State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 22%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 30%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 18%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 22%
AZ U.S. House-5 Matthew Salmon R 18%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 73%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 70%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 80%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 91%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 91%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 70%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 82%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 82%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 18%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 91%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 20%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 18%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 27%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 90%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 73%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 18%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 18%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 33%
FL Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady Other 18%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 18%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 18%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 18%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 20%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 60%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 18%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 20%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 73%
IN U.S. Senate-Sr Daniel Coats R 20%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 64%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 20%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 18%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 18%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 70%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 73%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 70%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 73%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 64%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 89%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 18%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 18%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 82%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 91%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 90%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 27%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 18%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 50%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 60%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 70%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 18%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 18%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 18%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 90%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 64%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 64%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 27%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 27%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 64%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 18%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 70%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 73%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 18%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 91%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 91%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 82%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 90%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 91%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 73%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 82%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 73%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 27%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 18%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 18%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 64%
OH Governor John Kasich R 18%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 73%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 30%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 22%
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 18%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 18%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 60%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 55%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 18%
SC U.S. House-1 Mark Sanford, Jr. R 27%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 82%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 18%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 18%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 18%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 18%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 18%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 91%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 20%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 70%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 91%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 73%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 20%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 18%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 55%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 18%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 91%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 70%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 18%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 91%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 27%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 18%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 73%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 56%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 64%
Edmond Spencer Abraham Other 20%
Gary Ackerman Other 73%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 89%
Bill Archer Other 18%
Richard Armey Other 18%
John Ashcroft Other 22%
Henry Scott Baesler Other 55%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 18%
William Baker Other 20%
John Baldacci Other 73%
Cass Ballenger Other 18%
James Barcia Other 55%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 18%
Bill Barrett Other 18%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 18%
Charlie Bass Other 18%
Herbert Bateman Other 20%
Anthony Beilenson Other 70%
Bob Bennett Other 20%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 55%
Douglas Bereuter Other 27%
Howard Berman Other 80%
Tom Bevill Other 60%
Brian Bilbray Other 18%
Michael Bilirakis Other 18%
Jeff Bingaman Other 70%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. Other 10%
Peter Blute Other 40%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 36%
Kit Bond Other 30%
Henry Bonilla Other 18%
David Edward Bonior Other 91%
Sonny Bono Other 18%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 80%
Rick Boucher Other 60%
Bill Bradley Other 80%
John Breaux Other 60%
Bill Brewster Other 30%
George Brown, Jr. Other 91%
Hank Brown Other 10%
Richard Bryan Other 60%
Ed Bryant Other 18%
John Bryant Other 80%
Dale Bumpers Other 80%
Jim Bunning Other 18%
Conrad Burns Other 20%
Dan Burton Other 18%
Steve Buyer Other 18%
Robert Byrd Other 60%
Herbert Callahan Other 18%
Ben Campbell Other 33%
Thomas Campbell Other 67%
Mike Castle Other 27%
John Chafee Other 30%
Helen Chenoweth-Hage Other 27%
Jon Lynn Christensen Other 18%
William Clay, Sr. Other 100%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Robert Clement Other 55%
William Clinger Other 10%
William Cohen Other 70%
Ronald Coleman Other 60%
Barbara-Rose Collins Other 90%
Cardiss Collins Other 90%
Michael Collins Other 18%
Larry Combest Other 18%
Gary Condit Other 27%
Kent Conrad Other 70%
Jerry Costello Other 64%
Paul Coverdell Other 20%
Christopher Cox Other 18%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 20%
Robert Cramer Other 27%
Philip Crane Other 18%
Barbara Cubin Other 18%
Randall Cunningham Other 18%
Alfonse D'Amato Other 30%
Patsy Ann Danner Other 36%
Thomas Daschle Other 70%
Thomas Davis III Other 18%
E. Kika de la Garza Other 60%
Thomas DeLay Other 18%
Ronald Dellums Other 91%
Peter Deutsch Other 64%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 20%
Jay Dickey Other 18%
Norm Dicks Other 64%
Julian Dixon Other 91%
Chris Dodd Other 60%
Robert Dole Other 10%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 30%
Calvin Dooley Other 55%
John Doolittle Other 27%
Byron Dorgan Other 60%
Robert Dornan Other 10%
David Dreier Other 18%
Jennifer Dunn Other 18%
Chet Edwards Other 60%
Vern Ehlers Other 20%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 18%
Bill Emerson Other 10%
Philip English Other 20%
John Ensign Other 18%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 18%
Thomas Ewing Other 18%
Jim Exon Other 80%
Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth Other 33%
Harris Fawell Other 18%
Victor Fazio Other 82%
Russ Feingold Other 70%
Cleo Fields Other 100%
Jack Fields, Jr. Other 10%
Floyd Flake Other 90%
Thomas Foglietta Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 18%
Michael Patrick Forbes Other 27%
Wendell Ford Other 70%
Tillie Fowler Other 22%
Jon David Fox Other 27%
Barney Frank Other 91%
Gary Franks Other 10%
Robert Franks Other 27%
William Frist Other 20%
Jonas Frost III Other 64%
Elizabeth Furse Other 80%
Elton Gallegly Other 20%
John Ganske Other 18%
Sam Gejdenson Other 91%
George Gekas Other 18%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 73%
Pete Geren Other 30%
Sam Gibbons Other 70%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 27%
Paul Gillmor Other 18%
Benjamin Gilman Other 27%
Newt Gingrich Other 0%
John Glenn Other 60%
Henry Gonzalez Other 70%
William Goodling Other 18%
Bart Gordon Other 36%
Slade Gorton Other 20%
Porter Goss Other 18%
Daniel Graham Other 67%
William Phillip Gramm Other 25%
Rodney Grams Other 20%
James Greenwood Other 27%
Judd Gregg Other 20%
Steven Gunderson Other 30%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 18%
Tony Hall Other 70%
Lee Hamilton Other 45%
Melton Hancock Other 10%
James Hansen Other 18%
Jane Harman Other 44%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 18%
Mark Hatfield Other 70%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 18%
Joel Hefley Other 27%
W.G. Hefner Other 55%
Jesse Helms Other 20%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 18%
Van Hilleary Other 18%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 82%
David Lee Hobson Other 18%
Pete Hoekstra Other 18%
Martin Hoke Other 30%
Thomas Holden Other 55%
Ernest Hollings Other 70%
