Not exactly a congressional balance

Interesting piece of trivia from Scientists and Engineers for America...

How many scientists are in Congress?

Answer:

In the 110th Congress there are 8 members of Congress with PhDs specifically in the hard sciences. This number varies depending upon how you define "scientist" and whether or not you include people who received medical degrees, social science degrees, and bachelors and masters degrees in the sciences.


Vern Ehlers (R MI)
Nuclear Physics

Roscoe Bartlett (R MD)
Physiology

Bill Foster (D IL)
Physics

Tim Murphy (R PA)
Psychology

Rush Holt (D NJ)
Physics

John Olver (D MA)
Chemistry

Brian Baird (D WA)
Clinical Psychology

Gerald McNerney (D CA)
Math


Rush Holt--will he assist science?