| State | Office | District | Name | Party | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Armey | 100% | ||||
| William Baker | 100% | ||||
| Philip Crane | 100% | ||||
| Don Manzullo | 100% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 39 | Ed Royce | Republican | 100% |
| Bill Archer | 96% | ||||
| Bill Barrett | 96% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 42 | Ken Calvert | Republican | 96% |
| MI | U.S. House | 4 | Dave Camp | Republican | 96% |
| Christopher Cox | 96% | ||||
| ID | U.S. Senate | Sr | Mike Crapo | Republican | 96% |
| Rodney Grams | 96% | ||||
| Melton Hancock | 96% | ||||
| Duncan Hunter | 96% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 3 | Sam Johnson | Republican | 96% |
| Jon Kyl | 96% | ||||
| Jim Lightfoot | 96% | ||||
| William Paxon | 96% | ||||
| Richard Pombo | 96% | ||||
| Jack Quinn | 96% | ||||
| Gerald B.H. Solomon | 96% | ||||
| Bob Stump | 96% | ||||
| Craig Thomas | 96% | ||||
| AK | U.S. House | At-Large | Don Young | Republican | 96% |
| AL | U.S. House | 6 | Spencer Bachus | Republican | 95% |
| Thomas DeLay | 95% | ||||
| David Dreier | 95% | ||||
| Bill Zeliff | 95% | ||||
| Wayne Allard | 92% | ||||
| Cass Ballenger | 92% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 6 | Joe Barton | Republican | 92% |
| Thomas Bliley, Jr. | 92% | ||||
| OH | U.S. House | 8 | John Boehner | Republican | 92% |
| Henry Bonilla | 92% | ||||
| Jim Bunning | 92% | ||||
| Dan Burton | 92% | ||||
| Larry Combest | 92% | ||||
| Jay Dickey | 92% | ||||
| John Doolittle | 92% | ||||
| Bill Emerson | 92% | ||||
| Jack Fields, Jr. | 92% | ||||
| Tillie Fowler | 92% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 6 | Bob Goodlatte | Republican | 92% |
| Wally Herger, Jr. | 92% | ||||
| Pete Hoekstra | 92% | ||||
| Y. Tim Hutchinson | 92% | ||||
| Jay Kim | 92% | ||||
| GA | U.S. House | 1 | Jack Kingston | Republican | 92% |
| John Linder | 92% | ||||
| John McHugh | 92% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 25 | Buck McKeon | Republican | 92% |
| Carlos Moorhead | 92% | ||||
| KS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Pat Roberts | Republican | 92% |
| CA | U.S. House | 48 | Dana Rohrabacher | Republican | 92% |
| Daniel Schaefer | 92% | ||||
| Joseph Skeen | 92% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 21 | Lamar Smith | Republican | 92% |
| Cliff Stearns | 92% | ||||
| James Talent | 92% | ||||
| Barbara Vucanovich | 92% | ||||
| Herbert Callahan | 91% | ||||
| Robert Dornan | 91% | ||||
| Newt Gingrich | 91% | ||||
| Ron Lewis | 91% | ||||
| Hank Brown | 89% | ||||
| Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth | 89% | ||||
| William Phillip Gramm | 89% | ||||
| Don Nickles | 89% | ||||
| Bob Smith | 89% | ||||
| Richard Hugh Baker | 88% | ||||
| Roscoe Bartlett | 88% | ||||
| Steve Buyer | 88% | ||||
| FL | Justice of the Supreme Court | Charles Canady | 88% | ||
| NC | U.S. House | 6 | Howard Coble | Republican | 88% |
| Michael Collins | 88% | ||||
| Randall Cunningham | 88% | ||||
| Terry Everett | 88% | ||||
| Thomas Ewing | 88% | ||||
| Elton Gallegly | 88% | ||||
| Jesse Helms | 88% | ||||
| Henry Hyde | 88% | ||||
| Joseph Knollenberg | 88% | ||||
| Scott McInnis | 88% | ||||
| Dan Miller | 88% | ||||
| Frank Murkowski | 88% | ||||
| Bill Orton | 88% | ||||
| Nick Smith | 88% | ||||
| Charles Stenholm | 88% | ||||
| Charles Taylor | 88% | ||||
| William Thomas | 88% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 7 | John Mica | Republican | 87% |
| Toby Roth | 87% | ||||
| Jennifer Dunn | 84% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 4 | Ralph Hall | Republican | 84% |
| Joel Hefley | 84% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 5 | Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. | Republican | 84% |
| Michael Bilirakis | 83% | ||||
| Steven Gunderson | 83% | ||||
| James Hansen | 83% | ||||
| Amory Houghton, Jr. | 83% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 2 | Pete King | Republican | 83% |
