“One of the side effects of low turnover in Congress is that politicians who were involved in historic decisions tend to stick around for a while.

Take Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for example. The holiday is the result of House approval in August 1983 and a Senate vote that October. President Ronald Reagan signed it into law in November that year.

Twenty-six members of Congress at the time are still there, although nearly half have moved across the Capitol from the House to the Senate. It’s worth pointing out that the 98th Congress, which approved the measure, was substantially more white than the current one (which is heavily white but still the most diverse in history).”

Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/19/there-are-still-26-members-of-congress-who-voted-on-making-mlk-day-a-holiday-six-opposed-it/

John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) and Desi Doyen (http://www.twitter.com/greennewsreport) of The Young Turks discuss.

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