Rating Group: American Public Health Association

2004 Positions

State Office Name Party Rating
AK U.S. Senate-Sr Lisa Murkowski R 43%
AK U.S. House-At-Large Don Young R 50%
AL U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Shelby R 29%
AL U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Sessions III R 29%
AL U.S. House-1 Jo Bonner, Jr. R 22%
AL U.S. House-3 Mike Rogers R 44%
AL U.S. House-4 Robert Aderholt R 22%
AL U.S. House-6 Spencer Bachus R 44%
AR U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Pryor D 100%
AR U.S. Senate-Jr John Boozman R 33%
AZ U.S. Senate-Sr John McCain III R 43%
AZ U.S. Senate-Jr Jeff Flake R 13%
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 11%
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 78%
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 78%
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 44%
CA U.S. House-24 Lois Capps D 100%
CA U.S. House-25 Buck McKeon R 56%
CA U.S. House-28 Adam Schiff D 89%
CA U.S. House-30 Brad Sherman D 89%
CA U.S. House-31 Gary Miller R 33%
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-38 Linda Sánchez D 100%
CA U.S. House-39 Ed Royce R 11%
CA U.S. House-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard D 89%
CA U.S. House-42 Ken Calvert R 56%
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 22%
CA U.S. House-49 Darrell Issa R 56%
CA U.S. House-53 Susan Davis D 89%
CA Mayor-At-Large Bob Filner D 100%
CO U.S. Senate-Sr Mark Udall D 89%
CO U.S. House-1 Diana DeGette D 100%
CT U.S. House-1 John Larson D 89%
CT U.S. House-3 Rosa DeLauro D 100%
DE U.S. Senate-Sr Tom Carper D 67%
FL U.S. Senate-Sr William Nelson, Sr. D 83%
FL U.S. House-1 Jefferson Miller R 11%
FL U.S. House-4 Ander Crenshaw R 56%
FL U.S. House-5 Corrine Brown D 100%
FL U.S. House-7 John Mica R 44%
FL U.S. House-13 Bill Young R 56%
FL U.S. House-20 Alcee Hastings, Sr. D 100%
FL U.S. House-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R 56%
FL U.S. House-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R 56%
FL Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam R 56%
GA U.S. Senate-Sr Saxby Chambliss R 29%
GA U.S. Senate-Jr Johnny Isakson R 38%
GA U.S. House-1 Jack Kingston R 13%
GA U.S. House-2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. D 100%
GA U.S. House-5 John Lewis D 100%
GA U.S. House-11 Phil Gingrey R 33%
GA U.S. House-13 David Scott D 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal R 13%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie D 100%
IA U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Grassley R 29%
IA U.S. Senate-Jr Tom Harkin D 71%
IA U.S. House-3 Tom Latham R 56%
IA U.S. House-4 Steve King R 22%
ID U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Crapo R 29%
ID U.S. House-2 Mike Simpson R 33%
ID Governor Butch Otter R 22%
IL U.S. Senate-Sr Dick Durbin D 100%
IL U.S. Senate-Jr Mark Kirk R 67%
IL U.S. House-1 Bobby Rush D 100%
IL U.S. House-4 Luis Gutierrez D 100%
IL U.S. House-7 Danny Davis D 100%
