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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 100% |
John Conyers, Jr. | 100% | |||
Mark Dayton | 100% | |||
Russ Feingold | 100% | |||
Bob Filner | 100% | |||
John Kerry | 100% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 100% | |||
Cynthia Ann McKinney | 100% | |||
Louise Slaughter | 100% | |||
MI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Debbie Stabenow | Democratic | 100% |
Mel Watt | 100% | |||
Paul Wellstone | 100% | |||
William Coyne | 93% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 93% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 93% |
Sam Farr | 93% | |||
Chaka Fattah, Sr. | 93% | |||
Mike Honda | 93% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 93% | |||
Eddie Johnson | 93% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 93% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 93% |
John Lewis | 93% | |||
Nita Lowey | 93% | |||
Jim McDermott | 93% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 93% |
NY | U.S. House - 5 | Gregory Meeks | Democratic | 93% |
CA | U.S. House - 11 | Nancy Pelosi | Democratic | 93% |
Bobby Rush | 93% | |||
Stephanie Tubbs Jones | 93% | |||
Anthony Weiner | 93% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 92% | |||
NA | President | Joe Biden, Jr. | Democratic | 92% |
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 92% |
Barbara Boxer | 92% | |||
Jon Corzine | 92% | |||
Thomas Daschle | 92% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 92% | |||
IL | U.S. Senate - Sr | Dick Durbin | Democratic | 92% |
Tom Harkin | 92% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 92% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 92% | |||
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 92% | |||
Herb Kohl | 92% | |||
Carl Levin | 92% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 92% |
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 92% |
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 92% |
John Olver | 92% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 92% |
Harry Reid | 92% | |||
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 92% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 92% | |
OR | U.S. Senate - Sr | Ron Wyden | Democratic | 92% |
Diane Watson | 88% | |||
David Edward Bonior | 86% | |||
Eva Clayton | 86% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 86% |
Carolyn Maloney | 86% | |||
Karen McCarthy | 86% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 86% |
Martin Meehan | 86% | |||
MA | U.S. House - 1 | Richard Neal | Democratic | 86% |
Jim Oberstar | 86% | |||
Donald Payne | 86% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 86% | |||
Ciro Rodriguez | 86% | |||
Martin Olav Sabo | 86% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 86% |
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 86% |
VA | U.S. House - 3 | Bobby Scott | Democratic | 86% |
José Serrano | 86% | |||
John Tierney | 86% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 86% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 86% |
Henry Waxman | 86% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 86% | |||
David Wu | 86% | |||
WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 85% |
DE | U.S. Senate - Sr | Tom Carper | Democratic | 85% |
Chris Dodd | 85% | |||
John Edwards | 85% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 85% | |||
Barney Frank | 85% | |||
Daniel Graham | 85% | |||
Ernest Hollings | 85% | |||
Mary Landrieu | 85% | |||
Robert Matsui | 85% | |||
Barbara Mikulski | 85% | |||
Patsy Takemoto Mink | 85% | |||
Major Owens | 85% | |||
Jay Rockefeller IV | 85% | |||
Paul Sarbanes | 85% | |||
Pete Stark | 85% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 83% | |
Jeff Bingaman | 83% | |||
Eliot Engel | 83% | |||
Daniel Inouye | 83% | |||
Carrie Meek | 83% | |||
Gary Ackerman | 79% |