The 105th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and po ...
and the
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
. It met in Washington, DC from January 3, 1997, to January 3, 1999, during the fifth and sixth years of
Bill Clinton's presidency. Apportionment of seats in the
House of Representatives was based on the
Twenty-first Census of the United States in 1990.
This is the most recent Congress with a Republican Senator from New York,
Al D'Amato, who lost re-election in 1998, and a Democratic Senator from Kentucky,
Wendell Ford, who retired at the end of the Congress.
Both chambers retained a
Republican majority.
President Clinton was impeached by the US House of Representatives of the 105th Congress.
Major events
* January 20, 1997: President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again ...
began his second term
* May 18, 1998: ''
United States v. Microsoft
''United States v. Microsoft Corporation'', 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), was a landmark American antitrust law case at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally m ...
'' decision
* August 7, 1998:
1998 United States embassy bombings
* December 19, 1998:
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
Major legislation
* June 18, 1997:
Volunteer Protection Act of 1997
* August 5, 1997:
Balanced Budget Act of 1997
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 () was an omnibus legislative package enacted by the United States Congress, using the budget reconciliation process, and designed to balance the federal budget by 2002. This act was enacted during Bill Clinton's ...
* August 5, 1997:
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 () reduced several federal taxes in the United States.
Starting in 1998, a $400 tax credit for each child under age 17 was introduced, which was later increased to $500 in 1999. This credit was phased out for h ...
* November 19, 1997;
The Adoption and Safe Families Act
* November 21, 1997
Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997
* December 16, 1997:
No Electronic Theft (NET) Act of 1997
* June 9, 1998:
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
* June 23, 1998:
Agricultural Research, Extension, and Educational Reform Act of 1998
* July 22, 1998:
Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998
The Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, also known as Taxpayer Bill of Rights III (), resulted from hearings held by the United States Congress in 1996 and 1997. The Act included numerous amendments to the Internal Reven ...
("Taxpayer Bill of Rights III")
* August 7, 1998:
Credit Union Membership Access Act
* August 7, 1998:
Workforce Investment Act of 1998
* August 13, 1998:
Biomaterials Access Assurance Act of 1998
* October 21, 1998:
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
* October 27, 1998:
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
* October 27, 1998:
Copyright Term Extension Act ("Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act")
* October 28, 1998:
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (including
and
Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act)
* October 31, 1998:
Iraq Liberation Act
* November 3, 1998:
Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998
Major resolutions
* July 1997:
Byrd–Hagel Resolution The Byrd–Hagel Resolution was a United States Senate Resolution passed unanimously with a vote of 95–0 on 25 July 1997, sponsored by Senators Chuck Hagel and Robert Byrd. The resolution stated that the US should not sign a climate trea ...
(Senate)
* December 19, 1998:
Impeachment of Bill Clinton,
Party summary
Senate
There was no change in the parties during this Congress.
House of Representatives
Leadership
Senate
*
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
:
Al Gore
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(D)
*
President pro tempore:
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Prior to his 48 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Car ...
(R)
Majority (Republican) leadership
*
Majority Leader
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Trent Lott
*
Majority Whip
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:
Don Nickles
*
Republican Conference Chairman:
Connie Mack III
*
Republican Conference Vice-Chairman:
Paul Coverdell
*
Policy Committee Chairman:
Larry Craig
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
Mitch McConnell
Minority (Democratic) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Tom Daschle
*
Minority Whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...
:
Wendell Ford
*
Democratic Conference Chairman:
Tom Daschle
*
Democratic Conference Secretary:
Barbara Mikulski
*
Policy Committee Co-Chairs:
Tom Daschle and
Harry Reid
*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Bob Kerrey
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* Chief Deputy Whip:
John Breaux
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House of Representatives
*
Speaker
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Society and politics
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* Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
* A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially:
** In ...
:
Newt Gingrich (R)
Majority (Republican) leadership
*
Majority Leader
In U.S. politics (as well as in some other countries utilizing the presidential system), the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. :
Dick Armey
*
Majority Whip
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideolog ...
:
Tom DeLay
*
Chief Deputy Whip:
Dennis Hastert
John Dennis Hastert (; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician and convicted felon who represented from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. The longest-se ...
*
Republican Conference Chairman:
John Boehner
*
Republican Conference Vice-Chairman:
Susan Molinari, until July 17, 1997
**
Jennifer Dunn, after July 17, 1997
*
Republican Conference Secretary
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
:
Jennifer Dunn, until July 17, 1997
**
Tillie Fowler
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, after July 17, 1997
*
Policy Committee Chairman:
Christopher Cox
Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952) is an American attorney and politician who served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a 17-year Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, and member of ...
*
Republican Campaign Committee Chairman:
John Linder
Minority (Democratic) leadership
*
Minority Leader:
Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew Gephardt (; born January 31, 1941) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader fro ...
*
Minority Whip
The positions of majority leader and minority leader are held by two United States senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. They serve as the chief spokespersons for their respective political parties holding t ...
:
David Bonior
David Edward Bonior (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time D ...
*
Chief Deputy Minority Whips:
Rosa DeLauro,
Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician who was a United States Representative from Texas, representing a district based in Waco, from 1991 to 2011. Previously, he served in the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1990. He ...
,
John Lewis, &
Bob Menendez
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*
Democratic Caucus Chairman:
Vic Fazio
*
Democratic Caucus Vice-Chairman:
Barbara B. Kennelly
Barbara Bailey Kennelly (born Barbara Ann Bailey; born July 10, 1936) is an American politician. She is the former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.
Family and Education
Kennelly was born Barbara ...
*
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman:
Martin Frost
Caucuses
*
Armenian Caucus
*
Biomedical Research Caucus
*
Congressional Air Force Caucus
*
Congressional Arts Caucus
*
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
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*
Congressional Automotive Caucus
*
Congressional Bike Caucus
*
Congressional Black Caucus
*
Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans
*
Congressional Caucus on Korea
*
Congressional Fire Services Caucus
*
Congressional Friends of Ireland Caucus
*
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
*
Congressional Mississippi River Caucus
*
Congressional Motorsports Caucus
*
Congressional Progressive Caucus
*
Congressional Pediatric & Adult Hydrocephalus Caucus
*
Congressional Portuguese-American Caucus
*
Congressional Travel & Tourism Caucus
*
Congressional Western Caucus
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*
Congresswomen's Caucus
*
Hong Kong Caucus
*
House Democratic Caucus
*
House Recycling Caucus
*
Hudson River Caucus
*
Law Enforcement Caucus
*
New Democrat Coalition
*
Northern Border Caucus
*
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus
*
Senate Democratic Caucus
Members
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Alabama
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, LargestMetro = Greater Birmingham
, area_total_km2 = 135,7 ...
: 2.
Jeff Sessions (R)
: 3.
Richard Shelby (R)
Alaska
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: 2.
Ted Stevens (R)
: 3.
Frank Murkowski
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(R)
Arizona
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: 1.
Jon Kyl (R)
: 3.
John McCain
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(R)
Arkansas
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: 2.
Tim Hutchinson (R)
: 3.
Dale Bumpers (D)
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
: 1.
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( ; born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933) is an American politician who serves as the senior United States senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, she wa ...
(D)
: 3.
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Sue Boxer (née Levy; born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S ...
(D)
Colorado
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: 2.
Wayne Allard (R)
: 3.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
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(R)
Connecticut
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: 1.
Joe Lieberman (D)
: 3.
Chris Dodd
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(D)
Delaware
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: 1.
William Roth (R)
: 2.
Joe Biden (D)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...
: 1.
Connie Mack III (R)
: 3.
Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the De ...
(D)
Georgia
: 2.
Max Cleland (D)
: 3.
Paul Coverdell (R)
Hawaii
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: 1.
Daniel Akaka
Daniel Kahikina Akaka (; September 11, 1924 – April 6, 2018) was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Senate, United States Senator from Hawaii from 1990 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), De ...
(D)
: 3.
Daniel Inouye (D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Monta ...
: 2.
Larry Craig (R)
: 3.
Dirk Kempthorne (R)
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rock ...
: 2.
Dick Durbin (D)
: 3.
Carol Moseley Braun (D)
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
: 1.
Dick Lugar
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Media
* ''Dicks'' (album), a 2004 album by Fila Brazillia
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* "Dick" (song), a 2019 song by Starboi3 featuring Doja Cat
Names ...
(R)
: 3.
Dan Coats (R)
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
: 2.
Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Io ...
(D)
: 3.
Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. In 2022, h ...
(R)
Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
: 2.
Pat Roberts (R)
: 3.
Sam Brownback (R)
Kentucky
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: 2.
Mitch McConnell (R)
: 3.
Wendell Ford (D)
Louisiana
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: 2.
Mary Landrieu (D)
: 3.
John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
(D)
Maine
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: 1.
Olympia Snowe
Olympia Jean Snowe (; born February 21, 1947) is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013. Snowe, a member of the Republican Party, became known for her ability to influence the outco ...
(R)
: 2.
Susan Collins (R)
Maryland
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: 1.
Paul Sarbanes (D)
: 3.
Barbara Mikulski (D)
Massachusetts
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: 1.
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic ...
(D)
: 2.
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
(D)
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and t ...
: 1.
Spencer Abraham (R)
: 2.
Carl Levin (D)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...
: 1.
Rod Grams (R)
: 2.
Paul Wellstone (DFL)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
: 1.
Trent Lott (R)
: 2.
Thad Cochran (R)
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
: 1.
John Ashcroft (R)
: 3.
Kit Bond (R)
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
: 1.
Conrad Burns
Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Montana and later was a lobbyist. He was only the second Republican popularly elected to represent Montana in the Sen ...
(R)
: 2.
Max Baucus (D)
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
: 1.
Bob Kerrey
Joseph Robert Kerrey (born August 27, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 35th Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 to 2001. Before entering politics, he served in the Vie ...
(D)
: 2.
Chuck Hagel (R)
Nevada
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: 1.
Richard Bryan
Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1989 to 2001. A Democrat, Bryan served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989, and before that ...
(D)
: 3.
Harry Reid (D)
New Hampshire
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: 2.
