The Congressional Scrapheap Of History

Does anyone see anything wrong with the chart below? Notice how long these people have been “serving” … (as of Dec. 28, 2012) A few of these people are dead, but most are still sucking the American taxpayers dry … and are figuring out how to do it even harder...Cry and Howl

Total tenure rank	Uninterrupted rank	Name	Party affiliation	Total tenure time	Uninterrupted time
1	1	Robert Byrd (H,S)	Democratic Party	57 years, 176 days	57 years, 176 days
2	2	John Dingell (H)	Democratic Party	57 years, 15 days	57 years, 15 days
3	3	Carl Hayden (H,S)	Democratic Party	56 years, 319 days	56 years, 319 days
4	4	Daniel Inouye (H,S)	Democratic Party	53 years, 118 days	53 years, 118 days
5	5	Jamie L. Whitten (H)	Democratic Party	53 years, 60 days	53 years, 60 days
6	6	Carl Vinson (H)	Democratic Party	50 years, 61 days	50 years, 61 days
7	7	Emanuel Celler (H)	Democratic Party	49 years, 305 days	49 years, 305 days
8	8	Sam Rayburn (H)	Democratic Party	48 years, 257 days	48 years, 257 days
9	999	Sidney R. Yates (H,I)	Democratic Party	48 years, 0 days	n/a
10	9	John Conyers (H)	Democratic Party	47 year, 360 days	47 years, 360 days
11	12	Strom Thurmond (S,I)	Republican Party	47 years, 159 days	46 years, 57 days
12	10	Wright Patman (H)	Democratic Party	47 years, 3 days	47 years, 3 days
13	11	Ted Kennedy (S)	Democratic Party	46 years, 292 days	46 years, 292 days
14	999	Joseph Gurney Cannon (H,I)	Republican Party	46 years, 0 days	n/a
15	13	Adolph J. Sabath (H)	Democratic Party	45 years, 247 days	45 years, 247 days
16	14	J. Lister Hill (H,S)	Democratic Party	45 years, 142 days	45 years, 142 days
17	15	George H. Mahon (H)	Democratic Party	44 years, 0 days	44 years, 0 days
18	16	Warren Magnuson (H,S)	Democratic Party	44 years, 0 days	44 years, 0 days
19	17	Charles Edward Bennett (H)	Democratic Party	44 years, 0 days	44 years, 0 days
20	18	Justin Smith Morrill (H,S)	Republican Party	43 years, 299 days	43 years, 299 days
21	999	William B. Allison (H,S,I)	Republican Party	43 years, 152 days	n/a
22	19	Charles Melvin Price (H)	Democratic Party	43 years, 110 days	43 years, 110 days
23	20	Henry M. Jackson (H,S)	Democratic Party	42 years, 241 days	42 years, 241 days
24	999	Carter Glass (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	42 years, 157 days	n/a
25	21	John William McCormack (H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 58 days	42 years, 58 days
26	22	John Sparkman (H,S)	Democratic Party	42 years, 0 days	42 years, 0 days
27	23	William R. Poage (H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 0 days	42 years, 0 days
28	24	Jack Brooks (H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 0 days	42 years, 0 days
29	25	Charles B. Rangel (H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 360 days	41 years, 360 days
30	26	Bill Young (H)	Republican Party	41 years, 360 days	41 years, 360 days
31	27	Robert L. Doughton (H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 305 days	41 years, 305 days
32	28	Joseph William Martin, Jr. (H)	Republican Party	41 years, 305 days	41 years, 305 days
33	29	Dave Obey (H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 276 days	41 years, 276 days
34	30	Clarence Cannon (H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 69 days	41 years, 69 days
35	31	John C. Stennis (S)	Democratic Party	41 years, 59 days	41 years, 59 days
36	32	Kenneth McKellar (H,S)	Democratic Party	41 years, 30 days	41 years, 30 days
37	33	William Huston Natcher (H)	Democratic Party	40 years, 240 days	40 years, 240 days
38	999	Claude Pepper (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	40 years, 207 days	n/a
39	34	William P. Frye (H,S)	Republican Party	40 years, 157 days	40 years, 157 days
40	35	Ted Stevens (S)	Republican Party	40 years, 10 days	40 years, 10 days
41	36	Carl Curtis (H,S)	Republican Party	40 years, 0 days	40 years, 0 days
42	37	Peter W. Rodino (H)	Democratic Party	40 years, 0 days	40 years, 0 days
43	999	Jennings Randolph (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	39 years, 364 days	n/a
44	999	Eugene Hale (H,S,I)	Republican Party	39 years, 363 days	n/a
45	38	Leslie C. Arends (H)	Republican Party	39 years, 362 days	39 years, 362 days
