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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Gary Ackerman | 100% | |||
Tom Barrett | 100% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 100% | |
David Edward Bonior | 100% | |||
Mike Capuano | 100% | |||
Lincoln Chafee | 100% | |||
William Clay, Sr. | 100% | |||
Joe Crowley | 100% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 100% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 100% |
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 100% |
Julian Dixon | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 100% |
Russ Feingold | 100% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 100% | |||
Bob Filner | 100% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 100% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 100% |
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 100% | |||
John Kerry | 100% | |||
Gerald Kleczka | 100% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 100% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 100% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 100% |
Martin Meehan | 100% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 100% |
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 100% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 100% |
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 100% |
John Olver | 100% | |||
Major Owens | 100% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 100% |
NJ | U.S. House - 9 | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Democratic | 100% |
Donald Payne | 100% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 100% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 100% |
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 100% |
Thomas Sawyer | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 100% |
José Serrano | 100% | |||
Christopher Shays | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 32 | Brad Sherman | Democratic | 100% |
Mark Udall | 100% | |||
Henry Waxman | 100% | |||
Robert Wexler | 100% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 100% | |||
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 100% |
Neil Abercrombie | 94% | |||
Rob Andrews | 94% | |||
Howard Berman | 94% | |||
Rod Blagojevich | 94% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 94% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 94% |
John Conyers, Jr. | 94% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 94% | |||
Peter Deutsch | 94% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 94% |
Eliot Engel | 94% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 94% |
Lane Evans | 94% | |||
Richard Andrew Gephardt | 94% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 94% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 94% | |||
Joseph Hoeffel | 94% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 94% | |||
Dale Kildee | 94% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 94% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 94% |
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 94% |
Sandy Levin | 94% | |||
John Lewis | 94% | |||
Nita Lowey | 94% | |||
Robert Matsui | 94% | |||
Cynthia Ann McKinney | 94% | |||
George Miller | 94% | |||
Patsy Takemoto Mink | 94% | |||
John Moakley | 94% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 94% |
Dave Obey | 94% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 94% |
Steve Rothman | 94% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 94% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 94% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 94% |
Louise Slaughter | 94% | |||
John Tierney | 94% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 94% |
Bruce Vento | 94% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 94% |
Anthony Weiner | 94% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 89% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 89% | |||
Joseph Maxwell Cleland | 89% | |||
Chris Dodd | 89% | |||
Tom Harkin | 89% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 89% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 89% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 89% |