While older members of leadership in the House and the Senate are retiring, some from the Silent Generation say their seniority is still a boon for their districts.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 85, is heading for the exits after nearly four decades in Congress. So is her longtime deputy, Rep. Steny Hoyer, 86, and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 83.
But of the two dozen members of the Silent Generation now serving in the 119th Congress, more than half (13) have decided to run again in 2026, according to an NBC News review.
In total, this Congress is the third-oldest in U.S. history, with an average age of 58.9 years at the start of this session one year ago. The median age in the U.S. is 39.1.
How would you prevent the cognitive test from being used to remove candidates for political reasons?
“Sorry, he failed the test because he couldn’t sing the texas anthem”
You could maybe have the questions and answers public, but the voting public is poorly informed and educated.
You could have some sort of third party do it, but then the conservatives would spend decades corrupting that.
Yup. Precisely why I advocate for a hard cap on age positioned around 65 rather than any form of test.
I’m a firm believer that the only qualification for elected office should be citizenship.
Yeah, or just Mississippi having 10 or so cognitive tests and by weird coincidence black people keep getting the really hard ones