Sex! Scandal! Politics!

When I first started working on the data team at PolicyMap, I had no idea that one of my legitimate duties was going to be tracking sex scandals in Congress. But when a lawmaker’s infelicitous infidelities lead to his untimely departure from office, PolicyMap is on the case. We have a complete database of current representatives and senators, which is accessible in numerous ways on PolicyMap.

You can search for a congressperson’s or senator’s district from the Set Location bar:

Or see them listed in any of the reports:

Or see their districts with boundaries from the Map Options menu:

And you can be rest assured that you’re seeing the most current names.

In the last term alone, there have been six changes in membership to the US House and Senate, and all but one were connected to some sort of sex scandal. Senator John Ensign (Nevada), and Representatives Christopher Lee (New York’s 26th district), Anthony Weiner (New York’s 9th), and David Wu (Oregon’s 1st) all resigned due to some sort of monkey business, and once Representative Dean Heller left the House to join the Senate to take Ensign’s seat. Only Jane Harman, from California’s 36th, left for an innocuous reason, to become the head of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Lee’s seat and Harman’s seat were filled by Kathy Hochul and Janice Hahn, respectively, in special elections.

So if you want to know who’s representing you in Washington, or whether they’re still representing you in Washington, then check out PolicyMap for the latest info.