Stephen Horn Other 27%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 27%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 27%
Duncan Hunter Other 18%
Kay Hutchison Other 33%
Henry Hyde Other 18%
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 18%
Daniel Inouye Other 75%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 18%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. Other 90%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 30%
Nancy Johnson Other 45%
Harry Johnston Other 70%
J. Bennett Johnston Other 40%
Paul Kanjorski Other 73%
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Other 30%
Sue Kelly Other 27%
Dirk Kempthorne Other 20%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 80%
Joseph Kennedy II Other 73%
Patrick Kennedy Other 82%
Barbara Bailey Kennelly Other 73%
Bob Kerrey Other 67%
Dale Kildee Other 73%
Jay Kim Other 27%
Gerald Kleczka Other 55%
Ronald Klink Other 73%
Scott Klug Other 18%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 18%
Herb Kohl Other 50%
James Kolbe Other 18%
Jon Kyl Other 22%
John LaFalce Other 82%
Ray LaHood Other 18%
Tom Lantos Other 70%
Stephen Largent Other 10%
Steve LaTourette Other 18%
Greg Laughlin Other 40%
Rick Lazio Other 18%
James Leach Other 18%
Jerry Lewis Other 27%
Ron Lewis Other 18%
Joe Lieberman Other 70%
Jim Lightfoot Other 10%
Blanche Lincoln Other 50%
John Linder Other 18%
William Lipinski Other 55%
Robert Livingston Other 18%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 22%
Dick Lugar Other 20%
William Luther Other 55%
Connie Mack Other 22%
Thomas Manton Other 73%
Don Manzullo Other 18%
Matthew Martinez Other 90%
Frank Mascara Other 73%
Robert Matsui Other 82%
Karen McCarthy Other 73%
Bill McCollum Other 18%
James McCrery III Other 18%
Joseph McDade Other 20%
Paul McHale Other 55%
John McHugh Other 18%
Scott McInnis Other 27%
David McIntosh Other 18%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 60%
Martin Meehan Other 64%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Jack Metcalf Other 18%
Jan Meyers Other 30%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 18%
David Minge Other 45%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 91%
John Moakley Other 70%
Susan Molinari Other 20%
Alan Mollohan Other 64%
G.V. Montgomery Other 40%
Carlos Moorhead Other 10%
Constance Morella Other 36%
Carol Moseley Braun Other 60%
Patrick Moynihan Other 80%
Frank Murkowski Other 20%
Jack Murtha Other 64%
John Myers Other 20%
Sue Myrick Other 18%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 18%
Mark Neumann Other 18%
Robert William Ney Other 18%
Don Nickles Other 22%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 18%
Sam Nunn Other 50%
James Nussle Other 18%
Jim Oberstar Other 91%
Dave Obey Other 73%
John Olver Other 82%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 55%
Bill Orton Other 50%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 18%
Ronald Packard Other 27%
Mike Parker Other 18%
William Paxon Other 18%
Donald Payne Other 100%
Lewis Payne, Jr. Other 40%
Claiborne Pell Other 80%
Pete Peterson Other 70%
Owen Pickett Other 55%
Richard Pombo Other 27%
Earl Pomeroy Other 64%
John Edward Porter Other 18%
Glenn Poshard Other 55%
Larry Pressler Other 30%
Deborah Pryce Other 18%
David Pryor Other 70%
James Quillen Other 10%
Jack Quinn Other 30%
George Radanovich Other 18%
James Ramstad Other 20%
Ralph Regula Other 18%
Bill Richardson Other 64%
Frank Duncan Riggs Other 18%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 64%
Charles Robb Other 60%
Timothy Roemer Other 55%
Charles Rose III Other 80%
Toby Roth Other 10%
William Roth, Jr. Other 44%
Marge Roukema Other 36%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 91%
Rick Santorum Other 30%
Paul Sarbanes Other 90%
Jim Saxton Other 27%
Joe Scarborough Other 27%
Daniel Schaefer Other 27%
Steven Schiff Other 18%
Patricia Schroeder Other 80%
John Shadegg Other 18%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 18%
Christopher Shays Other 27%
E.G. Shuster Other 18%
Paul Simon Other 80%
Alan Simpson Other 20%
Norman Sisisky Other 45%
David Skaggs Other 91%
Joseph Skeen Other 18%
Ike Skelton Other 30%
Linda Smith Other 20%
Nick Smith Other 18%
Bob Smith Other 22%
Olympia Snowe Other 30%
Gerald B.H. Solomon Other 18%
Mark Souder Other 27%
Arlen Specter Other 40%
Floyd Spence Other 20%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 64%
Pete Stark Other 78%
Cliff Stearns Other 18%
Charles Stenholm Other 36%
Ted Stevens Other 30%
Louis Stokes Other 100%
Gerry Studds Other 80%
Bob Stump Other 27%
Bart Stupak Other 73%
James Talent Other 18%
John Tanner Other 45%
William Tauzin Other 18%
Charles Taylor Other 10%
Gene Taylor Other 27%
Frank Tejeda Other 80%
Craig Thomas Other 20%
William Thomas Other 18%
Fred Thompson Other 30%
Ray Thornton Other 60%
Karen Thurman Other 70%
Strom Thurmond Other 20%
Todd Tiahrt Other 18%
Peter Torkildsen Other 20%
Esteban Edward Torres Other 91%
Ed Towns Other 91%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 55%
Bruce Vento Other 91%
Harold Volkmer Other 80%
Barbara Vucanovich Other 20%
Robert Walker Other 10%
James Walsh Other 18%
Zach Wamp Other 18%
John Warner Other 20%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 20%
David Weldon Other 18%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 18%
Paul Wellstone Other 80%
Rick White Other 18%
Pat Williams Other 80%
Charles Wilson Other 70%
Bob Wise, Jr. Other 64%
Lynn Woolsey Other 82%
Albert Wynn Other 91%
Sidney Yates Other 89%
Bill Zeliff Other 10%
Richard Zimmer Other 30%

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.