Title: Twenty Lutherans in the 107th Congress
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

December 13, 2000

TWENTY LUTHERANS IN THE 107TH CONGRESS
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- There are 20 Lutherans in  the 107th Congress of
the United States, according to the Lutheran Office for Governmental
Affairs (LOGA), Washington, D.C., the federal public policy advocacy
office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
     Eight of the 16 Lutherans in the U.S. House are Republicans; eight
are Democrats.  Three of the four Lutherans in the U.S. Senate are
Democrats; one is a Republican.
     There were 22 Lutherans in the 106th Congress.  Two Lutherans --
U.S. Senator Rod Grams (R-Minn.) and U.S. Representative David Minge
(D-Minn. 2nd) -- failed to win re-election.  After a recount, the
Minnesota Secretary of State reported that Minge had lost re-election by
155 of the 293,747 votes cast in that district.  Minge conceded Dec. 12,
stopping a hand recount of the ballots.
     The four Lutherans in the U.S. Senate are Conrad Burns (R-Mont.),
Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) and Tim
Johnson (D-S.D.).
     The 16 Lutherans in the U.S. House of Representatives are Douglas
K. Bereuter (R-Neb. 1st), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio 13th), Lois Capps
(D-Calif. 22nd), Norman D. Dicks (D-Wash. 6th), Darlene Hooley (D-Ore.
5th), Ron Kind (D-Wis. 3rd), Tom Latham (R-Iowa 5th), Jim Nussle (R-Iowa
2nd), Doug Ose (R-Calif. 3rd), Michael Oxley (R-Ohio 4th), Collin C.
Peterson (D-Minn. 7th), Thomas E. Petri (R-Wis. 6th), Martin Olav Sabo
(D-Minn. 5th), John M. Shimkus (R-Ill. 20th), Floyd D. Spence (R-S.C.
2nd) and Charles W. Stenholm (D-Texas 17th).
     All are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
except Senator Burns and Representatives Bereuter and Shimkus who are
members of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

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