{"id":4979,"date":"2025-04-02T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:17:35","slug":"congress-might-ban-dual-citizenship-for-congressional-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/04\/02\/congress-might-ban-dual-citizenship-for-congressional-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress may change rules on dual citizenship for Congressional Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/dual-citizenship-targeted-by-republicans-in-new-bill-what-to-know\/ar-AA1C9K6S?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;cvid=f7f4d114f94f40fbe8049183062e3960&amp;ei=23\">Dual Citizenship Targeted by Republicans in New Bill: What To Know<\/a> &#8211; this applies to Members of the U.S. Congress who hold dual citizenship in the U.S. and other countries. A surprising number of Members have dual citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed new law would require that all Congressional Members disclose their multiple citizenship status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/01\/02\/surprising-international-connections-you-probably-never-knew\/\">Surprising International Connections You Probably Never Knew \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><br>130 recent US Congressional members were born outside the U.S.<br>28 current members of the House were born outside the U.S. Some have dual citizenship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/07\/16\/14-of-congressional-members-are-immigrants-or-children-of-immigrants\/\">14% of Congressional Members are immigrants or children of immigrants \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2022\/12\/19\/international-how-global-are-we-a-summary\/\">International: How Global Are We? A Summary \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_foreign-born_United_States_politicians\">Five current (2024) U.S. Senators were born abroad.<\/a> <br>52 former US Senators were born abroad. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_foreign-born_United_States_politicians\">27 current (2024) U.S. Congressional Representatives were born abroad.<\/a> <br>180 former Representatives were born abroad. Six members of the NYC City Council were born abroad (as of 2024). U.S. Senator Ted Cruz held dual citizenship with the US and Canada; he was born in Canada. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has dual citizenship in the US and Thailand. Rep. Victoria Spartz was born in Ukraine (USSR at the time). 37 recent U.S. state Governors were born outside the U.S., including my own state\u2019s recent former Governor Kate Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many US Congressional members have dual citizenship with other countries. Should they have dual allegiance? It does sound like a conflict of interest. Proposed law would require they disclose their multiple citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-globally-experienced","category-government-regulatory","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}