State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 79%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 93%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 87%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 73%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 93%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 93%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 100%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 89%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 96%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 20%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 65%
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 36%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 33%
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 71%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 73%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 53%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 48%
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 26%
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 33%
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 26%
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 39%
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 37%
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 37%
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 44%
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 93%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 48%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 96%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 42%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 33%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 89%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 33%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 19%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 26%
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 36%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 85%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 33%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 89%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 26%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 33%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 93%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 96%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 39%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 26%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 30%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 33%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 37%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 33%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 58%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 75%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 85%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 89%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 33%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 96%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 89%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 19%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 71%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 70%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 89%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 50%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 93%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 52%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 33%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 86%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 50%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 89%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 52%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 87%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 47%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 93%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 93%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 87%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 89%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 92%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 47%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 92%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 33%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 37%
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 89%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 43%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 33%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 92%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 100%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 96%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 73%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 80%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 89%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 93%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 87%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 57%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 26%
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 37%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 39%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 53%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 37%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 43%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 33%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 19%
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 36%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 93%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 43%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 53%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 58%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 96%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 93%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 89%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 33%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 93%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 33%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 19%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 86%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 37%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 52%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 50%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 93%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 41%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 100%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 93%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 37%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 80%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 47%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 80%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 27%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 70%
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 52%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 33%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 93%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 79%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 71%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 26%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 44%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 85%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 89%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 93%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 33%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 41%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 89%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 44%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 33%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 93%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 53%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 53%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 36%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 85%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 58%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 56%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 33%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 30%
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 37%
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 33%
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 19%
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 37%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 26%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 33%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 26%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 33%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 89%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 100%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 85%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 33%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 93%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 92%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 43%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 93%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 93%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 85%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 71%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 73%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 96%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 26%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 30%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 26%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 26%
