96TH UNITED STATES CONGRESS

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The 'Ninety-sixth United States Congress' was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from January 3 1979 to January 3 1981, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President James E. (Jimmy) Carter, Jr..
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Nineteenth Census of the United States in 1970. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

Contents
Dates of sessions
Major events
Major legislation
Leadership
Senate
Officers
Party leaders
House
Members
Senate
House of Representatives
Delegates
Resident Commissioners
Changes in Membership
References
External links

Dates of sessions


January 3 1979January 3 1981

★ First session: January 15 1979January 3 1980

★ Second session: January 3 1980October 15 1980
Previous congress: ''95th Congress''

Next congress: ''97th Congress''

Major events


:''Main article: Events of 1979; Events of 1980''

Major legislation


:''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 96th Congress

Leadership


Senate

Officers

'President of the Senate':
Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota
'President pro tempore':
Warren G. Magnuson (D-Washington)
Milton R. Young (R-North Dakota, just for one day — December 5, 1980)
Warren G. Magnuson
Party leaders

'Majority Leader':
Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
'Majority Whip':
Alan Cranston (D-California)
'Minority Leader':
Howard Baker (R-Tennessee)
'Minority Whip':
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
House

'Speaker':
Tip O'Neill (D-Massachusetts)
'Majority Leader':
Jim Wright (D-Texas)
'Majority Whip':
John W. Brademas (D-Indiana)
'Minority Leader':
John Jacob Rhodes (R-Arizona)
'Minority Whip':
Robert Michel (R-Illinois)

Members


This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
Senate

Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.
:'Alabama'
Howell T. Heflin ''(D)''
Donald W. Stewart ''(D)'', ''resigned'' January 2,1981:::Jeremiah Denton ''(R)'', ''began'' January 2, 1981:'Alaska'
Theodore F. Stevens ''(R)''
Maurice R. Gravel ''(D)'':'Arizona'
Barry Goldwater ''(R)''
Dennis DeConcini ''(D)'':'Arkansas'
Dale Bumpers ''(D)''
David Pryor ''(D)'':'California'
Alan Cranston ''(D)''
S.I. Hayakawa ''(R)'':'Colorado'
Gary Hart ''(D)''
William L. Armstrong ''(R)'':'Connecticut'
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. ''(R)''
Abraham A. Ribicoff ''(D)'':'Delaware'
William V. Roth, Jr. ''(R)''
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. ''(D)'':'Florida'
Lawton Chiles ''(D)''
Richard B. Stone ''(D)'', ''resigned'' December 30, 1980:::Paula Hawkins ''(R)'', ''began'' January 1, 1981:'Georgia'
