Senate & House - 115th & 116th

 

 

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress#Senate_2

 

 

 

Patrick Leahy - 

Georgetown University

 

 

 

Majority (Republican) leadership

 

Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell  

 Omicron Delta Kappa  

 Phi Kappa Tau

 

Majority Whip: John Cornyn 

Private Catholic School St. Mary's University, Texas 

 Chi Delta Tau

Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Cory Gardner 

 member of the FarmHouse fraternity.^[8]

 

Policy Committee Chairman: John Barrasso - 

graduate of the former Central Catholic High School

attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity)

 before transferring to Georgetown University , graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1974

Minority (Democratic) leadership

 

Minority Leader: Chuck Schumer 

 Phi Beta Kappa in 1971

 

Minority Whip: Dick Durbin 

 Georgetown University

Democratic Caucus Vice Chair: Mark Warner 

Phi Beta Kappa

Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman: Chris Van Hollen 

 Georgetown University

 

Policy Committee Vice Chairman: Joe Manchin 

 Manchin became the state's senior U.S. senator when Jay Rockefeller retired in 2015.

House of Representatives

Speaker: Paul Ryan 

Catholic Education

 Delta Tau Delta

 

Majority (Republican) leadership

Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy

"maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant"

Majority Whip: Steve Scalise

Scalise's great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy in the late 1800s.^[15]

^{graduated from Archbishop Rummel High School} 

^{Acacia Fraternity}

on the board of the American Italian Renaissance Foundation, servicing the American Italian Cultural Center. 

 

Republican Campaign Committee Chairman: Steve Stivers

Delta Upsilon

 

Policy Committee Chairman: Luke Messer

Phi Delta Theta

served as an Associate Counsel at Koch Industries from 1995 to 1996.^[8]

Minority (Democratic) leadership

 

Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi was born in Baltimore to an Italian-American family her father could trace his Italian ancestry to Genoa, Venice and Abruzzo.^[10]

Trinity College ( Private Catholic )

In 1958, Pelosi graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame ( Private Catholic )

Husband Paul is a Georgetown Grad

Minority Whip: Steny Hoyer

In 1963, Hoyer received his B.A. degree magna cum laude and graduated Omicron Delta Kappa from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.^[8] He earned his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., in 1966.^[8]

 

Assistant Minority Leader: Jim Clyburn

Omega Psi Phi  

Democratic Caucus Chairman: Joseph Crowley

attended private Roman Catholic schools in the city, graduating from Power Memorial Academy in Manhattan in 1981.

Crowley voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002

Steering and Policy Committee Co-Chair: Rosa DeLauro

Marymount College

Steering and Policy Committee Co-Chair Eric Swalwell

  Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity

Policy and Communications Chairmen - David Cicilline

Georgetown University  

 

 

Policy and Communications Chairmen - Hakeem Jeffries

Georgetown University 

116th ( Many Stayed/switched, only new recorded below)

Senate

 

 President pro tempore: Chuck Grassley

Alpha Gamma Rho 

 

 

 

• Chair of the Senate Republican Steering Committee: Mike Lee^[13]

 

• Senate Republican Chief Deputy Whip: Mike Crapo^[14]

- Both educated from same private christian school ( possibly infiltrated by Jesuits , like they do for catholic schools outside their own main Jesuit institutions )

 Brigham Young University

 

 

 

 Senate Republican Deputy Whips - Shelly Moore Capito

 Kappa Kappa Gamma

 

 

 

Minority (Democratic) leadership

 Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: Catherine Cortez Masto

 Gonzaga University