Title: Twenty-Two Lutherans in the 106th Congress
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

February 15, 1999

TWENTY-TWO LUTHERANS IN THE 106TH CONGRESS
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- There are 22 Lutherans in  the 106th 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).
     Nine of the 17 Lutherans in the U.S. House are Democrats; eight
are Republicans.  Three of the five Lutherans in the U.S. Senate are
Democrats; two are Republicans.
     The number of Lutherans in Congress is unchanged from the 105th
Congress.  Mark W. Neumann (R-Wis. 1st), a member of the Wisconsin
Evangelical Lutheran Synod, lost his bid for re-election to the House of
Representatives in 1998.  Doug Ose (R-Calif. 3rd), a member of the ELCA,
was elected to his first term in the House.
     The five Lutherans in the U.S. Senate are Conrad Burns (R-Mont.),
Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), Rod Grams (R-Minn.), Ernest F. "Fritz"
Hollings (D-S.C.), and Tim Johnson (D-S.D.).
     The 17 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), David Minge
(D-Minn. 2nd), Jim Nussle (R-Iowa 2nd), Ose, 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 Senators Burns and Grams and Representatives Bereuter and Shimkus
who are members of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.


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