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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 103% |
Mike Capuano | 103% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 103% |
Bill Delahunt | 103% | |||
Lane Evans | 103% | |||
Barney Frank | 103% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 103% |
John Lewis | 103% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 103% |
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 103% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 103% |
Martin Meehan | 103% | |||
Brad Miller | 103% | |||
John Olver | 103% | |||
John Tierney | 103% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 103% |
Mel Watt | 103% | |||
Robert Byrd | 102% | |||
Chris Dodd | 102% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 102% | |||
John Kerry | 102% | |||
Jay Rockefeller IV | 102% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 102% |
Evan Bayh | 100% | |||
Bob Brady | 100% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 100% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 100% | |||
John Dingell | 100% | |||
Russ Feingold | 100% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 100% |
Timothy Johnson | 100% | |||
Dale Kildee | 100% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 100% | |||
Herb Kohl | 100% | |||
Carl Levin | 100% | |||
Sandy Levin | 100% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 100% | |||
Mark Pryor | 100% | |||
Ciro Rodriguez | 100% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 100% |
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 100% |
Bart Stupak | 100% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 97% |
Gary Ackerman | 93% | |||
Thomas Allen | 93% | |||
Joe Baca, Sr. | 93% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 93% |
Frank Ballance, Jr. | 93% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 93% | |
Howard Berman | 93% | |||
Corrine Brown | 93% | |||
Lois Capps | 93% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 93% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 93% |
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 93% |
Susan Davis | 93% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 93% | |||
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 93% |
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 93% |
Mike Doyle, Jr. | 93% | |||
Rahm Emanuel | 93% | |||
Eliot Engel | 93% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 93% |
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 93% | |||
Bob Filner | 93% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 93% |
Luis Gutiérrez | 93% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 93% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 93% | |||
Joseph Hoeffel | 93% | |||
Mike Honda | 93% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 93% |
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 93% | |||
Paul Kanjorski | 93% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 93% | |||
Gerald Kleczka | 93% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 93% | |||
Jim Langevin | 93% | |||
Tom Lantos | 93% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 93% |
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 93% |
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 93% |
Nita Lowey | 93% | |||
Denise Majette | 93% | |||
Robert Matsui | 93% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 93% |
Jim McDermott | 93% | |||
Michael McNulty | 93% | |||
Kendrick Meek, Sr. | 93% | |||
George Miller | 93% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 93% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 93% |
Jim Oberstar | 93% | |||
Dave Obey | 93% | |||
Major Owens | 93% | |||
Ed Pastor | 93% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 93% |
Charlie Rangel | 93% | |||
Silvestre Reyes | 93% |