Charles Ernest Grassley is an American politician serving as the president pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate,and the senior United States senator from Iowa,having held the seat since 1981. In 2022,he was reelected to his eighth Senate term,having first been elected in 1980. He is the longest-serving Republican in U.S. Senate history,having overtaken Orrin Hatch's record in January 2023,and the sixth-longest-serving U.S. senator in history.
Michael Dean Crapo is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Idaho,a seat he has held since 1999. A member of the Republican Party,Crapo served as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district from 1993 to 1999. He is the dean of Idaho's congressional delegation,having served since 1993.
Ernest Scott Garrett is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 5th congressional district,serving from 2003 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1990 to 2003. Garrett chaired the United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He lost his reelection bid in 2016 to Democrat Josh Gottheimer,becoming the only incumbent Congressman in New Jersey to be defeated that year.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States Senate. It is the only organization solely dedicated to electing Democrats to the United States Senate. The DSCC's current Chair is Senator Gary Peters of Michigan,who succeeded Nevada‘s Catherine Cortez Masto after the 2020 Senate elections. DSCC's current executive director is Christie Roberts.
Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Delaware since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party,Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.
John Patrick Williams is an American Democratic legislator who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1997.
David Wayne Loebsack is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Iowa's 2nd congressional district from 2007 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he also is an emeritus professor of political science at Cornell College,where he had taught since 1982. On April 12,2019,Loebsack announced he would not seek reelection.
Mark William Pocan is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative from Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district since 2013. The district is based in the state capital,Madison. A member of the Democratic Party,Pocan is co-chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. From 1999 to 2013 he served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly,representing the 78th district,succeeding Tammy Baldwin there,whom he also replaced in the House when Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Brian H. Schoenjahn is an Iowa State Senator from the 12th District. A Democrat,he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2005. He received his B.A. in Social Science and his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Northern Iowa.
Steve Kettering is the Iowa State Senator from the 26th District. A Republican,he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2003,when he won a special election to fill the vacancy left after Steve King was elected to Iowa's 5th congressional district. He got his B.A. from Buena Vista College and his master's degree from California State University,Long Beach.
James A. Seymour is the Iowa State Senator from the 28th District. A Republican,he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2003.
Bradley Zaun (R-Urbandale) is an Iowa State Senator representing the 22nd District as well as the Iowa Senate President pro tempore. He was the Republican nominee for Iowa's 3rd congressional district in the 2010 general election.
Paul McKinley is the Iowa State Senator from the 36th District. He has served in the Iowa Senate since 2001 and served as Senate minority leader from 2009 until November 2011.
William Anthony "Bill" Dotzler Jr. is the Iowa State Senator from the 31st District. A Democrat,he has served in the Iowa Senate since 2003 and previously served as assistant majority leader.
Nancy Jane Boettger was the Iowa State Senator from the 9th District. A Republican,she served in the Iowa Senate since 1995. She received a B.A. in Sociology from Iowa State University in 1965 and a B.A. from Buena Vista College in Education in 1982.
Hubert M. Houser was the Iowa State Senator from the 49th District. He served in the Iowa Senate from 2002,when he filled a vacancy left by Derryl McLaren's resignation,until 2013.
David Hartsuch was the Iowa State Senator from the 41st District. He served in the Iowa Senate from 2007 to 2011.
Mark Eugene Amodei is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district since 2011. The only Republican in Nevada's congressional delegation since 2019,Amodei served in the Nevada Assembly from 1997 to 1999 and in the Nevada Senate,representing the Capital District,from 1999 to 2011.
John Robert Moolenaar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 2nd congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008 and the Michigan Senate from 2011 to 2014.
The 2016 presidential campaign of Rick Santorum, former United States Senator from Pennsylvania,was formally announced at a rally in Pittsburgh on May 27,2015. His campaign for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2016 was his second bid for the office,after having been a candidate in 2012,where he received the second most delegates after 2012 nominee Mitt Romney.
