State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 24%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 30%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 12%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 3%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 30%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 30%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 23%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 30%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 94%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 15%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 20%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 90%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 27%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 91%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 94%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 90%
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 97%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 93%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 90%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 97%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 30%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 93%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 33%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 93%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 97%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 23%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 93%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 97%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 97%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 27%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 97%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 30%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 97%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 93%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 27%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 37%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 93%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 97%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 87%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 83%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 90%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 93%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 94%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 88%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 27%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 30%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 87%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 30%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 30%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 87%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 33%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 30%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 27%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 6%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 27%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 27%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 90%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 27%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 87%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 20%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 93%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 12%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 97%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 23%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 23%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 9%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 30%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 30%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 30%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 90%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 93%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 30%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 90%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 93%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 33%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 15%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 43%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 12%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 9%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 27%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 30%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 91%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 27%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 77%
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 97%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 90%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 97%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 93%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 97%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 97%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 42%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 83%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 33%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 40%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 30%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 93%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 33%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 90%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 97%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 33%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 97%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 77%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 30%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 93%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 30%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 9%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 27%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 88%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 24%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 37%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 23%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 93%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 27%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 73%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 33%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 40%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 97%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 93%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 87%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 43%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 43%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 30%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 93%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 90%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 43%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 97%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 93%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 30%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 91%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 90%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 40%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 90%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 90%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 93%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 97%
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 90%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 97%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 97%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 90%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 90%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 90%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 27%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 33%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 30%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 87%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 37%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 37%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 90%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 27%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 9%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 30%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 30%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 97%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 40%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 93%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 93%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 97%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 37%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 30%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 93%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 27%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 40%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 90%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 42%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 