Sam Nunn ''(D)''
Herman Talmadge ''(D)'':'Hawaii'
Daniel K. Inouye ''(D)''
Spark Matsunaga ''(D)'':'Idaho'
James A. McClure ''(R)''
Frank F. Church ''(D)'':'Illinois'
Charles H. Percy ''(R)''
Adlai Stevenson III ''(D)'':'Indiana'
Richard G. Lugar ''(R)''
Birch Evan Bayh ''(D)'':'Iowa'
Roger Jepsen ''(R)''
John C. Culver ''(D)'':'Kansas'
Bob Dole ''(R)''
Nancy Landon Kassebaum ''(R)'':'Kentucky'
Walter D. Huddleston ''(D)''
Wendell H. Ford ''(D)'':'Louisiana'
Russell B. Long ''(D)''
J. Bennett Johnston ''(D)'':'Maine'
William S. Cohen ''(R)''
Edmund S. Muskie ''(D)'' ''resigned'' May 7, 1980:::George J. Mitchell ''(D)'' ''began'' May 19, 1980:'Maryland'
Charles Mathias, Jr. ''(R)''
Paul S. Sarbanes ''(D)'':'Massachusetts'
Edward M. Kennedy ''(D)''
Paul Tsongas ''(D)'':'Michigan'
Donald W. Riegle, Jr. ''(D)''
Carl Levin ''(D)'':'Minnesota'
Rudy Boschwitz ''(R)''
David Durenberger ''(R)'':'Mississippi'
John C. Stennis ''(D)''
Thad Cochran ''(R)'':'Missouri'
Thomas F. Eagleton ''(D)''
John C. Danforth ''(R)''
:'Montana'
John Melcher ''(D)''
Max Baucus ''(D)'':'Nebraska'
Edward Zorinsky ''(D)''
Jim Exon ''(D)'':'Nevada'
Howard W. Cannon ''(D)''
Paul Laxalt ''(R)'':'New Hampshire'
Gordon J. Humphrey ''(R)''
John A. Durkin ''(D)'' ''resigned'' December 29, 1980:::Warren B. Rudman ''(R)'' ''began'' December 29, 1980:'New Jersey'
Harrison A. Williams ''(D)''
Bill Bradley ''(D)'':'New Mexico'
Pete V. Domenici ''(R)''
Harrison Schmitt ''(R)'':'New York'
Daniel Patrick Moynihan ''(D)''
Jacob K. Javits ''(R)'':'North Carolina'
Jesse Helms ''(R)''
Robert Burren Morgan ''(D)'':'North Dakota'
Milton Young ''(R)''
Quentin N. Burdick ''(D)'':'Ohio'
John H. Glenn Jr. ''(D)''
Howard M. Metzenbaum ''(D)'':'Oklahoma'
David L. Boren ''(D)''
Henry L. Bellmon ''(R)'':'Oregon'
Mark O. Hatfield ''(R)''
Bob Packwood ''(R)'':'Pennsylvania'
John Heinz ''(R)''
Richard S. Schweiker ''(R)'':'Rhode Island'
Claiborne Pell ''(D)''
John H. Chafee ''(R)'':'South Carolina'
Strom Thurmond ''(R)''
Ernest F. Hollings ''(D)'':'South Dakota'
Larry Pressler ''(R)''
George S. McGovern ''(D)'':'Tennessee'
Howard Baker ''(R)''
Jim Sasser ''(D)'':'Texas'
John G. Tower ''(R)''
Lloyd Bentsen ''(D)'':'Utah'
Jake Garn ''(R)''
Orrin G. Hatch ''(R)'':'Vermont'
Robert T. Stafford ''(R)''
Patrick Leahy ''(D)'':'Virginia'
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (I)
John W. Warner ''(R)'':'Washington'
Henry M. Jackson ''(D)''
Warren G. Magnuson ''(D)'':'West Virginia'
Jennings Randolph ''(D)''
Robert C. Byrd ''(D)'':'Wisconsin'
William Proxmire ''(D)''
Gaylord A. Nelson ''(D)'' :'Wyoming'
Malcolm Wallop ''(R)''
Alan K. Simpson ''(R)''

