Cato and Glimmer. Glimmer comes to District 1 and has been training for her entire life to win the Hunger Games. At age 17, she obviously volunteers for the 74th Games and travels with her district partner Marvel to the Capitol.
Quick Answer. The number of Democrats serving in the U.S. House of Representatives changes with each election cycle, but as of April 2014, only 199 Democrats hold elected office in this Congressional chamber. Democrats are the minority party out of 435 members.
The New York Republican is only 30 years old. In comparison, the oldest Member of Congress, 85-year-old Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, is a Democrat. In fact, on average, Congressional Democrats are significantly older than their Republican counterparts. An infographic provided by Opportunity Lives notes that while House Democrats have a median age of 62, the median age of House Republicans is 55. In the Senate, Democrats have a median age of 64, compared to 55 for Senate Republicans. Republicans also have more members of Congress who are under the ages of 40 and 50. This entry was posted in Politics.