IL U.S. House-9 Jan Schakowsky D 100%
IL U.S. House-15 John Shimkus R 44%
IL Mayor-At-Large Rahm Emanuel D 89%
IN U.S. House-1 Pete Visclosky D 89%
IN Governor Mike Pence R 22%
KS U.S. Senate-Sr Pat Roberts R 14%
KS U.S. Senate-Jr Jerry Moran R 50%
KS Governor Sam Brownback R 29%
KY U.S. Senate-Sr Mitch McConnell R 29%
KY U.S. House-1 Ed Whitfield R 33%
KY U.S. House-5 Hal Rogers R 56%
LA U.S. Senate-Sr Mary Landrieu D 86%
LA U.S. Senate-Jr David Vitter R 33%
LA U.S. House-5 Rodney Alexander R 56%
MA U.S. House-1 Richard Neal D 89%
MA U.S. House-2 Jim McGovern D 89%
MA U.S. House-5 Ed Markey D 89%
MA U.S. House-6 John Tierney D 89%
MA U.S. House-7 Mike Capuano D 100%
MA U.S. House-8 Stephen Lynch D 75%
MD U.S. Senate-Sr Barbara Mikulski D 100%
MD U.S. Senate-Jr Ben Cardin D 88%
MD U.S. House-2 Dutch Ruppersberger 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 29%
ME U.S. House-2 Mike Michaud D 67%
MI U.S. Senate-Sr Carl Levin D 86%
MI U.S. Senate-Jr Debbie Stabenow D 86%
MI U.S. House-4 Dave Camp R 44%
MI U.S. House-6 Fred Upton R 56%
MI U.S. House-8 Mike Rogers R 44%
MI U.S. House-9 Sandy Levin D 89%
MI U.S. House-10 Candice Miller R 44%
MI U.S. House-12 John Dingell D 100%
MI U.S. House-13 John Conyers, Jr. D 100%
MN U.S. House-2 John Kline R 33%
MN U.S. House-4 Betty McCollum DFL 100%
MN U.S. House-7 Collin Peterson DFL 67%
MN Governor Mark Dayton DFL 86%
MO U.S. Senate-Jr Roy Blunt R 44%
MO U.S. House-1 Lacy Clay, Jr. D 100%
MO U.S. House-6 Sam Graves R 44%
MS U.S. Senate-Sr Thad Cochran R 43%
MS U.S. Senate-Jr Roger Wicker R 44%
MS U.S. House-2 Bennie Thompson D 100%
MT U.S. Senate-Sr Max Baucus D 33%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. D 86%
NA U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel R 29%
NA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry D 100%
NC U.S. Senate-Sr Richard Burr R 50%
NC U.S. House-1 G.K. Butterfield, Jr. D 80%
NC U.S. House-3 Walter Jones, Jr. R 33%
NC U.S. House-4 David Price D 89%
NC U.S. House-6 Howard Coble R 22%
NC U.S. House-7 Mike McIntyre D 78%
NC U.S. House-12 Mel Watt D 100%
NE U.S. House-2 Lee Terry R 44%
NH State Senate-3 Jeb Bradley R 56%
NJ U.S. Senate-Sr Frank Lautenberg D 100%
NJ U.S. Senate-Jr Bob Menendez D 100%
NJ U.S. House-1 Rob Andrews D 86%
NJ U.S. House-2 Frank LoBiondo R 67%
NJ U.S. House-4 Chris Smith R 67%
NJ U.S. House-5 Scott Garrett R 22%
NJ U.S. House-6 Frank Pallone, Jr. D 100%
NJ U.S. House-9 Bill Pascrell, Jr. D 89%
NJ U.S. House-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen R 67%
NJ U.S. House-12 Rush Holt, Jr. D 89%
NM U.S. Senate-Sr Thomas Udall D 100%
NM U.S. House-2 Steve Pearce R 56%
NV U.S. Senate-Sr Harry Reid D 60%
NY U.S. Senate-Sr Chuck Schumer D 86%
NY U.S. House-1 Tim Bishop D 89%
NY U.S. House-2 Pete King R 67%
NY U.S. House-3 Steve Israel D 89%
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-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 88%
NY U.S. House-17 Nita Lowey D 89%
NY U.S. House-25 Louise Slaughter D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Sr Sherrod Brown D 100%