| James Kolbe | 83% | ||||
| Jerry Lewis | 83% | ||||
| James Nussle | 83% | ||||
| Ronald Packard | 83% | ||||
| J. Dennis Hastert | 80% | ||||
| Robert Livingston | 80% | ||||
| Susan Molinari | 80% | ||||
| Bob Bennett | 78% | ||||
| MS | U.S. Senate | Sr | Thad Cochran | Republican | 78% |
| Alfonse D'Amato | 78% | ||||
| UT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Orrin Hatch | Republican | 78% |
| Kay Hutchison | 78% | ||||
| Trent Lott, Sr. | 78% | ||||
| Connie Mack | 78% | ||||
| AZ | U.S. Senate | Sr | John McCain III | Republican | 78% |
| Bill McCollum | 78% | ||||
| Larry Pressler | 78% | ||||
| Alan Simpson | 78% | ||||
| John Myers | 76% | ||||
| James McCrery III | 75% | ||||
| Ted Stevens | 75% | ||||
| Greg Laughlin | 72% | ||||
| WI | U.S. House | 6 | Tom Petri | Republican | 72% |
| Owen Pickett | 72% | ||||
| KY | U.S. House | 5 | Hal Rogers | Republican | 72% |
| Norman Sisisky | 72% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 6 | Fred Upton | Republican | 72% |
| Steven Schiff | 71% | ||||
| E. Clay Shaw, Jr. | 68% | ||||
| Herbert Bateman | 67% | ||||
| IN | U.S. Senate | Sr | Daniel Coats | Republican | 67% |
| Paul Coverdell | 67% | ||||
| Larry Craig | 67% | ||||
| Robert Dole | 67% | ||||
| Michael Oxley | 67% | ||||
| Gene Taylor | 67% | ||||
| Strom Thurmond | 67% | ||||
| Mike Castle | 64% | ||||
| Pete Geren | 64% | ||||
| Porter Goss | 64% | ||||
| Ike Skelton | 64% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 10 | Frank Wolf | Republican | 64% |
| Conrad Burns | 62% | ||||
| Dirk Kempthorne | 62% | ||||
| KY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Mitch McConnell | Republican | 62% |
| William Tauzin | 62% | ||||
| Douglas Bereuter | 60% | ||||
| Calvin Dooley | 60% | ||||
| Chet Edwards | 60% | ||||
| Paul Gillmor | 60% | ||||
| David Lee Hobson | 60% | ||||
| Mike Parker | 60% | ||||
| OH | U.S. Senate | Jr | Rob Portman | Republican | 60% |
| James Ramstad | 60% | ||||
| James Walsh | 60% | ||||
| Gary Condit | 58% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 13 | Bill Young | Republican | 56% |
| James Barcia | 54% | ||||
| Lincoln Diaz-Balart | 52% | ||||
| Stephen Horn | 52% | ||||
| Rick Lazio | 52% | ||||
| James Leach | 52% | ||||
| Jim Saxton | 52% | ||||
| Karen Thurman | 52% | ||||
| Patsy Ann Danner | 50% | ||||
| AL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Richard Shelby | Republican | 50% |
| Charles Wilson | 50% | ||||
| Peter Blute | 48% | ||||
| Scott Klug | 48% | ||||
| Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | 48% | ||||
| Lewis Payne, Jr. | 48% | ||||
| MN | U.S. House | 7 | Collin Peterson | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 48% |
| Glenn Poshard | 48% | ||||
| Frank Tejeda | 48% | ||||
| Henry Scott Baesler | 44% | ||||
| Pete Domenici, Jr. | 44% | ||||
| Slade Gorton | 44% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Grassley | Republican | 44% |
| Judd Gregg | 44% | ||||
| Mark Hatfield | 44% | ||||
| Earl Pomeroy | 44% | ||||
| John Warner | 44% | ||||
| William Lipinski | 42% | ||||
| G.V. Montgomery | 42% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 27 | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | Republican | 42% |
| Harold Volkmer | 42% | ||||
| Robert Cramer | 41% | ||||
| Lee Hamilton | 40% | ||||
| Pete Peterson | 40% | ||||
| Peter Torkildsen | 40% | ||||
| E. Kika de la Garza | 39% | ||||
| Vern Ehlers | 38% | ||||
| Jonas Frost III | 38% | ||||
| J. Bennett Johnston | 38% | ||||
| Blanche Lincoln | 38% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 38% |
| Olympia Snowe | 38% | ||||
| Bart Stupak | 38% | ||||
| Harris Fawell | 36% | ||||
| Jane Harman | 36% | ||||
| David Minge | 36% | ||||
| Timothy Roemer | 36% | ||||
| John Breaux | 33% | ||||
| Robert Byrd | 33% | ||||
| GA | Governor | Nathan Deal | Republican | 33% | |
| Sam Nunn | 33% | ||||
| Arlen Specter | 33% | ||||
| Nancy Johnson | 32% | ||||
| Jan Meyers | 32% | ||||
| Richard Zimmer | 32% | ||||
| Victor Fazio | 30% | ||||
