ||||
| Larry Combest | 0% | ||||
| Christopher Cox | 0% | ||||
| Philip Crane | 0% | ||||
| Robert Dornan | 0% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Grassley | Republican | 0% |
| William Roth, Jr. | 0% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 5 | Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. | Republican | 0% |
| Bob Stump | 0% |
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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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