Rating Group: Saint Joseph Health System

2007-2008 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 80
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 72
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 60
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 40
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 25
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 33
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 27
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 25
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 80
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 33
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 0
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 0
AZ U.S. House-3 Raúl Grijalva D 100
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 100
AZ U.S. House-8 Trent Franks R 0
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 100
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson D 100
CA U.S. House-6 Doris Matsui D 100
CA U.S. House-9 Jerry McNerney D 100
CA U.S. House-11 George Miller D 100
CA U.S. House-12 Nancy Pelosi D 100
CA U.S. House-13 Barbara Lee D 100
CA U.S. House-14 Jackie Speier D 100
CA U.S. House-16 Jim Costa D 100
CA U.S. House-17 Mike Honda D 100
CA U.S. House-18 Anna Eshoo D 100
CA U.S. House-19 Zoe Lofgren D 100
CA U.S. House-20 Sam Farr D 100
CA U.S. House-22 Devin Nunes R 9
CA U.S. House-23 Kevin McCarthy R 16
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 8
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 100
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 100
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 40
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 83
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra D 100
CA U.S. House-38 Linda Sánchez D 100
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 0
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 100
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 25
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100
CA U.S. House-45 John Campbell III R 0
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 90
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 16
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 9
CA U.S. House-50 Duncan Hunter R 20
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 100
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 100
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100
CO U.S. House-5 Doug Lamborn R 0
CO U.S. House-7 Ed Perlmutter D 100
CO Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar N/A 100
CT U.S. Senate-Jr Chris Murphy D 100
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 100
CT U.S. House-2 Joe Courtney D 100
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 100
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 100
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 8
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 10
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0
FL U.S. House-12 Gus Bilirakis R 25
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 50
FL U.S. House-14 Kathy Castor D 90
FL U.S. House-16 Vern Buchanan R 58
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100
FL U.S. House-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz D 100
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 50
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 66
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 18
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 60
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 16
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100
GA U.S. House-3 Lynn Westmoreland R 0
GA U.S. House-4 Hank Johnson, Jr. D 100
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100
GA U.S. House-6 Tom Price R 8
GA U.S. House-10 Paul Broun R 0
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 16
GA U.S. House-12 John Barrow D 91
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 100
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 8
HI U.S. Senate-Jr Mazie Hirono D 100
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 80
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 100
IA U.S. House-1 Bruce Braley D 100
IA U.S. House-2 Dave Loebsack D 100
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 50
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 9
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 60
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 58
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 54
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100
IL U.S. House-3 Daniel Lipinski D 100
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100
IL U.S. House-6 Peter Roskam R 8
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100
IL U.S. House-11 Bill Foster D 85
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 33
IN U.S. Senate-Jr Joe Donnelly, Sr. D 83
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 100
IN U.S. House-7 André Carson D 100
IN Governor Mike Pence R 0
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 80
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 36
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 60
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 40
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 58
KY U.S. House-3 John Yarmuth D 100
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 36
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 80
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 60
LA U.S. House-1 Steve Scalise R 0
LA U.S. House-3 Charles Boustany, Jr. R 27
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 25
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 100
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100
MA U.S. House-3 Niki Tsongas D 100
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 91
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 83
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 100
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 100
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger D 100
MD U.S. House-3 John Sarbanes D 100
MD U.S. House-4 Donna Edwards D 100
