Tuesday, March 29, 2016

meaning in context - What does (R-TN) after a name mean?


An example:



US Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants to make sure the Federal Communications Commission never interferes with "states' rights" to protect private Internet service providers from having to compete against municipal broadband networks.



From: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/congresswoman-defends-states-rights-to-protect-isps-from-muni-competition


Looks like some kind of an abbreviation to me.



Answer




It means that the person is a Republican member of Congress from the state of Tennessee.


The "(X-YY)" convention is widely used in the news media to refer to current and former members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, with X denoting the person's political party (usually R for Republican or D for Democratic) and YY denoting the state he or she represents. (See this page for the official list of two-letter state abbreviations.)


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