| State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Crane | Other | 99% | ||
| Richard Armey | Other | 98% | ||
| Melton Hancock | Other | 98% | ||
| Bill Archer | Other | 97% | ||
| William Paxon | Other | 94% | ||
| Bob Stump | Other | 94% | ||
| Wayne Allard | Other | 93% | ||
| Hank Brown | Other | 93% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-48 | Dana Rohrabacher | R | 93% |
| CA | U.S. House-39 | Ed Royce | R | 93% |
| WI | U.S. House-5 | Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. | R | 93% |
| David Dreier | Other | 92% | ||
| Bob Smith | Other | 92% | ||
| Christopher Cox | Other | 91% | ||
| TX | U.S. House-3 | Sam Johnson | R | 91% |
| TX | U.S. House-6 | Joe Barton | R | 90% |
| Dan Burton | Other | 90% | ||
| Thomas DeLay | Other | 90% | ||
| AZ | U.S. Senate-Sr | John McCain III | R | 90% |
| Cass Ballenger | Other | 89% | ||
| OH | U.S. House-8 | John Boehner | R | 89% |
| NC | U.S. House-6 | Howard Coble | R | 89% |
| John Doolittle | Other | 89% | ||
| Rodney Grams | Other | 89% | ||
| Don Manzullo | Other | 89% | ||
| Dan Miller | Other | 89% | ||
| Gerald B.H. Solomon | Other | 89% | ||
| Cliff Stearns | Other | 89% | ||
| Jim Bunning | Other | 88% | ||
| Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth | Other | 88% | ||
| Joseph Knollenberg | Other | 88% | ||
| Don Nickles | Other | 88% | ||
| Nick Smith | Other | 88% | ||
| Michael Collins | Other | 87% | ||
| Larry Combest | Other | 87% | ||
| Robert Dornan | Other | 87% | ||
| Jack Fields, Jr. | Other | 87% | ||
| VA | U.S. House-6 | Bob Goodlatte | R | 87% |
| Daniel Schaefer | Other | 87% | ||
| William Baker | Other | 86% | ||
| Bill Barrett | Other | 86% | ||
| Jon Kyl | Other | 86% | ||
| Roscoe Bartlett | Other | 85% | ||
| ID | U.S. Senate-Sr | Mike Crapo | R | 85% |
| Joel Hefley | Other | 85% | ||
| Jesse Helms | Other | 85% | ||
| Wally Herger, Jr. | Other | 85% | ||
| Pete Hoekstra | Other | 85% | ||
| Carlos Moorhead | Other | 85% | ||
| James Nussle | Other | 85% | ||
| Toby Roth | Other | 85% | ||
| Bill Zeliff | Other | 85% | ||
| James Hansen | Other | 84% | ||
| John Linder | Other | 84% | ||
| WI | U.S. House-6 | Tom Petri | R | 84% |
| KS | U.S. Senate-Sr | Pat Roberts | R | 84% |
| Jay Kim | Other | 83% | ||
| Ron Lewis | Other | 83% | ||
| TX | U.S. House-21 | Lamar Smith | R | 83% |
| AL | U.S. House-6 | Spencer Bachus | R | 82% |
| Judd Gregg | Other | 82% | ||
| J. Dennis Hastert | Other | 82% | ||
| Y. Tim Hutchinson | Other | 82% | ||
| Scott McInnis | Other | 82% | ||
| GA | U.S. House-1 | Jack Kingston | R | 81% |
| CA | U.S. House-25 | Buck McKeon | R | 81% |
| OH | U.S. Senate-Jr | Rob Portman | R | 81% |
| James Talent | Other | 81% | ||
| Craig Thomas | Other | 81% | ||
| Henry Bonilla | Other | 80% | ||
| Newt Gingrich | Other | 80% | ||
| Porter Goss | Other | 80% | ||
| Duncan Hunter | Other | 80% | ||
| Bill McCollum | Other | 80% | ||
| Richard Pombo | Other | 80% | ||
| Richard Hugh Baker | Other | 79% | ||
| Thomas Bliley, Jr. | Other | 79% | ||
| Jay Dickey | Other | 79% | ||
| Henry Hyde | Other | 79% | ||
