The 119th Congress will be the first one in recent years to buck the general trend of more racial, gender, age and ethnic ...

But with the current makeup of the Senate, each pick can afford to lose ... deference to Trump because he’s no longer leader of the party, and Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who voted ...

Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years, while the Senate's median age is 64.7 ...