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 100
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 100
MD U.S. House-8 Chris Van Hollen, Jr. D 100
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 60
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 100
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 100
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 80
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 25
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 75
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 33
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 100
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 75
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100
MN U.S. Senate-Sr Amy Klobuchar DFL 100
MN U.S. House-1 Tim Walz DFL 100
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 25
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100
MN U.S. House-5 Keith Ellison DFL 100
MN U.S. House-6 Michele Bachmann R 8
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 100
MO U.S. Senate-Sr Claire McCaskill D 80
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 8
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100
MO U.S. House-5 Emanuel Cleaver II D 100
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 50
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 40
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 100
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 80
MT U.S. Senate-Jr Jon Tester D 100
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 20
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 100
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 58
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 100
NC U.S. House-5 Virginia Foxx R 8
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 25
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 91
NC U.S. House-10 Patrick McHenry R 8
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100
NE U.S. House-1 Jeff Fortenberry R 50
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 33
NE U.S. House-3 Adrian Smith R 16
NH U.S. House-1 Carol Shea-Porter D 100
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 100
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 100
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 58
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 66
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 0
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100
NJ U.S. House-8 Albio Sires D 100
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 100
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 25
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 100
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 100
NV U.S. Senate-Jr Dean Heller R 33
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100
NY U.S. Senate-Jr Kirsten Gillibrand D 90
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 100
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 66
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 100
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 100
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 100
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez D 100
NY U.S. House-9 Yvette Clarke D 100
NY U.S. House-10 Jerry Nadler D 100
NY U.S. House-12 Carolyn Maloney D 100
NY U.S. House-13 Charlie Rangel D 100
NY U.S. House-14 Joe Crowley D 100
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 100
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100
NY U.S. House-26 Brian Higgins D 100
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100
OH U.S. House-4 Jim Jordan R 0
OH U.S. House-5 Bob Latta R 25
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 100
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 75
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 33
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 100
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 60
OK U.S. Senate-Jr Thomas Coburn R 33
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 27
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 16
OK Governor Mary Fallin R 25
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 100
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 41
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 83
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100
PA U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Casey, Jr. D 100
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 100
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 100
PA U.S. House-6 Jim Gerlach R 72
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 36
PA U.S. House-13 Allyson Schwartz D 100
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 100
PA U.S. House-15 Charlie Dent R 66
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 75
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 60
RI U.S. Senate-Jr Sheldon Whitehouse D 60
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 100
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 40
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 8
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 100
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 60
TN U.S. Senate-Jr Robert Corker R 60
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 0
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 80
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 8
TN U.S. House-9 Steve Cohen D 100
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 40
TX U.S. House-1 Louie Gohmert R 18
TX U.S. House-2 Ted Poe R 18
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 33
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 0
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 16
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 8
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 25
TX U.S. House-9 Al Green D 100
TX U.S. House-10 Michael McCaul R 25
TX U.S. House-11 Mike Conaway R 8
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 8
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 8
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 100
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100
