State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 100%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 100%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 100%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 67%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 50%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 33%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 33%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 33%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 60%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 33%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 33%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 50%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 67%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 100%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 67%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 100%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 33%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 0%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 0%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 67%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 100%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 0%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 25%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 100%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 100%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 50%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 60%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 50%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 0%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 33%
CO State Board of Education-4 Robert Schaffer R 67%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 33%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 33%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 33%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 40%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 100%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 100%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 100%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 100%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 40%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 100%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 40%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 100%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 100%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 75%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 33%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 100%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 100%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 67%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 50%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 100%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 100%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 100%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 40%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 33%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 33%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 33%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 40%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 100%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 100%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 100%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 100%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 100%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 100%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 83%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 100%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 0%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 33%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 33%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 33%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 33%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 67%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 33%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 0%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 40%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 33%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 80%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 100%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 100%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 100%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 33%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 40%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 0%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 40%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 40%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 33%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 50%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 40%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 33%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 33%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 80%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 80%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 40%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 50%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 100%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 33%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 100%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 60%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 33%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 50%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 100%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 100%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 100%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 50%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 33%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 33%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 40%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 100%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 83%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 67%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 33%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 33%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 33%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 33%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 0%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 33%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 33%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 33%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 0%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 33%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 40%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 100%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 40%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 100%
OH State Senate-28 Thomas Sawyer D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 100%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 100%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 100%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 100%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 0%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 40%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 33%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 0%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 100%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 33%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 100%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 40%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 33%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 40%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 60%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 60%
SD U.S. Senate-Jr John Thune R 100%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 100%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 100%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 100%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 100%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 100%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 100%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 100%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 50%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 33%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 33%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 33%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 100%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 40%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 67%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 100%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 33%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 100%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 100%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 100%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 33%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 100%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 50%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 40%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 0%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 50%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 40%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 33%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 100%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 33%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 67%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 67%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 33%
