Baron Hill

Baron Hill is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives , representing the 9th Congressional District of Indiana. He was first elected in 1998 for three terms, then reelected in 2006 and 2008. A businessman, he was first elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1982 and served there for eight years, leaving in 1990 to attempt a bid for the U.S. Senate. In 1992, he was appointed Executive Director of the Indiana State Student Assistance Commission by then-governor Evan Bayh.

He was a participant in the 2009 White House Forum on Health Reform and voted for both the November 2009 and final March 2010 House healthcare bills.

Committee assignments

• House Energy and Commerce Committee
• House Science and Technology Committee
• Joint Economic Committee

Caucuses and groups

• Congressional Rural Healthcare Coalition
• Blue Dog Coalition, Co-Chair for Policy

Voting ratings

Organization	Rating	Date
AFL-CIO
American Civil Liberties Union	64%
American Conservative Union
Americans for Democratic Action
Cato Institute	39%
Christian Coalition	53%
Human Rights Campaign
League of Conservation Voters
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NARAL	30%
National Rifle Association	A
National Right to Life Committee
National Taxpayers Union	29%
U.S. Chamber of Commerce	53%

Sources: Links to the voting ratings guides of the above organizations together with brief descriptive information on the organizations themselves, may be found at: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Interest_group/Catalogs

2008 Election

Candidate	Party	Vote total	Percentage
Baron Hill	Democrat	181,281	57.77%
Mike Sodrell	Republican	120,529	38.41%
D. Eric Schansberg	Libertarian	11,994	3.82%

Source: Federal Election Results - final official tally

Education

• B.A., History, Furman University, 1975