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More Leaders Supporting Employee Free Choice Act

The following lists 241 members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted for the Employee Free Choice Act, passing it by a wide margin, and 51 U.S. senators who voted to bring the bill to a vote on the Senate floor. There, it fell short of the 60 votes needed to stop a Republican filibuster. Governors and mayors nationwide who are publicly supporting the bill are also listed.

U.S. House

Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Thomas Allen (D-Maine)
Jason Altmire (D-Pa.)
Robert Andrews, (D-N.J.)
Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.)
Joe Baca (D-Calif.)
Brian Baird (D-Wash.)
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)
John Barrow (D-Ga.)
Melissa Bean (D-Ill.)
Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Marion Berry (D-Ark.)
Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.)
Timothy Bishop (D-N.Y.)
Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)
Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa)
Rick Boucher (D-Va.)
F. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.)
Nancy Boyda (D-Kan.)
Robert Brady (D-Pa.)
Bruce Braley (D-Iowa)
Corrine Brown (D-Fla.)
G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.)
Lois Capps (D-Calif.)
Michael Capuano (D-Mass.)
Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.)
Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.)
Christopher Carney (D-Pa.)
Julia Carson (D-Ind.)
Kathy Castor (D-Fla.)
Ben Chandler (D-Ky.)
Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.)
Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.)
Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)
James Clyburn (D-S.C.)
Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)
John Conyers (D-Mich.)
Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.)
Jim Costa (D-Calif.)
Jerry Costello (D-Ill.)
Joseph Courtney (D-Conn.)
Robert Cramer (D-Ala.)
Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y)
Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)
Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)
Artur Davis (D-Ala.)
Danny Davis (D-Ill.)
Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.)
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.)
Diana DeGette (D-Colo.)
William Delahunt (D-Mass.)
Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
Norman Dicks (D-Wash.)
John Dingell (D-Mich.)
Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas)
Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Michael Doyle (D-Pa.)
Chet Edwards (D-Texas)
Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)
Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.)
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)
Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.)
Sam Farr (D-Calif.)
Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.)
Michael Ferguson (R-N.J.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.)
Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)
Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas)
Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)
Al Green (D-Texas)
Gene Green (D-Texas)
Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.)
Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.)
John Hall (D-N.Y.)
Phil Hare (D-Ill.)
Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.)
Stephanie Herseth (D-S.D.)
Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.)
Baron Hill (D-Ind.)
Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.)
Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas)
Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii)
Paul Hodes (D-N.H.)
Tim Holden (D-Pa.)
Rush Holt (D-N.J.)
Michael Honda (D-Calif.)
Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.)
Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)
Steve Israel (D.N.Y.)
Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)
Henry "Hank" Johnson (D-Ga.)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio)
Steve Kagan (D-Wis.)
Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.)
Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio)
Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.)
Dale Kildee (D-Mich.)
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.)
Ron Kind (D-Wis.)
Peter King (R-N.Y.)
Ron Klein (D-Fla.)
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)
Nicholas Lampson (D-Texas)
James Langevin (D-R.I.)
Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
Rick Larsen (D-Wash.)
John Larson (D-Conn.)
Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio)
Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
John Lewis (D-Ga.)
Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.)
Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.)
David Loebsack (D-Iowa)
Zoe Lofgren(D-Calif.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.)
Timothy Mahoney (D-Fla.)
Edward Markey (D-Mass.)
Jim Marshall (D-Ga.)
Jim Matheson (D-Utah)
Doris Matsui (D-Calif.)
Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.)
Betty McCollum (D-Minn.)
Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.)
Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)
James McGovern (D-Mass.)
John McHugh (R-N.Y.)
Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.)
Gerald McNerney (D-Calif.)
Michael McNulty (D-N.Y.)
Martin Meehan (D-Mass.)
Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.)
Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.)
Charlie Melancon (D-La.)
Michael Michaud (D-Maine)
Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.)
Brad Miller (D-N.C.)
George Miller (D-Calif.)
Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.)
Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.)
Dennis Moore (D-Kan.)
Gwen Moore (D-Wis.)
James Moran (D-Va.)
Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.)
Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.)
Timothy Murphy (R-Pa.)
John Murtha (D-Pa.)
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.)
Richard Neal (D-Mass.)
James Oberstar (D-Minn.)
David Obey (D-Wis.)
John Olver (D-Mass.)
Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas)
Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)
Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.)
Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.)
Donald Payne (D-N.J.)
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.)
Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)
Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.)
David Price (D-N.C.)
Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.)
Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas)
Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas)
Mike Ross (D-Ariz.)
Steven Rothman (D-N.J.)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.)
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.)
Bobby Rush (D-Ill.)
Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)
John Salazar (D-Colo.)
Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.)
Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.)
John Sarbanes (D-Md.)
Jim Saxton (R-N.J.)
Janice Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
David Scott (D-Ga.)
Robert "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.)
Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.)
Joe Sestak (D-Pa.)
Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)
Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Heath Shuler (D-N.C.)
Albio Sires (D-N.J.)
Ike Skelton (D-Mo.)
Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-N.Y.)
Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
Christopher Smith (R-N.J.)
Vic Snyder (D-Ariz.)
Hilda Solis (D-Calif.)
Zachary Space (D-Ohio)
John Spratt (D-S.C.)
Pete Fortney Stark (D-Calif.)
Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)
Betty Sutton (D-Ohio)
John Tanner (D-Tenn.)
Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.)
Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
Mike Thompson (D-Calif.)
John Tierney (D-Mass.)
Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
Mark Udall (D-Colo.)
Tom Udall (D-N.M.)
Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)
Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.)
Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.)
James Walsh (R-N.Y.)
Timothy Walz (D-Minn.)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)
Diane Watson (D-Calif.)
Melvin Watt (D-N.C.)
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Peter Welch (D-Vt.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Charlie Wilson (D-Ohio)
Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)
David Wu (D-Ore.)
Albert Russell Wynn (D-Md.)
John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
Don Young (D-Ark.)

