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Medicare for All Caucus

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Medicare for All Caucus
Co-Chairs	Debbie Dingell, Pramila Jayapal
Founded	July 19, 2018; 5 years ago (2018-07-19)
Ideology	Right to health Single-payer healthcare
National affiliation	Democratic Party
Colors	Blue
Seats in the House	58 / 435
Seats in the House Democratic Caucus	58 / 212
Politics of United States Political parties Elections

The Medicare for All Caucus is a congressional caucus in the United States House of Representatives, consisting of members that advocate for the implementation of a single-payer healthcare system. It was announced by progressive members of the House of Representatives in July 2018 with over 70 founding members, all Democrats.^[1]

Electoral results[edit]

House of Representatives[edit]

Election year	Overall seats	Democratic seats	±
2018	78 / 435	78 / 233
2020	75 / 435	75 / 222	-3
2022	58 / 435	58 / 212	-17

Members[edit]

The caucus as of January 12, 2019.

Members

Arizona

Ruben Gallego (AZ-3)

Raúl Grijalva (AZ-7)

California

Jared Huffman (CA-2)
John Garamendi (CA-8)
Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10)
Barbara Lee (CA-12)
Ro Khanna (CA-17)
Zoe Lofgren (CA-18)
Jimmy Panetta (CA-19)
Judy Chu (CA-28)
Grace Napolitano (CA-31)
Jimmy Gomez (CA-34)
Ted Lieu (CA-36)
Mark Takano (CA-39)
Maxine Waters (CA-43)
Nanette Barragán (CA-44)
Sara Jacobs (CA-51)^[2]^[3]

Colorado

Joe Neguse (CO-2) – vice chair^[4]

District of Columbia

Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL) (non-voting delegate)

Florida

Darren Soto (FL-9)
Kathy Castor (FL-14)
Lois Frankel (FL-22)
Frederica Wilson (FL-24)

Georgia

Hank Johnson (GA-4)

Illinois

Indiana

André Carson (IN-7)

Maine

Chellie Pingree (ME-1)

Maryland

Jamie Raskin (MD-8)

Massachusetts

Michigan

Debbie Dingell (MI-6)^[5] – co-chair
Rashida Tlaib (MI-12)^[4]

Minnesota

Ilhan Omar (MN-5) – vice chair^[4]

Missouri

Cori Bush (MO-1)^[4]

Nevada

Dina Titus (NV-1)

New Jersey

Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12)

New York

Ohio

Joyce Beatty (OH-3)

Oregon

Suzanne Bonamici (OR-1)
Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) (retiring in 2024)

Pennsylvania

Brendan Boyle (PA-2)
Dwight Evans (PA-3)

Tennessee

Steve Cohen (TN-9)

Texas

Al Green (TX-9)
Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)
Marc Veasey (TX-33)
Vicente González (TX-34)

Virginia

Bobby Scott (VA-3)
Don Beyer (VA-8)

Washington

Pramila Jayapal (WA-7)^[5] – co-chair
Adam Smith (WA-9)

Wisconsin

Mark Pocan (WI-2)

Former members[edit]

California

Jerry McNerney (CA-9) retired
Karen Bass (CA-37) – retired in 2022 to run for Mayor of Los Angeles (elected)
Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) retired
Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) retired

Colorado

Jared Polis (CO-2) – retired in 2018 to run for governor of Colorado (elected)

Hawaii

Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2)^[6] – retired in 2020 during her run for President (lost primary); left Democratic Party in 2022

Georgia

John Lewis (GA-5) deceased

Florida

Alcee Hastings (FL-20) deceased

Kentucky

John Yarmuth (KY-3) retired

Maryland

Anthony Brown (MD-4) ran for Attorney General of Maryland (elected)

Massachusetts

Mike Capuano – defeated in 2018 primary by current Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-7), who, as of September 2018, does favor Medicare-for All.^[7]

Michigan

Andy Levin (MI-9) lost redistricting race to Haley Stevens.
Brenda Lawrence (MI-14) retired

Minnesota

Keith Ellison, retired and ran for Attorney General of Minnesota (elected)
Rick Nolan, retired

