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To: Soul of the South
The headline is incorrect. Mark Meadows is a “Congressman”, not a “Senator”.,P> Well, actually, you'd be incorrect, too.

Congress has two bodies: The House of Representatives and the Senate.

Members of the House of Representatives are called Representatives.

Members of the Senate are called Senators.

BOTH are called Congressmen.

41 posted on 09/06/2015 1:46:34 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Alas Babylon!

You stated, “The headline is incorrect. Mark Meadows is a “Congressman”, not a “Senator”.,P> Well, actually, you’d be incorrect, too.”

The current edition of Webster’s dictionary defines Congressman as follows:

“: someone (especially a man) who is a member of a congress and especially of the U.S. House of Representatives”

Technically a Senator is a member of Congress and could be called a Congressman. In practice, as Webster indicates, members of the House are called Congressmen.

Members of the Senate do not refer to themselves as Congressmen and are rarely referred to as a Congressman by the media. Members of the US Senate are almost always referred to as a “Senator”.


48 posted on 09/07/2015 7:41:08 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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