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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Neil Abercrombie | 88% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 88% |
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 88% |
Mike Capuano | 88% | |||
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 88% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 88% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 88% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 88% |
Sam Farr | 88% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 88% | |||
Bob Filner | 88% | |||
Barney Frank | 88% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 88% |
Luis Gutiérrez | 88% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 88% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 88% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 88% | |||
Mike Honda | 88% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 88% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 88% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 88% |
John Lewis | 88% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 88% |
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 88% |
Robert Matsui | 88% | |||
Jim McDermott | 88% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 88% |
Kendrick Meek, Sr. | 88% | |||
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 88% | |||
George Miller | 88% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 88% |
John Olver | 88% | |||
Donald Payne | 88% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 88% |
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 88% | |||
Bobby Rush | 88% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 88% |
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 88% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 88% |
José Serrano | 88% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 88% | |
Pete Stark | 88% | |||
John Tierney | 88% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 88% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 88% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 88% |
Diane Watson | 88% | |||
Mel Watt | 88% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 88% | |||
Bob Brady | 86% | |||
Lois Capps | 86% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 86% |
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 86% |
Carolyn Maloney | 86% | |||
Martin Meehan | 86% | |||
Ed Pastor | 86% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 86% |
Robert Wexler | 86% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 85% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 85% |
Tom Lantos | 85% | |||
Anthony Weiner | 85% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 84% | |
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 84% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 84% |
CA | U.S. House - 32 | Brad Sherman | Democratic | 84% |
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 84% |
Howard Berman | 83% | |||
Major Owens | 83% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 83% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 83% |
Henry Waxman | 83% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 82% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 82% | |||
Hillary Clinton | 82% | |||
Jon Corzine | 82% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 82% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 82% |
Dianne Feinstein | 82% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 82% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 82% |
Eddie Johnson | 82% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 82% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 82% | |||
Carl Levin | 82% | |||
Joe Lieberman | 82% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 82% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 82% |
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 82% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 82% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 82% |
Paul Sarbanes | 82% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 82% |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 82% |
Julia Carson | 81% | |||
Tom Harkin | 81% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 81% |
Ed Towns | 81% | |||
Rob Andrews | 78% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 78% |