Missouri

William Lacy Clay, defeated in 2020 primary by current Rep. Cori Bush (MO-1), who, as of January 2021, does favor Medicare for All.^[8]

New York

Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) – lost redistricting race to Jerrold Nadler in 2022
José Serrano (NY-15) retired
Eliot Engel – defeated in 2020 primary by current Rep. Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), who, as of December 2020, does favor Medicare for All.^[9]

Ohio

Marcia Fudge (OH-11) – appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 2021.
Tim Ryan (OH-13) – ran for U.S. Senate in 2022 (won primary but lost general election)

Oregon

Peter DeFazio (OR-4) retired

Pennsylvania

Mike Doyle (PA-18) retired.

Rhode Island

David Cicilline (RI-1) – resigned in June 2023 to accept role as president of the Rhode Island Foundation.

Vermont

Peter Welch (VT-AL) – retired in 2022 to run for U.S. Senate (and elected).

References[edit]

^ Osita Nwanevu. "House Progressives Launch the Medicare for All Caucus". Slate. Retrieved July 19, 2018.

^ Stone, Ken (2021-03-27). "Sara Jacobs Joins Congressional Progressive Caucus, Her 9th, But Trails Other Dems". Times of San Diego. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

^ "Committees and Caucuses | Congresswoman Sara Jacobs". sarajacobs.house.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Congressional Medicare for All Caucus - Summary from LegiStorm". legistorm.com. Retrieved 2023-01-20.

^ ^a ^b Resnick, Gideon (July 19, 2018). "70 Democrats Sign On to New 'Medicare for All' House Caucus". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 6, 2018.

^ Tulsi Gabbard. "Committees and Caucuses".

^ Hess, Abigail (September 5, 2018). "Meet Ayanna Pressley, the Democrat who could become Massachusetts' first black Congresswoman". CNBC. Retrieved October 30, 2018.

^ Rosenbaum, Jason (January 4, 2021). "Now A Congresswoman, Missouri's Cori Bush Looks To Bring Activist Power To The Legislative Process". KCUR. Retrieved January 10, 2020.

^ Read, Bridget (December 29, 2020). "How Representative Jamaal Bowman Will Get It Done". The Cut. Retrieved January 10, 2020.

Ideological caucuses in the United States Congress

House

Republicans (217)

Democrats (213)

Bipartisan

Climate Solutions Caucus (64)
Problem Solvers Caucus (63)

Senate

Caucuses with no known membership as of the 117th Congress do not have memberships listed.

Democratic Party

History

National
conventions,
presidential
tickets,
and
presidential
primaries

1828 (None): Jackson/Calhoun
1832 (Baltimore): Jackson/Van Buren
1835 (Baltimore): Van Buren/R. Johnson
1840 (Baltimore): Van Buren/None
1844 (Baltimore): Polk/Dallas
1848 (Baltimore): Cass/Butler
1852 (Baltimore): Pierce/King
1856 (Cincinnati): Buchanan/Breckinridge
1860 (Charleston/Baltimore): Douglas/H. Johnson (Breckinridge/Lane, SD)
1864 (Chicago): McClellan/Pendleton
1868 (New York): Seymour/Blair
1872 (Baltimore): Greeley/Brown
1876 (Saint Louis): Tilden/Hendricks
1880 (Cincinnati): Hancock/English
1884 (Chicago): Cleveland/Hendricks
1888 (Saint Louis): Cleveland/Thurman
1892 (Chicago): Cleveland/Stevenson I
1896 (Chicago): W. Bryan/Sewall
1900 (Kansas City): W. Bryan/Stevenson I
1904 (Saint Louis): Parker/H. Davis
1908 (Denver): W. Bryan/Kern
1912 (Baltimore): Wilson/Marshall
- primaries
1916 (Saint Louis): Wilson/Marshall
- primaries
1920 (San Francisco): Cox/Roosevelt
- primaries
1924 (New York): J. Davis/C. Bryan
- primaries
1928 (Houston): Smith/Robinson
- primaries
1932 (Chicago): Roosevelt/Garner
- primaries
1936 (Philadelphia): Roosevelt/Garner
- primaries
1940 (Chicago): Roosevelt/Wallace
- primaries
1944 (Chicago): Roosevelt/Truman
- primaries
1948 (Philadelphia): Truman/Barkley
- primaries
1952 (Chicago): Stevenson II/Sparkman
- primaries
1956 (Chicago): Stevenson II/Kefauver
- primaries
1960 (Los Angeles): Kennedy/L. Johnson
- primaries
1964 (Atlantic City): L. Johnson/Humphrey
- primaries
1968 (Chicago): Humphrey/Muskie
- primaries
1972 (Miami Beach): McGovern/(Eagleton, Shriver)
- primaries
1976 (New York): Carter/Mondale
- primaries
1980 (New York): Carter/Mondale
- primaries
1984 (San Francisco): Mondale/Ferraro
- primaries
1988 (Atlanta): Dukakis/Bentsen
- primaries
1992 (New York): B. Clinton/Gore
- primaries
1996 (Chicago): B. Clinton/Gore
- primaries
2000 (Los Angeles): Gore/Lieberman
- primaries
2004 (Boston): Kerry/Edwards
- primaries
2008 (Denver): Obama/Biden
- primaries
2012 (Charlotte): Obama/Biden
- primaries
2016 (Philadelphia): H. Clinton/Kaine
- primaries
2020 (Milwaukee/other locations): Biden/Harris
- primaries
2024 (Chicago): Biden/Harris (presumptive)
- primaries

