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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Bob Filner | 94% | |||
Ed Pastor | 94% | |||
Donald Payne | 94% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 94% |
Mel Watt | 94% | |||
Diane Watson | 92% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 89% |
Bob Brady | 89% | |||
Mike Capuano | 89% | |||
Julia Carson | 89% | |||
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 89% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 89% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 89% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 89% |
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 89% |
Harold Ford, Jr. | 89% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 89% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 89% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 89% |
Gerald Kleczka | 89% | |||
John Lewis | 89% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 89% |
Charlie Rangel | 89% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 89% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 89% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 89% |
José Serrano | 89% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 89% | |||
Tom Udall | 89% | |||
Evan Bayh | 88% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 88% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 88% |
Hillary Clinton | 88% | |||
Jon Corzine | 88% | |||
Thomas Daschle | 88% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 88% |
John Edwards | 88% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 88% | |||
Carl Levin | 88% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 88% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 88% | |||
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 88% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 88% |
Harry Reid | 88% | |||
Jay Rockefeller IV | 88% | |||
Paul Sarbanes | 88% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 88% |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 88% |
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 83% | |
Corrine Brown | 83% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 83% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 83% |
Joe Crowley | 83% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 83% | |||
Jonas Frost III | 83% | |||
Richard Andrew Gephardt | 83% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 83% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 83% | |||
William Jefferson | 83% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 83% | |||
Dale Kildee | 83% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 83% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 83% |
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 83% |
Nita Lowey | 83% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 83% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 83% |
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 83% |
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 83% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 83% |
John Olver | 83% | |||
Major Owens | 83% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 83% |
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 83% |
Ciro Rodriguez | 83% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 83% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 83% |
CA | U.S. House - 32 | Brad Sherman | Democratic | 83% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 83% | |
Pete Stark | 83% | |||
Ted Strickland | 83% | |||
MS | U.S. House - 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 83% |
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 83% |
John Tierney | 83% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 83% |
Lynn Woolsey | 83% | |||
Albert Wynn | 83% | |||
Jeff Bingaman | 81% | |||
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 81% |
Mark Dayton | 81% | |||
Byron Dorgan | 81% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 81% | |||
Daniel Graham | 81% | |||
Tom Harkin | 81% | |||
Ernest Hollings | 81% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 81% | |||
John Kerry | 81% | |||
Herb Kohl | 81% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 81% | |||
Blanche Lincoln | 81% |