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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Lacy Clay, Jr. | 100% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 100% |
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 100% | |||
John Kerry | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 100% |
John Lewis | 100% | |||
Jim McDermott | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 100% |
Donald Payne | 100% | |||
Bobby Rush | 100% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 100% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 100% |
Pete Stark | 100% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 100% |
Mel Watt | 100% | |||
Neil Abercrombie | 95% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 95% | |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 95% |
Bill Delahunt | 95% | |||
Sam Farr | 95% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 95% | |||
Barney Frank | 95% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 95% |
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 95% |
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 95% | |||
George Miller | 95% | |||
John Olver | 95% | |||
Major Owens | 95% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 95% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 95% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 95% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 95% | |
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 95% |
John Tierney | 95% | |||
Henry Waxman | 95% | |||
Julia Carson | 94% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 94% | |||
Mike Honda | 94% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 94% | |||
José Serrano | 94% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 94% |
Lynn Woolsey | 94% | |||
Bob Filner | 93% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 93% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 90% |
Howard Berman | 90% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 90% | |||
Eddie Johnson | 90% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 90% |
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 90% |
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 90% |
Tom Udall | 90% | |||
Thomas Allen | 89% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 89% |
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 89% |
Russ Feingold | 89% | |||
Tom Harkin | 89% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 89% |
Jim Oberstar | 89% | |||
Diane Watson | 89% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 88% | |||
Robert Matsui | 87% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 87% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 86% |
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 86% | |||
Mike Capuano | 85% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 85% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 85% |
Martin Meehan | 85% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 32 | Brad Sherman | Democratic | 85% |
Ed Towns | 85% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 85% |
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 84% |
John Dingell | 84% | |||
Ed Pastor | 84% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 83% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 83% |
Joe Lieberman | 83% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 83% |
Elijah Cummings | 82% | |||
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 82% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 80% | |||
Bob Brady | 80% | |||
Lois Capps | 80% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 80% |
Lane Evans | 80% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 80% |
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 80% |
WA | U.S. House - 2 | Rick Larsen | Democratic | 80% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 80% |
CA | U.S. House - 30 | Adam Schiff | Democratic | 80% |
Anthony Weiner | 80% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 79% |
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 79% |
Nita Lowey | 79% | |||
Kendrick Meek, Sr. | 79% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 79% | |||
Max Baucus | 78% |