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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Bill Shuster | 100% | |||
NE | U.S. House - 3 | Adrian Smith | Republican | 100% |
Mark Souder | 100% | |||
John Sullivan | 100% | |||
Tom Tancredo | 100% | |||
Lee Terry | 100% | |||
Mac Thornberry | 100% | |||
Todd Tiahrt | 100% | |||
Pat Tiberi | 100% | |||
MI | U.S. House - 5 | Tim Walberg | Republican | 100% |
David Weldon | 100% | |||
Lynn Westmoreland | 100% | |||
MS | U.S. Senate - Sr | Roger Wicker | Republican | 100% |
SC | U.S. House - 2 | Joe Wilson, Sr. | Republican | 100% |
John McCain III | 62% | |||
SC | U.S. Senate - Sr | Lindsey Graham | Republican | 52% |
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 52% | |||
Jon Kyl | 52% | |||
Dick Lugar | 52% | |||
Melquiades Martinez | 52% | |||
Ken Salazar | 52% | |||
Arlen Specter | 52% | |||
John Kerry | 50% | |||
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 47% |
Norm Coleman | 47% | |||
ME | U.S. Senate - Sr | Susan Collins | Republican | 47% |
Larry Craig | 47% | |||
Pete Domenici, Jr. | 47% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 47% | |||
George Voinovich | 47% | |||
John Warner | 47% | |||
Sam Brownback | 46% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 46% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 41% | |||
Bob Bennett | 41% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 41% |
Thad Cochran | 41% | |||
ID | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mike Crapo | Republican | 41% |
Judd Gregg | 41% | |||
Charles Hagel | 41% | |||
Orrin Hatch | 41% | |||
Gordon Smith | 41% | |||
Olympia Snowe | 41% | |||
Kit Bond | 35% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 35% |
Saxby Chambliss | 35% | |||
TX | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Cornyn | Republican | 35% |
Kay Hutchison | 35% | |||
Johnny Isakson | 35% | |||
Blanche Lincoln | 35% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 35% |
Barbara Mikulski | 35% | |||
AK | U.S. Senate - Sr | Lisa Murkowski | Republican | 35% |
Ted Stevens | 35% | |||
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 33% | |||
Lamar Alexander | 29% | |||
Wayne Allard | 29% | |||
Jeff Bingaman | 29% | |||
Richard Burr | 29% | |||
James DeMint | 29% | |||
John Ensign | 29% | |||
MN | U.S. Senate - Sr | Amy Klobuchar | Democratic | 29% |
Herb Kohl | 29% | |||
KY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Mitch McConnell, Jr. | Republican | 29% |
Mark Pryor | 29% | |||
Pat Roberts | 29% | |||
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 29% |
Jim Bunning | 23% | |||
Elizabeth Dole | 23% | |||
Mike Enzi | 23% | |||
IA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Grassley | Republican | 23% |
RI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | 23% |
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 21% |
Hillary Clinton | 20% | |||
Barack Obama II | 20% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 20% |
Carl Levin | 18% | |||
Evan Bayh | 17% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 17% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 17% |
PA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Casey, Jr. | Democratic | 17% |
Robert Corker | 17% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 17% |
Russ Feingold | 17% | |||
Tom Harkin | 17% | |||
Jim Inhofe | 17% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 17% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 17% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 17% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 17% |
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 17% |
Harry Reid | 17% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 17% |
Jeff Sessions III | 17% | |||
Richard Shelby | 17% | |||
John Sununu | 17% | |||
SD | U.S. Senate - Sr | John Thune | Republican | 17% |
Thomas Coburn | 12% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 11% |
Jim Webb, Jr. | 11% |