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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 100% |
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 100% |
AZ | U.S. House - 7 | Raul Grijalva | Democratic | 100% |
Luis Gutiérrez | 100% | |||
Maurice Hinchey | 100% | |||
Mike Honda | 100% | |||
Jesse Jackson, Jr. | 100% | |||
James Merrill Jeffords | 100% | |||
Dennis Kucinich | 100% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 12 | Barbara Lee | Democratic | 100% |
John Lewis | 100% | |||
MA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Ed Markey | Democratic | 100% |
Jim McDermott | 100% | |||
George Miller | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 12 | Jerry Nadler | Democratic | 100% |
Jim Oberstar | 100% | |||
John Olver | 100% | |||
Major Owens | 100% | |||
Donald Payne | 100% | |||
Charlie Rangel | 100% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 100% |
Pete Stark | 100% | |||
NY | U.S. House - 7 | Nydia Velázquez | Democratic | 100% |
CA | U.S. House - 43 | Maxine Waters | Democratic | 100% |
Diane Watson | 100% | |||
Mel Watt | 100% | |||
Lynn Woolsey | 100% | |||
Barbara Boxer | 94% | |||
Robert Byrd | 94% | |||
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 94% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 94% | |||
Paul Sarbanes | 94% | |||
Brian Baird | 93% | |||
NA | U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Xavier Becerra | 93% | |
OH | U.S. Senate - Sr | Sherrod Brown | Democratic | 93% |
Lois Capps | 93% | |||
Mike Capuano | 93% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 93% |
CO | U.S. House - 1 | Diana DeGette | Democratic | 93% |
CT | U.S. House - 3 | Rosa DeLauro | Democratic | 93% |
TX | U.S. House - 37 | Lloyd Doggett II | Democratic | 93% |
Bob Filner | 93% | |||
Barney Frank | 93% | |||
WA | Governor | Jay Inslee | Democratic | 93% |
OH | U.S. House - 9 | Marcy Kaptur | Democratic | 93% |
Carolyn Kilpatrick | 93% | |||
CT | U.S. House - 1 | John Larson | Democratic | 93% |
CA | U.S. House - 18 | Zoe Lofgren | Democratic | 93% |
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 93% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 93% |
Juanita Millender-McDonald | 93% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 31 | Grace Napolitano | Democratic | 93% |
Dave Obey | 93% | |||
NJ | U.S. House - 6 | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Democratic | 93% |
Lucille Roybal-Allard | 93% | |||
José Serrano | 93% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 32 | Brad Sherman | Democratic | 93% |
Louise Slaughter | 93% | |||
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 93% | |
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 93% |
John Tierney | 93% | |||
Ed Towns | 93% | |||
Mark Udall | 93% | |||
Tom Udall | 93% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 93% |
Henry Waxman | 93% | |||
Anthony Weiner | 93% | |||
Robert Wexler | 93% | |||
David Wu | 93% | |||
John Conyers, Jr. | 92% | |||
James Leach | 92% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 92% |
Jeff Bingaman | 88% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 88% |
Hillary Clinton | 88% | |||
Chris Dodd | 88% | |||
Dianne Feinstein | 88% | |||
Tom Harkin | 88% | |||
John Kerry | 88% | |||
Frank Lautenberg | 88% | |||
WA | U.S. Senate - Sr | Patty Murray | Democratic | 88% |
NY | U.S. Senate - Sr | Chuck Schumer | Democratic | 88% |
Gary Ackerman | 87% | |||
Howard Berman | 87% | |||
Tim Bishop | 87% | |||
Corrine Brown | 87% | |||
Elijah Cummings | 87% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 87% | |||
John Dingell | 87% | |||
Rahm Emanuel | 87% | |||
Eliot Engel | 87% | |||
CA | U.S. House - 16 | Anna Eshoo | Democratic | 87% |
Bob Etheridge | 87% | |||
Lane Evans | 87% | |||
Sam Farr | 87% | |||
Alcee Hastings, Sr. | 87% | |||
Rush Holt, Jr. | 87% | |||
Patrick Kennedy | 87% | |||
Dale Kildee | 87% | |||
Jim Langevin | 87% |