| FL | U.S. House-7 | John Mica | R | 79% |
| James Ramstad | Other | 79% | ||
| MI | U.S. House-4 | Dave Camp | R | 78% |
| FL | Justice of the Supreme Court | Charles Canady | Other | 78% |
| IN | U.S. Senate-Sr | Daniel Coats | R | 78% |
| Thomas Ewing | Other | 78% | ||
| NY | U.S. House-2 | Pete King | R | 77% |
| John McHugh | Other | 77% | ||
| Larry Pressler | Other | 77% | ||
| Charles Stenholm | Other | 77% | ||
| John Warner | Other | 77% | ||
| Richard Zimmer | Other | 77% | ||
| Bob Bennett | Other | 76% | ||
| Paul Coverdell | Other | 76% | ||
| Jennifer Dunn | Other | 76% | ||
| UT | U.S. Senate-Sr | Orrin Hatch | R | 76% |
| Steve Buyer | Other | 75% | ||
| Harris Fawell | Other | 75% | ||
| William Phillip Gramm | Other | 75% | ||
| Michael Oxley | Other | 75% | ||
| Ronald Packard | Other | 75% | ||
| Charles Taylor | Other | 75% | ||
| Herbert Callahan | Other | 74% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-42 | Ken Calvert | R | 74% |
| Robert Dole | Other | 74% | ||
| William Thomas | Other | 74% | ||
| Larry Craig | Other | 73% | ||
| Elton Gallegly | Other | 73% | ||
| IA | U.S. Senate-Sr | Chuck Grassley | R | 73% |
| Dirk Kempthorne | Other | 73% | ||
| James McCrery III | Other | 73% | ||
| William Roth, Jr. | Other | 73% | ||
| Randall Cunningham | Other | 72% | ||
| Jim Lightfoot | Other | 72% | ||
| Connie Mack | Other | 72% | ||
| Strom Thurmond | Other | 72% | ||
| Bill Emerson | Other | 71% | ||
| Terry Everett | Other | 71% | ||
| Kay Hutchison | Other | 71% | ||
| James Kolbe | Other | 71% | ||
| Trent Lott, Sr. | Other | 71% | ||
| Frank Murkowski | Other | 71% | ||
| Michael Bilirakis | Other | 70% | ||
| Mike Castle | Other | 70% | ||
| Tillie Fowler | Other | 70% | ||
| Scott Klug | Other | 70% | ||
| Barbara Vucanovich | Other | 70% | ||
| Alan Simpson | Other | 69% | ||
| MI | U.S. House-6 | Fred Upton | R | 69% |
| Robert Livingston | Other | 68% | ||
| E. Clay Shaw, Jr. | Other | 68% | ||
| KY | U.S. Senate-Sr | Mitch McConnell | R | 66% |
| Steven Gunderson | Other | 65% | ||
| TX | U.S. House-4 | Ralph Hall | R | 65% |
| VA | U.S. House-10 | Frank Wolf | R | 65% |
| John Myers | Other | 64% | ||
| Jack Quinn | Other | 64% | ||
| FL | U.S. House-13 | Bill Young | R | 64% |
| Douglas Bereuter | Other | 63% | ||
| Robert Franks | Other | 63% | ||
| Susan Molinari | Other | 63% | ||
| Dick Lugar | Other | 62% | ||
| John Edward Porter | Other | 62% | ||
| Gary Condit | Other | 61% | ||
| Vern Ehlers | Other | 61% | ||
| Bill Orton | Other | 61% | ||
| Jim Saxton | Other | 60% | ||
| Steven Schiff | Other | 60% | ||
| Christopher Shays | Other | 60% | ||
| Conrad Burns | Other | 59% | ||
| Slade Gorton | Other | 59% | ||
| David Lee Hobson | Other | 59% | ||
| Nancy Landon Kassebaum | Other | 59% | ||
| Jerry Lewis | Other | 59% | ||
| Joseph Skeen | Other | 59% | ||
| AK | U.S. House-At-Large | Don Young | R | 59% |
| James Leach | Other | 58% | ||
| Jan Meyers | Other | 58% | ||
| William Tauzin | Other | 58% | ||
| Herbert Bateman | Other | 57% | ||
| Alfonse D'Amato | Other | 57% | ||
