• I never gave much thought to Congressional names until Anthony Weiner hit the headlines in 2011, as a disgraced member of the 112th Congress. 
• Now we have the 113th Congress with its 535 voting members - 435 in the House of Representatives (plus six non-voting delegates), and 100 from the Senate. Are there any members in this batch of political gems who also have interesting names? It turns out quite a few do.
• So along these lines, here is a guide to some current Congressional names which are all real and, unlike some of the individuals they belong to, unadulterated.
• The most common last name is Johnson (6 of them), followed by Miller, Scott, and Smith (4 each), and Young, Davis, and Bishop (3 each). Some of the more unusual names include: Ruppersberger, Frelinghuysen, Luetkemeyer, and Sensenbrenner.
• It would seem there are a few colorful individuals, too, including some Blacks and Browns, a couple of Greens, a Whitehouse, and a Schwartz.  Others are just plain animals such as Reps. Foxx, Labrador, Bass, Fincher, Wolf, Duckworth, Horsford, Doggett, and Senator Coons.
• The list also includes members who are Kind, Blunt, Grimm, Long, Hurt, and one who is Camp. There's a Flake, a Harper, a Payne, and another is the Pitts.  Thankfully, the only Biggert in the 112th Congress was defeated in the 2012 election. And while it may take some convincing, compared to the previous Congress, we can't label any current member Boren. Still, even on a good day, one senator from Idaho is

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