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Special Interest Groups

Rating Group: American Public Health Association

2002 Positions

State Office District Name Party Rating
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 100%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 29%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 29%
AR U.S. Senate Jr John Boozman Republican 0%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 43%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Flake Republican 17%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 86%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 100%
CO U.S. Senate Sr Mark Udall Democratic 100%
DE U.S. Senate Sr Tom Carper Democratic 57%
FL U.S. Senate Sr William Nelson, Sr. Democratic 71%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. Senate Jr Johnny Isakson Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 14%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 86%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 14%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 86%
IL U.S. Senate Jr Mark Kirk Republican 17%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 14%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 43%
LA U.S. Senate Jr David Vitter Republican 0%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 86%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 83%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Susan Collins Republican 57%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 71%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 86%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 14%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 57%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 83%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Thomas Udall Democratic 100%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 100%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 83%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 14%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 86%
PA U.S. Senate Jr Pat Toomey Republican 0%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 17%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 57%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 14%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 86%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 71%
WA U.S. Senate Jr Maria Cantwell Democratic 86%
WI U.S. Senate Jr Tammy Baldwin Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 86%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 0%
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 30%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 7 Ed Pastor Democratic 83%
CA U.S. House 5 Mike Thompson Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 11 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 12 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Barbara Lee Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Mike Honda Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 18 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 19 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 20 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Lois Capps Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 28 Adam Schiff Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Brad Sherman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Gary Miller Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 32 Grace Napolitano Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 33 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 39 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 40 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 42 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 43 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 46 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 48 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 17%
CA U.S. House 49 Darrell Issa Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 53 Susan Davis Democratic 83%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CT U.S. House 1 John Larson Democratic 83%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 1 Jefferson Miller Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 4 Ander Crenshaw Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 5 Corrine Brown Democratic 83%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 13 Bill Young Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 83%
FL U.S. House 27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 50%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
IA U.S. House 3 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. House 2 Mike Simpson Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 83%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 83%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 83%
IL U.S. House 9 Jan Schakowsky Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 15 John Shimkus Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 67%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
MA U.S. House 1 Richard Neal Democratic 67%
MA U.S. House 2 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 5 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Mike Capuano Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 8 Stephen Lynch Democratic 83%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 83%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 83%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 8 Mike Rogers Republican 0%
MI U.S. House 9 Sandy Levin Democratic 83%
MI U.S. House 12 John Dingell Democratic 67%
MI U.S. House 13 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 4 Betty McCollum Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 33%
MO U.S. House 1 Lacy Clay, Jr. Democratic 80%
MO U.S. House 6 Sam Graves Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 83%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 83%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 17%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 83%
NE U.S. House 2 Lee Terry Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 83%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 17%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 17%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 67%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 0%
NJ U.S. House 12 Rush Holt, Jr. Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 2 Pete King Republican 0%
NY U.S. House 3 Steve Israel Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 5 Gregory Meeks Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 7 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 13 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Joe Crowley Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 15 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 Eliot Engel Democratic 83%
NY U.S. House 17 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 25 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 83%
OH U.S. House 12 Pat Tiberi Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 2 Greg Walden Republican 0%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 1 Bob Brady Democratic 83%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 83%
PA U.S. House 9 Bill Shuster Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 67%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
RI U.S. House 2 Jim Langevin Democratic 83%
SC U.S. House 2 Joe Wilson, Sr. Republican 17%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 83%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 17%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 7 John Culberson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa, Sr. Democratic 67%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 83%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 83%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 35 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