Bob Smith (R)
: 3.
Judd Gregg (R)
New Jersey
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: 1.
Frank Lautenberg (D)
: 2.
Robert Torricelli
Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), is an American attorney and former politician. A Democrat, Torricelli served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 9th district from 1983 to 1997 and as a United States sen ...
(D)
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
: 1.
Jeff Bingaman (D)
: 2.
Pete Domenici (R)
New York
: 1.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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(D)
: 3.
Al D'Amato (R)
North Carolina
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: 2.
Jesse Helms
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(R)
: 3.
Lauch Faircloth (R)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, ...
: 1.
Kent Conrad (D-NPL)
: 3.
Byron Dorgan (D-NPL)
Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
: 1.
Mike DeWine
Richard Michael DeWine (; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th and current governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, DeWine began his career as a prosecutor before being elected to the Oh ...
(R)
: 3.
John Glenn (D)
Oklahoma
: 2.
James Inhofe (R)
: 3.
Don Nickles (R)
Oregon
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: 2.
Gordon H. Smith
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(R)
: 3.
Ron Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania
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: 1.
Rick Santorum (R)
: 3.
Arlen Specter (R)
Rhode Island
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: 1.
John Chafee (R)
: 2.
Jack Reed (D)
South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
: 2.
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Prior to his 48 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Car ...
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Fritz Hollings (D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large po ...
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Tim Johnson (D)
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Tom Daschle (D)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 36th-largest by ...
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Bill Frist (R)
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Fred Thompson
Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee fr ...
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Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
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Kay Bailey Hutchison (R)
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Phil Gramm (R)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
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Orrin Hatch (R)
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Bob Bennett (R)
Vermont
Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provin ...
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Jim Jeffords (R)
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Patrick Leahy (D)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
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Chuck Robb
Charles Spittal Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician from Virginia and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 64th governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and a Uni ...
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John Warner
John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 20 ...
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Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
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Slade Gorton (R)
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Patty Murray (D)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
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Robert Byrd (D)
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Jay Rockefeller (D)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
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Herb Kohl
Herbert H. Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is an American businessman and politician. Alongside his brother and father, the Kohl family created the Kohl's department stores chain, of which Kohl went on to be president and CEO. Kohl also served as a ...
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Russ Feingold
Russell Dana Feingold ( ; born March 2, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee in the 2016 election for the same U ...
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Wyoming
Wyoming () is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to t ...
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Craig L. Thomas
Craig Lyle Thomas (February 17, 1933 – June 4, 2007) was an American politician who served as United States Senator from Wyoming from 1995 until his death in 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party. In the Senate, Thomas was considered ...
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Mike Enzi (R)
House of Representatives
Members of the House of Representatives are listed by districts.
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
, anthem = " Alabama"
, image_map = Alabama in United States.svg
, seat = Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville
, LargestCounty = Baldwin County
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Sonny Callahan (R)
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Terry Everett
Robert Terry Everett (born February 15, 1937) is an American politician and a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district. He served from 1993 to his retirement in 2009. Ever ...
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Bob Riley (R)
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Robert Aderholt (R)
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Robert E. Cramer (D)
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Spencer Bachus
Spencer Thomas Bachus III (born December 28, 1947) is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative for the state of Alabama, serving from 1993 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as ranking member (2007–2011) a ...
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Earl Hilliard (D)
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U ...
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Don Young
Donald Edwin Young (June 9, 1933 – March 18, 2022) was an American politician from the state of Alaska. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving Republican in congressional history, having been the U.S. representative for fo ...
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Arizona
Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
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Matt Salmon (R)
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Ed Pastor (D)
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Bob Stump (R)
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John Shadegg (R)
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Jim Kolbe
James Thomas Kolbe (June 28, 1942 – December 3, 2022) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Arizona's 5th congressional district from 1985 to 2003 and its ...
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J. D. Hayworth
John David Hayworth Jr. (born July 12, 1958) is an American television host and former politician. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2007 from Arizona's 5th Congressional District. He cur ...
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Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
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Robert Marion Berry
Robert Marion Berry (born August 27, 1942) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Early life, education and career
Born in Stuttgart, Arkansas, Berry was raised ...
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Vic Snyder (D)
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Asa Hutchinson (R)
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Jay Dickey (R)
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
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Frank Riggs
Frank Duncan Riggs (born September 5, 1950) is an American army veteran, former law enforcement officer, charter school executive, and politician from the states of California and Arizona.
Early life
Frank Riggs was born in Louisville, Kentuck ...
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Wally Herger (R)
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Vic Fazio (D)
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John Doolittle
John Taylor Doolittle (born October 30, 1950), is an attorney and an American politician. Elected to Congress in 1990, he served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2009, representing (numbered as ...
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Bob Matsui
Robert Takeo Matsui (September 17, 1941 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's ...
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Lynn Woolsey (D)
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George Miller (D)
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Nancy Pelosi (D)
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Ron Dellums (D), until February 6, 1998
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Barbara Lee (D), from April 21, 1998
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Ellen Tauscher
Ellen O'Kane Tauscher (November 15, 1951 – April 29, 2019) was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and Democratic Party politician who was the U.S. representative for California's 10th congressional district from 1997 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012 ...
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Richard Pombo (R)
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Tom Lantos (D)
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Pete Stark
Fortney Hillman Stark Jr. (November 11, 1931 – January 24, 2020), known as Pete Stark, was an American businessman and politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 2013. A Democrat from California, S ...
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Anna Eshoo
Anna A. Eshoo ( ; née Georges; born December 13, 1942) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from . She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 14th district from 1993 to 2013, is based in Silico ...
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Tom Campbell (R)
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Zoe Lofgren
Susan Ellen "Zoe" Lofgren ( ; born December 21, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician serving as a U.S. representative from California. A member of the Democratic Party, Lofgren is in her 13th term in Congress, having been first elected in ...
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Sam Farr (D)
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Gary Condit (D)
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George Radanovich
George Purdy Radanovich (born June 20, 1955) is an American politician and former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1995 to 2011. The district includes most of northern Fresno, as well as several rural areas northeast of the city. He did no ...
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Cal Dooley (D)
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Bill Thomas
William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district a ...
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Walter Capps
Walter Holden Capps (May 5, 1934 – October 28, 1997) was an American academic and politician. He served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 22nd congressional district from January 1 ...
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Lois Capps (D), from March 17, 1998
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Elton Gallegly (R)
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Brad Sherman (D)
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Buck McKeon
Howard Philip "Buck" McKeon (born September 9, 1938) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California's 25th congressional district from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a former chairman o ...
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Howard Berman
Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 26th congressional d ...
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James E. Rogan (R)
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David Dreier (R)
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Henry Waxman (D)
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Xavier Becerra (D)
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Matthew G. Martínez (D)
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Julian Dixon (D)
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Lucille Roybal-Allard (D)
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Esteban Edward Torres (D)
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Maxine Waters (D)
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Jane Harman (D)
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Juanita Millender-McDonald
Juanita Millender-McDonald (September 7, 1938 – April 22, 2007) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007, representing California's 37th congressional dist ...
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Steve Horn (R)
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Ed Royce (R)
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian. As his contributions to comedy and charity made him a global figure in popular culture, pop culture ...
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Jay Kim
Jay Chang Joon Kim (; born March 27, 1939) is a Korean-American politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California and ambassador for Korean-American relations. He was the first Korean American to be elected to ...
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George Brown Jr.
George Edward Brown Jr. (March 6, 1920 – July 15, 1999) was an American Democratic politician from California. He represented suburban portions of Los Angeles County in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and parts of ...
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Ken Calvert (R)
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Sonny Bono (R), until January 5, 1998
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Mary Bono
Mary Bono (née Whitaker and formerly Mary Bono Mack, born October 24, 1961) is an American politician, businesswoman, and lobbyist who served Palm Springs and most of central and eastern Riverside County, California, in the U.S. House of Repres ...
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Dana Rohrabacher (R)
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Loretta Sanchez (D)
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Christopher Cox
Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952) is an American attorney and politician who served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a 17-year Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, and member of ...
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Ron Packard
Ronald C. Packard, D.M.D. (born January 19, 1931) is a retired Republican politician from California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001.
Biography
Packard was born and raised in Meridian, Idaho. He attended Mer ...
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Brian Bilbray
Brian Phillip Bilbray (born January 28, 1951) is an American Republican politician who represented parts of San Diego County in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001 and again from 2006 to 2013.
Bilbray was Chairman of the House ...
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Bob Filner (D)
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Duke Cunningham (R)
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Duncan L. Hunter (R)
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the ...
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Diana DeGette (D)
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David Skaggs
David Evans Skaggs (born February 22, 1943) is an American lawyer, politician and educator from Colorado. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1999.
Early life and education
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Scott McInnis
Stephen Scott Emory McInnis
McInnis is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and is an honorary adviser for the National Student Leadership Conference.
Political career
Colorado House of Representatives
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Bob Schaffer (R)
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Joel Hefley (R)
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Dan Schaefer
Daniel "Dan" Schaefer (January 25, 1936 – April 16, 2006) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Colorado's 6th congressional district from 1983 to 1999.
Early life and education
Born in Guttenberg, Iowa, he at ...
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Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the ...
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Barbara B. Kennelly
Barbara Bailey Kennelly (born Barbara Ann Bailey; born July 10, 1936) is an American politician. She is the former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.
Family and Education
Kennelly was born Barbara ...
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Sam Gejdenson (D)
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Rosa DeLauro (D)
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Chris Shays
Christopher Hunter Shays (born October 18, 1945) is an American politician. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives as representative of the 4th District of Connecticut. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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James H. Maloney (D)
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Nancy Johnson
Nancy Elizabeth Lee Johnson (born January 5, 1935) is an American lobbyist and politician from the state of Connecticut. Johnson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the 6th d ...
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Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent ...
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Mike Castle (R)
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...
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Joe Scarborough (R)
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Allen Boyd (D)
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Corrine Brown (D)
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Tillie Fowler
Tillie Kidd Fowler (December 23, 1942 – March 2, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 4th congressional district from 1993 to 2001. Her father and brother served as ...
