{"id":496869,"date":"2021-05-11T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496869"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:50:12","slug":"dangling-by-a-thread-health-of-aging-democratic-congress-members-crucial-for-progressive-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangling-by-a-thread-health-of-aging-democratic-congress-members-crucial-for-progressive-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dangling By A Thread\u2019: Health Of Aging Democratic Congress Members Crucial For Progressive Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdangling-by-a-thread-health-of-aging-democratic-congress-members-crucial-for-progressive-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=496869&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/schumer-pelosi-scaled-e1618255825159.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Democrats fear that President Joe Biden\u2019s progressive agenda may be jeopardized by deaths and illnesses of aging Congress members that can disrupt the party\u2019s majority, a Monday report said.<\/p>\n<p>The average age of a sitting representative is 58, and for the senators this number is as high as 64, making the current Congress one of the oldest in U.S. history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/10\/upshot\/democrats-agenda-hinges-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The New York Times (NYT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">President of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society Jane Campbell told The NYT that \u201cnearly one in 10 members of Congress\u201d have died while in office.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3809523809524\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Deaths have altered the balance of power, and changed American history, before <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GpaIYei0T5\">https:\/\/t.co\/GpaIYei0T5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytpolitics\/status\/1391828400633958400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In total, more than 1,160 incumbent members and member-elects died since the first convention of Congress in 1789, the report said. Former Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Johnson, who both returned to Congress after leaving the White House are among them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ability to make good on Biden\u2019s agenda is pretty much dangling by a thread,\u201d former aide to Brian Fallon, a former aide to Democratic Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/mehlman-senate-democrats-ponder-back-door-tactic-to-gain-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> said, according to the NYT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s uncouth to talk about it. I think it\u2019s a reality that has to inform the urgency with which we approach those issues.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/26\/california-loses-congressional-seat-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: California Loses Congressional Seat For The First Time)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 87, Democratic Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, 85, and Democratic California Rep. Grace Napolitano, 84, are among the oldest cohort of the Democratic party\u2019s sitting Congress members.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/20\/three-senate-democrats-sworn-in-majority-kamala-harris-biden-alex-padilla-raphael-warnock-jon-ossoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slim Senate majority<\/a> enjoyed by Democrats makes any serious ailments among the party\u2019s sitting Congress members highly undesirable. \u201cSchumer needs all 50 votes,\u201d Fallon said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf somebody is laid up or is hospitalized for a long period of time and their vote\u2019s not there, then having the majority is somewhat meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats fear that President Joe Biden\u2019s progressive agenda may be jeopardized by deaths and illnesses of aging Congress members that can disrupt the party\u2019s majority, a Monday report said.The average &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277824,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/schumer-pelosi-scaled-e1618255825159.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Dangling By A Thread\u2019: Health Of Aging Democratic Congress Members Crucial For Progressive Agenda","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/schumer-pelosi-scaled-e1618255825159.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Dangling By A Thread\u2019: Health Of Aging Democratic Congress Members Crucial For Progressive Agenda","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}