| Wayne Gilchrest | Other | 57% | ||
| Gene Taylor | Other | 57% | ||
| William Cohen | Other | 56% | ||
| Paul Gillmor | Other | 56% | ||
| Amory Houghton, Jr. | Other | 56% | ||
| Rick Lazio | Other | 56% | ||
| John Chafee | Other | 53% | ||
| Gary Franks | Other | 53% | ||
| KY | U.S. House-5 | Hal Rogers | R | 53% |
| Olympia Snowe | Other | 53% | ||
| Pete Geren | Other | 52% | ||
| Stephen Horn | Other | 52% | ||
| David Minge | Other | 52% | ||
| MN | U.S. House-7 | Collin Peterson | DFL | 52% |
| MS | U.S. Senate-Sr | Thad Cochran | R | 51% |
| FL | U.S. House-27 | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | R | 51% |
| Marge Roukema | Other | 51% | ||
| Peter Blute | Other | 50% | ||
| Pete Domenici, Jr. | Other | 50% | ||
| Nancy Johnson | Other | 50% | ||
| Glenn Poshard | Other | 50% | ||
| Peter Torkildsen | Other | 50% | ||
| NJ | U.S. House-4 | Chris Smith | R | 47% |
| Kit Bond | Other | 46% | ||
| Herb Kohl | Other | 45% | ||
| Arlen Specter | Other | 45% | ||
| Mike Parker | Other | 44% | ||
| GA | Governor | Nathan Deal | R | 43% |
| James Walsh | Other | 43% | ||
| Ted Stevens | Other | 42% | ||
| NJ | U.S. House-1 | Rob Andrews | D | 41% |
| Greg Laughlin | Other | 40% | ||
| Bill Bradley | Other | 39% | ||
| Lincoln Diaz-Balart | Other | 39% | ||
| Owen Pickett | Other | 39% | ||
| Ike Skelton | Other | 39% | ||
| Russ Feingold | Other | 38% | ||
| Sam Nunn | Other | 37% | ||
| Lewis Payne, Jr. | Other | 37% | ||
| James Barcia | Other | 36% | ||
| Chet Edwards | Other | 36% | ||
| Norman Sisisky | Other | 36% | ||
| Constance Morella | Other | 34% | ||
| Andrew Jacobs, Jr. | Other | 33% | ||
| Jerry Costello | Other | 32% | ||
| Blanche Lincoln | Other | 32% | ||
| Sherwood Boehlert | Other | 31% | ||
| Calvin Dooley | Other | 31% | ||
| Karen Thurman | Other | 31% | ||
| Benjamin Gilman | Other | 30% | ||
| Lee Hamilton | Other | 30% | ||
| Jane Harman | Other | 30% | ||
| G.V. Montgomery | Other | 29% | ||
| Henry Scott Baesler | Other | 28% | ||
| James Merrill Jeffords | Other | 28% | ||
| AL | U.S. Senate-Sr | Richard Shelby | R | 28% |
| Patsy Ann Danner | Other | 27% | ||
| Charles Wilson | Other | 27% | ||
| Joe Lieberman | Other | 26% | ||
| William Lipinski | Other | 26% | ||
| Pete Peterson | Other | 26% | ||
| Timothy Roemer | Other | 26% | ||
| Earl Pomeroy | Other | 25% | ||
| Mark Hatfield | Other | 24% | ||
| Frank Lautenberg | Other | 24% | ||
| Jeff Bingaman | Other | 23% | ||
| Robert Cramer | Other | 23% | ||
| Daniel Graham | Other | 23% | ||
| Pat Williams | Other | 23% | ||
| NJ | U.S. House-6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | D | 22% |
| Patricia Schroeder | Other | 22% | ||
| Harold Volkmer | Other | 22% | ||
| WI | Mayor-At-Large | Tom Barrett | D | 21% |
| Kent Conrad | Other | 21% | ||
| Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | Other | 21% | ||
| Bart Stupak | Other | 21% | ||
| Frank Tejeda | Other | 21% | ||
| MT | U.S. Senate-Sr | Max Baucus | D | 20% |
| Robert Byrd | Other | 20% | ||
| Ben Campbell | Other | 20% | ||
| Jim Exon | Other | 20% | ||