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Karen Thurman
Karen L. Thurman (born January 12, 1951) is a former U.S. Representative from Florida, serving five consecutive terms from 1993 to 2003. She is a Democrat.
Early life and education
She was born on January 12, 1951, in Rapid City, South Dakota, ...
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Cliff Stearns (R)
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John Mica (R)
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Bill McCollum (R)
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Michael Bilirakis
Michael Bilirakis (born July 16, 1930) is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983 until 2007, representing the 9th District of Florida.
Early life
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Bill Young (R)
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Jim Davis (D)
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Charles T. Canady
Charles Terrance Canady (born June 22, 1954) is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served two two-year terms as Chief Justice, from 2010 to 2012 and from 2020 to 2022.
Prior to his ap ...
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Dan Miller (R)
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Porter Goss
Porter Johnston Goss (; born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and government official who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until 2004, when he became the last Director of Central Intellige ...
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Dave Weldon (R)
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Mark Foley
Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American former politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida as a member of the Republi ...
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Carrie Meek (D)
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (; born Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato, July 15, 1952) is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented from 1989 to 2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She w ...
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Robert Wexler
Robert Ira Wexler (born January 2, 1961) is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He is the president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Wexler was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Represe ...
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Peter Deutsch
Peter R. Deutsch (born April 1, 1957) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. Deutsch was a Democratic Representative from Florida's 20th congressional district from 1993 until 2005.
Background
Deutsch was born in the bor ...
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Lincoln Díaz-Balart
Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart (born Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart y Caballero; August 13, 1954) is a Cuban-American attorney and politician. He was the U.S. representative for from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously ...
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Clay Shaw
Clay LaVergne Shaw (March 17, 1913 – August 15, 1974) was an American businessman and military officer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Shaw is best known for being the only person brought to trial for involvement in the assassination of John F. ...
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Alcee Hastings (D)
Georgia
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Jack Kingston (R)
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Sanford Bishop (D)
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Mac Collins
Michael Allen "Mac" Collins (October 15, 1944 – November 20, 2018) was an American businessman and politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005, representing (previously from 1993 to ...
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Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician, academic, and conspiracy theorist. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first African American ...
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John Lewis (D)
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Newt Gingrich (R)
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Bob Barr
Robert Laurence Barr Jr. (born November 5, 1948) is an American attorney and politician. He served as a federal prosecutor and as a Congressman. He represented Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. Barr attai ...
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Saxby Chambliss (R)
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Nathan Deal (R)
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Charlie Norwood (R)
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John Linder (R)
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
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Neil Abercrombie (D)
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Patsy Mink (D)
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Monta ...
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Helen Chenoweth
Helen Margaret Palmer Chenoweth-Hage (born Helen Margaret Palmer; January 27, 1938 – October 2, 2006) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. She remains the only Republican woman to ever represent Idaho in the United States ...
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Mike Crapo (R)
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rock ...
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Bobby Rush (D)
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Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is an American politician. He served as the U.S. representative from from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the son of activist and former presidential cand ...
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Bill Lipinski
William Oliver Lipinski (born December 22, 1937) is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2005, representing a district in Chicago.
Life and career
Pre-cong ...
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Luis Gutierrez
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...
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Rod Blagojevich (D)
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Henry Hyde
Henry John Hyde (April 18, 1924 – November 29, 2007) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago' ...
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Danny K. Davis
Daniel K. Davis (born September 6, 1941) is an American politician who is the U.S. representative from , elected in 1996. The district serves much of western Chicago, including the Loop. It also includes several of Chicago's inner western subur ...
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Phil Crane (R)
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Sidney Yates (D)
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John Porter (R)
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Jerry Weller (R)
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Jerry Costello (D)
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Harris W. Fawell (R)
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Dennis Hastert
John Dennis Hastert (; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician and convicted felon who represented from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. The longest-se ...
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Thomas W. Ewing
Thomas William Ewing (born September 19, 1935 in Atlanta, Illinois) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the Illinois State House of Representatives. Ewing was a state representative from 1974 to 199 ...
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Don Manzullo
Donald Anthony Manzullo (born March 24, 1944) is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for , from 1993 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. From 2001 to 2007 he served as Chairman of the Comm ...
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Lane Evans
Lane Allen Evans (August 4, 1951 – November 5, 2014) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois. Ev ...
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Ray LaHood
Raymond H. LaHood (born December 6, 1945) is an American politician who served as the 16th United States Secretary of Transportation from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the ...
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Glenn Poshard (D)
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John Shimkus (R)
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
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Pete Visclosky (D)
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David M. McIntosh
David Martin McIntosh (born June 8, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2001. He is a co-founder of two conservative political ...
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Tim Roemer
Timothy John Roemer (born October 30, 1956) is an American diplomat and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003 as a Democrat from Indiana's 3rd congressional district. Subsequently, he was the pres ...
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Mark Souder (R)
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Steve Buyer
Stephen Earle Buyer ( ; born November 26, 1958) is an American former politician who served as the U.S. representative for , and previously the , serving from 1993 until 2011. On July 25, 2022, Buyer was arrested and charged with insider trading ...
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Dan Burton (R)
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Edward A. Pease (R)
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John Hostettler
John Nathan Hostettler (born July 19, 1961) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1995, to January 3, 2007, representing the Indiana's 8th congressional district. He lost his reelectio ...
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Lee H. Hamilton (D)
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Julia Carson (D)
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
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Jim Leach (R)
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Jim Nussle (R)
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Leonard Boswell
Leonard Leroy Boswell (January 10, 1934 – August 17, 2018) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2013, a district based in Des Moines. A member of the Democratic Party, he was defeated for reelectio ...
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Greg Ganske (R)
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Tom Latham (R)
Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
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Jerry Moran (R)
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Jim Ryun (R)
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Vince Snowbarger
Vincent K. Snowbarger (born September 16, 1949) is an American lawyer and politician from Kansas. He is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Vincent K. Snowbarger was born in Kankakee, Illinois o ...
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Todd Tiahrt (R)
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
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Ed Whitfield (R)
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Ron Lewis (R)
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Anne Northup (R)
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Jim Bunning (R)
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Hal Rogers (R)
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Scotty Baesler (D)
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bord ...
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Bob Livingston (R)
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William J. Jefferson (D)
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Billy Tauzin
Wilbert Joseph Tauzin II (; born June 14, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician. He was President and CEO of PhRMA, a pharmaceutical company lobby group. Tauzin was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 ...
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Jim McCrery (R)
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John Cooksey (R)
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Richard H. Baker (R)
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Chris John (D)
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and nor ...
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Tom Allen (D)
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John Baldacci (D)
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean t ...
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Wayne Gilchrest (R)
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Bob Ehrlich
Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, Ehrlich represented Maryland's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House ...
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Ben Cardin (D)
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Albert Wynn (D)
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Steny Hoyer
Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for since 1981 and as House Majority Leader since 2019. A Democrat, Hoyer was first elected in a special election on May 19, 19 ...
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Roscoe Bartlett (R)
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Elijah Cummings (D)
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Connie Morella
Constance Morella (; née Albanese; born February 12, 1931) is an American politician and diplomat. She represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She served as Permanent Representative from the U.S. to the Organ ...
(R)
Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En ...
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John Olver (D)
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Richard Neal (D)
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Jim McGovern (D)
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Barney Frank (D)
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Marty Meehan
Martin Thomas Meehan (born December 30, 1956) is an American academic administrator, politician, and attorney. Since July 2015, Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of ...
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John F. Tierney
John F. Tierney (born September 18, 1951) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1997 to 2015. He is a Democrat who represented the state's , which includes the state's North Shore and Cape Ann ...
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Ed Markey
Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist who has served as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. represent ...
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Joseph P. Kennedy II (D)
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Joe Moakley (D)
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Bill Delahunt
William David Delahunt (born July 18, 1941) is an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1997 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Delahunt did not seek re-election i ...
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Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and t ...
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Bart Stupak
Bartholomew Thomas Stupak (; born February 29, 1952) is an American politician and lobbyist. A member of the Democratic Party, Stupak served as the U.S. representative from from 1993 to 2011.
Stupak chose not to seek re-election in 2010. He dep ...
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Pete Hoekstra
Cornelis Piet "Pete" Hoekstra (; born October 30, 1953) is a Dutch-American politician who served as the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from January 10, 2018, to January 17, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he previously ser ...
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Vern Ehlers
Vernon James Ehlers (February 6, 1934 – August 15, 2017) was an American physicist and politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 until his retirement in 2011. A Republican, he also served eight years ...
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Dave Camp
David Lee Camp (born July 9, 1953) is a former American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2015. Camp represented since 1993, and previously served one term representing . A member of the ...
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James A. Barcia (D)
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Fred Upton (R)
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Nick Smith (R)
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Debbie Stabenow (D)
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Dale Kildee (D)
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David Bonior
David Edward Bonior (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time D ...
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Joe Knollenberg
Joseph Kastl Knollenberg (November 28, 1933 – February 6, 2018) was an American politician from Michigan. From 1993 to 2009, he was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing and .
In his congressional term, Knol ...
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Sander Levin (D)
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Lynn N. Rivers (D)
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John Conyers (D)
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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D)
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John Dingell (D)
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...
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Gil Gutknecht (R)
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David Minge
David R. Minge (born March 19, 1942) is an American former judge and politician. David Minge served as a judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 2002 until retiring at the end of March 2012. Previously, Minge was a Democratic–Farmer–L ...
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Jim Ramstad (R)
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Bruce Vento
Bruce Frank Vento (October 7, 1940 – October 10, 2000) was an American politician, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 until his death in 2000, representing .
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Martin Olav Sabo
Martin Olav Sabo (February 28, 1938 – March 13, 2016) was an American politician who served as United States House of Representatives, United States Representative for , which includes Minneapolis; the district is one of eight Minnesota Congre ...
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Bill Luther
William Paul Luther (born June 27, 1945) is an American politician and lawyer from Minnesota. Luther was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) member of the United States House of Representatives representing Minnesota's 6th congressional distr ...
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Collin Peterson
Collin Clark Peterson (born June 29, 1944) is an American accountant and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1991 to 2021. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, or the DFL. he was chairman of the Hous ...