Presidential
administrations

Jackson (1829–1837)
Van Buren (1837–1841)
Polk (1845–1849)
Pierce (1853–1857)
Buchanan (1857–1861)
A. Johnson (1868–1869)
Cleveland (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
Wilson (1913–1921)
Roosevelt (1933–1941; 1941–1945)
Truman (1945–1953)
Kennedy (1961–1963)
L. B. Johnson (1963–1969)
Carter (1977–1981)
Clinton (1993–2001)
Obama (2009–2017)
Biden (2021–)

U.S. House
leaders,
Speakers,
and
Caucus
chairs

A. Stevenson (1827–1834)
Bell (1834–1835)
Polk (1835–1839)
J. W. Jones (1843–1845)
Davis (1845–1847)
Cobb (1849–1851)
Boyd (1851–1855)
G. W. Jones (1855–1857)
Orr (1857–1859)
Houston (1859–1861)
Niblack/Randall (1869–1871)
Niblack (1873–1875)
Kerr (1875–1876)
Randall (1876–1881)
Carlisle (1883–1889)
Holman (1889–1891)
Crisp (1891–1895)
D. B. Culberson (1895–1897)
Richardson (1897–1903)
Williams (1903–1909)
Clark (1909–1921)
Kitchin (1921–1923)
Garrett (1923–1929)
Garner (1929–1933)
Rainey (1933–1934)
Byrns (1935–1936)
Bankhead (1936–1940)
Rayburn (1940–1961)
McCormack (1962–1971)
Albert (1971–1977)
O'Neill (1977–1987)
Wright (1987–1989)
Foley (1989–1995)
Gephardt (1995–2003)
Pelosi (2003–2023)
Jeffries (2023–)

U.S. Senate
leaders
and
Caucus
chairs

J. W. Stevenson (1873–1877)
Wallace (1877–1881)
Pendleton (1881–1885)
Beck (1885–1890)
Gorman (1890–1898)
Turpie (1898–1899)
J. K. Jones (1899–1903)
Gorman (1903–1906)
Blackburn (1906–1907)
C. A. Culberson (1907–1909)
Money (1909–1911)
Martin (1911–1913)
Kern (1913–1917)
Martin (1917–1919)
Hitchcock (1919–1920)
Underwood (1920–1923)
Robinson (1923–1937)
Barkley (1937–1949)
Lucas (1949–1951)
McFarland (1951–1953)
Johnson (1953–1961)
Mansfield (1961–1977)
Byrd (1977–1989)
Mitchell (1989–1995)
Daschle (1995–2005)
Reid (2005–2017)
Schumer (2017–)

Chairs of
the DNC

State and
territorial
parties

Affiliated
groups

Congress

Fundraising

Sectional

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