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White House Health Reform – By The Numbers  (1 comment)

Posted: Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

by Dennis Smith

The Obama Administration has invited the Congressional leadership to attend a meeting on February 25 to discuss health legislation. The meeting is to be held at Blair House and will be broadcast live. In light of the Olympics and the beginning of baseball spring training, here are some stats on the invitees to Blair House so far:

1—the number of congressional women invited (Speaker Pelosi)
2.56—minutes per topic per participant (assumes 7 hours of discussion)
4—Administration participants (President Obama, Vice President Biden, HHS Secretary Sebelius and Office of Health Reform Director DeParle)
4—topics to be discussed (insurance reforms, cost containment, expanding coverage, impact of legislation on the deficit)
5—years of federal service of President Obama (in Senate and as President)
7—fewest number of years in Congress served by a Republican (Kline)
13—fewest number of years in Senate served by a Republican (Enzi)
15.8—average years in Congress served by House Republicans (range 7 to 25)
17—fewest number of years in Congress served by a Democrat (Clyburn)
24—average years in Congress served by Senate Republicans (includes House service; range 13 to 35)
27—fewest number of years in Senate served by a Democrat (Reid and Durbin)
31.8—average years in Congress served by Senate Democrats (includes House service; range 27 to 35)
33.3—average years in Congress served by House Democrats (range 17 to 55)
35—most years served in Congress among senators (Baucus, Harkin, Dodd and Grassley)
41—number of participants (21 from Congressional leadership; 16 designees by Congressional leaders; 4 from Administration)
47—age of youngest Republican (Cantor)
49—age of President Obama
55—most years served in Congress (Dingell)
57.8—average age of House Republicans
65—age of youngest Democrat (Miller)
73—average age of House Democrats
69.75—average age of Senate Republicans
68.6—average age of Senate Democrats
175—collective years in Congress served by Republicans
392—collective years in Congress served by Democrats

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