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How Many Members Of The U.S. CongressAre Self-Declared Socialists?

In the United States House of Representatives, these people all belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, established in the early 1990’s. The members of the Progressive Caucus also belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a confederation of socialists formed in 1983 when a splinter group of the Socialist Party (Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, DSOC) merged with the Students for a Democratic Society’s (SDS) splinter group, the New American Movement (NAM).

The main aim of DSA was to convert the Democratic Party into a social democratic organization. to that end, during the early 1990’s, the DSA hosted the Progressive Caucus’ website, which contained the names of its members. When the word got out, all the information regarding the Progressive Caucus vanished. These congress critters don’t want you to know their true colors (red).

The DSA has many celebrity members, including feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, black activist Cornel West, and libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky. It is also the chief American member group of the Socialist International, which includes the British Labour Party and the French Parti Socialiste.

Officers

Barbara Lee (California), Co-Chair
Lynn Woolsey (California), Co-Chair
Directors

Bill Goold, Executive Director
Current members
Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii)
Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin)
Xavier Becerra (California)
Madeleine Bordallo (Guam)
Bob Brady (Pennsylvania)
Corrine Brown (Florida)
Mike Capuano (Massachusetts)
Julia Carson (Indiana)
Donna Christian-Christensen (Virgin Islands)
Yvette Clarke (New York)
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (Missouri)
Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)
Steve Cohen (Tennessee)
John Conyers (Michigan) - chairman, House Judiciary Committee
Elijah Cummings (Maryland)
Danny Davis (Illinois)
Peter DeFazio (Oregon)
Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)
Keith Ellison (Minnesota)
Eni Faleomavaega (American Samoa)
Sam Farr (California)
Chaka Fattah (Pennsylvania)
Bob Filner (California) - chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee
Barney Frank (Massachusetts) - chairman, House Financial Services Committee
Raul Grijalva (Arizona)
Luis Gutierrez (Illinois)
John Hall (New York)
Phil Hare (Illinois)
Maurice Hinchey (New York)
Mazie Hirono (Hawaii)
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Illinois)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas)
Hank Johnson (Georgia)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio) - chairwoman, House Ethics Committee
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (Michigan)
Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) - candidate for President of the United States
Tom Lantos (California) - chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee
Barbara Lee (California) - Co-Chair
John Lewis (Georgia)
Dave Loebsack (Iowa)
Carolyn Maloney (New York)
Ed Markey (Massachusetts)
Jim McDermott (Washington)
Jim McGovern (Massachusetts)
George Miller (California) - chairman, House Education and Labor Committee
Gwen Moore (Wisconsin)
Jerry Nadler (New York)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)
John Olver (Massachusetts)
Ed Pastor (Arizona)
Donald M. Payne (New Jersey)
Charles Rangel (New York) - chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
Bobby Rush (Illinois)
Jan Schakowsky (Illinois)
Jose Serrano (New York)
Louise Slaughter (New York)
Hilda Solis (California)
Pete Stark (California)
Bennie Thompson (Mississippi) - chairman, House Homeland Security Committee
John Tierney (Massachusetts)
Tom Udall (New Mexico)
Nydia Velazquez (New York) - chairwoman, House Small Business Committee
Maxine Waters (California)
Diane Watson (California)
Mel Watt (North Carolina)
Henry Waxman (California) - chairman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Peter Welch (Vermont)
Lynn Woolsey (California) - Co-Chair

Senate member
Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Former members
Sherrod Brown (Ohio) - elected to Senate
Lane Evans (Illinois) - retired from Congress
Cynthia McKinney (Georgia) - lost Congressional seat
Major Owens (New York) - retired from Congress
Nancy Pelosi (California) - left caucus when elected House Minority Leader

Supporting organizations

Institute for Policy Studies
The Nation Magazine
Moveon.org
National Priorities Project
Jobs with Justice Campaign
Peace Action
Americans for Democratic Action
Progressive Democrats of America

Co-sponsoring the kickoff event

NAACP
ACLU
Progressive Majority
League of United Latin American Citizens
Rainbow/Push Coalition
National Council of La Raza
Hip Hop Caucus
Human Rights Campaign
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
National Hip Hop Political Convention