Mainstream? By the Numbers: CBC, CHC + Progressive Caucus [it's not about "race"]

various ^ | Feb. 25, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Congressional Progressive Caucus - 108th   officers
Member/Position/District	Address	Phone	Website
Dennis Kucinich (D) (CO-CHAIR, OHIO-10)	1730 LHOB	225-5871	WEBSITE
Barbara Lee (D)  CBC (CO-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-09)	426 CHOB	225-2661	WEBSITE
Lynn Woolsey (D) (VICE-CHAIR, CALIFORNIA-06)	2263 RHOB	225-5161	WEBSITE
Peter DeFazio (D) (OFFICER, OREGON-04)	2134 RHOB	225-6416	WEBSITE
Jesse Jackson, Jr (D) CBC (OFFICER, ILLINOIS-02)	313 CHOB	225-0773
Major Owens (D)  CBC (OFFICER, NEW YORK-11)	2309 RHOB	225-6231	WEBSITE
Bernie Sanders (I) (OFFICER, VERMONT)	2233 RHOB	225-4115	WEBSITE
Hilda Solis (D) CHC (OFFICER, CALIFORNIA-31)	1641 LHOB	225-5464	WEBSITE

members
Member/Position/District	Address	Phone	Website
Neil Abercrombie (D) (MEMBER, HAWAII-01)	1502 LHOB	225-2726	WEBSITE
Tammy Baldwin (D) (MEMBER, WISCONSIN-02)	1022 LHOB	225-2906	WEBSITE
Xavier Becerra (D)  CHC (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-30)	1119 LHOB	225-6235	WEBSITE
Corrine Brown (D)  CBC (MEMBER, FLORIDA-03)	2444 RHOB	225-0123	WEBSITE
Sherrod Brown (D) (MEMBER, OHIO-13)	2438 RHOB	225-3401	WEBSITE
Michael Capuano (D) (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-08)	1232 LHOB	225-5111	WEBSITE
Julia Carson (D)   CBC (MEMBER, INDIANA-10)	1339 LHOB	225-4011	WEBSITE
William "Lacy" Clay (D) CBC (MEMBER, MISSOURI-01)	415 CHOB	225-2406	WEBSITE
John Conyers (D) CBC (MEMBER, MICHIGAN-14)	2426 RHOB	225-5126	WEBSITE
Danny Davis (D) CBC (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-07)	1222 LHOB	225-5006	WEBSITE
Rosa DeLauro (D) (MEMBER, CONNECTICUT-03)	2262 RHOB	225-3661	WEBSITE
Lane Evans (D) (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-17)	2211 RHOB	225-5905	WEBSITE
Eni Faleomavaega (D) (MEMBER, AMERICAN SAMOA)	2422 RHOB	225-8577	WEBSITE
Sam Farr (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-17)	1221 LHOB	225-2861	WEBSITE
Chaka Fattah (D) CBC (MEMBER, PENNSYLVANIA-02)	1205 LHOB	225-4001	WEBSITE
Bob Filner (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-50)	2463 RHOB	225-8045	WEBSITE
Barney Frank (D) (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-04)	2252 RHOB	225-5931	WEBSITE
Raul Grijalva (D) CHC (MEMBER, ARIZONA-07)	1440 RHOB	225-2435	WEBSITE
Luis Gutierrez (D) CHC (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-04)	2452 RHOB	225-8203	WEBSITE
Maurice Hinchey (D) (MEMBER, NEW YORK-26)	2431 RHOB	225-6335	WEBSITE
Sheila Jackson Lee (D) CBC (MEMBER, TEXAS-18)	403 CHOB	225-3816	WEBSITE
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D) CBC (MEMBER, OHIO-11)	1516 LHOB	225-7032	WEBSITE
Marcy Kaptur (D) (MEMBER, OHIO-09)	2366 RHOB	225-4146	WEBSITE
Tom Lantos (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-12)	2217 RHOB	225-3531	WEBSITE
John Lewis (D) CBC (MEMBER, GEORGIA-05)	343 CHOB	225-3801	WEBSITE
Jim McDermott (D) (MEMBER, WASHINGTON-07)	1035 LHOB	225-3106	WEBSITE
James P. McGovern (D) (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-03)	430 CHOB	225-6101	WEBSITE
George Miller (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-07)	2205 RHOB	225-2095	WEBSITE
Jerry Nadler (D) (MEMBER, NEW YORK-08)	2334 RHOB	225-5635	WEBSITE
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) CBC (MEMBER, D.C.)	2136 RHOB	225-8050	WEBSITE
John Olver (D) (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-01)	1027 LHOB	225-5335	WEBSITE
Ed Pastor (D) CHC (MEMBER, ARIZONA-02)	2465 RHOB	225-4065	WEBSITE
Donald Payne (D) CBC (MEMBER, NEW JERSEY-10)	2209 RHOB	225-3436	WEBSITE
Nancy Pelosi (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-08)	2457 RHOB	225-4965	WEBSITE
Bobby Rush (D) CBC (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-01)	2416 RHOB	225-4372	WEBSITE
Jan Schakowsky (D) (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-09)	515 CHOB	225-2111	WEBSITE
Jose Serrano  (D) CHC (MEMBER, NEW YORK-16)	2342 RHOB	225-4361	WEBSITE
Pete Stark (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-13)	239 CHOB	225-5065	WEBSITE
Bennie Thompson (D) CBC (MEMBER, MISSISSIPPI-02)	2432 RHOB	225-5876	WEBSITE
John Tierney (D) (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-06)	120 CHOB	225-8020	WEBSITE
Tom Udall (D) (MEMBER, NEW MEXICO-03)	502 CHOB	225-6190	WEBSITE
Nydia Velazquez (D) CHC (MEMBER, NEW YORK-12)	2241 RHOB	225-2361	WEBSITE
Maxine Waters (D) CBC (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-35)	2344 RHOB	225-2201	WEBSITE
Diane Watson (D) CBC (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-32)	2413 RHOB	225-7084	WEBSITE
Mel Watt (D) CBC (MEMBER, NORTH CAROLINA-12)	2236 RHOB	225-1510	WEBSITE
Henry Waxman (D) (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-29)	2204 RHOB	225-3976	WEBSITE

