The Freedom Index

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The Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution rates congressmen based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements. The percentages below are cumulative scores based on key votes from 1999 through mid 2014. Click on a senator's or representative's name to get a detailed breakdown of his or her voting record. Current Members of the 113th Congress

Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby - 64% Sen. Jefferson Sessions - 71% Dist.1: Bradley Byrne - 55% Dist.2: Martha Roby - 58% Dist.3: Mike Rogers - 53% Dist.4: Robert Aderholt - 57% Dist.5: Mo Brooks - 71% Dist.6: Spencer Bachus - 52% Dist.7: Terri Sewell - 14% Alaska Sen. Mark Begich - 14% Sen. Lisa Murkowski - 49% Dist.: Don Young - 56% Arizona Sen. John McCain - 63% Sen. Jeff Flake - 80% Dist.1: Ann Kirkpatrick - 21% Dist.2: Ron Barber - 10% Dist.3: Raul Grijalva - 30% Dist.4: Paul Gosar - 76% Dist.5: Matt Salmon - 73% Dist.6: David Schweikert - 82% Dist.7: Ed Pastor - 22% Dist.8: Trent Franks - 75% Dist.9: Kyrsten Sinema - 13% Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor - 19% Sen. John Boozman - 55% Dist.1: Eric Crawford - 60% Dist.2: Tim Griffin - 61% Dist.3: Steve Womack - 55% Dist.4: Tom Cotton - 63% California Sen. Dianne Feinstein - 12% Sen. Barbara Boxer - 13% Dist.1: Doug LaMalfa - 60% Dist.2: Jared Huffman - 30% Dist.3: John Garamendi - 13% Dist.4: Tom McClintock - 91% Dist.5: Mike Thompson - 20% Dist.6: Doris Matsui - 20% Dist.7: Ami Bera - 10% Dist.8: Paul Cook - 53% Dist.9: Jerry McNerney - 15% Dist.10: Jeff Denham - 57% Dist.11: George Miller - 24% Dist.12: Nancy Pelosi - 17% Dist.13: Barbara Lee - 28% Dist.14: Jackie Speier - 24% Dist.15: Eric Swalwell - 33% Dist.16: Jim Costa - 18% Dist.17: Michael Honda - 23% Dist.18: Anna Eshoo - 20% Dist.19: Zoe Lofgren - 24% Dist.20: Sam Farr - 21% Dist.21: David Valadao - 36% Dist.22: Devin Nunes - 54% Dist.23: Kevin McCarthy - 65% Dist.24: Lois Capps - 21% Dist.25: Howard McKeon - 51% Dist.26: Julia Brownley - 13% Dist.27: Judy Chu - 23% Dist.28: Adam Schiff - 19% Dist.29: Tony Cardenas - 32% Dist.30: Brad Sherman - 20% Dist.31: Gary Miller - 60% Dist.32: Grace Napolitano - 23% Dist.33: Henry Waxman - 19% Dist.34: Xavier Becerra - 20% Dist.35: Gloria Negrete McLeod - 33% Dist.36: Raul Ruiz - 20% Dist.37: Karen Bass - 24% Dist.38: Linda Sanchez - 25% Dist.39: Edward Royce - 72% Dist.40: Lucille Roybal-Allard - 21% Dist.41: Mark Takano - 30% Dist.42: Ken Calvert - 51% Dist.43: Maxine Waters - 27% Dist.44: Janice Hahn - 32% Dist.45: John Campbell - 70% Dist.46: Loretta Sanchez - 26% Dist.47: Alan Lowenthal - 30% Dist.48: Dana Rohrabacher - 76% Dist.49: Darrell Issa - 52% Dist.50: Duncan Hunter - 73% Dist.51: Juan Vargas - 30% Dist.52: Scott Peters - 16% Dist.53: Susan Davis - 17% Colorado Sen. Mark Udall - 20% Sen. Michael Bennet - 9% Dist.1: Diana DeGette - 20% Dist.2: Jared Polis - 25% Dist.3: Scott Tipton - 76% Dist.4: Cory Gardner - 70% Dist.5: Doug Lamborn - 77% Dist.6: Mike Coffman - 74% Dist.7: Ed Perlmutter - 16% Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal - 10% Sen. Christopher Murphy - 14% Dist.1: John Larson - 22% Dist.2: Joe Courtney - 18% Dist.3: Rosa DeLauro - 20% Dist.4: James Himes - 12% Dist.5: Elizabeth Esty - 26% Delaware Sen. Chris Coons - 10% Sen. Thomas Carper - 14% Dist.: John Carney - 13% Florida Sen. Marco Rubio - 78% Sen. Bill Nelson - 13% Dist.1: Jeff Miller - 68% Dist.2: Steve Southerland - 68% Dist.3: Ted Yoho - 73% Dist.4: Ander Crenshaw - 52% Dist.5: Corrine Brown - 20% Dist.6: Ron DeSantis - 80% Dist.7: John Mica - 57% Dist.8: Bill Posey - 88% Dist.9: Alan Grayson - 26% Dist.10: Daniel Webster - 62% Dist.11: Richard Nugent - 68% Dist.12: Gus Bilirakis - 61% Dist.14: Kathy Castor - 12% Dist.15: Dennis Ross - 72% Dist.16: Vern Buchanan - 57% Dist.17: Thomas Rooney - 72% Dist.18: Patrick Murphy - 20% Dist.20: Alcee Hastings - 23% Dist.21: Theodore Deutch - 16% Dist.22: Lois Frankel - 27% Dist.23: Debbie Wasserman Schultz - 15% Dist.24: Frederica Wilson - 23% Dist.25: Mario Diaz-Balart - 45% Dist.26: Joe Garcia - 13% Dist.27: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - 41% Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss - 58% Sen. John Isakson - 53% Dist.1: Jack Kingston - 63% Dist.2: Sanford Bishop - 27% Dist.3: Lynn Westmoreland - 72% Dist.4: Henry Johnson - 17% Dist.5: John Lewis - 25% Dist.6: Tom Price - 72% Dist.7: Rob Woodall - 66% Dist.8: Austin Scott - 70% Dist.9: Doug Collins - 62% Dist.10: Paul Broun - 91% Dist.11: Phil Gingrey - 65% Dist.12: John Barrow - 31% Dist.13: David Scott - 20% Dist.14: Tom Graves - 79% Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono - 11% Sen. Brian Schatz - 3% Dist.1: Colleen Hanabusa - 21% Dist.2: Tulsi Gabbard - 34% Idaho Sen. James Risch - 84% Sen. Michael Crapo - 68% Dist.1: Raul Labrador - 89% Dist.2: Michael Simpson - 54% Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin - 11% Sen. Mark Kirk - 34% Dist.1: Bobby Rush - 23% Dist.2: Robin Kelly - 24% Dist.3: Daniel Lipinski - 20% Dist.4: Luis Gutierrez - 22% Dist.5: Mike Quigley - 18% Dist.6: Peter Roskam - 66% Dist.7: Danny Davis - 24% Dist.8: Tammy Duckworth - 13% Dist.9: Janice Schakowsky - 24% Dist.10: Bradley Schneider - 13% Dist.11: Bill Foster - 14% Dist.12: William Enyart - 23% Dist.13: Rodney Davis - 56% Dist.14: Randy Hultgren - 68% Dist.15: John Shimkus - 52% Dist.16: Adam Kinzinger - 56% Dist.17: Cheri Bustos - 14% Dist.18: Aaron Schock - 64% Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly - 22% Sen. Daniel Coats - 67% Dist.1: Peter Visclosky - 28% Dist.2: Jackie Walorski - 50% Dist.3: Marlin Stutzman - 75% Dist.4: Todd Rokita - 68% Dist.5: Susan Brooks - 50% Dist.6: Luke Messer - 56% Dist.7: André Carson - 16% Dist.8: Larry Bucshon - 63% Dist.9: Todd Young - 57% Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley - 62% Sen. Thomas Harkin - 14% Dist.1: Bruce Braley - 19% Dist.2: David Loebsack - 18% Dist.3: Tom Latham - 50% Dist.4: Steve King - 65% Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran - 64% Sen. Pat Roberts - 62% Dist.1: Tim Huelskamp - 89% Dist.2: Lynn Jenkins - 72% Dist.3: Kevin Yoder - 67% Dist.4: Mike Pompeo - 66% Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul - 94% Sen. Mitch McConnell - 62% Dist.1: Ed Whitfield - 52% Dist.2: Brett Guthrie - 65% Dist.3: John Yarmuth - 19% Dist.4: Thomas Massie - 96% Dist.5: Harold Rogers - 52% Dist.6: Garland Barr - 56% Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu - 19% Sen. David Vitter - 59% Dist.1: Steve Scalise - 74% Dist.2: Cedric Richmond - 22% Dist.3: Charles Boustany - 57% Dist.4: John Fleming - 79% Dist.5: Vance McAllister - 50% Dist.6: Bill Cassidy - 66% Maine Sen. Angus King - 10% Sen. Susan Collins - 40% Dist.1: Chellie Pingree - 29% Dist.2: Michael Michaud - 27% Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin - 17% Sen. Barbara Mikulski - 13% Dist.1: Andy Harris - 75% Dist.2: C. Ruppersberger - 16% Dist.3: John Sarbanes - 18% Dist.4: Donna Edwards - 21% Dist.5: Steny Hoyer - 16% Dist.6: John Delaney - 17% Dist.7: Elijah Cummings - 22% Dist.8: Chris Van Hollen - 19% Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren - 3% Sen. Edward Markey - 22% Dist.1: Richard Neal - 20% Dist.2: James McGovern - 24% Dist.3: Niki Tsongas - 17% Dist.4: Joseph Kennedy - 31% Dist.5: Katherine Clark - 30% Dist.6: John Tierney - 26% Dist.7: Michael Capuano - 27% Dist.8: Stephen Lynch - 24% Dist.9: William Keating - 25% Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow - 17% Sen. Carl Levin - 12% Dist.1: Dan Benishek - 64% Dist.2: Bill Huizenga - 70% Dist.3: Justin Amash - 94% Dist.4: Dave Camp - 52% Dist.5: Daniel Kildee - 33% Dist.6: Fred Upton - 47% Dist.7: Tim Walberg - 66% Dist.8: Mike Rogers - 50% Dist.9: Sander Levin - 17% Dist.10: Candice Miller - 50% Dist.11: Kerry Bentivolio - 80% Dist.12: John Dingell - 21% Dist.13: John Conyers - 29% Dist.14: Gary Peters - 17% Minnesota Sen. Al Franken - 7% Sen. Amy Klobuchar - 7% Dist.1: Timothy Walz - 18% Dist.2: John Kline - 55% Dist.3: Erik Paulsen - 66% Dist.4: Betty McCollum - 21% Dist.5: Keith Ellison - 24% Dist.6: Michele Bachmann - 80% Dist.7: Collin Peterson - 45% Dist.8: Richard Nolan - 30% Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran - 54% Sen. Roger Wicker - 52% Dist.1: Alan Nunnelee - 60% Dist.2: Bennie Thompson - 26% Dist.3: Gregg Harper - 64% Dist.4: Steven Palazzo - 62%

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt - 55% Sen. Claire McCaskill - 17% Dist.1: Wm. Clay - 24% Dist.2: Ann Wagner - 55% Dist.3: Blaine Luetkemeyer - 67% Dist.4: Vicky Hartzler - 60% Dist.5: Emanuel Cleaver - 23% Dist.6: Sam Graves - 56% Dist.7: Billy Long - 61% Dist.8: Jason Smith - 68% Montana Sen. Jon Tester - 21% Sen. John Walsh - 0% Dist.: Steve Daines - 60% Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns - 67% Sen. Deb Fischer - 66% Dist.1: Jeff Fortenberry - 55% Dist.2: Lee Terry - 56% Dist.3: Adrian Smith - 68% Nevada Sen. Dean Heller - 73% Sen. Harry Reid - 17% Dist.1: Dina Titus - 12% Dist.2: Mark Amodei - 62% Dist.3: Joseph Heck - 61% Dist.4: Steven Horsford - 16% New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen - 8% Sen. Kelly Ayotte - 65% Dist.1: Carol Shea-Porter - 18% Dist.2: Ann Kuster - 20% New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez - 18% Sen. Cory Booker - 9% Dist.2: Frank LoBiondo - 44% Dist.3: Jon Runyan - 47% Dist.4: Christopher Smith - 44% Dist.5: Scott Garrett - 72% Dist.6: Frank Pallone - 25% Dist.7: Leonard Lance - 59% Dist.8: Albio Sires - 11% Dist.9: Bill Pascrell - 24% Dist.10: Donald Payne - 27% Dist.11: Rodney Frelinghuysen - 40% Dist.12: Rush Holt - 26% New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall - 20% Sen. Martin Heinrich - 10% Dist.1: Michelle Lujan Grisham - 23% Dist.2: Stevan Pearce - 55% Dist.3: Ben Lujan - 19% New York Sen. Charles Schumer - 13% Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand - 10% Dist.1: Timothy Bishop - 20% Dist.2: Peter King - 44% Dist.3: Steve Israel - 19% Dist.4: Carolyn McCarthy - 19% Dist.5: Gregory Meeks - 20% Dist.6: Grace Meng - 22% Dist.7: Nydia Velázquez - 25% Dist.8: Hakeem Jeffries - 33% Dist.9: Yvette Clarke - 24% Dist.10: Jerrold Nadler - 23% Dist.11: Michael Grimm - 48% Dist.12: Carolyn Maloney - 21% Dist.13: Charles Rangel - 19% Dist.14: Joseph Crowley - 21% Dist.15: José Serrano - 23% Dist.16: Eliot Engel - 18% Dist.17: Nita Lowey - 15% Dist.18: Sean Maloney - 16% Dist.19: Christopher Gibson - 70% Dist.20: Paul Tonko - 20% Dist.21: William Owens - 21% Dist.22: Richard Hanna - 46% Dist.23: Tom Reed - 61% Dist.24: Daniel Maffei - 21% Dist.25: Louise Slaughter - 20% Dist.26: Brian Higgins - 16% Dist.27: Chris Collins - 48% North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan - 11% Sen. Richard Burr - 57% Dist.1: George Butterfield - 16% Dist.2: Renee Ellmers - 60% Dist.3: Walter Jones - 78% Dist.4: David Price - 19% Dist.5: Virginia Foxx - 70% Dist.6: Howard Coble - 65% Dist.7: Mike McIntyre - 45% Dist.8: Richard Hudson - 60% Dist.9: Robert Pittenger - 53% Dist.10: Patrick McHenry - 70% Dist.11: Mark Meadows - 70% Dist.13: George Holding - 72% North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven - 54% Sen. Heidi Heitkamp - 14% Dist.: Kevin Cramer - 50% Ohio Sen. Robert Portman - 50% Sen. Sherrod Brown - 23% Dist.1: Steve Chabot - 64% Dist.2: Brad Wenstrup - 63% Dist.3: Joyce Beatty - 24% Dist.4: Jim Jordan - 79% Dist.5: Robert Latta - 70% Dist.6: Bill Johnson - 62% Dist.7: Bob Gibbs - 62% Dist.8: John Boehner - 53% Dist.9: Marcy Kaptur - 30% Dist.10: Michael Turner - 47% Dist.11: Marcia Fudge - 21% Dist.12: Patrick Tiberi - 51% Dist.13: Tim Ryan - 26% Dist.14: David Joyce - 48% Dist.15: Steve Stivers - 54% Dist.16: James Renacci - 58% Oklahoma Sen. Thomas Coburn - 82% Sen. James Inhofe - 72% Dist.1: Jim Bridenstine - 83% Dist.2: Markwayne Mullin - 70% Dist.3: Frank Lucas - 59% Dist.4: Tom Cole - 52% Dist.5: James Lankford - 65% Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden - 16% Sen. Jeff Merkley - 11% Dist.1: Suzanne Bonamici - 27% Dist.2: Greg Walden - 47% Dist.3: Earl Blumenauer - 21% Dist.4: Peter DeFazio - 32% Dist.5: Kurt Schrader - 23% Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey - 10% Sen. Patrick Toomey - 67% Dist.1: Robert Brady - 22% Dist.2: Chaka Fattah - 20% Dist.3: Mike Kelly - 57% Dist.4: Scott Perry - 66% Dist.5: Glenn Thompson - 66% Dist.6: Jim Gerlach - 40% Dist.7: Patrick Meehan - 52% Dist.8: Michael Fitzpatrick - 45% Dist.9: Bill Shuster - 55% Dist.10: Tom Marino - 54% Dist.11: Lou Barletta - 56% Dist.12: Keith Rothfus - 66% Dist.13: Allyson Schwartz - 11% Dist.14: Michael Doyle - 29% Dist.15: Charles Dent - 44% Dist.16: Joseph Pitts - 62% Dist.17: Matthew Cartwright - 33% Dist.18: Tim Murphy - 47% Rhode Island Sen. John Reed - 14% Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse - 11% Dist.1: David Cicilline - 29% Dist.2: James Langevin - 20% South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham - 62% Sen. Tim Scott - 81% Dist.1: Marshall Sanford - 87% Dist.2: Joe Wilson - 59% Dist.3: Jeff Duncan - 84% Dist.4: Trey Gowdy - 78% Dist.5: Mick Mulvaney - 78% Dist.6: James Clyburn - 20% Dist.7: Tom Rice - 63% South Dakota Sen. John Thune - 58% Sen. Tim Johnson - 16% Dist.: Kristi Noem - 65% Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker - 65% Sen. Lamar Alexander - 53% Dist.1: David Roe - 70% Dist.2: John Duncan - 82% Dist.3: Charles Fleischmann - 66% Dist.4: Scott DesJarlais - 80% Dist.5: Jim Cooper - 23% Dist.6: Diane Black - 62% Dist.7: Marsha Blackburn - 62% Dist.8: Stephen Fincher - 70% Dist.9: Steve Cohen - 21% Texas Sen. John Cornyn - 69% Sen. Ted Cruz - 90% Dist.1: Louie Gohmert - 75% Dist.2: Ted Poe - 70% Dist.3: Sam Johnson - 65% Dist.4: Ralph Hall - 60% Dist.5: Jeb Hensarling - 66% Dist.6: Joe Barton - 60% Dist.7: John Culberson - 64% Dist.8: Kevin Brady - 56% Dist.9: Al Green - 25% Dist.10: Michael McCaul - 60% Dist.11: K. Conaway - 61% Dist.12: Kay Granger - 51% Dist.13: Mac Thornberry - 54% Dist.14: Randy Weber - 73% Dist.15: Ruben Hinojosa - 21% Dist.16: Beto O'Rourke - 33% Dist.17: Bill Flores - 64% Dist.18: Sheila Jackson-Lee - 24% Dist.19: Randy Neugebauer - 65% Dist.20: Joaquin Castro - 27% Dist.21: Lamar Smith - 54% Dist.22: Pete Olson - 70% Dist.23: Pete Gallego - 16% Dist.24: Kenny Marchant - 67% Dist.25: Roger Williams - 70% Dist.26: Michael Burgess - 67% Dist.27: Blake Farenthold - 67% Dist.28: Henry Cuellar - 19% Dist.29: Gene Green - 27% Dist.30: Eddie Johnson - 19% Dist.31: John Carter - 57% Dist.32: Pete Sessions - 60% Dist.33: Marc Veasey - 26% Dist.34: Filemon Vela - 20% Dist.35: Lloyd Doggett - 25% Dist.36: Steve Stockman - 96% Utah Sen. Mike Lee - 91% Sen. Orrin Hatch - 58% Dist.1: Rob Bishop - 66% Dist.2: Chris Stewart - 56% Dist.3: Jason Chaffetz - 76% Dist.4: Jim Matheson - 36% Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy - 15% Sen. Bernard Sanders - 26% Dist.: Peter Welch - 24% Virginia Sen. Mark Warner - 12% Sen. Timothy Kaine - 0% Dist.1: Robert Wittman - 64% Dist.2: E. Rigell - 64% Dist.3: Robert Scott - 23% Dist.4: J. Forbes - 56% Dist.5: Robert Hurt - 67% Dist.6: Bob Goodlatte - 60% Dist.7: Eric Cantor - 55% Dist.8: James Moran - 20% Dist.9: H. Griffith - 77% Dist.10: Frank Wolf - 48% Dist.11: Gerald Connolly - 16% Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell - 12% Sen. Patty Murray - 11% Dist.1: Suzan DelBene - 26% Dist.2: Rick Larsen - 18% Dist.3: Jaime Herrera Beutler - 63% Dist.4: Doc Hastings - 55% Dist.5: Cathy McMorris Rodgers - 63% Dist.6: Derek Kilmer - 23% Dist.7: Jim McDermott - 25% Dist.8: David Reichert - 38% Dist.9: Adam Smith - 20% Dist.10: Denny Heck - 20% West Virginia Sen. John Rockefeller - 13% Sen. Joe Manchin - 30% Dist.1: David McKinley - 61% Dist.2: Shelley Capito - 46% Dist.3: Nick Rahall - 34% Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson - 82% Sen. Tammy Baldwin - 26% Dist.1: Paul Ryan - 58% Dist.2: Mark Pocan - 40% Dist.3: Ron Kind - 24% Dist.4: Gwen Moore - 24% Dist.5: F. Sensenbrenner - 77% Dist.6: Thomas Petri - 61% Dist.7: Sean Duffy - 62% Dist.8: Reid Ribble - 71% Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso - 80% Sen. Michael Enzi - 70% Dist.: Cynthia Lummis - 79