Members of Congress who Twitter

The following members of Congress post on Twitter. Click their name below to see the Twitter feed section of their Congresspedia profiles.


 * See [[Portal:Lawmakers and Committees of the U.S. Congress|h
 * Acknowledgement: Ari Herzog's US Government page on the Twitter Fan Wiki has a similar list that has been useful in keeping this list up to date.
 * On 6/16/2010, www.AdamZuckerman.net released an up to date survey and analysis of Congressional Twitter usage. View the results here: http://www.adamzuckerman.net/2010/06/congressional-twitter-usage-results-are.html
 * The Sunlight Foundation launched a project, Let our Congress Tweet, to advocate for reforms in the ways senators and representatives communicate with constituents.
 * The GovTwit Directory is a project to monitor all levels of Government that use Twitter. It includes Federal, State, and Local officials as well as the Armed Forces and Executive Branch agencies.
 * Congressional140 has created a portal view of all of the Congress members who are actively tweeting at http://www.congressional140.com.
 * Squeejee, a Texas-based web development shop, launched Tweet Congress which allows users to search for their own Congressional officials on Twitter, follow them, and even petition them if they are not on Twitter.
 * Tweet Congress organizes all the congressional representatives who tweet and provides a timeline of recent messages, state-by state breakdowns of tweeting politicians, and stats about the most popular representatives.

Newsworthy Tweets

 * Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) took to Twitter to let his followers know that he would be resigning in order to focus on his campaign for governor of Hawaii

U.S. Senate

 * 1) Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
 * 2) Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
 * 3) Susan Collins (R-Maine)
 * 4) John Cornyn (R-Texas)
 * 5) Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
 * 6) Chris Dodd (D-Conn.)
 * 7) Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
 * 8) John Ensign (R-Nev.)
 * 9) Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
 * 10) Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)
 * 11) Mel Martinez (R-Fla.)
 * 12) John McCain (R-Ariz.)
 * 13) Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
 * 14) Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
 * 15) Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)
 * 16) Mark Udall (D-Colo.)
 * 17) Tom Udall (D-N.M.)
 * 18) Mark Warner (D-Va.)
 * 19) Roger Wicker (R-Ms.)

U.S. House of Representatives

 * 1) Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
 * 2) Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
 * 3) Gresham Barrett (R-S.C.)
 * 4) Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)
 * 5) Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
 * 6) John Boehner (R-Ohio)
 * 7) John Boozman (R-Ark.)
 * 8) Michael Burgess (R-Texas)
 * 9) Dan Burton (R-Ind.)
 * 10) Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
 * 11) John Carter (R-Texas)
 * 12) Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)
 * 13) Mike Coffman (R-Colo.)
 * 14) John Culberson (R-Texas)
 * 15) Steven Driehaus (D-Ohio)
 * 16) Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)
 * 17) Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
 * 18) Randy Forbes (R-Va.)
 * 19) Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.)
 * 20) Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio)
 * 21) Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.)
 * 22) Mike Honda (D-Calif.)
 * 23) Robert Inglis (R-S.C.)
 * 24) Jay Inslee (D-WA)
 * 25) Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
 * 26) Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)
 * 27) Randy Kuhl (R-N.Y.)
 * 28) Tom Latham (R-Iowa)
 * 29) Bob Latta (R-Ohio)
 * 30) Ben Lujan (D-N.M.)
 * 31) Dan Manzullo (R-Ill.)
 * 32) Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
 * 33) Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.)
 * 34) Cathy McMorris (R-Wa.)
 * 35) Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.)
 * 36) Candice Miller (R-Mich.)
 * 37) George Miller (D-Calif.)
 * 38) Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
 * 39) Jared Polis (D-Colo.)
 * 40) George Radanovich (R-Calif.)
 * 41) Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.)
 * 42) Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)
 * 43) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)
 * 44) Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)
 * 45) Joe Sestak (D-Pa.)
 * 46) Christopher Shays (R-Conn.)
 * 47) John Shimkus (R-Ill.)
 * 48) Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)
 * 49) Joe Wilson (R-S.C.)
 * 50) Rob Wittman (R-Va.)
 * 51) John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)