Thursday, January 04, 2007

Catholics in the 110th Congress

Jay links to an article below which points out the large number of Catholic in the 110th Congress. A run down of the numbers:

157 Roman Catholics.

In the House of Representatives: total of 132, 19 freshmen, 43 Republicans and 89 Democrats.

In the Senate: a total of 25, with 2 freshmen, 9 Republicans, 16 Democrats.

5 Eastern Orthodox Catholics

In the House of Representatives: a total of 4, 3 freshmen, 1 Republican and 3 Democrats.

In the Senate: only one, Republican Sen Olympia Snowe of Maine.

A list of all the Catholics in Congress can be found here.