| TX | U.S. House-29 | Gene Green | D | 20% |
| Bob Kerrey | Other | 20% | ||
| NA | U.S. Secretary of State | John Kerry | D | 20% |
| Martin Meehan | Other | 20% | ||
| Richard Bryan | Other | 19% | ||
| E. Kika de la Garza | Other | 19% | ||
| John Glenn | Other | 19% | ||
| John LaFalce | Other | 19% | ||
| Tom Bevill | Other | 18% | ||
| Peter Deutsch | Other | 18% | ||
| CA | U.S. Senate-Sr | Dianne Feinstein | D | 18% |
| Jonas Frost III | Other | 18% | ||
| Charles Robb | Other | 18% | ||
| GA | U.S. House-2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | D | 17% |
| David Pryor | Other | 17% | ||
| Dale Bumpers | Other | 16% | ||
| Michael McNulty | Other | 16% | ||
| Rick Boucher | Other | 15% | ||
| John Breaux | Other | 15% | ||
| Byron Dorgan | Other | 15% | ||
| NV | U.S. Senate-Sr | Harry Reid | D | 15% |
| NY | U.S. Senate-Sr | Chuck Schumer | D | 15% |
| Paul Wellstone | Other | 15% | ||
| Tony Hall | Other | 14% | ||
| Earl Hilliard, Jr. | Other | 14% | ||
| Ernest Hollings | Other | 14% | ||
| Gerald Kleczka | Other | 14% | ||
| MI | U.S. House-9 | Sandy Levin | D | 14% |
| Thomas Manton | Other | 14% | ||
| WV | U.S. House-3 | Nick Rahall II | D | 14% |
| Ray Thornton | Other | 14% | ||
| John Bryant | Other | 13% | ||
| Norm Dicks | Other | 13% | ||
| MD | U.S. House-5 | Steny Hoyer | D | 13% |
| NY | U.S. House-12 | Carolyn Maloney | D | 13% |
| Gary Ackerman | Other | 12% | ||
| MD | U.S. Senate-Jr | Ben Cardin | D | 12% |
| William Clay, Sr. | Other | 12% | ||
| MI | U.S. House-12 | John Dingell | D | 12% |
| Victor Fazio | Other | 12% | ||
| Wendell Ford | Other | 12% | ||
| W.G. Hefner | Other | 12% | ||
| Edward Kennedy, Sr. | Other | 12% | ||
| VT | U.S. Senate-Sr | Patrick Leahy | D | 12% |
| Alan Mollohan | Other | 12% | ||
| Jim Oberstar | Other | 12% | ||
| Dave Obey | Other | 12% | ||
| Bill Richardson | Other | 12% | ||
| Paul Simon | Other | 12% | ||
| Robert Torricelli | Other | 12% | ||
| IN | U.S. House-1 | Pete Visclosky | D | 12% |
| Bob Wise, Jr. | Other | 12% | ||
| NA | Vice President | Joe Biden, Jr. | D | 11% |
| CA | U.S. Senate-Jr | Barbara Boxer | D | 11% |
| Cardiss Collins | Other | 11% | ||
| Thomas Daschle | Other | 11% | ||
| Chris Dodd | Other | 11% | ||
| Barney Frank | Other | 11% | ||
| Sam Gibbons | Other | 11% | ||
| IL | U.S. House-4 | Luis Gutierrez | D | 11% |
| IA | U.S. Senate-Jr | Tom Harkin | D | 11% |
| Matthew Martinez | Other | 11% | ||
| NJ | U.S. Senate-Sr | Bob Menendez | D | 11% |
| CA | U.S. House-11 | George Miller | D | 11% |
| VA | U.S. House-8 | Jim Moran, Jr. | D | 11% |
| Patrick Moynihan | Other | 11% | ||
| NY | U.S. House-13 | Charlie Rangel | D | 11% |
| Charles Rose III | Other | 11% | ||
| VA | U.S. House-3 | Bobby Scott | D | 11% |
| David Skaggs | Other | 11% | ||
| NC | U.S. House-12 | Mel Watt | D | 11% |
| IL | U.S. Senate-Sr | Dick Durbin | D | 10% |
| Harry Johnston | Other | 10% | ||
| J. Bennett Johnston | Other | 10% | ||
| MA | U.S. House-5 | Ed Markey | D | 10% |
| Carol Moseley Braun | Other | 10% | ||
| AZ | U.S. House-7 | Ed Pastor | D | 10% |
