Transcript 114th U.S. Congress: Stat-Pack

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U.S. Congress: Stat-Pack
Part 1: Congressional Seating Chart
Current Party Numbers: 113th Congress, 1st Session
Democrats
Independents
Republicans
Vacancies
House
Senate
188
44
0
2
246
54
1
0
PART 2: Demographics of the
Congress
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AGE
# of Members
>70
64
40-49
91
20-29
1
60-69
177
50-59
173
30-39
33
Category
Number of Members
Male
428
Female
107
Marital Status
Number of Members
Divorced
Single
Widowed
Domestic Partner
Engaged
Married
Separated
33
30
13
3
1
454
5
Ethnicity
African American
Asian
Japanese American
Asian American
American Indian
Caucasian
Not Stated
Indian American
Hispanic
Number of Members
42
8
1
1
1
432
24
1
29
PART 3: By the Numbers: 114th
Congress
13 - New senators.
61 - New House members.
104 - Women in the new Congress: 84 in the House, 20 in the Senate.
38 - Years in office of the longest currently serving senator, Patrick Leahy, DVermont.
53+ - Years in office of the longest currently serving congressman, John Dingell, DMichigan.
6 - Net gain in number of seats women hold in 114th Congress over 113th.
3 - States with two women senators: California, New Hampshire, and Washington.
95 - Percent of the U.S. Senate that is white.
19 - Percent of the U.S. House of Representatives that belong to minority groups.
91 - Age of the oldest-ever member of the House, Ralph Hall, R-Texas. He broke the previous record
on Christmas Day.
8.5 - Percent of the U.S. House under 40.
27 - Percent of the Senate that is Catholic.
5 - Members of the 114th Congress who had previous careers in professional sports.
7 - Members who are openly gay or bisexual.
12 - New members who have served in the U.S. military.
2 - Physicists in Congress: Rep. Bill Foster, a Democratic congressman-elect from Illinois, and Rep.
Rush Holt, Jr., a New Jersey Democrat.
6 - Number of reindeer owned by Kerry Bentivolio, a congressman-elect from Michigan. He has
worked as a Santa impersonator since the 1980s before running for Congress.
PART 4: STATE-by-STATE Breakdown in
U.S. Congress
Members of the U.S. Senate & House
of Representatives by state:
-Return to my webpage and click on
nd
the 2 link – “U.S. Senators &
Representatives by State”