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Jim Oberstar (DFL)
Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
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Roger Wicker
Roger Frederick Wicker (born July 5, 1951) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Mississippi, in office since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, Wicker previously served as a member of the ...
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Bennie Thompson
Bennie Gordon Thompson (born January 28, 1948) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson has been the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security since 2019 and fr ...
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Chip Pickering (R)
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Michael Parker (R)
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Gene Taylor (D)
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
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Bill Clay (D)
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Jim Talent (R)
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Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew Gephardt (; born January 31, 1941) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader fro ...
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Ike Skelton (D)
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Karen McCarthy
Karen McCarthy (March 18, 1947 – October 5, 2010) was an American educator and politician. She served as the U.S. representative for the fifth district of Missouri from 1995 to 2005.
Early life
McCarthy was born in Haverhill, Massachuse ...
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Pat Danner (D)
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Roy Blunt (R)
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Jo Ann Emerson (I), changed to (R) on January 8, 1997
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Kenny Hulshof (R)
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
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Rick Hill (R)
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
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Doug Bereuter
Douglas Kent Bereuter (born October 6, 1939) is an American retired politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 2004. He also served as the pr ...
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Jon Lynn Christensen
Jon Lynn Christensen (born February 20, 1963) is an American politician and corporate executive who is a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Jon Lynn Christensen was born on February 20, 1963 in St. Paul, N ...
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Bill Barrett (R)
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
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John Ensign (R)
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Jim Gibbons (R)
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
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John E. Sununu
John Edward Sununu (born September 10, 1964) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senator from New Hampshire. Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire ...
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Charles Bass (R)
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delawa ...
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Rob Andrews
Robert Ernest Andrews (born August 4, 1957) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative for from 1990 to 2014. The district included most of Camden County and parts of Burlington County and Gloucester County.
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Frank LoBiondo
Frank Alo LoBiondo (: born May 12, 1946) is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1995 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. He represented all of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and S ...
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Jim Saxton (R)
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Chris Smith (R)
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Marge Roukema
Margaret "Marge" Roukema (née Scafati; September 19, 1929 – November 12, 2014) was an American politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-two years as a Republican from 1981 to 2003.
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Frank Pallone (D)
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Bob Franks (R)
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Bill Pascrell
William James Pascrell Jr. (born January 25, 1937) is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for , having served in this position since January 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and a native of Paterson, New Jersey, Pascrel ...
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Steve Rothman (D)
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Donald M. Payne (D)
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Rodney Frelinghuysen (R)
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Michael James Pappas
Michael James Pappas (born December 29, 1960) is an American politician and former one term Republican Congressman from New Jersey, serving from 1997 to 1999. He is currently the Township Administrator in Bridgewater, New Jersey. He was an unsuc ...
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Bob Menendez
Robert Menendez (; born January 1, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2006. Gale (publisher), Gale Biography I ...
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New Mexico
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, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
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Joe Skeen
Joseph Richard Skeen (June 30, 1927 – December 7, 2003) was an American politician who served as a congressman from southern New Mexico. A conservative Republican, he served for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives betwee ...
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Bill Richardson (D), until February 13, 1997
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New York
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Michael Forbes
Michael Patrick Forbes (born July 16, 1952) is an American former politician from the state of New York. Forbes represented a Long Island district in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001, first as a Republican (until 19 ...
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Rick Lazio (R)
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Peter T. King (R)
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Carolyn McCarthy
Carolyn McCarthy ( Cook; born January 5, 1944) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1997 to 2015. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
On January 8, 2014, she announced that she would not run for re-elect ...
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Gary Ackerman (D)
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Floyd Flake (D), until November 17, 1997
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Thomas J. Manton
Thomas J. Manton (November 3, 1932 – July 22, 2006) was an American politician who represented the 9th and 7th Congressional District of New York in the United States House of Representatives
Early life and education
Born in New York City, ...
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Jerry Nadler (D)
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Chuck Schumer (D)
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Edolphus Towns (D)
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Major Owens (D)
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Nydia Velázquez
Nydia Margarita Velázquez Serrano (born March 28, 1953) is a politician serving in the United States House of Representatives since 1993. A Democrat from New York, Velázquez chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011. He ...
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Susan Molinari (R), until August 2, 1997
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Carolyn Maloney
Carolyn Jane Maloney (née Bosher, February 19, 1946) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2013, and for from 1993 to 2013. The district includes most of Manhattan's East Side, Astoria and Long Island City ...
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Charles Rangel (D)
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José E. Serrano
José Enrique Serrano (born October 24, 1943) is an American politician who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 until his retirement in 2021. Serrano, a Democrat from New York, represented a district that is one of the sm ...
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Eliot Engel
Eliot Lance Engel (; born February 18, 1947) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from New York from 1989 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district covering portions of the north Bronx and sou ...
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Nita Lowey (D)
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Sue W. Kelly
Sue Weisenbarger Kelly (née Madelyn Sue Weisenbarger; born September 26, 1936) is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2007, representing New York's ...
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Benjamin Gilman (R)
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Michael R. McNulty (D)
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Gerald Solomon (R)
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Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood Louis Boehlert (September 28, 1936September 20, 2021) was an American politician from New York. He represented a large swath of central New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007. Boehlert, a Republican, ...
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John M. McHugh
John Michael McHugh (born September 29, 1948) is an American politician from the U.S. state of New York who served as the 21st United States Secretary of the Army, and represented the state's 23rd congressional district in the United States Hou ...
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James T. Walsh
James Thomas Walsh (born June 19, 1947)[Walsh, James T.](_blank)
''Biographical Directory of ...
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Maurice Hinchey
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey (October 27, 1938 – November 22, 2017) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York and was a member of the Democratic Party. He retired at the end of his term in January 2013 after 20 ye ...
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Bill Paxon (R)
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Louise Slaughter (D)
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John J. LaFalce
John Joseph LaFalce (born October 6, 1939) is an American politician who served as a Congressman from the state of New York from 1975 to 2003. He retired in 2002 after his district was merged with that of a fellow Democrat.
LaFalce was first ele ...
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Jack Quinn (R)
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Amo Houghton (R)
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 28th largest and List of states and territories of the United ...
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Eva Clayton
Eva McPherson Clayton (born September 16, 1934) is an American politician from North Carolina. On taking her seat in the United States House of Representatives following a special election in 1992, Clayton became the first African American to rep ...
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Bob Etheridge (D)
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Walter B. Jones Jr.
Walter Beaman Jones Jr. (February 10, 1943 – February 10, 2019) was an American politician who served twelve terms in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party for from 1995 until his death in 2019. The d ...
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David Price (D)
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Richard Burr (R)
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Howard Coble (R)
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Mike McIntyre
Douglas Carmichael "Mike" McIntyre II (; born August 6, 1956) is an American attorney and politician who was first elected to represent North Carolina's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He served for 18 ...
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Bill Hefner
Willie Gathrel Hefner (April 11, 1930 – September 2, 2009), was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, serving between 1975 and 1999.
Life and career
Born in Elora, Tennessee, Hefner graduated from high school in Sardis, Al ...
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Sue Myrick (R)
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Cass Ballenger (R)
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Charles H. Taylor (R)
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Mel Watt (D)
North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, ...
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Earl Pomeroy
Earl Ralph Pomeroy III (born September 2, 1952) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1993 to 2011. He is a member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party. He currently serves as Senior Counsel for ...
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Ohio
Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-l ...
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Steve Chabot (R)
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Rob Portman (R)
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Tony P. Hall (D)
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Mike Oxley (R)
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Paul Gillmor
Paul Eugene Gillmor (February 1, 1939 – September 5, 2007) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007.
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Ted Strickland (D)
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Dave Hobson (R)
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John Boehner (R)
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Marcy Kaptur (D)
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Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich (; born October 8, 1946) is an American politician. A U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1997 to 2013, he was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 and 2008. He ran fo ...
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Louis Stokes (D)
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John Kasich (R)
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Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Campbell Brown (; born November 9, 1952) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Ohio, a seat which he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Ohio ...
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Thomas C. Sawyer (D)
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Deborah Pryce
Deborah Denine Pryce (born July 29, 1951) is an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Ohio who was the member of the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's 15th congressional district, which includes the western half of Columbu ...
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Ralph Regula
Ralph Straus Regula (December 3, 1924 – July 19, 2017) was an American politician from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives, the Ohio State Senate and the United States House of Representatives. ...
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James Traficant (D)
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Bob Ney
Robert William Ney (born July 5, 1954) is an American politician from Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resigna ...
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Steve LaTourette
Steven Clare LaTourette (July 22, 1954 – August 3, 2016) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for and then from 1995 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. On July 30, 2012, it was reported that he woul ...
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Oklahoma
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Steve Largent (R)
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Tom Coburn (R)
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Wes Watkins (R)
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J. C. Watts
Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (born November 18, 1957) is an American politician, clergyman, and athlete. Watts was a college football quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League. He served in ...
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Ernest Istook
Ernest James "Ernie" Istook Jr. (born February 11, 1950) is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. He held his congress ...
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Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug trafficker who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly f ...
(R)
Oregon
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Elizabeth Furse
Elizabeth Furse (October 13, 1936 – April 18, 2021) was a Kenya Colony-born American small business owner and former faculty member of Portland State University. She was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999 ...
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Robert Freeman Smith
Robert Freeman Smith (June 16, 1931September 21, 2020), commonly known as Bob Smith, was an American Republican politician who represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999.
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Earl Blumenauer (D)
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Peter DeFazio
Peter Anthony DeFazio (; born May 27, 1947) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 1987. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Roseburg, Coos Ba ...
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Darlene Hooley (D)
Pennsylvania
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Thomas M. Foglietta (D), until November 11, 1997
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Chaka Fattah (D)
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Robert A. Borski Jr. (D)
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Ron Klink
Ronald Klink (born September 23, 1951) is an American television broadcaster and politician and who served four terms as a United States Representative from Pennsylvania from 1993 to 2001, as member of the Democratic Party.