46	39	Daniel A. Reed (H)	Republican Party	39 years, 352 days	39 years, 352 days
47	40	Thad Cochran (H,S)	Republican Party	39 years, 360 days	39 years, 360 days
48	41	Pete Stark (H)	Democratic Party	39 years, 360 days	39 years, 360 days
49	42	George William Norris (H,S)	Republican Party	39 years, 305 days	39 years, 305 days
50	43	John Taber (H)	Republican Party	39 years, 305 days	39 years, 305 days
51	44	William M. Colmer (H)	Democratic Party	39 years, 305 days	39 years, 305 days
52	45	Don Young (H)	Republican Party	39 years, 297 days	39 years, 297 days
53	999	Samuel Smith (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	39 years, 9 days	n/a
54	999	John Little McClellan (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	38 years, 329 days	n/a
55	46	Morris Sheppard (H,S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 145 days	38 years, 145 days
56	47	Ernest Hollings (S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 55 days	38 years, 55 days
57	48	Richard Russell, Jr. (S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 9 days	38 years, 9 days
58	999	John Sherman (H,S,I)	Republican Party	38 years, 4 days	n/a
59	49	Russell B. Long (S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 3 days	38 years, 3 days
60	50	Frederick H. Gillett (H,S)	Republican Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
61	51	Wilbur Mills (H)	Democratic Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
62	52	Dante Fascell (H)	Democratic Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
63	53	Robert H. Michel (H)	Republican Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
64	54	Patrick Leahy (S)	Democratic Party	37 years, 360 days	37 years, 360 days
65	55	Max Baucus (H,S)	Democratic Party	37 years, 360 days	37 years, 360 days
66	56	Chuck Grassley (H,S)	Republican Party	37 years, 360 days	37 years, 360 days
67	57	Tom Harkin (H,S)	Democratic Party	37 years, 360 days	37 years, 360 days
68	58	George Miller (H)	Democratic Party	37 years, 360 days	37 years, 360 days
69	59	Henry Waxman (H)	Democratic Party	37 years, 360 days	37 years, 360 days
70	999	Robert Crosser (H,I)	Democratic Party	37 years, 305 days	n/a
71	999	Robert L. F. Sikes (H,I)	Democratic Party	37 years, 290 days	n/a
72	60	Nathaniel Macon (H,S)	Democratic-Republican Party	37 years, 255 days	37 years, 255 days
73	61	Henry Cabot Lodge (H,S)	Republican Party	37 years, 250 days	37 years, 250 days
74	999	Alben W. Barkley (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	37 years, 74 days	n/a
75	62	Henry B. Gonzalez (H)	Democratic Party	37 years, 60 days	37 years, 60 days
76	999	Francis E. Warren (S,I)	Republican Party	37 years, 6 days	n/a
77	999	James Eastland (S,I)	Democratic Party	36 years, 83 days	n/a
78	63	Ed Markey (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 56 days	36 years, 56 days
79	64	Joe Biden (S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 12 days	36 years, 12 days
80	65	John Murtha (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 3 days	36 years, 3 days
81	66	Henry L. Dawes (H,S)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
82	67	Felix Edward Hébert (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
83	68	Edward Boland (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
84	69	William Broomfield (H)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
85	70	Dan Rostenkowski (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
86	71	Neal Edward Smith (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
87	72	Claiborne Pell (S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
88	73	Joseph McDade (H)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
89	74	Paul Sarbanes (H,S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
90	75	Pete Domenici (S)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
91	76	Ralph Regula (H)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
92	77	Christopher Dodd (H,S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
93	78	James Oberstar (H)	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
94	999	Shelby M. Cullom (H,S,I)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	n/a
95	999	Henry A. Cooper (H,I)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	n/a