Rating Group: American Public Health Association

2002 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 30%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 29%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 29%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 0%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 0%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 0%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 43%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 17%
AZ U.S. House-7 Ed Pastor D 83%
CA U.S. Senate-Sr Dianne Feinstein D 86%
CA U.S. Senate-Jr Barbara Boxer D 100%
CA U.S. House-5 Mike Thompson 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-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-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 17%
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 0%
CA U.S. House-32 Grace Napolitano D 100%
CA U.S. House-33 Henry Waxman D 100%
CA U.S. House-34 Xavier Becerra 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 0%
CA U.S. House-43 Maxine Waters D 100%
CA U.S. House-46 Loretta Sanchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-48 Dana Rohrabacher R 17%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 0%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 83%
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%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 83%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 57%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 71%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 0%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 0%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 83%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 0%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 0%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 83%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 0%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 0%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 0%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 0%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 50%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 14%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 86%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 0%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 14%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 0%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 0%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 86%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 17%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 83%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 83%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 83%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 0%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 67%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 17%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 0%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 0%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 0%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 14%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 0%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas D 0%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 43%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 0%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 67%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 100%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 100%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 100%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 83%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 86%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 83%
MD U.S. House-5 Steny Hoyer D 83%
MD U.S. House-7 Elijah Cummings D 83%
ME U.S. Senate-Sr Susan Collins R 57%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 71%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 86%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 0%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 0%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 0%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 83%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 67%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 33%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 100%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 0%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 80%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 0%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 14%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 0%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 83%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 57%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 100%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 86%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 0%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 17%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 83%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 17%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 50%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 83%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 0%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Bob Menendez D 83%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 83%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 17%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 17%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 67%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 0%
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%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 100%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 0%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 83%
NY U.S. House-4 Carolyn McCarthy D 83%
NY U.S. House-5 Gregory Meeks D 83%
NY U.S. House-7 Nydia Velázquez 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 83%
NY U.S. House-15 José Serrano D 100%
NY U.S. House-16 Eliot Engel D 83%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 100%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 83%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 0%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 0%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 0%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 83%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 0%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 14%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 14%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 0%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 86%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 0%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 100%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 0%
PA U.S. House-1 Bob Brady D 83%
PA U.S. House-2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. D 83%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 0%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 0%
PA Commissioner-At-Large Joseph Hoeffel Other 83%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 100%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 83%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 57%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 17%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 17%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 83%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 57%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 17%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 0%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 0%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 0%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 0%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 0%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 0%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 0%
TX U.S. House-15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. D 67%
TX U.S. House-18 Sheila Jackson Lee D 100%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 0%
TX U.S. House-29 Gene Green D 83%
