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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 99% | |||
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 98% |
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 98% |
George Miller | 98% | |||
Donald Payne | 98% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 98% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 98% | |
Pete Stark | 98% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 98% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 98% |
John Conyers, Jr. | 97% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 97% | |||
Jim Oberstar | 97% | |||
Major Owens | 97% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 97% |
José Serrano | 97% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 96% | |||
Bob Filner | 96% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 96% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 95% |
Frank Lautenberg | 95% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 95% |
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 94% |
John Lewis | 94% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 94% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 94% |
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 94% |
John Olver | 94% | |||
John Tierney | 94% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 94% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 93% |
Jon Corzine | 93% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 93% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 93% | |||
Jim McDermott | 93% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 93% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 92% | |||
Neil Abercrombie | 91% | |||
Barney Frank | 91% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 91% |
Martin Meehan | 91% | |||
Bobby Rush | 91% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 91% |
Ed Towns | 91% | |||
Mel Watt | 91% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 90% | |||
Sam Farr | 90% | |||
Ed Pastor | 90% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 89% |
Lois Capps | 89% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 89% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 89% |
Dave Obey | 89% | |||
Nick Rahall II | 89% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 88% | |
Luis Gutiérrez | 88% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 88% | |||
Alan Mollohan | 88% | |||
Henry Waxman | 88% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 87% |
Lane Evans | 87% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 87% | |||
Jim Moran, Jr. | 87% | |||
Mark Dayton | 86% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 86% | |||
Russ Feingold | 86% | |||
Tom Harkin | 86% | |||
Mike Honda | 86% | |||
Timothy Johnson | 86% | |||
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 86% | |||
Harry Reid | 86% | |||
Paul Sarbanes | 86% | |||
Rahm Emanuel | 85% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 85% |
James Merrill Jeffords | 85% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 85% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 85% |
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 85% |
Ted Strickland | 85% | |||
Jeff Bingaman | 84% | |||
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 84% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 84% |
Mike Capuano | 83% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 83% |
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 83% |
Tim Ryan | 83% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 83% |
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 83% |
Diane Watson | 83% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 82% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 82% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 82% |
Pete Visclosky | 82% | |||
Thomas Allen | 81% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 81% |
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 81% |
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 81% |
Albert Wynn | 81% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 80% |
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 80% |