Flow Higher Education Thesis

Faith on the Hill : The Religious Composition of the 118th Congress

UNIT 4 : RELIGION

THE 118TH SESSION

DEFINITION

The 118th United State Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States House of Representives (lower chamber) and The United States Senate (upper chamber)

• Economic Issues
• Healthcare and Prescription Drugs
• Immigration Reform
• National Security and Foreign Policy
• Social and Cultural Issues
• Technology and Big Tech Regulation
• Investigations and Oversight
• Climate Change and Environmental Policy
• Criminal Justice Reform and Public Safety

the religious composition of the congress

2 trends on the religious representation

• People who identify as Christians

• People with other affiliations

-76% identify as Christians -All the Muslims members (3), Buddhists members (2), Unitarian Universalist members (2), Humanist member (1), -Jewish members (12%) and 7% with no specific religious affiliation

-99% identify as Christians -69% identify as Protestant Christians : Baptist (65%), Methodist (5%), Presbyterian (5%), 28% with no denomination -All the Mormons members (9)-Only 1 member who identify as a Messianic Jew -2 jewish members

democrats

religion by party

republicans

‘ Nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults now say they are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” up from 16% who did not identify with a religion 16 years ago. But Christians make up 88% of the voting members of the new 118th Congress being sworn in on Jan. 3 – only a few percentage points lower than the Christian share of Congress in the late 1970s. '

-Pew Research Center, January 3, 2023

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