TX U.S. House-19 Randy Neugebauer R 8
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 16
TX U.S. House-24 Kenny Marchant R 8
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 16
TX U.S. House-28 Henry Cuellar D 100
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 100
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 100
TX U.S. House-31 John Carter R 0
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 8
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 80
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 11
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 75
VA U.S. House-1 Rob Wittman R 37
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 33
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 25
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 8
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 91
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 41
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 80
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100
VT U.S. House-At-Large Peter Welch D 100
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 100
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 100
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 25
WA U.S. House-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers R 45
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 83
WA U.S. House-8 Dave Reichert R 54
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 83
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 83
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 0
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 83
WI U.S. House-4 Gwen Moore D 91
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 41
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 80
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 75
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 100
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 60
WY U.S. Senate-Jr John Barrasso R 60
Gary Ackerman Other 100
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100
Todd Akin Other 0
Jason Altmire Other 100
Michael Arcuri Other 100
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100
Brian Baird Other 90
J. Gresham Barrett Other 0
Roscoe Bartlett Other 8
Evan Bayh Other 100
Melissa Bean Other 63
Bob Bennett Other 0
Shelley Berkley Other 100
Howard Berman Other 100
Marion Berry Other 100
Judy Biggert Other 16
Brian Bilbray Other 16
Jeff Bingaman Other 100
Kit Bond Other 80
Mary Bono Mack Other 54
Dan Boren Other 72
Leonard Boswell Other 100
Rick Boucher Other 100
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 100
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 25
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 27
Jim Bunning Other 40
Dan Burton Other 16
Steve Buyer Other 36
Robert Byrd Other 100
Dennis Cardoza Other 100
Russ Carnahan Other 100
Christopher Carney Other 100
Mike Castle Other 66
Donald Cazayoux, Jr. Other 100
Ben Chandler III Other 100
Travis Childers Other 100
Hillary Clinton Other 100
Kent Conrad Other 80
Jerry Costello Other 100
Artur Davis Other 100
Geoff Davis Other 33
Lincoln Davis Other 100
Bill Delahunt Other 100
James DeMint Other 0
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 50
Norm Dicks Other 100
Chris Dodd Other 100
Byron Dorgan Other 100
David Dreier Other 16
Chet Edwards Other 100
Vern Ehlers Other 41
Brad Ellsworth Other 83
Jo Ann Emerson Other 75
John Ensign Other 20
Bob Etheridge Other 90
Russ Feingold Other 100
Barney Frank Other 100
Elton Gallegly Other 25
Gabrielle Giffords Other 91
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100
Bart Gordon Other 100
Judd Gregg Other 0
John Hall Other 100
Phil Hare Other 100
Jane Harman Other 91
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 9
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 100
Baron Hill Other 83
Maurice Hinchey Other 100
Paul Hodes Other 100
Pete Hoekstra Other 25
Thomas Holden Other 100
Kay Hutchison Other 80
Bob Inglis, Sr. Other 8
Daniel Inouye Other 80
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100
Tim Johnson Other 50
Steve Kagen Other 100
Paul Kanjorski Other 100
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100
Patrick Kennedy Other 100
Dale Kildee Other 100
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100
Ron Klein Other 100
Herb Kohl Other 100
Dennis Kucinich Other 81
Jon Kyl Other 0
Steve LaTourette Other 83
Frank Lautenberg Other 80
Jerry Lewis Other 16
Joe Lieberman Other 80
Blanche Lincoln Other 80
John Linder Other 9
Dick Lugar Other 40
Dan Lungren Other 8
Connie Mack IV Other 9
Don Manzullo Other 16
Jim Marshall Other 75
Melquiades Martinez Other 60
Thaddeus McCotter Other 41
John McHugh Other 83
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 100
Charlie Melancon, Sr. Other 100
Brad Miller Other 100
Harry Mitchell Other 75
Alan Mollohan Other 100
Dennis Moore Other 100
Patrick Murphy Other 91
Jack Murtha Other 100
Sue Myrick Other 18
Ben Nelson Other 100
Jim Oberstar Other 100
Dave Obey Other 100
John Olver Other 100
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 100
Ron Paul Other 0
Donald Payne Other 100
Todd Platts Other 66
Earl Pomeroy Other 100
George Radanovich Other 16
Denny Rehberg Other 58
Silvestre Reyes Other 100
Laura Richardson Other 100
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100
Mike Ross Other 100
Steve Rothman Other 100
Ken Salazar Other 80
Jean Schmidt Other 25
Joe Sestak, Jr. Other 100
John Shadegg Other 0
Heath Shuler Other 91
Ike Skelton Other 100
Olympia Snowe Other 80
Vic Snyder Other 100
Hilda Solis Other 100
Mark Souder Other 45
Zack Space Other 100
Arlen Specter Other 100
John Spratt, Jr. Other 100
Pete Stark Other 83
Cliff Stearns Other 16
Bart Stupak Other 100
John Sullivan Other 16
Betty Sutton Other 100
John Tanner Other 100
Ellen Tauscher Other 100
Gene Taylor Other 91
Todd Tiahrt Other 27
Ed Towns Other 100
George Voinovich Other 0
Zach Wamp Other 8
Diane Watson Other 91
Jim Webb, Jr. Other 100
Anthony Weiner Other 100
Robert Wexler Other 100
Charlie Wilson, Jr. Other 100
Lynn Woolsey Other 100
David Wu Other 100

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