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The Senate is composed of 100 Senators, two from each state in the nation. Of these 100 people, 84 are men and 16 are women. There are three Hispanic/Latino members of the Senate (Mel Martinez, Ken Salazar, and Robert Menendez), one African American/black member of the Senate (Barack Obama), and two Asian/Pacific Islanders (Akaka and Inouye). The remaining 94 Senators are white. The youngest Senator is John Sununu at 43, and the oldest member of the Senate is 90-year-old Robert Byrd. The average age of a Senator is 62 or 63 years old. All but three senators have at least a Bachelor's degree, while 4 senators have medical degrees and 57 have juris doctors (law degrees). There are 49 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and 2 Independents that caucus with the Democrats.

So, let's look at our "typical" senator. It will be a man, specifically a white man. He'll be in his early 60s, and he'll have a law degree. And he's slightly more likely to caucus with the Democratic party than with the Republicans.

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