Astead Herndon
speaker
6,368 appearances
60 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Sep
Astead Herndon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Astead Herndon, and this is America Actually.
Considering the southern death of Lindsey Graham and whatever's going on currently with Mitch McConnell, it got me thinking, just how old is Congress?
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Let's do some research, shall we?
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80% of voters think that term limits should be required.
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I want to say oligarchy, but with old, like the oldigarchy.
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At the start of this congressional term, the median age for a U.S.
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senator was 64, and the median age for a member of the House was 57.
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Let's look up the oldest members of Congress.
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton of Washington, D.C.
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Steny Hoyer, the Maryland congressman, he's retiring.
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Maxine Waters, who is running for reelection, is 87 years old.
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We're now in the third oldest U.S.
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Congress in all of history, according to a recent analysis from NBC News.
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But it's not like politics has ever been a young person's game.
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However, the problem is getting worse.
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There are 20 members of the House and Senate that are over 80 years old.
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Trump, after getting reelected, was the oldest president to take office.
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And of course, there was the whole Biden fiasco.
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The gerontocracy feels like a huge problem in American politics.
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