West Virginia is searching for a new senator, following the passing of whom, on Monday, the longest serving member of Congress in the history of that august body, with 51 years of service?
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Member of Congress Member of Congress A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. Member of Parliament (MP) is an equivalent term in other jurisdictions. In referring to a lawmaker in their capacity of serving in Congress the term "Member of Congress" is used less often than other terms in the United States. This is because in the United States the word "Congress" is used as a descriptive term for the collective body of legislators, from both houses of