The Chosen: Jewish members in the 111th U.S. Congress

NEW YORK (JTA)— The following is a list of the 44 Jewish members —13 senators and 31 representatives — who are serving in the 111th U.S. Congress, which convened in January 2009:

July 1, 2009

U.S. SENATE

  1. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
  2. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
  3. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)
  4. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
  5. Al Franken (D-Minn.)*
  6. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)
  7. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)**
  8. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)
  9. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)**
  10. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)
  11. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
  12. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.)
  13. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  1. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
  2. John Adler (D-N.J.)*
  3. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
  4. Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
  5. Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
  6. Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)
  7. Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
  8. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
  9. Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
  10. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
  11. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)
  12. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.)
  13. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
  14. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.)
  15. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
  16. Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.)
  17. Ron Klein (D-Fla.)
  18. Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
  19. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
  20. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
  21. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)*
  22. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
  23. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
  24. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
  25. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
  26. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
  27. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
  28. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
  29. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
  30. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
  31. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)

* Elected to Congress for the first time

** Senators who were re-elected.

Democrat Rahm Emanuel was re-elected to his Illinois House seat, but left Congress to serve in the Obama administration as White House chief of staff.

At least two senators, Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) and Michael Bennet (D-Col.), have Jewish roots, but do not identify as Jewish.

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