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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
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Associated Press
By PETER SMITH increase in the percentage who say they
Associated Press have no religious affiliation,” said the Pew
Religiously speaking, the incoming 118th report, released Tuesday. It was based on
Congress looks like America — that is, the a CQ Roll Call survey of members of Con-
America of decades past, rather than to- gress. Nearly 88% of members of Congress
day. Congress is far more Christian, and identify as Christian, compared with only
religious overall, than today’s general 63% of U.S. adults overall. That includes 57%
population. Even though nearly three in 10 of congresspersons who identify as Prot-
Americans claim no religious affiliation — a estant and 28% as Catholic, both higher
rate that has steadily risen in recent years than national rates. Also, 6% of members
— only two of the 534 incoming members of Congress identify as Jewish, compared
of Congress publicly identify as such. with 2% of the overall population.
Those are among the conclusions of an While 29% Americans claim no religious
analysis by Pew Research Center of the affiliation, they’d have to squint to see
118th Congress, which was expected to themselves reflected in Congress. The only
start this week pending a House leader- overtly non-religious members are U.S.
ship vote. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., who identi-
The Congress “remains largely untouched fies as humanist, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema,
by two trends that have long marked reli- independent of Arizona, who says she’s re-
gious life in the United States: a decades- ligiously unaffiliated.
long decline in the share of Americans who Page 7
identify as Christian, and a corresponding Continued on Page 2