CQ Voting Studies are an annual analysis of a member's support or opposition to a given position. Interest Group Ratings are based on rankings from groups chosen to represent liberal, conservative, business and labor viewpoints.Voting Participation scores are based on the number of times a member voted "yea" or "nay" on roll call votes (not including quorum calls in the House). CQ Vote Studies Year Presidential Support Party Unity   S* O* S O 1998 77% 17% 82% 10% 1997 77 19 83 13 1996 78 22 84 14 1995 86 11 90 6 1994 76 17 87 6 1993 75 17 87 7 1992 19 74 87 6 1991 28 67 81 11 1990 20 78 87 5 S=Support; O=Oppose
Voting Participation Year % 1998 94 1997 95 1996 98 1995 95 1994 93 1993 93 1992 94 1991 93 1990 93	Interest Groups Year ADA AFL-CIO CCUS ACU 1998 85% n/a 28% 8 % 1997 80 100 50 8 1996 70 82 31 25 1995 90 100 17 8 1994 70 75 33 15 1993 70 100 18 10 1992 90 83 25 0 1991 65 92 22 22 1990 67 100 15 4
Note on Interest Groups: ADA=Americans for Democratic Action; AFL-CIO=American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations; CCUS=Chamber of Commerce of the United States; ACU=American Conservative Union

MICHIGAN 16 : Southeast Wayne County; Monroe County

Henry Ford built the foundations of the 16th, which covers Monroe County, Dearborn and other communities downriver from Detroit. The district's largest city, Dearborn, is home to the Ford Motor Co. factory that was once the largest on earth. At capacity, the Rouge Plant employed 81,000 people and contained everything needed to build a car from the ground up, including a steel mill, glass factory and assembly line. The district still is heavily industrial, but some factories stand vacant. An exception is the Flat Rock automotive plant, in southern Wayne County, a U.S.-Japanese joint venture and one of the 16th's largest employers.

The first wave of workers at plants lining the Detroit River came from Appalachia and the South, as well as Germany, Poland and Italy. Successive waves brought Arabs, including Shiite Moslems during World War I, and then Egyptians, Iraqis, Lebanese and others, leaving the district with the largest Arab-American population in the nation and a strong Arab business district along Warren Avenue.

Thoroughly unionized and mostly blue-collar, this district regularly elects Democrats by comfortable margins. There are only a few pockets of Republican affluence, mainly in the small towns of Riverview and Grosse Ile.

Major Industry
Auto manufacturing, steel, chemical production

Population
580,884 (1990)

Cities
Dearborn, 91,418; Taylor, 71,939 (1996); Dearborn Heights, 51,979 (1990)

People
80% urban; 13% age 65+ (ranks third of 16 in state; middle third nationally); 60% married couples, 28% married couples with children; 13% college educated (ranks 11 of 16 in state; bottom third nationally); 53% white collar (ranks ninth of 16 in state; middle third nationally), 33% blue collar (ranks third of 16 in state; top third nationally) (1990)

Race
97% white, 1% black, 1% Asian; 2% Hispanic origin (1990)

Median Household Income
$35,315 (ranks sixth of 16 in state; top third nationally) (1990)

Unusual Features
Henry Ford Museum, which houses the rocking chair that President Abraham Lincoln sat in when assassinated at Washington's Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, and the limousine that President John F. Kennedy rode in when shot on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas.

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