House of Representatives

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The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise ''at-large,'' are preceded by an "At-Large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.
Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.
:'Alabama'
Jack Edwards ''(R)''
Bill Dickinson ''(R)''
Bill Nichols ''(D)''
Tom Bevill ''(D)''
Ronnie G. Flippo ''(D)''
John Hall Buchanan, Jr. ''(R)''
Richard C. Shelby ''(D)'':'Alaska'
★ : Don Young ''(R)'':'Arizona'
John J. Rhodes ''(R)''
Morris K. Udall ''(D)''
Bob Stump ''(D)''
Eldon Rudd ''(R)'':'Arkansas'
Bill Alexander ''(D)''
Ed Bethune ''(R)''
John Paul Hammerschmidt ''(R)''
Beryl Anthony, Jr. ''(D)'':'California'
Harold T. Johnson ''(D)''
Don H. Clausen ''(R)''
Robert T. Matsui ''(D)''
Vic Fazio ''(D)''
John L. Burton ''(D)''
Phillip Burton ''(D)''
George Miller ''(D)''
Ronald V. Dellums ''(D)''
Pete Stark ''(D)''
Don Edwards ''(D)''
William Royer ''(R)''
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. ''(R)''
Norman Y. Mineta ''(D)''
Norman D. Shumway ''(R)''
Tony Coelho ''(D)''
Leon E. Panetta ''(D)''
Chip Pashayan ''(R)''
William M. Thomas ''(R)''
Robert J. Lagomarsino ''(R)''
Barry Goldwater, Jr. ''(R)''
James C. Corman ''(D)''
Carlos J. Moorhead ''(R)''
Anthony C. Beilenson ''(D)''
Henry A. Waxman ''(D)''
Edward R. Roybal ''(D)''
John H. Rousselot ''(R)''
Robert K. Dornan ''(R)''
Julian C. Dixon ''(D)''
Augustus F. Hawkins ''(D)''
George Elmore Danielson ''(D)''
Charles H. Wilson ''(D)''
Glenn M. Anderson ''(D)''
Wayne R. Grisham ''(R)''
Daniel E. Lungren ''(R)''
James F. Lloyd ''(D)''
George Brown, Jr. ''(D)''
Jerry Lewis ''(R)''
Jerry M. Patterson ''(D)''
William E. Dannemeyer ''(R)''
Robert E. Badham ''(R)''
Bob Wilson ''(R)''
Lionel Van Deerlin ''(D)''
Clair W. Burgener ''(R)'':'Colorado'
Patricia Schroeder ''(D)''
Timothy E. Wirth ''(D)''
Raymond P. Kogovsek ''(D)''
James Paul Johnson ''(R)''
Ken Kramer ''(R)'':'Connecticut'
William R. Cotter ''(D)''
Christopher J. Dodd ''(D)''
Robert N. Giaimo ''(D)''
Stewart McKinney ''(R)''
William R. Ratchford ''(D)''
Toby Moffett ''(D)'':'Delaware'
★ : Thomas B. Evans, Jr. ''(R)'':'Florida'
Earl Hutto ''(D)''
Don Fuqua ''(D)''
Charles E. Bennett ''(D)''
William V. Chappell, Jr. ''(D)''
Richard Kelly ''(R)''
Bill Young ''(R)''
Sam M. Gibbons ''(D)''
Andy Ireland ''(D)''
Bill Nelson ''(D)''
Louis A. Bafalis ''(R)''
Daniel A. Mica ''(D)''
Edward J. Stack ''(D)''
William Lehman ''(D)''
Claude Pepper ''(D)''
Dante B. Fascell ''(D)'':'Georgia'
Ronald Bryan Ginn ''(D)''
Dawson Mathis ''(D)''
Jack T. Brinkley ''(D)''
Elliott H. Levitas ''(D)''
Wyche Fowler, Jr. ''(D)''
Newt Gingrich ''(R)''
Larry McDonald ''(D)''
Billy Lee Evans ''(D)''
Ed Jenkins ''(D)''
Doug Barnard, Jr. ''(D)'':'Hawaii'
Cecil Heftel ''(D)''
Daniel K. Akaka ''(D)'':'Idaho'
Steven D. Symms ''(R)''
George V. Hansen ''(R)'':'Illinois'
Bennett M. Stewart ''(D)''
Morgan F. Murphy ''(D)''
Marty Russo ''(D)''
Edward J. Derwinski ''(R)''
John G. Fary ''(D)''
Henry J. Hyde ''(R)''
Cardiss Collins ''(D)''
Dan Rostenkowski ''(D)''
Sidney R. Yates ''(D)''
Abner J. Mikva ''(D)'', ''resigned'' September 26, 1979:::John Edward Porter ''(R)'' ''began'' January 22, 1980
Frank Annunzio ''(D)''
Philip M. Crane ''(R)''
Robert McClory ''(R)''
John N. Erlenborn ''(R)''
