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The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Charles Bernard Rangel (/ ˈræŋɡəl /, RANG-gəl; [1] born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York City from 1971 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-longest serving incumbent member of the House of Representatives at the time of his retirement, having served ...
Party leadership in the House is not strictly associated with seniority. The more senior a representative is, the more likely the representative is to receive desirable committee assignments or leadership posts. Seniority also affects access to more desirable office space in the House Office Buildings: [3] after an office is vacated, members ...
Thomas Richard Suozzi [1] (/ ˈ s w ɒ z i / SWOZ-zee; born August 31, 1962) is an American politician, attorney, and accountant serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district since 2024 and previously from 2017 to 2023.
Recorded May 18, 2006. Patrick Joseph Leahy, OBE (/ ˈleɪhi / LAY-hee; born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he also was the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023.
Ritchie John Torres (born March 12, 1988) is an American politician from New York. [ 1 ][ 2 ] A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district. [ 3 ] The district covers most of the South Bronx and is, by one measure, the poorest congressional district in the United States, [ 4 ] as ...
John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who entered the House of Representatives in 1955 to finish his late father's term and served until 2015, died Thursday.