                                                    D:Democrat (53)

                                                     I: Independent (Socialist) (1)

                                                    CBC: Congressional Black Caucus -19
                                                    CHC: Congressional Hispanic Caucus - 7

Congressional Progressive Caucus

http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp

 

*PC/CBC members 20: 51% total if Kendrick Meek takes his mother Carrie Meek's (retired)  2002 seat.

 

108th Congress - CBC:

http://www.house.gov/cummings/cbc/cbcmember.htm 

 

 

108th Congress - CHC membership (Tentative):

http://www.house.gov/reyes/CHC/CHCmembers107.htm (107th)

http://www.chci.org/media/03jan08.html (prospective new members)

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U. S. House of Representatives - 108th Congress

 

Congressional Black Caucus

 

Progressive Caucus Members: PC

New Members

 

alphabetical order

 

Rep. Frank Ballance (D-NC)

Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)

Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) PC

Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN) PC

Del. Donna Christian-Christensen Virgin Islands (D)

Rep. William "Lacy" Clay, Jr. (D-MO) PC

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)
Rep. John Conyers  (D-MI) PC
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) 

Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL)

Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL) PC

Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) PC

Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN)

Rep. Alcee Hastings* (D-FL)

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) PC

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) PC

Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) PC

Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson  (D-TX)

Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) PC

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) PC

Rep. Denise Majette (D-GA)

Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL)

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)

Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton  (D-DC) PC

Rep. Major Owens (D-NY) PC

Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ) PC

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) PC

Rep. David Scott  (D-GA)

Rep. Robert Scott (D-VA)

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) PC

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) PC

Rep. Diane E. Watson (D-CA) PC

Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC) PC

Rep. Albert R. Wynn (D-MD)

 

Total CBC Membership: 39

 

Congressional Black Caucus Membership - 108th Congress:

http://www.house.gov/cummings/cbc/cbcmember.htm 

 

Progressive Caucus Membership - 108th Congress:

http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp

 

19 out of 39 total members of the 108th CBC belong to the far left (socialist) Progressive Caucus, ~ 48%.

20 - if Kendrick Meek takes his mother (retired) Carrie's seat. ~ 51%

 

*Alcee Hastings PC? - not listed in 2003 PC membership, but was longtime member.

