NEW YORK (JTA) — The next Congress will have 10 Jews in the Senate and 22 in the House of Representatives, a decline from the 112th Congress. Below is the list of Jews who are expected to serve in the 113th Congress.
SENATE:
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)**
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)
Ben Cardin (D-Md.)**
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)**
(Note: Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who is projected to win his re-election bid, does not identify a religion, but notes that his mother is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.)*
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Jared Polis (D-Colo.)
Ted Deutch (D-Fla.)
Lois Frankel (D-Fla.)*
Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)*
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Brad Schneider (D-Ill.)*
John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
David Cicilline (D-R.I.)
Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
* Newly elected to House in Tuesday’s elections. (Note: Alan Grayson had served in the House but lost his seat in the 2010 midterm elections.)
** Senators who were re-elected Tuesday.
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