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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Neil Abercrombie | 100% | |||
Lincoln Chafee | 100% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 100% | |||
John Dingell | 100% | |||
Lane Evans | 100% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 100% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 100% |
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 100% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 100% |
Jim McDermott | 100% | |||
Cynthia Ann McKinney | 100% | |||
Pete Stark | 100% | |||
Jeff Bingaman | 86% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 86% |
Lois Capps | 86% | |||
Sam Farr | 86% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 86% |
Maurice Hinchey | 86% | |||
John Kerry | 86% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 86% |
David Price | 86% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 83% |
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 83% |
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 83% | |||
Carl Levin | 83% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 83% |
WI | U.S. House - 4 | Gwen Moore | Democratic | 83% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 83% |
Paul Sarbanes | 83% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 83% |
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 80% | |
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 80% |
Daniel Inouye | 80% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 80% | |||
Ray LaHood | 80% | |||
Dave Obey | 80% | |||
Nick Rahall II | 80% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 80% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 78% |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 75% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 75% |
Russ Feingold | 75% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 75% | |||
Eddie Johnson | 75% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 75% | |||
James Kolbe | 75% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 75% | |||
John Lewis | 75% | |||
Donald Payne | 75% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 75% |
Bobby Rush | 75% | |||
Vic Snyder | 75% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 75% |
Diane Watson | 75% | |||
Mel Watt | 75% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 71% | |||
Robert Byrd | 71% | |||
Bob Filner | 71% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 71% |
Jim Moran, Jr. | 71% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 71% | |||
Harry Reid | 71% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 71% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 67% |
Max Baucus | 67% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 67% |
Julia Carson | 67% | |||
Kent Conrad | 67% | |||
Mike Honda | 67% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 67% |
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 67% |
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 67% |
George Miller | 67% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 67% |
Barack Obama II | 67% | |||
John Olver | 67% | |||
Ed Pastor | 67% | |||
Ken Salazar | 67% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 67% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 67% | |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 67% |
Chris Dodd | 63% | |||
John Sununu | 63% | |||
Thomas Allen | 60% | |||
Evan Bayh | 60% | |||
Howard Berman | 60% | |||
G. K. Butterfield, Jr. | 60% | |||
Mike Capuano | 60% | |||
Russ Carnahan | 60% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 60% | |||
Susan Davis | 60% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 60% |
TX | U.S. House - 9 | Al Green | Democratic | 60% |
Gene Green | 60% | |||
Jane Harman | 60% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 60% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 60% |
William Jefferson | 60% | |||
Jim Langevin | 60% |