OH U.S. Senate-Jr Rob Portman R 63%
OH U.S. House-1 Steve Chabot R 44%
OH U.S. House-8 John Boehner R 56%
OH U.S. House-9 Marcy Kaptur D 89%
OH U.S. House-10 Mike Turner R 56%
OH U.S. House-12 Pat Tiberi R 44%
OH U.S. House-13 Tim Ryan D 80%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine R 71%
OK U.S. Senate-Sr Jim Inhofe R 17%
OK U.S. House-3 Frank Lucas R 43%
OK U.S. House-4 Tom Cole R 44%
OR U.S. Senate-Sr Ron Wyden D 86%
OR U.S. House-2 Greg Walden R 67%
OR U.S. House-3 Earl Blumenauer D 100%
OR U.S. House-4 Peter DeFazio D 89%
PA U.S. Senate-Jr Pat Toomey R 17%
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 38%
PA U.S. House-9 Bill Shuster R 43%
PA U.S. House-14 Mike Doyle, Jr. D 67%
PA U.S. House-16 Joe Pitts R 33%
PA U.S. House-18 Tim Murphy R 67%
RI U.S. Senate-Sr Jack Reed D 86%
RI U.S. House-2 Jim Langevin D 88%
RI Governor Linc Chafee I 71%
SC U.S. Senate-Sr Lindsey Graham R 29%
SC U.S. House-2 Joe Wilson, Sr. R 33%
SC U.S. House-6 Jim Clyburn D 100%
SD U.S. Senate-Sr Timothy Johnson D 60%
TN U.S. Senate-Sr Lamar Alexander R 29%
TN U.S. House-2 John Duncan, Jr. R 33%
TN U.S. House-5 Jim Cooper D 100%
TN U.S. House-7 Marsha Blackburn R 22%
TX U.S. Senate-Sr John Cornyn R 29%
TX U.S. House-3 Sam Johnson R 33%
TX U.S. House-4 Ralph Hall R 44%
TX U.S. House-5 Jeb Hensarling R 33%
TX U.S. House-6 Joe Barton R 56%
TX U.S. House-7 John Culberson R 11%
TX U.S. House-8 Kevin Brady R 44%
TX U.S. House-12 Kay Granger R 56%
TX U.S. House-13 Mac Thornberry R 22%
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 33%
TX U.S. House-21 Lamar Smith R 44%
TX U.S. House-26 Michael Burgess R 44%
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 33%
TX U.S. House-32 Pete Sessions R 44%
TX U.S. House-35 Lloyd Doggett D 100%
UT U.S. Senate-Sr Orrin Hatch R 29%
UT U.S. House-1 Rob Bishop R 11%
UT U.S. House-4 Jim Matheson D 78%
VA U.S. House-3 Bobby Scott D 100%
VA U.S. House-4 Randy Forbes R 38%
VA U.S. House-6 Bob Goodlatte R 33%
VA U.S. House-7 Eric Cantor R 22%
VA U.S. House-8 Jim Moran, Jr. D 89%
VA U.S. House-10 Frank Wolf R 56%
VT U.S. Senate-Sr Patrick Leahy D 71%
VT U.S. Senate-Jr Bernie Sanders I 89%
WA U.S. Senate-Sr Patty Murray D 100%
WA U.S. Senate-Jr Maria Cantwell D 86%
WA U.S. House-2 Rick Larsen D 89%
WA U.S. House-4 Doc Hastings R 56%
WA U.S. House-7 Jim McDermott D 100%
WA U.S. House-9 Adam Smith D 89%
WA Governor Jay Inslee D 89%
WI U.S. Senate-Jr Tammy Baldwin D 100%
WI U.S. House-1 Paul Ryan R 33%
WI U.S. House-3 Ron Kind D 75%
WI U.S. House-5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. R 22%
WI U.S. House-6 Tom Petri R 44%
WV U.S. Senate-Sr Jay Rockefeller IV D 71%
WV U.S. House-2 Shelley Moore Capito R 78%
WV U.S. House-3 Nick Rahall II D 78%
WY U.S. Senate-Sr Mike Enzi R 14%
Gary Ackerman Other 89%
Daniel Akaka, Sr. Other 100%
Todd Akin Other 25%
Wayne Allard Other 14%
George Allen Other 29%
Thomas Allen Other 89%
Joe Baca, Sr. Other 100%
Brian Baird Other 100%
Richard Hugh Baker Other 56%
