55 new members of Congress - freshmen - were elected to the House of Representatives last November (42 Democrats & 13 Republicans). House Leader Steny Hoyer has posted a video about the activities of the Democrat freshmen.There is a website about the Democrat Freshmen at http://www.democraticfreshmen.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
The Congressional Research Service published a paper on the numbers of freshmen by party for each Congress in 2005, which can be found at
http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/docs/CRS-RS20723.pdf