U.S. Senate

Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii)
Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
Evan Bayh (D-Ind.)
Joe Biden (D-Del.)
Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)
Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)
Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
Thomas Carper (D-Del.)
Robert Casey (D-Pa.)
Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y)
Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)
Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)
Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
Russ Feingold (D-Wis.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)
John Kerry (D-Mass.)
Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.)
Mary Landrieu (D-La.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)
Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
Ben Nelson (D-Neb.)
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)
Jack Reed (D-R.I.)
Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Ken Salazar (D-Colo.)
Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Jon Tester (D-Mont.)
James Webb (D-Va.)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

Bill co-sponsors who were not present to vote:

Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.)
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.)
Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)

Governors

Bill Ritter, Colorado
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois
Chet Culver, Iowa
Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas
Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
Brian Schweitzer, Montana
Martin O'Malley, Maryland
John Baldacci, Maine
Jennifer Granholm, Michigan
Jon Corzine, New Jersey
Bill Richardson, New Mexico
Eliot Spitzer, New York
Ted Strickland, Ohio   
Ted Kulongoski, Oregon         
Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
Christine Gregoire, Washington
Joe Manchin, III, West Virginia
Jim Doyle, Wisconsin

Mayors

California
Norma Torres, Pomona

Florida
John Hornbuckle, Biscayne Park
Wayne Slaton, Miami Lakes
Manny Diaz, Miami
Joseph Geller, North Bay
Kevin Burns, North Miami

Georgia
Edna Jackson, Savannah (Pro Tem)

Massachusetts
Scott Lang, New Bedford

New York
Frank Coccho, Corning

Oregon
Tom Potter, Portland

Pennsylvania
Ed Polowski, Allentown
Dick Miller, Greenville
Stephen Reed, Harrisburg
John Riley, Pottsville
Robert Lucas, Sharon
Jason Thompson, Wilkinsburg