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John E. Peterson
John E. Peterson (born December 25, 1938) is an American Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. From 1997 to 2009, he represented the state's mainly rural and largely Republican 5th Congressional district in the U.S. Hous ...
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Tim Holden
Thomas Timothy Holden (born March 5, 1957) is an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. representative for from 1993 to 2013. Holden was the dean of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation durin ...
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Curt Weldon (R)
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James C. Greenwood
James Charles Greenwood (born May 4, 1951) is an American politician in the Republican Party. He represented Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District for six terms in the United States House of Representatives.
Greenwood became president ...
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Bud Shuster (R)
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Joseph M. McDade (R)
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Paul Kanjorski
Paul Edmund Kanjorski (born April 2, 1937) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1985 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The district included the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Hazleton, as ...
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John Murtha (D)
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Jon D. Fox (R)
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William J. Coyne (D)
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Paul McHale (D)
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Joe Pitts (R)
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George Gekas (R)
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Mike Doyle Michael, Mick or Mike Doyle may refer to:
Politics
* Michael Doyle (Irish politician), Irish Farmers' Party politician from Wexford, TD from 1922 to 1927
*Michael Doyle, alleged member of the Molly Maguires
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William F. Goodling (R)
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Frank Mascara (D)
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Phil English (R)
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...
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Patrick J. Kennedy (D)
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Robert Weygand
Robert A. "Bob" Weygand (born May 10, 1948) is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 until 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party from Rhode Island.
Life and career
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South Carolina
)''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
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Mark Sanford (R)
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Floyd Spence (R)
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Lindsey Graham (R)
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Bob Inglis (R)
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John Spratt
John McKee Spratt Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1983 to 2011. The 5th Congressional District covers all or part of 14 counties in north-central South Carolina. The largest cities a ...
(D)
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Jim Clyburn (D)
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large po ...
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John Thune (R)
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 36th-largest by ...
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Bill Jenkins (R)
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Jimmy Duncan (R)
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Zach Wamp (R)
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Van Hilleary
William Vanderpool "Van" Hilleary (born June 20, 1959) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1995 to 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Early life and career
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Bob Clement (D)
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Bart Gordon (D)
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Ed Bryant (R)
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John S. Tanner
John Sumners Tanner (born September 22, 1944) is a former American politician who served as the U.S. representative for , serving from 1989 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Since his retirement, Tanner has served as the Vice C ...
(D)
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Harold Ford Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is an American financial managing director, pundit, author, and former U.S. Congressman who served from 1997–2007 in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party f ...
(D)
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
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Max Sandlin (D)
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Jim Turner (D)
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Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert Johnson (October 11, 1930May 27, 2020) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. In October and November 2015, he was the acting ...
(R)
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Ralph Hall (D)
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Pete Sessions
Peter Anderson Sessions (born March 22, 1955) is an American politician from Texas who is the U.S. representative for Texas's 17th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for ...
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Joe Barton (R)
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Bill Archer (R)
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Kevin Brady (R)
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Nick Lampson (D)
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Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946) is an American attorney and politician who is a U.S. representative from Texas. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented a district based in Austin since 1995, currently numbered as Tex ...
(D)
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Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician who was a United States Representative from Texas, representing a district based in Waco, from 1991 to 2011. Previously, he served in the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1990. He ...
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Kay Granger (R)
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Mac Thornberry (R)
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Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, activist, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, as we ...
(R)
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Rubén Hinojosa (D)
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Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre "Silver" Reyes (born November 10, 1944) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for , serving from 1997 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ...
(D)
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Charles Stenholm (D)
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Sheila Jackson-Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee (born January 12, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician who is the U.S. representative for , having served since 1995. The district includes most of central Houston. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and served ...
(D)
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Larry Combest
Larry Ed Combest (born March 20, 1945) is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
Early life
Combest was born in Memphis, Texas, a small town in West Texas and the s ...
(R)
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Henry B. González (D)
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Lamar Smith
Lamar Seeligson Smith (born November 19, 1947) is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States House of Representatives for for 16 terms, a district including most of the wealthier sections of San Antonio and Austin, as ...
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Tom DeLay (R)
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Henry Bonilla (R)
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Martin Frost (D)
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Ken Bentsen Jr. (D)
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Dick Armey (R)
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Solomon P. Ortiz (D)
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Frank Tejeda
Frank Mariano Tejeda (October 2, 1945 – January 30, 1997) was a decorated United States Marine and an American Democratic politician from Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives (1976–1987), the Texas Senate (1987–1993), and ...
(D), until January 30, 1997
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Ciro Rodriguez (D), from April 12, 1997
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Gene Green
Raymond Eugene Green (born October 17, 1947) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for , serving for 13 terms. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district included most of eastern Houston, including portions ...
(D)
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Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson (born December 3, 1935) is an American politician who represents Texas's in the United States House of Representatives. Johnson is a member of the Democratic Party.
Elected in 1992, Johnson was the first registered nurse ...
(D)
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
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James V. Hansen (R)
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Merrill Cook (R)
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Chris Cannon (R)
Vermont
Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provin ...
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Bernie Sanders (I)
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
: .
Herbert H. Bateman
Herbert Harvell "Herb" Bateman (August 7, 1928 – September 11, 2000) was an American politician in Virginia. He was a nine-term member of the United States House of Representatives, serving as a Republican from 1983 until his death from natu ...
(R)
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Owen B. Pickett
Owen Bradford Pickett (August 31, 1930 – October 27, 2010) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia.
Early life
Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 31, 1930. He graduated from Virgi ...
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Bobby Scott (D)
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Norman Sisisky (D)
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Virgil Goode (D)
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Bob Goodlatte (R)
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Thomas J. Bliley Jr. (R)
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Jim Moran (D)
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Rick Boucher (D)
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Frank Wolf (R)
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Tom Davis (R)
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
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Rick White (R)
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Jack Metcalf (R)
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Linda Smith (R)
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Doc Hastings (R)
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George Nethercutt
George Rector Nethercutt Jr. (born October 7, 1944) is an American lawyer, author, and politician. Nethercutt is the founder and chairman of The George Nethercutt Foundation. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representativ ...
(R)
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Norm Dicks
Norman DeValois Dicks (born December 16, 1940) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for , between 1977 and 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His district was located in the northwestern corner of ...
(D)
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Jim McDermott (D)
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Jennifer Dunn (R)
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith (baptized 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Seen by some as "The Father of Economics"——� ...
(D)
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
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Alan Mollohan (D)
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Bob Wise (D)
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Nick Rahall (D)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
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Mark Neumann
Mark William Neumann (born February 27, 1954) is an American businessman and politician. He represented for two terms, from 1995 to 1999. In 2010, Neumann lost a bid to become the Republican nominee for Governor of Wisconsin. Neumann was a cand ...
(R)
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Scott L. Klug (R)
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Ron Kind (D)
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Jerry Kleczka
Gerald Daniel Kleczka (; November 26, 1943 – October 8, 2017) was an American politician and Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing . The district included the city of Milwaukee.
...
(D)
: . Tom Barrett (Wisconsin politician), Tom Barrett (D)
: . Tom Petri (R)
: . Dave Obey (D)
: . Jay W. Johnson (D)
: . Jim Sensenbrenner (R)
List of United States representatives from Wyoming, Wyoming
: . Barbara Cubin (R)
Non-voting delegations
: . Eni Faleomavaega (D)
: . Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)
: . Robert A. Underwood (D)
: . Donna Christian-Christensen (D)
: . Carlos Romero Barceló (Resident Commissioner) (New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico, D/PNP)
Changes in membership
Senate
There were no changes in Senate membership during this Congress.
House of Representatives
Four members of the House of Representatives died, and four resigned.
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Frank Tejeda
Frank Mariano Tejeda (October 2, 1945 – January 30, 1997) was a decorated United States Marine and an American Democratic politician from Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives (1976–1987), the Texas Senate (1987–1993), and ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 30, 1997
, nowrap ,
Ciro Rodriguez (D)
, April 12, 1997
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Bill Richardson (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned February 13, 1997, to become United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United Nations
, nowrap ,
William T. Redmond (R)
, May 20, 1997
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Susan Molinari (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned August 2, 1997, to become a television journalist for CBS
, nowrap ,
Vito Fossella (R)
, November 5, 1997
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Walter Capps
Walter Holden Capps (May 5, 1934 – October 28, 1997) was an American academic and politician. He served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 22nd congressional district from January 1 ...
(D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died October 28, 1997
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Lois Capps (D)
, March 17, 1998
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Thomas M. Foglietta (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 11, 1997, to become United States Ambassador to Italy, Ambassador to Italy
, nowrap ,
Bob Brady (D)
, May 21, 1998
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Floyd Flake (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned November 17, 1997, to return full-time to his duties as pastor of Allen A.M.E. Church
, nowrap ,
Gregory Meeks (D)
, February 5, 1998
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Sonny Bono (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died January 5, 1998
, nowrap ,
Mary Bono
Mary Bono (née Whitaker and formerly Mary Bono Mack, born October 24, 1961) is an American politician, businesswoman, and lobbyist who served Palm Springs and most of central and eastern Riverside County, California, in the U.S. House of Repres ...
(R)
, April 21, 1998
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Ron Dellums (D)
, style="font-size:80%" , Resigned February 6, 1998
, nowrap ,
Barbara Lee (D)
, April 21, 1998
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Steven Schiff (R)
, style="font-size:80%" , Died March 25, 1998
, nowrap ,
Heather Wilson (R)
, June 25, 1998
Committees
Senate
* United States Senate Special Committee on Aging, Aging (Special) (
Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. In 2022, h ...
