Lawyers, lawyers everywhere and in power in government. How many lawyers?
Republican attorneys in Congress and the Senate?
16 Senators (40% of the Republican Senators)
47 Representatives (26.5% of Republican Congressmen).
63 Republican attorneys or 29% of Republican representatives.
Democrat attorneys in Congress and the Senate?
24 Senators (40% of Democrat Senators)
93 Representatives (36.3% of Democrat Congressman)
120 Democrat attorneys or 37.5% of Democrat representatives
Overall that's 183 out of 535 representatives (34.2%).
The overall percentage of the US population that are lawyers? In 2007 according to the American Bar Association there were 1.1 million lawyers. That's about 0.4% of the population.
Representative-wise the lawyers are over-represented in Congress and the Senate. Throw the bums out? There's a reason the Constitution was not 1100 pages. I'm just saying.
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