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In the Senate, there are 17 women: Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Kay Hagan (D-NC), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).
Currently 42 members (9.5%) of the House are African American...As of 2009 there was one African-American serving in the Senate. Roland Burris was sworn in as senator on January 15, 2009 after being appointed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Following the end of Burris's tenure in the Senate and his replacement by Republican Mark Kirk on November 29, 2010, there were once again no African Americans serving in the Senate. Barack Obama previously held Burris's seat ...
Considering that Hispanics make up only 4% of American voters, Hispanic political incorporation has been relatively high compared with previous immigrant groups. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus [25] has 21 members...here are currently two Hispanics in the US Senate: Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Marco Rubio of Florida; both who are Cuban American.
There are eight members of Asian or Islander descent in the House and three in the Senate.
Compared with the European American, African American, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American communities, American Indians, who comprise 1.5% of the population, are the most underrepresented group. Tom Cole, a Chickasaw, is the only registered American Indian currently in Congress.
As a group, Middle Eastern Americans are not measured by the U.S. Census, which, combined with differences in the definition of this group, makes measuring its percentage of the population difficult. Estimates place about 1.8% of the nation's population to be of this origin. Nearly all Middle Eastern members of Congress have been Lebanese Americans. George Kasem became the first Lebanese congressman when he won his first and only term in 1958. Since Abraham Kazen took office in 1977, serving until 1985, Lebanese Americans have consistently served in Congress. There are currently three Lebanese members of the House: Nick Rahall, Charles Boustany, and Darrell Issa.
Five members of the U.S. Senate have been of Middle Eastern descent, all five with Arab American ancestry and four of Lebanese descent. James Abourezk, who served from 1973 to 1979, became the first Lebanese American Senator. George Mitchell (served 1980-95), who is half Lebanese, became the first Middle Eastern American party leader, as he served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. James Abdnor (served 1981 to 1987) and Spencer Abraham (1995-2001) also were Lebanese American senators, while John Sununu is the only person of Palestinian ancestry to serve in Congress.
This is a follow up to my pondering about what would happen if People of Color, women and people who earned under $20.00 and hour disappeared from the USA workforce for 1-2 days.
I included The House & Senate and said it was a bad example...seems I am sort of right. But even there, the disappearance of women and POC would make an impression.
(And mind you, we all disappear at like, noon on a Monday, but nobody would be hurt or killed by us disappearing--the rules would buffer people riding in the bus etc from suffering if their driver disappeared...and 2 days off, on some nice planet...with lots of sunshine, good food and rest...)
((Yes, this was a copy paste from wikipedia, I am of the lazy, yes...))