Pro-Equality Candidates

• U.S. Senate
• U.S. House of Representatives

The following candidates have been endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign. Candidates listed in boldface will be running in HRC-targeted races this November.

U.S. Senate

Jim Pederson (D-AZ)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Joseph I. Lieberman (D-CT)
Thomas R. Carper (D-DE)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Bob Casey (D-PA)
Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI)
Jim Webb (D-VA)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Herb Kohl (D-WI)

U.S. House of Representatives

Ellen Simon (D-AZ-1)
Ed Pastor (D-AZ-4)
Harry Mitchell (D-AZ-5)
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-7)
Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ-8)
Victor F. Snyder (D-AR-2)
Mike Thompson (D-CA-1)
Doris Matsui (D-CA-5)
Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA-6)
George Miller (D-CA-7)
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-8)
Barbara Lee (D-CA-9)
Ellen Tauscher (D-CA-10)
Tom Lantos (D-CA-12)
Fortney (Pete) Stark (D-CA-13)
Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-14)
Mike Honda (D-CA-15)
Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-16)
Sam Farr (D-CA-17)
Dennis Cardoza (D-CA-18)
Jim Costa (D-CA-20)
Lois Capps (D-CA-23)
Brad Sherman (D-CA-27)
Howard L. Berman (D-CA-28)
Adam Schiff (D-CA-29)
Henry A. Waxman (D-CA-30)
Xavier Becerra (D-CA-31)
Hilda Solis (D-CA-32)
Diane Watson (D-CA-33)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-34)
Maxine Waters (D-CA-35)
Jane Harman (D-CA-36)
Juanita Millender
McDonald (D-CA-37)
Grace Flores Napolitano (D-CA-38)
Linda Sanchez (D-CA-39)
Joe Baca (D-CA-43)
Mary Bono (R-CA-45)
Loretta Sanchez (D-CA-47)
Bob Filner (D-CA-51)
Susan Davis (D-CA-53)
Diana L. DeGette (D-CO-1)
Mark Udall (D-CO-2)
Angie Paccione (D-CO-4)
Ed Perlmutter (D-CO-7)
John B. Larson (D-CT-1)
Rob Simmons (R-CT-2)
Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3)
Christopher Shays (R-CT-4)
Nancy L. Johnson (R-CT-5)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-District of Columbia-At Large)
Corrine Brown (D-FL-3)
Kathy Castor (D-FL-11)
Christine Jennings (D-FL-13)
Tim Mahoney (D-FL-16)
Kendrick Meek (D-FL-17)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL-18)
Robert I. Wexler (D-FL-19)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-20)
Ron Klein (D-FL-22)
Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL-23)
Hank Johnson (D-GA-4)
John Lewis (D-GA-5)
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI-1)
Mazie Hirono (D-HI-2)
Bobby L. Rush (D-IL-1)
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-IL-2)
Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL-4)
Rahm Emanuel (D-IL-5)
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL-6)
Danny Davis (D-IL-7)
Melissa Bean (D-IL-8)
Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-9)
Mark Kirk (R-IL-10)
Judy Biggert (R-IL-13)
Phil Hare (D-IL-17)
Peter J. Visclosky (D-IN-1)
Julia M. Carson (D-IN-7)
Bruce Braley (D-IA-1)
Leonard L. Boswell (D-IA-3)
Dennis Moore (D-KS-3)
Karen Carter (D-LA-2)
Thomas H. Allen (D-ME-1)
Michael Michaud (D-ME-2)
C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD-2)
John Sarbanes (D-MD-3)
Albert Wynn (D-MD-4)
Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD-5)
Elijah Cummings (D-MD-7)
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD-8)
John W. Olver (D-MA-1)
Richard E. Neal (D-MA-2)
James P. McGovern (D-MA-3)
Barney Frank (D-MA-4)
John F. Tierney (D-MA-6)
Edward J. Markey (D-MA-7)
Michael Capuano (D-MA-8)
Stephen Lynch (D-MA-9)
William Delahunt (D-MA-10)
Dale E. Kildee (D-MI-5)
Sander M. Levin (D-MI-12)
Carolyn Cheeks
Kilpatrick (D-MI-13)
John Conyers (D-MI-14)
John Dingell (D-MI-15)
Tim Walz (D-MN-1)
Betty McCollum (D-MN-4)
Keith Ellison (D-MN-5)
Patty Wetterling (D-MN-6)
Jim Oberstar (D-MN-8)
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D-MO-1)
Russ Carnahan (D-MO-3)
Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO-5)
Shelley Berkley (D-NV-1)
Charlie Bass (R-NH-2)
Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ-1)
Frank Pallone (D-NJ-6)
Linda Stender (D-NJ-7)
William Pascrell (D-NJ-8)
Steven R. Rothman (D-NJ-9)
Donald M. Payne (D-NJ-10)
Rush Holt (D-NJ-12)
Albio Sires (D-NJ-13)
Patricia Madrid (D-NM-1)
Tom Udall (D-NM-3)
Tim Bishop (D-NY-1)
Steve Israel (D-NY-2)
Dave Mejias (D-NY-3)
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY-4)
Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY-5)
Gregory Meeks (D-NY-6)
Joseph Crowley (D-NY-7)
Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-8)
Anthony Weiner (D-NY-9)
Edolphus Towns (D-NY-10)
Yvette Clarke (D-NY-11)
Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY-12)
Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY-14)
Charles B. Rangel (D-NY-15)
Jose E. Serrano (D-NY-16)
Eliot L. Engel (D-NY-17)
Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-18)
John Hall (D-NY-19)
Michael McNulty (D-NY-21)
Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY-22)
Mike Arcuri (D-NY-24)
Brian Higgins (D-NY-27)
Louise McIntosh
Slaughter (D-NY-28)
G.K. Butterfield (D-NC-1)
David Price (D-NC-4)
Melvin L. Watt (D-NC-12)
Brad Miller (D-NC-13)
John Cranley (D-OH-1)
Victoria Wulsin (D-OH-2)
Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9)
Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH-10)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH-11)
Betty Sutton (D-OH-13)
Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH-15)
Deborah Pryce (R-OH-15)
Tim Ryan (D-OH-17)
David Wu (D-OR-1)
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR-3)
Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR-4)
Darlene Hooley (D-OR-5)
Robert A. Brady (D-PA-1)
Chaka Fattah (D-PA-2)
Joe Sestak (D-PA-7)
Patrick Murphy (D-PA-8)
Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA-11)
Allyson Schwartz (D-PA-13)
Mike Doyle (D-PA-14)
Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI-1)
Jim Langevin (D-RI-2)
James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6)
Steve Cohen (D-TN-9)
Al Green (D-TX-9)
Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-10)
Reuben E. Hinojosa (D-TX-15)
Sylvestre Reyes (D-TX-16)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX-18)
Charles A. Gonzalez (D-TX-20)
Gene Green (D-TX-29)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30)
Peter Welch (D-VT-AL)
Bobby Scott (D-VA-3)
James P. Moran (D-VA-8)
Judy Feder (D-VA-10)
Jay Inslee (D-WA-1)
Rick Larsen (D-WA-2)
Brian Baird (D-WA-3)
Norman D. Dicks (D-WA-6)
Jim McDermott (D-WA-7)
Darcy Burner (D-WA-8)
Adam Smith (D-WA-9)
Tammy Baldwin (D-WI-2)
Ron J. Kind (D-WI-3)
Gwen Moore (D-WI-4)