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The 1996 election left Harvard with 39 affiliates in the 105th Congress, 24 Democrats (unchanged) and 15 Republicans (down from 16). (The death in January of Representative Frank Tejeda, M.P.A. '80 (D-Tex.), has reduced the tally to 38.)

In the Senate, the retirements of Paul Simon, IOP '76 (D-Ill.), and William S. Cohen, IOP '72 (R-Me.), and the defeat of Larry Pressler, M.P.A. '66, J.D. '71 (R-S.D.), cut the University's count, but two Harvard-affiliated House members, Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), won election to the upper chamber. In the House, six affiliates left and six new members--four Democrats and two Republicans--arrived.

The Harvard Club of Washington, D.C., will hold its traditional reception for Harvard and Radcliffe members of Congress on Tuesday, March 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in room 325 of the Russell Senate Office Building.

The lineup (asterisks mark newcomers) is:

SENATE DEMOCRATS Torricelli Jeff Bingaman '65 (N.M.); Russell Feingold, J.D. '79 (Wisc.); Bob Graham, LL.B. '62 (Fla.); Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Mass.); Herbert H. Kohl, M.B.A. '58 (Wisc.); Carl Levin, LL.B. '59 (Mich.); Daniel P. Moynihan, A.M. '66 (hon.) (N.Y.); John F. (Jack) Reed, M.P.P. '73, J.D. '82 (R.I.); John D. Rockefeller IV '58 (W.V.); Paul Sarbanes, J.D. '60, IOP '76 (Md.); Robert G. Torricelli, M.P.A. '81 (N.J.).

SENATE REPUBLICANS

Spencer Abraham, J.D. '78 (Mich.); John H. Chafee, LL.B. '50 (R.I.); William H. Frist, M.D. '78 (Tenn.); James M. Jeffords, LL.B. '62 (Vt.); William Roth Jr., IA '43, M.B.A. '47, LL.B. '49 (Del.); Ted Stevens, LL.B. '50 (Alas.).

Allen Maloney Sherman HOUSE DEMOCRATS *Thomas H. Allen, J.D. '74 (Me.); Chet Edwards, M.B.A. '81 (Tex.); Barney Frank '61, G. '62-'68, IOP '76, J.D. '77 (Mass.); William J. Jefferson, J.D. '72 (La.); Barbara B. Kennelly, HRP '59 (Conn.); *Ron Kind '85 (Wisc.); Sander Levin, LL.B. '57 (Mich.); *James H. Maloney '70 (Conn.); Karen McCarthy, IOP '82 (Mo.); Charles E. Schumer '71, J.D. '74 (N.Y.); Robert C. Scott '69 (Va.); *Bradley J. Sherman, J.D. '79 (Cal.).

HOUSE REPUBLICANS Cook Sununu Douglas K. Bereuter, M.C.P. '66, M.P.A. '73 (Neb.); *Merrill A. Cook, M.B.A. '71 (Utah); C. Christopher Cox, M.B.A. '75, J.D. '77 (Cal.); Michael D. Crapo, J.D. '77 (Id.); Steve Horn, M.P.A. '55 (Cal.); Amory Houghton Jr. '50, M.B.A. '52 (N.Y.); Nancy L. Johnson '57 (Conn.); Thomas E. Petri '62, LL.B. '65 (Wisc.); *John E. Sununu, M.B.A '91 (N.H.).

Farther west on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Harvard-affiliated contingent in the executive branch has also altered. Vice president Al Gore '69, LL.D. '94, continues to preside over the Senate. Attorney General Janet Reno, LL.B. '63, Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60, and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, LL.B. '65, remain in office, but former Kennedy School lecturer Robert Reich stepped down as Secretary of Labor to join the faculty at Brandeis University and spend more time with his family. The nation's new Secretary of Defense, however, is Maine's former Senator, William S. Cohen, who joins fellow Kennedy School affiliate Richard W. Riley, IOP '90, staying on as Secretary of Education.

Other University affiliates with current or pending White House appointments include Franklin Raines '71, J.D. '76, director of the Office of Management and Budget; former national security adviser Anthony K. Lake '61, nominated to head the Central Intelligence Agency, and Aida Alvarez '71, nominated to head the Small Business Administration; Mark Gearan '78, who continues as director of the Peace Corps; and deputy White House chief of staff Sylvia Mathews '87.

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