, Columnist
Please, Let’s Elect Some Younger U.S. Senators
No disrespect to our elders but learning on the job in your 60s is not a good model for governing.
Full of late arrivals.
Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
This article is for subscribers only.
You hear lots of complaints that members of Congress are too old — in the Senate especially. What are voters doing about it?
At the beginning of the current Congress, the average age in the Senate was 62.9 years old. There’s nothing wrong with having some older members stick around, but increasingly we’re getting almost nothing but aged senators. It’s not representative of the nation.