J. Gresham Barrett Other 11%
Roscoe Bartlett Other 33%
Charlie Bass Other 56%
Evan Bayh Other 71%
Bob Beauprez Other 56%
Bob Bennett Other 29%
Shelley Berkley Other 100%
Howard Berman Other 100%
Marion Berry Other 67%
Judy Biggert Other 56%
Michael Bilirakis Other 44%
Jeff Bingaman Other 100%
Sherwood Boehlert Other 76%
Kit Bond Other 43%
Henry Bonilla Other 33%
Mary Bono Mack Other 67%
Leonard Boswell Other 78%
Rick Boucher Other 78%
Allen Boyd, Jr. Other 78%
Henry Brown, Jr. Other 56%
Ginny Brown-Waite Other 44%
Jim Bunning Other 29%
Conrad Burns Other 14%
Dan Burton Other 13%
Steve Buyer Other 44%
Robert Byrd Other 71%
Chris Cannon Other 40%
Dennis Cardoza Other 100%
Julia Carson Other 100%
Edward Case Other 100%
Mike Castle Other 67%
Ben Chandler III Other 78%
Chris Chocola Other 44%
Hillary Clinton Other 100%
Norm Coleman Other 43%
Kent Conrad Other 57%
Jon Corzine Other 100%
Jerry Costello Other 67%
Christopher Cox Other 22%
Larry Craig Other 29%
Robert Cramer Other 78%
Barbara Cubin Other 33%
Randall Cunningham Other 44%
Artur Davis Other 100%
James Davis Other 78%
Jo Ann Davis Other 44%
Lincoln Davis Other 67%
Thomas Davis III Other 67%
Bill Delahunt Other 86%
Thomas DeLay Other 33%
James DeMint Other 29%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart Other 56%
Norm Dicks Other 88%
Chris Dodd Other 100%
Elizabeth Dole Other 43%
Pete Domenici, Jr. Other 17%
John Doolittle Other 22%
Byron Dorgan Other 57%
David Dreier Other 50%
Chet Edwards Other 78%
Vern Ehlers Other 56%
Jo Ann Emerson Other 57%
Philip English Other 67%
John Ensign Other 29%
Bob Etheridge Other 89%
Lane Evans Other 89%
Terry Everett Other 22%
Tom Feeney Other 22%
Russ Feingold Other 71%
Michael Ferguson Other 67%
Mark Foley Other 67%
Harold Ford, Jr. Other 100%
Vito Fossella, Jr. Other 56%
Barney Frank Other 100%
William Frist Other 57%
Elton Gallegly Other 44%
Jim Gibbons Other 44%
Wayne Gilchrest Other 67%
Paul Gillmor Other 56%
Charlie Gonzalez Other 100%
Virgil Goode, Jr. Other 33%
Bart Gordon Other 78%
Mark Green Other 44%
Judd Gregg Other 14%
Gilbert Gutknecht Other 22%
Jane Harman Other 89%
Katherine Harris Other 56%
Melissa Hart Other 44%
J. Dennis Hastert Other 0%
Robert Hayes Other 33%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. Other 38%
Joel Hefley Other 22%
Wally Herger, Jr. Other 25%
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Other 86%
Maurice Hinchey Other 100%
David Lee Hobson Other 56%
Pete Hoekstra Other 22%
Thomas Holden Other 67%
Darlene Hooley Other 78%
John Nathan Hostettler Other 22%
Kenny Hulshof Other 44%
Duncan Hunter Other 33%
Kay Hutchison Other 43%
Henry Hyde Other 33%
Daniel Inouye Other 100%
Ernest Istook, Jr. Other 17%
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Other 100%
William Jefferson Other 100%
James Merrill Jeffords Other 57%
William Lewis Jenkins Other 38%
Nancy Johnson Other 67%
Tim Johnson Other 56%
Paul Kanjorski Other 57%
Ric Keller Other 44%
Sue Kelly Other 67%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. Other 100%