| Robert Franks | 30% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 1 | Rob Andrews | Democratic | 29% |
| GA | U.S. House | 2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | Democratic | 29% |
| Kit Bond | 29% | ||||
| Benjamin Gilman | 29% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 29 | Gene Green | Democratic | 29% |
| John LaFalce | 28% | ||||
| Thomas Manton | 28% | ||||
| Pat Williams | 28% | ||||
| Ray Thornton | 26% | ||||
| NA | Vice President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 25% | |
| Bill Bradley | 25% | ||||
| Kent Conrad | 25% | ||||
| Jerry Costello | 25% | ||||
| Wayne Gilchrest | 25% | ||||
| Ernest Hollings | 25% | ||||
| Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 25% | ||||
| Sherwood Boehlert | 24% | ||||
| Matthew Martinez | 24% | ||||
| Constance Morella | 24% | ||||
| Tom Bevill | 23% | ||||
| Gary Ackerman | 22% | ||||
| Jeff Bingaman | 22% | ||||
| William Cohen | 22% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 12 | John Dingell | Democratic | 22% |
| Byron Dorgan | 22% | ||||
| CA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Dianne Feinstein | Democratic | 22% |
| John Glenn | 22% | ||||
| Daniel Graham | 22% | ||||
| Nancy Landon Kassebaum | 22% | ||||
| NA | U.S. Secretary of State | John Kerry | Democratic | 22% | |
| NJ | U.S. Senate | Sr | Frank Lautenberg | Democratic | 22% |
| Joe Lieberman | 22% | ||||
| Dick Lugar | 22% | ||||
| Michael McNulty | 22% | ||||
| Alan Mollohan | 22% | ||||
| Patrick Moynihan | 22% | ||||
| WA | U.S. Senate | Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 22% |
| Claiborne Pell | 22% | ||||
| Charles Robb | 22% | ||||
| WV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Jay Rockefeller IV | Democratic | 22% |
| Marge Roukema | 22% | ||||
| Norm Dicks | 21% | ||||
| Gary Franks | 21% | ||||
| WV | U.S. House | 3 | Nick Rahall II | Democratic | 21% |
| Charles Rose III | 21% | ||||
| W.G. Hefner | 20% | ||||
| AZ | U.S. House | 7 | Ed Pastor | Democratic | 20% |
| Floyd Flake | 18% | ||||
| Rick Boucher | 17% | ||||
| Cleo Fields | 17% | ||||
| MD | U.S. House | 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 17% |
| Bob Wise, Jr. | 17% | ||||
| John Bryant | 16% | ||||
| Tony Hall | 16% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 8 | Jim Moran, Jr. | Democratic | 16% |
| John Edward Porter | 16% | ||||
| Earl Hilliard, Jr. | 15% | ||||
| Dave Obey | 14% | ||||
| Major Owens | 14% | ||||
| Ed Towns | 14% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 13 | John Conyers, Jr. | Democratic | 13% |
| Robert Matsui | 13% | ||||
| Ronald Coleman | 12% | ||||
| Richard Andrew Gephardt | 12% | ||||
| Henry Gonzalez | 12% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 13 | Charlie Rangel | Democratic | 12% |
| William Roth, Jr. | 12% | ||||
| Esteban Edward Torres | 12% | ||||
| Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 11% | ||||
| MT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Max Baucus | Democratic | 11% |
| CA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Barbara Boxer | Democratic | 11% |
| Dale Bumpers | 11% | ||||
| Ben Campbell | 11% | ||||
| Thomas Daschle | 11% | ||||
| Chris Dodd | 11% | ||||
| Jim Exon | 11% | ||||
| Wendell Ford | 11% | ||||
| IA | U.S. Senate | Jr | Tom Harkin | Democratic | 11% |
| Daniel Inouye | 11% | ||||
| Bob Kerrey | 11% | ||||
| Herb Kohl | 11% | ||||
| VT | U.S. Senate | Sr | Patrick Leahy | Democratic | 11% |
| MI | U.S. Senate | Sr | Carl Levin | Democratic | 11% |
| MD | U.S. Senate | Sr | Barbara Mikulski | Democratic | 11% |
| Carol Moseley Braun | 11% | ||||
| David Pryor | 11% | ||||
| NV | U.S. Senate | Sr | Harry Reid | Democratic | 11% |
| Paul Sarbanes | 11% | ||||
| Paul Simon | 11% | ||||
| FL | U.S. House | 20 | Alcee Hastings, Sr. | Democratic | 9% |
| Andrew Jacobs, Jr. | 9% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 12 | Carolyn Maloney | Democratic | 9% |
| NY | U.S. House | 10 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 9% |
