
This is from narrowdown.org and yes, I understand how nerdy it is.
I derived these using “Narrow Down Congress,” a web-app I coded over the holidays. It does one thing: find members of Congress who match more than one category. I invite you to play around with it.
The House and Senate Foreign Relations/Affairs Committees have subcommittees for the Western Hemisphere. They have a combined 23 members. Of these 23:
4 are under 50 (born since 1967):
- Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas)
- Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida)
- Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado)
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida)
4 are women:
- Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Illinois)
- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida)
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire)
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-California)
4 were elected since 2014:
- Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-New York)
- Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado)
- Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Florida)
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-California)
5 are Congressional Hispanic Caucus members:
- Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas)
- Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-New York)
- Sen. Robert “Bob” Menendez (D-New Jersey)
- Rep. Albio Sires (D-New Jersey)
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-California)
5 come from U.S.-Mexico border states:
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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas)
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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona)
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Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas)
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Rep. Norma Torres (D-California)
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Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico)
7 were last elected by a margin of less than 10 points:
- Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona)
- Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado)
- Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)
- Sen. Timothy Kaine (D-Virginia)
- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida)
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida)
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire)
These 34 Republicans are currently co-sponsoring at least one bill favoring more trade and travel with Cuba:
- Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota)
- Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas)
- Rep. Justin Amash (R-Michigan)
- Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky)
- Rep. Eric “Rick” Crawford (R-Arkansas)
- Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-Virginia)
- Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Illinois)
- Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas)
- Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minnesota)
- Rep. Marshall “Mark” Sanford (R-South Carolina)
- Rep. Austin Scott (R-Georgia)
- Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas)
- Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-Louisiana)
- Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana)
- Rep. Ted Budd (R-North Carolina)
- Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas)
- Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Illinois)
- Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas)
- Rep. A. “Drew” Ferguson (R-Georgia)
- Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Mississippi)
- Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri)
- Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana)
- Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-Indiana)
- Rep. Walter Jones (R-North Carolina)
- Rep. Trent Kelly (R-Mississippi)
- Rep. Jason Lewis (R-Minnesota)
- Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky)
- Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Mississippi)
- Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Indiana)
- Rep. Jason Smith (R-Missouri)
- Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pennsylvania)
- Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Arkansas)
- Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas)
- Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
(There are three such bills, you can find them at narrowdown.org by typing “Cuba” into the blank that says “Search by name.”)
Of these 34 Republicans, only one represents a district that Trump lost in November:
- Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minnesota)
And only one won his district by less than 10 percentage points:
- Rep. Jason Lewis (R-Minnesota, who in fact won by less than 5)
These eight members of the Congressional Central America Caucus also co-sponsor the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act:
- Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut)
- Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona)
- Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois)
- Rep. James “Jim” McGovern (D-Massachusetts)
- Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin)
- Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colorado)
- Rep. Janice “Jan” Schakowsky (D-Illinois)
- Rep. Jose Serrano (D-New York)
Of these eight, five are also on the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, which Rep. McGovern co-chairs:
- Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona)
- Rep. James “Jim” McGovern (D-Massachusetts)
- Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin)
- Rep. Janice “Jan” Schakowsky (D-Illinois)
- Rep. Jose Serrano (D-New York)
Of the Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, the U.S.-Mexico Friendship Caucus, and the co-sponsors of House Resolution 104 “Reaffirming a strong commitment to the United States-Mexico partnership,” these 17 “friends of Mexico” are on two out of three:
- Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colorado, the only one on all three)
- Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas)
- Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-Virginia)
- Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)
- Rep. Susan Davis (D-California)
- Rep. Theodore Deutch (D-Florida)
- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota)
- Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York)
- Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona)
- Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Florida)
- Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-California)
- Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-California)
- Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas)
- Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-California)
- Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-California)
- Rep. Jose Serrano (D-New York)
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-California)
Of these 17, the only one elected to Congress since 2014:
- Rep. Norma Torres (D-California)