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American lawyer and politician (born 1947)
Available reporting and public records show no comprehensive, government-maintained count of how many current U.S. senators or representatives hold dual citizenship; multiple sources note the U.S. doe...
At least one sitting U.S. senator is a naturalized citizen — Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii is identified as the lone naturalized senator in recent counts . The House list of foreign‑born members in t...
There are 18 foreign‑born voting members of Congress: 17 in the House and one in the Senate, according to Pew’s 2023–2025 accounting; the lone foreign‑born Senator is Mazie Hirono of Japan . The House...
A small but persistent minority of members of Congress were born outside the present-day United States; counts vary by methodology but recent authoritative tallies show a handful of naturalized lawmak...
The Congressional Research Service counted 27 Representatives and 5 Senators — a total of 32 members of the 118th Congress — who were born outside the United States, representing 5.9% of the chamber’s...
The 119th Congress includes a measurable cohort of foreign‑born members: congressional research and Pew data show 26 Representatives and six Senators were born outside the United States, and roughly 1...
"Sae Joon Park" appears in reporting as two distinct public figures: a U.S. Army veteran, Purple Heart recipient who self‑deported to South Korea under a removal order, and a name similar to Korean ac...
At the opening of the 119th Congress, 32 members of Congress were born outside the United States — 26 Representatives and six Senators — but the public record compiled by the sources provided does not...
A clear count of members of Congress who publicly acknowledge foreign birth is available from institutional surveys: the Congressional Research Service and related congressional directories identify d...
Several bipartisan packages and standalone bills in both chambers of Congress seek to create permanent‑residency paths or other reentry routes for deported veterans; principal sponsors include Sen. Ta...
The 118th Congress included a small but noticeable contingent of foreign‑born lawmakers: major public tallies report 18 voting members born outside the United States — 17 in the House and one in the S...
The publicly available reporting reviewed for this briefing identifies Mazie Keiko Hirono as the lone current U.S. senator who is a naturalized citizen; she was born in Japan and later became a U.S. c...
Several U.S. politicians have publicly or pledged to forgo pay, and this practice spans presidents and members of Congress over many decades rather than being unique to any single officeholder. Histor...
A long but underappreciated thread in American political history is that a significant number of U.S. senators were born outside the present-day United States; the Senate’s own directory and compiled ...
A small but notable group of U.S. senators were born outside the geographic United States yet acquired U.S. citizenship at birth because of their parents’ citizenship or because they were born in U.S....
Pew counted 18 members of the 118th Congress who were born abroad and became U.S. citizens through naturalization, a figure that represents the foreign‑born portion of that Congress (Pew’s tally of th...
Twenty U.S. senators publicly pledged to forgo or donate pay during the 2018–2019 federal government shutdown, part of a broader group of 102 members of Congress who announced they would decline or re...
Naturalized citizens have served in the U.S. Senate, and multiple sources provide overlapping but sometimes conflicting lists of notable examples; (born in Japan) consistently appears as a recent, cle...
Yes — , though reporting and lists vary by outlet and some summaries omit names. Contemporary reporting from 2013 documents more than 75 lawmakers pledging to give up pay, naming several senators, and...