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Congressional Support

Here is the most up-to-date list of Members of the 111th Congress who have stated they share with HCAN a set of core principles for health care reform and that enactment of a guarantee of quality, affordable health care for all in America should be at the top of the legislative agenda for the new President and Congress in 2009: (Download the Which Side are you on? Statement. PDF.)

President-elect Barack Obama
Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Arizona
Representative  Raul Grijalva

Arkansas
Representative Marion Berry
Representative Mike Ross

California
Representative Joe Baca
Representative Lois Capps
Representative Susan Davis
Representative Bob Filner
Representative Michael M. Honda
Representative Barbara Lee
Representative Loretta Sanchez
Representative Adam Schiff
Representative Brad Sherman
Representative Hilda L. Solis
Representative Jackie Speier
Representative Pete Stark
Representative Henry Waxman
Representative Lynn Woolsey

Colorado
Representative Diana DeGette
Representative-elect Betsy Markey

Connecticut
Representative Joe Courtney
Representative Rosa DeLauro
Representative John B. Larson
Representative Christopher Murphy

Delaware
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Florida
Representative Corrine Brown
Representative Kathy Castor
Representative-elect Alan Grayson
Representative Kendrick B. Meek
Representative Wasserman Schultz
Representative Robert Wexler

Georgia
Representative Hank Johnson

Hawaii
Senator Daniel K. Inouye
Representative Neil Abercrombie

Illinois
Senator Richard Durbin
Senator Barack Obama
Representative Danny K. Davis
Representative Rahm Emanuel
Representative Luis V. Gutierrez
Representative-elect Debbie Halvorson
Representative Phil Hare
Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
Representative Janice Schakowsky

Iowa
Senator Tom Harkin
Representative Leonard L. Boswell
Representative Bruce Braley
Representative Dave Loebsack

Kansas
Representative Nancy Boyda

Kentucky
Representative Ben Chandler
Representative John Yarmuth

Louisiana
Senator Mary Landrieu
Representative William Jefferson

Maine
Representative-elect Chellie Pingree

Maryland
Senator Benjamin Cardin
Senator Barbara Mikulski
Representative Elijah Cummings
Representative Donna F. Edwards
Representative C.A. (Dutch) Ruppersberger
Representative John Sarbanes
Representative Chris VanHollen

Massachusetts
Senator John Kerry
Representative William Delahunt

Michigan
Senator Debbie Stabenow
Representative John Conyers, Jr.
Representative Dale E. Kildee
Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Representative-elect Gary Peters
Representative-elect Mark Schauer

Minnesota
Representative Keith Ellison
Representative Betty McCollum
Representative Jim Oberstar
Representative Tim Walz

Missouri
Representative Russ Carnahan
Representative Emanuel Cleaver

Nevada
Representative Shelley Berkley
Representative-elect Dina Titus

New Hampshire
Senator-elect Jeanne Shaheen
Representative Paul Hodes
Representative Carol Shea-Porter

New Jersey
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
Senator Robert Menendez
Representative-elect John Adler
Representative Rob Andrews
Representative Rush Holt
Representative Frank LoBiondo
Representative Frank Pallone, Jr.
Representative Bill Pascrell
Representative Donald Payne
Representative Steven R. Rothman
Representative Albio Sires

New Mexico
Representative-elect Martin Heinrich
Representative-elect Harry Teague

New York
Representative Michael A. Arcuri
Representative Timothy Bishop
Representative Yvette D. Clarke
Representative Joseph Crowley
Representative Kirsten Gillibrand
Representative John Hall
Representative Brian Higgins
Representative-elect Dan Maffei
Representative-elect Eric Massa
Representative Carolyn Maloney
Representative Carolyn McCarthy
Representative Gregory W. Meeks
Representative Jerrold Nadler
Representative Charles B. Rangel
Representative Jose E. Serrano
Representative-elect Paul Tonko
Representative Edolphus Towns
Representative Nydia Velazquez
Representative Anthony Weiner

North Carolina
Representative G.K. Butterfield
Representative Brad Miller

Ohio
Representative-elect John Boccieri
Representative Marcy Kaptur
Representative Tim Ryan
Representative Betty Sutton
Representative Charlie A. Wilson

Oregon
Senator-elect Jeff Merkeley
Representative Earl Blumenauer
Representative Peter DeFazio
Representative-elect Kurt Schrader
Representative David Wu

Pennsylvania
Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.
Representative Jason Altmire
Representative Robert A. Brady
Representative-elect Kathy Dahlkemper
Representative Mike Doyle
Representative Chaka Fattah
Representative Paul E. Kanjorski
Representative Patrick Murphy
Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz

Rhode Island
Representative Patrick J. Kennedy
Representative Jim Langevin

South Dakota
Senator Tim Johnson
Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

Tennessee
Representative Steve Cohen
Representative Jim Cooper

Texas
Representative Lloyd Doggett
Representative Charles A. Gonzalez
Representative Al Green
Representative Gene Green
Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee
Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson
Representative Ciro D. Rodriguez

Vermont
Representative Peter Welch

Virginia
Senator-elect Mark Warner
Representative-elect Gerry Connolly

Washington
Representative Norman D. Dicks
Representative Jim McDermott
Representative Adam Smith

West Virginia
Representative Nick. J. Rahall

Wisconsin
Representative Tammy Baldwin
Representative Steve Kagen
Representative Ron Kind
Representative Gwen Moore

Representatives Michael McNulty (NY) and Thomas Allen (ME) are supporters in the 110th Congress but will be retiring.

If you see your Member of Congress on this list, give 'em a call and thank them! And if you don't, give them a call and get them on board!