Tom Corcoran ''(R)''
John B. Anderson ''(R)''
George M. O'Brien ''(R)''
Robert H. Michel ''(R)''
Tom Railsback ''(R)''
Paul Findley ''(R)''
Edward R. Madigan ''(R)''
Daniel B. Crane ''(R)''
Melvin Price ''(D)''
Paul Simon ''(D)'':'Indiana'
Adam Benjamin, Jr. ''(D)''
Floyd Fithian ''(D)''
John Brademas ''(D)''
J. Danforth Quayle III ''(R)''
Elwood Hillis ''(R)''
David W. Evans ''(D)''
John T. Myers ''(R)''
H. Joel Deckard ''(R)''
Lee H. Hamilton ''(D)''
Philip R. Sharp ''(D)''
Andrew Jacobs, Jr. ''(D)'':'Iowa'
James A. Leach ''(R)''
Tom Tauke ''(R)''
Chuck Grassley ''(R)''
Neal Smith ''(D)''
Tom Harkin ''(D)''
Berkley Bedell ''(D)'':'Kansas'
Keith Sebelius ''(R)''
James Edmund Jeffries ''(R)''
Larry Winn, Jr. ''(R)''
Dan Glickman ''(D)''
Bob Whittaker ''(R)'':'Kentucky'
Carroll Hubbard, Jr. ''(D)''
William H. Natcher ''(D)''
Romano L. Mazzoli ''(D)''
Gene Snyder ''(R)''
Tim Lee Carter ''(R)''
Larry J. Hopkins ''(R)''
Carl D. Perkins ''(D)'':'Louisiana'
Robert L. Livingston, Jr. ''(R)''
Corinne Claiborne "Lindy" Boggs ''(D)''
David C. Treen ''(R)'' ''resigned'' March 10, 1980:::Wilbert J. "Billy" Tauzin ''(D)'' ''began'' May 22, 1980
Anthony Claude Leach, Jr. ''(D)''
Thomas J. "Jerry" Huckaby ''(D)''
W. Henson Moore III ''(R)''
John B. Breaux ''(D)''
Gillis William Long ''(D)'':'Maine'
David F. Emery ''(R)''
Olympia J. Snowe ''(R)'':'Maryland'
Robert E. Bauman ''(R)''
Clarence D. Long ''(D)''
Barbara A. Mikulski ''(D)''
Marjorie S. Holt ''(R)''
Gladys N. Spellman ''(D)''
Beverly B. Byron ''(D)''
Parren J. Mitchell ''(D)''
Michael D. Barnes ''(D)'':'Massachusetts'
Silvio O. Conte ''(R)''
Edward P. Boland ''(D)''
Joseph D. Early ''(D)''
Robert F. Drinan ''(D)''
James Michael Shannon ''(D)''
Nicholas Mavroules ''(D)''
Edward J. Markey ''(D)''
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. ''(D)''
John Joseph Moakley ''(D)''
Margaret M. Heckler ''(R)''
Brian Donnelly ''(D)''
Gerry E. Studds ''(D)'':'Michigan'
John Conyers, Jr. ''(D)''
Carl D. Pursell ''(R)''
Howard Wolpe ''(D)''
David A. Stockman ''(R)''
Harold S. Sawyer ''(R)''
Milton Robert Carr ''(D)''
Dale E. Kildee ''(D)''
Bob Traxler ''(D)''
Guy Vander Jagt ''(R)''
Donald J. Albosta ''(D)''
Robert William Davis ''(R)''
David E. Bonior ''(D)''
Charles C. Diggs, Jr. ''(D)'' ''resigned'' June 3, 1980:::George W. Crockett, Jr. ''(D)'' ''began'' November 4, 1980
Lucien N. Nedzi ''(D)''
William D. Ford ''(D)''
John D. Dingell ''(D)''
William M. Brodhead ''(D)''
James J. Blanchard ''(D)''
William S. Broomfield ''(R)'':'Minnesota'
Arlen Erdahl ''(R)''
Tom Hagedorn ''(R)''
Bill Frenzel ''(R)''
Bruce F. Vento ''(DFL)''
Martin Olav Sabo ''(DFL)''
Richard M. Nolan ''(DFL)''
Arlan Stangeland ''(R)''
James L. Oberstar ''(DFL)'':'Mississippi'
Jamie L. Whitten ''(D)''
David R. Bowen ''(D)''
Gillespie V. Montgomery ''(D)''
Jon C. Hinson ''(R)''
Trent Lott ''(R)''
:'Missouri'
William L. Clay ''(D)''
Robert A. Young ''(D)''
Richard A. Gephardt ''(D)''
Ike Skelton ''(D)''
Richard Bolling ''(D)''
Tom Coleman ''(R)''
Gene Taylor ''(R)''
Richard H. Ichord II ''(D)''
Harold L. Volkmer ''(D)''
William D. Burlison ''(D)'':'Montana'
Pat Williams ''(D)''
Ron Marlenee ''(R)'':'Nebraska'
Doug Bereuter ''(R)''
John Joseph Cavanaugh III ''(D)''
Virginia Smith ''(R)'':'Nevada'
★ : James David Santini ''(D)'':'New Hampshire'
