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Who Is My Senator? Citizenship Test Senator and Representative

The senator and representative questions depend on where you live; use the official sources.

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Who is my senator, for the citizenship test? It is whoever represents your state when you are interviewed, and you find the names on senate.gov. The civics test asks you to name one of your state’s U.S. senators (Q23 on the 2025 list, Q20 on the 2008 list) and your U.S. representative (Q29 and Q23). USCIS lists both answers as “Answers will vary”. This page links to the official senate.gov and house.gov pages where you can find the current names, and it does not store names, because they change. USCIS expects the official serving at the time of your interview, so check again just before it. The notes for D.C. and territory residents are below. The figures come from USCIS pages and PDFs retrieved and checked on 2026-10-26. This page was checked against the official sources on 2026-10-26 and is updated when USCIS changes them.

How to use the state lookup

  1. Pick your state or territory in the lookup. For D.C. and the territories it shows what USCIS says to answer; for a state it shows that the answer depends on who holds the office.
  2. Open the official link shown for each question: USAGov for the governor and capital, senate.gov for senators, house.gov for your representative.
  3. Read the answer on the official page and say it out loud a few times.
  4. If you live in D.C. or a U.S. territory, read the USCIS note below for what to say.
  5. Check again shortly before your interview, because officials can change.

The page keeps no names. It sends you to the official source so that the answer you give is the one that is correct on the day of your interview.

The lookup works in your browser and nothing you enter is sent anywhere. Because these rules are about legal status, treat the result as information that points you to the official page, and confirm anything important with USCIS or with a lawyer or accredited representative. Say each answer aloud once. Check the source link when a number matters to your case. Come back to anything you were unsure about the next day. Nothing you do here is sent to a server. Keep a note of any question you have to look up twice. Short sessions repeated over several days work better than one long one.

Who is one of your state’s U.S. senators now?

Each state has two U.S. senators, so your answer is the name of one of those two people, as the office is held at your naturalization interview. This tool links to the official list, and your answer will vary depending on where you live.

  1. Choose your state in the lookup.
  2. Open the senate.gov senators list at https://www.senate.gov/senators/.
  3. Find your state. You should see two senators (unless a seat is vacant).
  4. Pick one name and memorize it as it appears on the list.

The Senate has 100 senators in total, and every state has two. The senate.gov contact page at https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm gives contact details if you want to reach an office directly.

How do I find my representative?

Use the state choice in this tool for the D.C. and territory notes, then open the house.gov “Find your representative” page it links to. That official page returns the representative for your address, and that is the name you need for the representative question.

  1. Choose your state or territory in the lookup.
  2. Click through to https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative.
  3. Follow the page’s steps to enter your address or ZIP code.
  4. Note the name of the representative who holds your seat now.

Your representative can change after an election, so check the name close to your interview.

What counts as a correct answer for the senator question?

The official answer is “Answers will vary”, so any one of the two senators for your state at the time of your interview is correct. If you live in D.C. or a U.S. territory, USCIS says to answer that D.C. (or the territory where you live) has no U.S. senators. For the representative question, USCIS accepts the name of your representative; residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may give that person’s name, and any statement that the territory has no voting representatives in Congress is also acceptable.

How this tool works and where the numbers come from

Rules and wording are taken from USCIS pages and the Policy Manual, retrieved 2026-10-26; official links were fetched and kept only if they returned HTTP 200 on 2026-10-26.

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Check yourself: common questions

Who is my U.S. senator?

Your senator is one of the two people shown for your state on the senate.gov list. Open the senate.gov list from the links in this tool to see both names.

Name your U.S. representative.

Your answer is the name of the representative shown for your address on the house.gov page. This is an answer that depends on where you live, so it will vary from person to person.

Can’t find your senator?

Recheck the senate.gov senators list, which shows every current senator by state. If your state does not show two names, make sure you chose the correct state; a seat can be briefly vacant. Then use the official contact page to confirm the office-holders.

Who does a U.S. senator represent?

A senator speaks for everyone in their state, not only the voters who chose them. That is why your state’s senators are the ones you name on the test.

Do D.C. or U.S. territory residents answer differently?

Residents of D.C. and U.S. territories should say that D.C. (or their territory) has no U.S. senators. For the representative, residents of a territory with a nonvoting Delegate or Resident Commissioner may give that person’s name, and a statement that the territory has no voting representatives is also acceptable.

How many U.S. senators are there, and how many per state?

There are 100 U.S. senators, and each state has two. The number 100 is asked on both lists (2008 Q18, 2025 Q21); two per state is 2025 Q27.

Did the naturalization test change?

Our site uses two lists: the 2008 list with 100 questions and the 2025 list with 128 questions. Your N-400 filing date decides the version (before, or on or after, 20 October 2025). Check the USCIS Test Updates page for current office-holder answers, because they change when officials change.

What is the hardest question on the citizenship test?

USCIS publishes no miss rates, so no single question is provably the hardest. The pass mark is 60 percent in both versions (6 of 10 or 12 of 20) and the officer stops once the result is decided. By our own rules, 26 of the 128 questions on the 2025 list and 22 of the 100 on the 2008 list are flagged as harder; see hardest civics test questions.