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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 100% |
Corrine Brown | 100% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 100% |
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 100% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 100% |
John Conyers, Jr. | 100% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 100% |
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 100% |
Sam Farr | 100% | |||
Bob Filner | 100% | |||
Barney Frank | 100% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 100% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 100% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 100% | |||
Mike Honda | 100% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 100% |
Sandy Levin | 100% | |||
Karen McCarthy | 100% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 100% |
Jim McDermott | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 100% |
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 100% |
George Miller | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 100% |
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 100% |
Jim Oberstar | 100% | |||
John Olver | 100% | |||
Donald Payne | 100% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 100% | |||
Bobby Rush | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 100% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 100% | |
Pete Stark | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 100% |
John Tierney | 100% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 100% | |||
Tom Udall | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 100% |
Mel Watt | 100% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 100% | |||
Brian Baird | 89% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 89% | |
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 89% |
Lois Capps | 89% | |||
Julia Carson | 89% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 89% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 89% |
Bill Delahunt | 89% | |||
Lane Evans | 89% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 89% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 89% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 89% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 89% | |||
Gerald Kleczka | 89% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 89% |
Martin Meehan | 89% | |||
Dave Obey | 89% | |||
Major Owens | 89% | |||
Ed Pastor | 89% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 89% |
David Price | 89% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 89% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 89% |
José Serrano | 89% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 89% | |||
Ed Towns | 89% | |||
Mark Udall | 89% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 89% |
Anthony Weiner | 89% | |||
David Wu | 89% | |||
Albert Wynn | 89% | |||
Neil Abercrombie | 78% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 78% | |||
Thomas Allen | 78% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 78% | |||
Mike Capuano | 78% | |||
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 78% | |||
Joe Crowley | 78% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 78% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 78% |
Eliot Engel | 78% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 78% | |||
Joseph Hoeffel | 78% | |||
Darlene Hooley | 78% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 78% |
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 78% |
William Jefferson | 78% | |||
Eddie Johnson | 78% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 2 | Rick Larsen | Democratic | 78% |
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 78% |
James Leach | 78% | |||
Nita Lowey | 78% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 78% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 78% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 78% |
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 78% |
Nick Rahall II | 78% | |||
Ciro Rodriguez | 78% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 78% |