, Chair;
John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (Richard Lugar, Chair;
Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Io ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation and Rural Revitalization, Forestry, Conservation and Rural Revitalization (
Rick Santorum, Chair;
Kent Conrad, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Marketing Inspection and Product Promotion, Marketing Inspection and Product Promotion (
Paul Coverdell, Chair;
Max Baucus, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Production and Price Competitiveness, Production and Price Competitiveness (
Thad Cochran, Chair; J. Robert Kerrey, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition and General Legislation, Research, Nutrition and General Legislation (
Mitch McConnell, Chair;
Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (
Ted Stevens, Chair; Robert C. Byrd, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies, Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies (
Thad Cochran, Chair;
Dale Bumpers, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary, Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary (
Judd Gregg, Chair; Ernest F. Hollings, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Defense (
Ted Stevens, Chair;
Daniel Inouye, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on District of Columbia, District of Columbia (
Lauch Faircloth, Chair;
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Sue Boxer (née Levy; born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Energy and Water Development (
Pete Domenici, Chair;
Harry Reid, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Foreign Operations (
Mitch McConnell, Chair;
Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Interior (
Slade Gorton, Chair;
Robert Byrd, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services and Education, Labor, Health, Human Services and Education (
Arlen Specter, Chair;
Tom Harkin
Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Io ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch (Robert F. Bennett, Chair;
Byron Dorgan, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Military Construction (
Conrad Burns
Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Montana and later was a lobbyist. He was only the second Republican popularly elected to represent Montana in the Sen ...
, Chair;
Patty Murray, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Transportation (
Richard Shelby, Chair;
Frank Lautenberg, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government, Treasury and General Government (
Richard Shelby, Chair;
Frank Lautenberg, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, VA, HUD and Independent Agencies (
Kit Bond, Chair; Barbara A. Mikulski, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Armed Services (
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003. Prior to his 48 years as a senator, he served as the 103rd governor of South Car ...
, Chair;
Carl Levin, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology, Acquisition and Technology (
Rick Santorum, Chair;
Joe Lieberman, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland Forces, Airland Forces (
Dan Coats, Chair;
John Glenn, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Personnel (
Dirk Kempthorne, Chair;
Max Cleland, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, Readiness (Jim Inhofe, Chair;
Chuck Robb
Charles Spittal Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician from Virginia and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 64th governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and a Uni ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, Seapower (
John Warner
John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 20 ...
, Chair; Edward Kennedy, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Strategic Forces (
Bob Smith, Chair;
Jeff Bingaman, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (
Al D'Amato, Chair;
Paul Sarbanes, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief, Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief (
Lauch Faircloth, Chair;
Richard Bryan
Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1989 to 2001. A Democrat, Bryan served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989, and before that ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Services and Technology, Financial Services and Technology (Robert F. Bennett, Chair;
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Sue Boxer (née Levy; born November 11, 1940) is an American politician and lobbyist who served in the United States Senate, representing California from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the U.S ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing Opportunity and Community Development, Housing Opportunity and Community Development (
Connie Mack III, Chair; John F. Kerry, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Finance, International Finance (
Rod Grams, Chair; Carol Moseley-Braun, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Securities (
Phil Gramm, Chair;
Chris Dodd
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the List of United Sta ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on the Budget, Budget (
Pete Domenici, Chair;
Frank Lautenberg, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Commerce, Science and Transportation (
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two te ...
, Chair; Ernest F. Hollings, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Aviation (
Slade Gorton, Chair;
Wendell Ford, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Communications (
Conrad Burns
Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Montana and later was a lobbyist. He was only the second Republican popularly elected to represent Montana in the Sen ...
, Chair; Ernest F. Hollings, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism, Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism (
John Ashcroft, Chair;
John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness, Manufacturing and Competitiveness (
Spencer Abraham, Chair;
Richard Bryan
Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1989 to 2001. A Democrat, Bryan served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989, and before that ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries, Oceans and Fisheries (
Olympia Snowe
Olympia Jean Snowe (; born February 21, 1947) is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013. Snowe, a member of the Republican Party, became known for her ability to influence the outco ...
, Chair;
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, Science, Technology and Space (
Bill Frist, Chair; John D. Rockefeller IV, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine (
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Chair; Daniel K. Inouye, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Energy and Natural Resources (Frank H. Murkowski, Chair;
Dale Bumpers, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation, Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation (
Don Nickles, Chair;
Pete Domenici, Vice Chair)
** United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, Forests and Public Land Management (Larry E. Craig, Chair;
Conrad Burns
Conrad Ray Burns (January 25, 1935 – April 28, 2016) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Montana and later was a lobbyist. He was only the second Republican popularly elected to represent Montana in the Sen ...
, Vice Chair)
** United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation, National Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation (
Craig L. Thomas
Craig Lyle Thomas (February 17, 1933 – June 4, 2007) was an American politician who served as United States Senator from Wyoming from 1995 until his death in 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party. In the Senate, Thomas was considered ...
, Chair;
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born April 13, 1933) is an American Cheyenne politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993, and as a United States Senator from Colorado ...
, Vice Chair)
** United States Senate Energy Subcommittee on Water and Power, Water and Power (
Jon Kyl, Chair;
Bob Smith, Vice Chair)
* United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Environment and Public Works (John H. Chafee, Chair;
Max Baucus, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety, Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety (Jim Inhofe, Chair;
Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the De ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Drinking Water, Fisheries and Wildlife, Drinking Water, Fisheries and Wildlife (
Dirk Kempthorne, Chair;
Harry Reid, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment, Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment (
Bob Smith, Chair;
Frank Lautenberg, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Transportation and Infrastructure (
John Warner
John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 20 ...
, Chair;
Max Baucus, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, Ethics (Select) (
Bob Smith, Chair;
Harry Reid, Vice Chair)
* United States Senate Committee on Finance, Finance (William V. Roth Jr., Bill Roth, Chair; Daniel Moynihan, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, Health Care (
Phil Gramm, Chair; John D. Rockefeller IV, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, International Trade (
Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. In 2022, h ...
, Chair; Daniel Moynihan, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Long-Term Growth, Debt and Deficit Reduction, Long-Term Growth, Debt and Deficit Reduction (
Connie Mack III, Chair;
Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the De ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Social Security and Family Policy (
John Chafee, Chair;
John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician who was a member of the United States Senate from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, Taxation and IRS Oversight (
Don Nickles, Chair;
Max Baucus, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Foreign Relations (
Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician. A leader in the conservative movement, he served as a senator from North Carolina from 1973 to 2003. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe ...
, Chair;
Joe Biden, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, African Affairs (
John Ashcroft, Chair;
Russ Feingold
Russell Dana Feingold ( ; born March 2, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was its nominee in the 2016 election for the same U ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Craig L. Thomas, Craig Thomas, Chair;
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs, European Affairs (
Bob Smith, Chair;
Joe Biden, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion, International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion (
Chuck Hagel, Chair;
Paul Sarbanes, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations, International Operations (
Rod Grams, Chair;
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( ; born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933) is an American politician who serves as the senior United States senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, she wa ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (
Sam Brownback, Chair;
Chuck Robb
Charles Spittal Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician from Virginia and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 64th governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986 and a Uni ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism, Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism (
Paul Coverdell, Chair;
Chris Dodd
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the List of United Sta ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Governmental Affairs (
Fred Thompson
Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee fr ...
, Chair;
John Glenn, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services (
Thad Cochran, Chair;
Sander Levin, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructing and the District of Columbia, Oversight of Government Management, Restructing and the District of Columbia (
Sam Brownback, Chair;
Joe Lieberman, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (
Susan Collins, Chair;
John Glenn, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Indian Affairs (Select) (
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born April 13, 1933) is an American Cheyenne politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993, and as a United States Senator from Colorado ...
, Chair; Daniel K. Inouye, Vice Chair)
* United States Senate Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (
Orrin Hatch, Chair;
Patrick Leahy, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, Administrative Oversight and the Courts (
Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. In 2022, h ...
, Chair; Dick Durbin, Richard Durbin, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition, Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition (
Chuck Grassley
Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate, and the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981. In 2022, h ...
, Chair; Dick Durbin, Richard Durbin, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights, Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights (
Mike DeWine
Richard Michael DeWine (; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th and current governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, DeWine began his career as a prosecutor before being elected to the Oh ...
, Chair;
Herb Kohl
Herbert H. Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is an American businessman and politician. Alongside his brother and father, the Kohl family created the Kohl's department stores chain, of which Kohl went on to be president and CEO. Kohl also served as a ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Immigration (
Spencer Abraham, Chair; Edward Kennedy, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information, Technology, Terrorism and Government Information (
Jon Kyl, Chair;
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( ; born Dianne Emiel Goldman; June 22, 1933) is an American politician who serves as the senior United States senator from California, a seat she has held since 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, she wa ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Youth Violence, Youth Violence (
Jeff Sessions, Chair;
Joe Biden, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence (Select) (Richard C. Shelby, Chair; J. Robert Kerrey, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Labor and Human Resources (
Jim Jeffords, Chair; Edward Kennedy, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Aging, Aging (
Judd Gregg, Chair;
Barbara Mikulski, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Children and Families, Children and Families (
Dan Coats, Chair;
Chris Dodd
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the List of United Sta ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Employment and Training, Employment and Training (
Mike DeWine
Richard Michael DeWine (; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th and current governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, DeWine began his career as a prosecutor before being elected to the Oh ...
, Chair;
Paul Wellstone, Ranking Member)
** United States Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety, Public Health and Safety (
Bill Frist, Chair; Edward Kennedy, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Rules and Administration (
John Warner
John William Warner III (February 18, 1927 – May 25, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 20 ...
, Chair; Wendell H. Ford, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Small Business, Small Business (
Kit Bond, Chair;
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Affairs (
Arlen Specter, Chair; John D. Rockefeller IV, Ranking Member)
* United States Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, Year 2000 Technology Problem (Select)
House of Representatives
* United States House Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture (Robert Freeman Smith, Robert F. Smith, Chair;
Larry Combest
Larry Ed Combest (born March 20, 1945) is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
Early life
Combest was born in Memphis, Texas, a small town in West Texas and the s ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Departments Operations, Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, Departments Operations, Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture (
Bob Goodlatte, Chair; Thomas Ewing, Ranking Member)
** United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation and Research, Forestry, Resource Conservation and Research (
Larry Combest
Larry Ed Combest (born March 20, 1945) is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
Early life
Combest was born in Memphis, Texas, a small town in West Texas and the s ...