Norman D'Amours ''(D)''
James Colgate Cleveland ''(R)'':'New Jersey'
James J. Florio ''(D)''
William J. Hughes ''(D)''
James J. Howard ''(D)''
Frank Thompson, Jr. ''(D)''
Millicent Fenwick ''(R)''
Edwin B. Forsythe ''(R)''
Andrew Maguire ''(D)''
Robert A. Roe ''(D)''
Harold C. Hollenbeck ''(R)''
Peter W. Rodino, Jr. ''(D)''
Joseph George Minish ''(D)''
Matthew J. Rinaldo ''(R)''
Jim Courter ''(R)''
Frank J. Guarini ''(D)''
Edward J. Patten ''(D)'':'New Mexico'
Manuel Lujan, Jr. ''(R)''
Harold L. Runnels ''(D)'':'New York'
William Carney ''(R)''
Thomas J. Downey ''(D)''
Jerome A. Ambro, Jr. ''(D)''
Norman F. Lent ''(R)''
John W. Wydler ''(R)''
Lester L. Wolff ''(D)''
Joseph Patrick Addabbo ''(D)''
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal ''(D)''
Geraldine Ferraro ''(D)''
Mario Biaggi ''(D)''
James H. Scheuer ''(D)''
Shirley Chisholm ''(D)''
Stephen J. Solarz ''(D)''
Frederick W. Richmond ''(D)''
Leo C. Zeferetti ''(D)''
Elizabeth Holtzman ''(D)''
John M. Murphy ''(D)''
S. William Green ''(R)''
Charles B. Rangel ''(D)''
Ted Weiss ''(D)''
Robert Garcia ''(D)''
Jonathan Brewster Bingham ''(D)''
Peter A. Peyser ''(D)''
Richard Ottinger ''(D)''
Hamilton Fish, Jr. ''(R)''
Benjamin A. Gilman ''(R)''
Matthew F. McHugh ''(D)''
Samuel S. Stratton ''(D)''
Gerald B.H. Solomon ''(R)''
Robert C. McEwen ''(R)''
Donald Jerome Mitchell ''(R)''
James M. Hanley ''(D)''
Gary Alcide Lee ''(R)''
Frank Horton ''(R)''
Barber B. Conable, Jr. ''(R)''
John J. LaFalce ''(D)''
Henry J. Nowak ''(D)''
Jack Kemp ''(R)''
Stan Lundine ''(D)'':'North Carolina'
Walter Beaman Jones, Sr. ''(D)''
Lawrence H. Fountain ''(D)''
Charles Whitley ''(D)''
Ike F. Andrews ''(D)''
Stephen L. Neal ''(D)''
Lunsford R. Preyer ''(D)''
Charlie Rose ''(D)''
Bill Hefner ''(D)''
James G. Martin ''(R)''
James T. Broyhill ''(R)''
V. Lamar Gudger ''(D)'':'North Dakota'
★ : Mark Andrews ''(R)'':'Ohio'
Willis D. Gradison Jr. ''(R)''
Thomas A. Luken ''(D)''
Tony P. Hall ''(D)''
Tennyson Guyer ''(R)''
Delbert L. Latta ''(R)''
William H. Harsha ''(R)''
Clarence J. "Bud" Brown Jr. ''(R)''
Thomas N. Kindness ''(R)''
Thomas L. Ashley ''(D)''
Clarence E. Miller ''(R)''
J. William Stanton ''(R)''
Samuel L. Devine ''(R)''
Donald J. Pease ''(D)''
John F. Seiberling ''(D)''
Chalmers P. Wylie ''(R)''
Ralph S. Regula ''(R)''
John M. Ashbrook ''(R)''
Douglas Applegate ''(D)''
Lyle Williams ''(R)''
Mary Rose Oakar ''(D)''
Louis Stokes ''(D)''
Charles A. Vanik ''(D)''
Ronald M. Mottl ''(D)'':'Oklahoma'
James R. Jones ''(D)''
Mike Synar ''(D)''
Wes Watkins ''(D)''
Tom Steed ''(D)''
Mickey Edwards ''(R)''
Glenn English ''(D)'':'Oregon'
Les AuCoin ''(D)''
Albert Conrad Ullman ''(D)''
Robert B. Duncan ''(D)''
James Weaver ''(D)'':'Pennsylvania'
Michael J. Myers ''(D)''
William H. Gray, III ''(D)''
Raymond F. Lederer ''(D)''
Charles F. Dougherty ''(R)''
Dick Schulze ''(R)''
Gus Yatron ''(D)''
Robert W. Edgar ''(D)''
Peter H. Kostmayer ''(D)''
Bud Shuster ''(R)''
Joseph M. McDade ''(R)''
Daniel J. Flood ''(D)'' ''resigned'' January 31, 1980:::Raphael J. Musto ''(D)'' ''began'' April 9, 1980
John P. Murtha ''(D)''
Lawrence Coughlin ''(R)''
William S. Moorhead ''(D)''
Don Ritter ''(R)''
Robert Smith Walker ''(R)''
Allen Edward Ertel ''(D)''
Doug Walgren ''(D)''
William F. Goodling ''(R)''
Joseph M. Gaydos ''(D)''