TX U.S. House-30 Eddie Johnson D 83%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 0%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 14%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 67%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 0%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 0%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 0%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 33%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 0%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 86%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 71%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 86%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 67%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 0%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 67%
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 80%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 0%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 33%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 86%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 33%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 83%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 0%
Gary Ackerman Other 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 0%
Wayne Allard Other 14%
George Allen Other 14%
Thomas Allen Other 83%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 83%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 0%
Cass Ballenger Other 0%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 17%
Charlie Bass Other 0%
Evan Bayh Other 71%
Bob Bennett Other 0%
Douglas Bereuter Other 0%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 50%
Judy Biggert Other 0%
Michael Bilirakis Other 0%
Jeff Bingaman Other 67%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 17%
Kit Bond Other 14%
Henry Bonilla Other 0%
Mary Bono Mack Other 0%
Leonard Boswell Other 67%
Rick Boucher Other 83%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 33%
John Breaux Other 29%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 0%
Jim Bunning Other 14%
Conrad Burns Other 29%
Dan Burton Other 0%
Steve Buyer Other 0%
Robert Byrd Other 57%
Ben Campbell Other 50%
Chris Cannon Other 0%
Brad Carson Other 50%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 0%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Michael Collins Other 20%
Kent Conrad Other 71%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 67%
Christopher Cox Other 0%
Larry Craig Other 14%
Robert Cramer Other 50%
Philip Crane Other 0%
Barbara Cubin Other 0%
Randall Cunningham Other 0%
Thomas Daschle Other 67%
James Davis Other 50%
Jo Ann Davis Other 17%
Thomas Davis III Other 17%
Bill Delahunt Other 83%
Thomas DeLay Other 0%
James DeMint Other 0%
Peter Deutsch Other 83%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 0%
Norm Dicks Other 50%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 14%
Calvin Dooley Other 33%
John Doolittle Other 0%
Byron Dorgan Other 71%
David Dreier Other 0%
Jennifer Dunn Other 0%
John Edwards Other 71%
Chet Edwards Other 83%
Vern Ehlers Other 0%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 17%
Philip English Other 0%
John Ensign Other 43%
Bob Etheridge Other 50%
Lane Evans Other 83%
Terry Everett Other 0%
Russ Feingold Other 86%
Michael Ferguson Other 0%
Peter Fitzgerald Other 43%
Ernest Fletcher Other 0%
Mark Foley Other 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 0%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 0%
Jonas Frost III Other 100%
Elton Gallegly Other 17%
Richard Andrew Gephardt Other 83%
Jim Gibbons Other 17%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 0%
Paul Gillmor Other 0%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 17%
Bart Gordon Other 67%
Porter Goss Other 0%
Daniel Graham Other 71%
Mark Green Other 0%
James Greenwood Other 17%
Judd Gregg Other 29%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 17%
Jane Harman Other 67%
Melissa Hart Other 0%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 17%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 0%
Joel Hefley Other 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 0%
Baron Hill Other 17%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 0%
Pete Hoekstra Other 17%
Thomas Holden Other 67%
Ernest Hollings Other 71%
Darlene Hooley Other 100%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. Other 0%
Kenny Hulshof Other 0%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 0%
Henry Hyde Other 0%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 17%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 40%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 86%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 0%
Christopher John Other 33%
Nancy Johnson Other 17%
Tim Johnson Other 17%
Paul Kanjorski Other 67%
Ric Keller Other 0%
Sue Kelly Other 17%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 0%
Patrick Kennedy Other 83%
Dale Kildee Other 67%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 83%
Gerald Kleczka Other 83%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 0%
Herb Kohl Other 57%
James Kolbe Other 17%
Dennis Kucinich Other 100%
Jon Kyl Other 0%
Ray LaHood Other 0%
Nicholas Lampson Other 50%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 17%
James Leach Other 0%
Jerry Lewis Other 17%
Ron Lewis Other 0%
Joe Lieberman Other 86%
Blanche Lincoln Other 43%
John Linder Other 0%
William Lipinski Other 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 0%
Dick Lugar Other 0%
Don Manzullo Other 33%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Karen McCarthy Other 100%
James McCrery III Other 0%
John McHugh Other 17%
Scott McInnis Other 0%
Michael McNulty Other 83%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Zell Bryan Miller Other 29%
Alan Mollohan Other 67%
Dennis Moore Other 83%
Jack Murtha Other 50%
Sue Myrick Other 0%
Ben Nelson Other 29%
George Nethercutt, Jr. Other 0%
Robert William Ney Other 0%
Don Nickles Other 0%
Anne Northup Other 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 17%
James Nussle Other 0%
Jim Oberstar Other 83%
Dave Obey Other 67%
John Olver Other 83%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 83%
Thomas William Osborne Other 0%
Doug Ose Other 0%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 0%
Ron Paul Other 60%
Donald Payne Other 83%
John Peterson Other 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 0%
Todd Platts Other 0%
Richard Pombo Other 17%
Earl Pomeroy Other 67%
Deborah Pryce Other 0%
Jack Quinn Other 17%
George Radanovich Other 17%
James Ramstad Other 0%
Ralph Regula Other 17%
Denny Rehberg Other 0%
Silvestre Reyes Other 83%
Thomas Reynolds Other 0%
Ciro Rodriguez Other 100%
Mike Ross Other 67%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 0%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. Other 67%
Rick Santorum Other 0%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 0%
Edward Schrock Other 0%
John Shadegg Other 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 0%
Christopher Shays Other 0%
Donald Sherwood Other 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 50%
Ike Skelton Other 50%
Gordon Smith Other 43%
Nick Smith Other 17%
Olympia Snowe Other 43%
Vic Snyder Other 50%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 17%
Arlen Specter Other 43%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 50%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 20%
Charles Stenholm Other 17%
Ted Stevens Other 14%
Ted Strickland Other 67%
Bart Stupak Other 67%
John Sununu Other 0%
John Sweeney Other 0%
Tom Tancredo Other 0%
John Tanner Other 33%
Ellen Tauscher Other 67%
William Tauzin Other 0%
Charles Taylor Other 17%
Gene Taylor Other 33%
Craig Thomas Other 14%
William Thomas Other 0%
Todd Tiahrt Other 0%
Ed Towns Other 80%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 83%
James Turner Other 50%
George Voinovich Other 0%
James Walsh Other 17%
Zach Wamp Other 0%
John Warner Other 14%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 0%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 25%
Gerald Weller Other 0%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 0%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 83%

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