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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 100% |
Mel Watt | 100% | |||
Howard Berman | 98% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 98% | |||
Mike Honda | 98% | |||
Jim McDermott | 98% | |||
Pete Stark | 98% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 97% | |||
John Lewis | 97% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 97% | |
Ed Towns | 97% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 97% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 94% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 94% |
Sam Farr | 94% | |||
Bob Filner | 94% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 94% |
Donald Payne | 94% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 94% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 94% | |||
Mark Udall | 94% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 94% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 94% |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 92% | |||
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 92% |
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 92% |
John Olver | 92% | |||
Bobby Rush | 92% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 92% | |||
Henry Waxman | 92% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 84% |
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 84% | |
Bob Brady | 84% | |||
Corrine Brown | 84% | |||
Mike Capuano | 84% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 84% |
Lane Evans | 84% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 84% | |||
Barney Frank | 84% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 84% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 84% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 84% |
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 84% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 84% |
Eddie Johnson | 84% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 84% |
Robert Matsui | 84% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 84% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 84% |
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 84% |
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 84% |
Ed Pastor | 84% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 84% |
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 84% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 84% |
José Serrano | 84% | |||
John Tierney | 84% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 84% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 83% | |||
Julia Carson | 83% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 83% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 83% |
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 83% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 83% |
Diane Watson | 83% | |||
Neil Abercrombie | 82% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 82% | |||
Jeff Bingaman | 82% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 82% | |||
Hillary Clinton | 82% | |||
Jon Corzine | 82% | |||
Mark Dayton | 82% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 82% |
Russ Feingold | 82% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 82% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 82% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 82% | |||
John Kerry | 82% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 82% | |||
Carl Levin | 82% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 82% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 82% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 82% |
Paul Sarbanes | 82% | |||
Tom Udall | 82% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 81% |
George Miller | 81% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 81% |
Kent Conrad | 77% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 77% | |||
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 77% |
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 77% |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 77% |
Tom Harkin | 76% | |||
Thomas Allen | 74% | |||
Rob Andrews | 74% | |||
Joe Baca, Sr. | 74% | |||
Brian Baird | 74% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 74% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 74% |