Donald A. Bailey ''(D)''
Austin J. Murphy ''(D)''
William F. Clinger ''(R)''
Marc Lincoln Marks ''(R)''
Eugene Atkinson ''(D)'':'Rhode Island'
Fernand St. Germain ''(D)''
Edward Beard ''(D)'':'South Carolina'
Mendel J. Davis ''(D)''
Floyd Spence ''(R)''
Butler Derrick ''(D)''
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. ''(R)''
Kenneth Lamar Holland ''(D)''
John W. Jenrette, Jr. ''(D)'':'South Dakota'
Thomas Daschle ''(D)''
James Abdnor ''(R)'':'Tennessee'
James H. Quillen ''(R)''
John J. Duncan, Sr. ''(R)''
Marilyn Lloyd ''(D)''
Al Gore ''(D)''
Bill Boner ''(D)''
Robin L. Beard ''(R)''
Ed Jones ''(D)''
Harold E. Ford, Sr. ''(D)'':'Texas'
Sam B. Hall, Jr. ''(D)''
Charles Wilson ''(D)''
James M. Collins ''(R)''
Herbert R. Roberts ''(D)''
Jim Mattox ''(D)''
Phil Gramm ''(D)''
Bill Archer ''(R)''
Robert C. Eckhardt ''(D)''
Jack Brooks ''(D)''
J.J. Pickle ''(D)''
Marvin Leath ''(D)''
Jim Wright ''(D)''
Jack Hightower ''(D)''
Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr. ''(D)''
Kika de la Garza ''(D)''
Richard C. White ''(D)''
Charles W. Stenholm ''(D)''
Mickey Leland ''(D)''
Kent Hance ''(D)''
Henry B. Gonzalez ''(D)''
Tom Loeffler ''(R)''
Ron Paul ''(R)''
Abraham Kazen ''(D)''
Martin Frost ''(D)'':'Utah'
K. Gunn McKay ''(D)''
Dan Marriott ''(R)'':'Vermont'
★ : James M. Jeffords ''(R)'':'Virginia'
Paul S. Trible, Jr. ''(R)''
G. William Whitehurst ''(R)''
David Edward Satterfield III ''(D)''
Robert Williams Daniel, Jr. ''(R)''
Dan Daniel ''(D)''
M. Caldwell Butler ''(R)''
J. Kenneth Robinson ''(R)''
Herbert Harris ''(D)''
William Creed Wampler ''(R)''
Joseph L. Fisher ''(D)'':'Washington'
Joel Pritchard ''(R)''
Al Swift ''(D)''
Don Bonker ''(D)''
Mike McCormack ''(D)''
Thomas S. Foley ''(D)''
Norman D. Dicks ''(D)''
Mike Lowry ''(D)'':'West Virginia'
Robert H. Mollohan ''(D)''
Harley O. Staggers ''(D)''
John M. Slack, Jr. ''(D)'' ''died'' March 17, 1980:::John G. Hutchinson ''(D)'' ''began'' June 30, 1980
Nick J. Rahall II ''(D)'':'Wisconsin'
Les Aspin ''(D)''
Robert Kastenmeier ''(D)''
Alvin J. Baldus ''(D)''
Clement J. Zablocki ''(D)''
Henry S. Reuss ''(D)''
Thomas E. Petri ''(R)''
David R. Obey ''(D)''
Toby Roth ''(R)''
F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. ''(R)'':'Wyoming'
★ : Dick Cheney ''(R)''

Delegates

:'District of Columbia'

Walter E. Fauntroy ''(D)''
:'Guam'

Antonio Borja Won Pat ''(D)''
:'Virgin Islands'

Melvin H. Evans ''(R)''
Resident Commissioners

:'Puerto Rico'

Baltasar Corrada del Rio ''(PNP)''

Changes in Membership


The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
:'Senate'
★ replacements: 4

Democratic: 3 seat net loss

Republican: 3 seat net gain
★ deaths:
★ resignations: 4
★ vacancy:
★ 'Total seats with changes: 4'
:'House of Representatives'
★ replacements: 5

Democratic: 0 seat net loss

Republican: 0 seat net gain
★ deaths: 1
★ resignations: 4
★ contested election:
★ 'Total seats with changes: 5'

References



The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989,

The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1982,

External links



★ Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress [1]

★ U.S. House of Representatives: Congressional History [2]

★ U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists [3]

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