Of all of the Congresses since 1789, this is the second-oldest Senate and the third-oldest House.
The first day of the 118th Congress in the House chamber on Tuesday. The average age of a U.S. representative is about 57.5 years, down from 58.2 years in the 117th Congress in 2021.But don’t call it young.
The 118th Congress enters Capitol Hill as one of the oldest in the past century, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the @unitedstates project, a group of journalists and researchers who track historical and current Congress-related information. In fact, of all of the Congresses since 1789, this is the second-oldest Senate and the third-oldest House.The average age of the 118th Congress is half a year younger than the 117th.
, D-Fla., followed by 33-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The oldest known representative, Grace Napolitano, D-Calif., is 86 years old. In the Senate, 89-year-old Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is the oldest and Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., 35, is the youngest.
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