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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Lane Evans | 100% | |||
Sam Farr | 100% | |||
Russ Feingold | 100% | |||
John Kerry | 100% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 100% |
Lynn Woolsey | 100% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 89% |
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 89% |
Maurice Hinchey | 89% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 89% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 89% | |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 89% | |||
Howard Berman | 88% | |||
Jim Oberstar | 88% | |||
Neil Abercrombie | 78% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 78% | |
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 78% |
Julia Carson | 78% | |||
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 78% |
John Conyers, Jr. | 78% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 78% |
Charlie Gonzalez | 78% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 78% | |||
James Leach | 78% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 78% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 78% |
Michael McNulty | 78% | |||
George Miller | 78% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 78% |
Donald Payne | 78% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 78% | |||
Tom Udall | 78% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 78% |
Ed Pastor | 75% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 71% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 71% | |||
José Serrano | 71% | |||
Ed Towns | 71% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 71% |
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 67% | |||
Max Baucus | 67% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 67% |
Jeff Bingaman | 67% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 67% |
Lois Capps | 67% | |||
Lincoln Chafee | 67% | |||
Larry Craig | 67% | |||
ID | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mike Crapo | Republican | 67% |
Joe Crowley | 67% | |||
Mark Dayton | 67% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 67% | |||
Chris Dodd | 67% | |||
Byron Dorgan | 67% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 67% |
Dianne Feinstein | 67% | |||
Bob Filner | 67% | |||
Barney Frank | 67% | |||
Charles Hagel | 67% | |||
Tom Harkin | 67% | |||
Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. | 67% | |||
Mike Honda | 67% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 67% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 67% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 67% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 67% |
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 67% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 67% | |||
Carl Levin | 67% | |||
Blanche Lincoln | 67% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 67% |
Carolyn Maloney | 67% | |||
Jim McDermott | 67% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 67% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 67% |
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 67% |
Ben Nelson | 67% | |||
John Olver | 67% | |||
Mark Pryor | 67% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 67% |
Bobby Rush | 67% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 67% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 67% |
Christopher Shays | 67% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 67% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 67% |
Pete Stark | 67% | |||
John Sununu | 67% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 67% |
James Talent | 67% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 67% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 67% |
Diane Watson | 67% | |||
Ron Kind | 63% | |||
Anthony Weiner | 63% | |||
Thomas Allen | 56% | |||
Joe Baca, Sr. | 56% | |||
GA | U.S. House - 2 | Sanford Bishop, Jr. | Democratic | 56% |
Corrine Brown | 56% | |||
Mike Capuano | 56% |