| NY | U.S. House | 15 | José Serrano | Democratic | 9% |
| NY | U.S. House | 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 9% |
| FL | U.S. House | 5 | Corrine Brown | Democratic | 8% |
| Cardiss Collins | 8% | ||||
| Julian Dixon | 8% | ||||
| IL | U.S. Senate | Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 8% |
| Barney Frank | 8% | ||||
| Sam Gibbons | 8% | ||||
| William Jefferson | 8% | ||||
| TX | U.S. House | 30 | Eddie Johnson | Democratic | 8% |
| Harry Johnston | 8% | ||||
| Gerald Kleczka | 8% | ||||
| MI | U.S. House | 9 | Sandy Levin | Democratic | 8% |
| NJ | U.S. Senate | Jr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 8% |
| CA | U.S. House | 11 | George Miller | Democratic | 8% |
| Patsy Takemoto Mink | 8% | ||||
| Jim Oberstar | 8% | ||||
| VA | U.S. House | 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 8% |
| Christopher Shays | 8% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 25 | Louise Slaughter | Democratic | 8% |
| IN | U.S. House | 1 | Pete Visclosky | Democratic | 8% |
| CA | U.S. House | 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 8% |
| NC | U.S. House | 12 | Mel Watt | Democratic | 8% |
| William Clay, Sr. | 5% | ||||
| Barbara-Rose Collins | 5% | ||||
| NY | U.S. House | 16 | Eliot Engel | Democratic | 5% |
| HI | Governor | Neil Abercrombie | Democratic | 4% | |
| CA | U.S. House | 34 | Xavier Becerra | Democratic | 4% |
| Anthony Beilenson | 4% | ||||
| Howard Berman | 4% | ||||
| David Edward Bonior | 4% | ||||
| George Brown, Jr. | 4% | ||||
| Eva Clayton | 4% | ||||
| Peter Deutsch | 4% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 18 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 4% |
| CA | U.S. House | 20 | Sam Farr | Democratic | 4% |
| CA | Mayor | At-Large | Bob Filner | Democratic | 4% |
| IL | U.S. House | 4 | Luis Gutierrez | Democratic | 4% |
| Maurice Hinchey | 4% | ||||
| Joseph Kennedy II | 4% | ||||
| Barbara Bailey Kennelly | 4% | ||||
| Dale Kildee | 4% | ||||
| GA | U.S. House | 5 | John Lewis | Democratic | 4% |
| NY | U.S. House | 17 | Nita Lowey | Democratic | 4% |
| WA | U.S. House | 7 | Jim McDermott | Democratic | 4% |
| Cynthia Ann McKinney | 4% | ||||
| Carrie Meek | 4% | ||||
| John Olver | 4% | ||||
| NJ | U.S. House | 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 4% |
| Donald Payne | 4% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 12 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 4% |
| Bill Richardson | 4% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 40 | Lucille Roybal-Allard | Democratic | 4% |
| IL | U.S. House | 1 | Bobby Rush | Democratic | 4% |
| Martin Olav Sabo | 4% | ||||
| VT | U.S. Senate | Jr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 4% |
| NY | U.S. Senate | Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 4% |
| David Skaggs | 4% | ||||
| MS | U.S. House | 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 4% |
| Robert Torricelli | 4% | ||||
| Bruce Vento | 4% | ||||
| CA | U.S. House | 33 | Henry Waxman | Democratic | 4% |
| Albert Wynn | 4% | ||||
| Sidney Yates | 4% | ||||
| WI | Mayor | At-Large | Tom Barrett | Democratic | 0% |
| Richard Bryan | 0% | ||||
| MD | U.S. Senate | Jr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 0% |
| John Chafee | 0% | ||||
| CT | U.S. House | 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 0% |
| Ronald Dellums | 0% | ||||
| Lane Evans | 0% | ||||
| Russ Feingold | 0% | ||||
| Sam Gejdenson | 0% | ||||
| James Merrill Jeffords | 0% | ||||
| Tom Lantos | 0% | ||||
| MA | U.S. House | 5 | Ed Markey | Democratic | 0% |
| Martin Meehan | 0% | ||||
| John Moakley | 0% | ||||
| MA | U.S. House | 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 0% |
| Patricia Schroeder | 0% | ||||
| Pete Stark | 0% | ||||
| Gerry Studds | 0% | ||||
| Paul Wellstone | 0% | ||||
| Lynn Woolsey | 0% |
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How to Interpret these Evaluations
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