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Congressional Hispanic Caucus 

 

Tentative: based on 107th CHC membership: http://www.house.gov/reyes/CHC/CHCmembers107.htm,

 and Jan. 2003 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute article: http://www.chci.org/media/03jan08.html

 

Progressive Caucus Members: PC

New Members

 

alphabetical order

 

Rep. Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá (D-PR)

Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA)
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) - PC

Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA)

Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez (D-TX)

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) - PC

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) - PC

Rep.Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX)

Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA)

Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX) 

Rep. Ed Pastor (D-AZ) - PC

Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)

Hon. Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX) - Chair

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA)

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)

Rep. José Serrano (D-NY) - PC

Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) - PC

Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) - PC

 

20 Tentative 2003 Members

 

7 out of 20 members of the 108th CHC belong to the far left (socialist) Progressive Caucus, ~ 35%.

 

2002 CHC Member Rep. Robert Underwood (D-Guam) listed as 2003 Congressional Asian Pacific Caucus Delegate 

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

FYI. Almost half of the Congressional Black Caucus and over a third of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus members belong to the socialist Progressive Caucus. Mainstream America?

Check out the numbers here.

[pulaskibush]

The CHC says Miguel Estrada is not hispanic enough because he doesn't pander to the liberal hispanic advocacy groups. Republican Hispanics are not hispanic according to them.

[Xthe17th]

Yep. A progressive is really just a communist in a suit.

"The people are uninformed and can be easily misled by a few designing men." - Elbridge Gerry, June 1787

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus issued a protest against Miguel before he even testified. They didn't even give him the courtesy of a hearing.

"The Democrat Hispanic Congressional Caucus is exactly that - a Democratic machine."
"There are NO Republican members of the Democrat Hispanic Congressional Caucus...they were forced out. Republican hispanic members of congress support Miguel Estrada."- Sen. Orrin Hatch, Feb. 5,  2003.

[Tacis]

Despite what you hear in the media, democrats still hate blacks. So many of the party's southern pillars are from families that lost a great deal of "property" when the Republicans abolished slavery. The dems still see blacks as "property" and segregate them in the CBC where they can mouth off but accomplish little. It keeps the black comgressmen on a segregated plantation, as it were.

I still don't understand why some Republican Congressmen from districts with a significant black population don't try to join the CBC and demonstrate the dems hypocracy on this issue. It is this traditional dem view of blacks as property still, sort of, owned by whites, that makes it certain that Sharpton and Moseley-Braun will NEVER get a real shot at being on the dem ticket in 2004. The dems will give them the standard shucking and jiving, maybe let them chair some new committee, but nothing more than some lip service. Both, of course, will be bought off as dems ALWAYS do with powerful blacks.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

For the record, 28 out of the 54 members of the Progressive Caucus are not members of the CBC, or CHC. It isn't about race (sex, age, class) - it's about politics.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The Progressive Caucus, the largest Democratic caucus with over 50 members: working to turn America into a socialist workers' paradise - like Cuba. No more problems with immigration or "Rush Limbaugh," the Ten Commandments or that pesky Constitution. No more putting racist-sexist-homophobe-bigotted American sovereignty and national security ahead of the noble instrument of universal peace, enlightenment and androgeny - the UN.

Kucinich, Sarandon, Daschle and Rather might say about the Progressive Caucus what Hillary said about America on Hardball shortly after 9-11, "I pledge allegiance to the America that can be.".

Miguel Estrada respresents mainstream America. His critics don't. Case closed.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Following a pro-Miguel Estrada rally airing on C-Span tonight is a full half hour devoted to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus's opposition to Miguel's nomination for the DC Circuit Court.

There is no honest case against Miguel. He supports the US Constitution, not Fidel Castro.

While Americans expect the mainstream news media to investigate and report the FACTS accordingly...they aren't. It is not about race with the CHC, but about Miguel being a conservative. Shame on them...using double standards while loudly protesting the same treatment from others.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Marcy Kaptur, Kucinich - the ones heading the anti-war coalition in the House, calling the war illegal, are members of the Progressive Caucus.

Americans deserve to know the loyalties of their elected leaders...and the loyalties of those condemning our CIC on the eve of war.

Mainstream press, you forgot a major theme of the story - the anti-American agenda of the President's accusers.