{"article":{"id":22161,"heading":"WHO'S A JEW IN CONGRESS","author":"TongueInCheek","created":"2002-11-11 07:29:07","modified":"2002-11-13 02:13:16","last_modified":"Wed, 13 Nov 2002 09:13:16","article":"
U.S. ELECTIONS 2002
Jewish legislators in
the 108th Congress
By JTA Staff
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (JTA) — The following is a list of Jewish members of the 108th Congress.
The number of Jews in the Senate will rise from 10 to 11, assuming that Norm Coleman’s victory in Minnesota holds. The number of Jews in the House of Representatives will remain at 26.
The one senator who was re-elected is marked with an asterisk. New members of Congress, including Frank Lautenberg, who has served before, are marked with a double asterisk
U.S. SENATE
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.) *
Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)**
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) **
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.)
Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Howard Waxman (D-Calif.)
Peter Deutsch (D-Fla.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)**
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Ben Cardin (D-Md.)
Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Martin Frost (D-Texas)
Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
Bernard Sanders (Ind-Vt.)
\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"I'd think publishing a list like this would be anti-Semitic. Evidently, it's not! Everything, including the title: \"Who's A Jew In Congress\" is from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Do other religions keep & publish similiar lists? Who's a Baptist... a Catholic in congress?","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/11\/22161.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}