Talk:List of United States senators in the 115th Congress

Senators > 100?
There cannot be more than 100 Senators, but throughout a Congress more than 100 Senators may serve due to replacements for resignations and deaths. Should this article (and the 114 articles before it) index the Senators who didn't serve from the beginning of the Congress? That is, should it number the later Senators as 101… 102… 103… or just leave that column blank? This policy should also apply to the House. Let's develop a conensus. —GoldRingChip 20:07, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Comment they should be left blank because there are only 100 senators עם ישראל חי (talk) 20:50, 4 September 2018 (UTC) Comment An alternative would be to remove the seniority number (but not the place in the table) from someone who leaves office, and the successor would be given the lowest available number at the bottom of the chart. JTRH (talk) 21:25, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Fix needed, please
Someone removed John McCain from the list, apparently under the mistaken impression that this is a list of only current members. I reverted the last edit but he didn't show back up; it seems to go deeper than the last edit, and there have been some edits since then. It needs to be restored to accuracy by someone more familiar than I am with batch-reverting edits. Thanks. JTRH (talk) 14:23, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * There's also a formatting mistake where McCain's slot used to be. It now shows Feinstein as taking office in 1987 with her actual 1992 date misplaced in the next column. JTRH (talk) 14:24, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I think I've fixed it. Please check. —GoldRingChip 01:14, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks good. Thanks. JTRH (talk) 04:21, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Senior junior and junior senior
Many of the WP articles on the Senate place inordinate emphasis on "the most senior junior senator" and "the most junior senior senator." It's not a very important classification. Being the senior senator from your state is nowhere near as important as it used to be. Overall seniority within the body is what matters. It's an interesting trivial detail that, because Strom Thurmond was there for so long, Fritz Hollings was the junior senator from South Carolina for 36 years, which breaks the record, but even that is nothing but a historical footnote. Thoughts? JTRH (talk) 15:27, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree. It's a novel bit of trivia, but nothing more. I'd keep it for the sake of interesting trivia, but try to diminish its importance in the article somehow. —GoldRingChip 15:30, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

List needs some updating
Neither Hatch (#2) nor Cochran (#3) are in the Senate any more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.23.191.209 (talk) 02:09, 9 April 2019 (UTC)


 * While Senators Hatch and Cochran are no longer in the Senate any more, they were in the 115th Congress and this is a historical list. For a list of current senators by seniority, please see Seniority in the United States Senate.
 * Sdrqaz (talk) 18:46, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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