28-June-2008, 04:39 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by 01101001
I was actually looking for a list I had seen a few weeks ago[...].
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Found it. New York Times: Physicists in Congress Calculate Their Influence
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According to the Congressional Research Service, there are only about 30 scientists among the 535 senators and representatives in the 110th Congress, and that is counting the psychologist, the psychiatrist, a dozen other M.D.’s, three nurses, an engineer, two veterinarians, a pharmacist and an optometrist.
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But physics is on a roll.
“Go back 15 years, and there weren’t any physicists,” said Vernon J. Ehlers, a Republican who taught the subject at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., until he was elected to Congress in 1993.
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Still, they say, they manage to overcome any intellectual disconnect between the more or less orderly laws of physics and the sausage-making aspects of legislation. “Physicists are versatile,” Mr. Ehlers said. “We live in the real world.”
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