The majority leader in the U.S. Senate and one of the most tenured
Republican senators are two of the 14 church members serving the 111th
United States Congress this year.
Now serving his fourth term, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., returned as
incumbent Senate majority leader. He was elected two years ago at the start
of 110th U.S. Congress as the floor leader and chief Senate spokesman for
the Democratic Party.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is among the half-dozen most senior members of
the U.S. Senate — he is one of the Republican Party's two
longest-serving senators who both were first elected in 1976. Sen. Hatch is
in his sixth six-year term of office.
The church's 14-member total in the U.S. Congress — five in the
Senate and nine in the House of Representatives — is two fewer than
the 16 church members who served in the 110th Congress that served in 2007
and 2008.See the full story at LDSChurchNews.com
This story is provided by the LDS Church News, an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is produced weekly by the Deseret News.