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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 100% |
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 100% |
Sam Farr | 100% | |||
Bob Filner | 100% | |||
Barney Frank | 100% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 100% | |||
Mike Honda | 100% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 100% |
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 100% |
Nita Lowey | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 8 | Stephen Lynch | Democratic | 100% |
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 100% |
Robert Matsui | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 100% |
Michael McNulty | 100% | |||
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 100% |
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 100% |
Charlie Rangel | 100% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 100% |
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 100% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 100% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 100% |
Paul Sarbanes | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 100% |
CA | U.S. House - 30 | Adam Schiff | Democratic | 100% |
John Tierney | 100% | |||
Mark Udall | 100% | |||
Tom Udall | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 100% |
Anthony Weiner | 100% | |||
Robert Wexler | 100% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 100% | |||
Neil Abercrombie | 95% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 95% | |
Barbara Boxer | 95% | |||
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 95% |
Lois Capps | 95% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ben Cardin | Democratic | 95% |
Julia Carson | 95% | |||
Jon Corzine | 95% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 95% | |||
Susan Davis | 95% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 95% | |||
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 95% |
Bill Delahunt | 95% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 95% |
Eliot Engel | 95% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 95% |
Lane Evans | 95% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 95% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 95% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 95% | |||
John Kerry | 95% | |||
Gerald Kleczka | 95% | |||
Jim Langevin | 95% | |||
Tom Lantos | 95% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 95% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 95% |
George Miller | 95% | |||
Jim Oberstar | 95% | |||
John Olver | 95% | |||
Major Owens | 95% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 95% |
Nick Rahall II | 95% | |||
Steve Rothman | 95% | |||
Loretta Sanchez | 95% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 95% | |
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 95% |
Diane Watson | 95% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 90% | |||
Thomas Allen | 90% | |||
Rob Andrews | 90% | |||
Brian Baird | 90% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 90% | |||
Howard Berman | 90% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 90% |
Mike Capuano | 90% | |||
Kent Conrad | 90% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 90% | |||
Joe Crowley | 90% | |||
Mark Dayton | 90% | |||
Peter Deutsch | 90% | |||
Chris Dodd | 90% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 90% |
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 90% | |||
Richard Andrew Gephardt | 90% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 90% | |||
Joseph Hoeffel | 90% | |||
Darlene Hooley | 90% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 90% | |||
Dale Kildee | 90% | |||
Sandy Levin | 90% | |||
John Lewis | 90% | |||
Carolyn McCarthy | 90% | |||
Karen McCarthy | 90% | |||
Jim McDermott | 90% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 90% |
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 90% |