Mark Kennedy Other 44%
Patrick Kennedy Other 100%
Dale Kildee Other 89%
Carolyn Kilpatrick Other 100%
Joseph Knollenberg Other 56%
Herb Kohl Other 71%
James Kolbe Other 67%
Dennis Kucinich Other 89%
Jon Kyl Other 14%
Ray LaHood Other 67%
Tom Lantos Other 100%
Steve LaTourette Other 67%
James Leach Other 71%
Jerry Lewis Other 56%
Ron Lewis Other 44%
Joe Lieberman Other 100%
Blanche Lincoln Other 71%
John Linder Other 22%
Trent Lott, Sr. Other 14%
Dick Lugar Other 29%
Don Manzullo Other 22%
Jim Marshall Other 67%
Robert Matsui Other 100%
Thaddeus McCotter Other 44%
James McCrery III Other 44%
John McHugh Other 78%
Michael McNulty Other 88%
Martin Meehan Other 100%
Kendrick Meek, Sr. Other 100%
Juanita Millender-McDonald Other 100%
Brad Miller Other 89%
Alan Mollohan Other 71%
Dennis Moore Other 78%
Jack Murtha Other 67%
Marilyn Musgrave Other 22%
Sue Myrick Other 11%
Ben Nelson Other 57%
Robert William Ney Other 56%
Anne Northup Other 44%
Charles Norwood, Jr. Other 13%
James Nussle Other 67%
Jim Oberstar Other 75%
Dave Obey Other 88%
John Olver Other 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. Other 78%
Thomas William Osborne Other 56%
Major Owens Other 100%
Michael Oxley Other 56%
Ron Paul Other 11%
Donald Payne Other 100%
John Peterson Other 44%
Charles Pickering, Jr. Other 56%
Todd Platts Other 44%
Richard Pombo Other 33%
Earl Pomeroy Other 78%
Jon Porter, Sr. Other 56%
Deborah Pryce Other 67%
George Radanovich Other 33%
James Ramstad Other 44%
Ralph Regula Other 56%
Denny Rehberg Other 44%
Richard Renzi Other 56%
Silvestre Reyes Other 100%
Thomas Reynolds Other 56%
Mike Ross Other 78%
Steve Rothman Other 100%
Jim Ryun Other 44%
Martin Olav Sabo Other 89%
Rick Santorum Other 14%
Paul Sarbanes Other 100%
Jim Saxton Other 67%
John Shadegg Other 22%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. Other 67%
Christopher Shays Other 63%
Donald Sherwood Other 44%
Robert Ruhl Simmons Other 78%
Ike Skelton Other 67%
Gordon Smith Other 43%
Olympia Snowe Other 43%
Vic Snyder Other 78%
Hilda Solis Other 100%
Mark Souder Other 44%
Arlen Specter Other 43%
John Spratt, Jr. Other 89%
Pete Stark Other 100%
Cliff Stearns Other 33%
Ted Stevens Other 29%
Ted Strickland Other 78%
Bart Stupak Other 76%
John Sullivan Other 22%
John Sununu Other 14%
John Sweeney Other 67%
James Talent Other 43%
Tom Tancredo Other 11%
John Tanner Other 88%
Ellen Tauscher Other 78%
Charles Taylor Other 44%
Gene Taylor Other 44%
Craig Thomas Other 14%
William Thomas Other 67%
Todd Tiahrt Other 44%
Ed Towns Other 100%
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Other 100%
George Voinovich Other 29%
James Walsh Other 56%
Zach Wamp Other 44%
John Warner Other 57%
Diane Watson Other 100%
Anthony Weiner Other 100%
David Weldon Other 33%
W. Curtis Weldon Other 56%
Gerald Weller Other 56%
Robert Wexler Other 100%
Heather Wilson Other 67%
Lynn Woolsey Other 100%
David Wu Other 100%
Albert Wynn Other 100%

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