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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 100% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 100% |
Jeff Bingaman | 100% | |||
Robert Byrd | 100% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 100% |
Hillary Clinton | 100% | |||
Mark Dayton | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 100% |
Russ Feingold | 100% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 100% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 100% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 100% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 100% | |||
Carl Levin | 100% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 100% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 100% |
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 100% | |||
Mark Pryor | 100% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 100% |
Harry Reid | 100% | |||
Jay Rockefeller IV | 100% | |||
Paul Sarbanes | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 100% |
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 100% |
Evan Bayh | 89% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 89% | |||
Kent Conrad | 89% | |||
Chris Dodd | 89% | |||
Byron Dorgan | 89% | |||
Tom Harkin | 89% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 89% | |||
Herb Kohl | 89% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 89% | |||
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 89% |
Max Baucus | 78% | |||
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 78% |
Dianne Feinstein | 78% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 78% | |||
Blanche Lincoln | 78% | |||
Mike Capuano | 77% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 77% |
Susan Davis | 77% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 77% | |||
Sam Farr | 77% | |||
Bob Filner | 77% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 77% | |||
Mike Honda | 77% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 77% | |||
John Lewis | 77% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 77% |
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 77% |
Michael McNulty | 77% | |||
Dave Obey | 77% | |||
Major Owens | 77% | |||
Donald Payne | 77% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 77% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 77% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 77% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 77% |
Neil Abercrombie | 69% | |||
Thomas Allen | 69% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 69% |
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 69% | |
Howard Berman | 69% | |||
Marion Berry | 69% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 69% |
Bob Brady | 69% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 69% |
Lois Capps | 69% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 69% |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 69% | |||
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 69% |
Jerry Costello | 69% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 69% | |||
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 69% |
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 69% |
John Dingell | 69% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 69% |
Eliot Engel | 69% | |||
Lane Evans | 69% | |||
Barney Frank | 69% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 69% |
Luis Gutiérrez | 69% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 69% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 69% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 69% |
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 69% |
Patrick Kennedy | 69% | |||
Dale Kildee | 69% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 69% | |||
Jim Langevin | 69% | |||
Tom Lantos | 69% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 69% |
Sandy Levin | 69% | |||
Nita Lowey | 69% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 69% |
Carolyn Maloney | 69% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 69% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 69% |
Martin Meehan | 69% |