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Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D-N.J.) was sworn in as Congress's newest member on Thursday to the seat that his father occupied for 12 terms before dying of cancer earlier this year.
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Payne, who served as council president in Newark, won a special election earlier this month to complete his father's term, in addition to a full two-year term in the 113th Congress. The older Payne battled colon cancer for months until March, when he died at the age of 77.
Three other newly-elected members were sworn in earlier this week to complete other vacated terms: Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. David Curson (D-Mich.). Curson won't return next year; he was only elected to serve out the rest of former Rep. Thad McCotter's (R-Mich.)'s term.
With Payne's official arrival to Capitol Hill, only one of the House's 435 slots are vacant - the seat left open by the resignation of former Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.).
SOURCE: Politico
