The document provides biographical information about several current and past members of the United States Congress and Senate leadership. It notes that most Congress members are Protestant, with Baptists being the second largest religious group. It then profiles the two Republican Senators from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, as well as the Republican Representative from Texas, Joe Barton. Next, it summarizes details about prominent figures in Senate leadership, including Joe Biden, Robert Byrd, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell. The document concludes by listing biographical facts for several past and present leaders in the House of Representatives.

1. Government Project
By: Brandon Gilbert

2. Demographics of Congress

3. Congress Religion
• Most members in congress are protestant
• The second highest number of members
is to Baptist religion.
• 14 mormons
• 45 jewish
• 161 catholic

4. Senators of Texas

5. 6th
District of Texas

6. Kay Bailey Hutchison
-First female elected to US
Senate by Texas.
-She was elected in 1993
-in 2000 she was reelected
for another 6 year term.

7. John Cornyn
• After serving as a district
judge for six years, he
was elected to the Texas
Supreme Court in 1990
and reelected in 1996.
• In 1997, he resigned from
the Texas Supreme Court
and ran for Attorney
General. He was the first
Republican to win that
office since
Reconstruction.
• He was elected to the
United States Senate on
November 5, 2002,
winning over 55 percent
of all votes cast.

8. Representative of Texas
- Joe Barton
• was first elected to serve
the Sixth District of Texas
in 1984
• Joe Barton was born on
September 15, 1949
• In 2004, he was
selected by his
colleagues to be the
Chairman of the House
Committee on Energy
& Commerce

9. Senate Leaders

10. Joe Biden
• is the 47th and current
Vice President of the United State
• Biden was first
elected to the Senate in 1972
and became the sixth-
youngest senator in U.S.
history. He was re-elected
to the Senate six times,
was the
fourth most senior senator
at the time of his
resignation, and is the
14th-longest serving Senator in hi
.
• Biden is the first
Roman Catholic and the
first Delawarean to become
Vice President of the United State
.

11. Robert C. Byrd
• On June 11, 2006, Byrd
became the longest serving
U.S. Senator in the history of
the Republic and, in
November 2006, he was
elected to an unprecedented
ninth full term in the Senate.
• Currently, Byrd is the
President pro tempore, or
the second highest ranking
official in the United States
Senate and the highest
ranking senator in the
majority party.
• Mrs. Byrd passed away on
March 25, 2006 after battling
a long illness.

12. Harry Reid
• Harry Mason Reid (born
December 2, 1939) is the
senior
United States Senator from
Nevada and a member of the
Democratic Party. He has
been the Senate's
Majority Leader since
January 2007.
• Reid has been leader of the
Senate Democrats since
2005, serving as Minority
Leader from 2005 until the
Democrats won control of
the Senate in the
2006 congressional elections
. He is the first member of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latt
to serve as Majority Leader.

13. Mitch McConnell
• Addison Mitchell "Mitch"
McConnell, Jr. (born
February 20, 1942) is the
senior
United States Senator
from Kentucky. He was
chosen by his Republican
colleagues as the
Minority Leader in
November 2006, making
him the top-ranking
Republican in the
110th Congress
• McConnell won re-election
in 2008 against
Democratic challenger
Bruce Lunsford.

14. Robert Rubin
• Robert Edward Rubin (born
August 29, 1938) served as
the 70th United States
Secretary of the Treasury
during both the first and
second Clinton
administrations
• From January 20, 1993, to
January 10, 1995, Robert
Rubin served in the White
House as Assistant to the
President for Economic
Policy

15. Jon Kyl
• Jon Llewellyn Kyl (born April
5, 1942) is the Republican
junior U.S. Senator
representing Arizona. He is
currently the
Senate Minority Whip, tasked
with maintaining party
discipline
• He ran for the House of
Representatives in 1986 and
then the United States
Senate in 1994. He has been
in the Senate since 1994.
• Kyl served in the
House of Representatives
from 1987 to 1995

16. House Leaders

17. • On January 6, 2009, Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the 111th Congress
• Nancy Pelosi made history in 2007, shattering the marble ceiling to become the
first woman to serve as Speaker of House
• She worked with the new President to pass the pass the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act to provide relief for American families, create or save 3.5
million American jobs, and to get our economy moving again.
• She graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She and her husband,
Paul Pelosi, a native of San Francisco, have five grown children and eight
grandchildren.

18. • Congressman Steny H. Hoyer of
Maryland's Fifth Congressional District
was first elected to serve as House
Majority Leader in November 2006
and again in 2008 by his colleagues in
the Democratic Caucus, after serving as
the Democratic Whip in the previous two
Congresses.
• Now serving his 15th term in Congress,
he also became the longest-serving
Member of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Maryland in history
on June 4, 2007.
• wife, the late Judith Pickett Hoyer.

19. • On November 16th, 2006, the House
Democratic Caucus unanimously
elected Congressman James E.
Clyburn of South Carolina Majority
Whip for the 110th Congress
• It was also historic for Jim Clyburn,
who became the first South
Carolinian and the second African
American to ascend to the third
ranking position in the U.S. House of
Representatives.
• The Clyburns have three daughters,
Mignon, Angela and Jennifer Clyburn
Reed, a son-in-law, Walter Reed

20. • John Boehner, elected to represent the
Eighth Congressional District of Ohio for a
10th term in November 2008, is a national
leader in the fight for a smaller, more
accountable government
• On November 19, 2008, Boehner was elected
by his colleagues to serve a second term as
House Republican Leader.

21. • Eric Cantor is a fifth-term congressman
representing the Seventh District of Virginia.
He recently won re-election to Congress in
November 2008.
• In December 2008, Eric was elected to serve
as the Republican Whip. Eric also holds a
seat on the powerful House Ways and Means
Committee, which has direct jurisdiction over
taxes, trade, Social Security, Medicare,
prescription drugs for seniors, health care
and welfare reform.
• He serves as Chairman of the Congressional
Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional
Warfare.

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