12%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 27%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 91%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 12%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 27%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 77%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 30%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 12%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 50%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 50%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 30%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 23%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 27%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 30%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 27%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 30%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 93%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 97%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 27%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 30%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 73%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 23%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 23%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 97%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 12%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 33%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 80%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 97%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 30%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 27%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 27%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 87%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 33%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 83%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 30%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 97%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 73%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 93%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 37%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 23%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 23%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 43%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 83%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 9%
Gary Ackerman Other 80%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 27%
Wayne Allard Other 9%
George Allen Other 12%
Thomas Allen Other 93%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 90%
Brian Baird Other 83%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 27%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 30%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 33%
Charlie Bass Other 43%
Evan Bayh Other 97%
Bob Beauprez Other 33%
Bob Bennett Other 18%
Shelley Berkley Other 90%
Howard Berman Other 87%
Marion Berry Other 83%
Judy Biggert Other 47%
Michael Bilirakis Other 33%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 43%
Kit Bond Other 12%
Henry Bonilla Other 27%
Mary Bono Mack Other 40%
Leonard Boswell Other 87%
Rick Boucher Other 73%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 73%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 30%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 23%
Jim Bunning Other 12%
Conrad Burns Other 12%
Dan Burton Other 30%
Steve Buyer Other 23%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 27%
Dennis Cardoza Other 83%
Julia Carson Other 87%
Edward Case Other 87%
Mike Castle Other 53%
Chris Chocola Other 30%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Norm Coleman Other 21%
Kent Conrad Other 94%
Jon Corzine Other 97%
Jerry Costello Other 87%
Christopher Cox Other 27%
Larry Craig Other 6%
Robert Cramer Other 67%
Barbara Cubin Other 27%
Randall Cunningham Other 33%
Artur Davis Other 93%
James Davis Other 87%
Jo Ann Davis Other 30%
Lincoln Davis Other 70%
Thomas Davis III Other 37%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 23%
James DeMint Other 30%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 33%
Norm Dicks Other 90%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Elizabeth Dole Other 12%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 6%
John Doolittle Other 27%
Byron Dorgan Other 94%
David Dreier Other 27%
Chet Edwards Other 80%
Vern Ehlers Other 37%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 30%
Philip English Other 40%
John Ensign Other 12%
Bob Etheridge Other 90%
Lane Evans Other 93%
Terry Everett Other 27%
Tom Feeney Other 27%
Russ Feingold Other 97%
Michael Ferguson Other 40%
Mark Foley Other 37%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 80%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 30%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 9%
Elton Gallegly Other 30%
Jim Gibbons Other 27%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 37%
Paul Gillmor Other 37%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 93%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 27%
Bart Gordon Other 70%
Mark Green Other 40%
Judd Gregg Other 15%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 33%
Jane Harman Other 83%
Katherine Harris Other 37%
Melissa Hart Other 33%
Robert Hayes Other 27%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 27%
Joel Hefley Other 30%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 30%
Maurice Hinchey Other 90%
David Lee Hobson Other 30%
Pete Hoekstra Other 30%
Thomas Holden Other 77%
Darlene Hooley Other 90%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 33%
Kenny Hulshof Other 27%
Duncan Hunter Other 30%
Kay Hutchison Other 18%
Henry Hyde Other 27%
Daniel Inouye Other 91%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 23%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 85%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 20%
Nancy Johnson Other 47%
Tim Johnson Other 50%
Paul Kanjorski Other 80%
Ric Keller Other 27%
Sue Kelly Other 47%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 97%
Mark Kennedy Other 33%
Patrick Kennedy Other 93%
Dale Kildee Other 90%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 97%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 30%
Herb Kohl Other 97%
James Kolbe Other 37%
Jon Kyl Other 6%
Ray LaHood Other 37%
Tom Lantos Other 97%
Steve LaTourette Other 43%
James Leach Other 70%
Jerry Lewis Other 27%
Ron Lewis Other 33%
Blanche Lincoln Other 85%
John Linder Other 27%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 6%
Dick Lugar Other 18%
Don Manzullo Other 33%
Jim Marshall Other 73%
Robert Matsui Other 97%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 37%
James McCrery III Other 30%
John McHugh Other 43%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 87%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 93%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 87%
Brad Miller Other 93%
Alan Mollohan Other 77%
Dennis Moore Other 90%
Jack Murtha Other 70%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 30%
Sue Myrick Other 27%
Ben Nelson Other 61%
Robert William Ney Other 40%
Anne Northup Other 30%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 23%
James Nussle Other 40%
Jim Oberstar Other 90%
Dave Obey Other 83%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 77%
Thomas William Osborne Other 37%
Major Owens Other 90%
Michael Oxley Other 37%
Ron Paul Other 33%
Donald Payne Other 90%
John Peterson Other 30%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 37%
Todd Platts Other 37%
Richard Pombo Other 33%
Earl Pomeroy Other 83%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 40%
Deborah Pryce Other 30%
George Radanovich Other 33%
James Ramstad Other 53%
Ralph Regula Other 30%
Denny Rehberg Other 33%
Richard Renzi Other 33%
Silvestre Reyes Other 83%
Thomas Reynolds Other 30%
Mike Ross Other 87%
Steve Rothman Other 93%
Jim Ryun Other 33%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 97%
Rick Santorum Other 6%
Paul Sarbanes Other 97%
Jim Saxton Other 40%
John Shadegg Other 23%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 33%
Christopher Shays Other 53%
Donald Sherwood Other 33%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 40%
Ike Skelton Other 73%
Gordon Smith Other 18%
Olympia Snowe Other 33%
Vic Snyder Other 93%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 30%
Arlen Specter Other 21%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 90%
Pete Stark Other 93%
Cliff Stearns Other 20%
Ted Stevens Other 15%
Ted Strickland Other 87%
Bart Stupak Other 77%
John Sullivan Other 27%
John Sununu Other 12%
John Sweeney Other 33%
James Talent Other 15%
Tom Tancredo Other 33%
John Tanner Other 80%
Ellen Tauscher Other 97%
Charles Taylor Other 23%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Craig Thomas Other 6%
William Thomas Other 30%
Todd Tiahrt Other 33%
Ed Towns Other 90%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 83%
George Voinovich Other 21%
James Walsh Other 37%
Zach Wamp Other 30%
John Warner Other 24%
Diane Watson Other 93%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 27%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 33%
Gerald Weller Other 37%
Robert Wexler Other 87%
Heather Wilson Other 43%
Lynn Woolsey Other 90%
David Wu Other 87%
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.