Messages for Incoming Scientists in Congress

November 9, 2026

With the US midterm elections, a notable number of doctors, scientists, engineers, and others trained in STEM fields will join Congress, Time magazine reports. As signposts of what they might expect and how to prove most effective, a previous STEM cohort of “new voices on the Hill” reflect in Issues on the intersection of science and policy, and what drives their work. In a common theme, for example, one legislator noted that her training “has translated well to legislating because I use the same approach: listening, synthesizing a lot of information, deciding what the most pressing problem is, and developing a solution.”

Posted by Tom Burroughs