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 93%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 96%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 37%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 93%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 93%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 47%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 35%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 67%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 50%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 100%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 33%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 67%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 50%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 100%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 50%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 100%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 100%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 93%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 96%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 71%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 93%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 89%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 89%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 96%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 93%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 44%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 33%
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 93%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 100%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 33%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 33%
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 100%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 85%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 33%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 87%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 100%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 62%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 37%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 96%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 96%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 92%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 41%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 89%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 53%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 33%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 60%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 58%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 58%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 100%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 26%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 30%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 37%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 33%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 89%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 33%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 74%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 85%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 53%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 89%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 52%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 87%
Gary Ackerman Other 26%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 47%
Todd Akin Other 89%
Wayne Allard Other 87%
George Allen Other 100%
Thomas Allen Other 33%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 41%
Brian Baird Other 41%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 96%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 71%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 100%
Charlie Bass Other 89%
Evan Bayh Other 47%
Bob Beauprez Other 100%
Bob Bennett Other 86%
Shelley Berkley Other 52%
Howard Berman Other 26%
Marion Berry Other 48%
Judy Biggert Other 96%
Michael Bilirakis Other 93%
Jeff Bingaman Other 47%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 85%
Kit Bond Other 100%
Henry Bonilla Other 96%
Mary Bono Mack Other 93%
Leonard Boswell Other 41%
Rick Boucher Other 48%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 44%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 96%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 71%
Jim Bunning Other 87%
Conrad Burns Other 93%
Dan Burton Other 85%
Steve Buyer Other 96%
Robert Byrd Other 53%
Chris Cannon Other 89%
Dennis Cardoza Other 43%
Julia Carson Other 26%
Edward Case Other 57%
Mike Castle Other 70%
Ben Chandler III Other 33%
Chris Chocola Other 100%
Hillary Clinton Other 58%
Norm Coleman Other 75%
Kent Conrad Other 53%
Jon Corzine Other 58%
Jerry Costello Other 48%
Christopher Cox Other 100%
Larry Craig Other 80%
Robert Cramer Other 82%
Barbara Cubin Other 100%
Randall Cunningham Other 96%
Artur Davis Other 36%
James Davis Other 30%
Jo Ann Davis Other 96%
Lincoln Davis Other 64%
Thomas Davis III Other 93%
Bill Delahunt Other 41%
Thomas DeLay Other 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 67%
Norm Dicks Other 26%
Chris Dodd Other 40%
Elizabeth Dole Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 79%
John Doolittle Other 89%
Byron Dorgan Other 53%
David Dreier Other 89%
Chet Edwards Other 48%
Vern Ehlers Other 96%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 85%
Philip English Other 89%
John Ensign Other 58%
Bob Etheridge Other 41%
Lane Evans Other 26%
Terry Everett Other 93%
Tom Feeney Other 71%
Russ Feingold Other 20%
Michael Ferguson Other 92%
Mark Foley Other 85%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 44%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 89%
Barney Frank Other 33%
William Frist Other 93%
Elton Gallegly Other 85%
Jim Gibbons Other 93%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 85%
Paul Gillmor Other 89%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 37%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 93%
Bart Gordon Other 59%
Mark Green Other 89%
Judd Gregg Other 67%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 93%
Jane Harman Other 54%
Katherine Harris Other 79%
Melissa Hart Other 92%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 100%
Robert Hayes Other 93%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 100%
Joel Hefley Other 78%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 93%
Maurice Hinchey Other 33%
David Lee Hobson Other 96%
Pete Hoekstra Other 89%
Thomas Holden Other 37%
Darlene Hooley Other 52%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 96%
Kenny Hulshof Other 85%
Duncan Hunter Other 93%
Kay Hutchison Other 53%
Henry Hyde Other 93%
Daniel Inouye Other 53%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 89%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 33%
William Jefferson Other 44%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 67%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 96%
Nancy Johnson Other 78%
Tim Johnson Other 89%
Paul Kanjorski Other 33%
Ric Keller Other 85%
Sue Kelly Other 96%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 47%
Mark Kennedy Other 100%
Patrick Kennedy Other 33%
Dale Kildee Other 33%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 33%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 96%
Herb Kohl Other 33%
James Kolbe Other 89%
Dennis Kucinich Other 26%
Jon Kyl Other 60%
Ray LaHood Other 82%
Tom Lantos Other 37%
Steve LaTourette Other 82%
James Leach Other 67%
Jerry Lewis Other 93%
Ron Lewis Other 100%
Joe Lieberman Other 47%
Blanche Lincoln Other 87%
John Linder Other 93%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 87%
Dick Lugar Other 87%
Don Manzullo Other 96%
Jim Marshall Other 50%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 93%
James McCrery III Other 100%
John McHugh Other 74%
Michael McNulty Other 37%
Martin Meehan Other 26%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 26%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 33%
Brad Miller Other 36%
Alan Mollohan Other 41%
Dennis Moore Other 48%
Jack Murtha Other 30%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 93%
Sue Myrick Other 82%
Ben Nelson Other 75%
Robert William Ney Other 96%
Anne Northup Other 96%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 89%
James Nussle Other 89%
Jim Oberstar Other 33%
Dave Obey Other 26%
John Olver Other 33%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 37%
Thomas William Osborne Other 92%
Major Owens Other 26%
Michael Oxley Other 85%
Ron Paul Other 63%
Donald Payne Other 22%
John Peterson Other 93%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 96%
Todd Platts Other 89%
Richard Pombo Other 100%
Earl Pomeroy Other 37%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 93%
Deborah Pryce Other 93%
George Radanovich Other 93%
James Ramstad Other 96%
Ralph Regula Other 96%
Denny Rehberg Other 96%
Richard Renzi Other 86%
Silvestre Reyes Other 26%
Thomas Reynolds Other 96%
Mike Ross Other 50%
Steve Rothman Other 19%
Jim Ryun Other 100%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 33%
Rick Santorum Other 60%
Paul Sarbanes Other 53%
Jim Saxton Other 82%
John Shadegg Other 78%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 89%
Christopher Shays Other 85%
Donald Sherwood Other 96%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 89%
Ike Skelton Other 52%
Gordon Smith Other 87%
Olympia Snowe Other 80%
Vic Snyder Other 33%
Hilda Solis Other 35%
Mark Souder Other 89%
Arlen Specter Other 47%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 37%
Pete Stark Other 19%
Cliff Stearns Other 78%
Ted Stevens Other 73%
Ted Strickland Other 26%
Bart Stupak Other 30%
John Sullivan Other 90%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 82%
James Talent Other 100%
Tom Tancredo Other 74%
John Tanner Other 48%
Ellen Tauscher Other 44%
Charles Taylor Other 89%
Gene Taylor Other 44%
Craig Thomas Other 93%
William Thomas Other 96%
Todd Tiahrt Other 93%
Ed Towns Other 26%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 33%
George Voinovich Other 80%
James Walsh Other 82%
Zach Wamp Other 96%
John Warner Other 100%
Diane Watson Other 39%
Anthony Weiner Other 33%
David Weldon Other 85%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 89%
Gerald Weller Other 96%
Robert Wexler Other 19%
Heather Wilson Other 89%
Lynn Woolsey Other 26%
David Wu Other 33%
Albert Wynn Other 48%

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.