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State | Office | Name | Party | Rating |
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WI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | 100% |
Neil Abercrombie | 86% | |||
Daniel Akaka, Sr. | 86% | |||
Thomas Allen | 86% | |||
Shelley Berkley | 86% | |||
Howard Berman | 86% | |||
OR | U.S. House - 3 | Earl Blumenauer | Democratic | 86% |
WA | U.S. Senate - Jr | Maria Cantwell | Democratic | 86% |
Lois Capps | 86% | |||
Russ Carnahan | 86% | |||
Lacy Clay, Jr. | 86% | |||
Hillary Clinton | 86% | |||
IL | U.S. House - 7 | Danny Davis | Democratic | 86% |
Susan Davis | 86% | |||
Peter DeFazio | 86% | |||
Bill Delahunt | 86% | |||
MN | Attorney General | Keith Ellison | Democratic/Farmer/Labor | 86% |
Dianne Feinstein | 86% | |||
Bob Filner | 86% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 9 | Al Green | Democratic | 86% |
Steve Israel | 86% | |||
TX | U.S. House - 18 | Sheila Jackson Lee | Democratic | 86% |
Edward Kennedy, Sr. | 86% | |||
Patrick Leahy | 86% | |||
Carl Levin | 86% | |||
Carolyn Maloney | 86% | |||
Carolyn McCarthy | 86% | |||
MN | U.S. House - 4 | Betty McCollum | Democratic | 86% |
MA | U.S. House - 2 | Jim McGovern | Democratic | 86% |
Barbara Mikulski | 86% | |||
George Miller | 86% | |||
Brad Miller | 86% | |||
Dennis Moore | 86% | |||
John Olver | 86% | |||
Donald Payne | 86% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jack Reed | Democratic | 86% |
Steve Rothman | 86% | |||
VT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Bernie Sanders | Independent | 86% |
IL | U.S. House - 9 | Jan Schakowsky | Democratic | 86% |
CA | Supervisor - 1 | Hilda Solis | 86% | |
CA | U.S. House - 38 | Linda Sánchez | Democratic | 86% |
Ellen Tauscher | 86% | |||
MT | U.S. Senate - Sr | Jon Tester | Democratic | 86% |
John Tierney | 86% | |||
MD | U.S. Senate - Jr | Chris Van Hollen, Jr. | Democratic | 86% |
FL | U.S. House - 25 | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Democratic | 86% |
Diane Watson | 86% | |||
Henry Waxman | 86% | |||
Robert Wexler | 86% | |||
RI | U.S. Senate - Jr | Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | 86% |