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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 100% | |||
Evan Bayh | 100% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 100% |
Jeff Bingaman | 100% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 100% | |||
Kent Conrad | 100% | |||
Chris Dodd | 100% | |||
Byron Dorgan | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 100% |
Russ Feingold | 100% | |||
Gene Green | 100% | |||
Tom Harkin | 100% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 100% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 100% | |||
John Kerry | 100% | |||
Ron Kind | 100% | |||
Herb Kohl | 100% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 100% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 100% | |||
Carl Levin | 100% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 100% |
Barbara Mikulski | 100% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 100% |
Barack Obama II | 100% | |||
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | 100% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 100% |
Harry Reid | 100% | |||
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 100% |
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 94% | |
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 94% |
Corrine Brown | 94% | |||
Robert Byrd | 94% | |||
Mike Capuano | 94% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 94% |
Joe Crowley | 94% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 94% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 94% |
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 94% |
Rahm Emanuel | 94% | |||
Bob Etheridge | 94% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 94% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 9 | Al Green | Democratic | 94% |
Tim Holden | 94% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 94% | |||
Eddie Johnson | 94% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 94% |
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 94% |
Dan Lipinski | 94% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 94% |
Nita Lowey | 94% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 7 | Doris Matsui | Democratic | 94% |
Michael McNulty | 94% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 94% |
WI | U.S. House - 4 | Gwen Moore | Democratic | 94% |
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 94% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 94% |
Jim Oberstar | 94% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 94% |
Jay Rockefeller IV | 94% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 94% |
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 94% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 94% |
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 94% |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 94% | |||
Tom Udall | 94% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 94% |
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 94% |
Pete Visclosky | 94% | |||
Mel Watt | 94% | |||
Joe Baca, Sr. | 93% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 93% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 93% | |||
John Lewis | 93% | |||
Donald Payne | 93% | |||
Steve Rothman | 93% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 93% | |||
José Serrano | 93% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 93% |
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 89% |
Hillary Clinton | 89% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 89% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 89% | |||
Ken Salazar | 89% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 89% |
Gary Ackerman | 88% | |||
Thomas Allen | 88% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 88% |
Howard Berman | 88% | |||
Tim Bishop | 88% | |||
Bob Brady | 88% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 88% |
Lois Capps | 88% | |||
Russ Carnahan | 88% | |||
Julia Carson | 88% | |||
MO | U.S. House - 5 | Emanuel Cleaver II | Democratic | 88% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 88% |
John Conyers, Jr. | 88% | |||
Artur Davis | 88% | |||
Susan Davis | 88% |