Talk:Member of congress

message: There are several Directories. Some better than others. Can we add all of them?.--87.11.51.144 (talk) 16:49, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Directories of Members of Congress

message: Congresscritter redirects here.  There's nothing on this page that indicates why it should redirect here. 213.146.128.194 16:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The term "congresscritter" deserves more than a silent redirect. Chandon 06:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  congresscritter redirection 

message: A quick reveiw of a Google search shows that "member of Congress" is used informally in writing and reporting, but not "Member of Congress" as a formal title. I've removed all uncited sections with old fact tags (from January 2009), and some sections which didn't fit without the removed material. Given that fact that this article has existed in its current form since 2004, the fact that their have been no citations added since then does not speak well for it's use as a formal term. If no sources are forthcoming in the next few weeks, I'll propose redirecting it somewhere else, possibly through an AFD to prevent it being recreated. Finally, the US is the only primarily English-speaking country that uses a Congress (per the Congress article. Several Spanish speaking countries use equivilents of the term, as does the Philippines (partially English speaking). - BillCJ (talk) 13:35, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, this term is not frequently used, but there is a mini-movement among U.S. political scientists to start referring to both U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators as Members of Congress. Currently, "Congressman" is generally used to refer only to members of the lower House, just as "MP" is only used in the U.K. to refer to members of the House of Commons, even though technically Lords are members of Parliament as well. XINOPH | TALK 18:51, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Despite common usage, "Member of Congress" is actually an official term. I work at a congressional district office, and all pre-franked envelopes have a little notation "M.C." under the representative's signature. On the other hand, a letter we received from Senator Debbie Stabenow's office had a "USS" (for U.S. Senator) under her signature. What shall we do? Lockesdonkey (talk) 16:24, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research

message: The article currently states that, "A Member of Congress ... is term used for a politician who is a member of a congress."
<sarcasm>Brilliant definition.</sarcasm>
163.1.146.76 (talk) 04:49, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tautology 

message: A non-voting member of Congress has far less power than a voting member.  As such, is it appropriate to extend the title of Congressman/Congresswoman to non-voting members?  The article should weigh in on this. 75.163.196.16 (talk) 12:02, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the title apply to non-voting members? 

message: This number changes based on the number of states in the Union. Should language be added to indicate this number is not permanently set to 435? Cyberbytli (talk) 05:37, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  “435” members of House of Representatives 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 20:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Member of Congress →  – "Congress" should not be capitalized, as it is not referring to a specific body like the U.S. Congress. This is just a generic term and should be treated just like Member of parliament. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:32, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Support no reason this should not be moved. If I'm being honest, I can't see why this wouldn't have been uncontroversial. estar8806 (talk) ★ 00:49, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 27 July 2023