new york | The following is a list of Jewish lawmakers who will serve in the 109th Congress. The number of Jews in the Senate will remain at 11; the number in the House of Representatives will hold steady at 26, with two new faces. New members of the House have one asterisk. Senators who were re-elected have two asterisks.
U.S. Senate
** Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)
** Russell Feingold (D-Wis.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Herb Kohl (D-Wis.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
** Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
** Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
** Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
U.S. House of Representatives
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Steven Rothman (D-N.J.)
Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
* Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
* Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
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