{"id":21902,"date":"2018-11-07T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/07\/the-number-of-vets-in-congress-appears-headed-down-again\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:24:47","slug":"the-number-of-vets-in-congress-appears-headed-down-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/veterans\/2018\/11\/07\/the-number-of-vets-in-congress-appears-headed-down-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of vets in Congress appears headed down again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 After Tuesday\u2019s midterm contests, the number of female veterans and younger veterans in Congress are rising but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/19\/will-the-number-of-veterans-in-congress-rise-next-year\/\" target=_blank>overall number of veterans<\/a> in Congress remains on a steady decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a contentious election which saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/11\/07\/democrats-big-night-brings-big-questions-for-defense-policy\/\" target=_blank>Democrats take over the House<\/a> and Republicans add to their majority in the Senate, 77 veterans won elections across the country. Combined with 15 incumbent veterans in the Senate who did not face election, that guarantees at least 92 veterans will be part of the 116th session of Congress in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Wednesday morning, 10 races involving veteran candidates were still undecided. If all of those veterans were to win \u2014 an unlikely scenario, given the unofficial results at press time \u2014 that would still only match the 102 veterans who were in office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2016\/11\/09\/the-number-of-iraq-and-afghanistan-vets-in-congress-will-rise-in-2017\/\" target=_blank>at the start of the 115th session<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/19\/here-are-the-172-veterans-running-for-congress-in-november\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4429025.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Here are the 173 veterans running for Congress in November<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Bookmark this page for election night updates on all the races featuring veterans.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, Veterans Campaign Executive Director Seth Lynn said he sees plenty of positives in Tuesday\u2019s midterm results for veteran candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe saw an uptick in the number of non-incumbent veterans who got major party nominations this cycle,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had an uptick in the number of women veterans. And we have a huge cohort of incoming veterans now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re seeing more of the younger veterans taking their place in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 77 election-night winners, 17 of them are new candidates. Lynn said that\u2019s the biggest class of freshman veteran lawmakers since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost half of the veterans in Congress in January will be individuals who served after Sept. 11, 2001. Of the 92, 25 are Democrats and 67 are Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday\u2019s class of new veterans includes three Democratic female veterans. Mikie Sherrill, who won a New Jersey congressional seat, is a former Navy helicopter pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chrissy Houlahan, who won in Pennsylvania, is an Air Force vet whose family boasts multiple military members. New Virginia Rep. Elaine Luria narrowly defeated fellow Navy veteran Rep. Scott Taylor in a key swing race for her party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019ll join three incumbent female veterans \u2014 Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst \u2014 and possibly one other incumbent. Arizona Republican Rep. Martha McSally\u2019s race for her state\u2019s Senate seat remains too close to declare a victor.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2018\/11\/07\/democrats-big-night-brings-big-questions-for-defense-policy\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_18311199765787.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Democrats\u2019 big night brings big questions for defense policy<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Democrats won the U.S. House in convincing fashion in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections, promising to shake up defense policy in the coming year and raising the possibility of tumultuous impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new class of veterans includes several names who have already drawn national attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw, who lost an eye while serving in Afghanistan, was lampooned last weekend on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d for his injury, prompting an outpouring of conservative anger against the comedy show. He had been leading in the polls prior to the controversy, but now enjoys even larger name recognition as he heads to Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Florida Republican Rep. Michael Waltz is a green beret and commentator for Fox News. Colorado Democratic Rep. Jason Crow, a prominent speaker at the party\u2019s 2012 national convention, upset fellow Army veteran Mike Coffman, an incumbent representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The total number of veterans in Congress has been on a steady decline since the 1970s, when nearly three-fourths of lawmakers had served in the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lynn said he is optimistic that Tuesday\u2019s results show that decline isn\u2019t guaranteed to persist, even if the number did not increase this cycle. But he also said a return to the previous highs of past decades is unlikely, given the much smaller percentage of veterans in America since the start of the all-volunteer Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the number of female vets in Congress is headed up, and 17 new veteran candidates won races on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":47590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":19,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,23,93,10,12,25,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3226],"class_list":["post-21902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-middle-column","category-military-honor","category-news","category-newsletters","category-veterans"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"YRSALD2F6FA53IQDOWAPBYE734","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/2018\/11\/07\/the-number-of-vets-in-congress-appears-headed-down-again\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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