, Chair;
Bill Barrett, Ranking Member)
** United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, General Farm Commodities (
Bill Barrett, Chair;
Larry Combest
Larry Ed Combest (born March 20, 1945) is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
Early life
Combest was born in Memphis, Texas, a small town in West Texas and the s ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry, Livestock, Dairy and Poultry (
Richard Pombo, Chair;
John Boehner, Ranking Member)
** United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops, Risk Management and Specialty Crops (Thomas Ewing, Chair;
Larry Combest
Larry Ed Combest (born March 20, 1945) is a retired American Republican politician who represented Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2003.
Early life
Combest was born in Memphis, Texas, a small town in West Texas and the s ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Appropriations, Appropriations (
Bob Livingston, Chair; Dave Obey, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies (
Joe Skeen
Joseph Richard Skeen (June 30, 1927 – December 7, 2003) was an American politician who served as a congressman from southern New Mexico. A conservative Republican, he served for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives betwee ...
, Chair;
Marcy Kaptur, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary, Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary (
Hal Rogers, Chair;
Alan Mollohan, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Charlie H. Taylor, Chair;
Jim Moran, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Energy and Water Development (Joseph McDade, Chair;
Vic Fazio, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs, Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs (
Sonny Callahan, Chair;
Nancy Pelosi, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Interior (
Ralph Regula
Ralph Straus Regula (December 3, 1924 – July 19, 2017) was an American politician from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives, the Ohio State Senate and the United States House of Representatives. ...
, Chair;
Sidney Yates, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Human Services and Education, Labor, Health, Human Services and Education (John E. Porter, Chair; Dave Obey, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Legislative, Legislative (
James T. Walsh
James Thomas Walsh (born June 19, 1947)[Walsh, James T.](_blank)
''Biographical Directory of ...
, Chair; José E. Serrano, Jose Serrano, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Military Construction (
Ron Packard
Ronald C. Packard, D.M.D. (born January 19, 1931) is a retired Republican politician from California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001.
Biography
Packard was born and raised in Meridian, Idaho. He attended Mer ...
, Chair;
Bill Hefner
Willie Gathrel Hefner (April 11, 1930 – September 2, 2009), was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, serving between 1975 and 1999.
Life and career
Born in Elora, Tennessee, Hefner graduated from high school in Sardis, Al ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, National Security (
Don Young
Donald Edwin Young (June 9, 1933 – March 18, 2022) was an American politician from the state of Alaska. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving Republican in congressional history, having been the U.S. representative for fo ...
, Chair; John P. Murtha, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Transportation (Frank R. Wolf, Chair;
Martin Olav Sabo
Martin Olav Sabo (February 28, 1938 – March 13, 2016) was an American politician who served as United States House of Representatives, United States Representative for , which includes Minneapolis; the district is one of eight Minnesota Congre ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government, Treasury, Postal Service and General Government (
Jim Kolbe
James Thomas Kolbe (June 28, 1942 – December 3, 2022) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented Arizona's 5th congressional district from 1985 to 2003 and its ...
, Chair;
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for since 1981 and as House Majority Leader since 2019. A Democrat, Hoyer was first elected in a special election on May 19, 19 ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, VA, HUD and Independent Agencies (
John Lewis, Chair;
Louis Stokes, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Banking and Financial Services (
Jim Leach, Chair; Henry B. Gonzalez, Ranking Member)
** United States House Banking and Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises, Capital Markets, Securities and Government Sponsored Enterprises (Richard Baker (U.S. politician), Richard H. Baker, Chair; Frank D. Lucas, Vice Chair)
** United States House Banking and Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Domestic and International Monetary Policy (Michael Castle, Chair; Jon Fox, Vice Chair)
** United States House Banking and Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit (
Marge Roukema
Margaret "Marge" Roukema (née Scafati; September 19, 1929 – November 12, 2014) was an American politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives for twenty-two years as a Republican from 1981 to 2003.
Early life ...
, Chair;
Bill McCollum, Vice Chair)
** United States House Banking and Financial Services Subcommittee on General Oversight and Investigations, General Oversight and Investigations (
Spencer Bachus
Spencer Thomas Bachus III (born December 28, 1947) is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative for the state of Alabama, serving from 1993 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as ranking member (2007–2011) a ...
, Chair;
Bob Riley, Vice Chair)
** United States House Banking and Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, Housing and Community Opportunity (
Rick Lazio, Chair;
Bob Ney
Robert William Ney (born July 5, 1954) is an American politician from Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resigna ...
, Vice Chair)
* United States House Committee on the Budget, Budget (
John Kasich, Chair;
John Spratt
John McKee Spratt Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1983 to 2011. The 5th Congressional District covers all or part of 14 counties in north-central South Carolina. The largest cities a ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Commerce, Commerce (Thomas J. Bliley, Chair; Paul E. Gillmor, Ranking Member)
** United States House Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Energy and Power (
Bob Schaffer, Chair;
Mike Crapo, Ranking Member)
** United States House Commerce Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials, Finance and Hazardous Materials (
Mike Oxley, Chair;
Billy Tauzin
Wilbert Joseph Tauzin II (; born June 14, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician. He was President and CEO of PhRMA, a pharmaceutical company lobby group. Tauzin was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment, Health and Environment (
Michael Bilirakis
Michael Bilirakis (born July 16, 1930) is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983 until 2007, representing the 9th District of Florida.
Early life
Th ...
, Chair;
Dennis Hastert
John Dennis Hastert (; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician and convicted felon who represented from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. The longest-se ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Oversight and Investigations (
Joe Barton, Chair;
Christopher Cox
Charles Christopher Cox (born October 16, 1952) is an American attorney and politician who served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a 17-year Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, and member of ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection, Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection (
Billy Tauzin
Wilbert Joseph Tauzin II (; born June 14, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician. He was President and CEO of PhRMA, a pharmaceutical company lobby group. Tauzin was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 ...
, Chair;
Mike Oxley, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Education and the Workforce (Bill Goodling, Chair; Tom Petri, Vice Chair)
** United States House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, Early Childhood, Youth and Families (
Frank Riggs
Frank Duncan Riggs (born September 5, 1950) is an American army veteran, former law enforcement officer, charter school executive, and politician from the states of California and Arizona.
Early life
Frank Riggs was born in Louisville, Kentuck ...
, Chair; Michael Castle, Vice Chair)
** United States House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, Employer-Employee Relations (
Harris W. Fawell, Chair;
Joe Knollenberg
Joseph Kastl Knollenberg (November 28, 1933 – February 6, 2018) was an American politician from Michigan. From 1993 to 2009, he was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing and .
In his congressional term, Knol ...
, Vice Chair)
** United States House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Oversight and Investigations (Peter Hoekstra, Chair;
Charlie Norwood, Vice Chair)
** United States House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning, Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning (
Buck McKeon
Howard Philip "Buck" McKeon (born September 9, 1938) is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California's 25th congressional district from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a former chairman o ...
, Chair;
Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005. He is a member of the De ...
, Vice Chair)
** United States House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Workforce Protections (
Cass Ballenger, Chair; Harris Fawell, Vice Chair)
* United States House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Government Reform and Oversight (
Dan Burton, Chair;
Henry Waxman, Vice Chair)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Service, Civil Service (
John Mica, Chair; Mike Pappas, Ranking Member)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on District of Columbia, District of Columbia (Thomas M. Davis III, Chair;
Connie Morella
Constance Morella (; née Albanese; born February 12, 1931) is an American politician and diplomat. She represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She served as Permanent Representative from the U.S. to the Organ ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, Government Management, Information and Technology (Stephen Horn, Chair;
Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Human Resources, Human Resources (
Chris Shays
Christopher Hunter Shays (born October 18, 1945) is an American politician. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives as representative of the 4th District of Connecticut. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Sha ...
, Chair;
Vince Snowbarger
Vincent K. Snowbarger (born September 16, 1949) is an American lawyer and politician from Kansas. He is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.
Early life
Vincent K. Snowbarger was born in Kankakee, Illinois o ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs (
David M. McIntosh
David Martin McIntosh (born June 8, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 2001. He is a co-founder of two conservative political ...
, Chair;
John E. Sununu
John Edward Sununu (born September 10, 1964) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senator from New Hampshire. Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice, National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice (
Dennis Hastert
John Dennis Hastert (; born January 2, 1942) is an American former politician and convicted felon who represented from 1987 to 2007 and served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. The longest-se ...
, Chair;
Mark Souder, Ranking Member)
** United States House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Postal Service, Postal Service (John M. McHugh, John McHugh, Chair;
Mark Sanford, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on House Oversight, House Oversight (
Bill Thomas
William Marshall Thomas (born December 6, 1941) is an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007, finishing his tenure representing California's 22nd congressional district a ...
, Chair;
Sam Gejdenson, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on International Relations, International Relations (
Benjamin Gilman, Chair;
Lee H. Hamilton, Ranking Member)
** United States House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Africa (Edward Royce, Chair;
Bob Menendez
Robert Menendez (; born January 1, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2006. Gale (publisher), Gale Biography I ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House International Relations Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, Asia and the Pacific (
Doug Bereuter
Douglas Kent Bereuter (born October 6, 1939) is an American retired politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 2004. He also served as the pr ...
, Chair;
Howard Berman
Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941) is an American attorney and retired politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 26th congressional d ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House International Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, International Operations and Human Rights (
Chris Smith, Chair;
Tom Lantos, Ranking Member)
** United States House International Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere (
Elton Gallegly, Chair;
Gary Ackerman, Ranking Member)
** United States House International Relations Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, International Economic Policy and Trade (
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (; born Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato, July 15, 1952) is a politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented from 1989 to 2019. By the end of her tenure, she was the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida. She w ...
, Chair;
Sam Gejdenson, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Judiciary, Judiciary (Henry J. Hyde, Chair;
John Conyers, Ranking Member)
** United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Commercial and Administrative Law (
George Gekas, Chair; Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member)
** United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, The Constitution (
Charles T. Canady
Charles Terrance Canady (born June 22, 1954) is an American attorney and judge serving on the Supreme Court of Florida since 2008. He previously served two two-year terms as Chief Justice, from 2010 to 2012 and from 2020 to 2022.
Prior to his ap ...
