New York
| District
|
Member
|
Party
|
Hometown
|
First took
office
|
Prior Background
|
Education
|
|
|
1
|
Tim Bishop
|
Democrat
|
Southampton
|
2003
|
Provost of Southampton College
|
Holy Cross, LIU
|
|
|
2
|
Steve Israel
|
Democrat
|
Melville
|
2001
|
Huntington Town Board
|
Nassau Community College, George Washington
|
|
|
3
|
Peter T. King
|
Republican
|
Seaford
|
1993
|
Nassau County Comptroller
|
St. Francis, Notre Dame Law
|
|
|
4
|
Carolyn McCarthy
|
Democrat
|
Mineola
|
1997
|
Licensed Practical Nurse
|
Glen Cove Nursing School
|
|
|
5
|
Gary Ackerman
|
Democrat
|
Jamaica Estates
|
1983
|
New York State Senator; newspaper publisher
|
Queens College
|
|
|
6
|
Gregory W. Meeks
|
Democrat
|
Far Rockaway
|
1998
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Adelphi, Howard
|
|
|
7
|
Joseph Crowley
|
Democrat
|
Elmhurst
|
1999
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Queens College
|
|
|
8
|
Jerrold Nadler
|
Democrat
|
New York
|
1993
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Columbia, Fordham Law
|
|
|
9
|
Anthony D. Weiner
|
Democrat
|
Queens
|
1999
|
New York City Councilman
|
SUNY Plattsburgh
|
|
|
10
|
Ed Towns
|
Democrat
|
Brooklyn
|
1983
|
Brooklyn Deputy Borough President
|
North Carlina A&T, Adelphi
|
|
|
11
|
Major Owens *
|
Democrat
|
Brooklyn
|
1983
|
New York State Senator
|
Morehouse, Atlanta University
|
|
|
12
|
Nydia Velázquez
|
Democrat
|
Brooklyn
|
1993
|
Director, Dept. of Puerto Rican Community Affairs
|
UPR, NYU
|
|
|
13
|
Vito Fossella
|
Republican
|
Staten Island
|
1997
|
New York City Councilman
|
Wharton, Fordham Law
|
|
|
14
|
Carolyn B. Maloney
|
Democrat
|
New York
|
1993
|
New York City Councilman
|
Greensboro College
|
|
|
15
|
Charles B. Rangel
|
Democrat
|
Harlem
|
1971
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
NYU, St. John's
|
|
|
16
|
José Serrano
|
Democrat
|
Bronx
|
1990
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Lehman College
|
|
|
17
|
Eliot L. Engel
|
Democrat
|
Bronx
|
1989
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Lehman College, New York Law School
|
|
|
18
|
Nita Lowey
|
Democrat
|
Harrison
|
1989
|
New York Assistant Secretary of State
|
Mount Holyoke
|
|
|
19
|
Sue W. Kelly
|
Republican
|
Katonah
|
1995
|
patient advocate; rape counselor; educator
|
Denison, Sarah Lawrence
|
|
|
20
|
John E. Sweeney
|
Republican
|
Clifton Park
|
1999
|
New York Labor Commissioner
|
Hudson Valley CC, SCA, WNEC
|
|
|
21
|
Michael R. McNulty
|
Democrat
|
Green Island
|
1989
|
NY State Assemblyman; Mayor of Green Island
|
Holy Cross
|
|
|
22
|
Maurice Hinchey
|
Democrat
|
Hurley
|
1993
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
SUNY New Paltz
|
|
|
23
|
John M. McHugh
|
Republican
|
Pierrepont Manor
|
1993
|
New York State Senator
|
Utica College, Albany
|
|
|
24
|
Sherwood Boehlert *
|
Republican
|
New Hartford
|
1983
|
Oneida County executive
|
Utica College
|
|
|
25
|
Jim Walsh
|
Republican
|
Syracuse
|
1989
|
Syracuse Common Council
|
St. Bonaventure
|
|
|
26
|
Tom Reynolds
|
Republican
|
Clarence
|
1999
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Kent State
|
|
|
27
|
Brian Higgins
|
Democrat
|
Buffalo
|
2005
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Buffalo State, Harvard
|
|
|
28
|
Louise McIntosh Slaughter
|
Democrat
|
Fairport
|
1987
|
New York State Assemblyman
|
Kentucky
|
|
|
29
|
Randy Kuhl
|
Republican
|
Hammondsport
|
2005
|
New York State Senator
|
Union College, Syracuse Law
|
* Retiring in 2007.
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| 2
| Lee Terry
| Republican
| Omaha
| 1999
| Omaha city council; attorney
| Nebraska, Creighton
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| 3
| Tom Osborne *
| Republican
| Lemoyne
| 2001
| Head football coach at Nebraska
| Hastings College, Nebraska
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* Running for U.S. Senate in 2006
