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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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Norm Dicks | 91% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 91% |
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 91% |
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 91% | |||
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 91% |
Dale Kildee | 91% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 91% |
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 91% |
CA | U.S. House - 7 | Doris Matsui | Democratic | 91% |
Carolyn McCarthy | 91% | |||
ME | Councilor - Ward 3 | Mike Michaud | 91% | |
Barbara Mikulski | 91% | |||
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 91% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 91% |
Jim Oberstar | 91% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 9 | Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Democratic | 91% |
Ed Pastor | 91% | |||
David Price | 91% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 91% | |||
Tim Ryan | 91% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 91% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 91% |
WA | U.S. House - 9 | Adam Smith | Democratic | 91% |
John Spratt, Jr. | 91% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 4 | Mike Thompson | Democratic | 91% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 91% |
Julia Carson | 86% | |||
HI | U.S. House - 1 | Ed Case | Democratic | 86% |
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 86% | |||
MO | U.S. House - 5 | Emanuel Cleaver II | Democratic | 86% |
Elijah Cummings | 86% | |||
John Dingell | 86% | |||
Chris Dodd | 86% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 86% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 86% | |||
Brian Higgins | 86% | |||
John Kerry | 86% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 86% | |||
WA | U.S. House - 2 | Rick Larsen | Democratic | 86% |
Sandy Levin | 86% | |||
Dan Lipinski | 86% | |||
Kendrick Meek, Sr. | 86% | |||
NJ | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bob Menendez | Democratic | 86% |
Bill Nelson, Sr. | 86% | |||
Barack Obama II | 86% | |||
Donald Payne | 86% | |||
Steve Rothman | 86% | |||
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 86% |
Ellen Tauscher | 86% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 86% | |||
David Wu | 86% | |||
John Barrow | 82% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 82% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 82% |
SC | U.S. House - 6 | Jim Clyburn | Democratic | 82% |
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 82% |
James Davis | 82% | |||
Bob Etheridge | 82% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 82% | |||
Ron Kind | 82% | |||
Carl Levin | 82% | |||
Vic Snyder | 82% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 82% |
Bart Stupak | 82% | |||
MS | U.S. House - 2 | Bennie Thompson | Democratic | 82% |
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 82% |
Neil Abercrombie | 77% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 77% | |||
Evan Bayh | 77% | |||
Melissa Bean | 77% | |||
Ben Chandler III | 77% | |||
Luis Gutiérrez | 77% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 5 | Steny Hoyer | Democratic | 77% |
Jim Moran, Jr. | 77% | |||
Nick Rahall II | 77% | |||
Jay Rockefeller IV | 77% | |||
Bobby Rush | 77% | |||
Bob Brady | 73% | |||
Lincoln Chafee | 73% | |||
Jim Cooper | 73% | |||
Jerry Costello | 73% | |||
Dennis Moore | 73% | |||
MD | U.S. House - 2 | Dutch Ruppersberger | Democratic | 73% |
NJ | U.S. House - 4 | Chris Smith | Republican | 73% |
Ted Strickland | 73% | |||
Pete Visclosky | 73% | |||
Rob Andrews | 68% | |||
Sherwood Boehlert | 68% | |||
Allen Boyd, Jr. | 68% | |||
ME | U.S. Senate - Sr | Susan Collins | Republican | 68% |
Mike Doyle, Jr. | 68% | |||
Rahm Emanuel | 68% | |||
Harold Ford, Jr. | 68% | |||
Jane Harman | 68% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 68% | |||
Herb Kohl | 68% | |||
Frank LoBiondo | 68% | |||
Mike McIntyre | 68% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 68% |
Ken Salazar | 68% |