, Chair;
Bobby Scott, Ranking Member)
** United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Courts and Intellectual Property (
Howard Coble, Chair;
Barney Frank, Ranking Member)
** United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Crime (
Bill McCollum, Chair;
Chuck Schumer, Ranking Member)
** United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, Immigration and Claims (Lamar S. Smith, Chair;
Mel Watt, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on National Security, National Security (
Floyd Spence, Chair;
Ron Dellums, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, Military Installations and Facilities (
Joel Hefley, Chair;
Solomon P. Ortiz, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Military Personnel (
Steve Buyer
Stephen Earle Buyer ( ; born November 26, 1958) is an American former politician who served as the U.S. representative for , and previously the , serving from 1993 until 2011. On July 25, 2022, Buyer was arrested and charged with insider trading ...
, Chair;
Gene Taylor, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Military Procurement, Military Procurement (Duncan L. Hunter, Duncan Hunter, Chair;
Ike Skelton, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Military Readiness, Military Readiness (Herbert Bateman, Chair;
Norman Sisisky, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, Military Research and Development (
Curt Weldon, Chair;
Owen B. Pickett
Owen Bradford Pickett (August 31, 1930 – October 27, 2010) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia.
Early life
Pickett was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 31, 1930. He graduated from Virgi ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation, Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare and Recreation (John M. McHugh, John McHugh, Chair;
Marty Meehan
Martin Thomas Meehan (born December 30, 1956) is an American academic administrator, politician, and attorney. Since July 2015, Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House National Security Subcommittee on Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine, Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant Marine (Herbert Bateman, Chair;
Neil Abercrombie, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Resources, Resources (
Don Young
Donald Edwin Young (June 9, 1933 – March 18, 2022) was an American politician from the state of Alaska. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving Republican in congressional history, having been the U.S. representative for fo ...
, Chair;
George Miller, Ranking Member)
** United States House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy and Mineral Resources (Barbara Cubin, Chair; Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Ranking Member)
** United States House Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans, Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans (
Jim Saxton, Chair;
Neil Abercrombie, Ranking Member)
** United States House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, National Parks and Public Lands (
James V. Hansen, Chair; Eni Faleomavaega, Ranking Member)
** United States House Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Forests and Forest Health (
Helen Chenoweth
Helen Margaret Palmer Chenoweth-Hage (born Helen Margaret Palmer; January 27, 1938 – October 2, 2006) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. She remains the only Republican woman to ever represent Idaho in the United States ...
, Chair;
Maurice Hinchey
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey (October 27, 1938 – November 22, 2017) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New York and was a member of the Democratic Party. He retired at the end of his term in January 2013 after 20 ye ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power, Water and Power (John T. Doolittle, Chair;
Peter DeFazio
Peter Anthony DeFazio (; born May 27, 1947) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for , serving since 1987. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis, Roseburg, Coos Ba ...
, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Rules, Rules (Gerald B.H. Solomon, Chair;
Joe Moakley, Ranking Member)
** United States House Rules Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process, Legislative and Budget Process (
Porter Goss
Porter Johnston Goss (; born November 26, 1938) is an American politician and government official who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until 2004, when he became the last Director of Central Intellige ...
, Chair;
Martin Frost, Ranking Member)
** United States House Rules Subcommittee on the Rules and Organization of the House, Rules and Organization of the House (
David Dreier, Chair;
Tony P. Hall, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Science, Science (Jim Sensenbrenner, Chair; George E. Brown Jr., Ranking Member)
** United States House Science Subcommittee on Basic Research, Basic Research (
Steven Schiff, Chair;
James A. Barcia, Ranking Member)
** United States House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Energy and Environment (
Ken Calvert, Chair;
Tim Roemer
Timothy John Roemer (born October 30, 1956) is an American diplomat and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2003 as a Democrat from Indiana's 3rd congressional district. Subsequently, he was the pres ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Space and Aeronautics (
Dana Rohrabacher, Chair; Bud Cramer, Ranking Member)
** United States House Science Subcommittee on Technology, Technology (Constance Morella, Chair;
Bart Gordon, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Small Business, Small Business (
Jim Talent, Chair;
John J. LaFalce
John Joseph LaFalce (born October 6, 1939) is an American politician who served as a Congressman from the state of New York from 1975 to 2003. He retired in 2002 after his district was merged with that of a fellow Democrat.
LaFalce was first ele ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Empowerment, Empowerment (
Mark Souder, Chair; Nydia Velazquez, Ranking Member)
** United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Government Programs and Oversight, Government Programs and Oversight (Roscoe G. Bartlett, Chair;
Glenn Poshard, Ranking Member)
** United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Paperwork Reduction, Regulatory Reform and Paperwork Reduction (
Sue W. Kelly
Sue Weisenbarger Kelly (née Madelyn Sue Weisenbarger; born September 26, 1936) is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2007, representing New York's ...
, Chair;
Norman Sisisky, Ranking Member)
** United States House Small Business Subcommittee on Tax, Finance and Exports, Tax, Finance and Exports (Donald A. Manzullo, Chair;
Linda Smith, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Standards of Official Conduct (
James V. Hansen, Chair;
Howard Berman
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, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Transportation and Infrastructure (
Bud Shuster, Chair; James L. Oberstar, Ranking Member)
** United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, Aviation (John J. Duncan Jr., Chair;
Bill Lipinski
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Life and career
Pre-cong ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation (Wayne T. Gilchrest, Chair;
Bob Clement, Ranking Member)
** United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Economic Development, Public Buildings and Economic Development (
Bud Shuster, Chair; James L. Oberstar, Ranking Member)
** United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Railroads (
Susan Molinari, Chair;
Bob Wise, Ranking Member)
** United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Surface Transportation (Tom Petri, Chair;
Nick Rahall, Ranking Member)
** United States House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Water Resources and Environment (
Sherwood Boehlert
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, Chair; Robert Borski, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Veterans' Affairs (
Bob Stump, Chair;
Lane Evans
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, Ranking Member)
** United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Benefits, Benefits (
Jack Quinn, Chair;
Bob Filner, Ranking Member)
** United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health, Health (
Cliff Stearns, Chair; Luis Guiterrez, Ranking Member)
** United States House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Oversight and Investigations (
Terry Everett
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, Chair;
Jim Clyburn, Ranking Member)
* United States House Committee on Ways and Means, Ways and Means (William Reynolds Archer Jr., Bill Archer, Chair;
Charles Rangel, Ranking Member)
** United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, Health (
Bill Thomas
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, Chair;
Pete Stark
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, Ranking Member)
** United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources, Human Resources (E. Clay Shaw Jr., Chair; Sander M. Levin, Ranking Member)
** United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, Oversight (
Nancy Johnson
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, Chair;
William J. Coyne, Ranking Member)
** United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, Social Security (
Jim Bunning, Chair;
Barbara B. Kennelly
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Family and Education
Kennelly was born Barbara ...
, Ranking Member)
** United States House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, Trade (
Phil Crane, Chair;
Bob Matsui
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, Ranking Member)
* Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives), Whole
Joint committees
* Joint Economic Committee, Economic (Rep.
Jim Saxton, Chair; Sen.
Connie Mack III, Vice Chair)
* Joint Committee on Taxation, Taxation (Rep. William Reynolds Archer Jr., Bill Archer, Chair; Sen. William V. Roth Jr., Vice Chair)
* Joint Committee on the Library, The Library (Rep.
Bill Thomas
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, Chair; Sen.
Ted Stevens, Vice Chair)
* Joint Committee on Printing, Printing (Sen. John W. Warner, Chair; Rep.
Bill Thomas
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, Vice Chair)
Employees
List of federal agencies in the United States#Legislative branch, Legislative branch agency directors
* Architect of the Capitol: William L. Ensign (acting), until February 1997
** Alan M. Hantman, starting February 1997
* Attending Physician of the United States Congress: John F. Eisold
* Comptroller General of the United States: vacant, until 1998
** David M. Walker (politician), David M. Walker, from 1998
* Director of the Congressional Budget Office: June E. O'Neill
* Librarian of Congress: James H. Billington
* Public Printer of the United States: Michael F. DiMario
Senate
* Chaplain of the United States Senate, Chaplain: Lloyd John Ogilvie (Presbyterian)
* Curator of the United States Senate, Curator: Diane K. Skvarla
* Historian of the United States Senate, Historian: Richard A. Baker (historian), Richard A. Baker
* Parliamentarian of the United States Senate, Parliamentarian: Robert B. Dove, Bob Dove
* Secretary of the United States Senate, Secretary: Gary Lee Sisco
* United States Senate Librarian, Librarian: Greg Harness
* Secretary for the Majority of the United States Senate, Secretary for the Majority: Elizabeth Baldwin Letchworth, Elizabeth B. Greene
* Secretary for the Minority of the United States Senate, Secretary for the Minority: Martin P. Paone
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, Sergeant at Arms: Gregory S. Casey, until November 9, 1998
** James W. Ziglar, from November 9, 1998
House of Representatives
* Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, Chaplain: James David Ford (Lutheranism, Lutheran)
* Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives, Chief Administrative Officer: Jeff Trandahl (acting), until July 31, 1997
** James M. Eagen III, from July 31, 1997
* Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Clerk: Robin H. Carle, until December 21, 1998
** Jeff Trandahl, from January 1, 1999
* Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives, Parliamentarian: Charles W. Johnson
* Reading Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Reading Clerks:
** Meg Goetz (until 1998), Mary Kevin Niland (D)
** Bob Berry (reading clerk), Bob Berry along with Paul Hays (R)
* Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives, Sergeant at Arms: Wilson Livingood
* Inspector General of the United States House of Representatives, Inspector General: John W. Lainhart IV
See also
* List of new members of the 105th United States Congress
* 1996 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
** 1996 United States presidential election
** 1996 United States Senate elections
** 1996 United States House of Representatives elections
* 1998 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
** 1998 United States Senate elections
** 1998 United States House of Representatives elections
Notes
References
External links
Biographical Directory of the United States CongressHouse Historyfrom the U.S. House of Representatives
from the U.S. Senate
Legislative information from THOMAS at the Library of Congress
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