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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 14% |
Gary Ackerman | 13% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 13% | |||
Mike Capuano | 13% | |||
Joe Crowley | 13% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 13% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 13% |
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 13% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 13% | |||
Albert Wynn | 13% | |||
Lois Capps | 12% | |||
James Davis | 12% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 12% |
Barney Frank | 12% | |||
Pete King | 12% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 12% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 12% |
David Price | 12% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 12% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 9 | Adam Smith | Democratic | 12% |
Vic Snyder | 12% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 11% |
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 11% |
Lincoln Diaz-Balart | 11% | |||
Jonas Frost III | 11% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 11% |
Loretta Sanchez | 11% | |||
Corrine Brown | 10% | |||
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 10% |
Gene Green | 10% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 10% | |||
William Jefferson | 10% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 10% |
John Olver | 10% | |||
Ciro Rodriguez | 10% | |||
MS | U.S. House - 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 10% |
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 10% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 10% |
Luis Gutiérrez | 9% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 9% |
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 8% | |
John Conyers, Jr. | 8% | |||
Calvin Dooley | 8% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 8% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 8% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 8% |
Ed Pastor | 8% | |||
Bobby Rush | 8% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 8% |
Lynn Woolsey | 8% | |||
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 8% |
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen | 7% | |||
Mel Watt | 7% | |||
Lane Evans | 6% | |||
John Lewis | 6% | |||
Jim Oberstar | 6% | |||
Donald Payne | 6% | |||
Silvestre Reyes | 6% | |||
Ed Towns | 6% | |||
Joe Baca, Sr. | 5% | |||
Charlie Gonzalez | 5% | |||
Daniel Graham | 5% | |||
Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. | 5% | |||
Robert Matsui | 5% | |||
Jim McDermott | 5% | |||
Major Owens | 5% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 5% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 4% |
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. | 4% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 4% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 4% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 4% | |
Pete Stark | 2% | |||
Mike Honda | 1% |