| VT | U.S. Senate-Jr | Bernie Sanders | I | 10% |
| NY | U.S. House-25 | Louise Slaughter | D | 10% |
| Gerry Studds | Other | 10% | ||
| FL | U.S. House-5 | Corrine Brown | D | 9% |
| Ronald Coleman | Other | 9% | ||
| MI | U.S. House-13 | John Conyers, Jr. | D | 9% |
| Cleo Fields | Other | 9% | ||
| Floyd Flake | Other | 9% | ||
| Barbara Bailey Kennelly | Other | 9% | ||
| MI | U.S. Senate-Sr | Carl Levin | D | 9% |
| GA | U.S. House-5 | John Lewis | D | 9% |
| Robert Matsui | Other | 9% | ||
| Cynthia Ann McKinney | Other | 9% | ||
| Major Owens | Other | 9% | ||
| Claiborne Pell | Other | 9% | ||
| Martin Olav Sabo | Other | 9% | ||
| Anthony Beilenson | Other | 8% | ||
| Eva Clayton | Other | 8% | ||
| CT | U.S. House-3 | Rosa DeLauro | D | 8% |
| Ronald Dellums | Other | 8% | ||
| Julian Dixon | Other | 8% | ||
| Richard Andrew Gephardt | Other | 8% | ||
| William Jefferson | Other | 8% | ||
| Joseph Kennedy II | Other | 8% | ||
| Dale Kildee | Other | 8% | ||
| NY | U.S. House-17 | Nita Lowey | D | 8% |
| WA | U.S. Senate-Sr | Patty Murray | D | 8% |
| NY | U.S. House-10 | Jerry Nadler | D | 8% |
| MA | U.S. House-1 | Richard Neal | D | 8% |
| Donald Payne | Other | 8% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-12 | Nancy Pelosi | D | 8% |
| WV | U.S. Senate-Sr | Jay Rockefeller IV | D | 8% |
| IL | U.S. House-1 | Bobby Rush | D | 8% |
| NY | U.S. House-15 | José Serrano | D | 8% |
| Pete Stark | Other | 8% | ||
| Esteban Edward Torres | Other | 8% | ||
| Ed Towns | Other | 8% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-43 | Maxine Waters | D | 8% |
| CA | U.S. House-33 | Henry Waxman | D | 8% |
| Sidney Yates | Other | 8% | ||
| Howard Berman | Other | 7% | ||
| George Brown, Jr. | Other | 7% | ||
| Barbara-Rose Collins | Other | 7% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-18 | Anna Eshoo | D | 7% |
| FL | U.S. House-20 | Alcee Hastings, Sr. | D | 7% |
| TX | U.S. House-30 | Eddie Johnson | D | 7% |
| WA | U.S. House-7 | Jim McDermott | D | 7% |
| Carrie Meek | Other | 7% | ||
| MD | U.S. Senate-Sr | Barbara Mikulski | D | 7% |
| John Olver | Other | 7% | ||
| Paul Sarbanes | Other | 7% | ||
| MS | U.S. House-2 | Bennie Thompson | D | 7% |
| NY | U.S. House-7 | Nydia Velázquez | D | 7% |
| Bruce Vento | Other | 7% | ||
| Albert Wynn | Other | 7% | ||
| NY | U.S. House-16 | Eliot Engel | D | 6% |
| CA | U.S. House-20 | Sam Farr | D | 6% |
| CA | Mayor-At-Large | Bob Filner | D | 6% |
| Daniel Inouye | Other | 6% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-34 | Xavier Becerra | D | 5% |
| David Edward Bonior | Other | 5% | ||
| Henry Gonzalez | Other | 5% | ||
| Maurice Hinchey | Other | 5% | ||
| Tom Lantos | Other | 5% | ||
| John Moakley | Other | 5% | ||
| CA | U.S. House-40 | Lucille Roybal-Allard | D | 5% |
| Lynn Woolsey | Other | 5% | ||
| HI | Governor | Neil Abercrombie | D | 4% |
| Lane Evans | Other | 4% | ||
| Daniel Akaka, Sr. | Other | 3% | ||
| Sam Gejdenson | Other | 3% | ||
| Patsy Takemoto Mink | Other | 3% |
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.