UT U.S. House 4 Jim Matheson Democratic 67%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 4 Randy Forbes Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 7 Eric Cantor Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 33%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 2 Rick Larsen Democratic 67%
WA U.S. House 4 Doc Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 67%
WI U.S. House 1 Paul Ryan Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 80%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 0%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 33%
WV U.S. House 2 Shelley Moore Capito Republican 33%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 83%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 0%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
ID Governor Butch Otter Republican 0%
IN Governor Mike Pence Republican 17%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
MN Governor Mark Dayton Democratic/Farmer/Labor 100%
RI Governor Linc Chafee Independent 57%
WA Governor Jay Inslee Democratic 83%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 14%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel Republican 0%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Democratic 86%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam Republican 0%
KY Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs Kenneth Lucas Democratic 0%
CA Mayor At-Large Bob Filner Democratic 100%
PA Commissioner At-Large Joseph Hoeffel 83%
Gary Ackerman 100%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. 100%
Todd Akin 0%
Wayne Allard 14%
George Allen 14%
Thomas Allen 83%
Joe Baca, Sr. 100%
Brian Baird 83%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
Cass Ballenger 0%
Roscoe Bartlett 17%
Charlie Bass 0%
Evan Bayh 71%
Bob Bennett 0%
Douglas Bereuter 0%
Shelley Berkley 100%
Howard Berman 100%
Marion Berry 50%
Judy Biggert 0%
Michael Bilirakis 0%
Jeff Bingaman 67%
Sherwood Boehlert 17%
Kit Bond 14%
Henry Bonilla 0%
Mary Bono Mack 0%
Leonard Boswell 67%
Rick Boucher 83%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 33%
John Breaux 29%
Henry Brown, Jr. 0%
Jim Bunning 14%
Conrad Burns 29%
Dan Burton 0%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 57%
Ben Campbell 50%
Chris Cannon 0%
Brad Carson 50%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 0%
Hillary Clinton 100%
Michael Collins 20%
Kent Conrad 71%
Jon Corzine 100%
Jerry Costello 67%
Christopher Cox 0%
Larry Craig 14%
Robert Cramer 50%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Thomas Daschle 67%
James Davis 50%
Jo Ann Davis 17%
Thomas Davis III 17%
Bill Delahunt 83%
Thomas DeLay 0%
James DeMint 0%
Peter Deutsch 83%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 0%
Norm Dicks 50%
Chris Dodd 100%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 14%
Calvin Dooley 33%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 71%
David Dreier 0%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
John Edwards 71%
Chet Edwards 83%
Vern Ehlers 0%
Jo Ann Emerson 17%
Philip English 0%
John Ensign 43%
Bob Etheridge 50%
Lane Evans 83%
Terry Everett 0%
Russ Feingold 86%
Michael Ferguson 0%
Peter Fitzgerald 43%
Ernest Fletcher 0%
Mark Foley 0%
Harold Ford, Jr. 33%
Vito Fossella, Jr. 0%
Barney Frank 100%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
Elton Gallegly 17%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 83%
Jim Gibbons 17%
Wayne Gilchrest 0%
Paul Gillmor 0%
Charlie Gonzalez 83%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 17%
Bart Gordon 67%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 71%
Mark Green 0%
James Greenwood 17%
Judd Gregg 29%
Gilbert Gutknecht 17%
Jane Harman 67%
Melissa Hart 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
Robert Hayes 17%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Wally Herger, Jr. 0%
Baron Hill 17%
Maurice Hinchey 100%
David Lee Hobson 0%
Pete Hoekstra 17%
Thomas Holden 67%
Ernest Hollings 71%
Darlene Hooley 100%
John Nathan Hostettler 50%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 0%
Kenny Hulshof 0%
Duncan Hunter 33%
Kay Hutchison 0%
Henry Hyde 0%
Daniel Inouye 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 17%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. 100%
William Jefferson 40%
James Merrill Jeffords 86%
William Lewis Jenkins 0%
Christopher John 33%
Nancy Johnson 17%
Tim Johnson 17%
Paul Kanjorski 67%
Ric Keller 0%
Sue Kelly 17%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Mark Kennedy 0%
Patrick Kennedy 83%
Dale Kildee 67%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 83%
Gerald Kleczka 83%
Joseph Knollenberg 0%
Herb Kohl 57%
James Kolbe 17%
Dennis Kucinich 100%
Jon Kyl 0%
Ray LaHood 0%
Nicholas Lampson 50%
Tom Lantos 100%
Steve LaTourette 17%
James Leach 0%
Jerry Lewis 17%
Ron Lewis 0%
Joe Lieberman 86%
Blanche Lincoln 43%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 60%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
Dick Lugar 0%
Don Manzullo 33%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 100%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 17%
Scott McInnis 0%
Michael McNulty 83%
Martin Meehan 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Zell Bryan Miller 29%
Alan Mollohan 67%
Dennis Moore 83%
Jack Murtha 50%
Sue Myrick 0%
Ben Nelson 29%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 0%
Robert William Ney 0%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 17%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 83%
Dave Obey 67%
John Olver 83%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 83%
Thomas William Osborne 0%
Doug Ose 0%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 0%
Ron Paul 60%
Donald Payne 83%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Todd Platts 0%
Richard Pombo 17%
Earl Pomeroy 67%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 17%
George Radanovich 17%
James Ramstad 0%
Ralph Regula 17%
Denny Rehberg 0%
Silvestre Reyes 83%
Thomas Reynolds 0%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Mike Ross 67%
Steve Rothman 100%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 67%
Rick Santorum 0%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
Jim Saxton 0%
Edward Schrock 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 0%
Christopher Shays 0%
Donald Sherwood 0%
Robert Ruhl Simmons 50%
Ike Skelton 50%
Gordon Smith 43%
Nick Smith 17%
Olympia Snowe 43%
Vic Snyder 50%
Hilda Solis 100%
Mark Souder 17%
Arlen Specter 43%
John Spratt, Jr. 50%
Pete Stark 100%
Cliff Stearns 20%
Charles Stenholm 17%
Ted Stevens 14%
Ted Strickland 67%
Bart Stupak 67%
John Sununu 0%
John Sweeney 0%
Tom Tancredo 0%
John Tanner 33%
Ellen Tauscher 67%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 17%
Gene Taylor 33%
Craig Thomas 14%
William Thomas 0%
Todd Tiahrt 0%
Ed Towns 80%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones 83%
James Turner 50%
George Voinovich 0%
James Walsh 17%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 14%
Diane Watson 100%
Anthony Weiner 100%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 25%
Gerald Weller 0%
Robert Wexler 100%
Heather Wilson 0%
Lynn Woolsey 100%
David Wu 100%
Albert Wynn 83%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

Most performance evaluations are displayed in a percentage format. However, some organizations present their ratings in the form of a letter grade or endorsement based on voting records, interviews, survey results and/or sources of campaign funding. For consistency and ease in understanding, Project Vote Smart converts all scores into a percentage when possible. Please visit the group's website or call 1-888-VOTESMART for more specific information.

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