Who in Congress has the most integrity?

[Tennessee Gal]

Can you name anyone you believe upholds the ideals you consider most important in representing his or her constituents?

[tblue37]

1. Bernie Sanders. nt

[dorkulon]

10. ageed nt

[MineralMan]

2. Betty McCollum, MN CD-4.

You should meet her.

[azurnoir]

7. +1 n/t

[Poll_Blind]

3. Peter DeFazio D-OR

I have zero complaints about this man's performance in any way, shape or form. If every Democrat in the House was like Pete, America would be a vastly better place for all of us.

PB

[KoKo]

4. Dennis Kucinich

[KoKo]

5. Congresswoman Marci Kaptur

[backscatter712]

6. Al Franken nt

[kentuck]

8. There are a few left but...

I can't think of any Republicans??

[KoKo]

12. Walter Jones...Fundie Catholic but now Anti-War and Indie in many ways.

[KoKo]

13. Ron and Rand Paul...Indies to the Libertarian Side.

[cali]

20. say what? garbage.

[xchrom]

Invisible rec. Nt

[xchrom]

9. Dupe

[cali]

11. Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch

Barbara Lee, Raul Grijalva, John Lewis, Donna Edwards, Ed Markey.

[orion007]

14. Go Vermont....we're in the southern part. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, Jan Schankowsky, Jerry Nadler,

Carolyn McCarthy, Bill Pascrell.

[asjr]

16. I feel certain some of the janitors

in the Capitol have very good morals.

[madinmaryland]

17. Barbara Mikulski. nt

[1monster]

18. Dennis Kucinich. And he isn't santimonious either.

[QuintanarooBoy]

19. Joe Lieberm---

Pfft! Sorry! I tried to keep a straight face! :rofl:

[PufPuf23]

21. Pete Stark -D is the only open Atheist in Congress.

Stark has long represented the East SF Bay and started out as a regional banker in the 1960s before Congress.

I would not define myself as an Atheist but also not a Believer in the religions of Abraham.

I attended the same prep school (68-70) but prior to several of Stark's children when Stark was a Walnut Creek, CA banker.

I was never of age or of time in geography to vote for Stark.

Edit to add wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Stark

Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark, Jr. (born November 11, 1931) is the U.S. Representative for California's 13th congressional district, serving since 1973. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Currently he is the 5th most senior Representative, as well as 6th most senior member of Congress overall. He is also the dean of California's 55-member Congressional delegation.

The district lies in southwestern Alameda County and includes Alameda, Union City, Hayward, Newark, San Leandro and Fremont, as well as parts of Oakland and Pleasanton.<4>

Stark was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in general engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953.<5> He served in the United States Air Force from 1955 to 1957. After leaving the Air Force, Stark attended the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his MBA in 1960. Stark enjoyed living in the Bay Area so much that he decided to settle there after graduating. (Note: I have a BS Forest Science and Haas School MBA from Cal).

In 1963, Stark founded Security National Bank, a small bank in Walnut Creek. Within 10 years it grew to a $100 million company with branches across the East Bay.

In 1972, Stark moved to Oakland to run in the Democratic primary against 14-term incumbent U.S. Representative George Paul Miller in what was then the 8th district. He won the nomination by a 34-point margin, but in the 1972 general election, his victory was a 5-point margin. He has since been re-elected 18 times, and has only dropped below 60 percent of the vote twice, in 1980 and in 1990. Due to redistricting, his district has changed numbers twice, from the 8th (1973–75) to the 9th (1975–93) to the 13th (since 1993).

Currently, Stark is the longest-serving member of Congress from California. He has been a ranking member of the Banking and Currency Committee and is currently a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee. He also served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia in the 103rd Congress. He was unopposed for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 election<6> and was re-elected in the general election with 76.3% of the vote.<7>

When Ways & Means Chairman Charlie Rangel stepped down in March 2010 over ethics charges, Stark was in line to assume the chairmanship since he was the next most senior Democrat on the committee. However Stark was only chairman for one day, as he was ousted by the younger Ways & Means members led by Chris Van Hollen, who saw Stark's history of intemperate remarks as a liability during an election year; Stark was replaced by Sander Levin who was the third-most senior member of Ways & Means.<8>

[karynnj]

22. John Kerry, Bernie Sanders, Frank Lautenberg nt

All extremely honest. I have met Kerry and Lautenberg.

[FLAprogressive]

23. Kucinich, DeFazio, Sanders, Kaptur, Wyden....Tom Udall is pretty good too. And

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Dennis Kucinich and Jim McDermott

[emilyg]

25. Bernie and Dennis.