State Office Name Party Rating
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 0%
George Allen Other 0%
Thomas Allen Other 90%
Richard Armey Other 0%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 90%
Brian Baird Other 60%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
John Baldacci Other 100%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
James Barcia Other 80%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 0%
Charlie Bass Other 10%
Evan Bayh Other 60%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 90%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 90%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Rod Blagojevich Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 0%
Kit Bond Other 0%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
David Edward Bonior Other 100%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 90%
Leonard Boswell Other 70%
Rick Boucher Other 90%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 60%
John Breaux Other 40%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Ed Bryant Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 0%
Conrad Burns Other 0%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 100%
Herbert Callahan Other 0%
Ben Campbell Other 0%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Jean Carnahan Other 70%
Brad Carson Other 80%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 10%
Eva Clayton Other 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 60%
Robert Clement Other 70%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 0%
Larry Combest Other 0%
Gary Condit Other 50%
Kent Conrad Other 100%
John Cooksey Other 0%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 80%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
William Coyne Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 0%
Robert Cramer Other 30%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 100%
James Davis Other 80%
Jo Ann Davis Other 0%
Thomas Davis III Other 0%
Bill Delahunt Other 100%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 90%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 0%
Calvin Dooley Other 56%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 100%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 90%
Chet Edwards Other 100%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 0%
Philip English Other 0%
John Ensign Other 0%
Bob Etheridge Other 80%
Lane Evans Other 100%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 100%
Michael Ferguson Other 0%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 30%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 70%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 90%
Elton Gallegly Other 0%
John Ganske Other 10%
George Gekas Other 0%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 100%
Jim Gibbons Other 0%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Benjamin Gilman Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 78%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 0%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 90%
William Phillip Gramm Other 0%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 0%
Judd Gregg Other 0%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 10%
Tony Hall Other 100%
James Hansen Other 0%
Jane Harman Other 60%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 10%
Jesse Helms Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 60%
Van Hilleary Other 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 100%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 90%
Pete Hoekstra Other 0%
Thomas Holden Other 100%
Ernest Hollings Other 100%
Darlene Hooley Other 80%
Stephen Horn Other 0%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 10%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 0%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 0%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 0%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 90%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 30%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 40%
Nancy Johnson Other 0%
Tim Johnson Other 0%
Paul Kanjorski Other 100%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 0%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Brian Kerns Other 0%
Dale Kildee Other 100%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Gerald Kleczka Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 90%
James Kolbe Other 0%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
John LaFalce Other 100%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 78%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 0%
James Leach Other 10%
Jerry Lewis Other 0%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 60%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 63%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
William Luther Other 100%
James Maloney Other 80%
Don Manzullo Other 0%
Frank Mascara Other 90%
Robert Matsui Other 90%
Karen McCarthy Other 80%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 0%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 100%
Michael McNulty Other 100%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Carrie Meek Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Dan Miller Other 0%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 30%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 100%
Alan Mollohan Other 90%
Dennis Moore Other 50%
Constance Morella Other 20%
Frank Murkowski Other 0%
Jack Murtha Other 100%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 40%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 0%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 100%
Dave Obey Other 100%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 80%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 10%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 0%
David Phelps Other 80%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 0%
Earl Pomeroy Other 80%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 0%
George Radanovich Other 0%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 0%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 90%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Bob Riley Other 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 89%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Timothy Roemer Other 60%
Mike Ross Other 70%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Marge Roukema Other 0%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 90%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 70%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 10%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Ronnie Shows Other 60%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 0%
Joseph Skeen Other 0%
Ike Skelton Other 60%
Gordon Smith Other 20%
Nick Smith Other 0%
Bob Smith Other 0%
Olympia Snowe Other 10%
Vic Snyder Other 78%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 0%
Arlen Specter Other 30%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 0%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 0%
Ted Strickland Other 100%
Bob Stump Other 0%
Bart Stupak Other 100%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 40%
Ellen Tauscher Other 70%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 0%
Gene Taylor Other 50%
Craig Thomas Other 0%
William Thomas Other 0%
Fred Thompson Other 0%
Karen Thurman Other 100%
Strom Thurmond Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Robert Torricelli Other 50%
Ed Towns Other 90%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 10%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
James Turner Other 80%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 0%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 10%
Wesley Watkins Other 0%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 0%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 0%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Paul Wellstone Other 100%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 80%
Albert Wynn Other 80%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 90%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 80%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 40%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 80%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 89%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 90%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 90%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 90%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 80%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 80%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 70%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 90%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 90%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 70%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 80%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 90%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 90%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 90%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 70%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 90%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 90%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 80%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 80%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 100%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 40%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 90%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 60%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 70%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 70%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 70%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 80%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 90%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 80%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 100%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 70%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 50%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 90%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 80%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 80%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 90%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 80%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 70%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 30%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 90%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 0%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 0%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 10%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 10%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 0%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 10%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 0%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 0%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 0%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 0%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 40%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 0%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 0%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 0%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 0%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 0%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 0%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 0%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 0%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 10%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 0%

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.