WI Mayor-At-Large Tom Barrett D 33%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 100%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 60%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 40%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 100%
Gary Ackerman Other 50%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 40%
Todd Akin Other 100%
Wayne Allard Other 100%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 33%
Richard Armey Other 100%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 60%
Brian Baird Other 50%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 100%
John Baldacci Other 33%
Cass Ballenger Other 100%
James Barcia Other 33%
Robert Barr, Jr. Other 100%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 100%
Evan Bayh Other 0%
Bob Bennett Other 100%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. Other 40%
Douglas Bereuter Other 100%
Shelley Berkley Other 67%
Howard Berman Other 0%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 100%
Michael Bilirakis Other 100%
Jeff Bingaman Other 40%
Rod Blagojevich Other 33%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 100%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 100%
David Edward Bonior Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. Other 33%
Leonard Boswell Other 50%
Rick Boucher Other 25%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 33%
John Breaux Other 100%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 100%
Ed Bryant Other 100%
Jim Bunning Other 100%
Conrad Burns Other 100%
Dan Burton Other 100%
Steve Buyer Other 100%
Robert Byrd Other 40%
Herbert Callahan Other 100%
Ben Campbell Other 100%
Chris Cannon Other 100%
Jean Carnahan Other 60%
Brad Carson Other 83%
Julia Carson Other 0%
Mike Castle Other 83%
Eva Clayton Other 40%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland Other 60%
Robert Clement Other 80%
Hillary Clinton Other 40%
Michael Collins Other 100%
Larry Combest Other 100%
Gary Condit Other 67%
Kent Conrad Other 40%
John Cooksey Other 100%
Jon Corzine Other 40%
Jerry Costello Other 50%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
William Coyne Other 40%
Larry Craig Other 100%
Robert Cramer Other 83%
Philip Crane Other 100%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 100%
Thomas Daschle Other 40%
James Davis Other 33%
Jo Ann Davis Other 100%
Thomas Davis III Other 100%
Bill Delahunt Other 33%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
James DeMint Other 100%
Peter Deutsch Other 33%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 100%
Norm Dicks Other 0%
Chris Dodd Other 40%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 75%
Calvin Dooley Other 50%
John Doolittle Other 100%
Byron Dorgan Other 40%
David Dreier Other 100%
Jennifer Dunn Other 100%
John Edwards Other 40%
Chet Edwards Other 40%
Vern Ehlers Other 100%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. Other 100%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 100%
Philip English Other 100%
John Ensign Other 100%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 33%
Terry Everett Other 100%
Russ Feingold Other 40%
Michael Ferguson Other 100%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 80%
Ernest Fletcher Other 100%
Mark Foley Other 100%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 100%
Barney Frank Other 33%
William Frist Other 100%
Jonas Frost III Other 0%
Elton Gallegly Other 100%
John Ganske Other 100%
George Gekas Other 100%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 0%
Jim Gibbons Other 100%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 100%
Paul Gillmor Other 100%
Benjamin Gilman Other 100%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 33%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 100%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Porter Goss Other 100%
Daniel Graham Other 40%
William Phillip Gramm Other 100%
Mark Green Other 100%
James Greenwood Other 100%
Judd Gregg Other 100%
Felix Grucci, Jr. Other 100%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 100%
Tony Hall Other 50%
James Hansen Other 100%
Jane Harman Other 67%
Melissa Hart Other 100%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 100%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 60%
Jesse Helms Other 100%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 100%
Baron Hill Other 33%
Van Hilleary Other 100%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. Other 33%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 100%
Pete Hoekstra Other 100%
Thomas Holden Other 0%
Ernest Hollings Other 80%
Darlene Hooley Other 67%
Stephen Horn Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 100%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 80%
Kenny Hulshof Other 100%
Duncan Hunter Other 100%
Y. Tim Hutchinson Other 100%
Kay Hutchison Other 100%
Henry Hyde Other 100%
Daniel Inouye Other 40%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 100%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 33%
William Jefferson Other 50%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 80%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 100%
Christopher John Other 83%
Nancy Johnson Other 100%
Tim Johnson Other 100%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Ric Keller Other 100%
Sue Kelly Other 100%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 40%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 40%
Brian Kerns Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 33%
Gerald Kleczka Other 33%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 100%
Herb Kohl Other 60%
James Kolbe Other 100%
Dennis Kucinich Other 33%
Jon Kyl Other 100%
John LaFalce Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 100%
Nicholas Lampson Other 50%
Tom Lantos Other 33%
Steve LaTourette Other 75%
James Leach Other 100%
Jerry Lewis Other 100%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 40%
Blanche Lincoln Other 80%
John Linder Other 100%
William Lipinski Other 67%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 100%
Dick Lugar Other 80%
William Luther Other 40%
James Maloney Other 50%
Don Manzullo Other 100%
Frank Mascara Other 50%
Robert Matsui Other 33%
Karen McCarthy Other 40%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 100%
Scott McInnis Other 67%
Cynthia Ann McKinney Other 33%
Michael McNulty Other 33%
Martin Meehan Other 0%
Carrie Meek Other 50%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 40%
Dan Miller Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 80%
Patsy Takemoto Mink Other 33%
Alan Mollohan Other 33%
Dennis Moore Other 67%
Constance Morella Other 67%
Frank Murkowski Other 100%
Jack Murtha Other 33%
Sue Myrick Other 100%
Ben Nelson Other 80%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 100%
Robert William Ney Other 100%
Don Nickles Other 100%
Anne Northup Other 100%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 100%
James Nussle Other 100%
Jim Oberstar Other 40%
Dave Obey Other 33%
John Olver Other 33%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 50%
Thomas William Osborne Other 100%
Doug Ose Other 100%
Major Owens Other 0%
Michael Oxley Other 100%
Ron Paul Other 67%
Donald Payne Other 33%
John Peterson Other 100%
David Phelps Other 50%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 100%
Todd Platts Other 100%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 33%
Deborah Pryce Other 100%
Jack Quinn Other 100%
George Radanovich Other 100%
James Ramstad Other 100%
Ralph Regula Other 100%
Denny Rehberg Other 100%
Silvestre Reyes Other 33%
Thomas Reynolds Other 100%
Bob Riley Other 100%
Lynn Nancy Rivers Other 33%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 40%
Timothy Roemer Other 50%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 0%
Marge Roukema Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 33%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 67%
Rick Santorum Other 100%
Paul Sarbanes Other 40%
Jim Saxton Other 100%
Edward Schrock Other 100%
John Shadegg Other 100%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 100%
Christopher Shays Other 100%
Donald Sherwood Other 100%
Ronnie Shows Other 100%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 100%
Joseph Skeen Other 100%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Gordon Smith Other 100%
Nick Smith Other 100%
Bob Smith Other 100%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Hilda Solis Other 33%
Mark Souder Other 100%
Arlen Specter Other 80%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 33%
Pete Stark Other 40%
Cliff Stearns Other 100%
Charles Stenholm Other 50%
Ted Stevens Other 80%
Ted Strickland Other 33%
Bob Stump Other 100%
Bart Stupak Other 40%
John Sununu Other 100%
John Sweeney Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 67%
John Tanner Other 50%
Ellen Tauscher Other 67%
William Tauzin Other 100%
Charles Taylor Other 100%
Gene Taylor Other 60%
Craig Thomas Other 100%
William Thomas Other 100%
Fred Thompson Other 80%
Karen Thurman Other 33%
Strom Thurmond Other 100%
Todd Tiahrt Other 100%
Robert Torricelli Other 60%
Ed Towns Other 40%
James Traficant, Jr. Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 33%
James Turner Other 67%
George Voinovich Other 100%
James Walsh Other 100%
Zach Wamp Other 100%
John Warner Other 100%
Wesley Watkins Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 67%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 33%
David Weldon Other 100%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 100%
Gerald Weller Other 100%
Paul Wellstone Other 40%
Robert Wexler Other 40%
Heather Wilson Other 100%
Lynn Woolsey Other 33%
David Wu Other 33%
Albert Wynn Other 60%

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.