Planned Parenthood® Action Center

2008 Congressional Candidate Endorsements

The following is a list of candidates who have earned the endorsement of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in the 2008 election cycle. 

Endorsed incumbents have a 100 percent pro-choice voting record based on the 2008 Congressional Scorecard, and endorsed challengers and candidates for open seats — denoted with an asterisk (*) — have completed our Federal Candidate Questionnaire.

In the Senate:

Alaska	Mark Begich*	D-AK
Colorado	Mark Udall*	D-CO
Delaware	Joe Biden	D-DE
Georgia	Jim Martin*	D-GA
Iowa	Tom Harkin	D-IA
Idaho	Larry LaRocco*	D-ID
Illinois	Dick Durbin	D-IL
Maine	Tom Allen*	D-ME
Massachusetts	John Kerry	D-MA
Michigan	Carl Levin	D-MI
Minnesota	Al Franken*	D-MN
Montana	Max Baucus	D-MT
North Carolina	Kay Hagan*	D-NC
New Hampshire	Jeanne Shaheen*	D-NH
New Jersey	Frank Lautenberg	D-NJ
New Mexico	Tom Udall*	D-NM
Oregon	Jeff Merkley*	D-OR
Rhode Island	Jack Reed	D-RI
Texas	Rick Noriega*	D-TX

 

In the House of Representatives:

Alaska

D-AK-AL

Ethan Berkowitz*

Arizona

D-AZ-1	Ann Kirkpatrick*
D-AZ-3	Bob Lord*
D-AZ-4	Ed Pastor
D-AZ-5	Harry Mitchell
D-AZ-7	Raul Grijalva
D-AZ-8	Gabrielle Giffords

California

D-CA-1	Mike Thompson
D-CA-4	Charlie Brown*
D-CA-5	Doris Matsui
D-CA-6	Lynn Woolsey
D-CA-7	George Miller
D-CA-8	Nancy Pelosi
D-CA-9	Barbara Lee
D-CA-10	Ellen Tauscher
D-CA-11	Jerry McNerney
D-CA-12	Jackie Speier
D-CA-13	Pete Stark
D-CA-14	Anna Eshoo
D-CA-15	Mike Honda
D-CA-16	Zoe Lofgren
D-CA-17	Sam Farr
D-CA-23	Lois Capps
D-CA-27	Brad Sherman
D-CA-28	Howard Berman
D-CA-29	Adam Schiff
D-CA-30	Henry Waxman
D-CA-31	Xavier Becerra
D-CA-32	Hilda Solis
D-CA-33	Diane Watson
D-CA-34	Lucille Roybal-Allard
D-CA-35	Maxine Waters
D-CA-36	Jane Harman
D-CA-37	Laura Richardson
D-CA-38	Grace Napolitano
D-CA-39	Linda Sanchez
D-CA-43	Joe Baca
D-CA-47	Loretta Sanchez
D-CA-50	Nick Leibham*
D-CA-51	Bob Filner
D-CA-53	Susan Davis

Colorado

D-CO-1	Diana DeGette
D-CO-4	Betsy Markey*
D-CO-7	Ed Perlmutter

Connecticut

D-CT-1	John Larson
D-CT-2	Joe Courtney
D-CT-3	Rosa DeLauro
D-CT-5	Christopher Murphy

Florida

D-FL-3	Corrine Brown
D-FL-8	Alan Grayson*
D-FL-11	Kathy Castor
D-FL-13	Christine Jennings*
D-FL-16	Tim Mahoney
D-FL-17	Kendrick Meek
D-FL-18	Annette Taddeo*
D-FL-19	Robert Wexler
D-FL-20	Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D-FL-22	Ron Klein
D-FL-23	Alcee Hastings
D-FL-24	Suzanne  Kosmas*

Georgia

D-GA-4	Hank Johnson
D-GA-5	John Lewis

Hawaii

D-HI-1	Neil Abercrombie
D-HI-2	Mazie Hirono

Iowa

D-IA-1	Bruce Braley
D-IA-2	David Loebsack
D-IA-4	Becky Greenwald

Idaho

D-ID-1

Walt Minnick*

Illinois

D-IL-1	Bobby Rush
D-IL-2	Jesse Jackson Jr.
D-IL-4	Luis Gutierrez
D-IL-5	Rahm Emanuel
D-IL-6	Jill Morgenthaler*
D-IL-7	Danny Davis
D-IL-8	Melissa Bean
D-IL-9	Jan Schakowsky
R-IL-10	Mark Kirk
D-IL-11	Debbie Halvorson*
D-IL-14	Bill Foster
D-IL-17	Phil Hare
D-IL-18	Colleen Callahan

Indiana

D-IN-7

Andre Carson

Kansas

D-KS-2	Nancy Boyda
D-KS-3	Dennis Moore

Kentucky

D-KY-3

John Yarmuth

Massachusetts

D-MA-1	John Olver
D-MA-3	Jim McGovern
D-MA-4	Barney Frank
D-MA-5	Niki Tsongas
D-MA-6	John Tierney
D-MA-7	Ed Markey
D-MA-8	Michael Capuano
D-MA-10	William Delahunt

Maryland

D-MD-1	Frank Kratovil
D-MD-3	John Sarbanes
D-MD-4	Donna Edwards
D-MD-5	Steny Hoyer
D-MD-7	Elijah Cummings
D-MD-8	Chris Van Hollen

Maine

D-ME-1

Chellie Pingree*

Michigan

D-MI-7	Mark Schauer*
D-MI-9	Gary Peters*
D-MI-12	Sander Levin
D-MI-13	Carolyn Kilpatrick
D-MI-14	John Conyers

Minnesota

D-MN-1	Tim Walz
D-MN-2	Steve Sarvi*
D-MN-3	Ashwin Madia*
D-MN-4	Betty McCollum
D-MN-5	Keith Ellison

Missouri

D-MO-1	William Clay
D-MO-3	Russ Carnahan
D-MO-5	Emanuel Cleaver
D-MO-6	Kay Barnes*
D-MO-9	Judy Baker*

Mississippi

D-MS-2

Bennie Thompson

North Carolina

D-NC-4	David Price
D-NC-12	Melvin Watt
D-NC-13	Brad Miller

New Hampshire

D-NH-1	Carol Shea-Porter
D-NH-2	Paul Hodes

New Jersey

D-NJ-1	Rob Andrews*
D-NJ-3	John Adler*
D-NJ-4	Josh Zeitz*
D-NJ-5	Dennis Shulman*
D-NJ-6	Frank Pallone
D-NJ-7	Linda Stender*
D-NJ-9	Steve Rothman
D-NJ-10	Donald Payne
D-NJ-12	Rush Holt
D-NJ-13	Albio Sires

New Mexico

D-NM-1	Martin Heinrich*
D-NM-2	Harry Teague*
D-NM-3	Ben Ray Lujan

Nevada

D-NV-1	Shelley Berkley
D-NV-2	Jill Derby*
D-NV-3	Dina Titus*

New York

D-NY-1	Tim Bishop
D-NY-2	Steve Israel
D-NY-4	Carolyn McCarthy
D-NY-5	Gary Ackerman
D-NY-6	Gregory Meeks
D-NY-8	Jerrold Nadler
D-NY-9	Anthony Weiner
D-NY-10	Edolphus Towns
D-NY-11	Yvette Clarke
D-NY-12	Nydia Velazquez
D-NY-14	Carolyn Maloney
D-NY-15	Charles Rangel
D-NY-16	Jose Serrano
D-NY-17	Eliot Engel
D-NY-18	Nita Lowey
D-NY-19	John Hall
D-NY-20	Kirsten Gillibrand
D-NY-21	Paul Tonko*
D-NY-22	Maurice Hinchey
D-NY-24	Michael Arcuri
D-NY-25	Dan Maffei*
D-NY-26	Alice Kryzan*
D-NY-27	Brian Higgins
D-NY-28	Louise Slaughter
D-NY-29	Eric Massa*

Ohio

D-OH-2	Victoria Wulsin*
D-OH-3	Jane Mitakides*
D-OH-7	Sharen Swartz Neuhardt*
D-OH-13	Betty Sutton
D-OH-15	Mary Jo Kilroy*

Oregon

D-OR-1	David Wu
D-OR-3	Earl Blumenauer
D-OR-4	Peter DeFazio
D-OR-5	Kurt Schrader*

Pennsylvania

D-PA-1	Robert Brady
D-PA-2	Chaka Fattah
D-PA-6	Bob Roggio*
D-PA-7	Joe Sestak
D-PA-8	Patrick Murphy
D-PA-13	Allyson Schwartz
D-PA-18	Steve O'Donnell*

South Carolina

D-SC-1	Linda Ketner
D-SC-6	James Clyburn

South Dakota

D-SD-AL

Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

Tennessee

D-TN-9

Steve Cohen

Texas

D-TX-9	Al Green
D-TX-18	Sheila Jackson Lee
D-TX-20	Charlie Gonzalez
D-TX-23	Ciro Rodriguez
D-TX-25	Lloyd Doggett
D-TX-29	Gene Green
D-TX-30	Eddie Bernice Johnson

Virginia

D-VA-2	Glenn Nye*
D-VA-3	Robert Scott
D-VA-8	James Moran
D-VA-9	Rick Boucher
D-VA-11	Gerry Connolly*

Vermont

D-VT-AL

Peter Welch

Washington

D-WA-1	Jay Inslee
D-WA-2	Rick Larsen
D-WA-6	Norman Dicks
D-WA-7	Jim McDermott
D-WA-8	Darcy Burner*
D-WA-9	Adam Smith

Wisconsin

D-WI-2	Tammy Baldwin
D-WI-4	Gwen Moore
D-WI-8	Steve Kagen