1. South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace
2. Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro
DeLauro surprised Congress by getting a tattoo at age 80, after one of her six grandchildren convinced her to get matching tattoos for her 18th birthday.
The design features a rose, representing her first name, and a petal in the center forms the letter “D” for her last name. It also includes a stylized version of Italy, a tribute to the country from which her father emigrated, said Daniel Robillard, DeLauro’s press assistant.
Robillard said this is her first tattoo, but she’ll probably get more.
“I have four more grandchildren who are not yet 18,” she said. “So stay tuned for more new tattoos!”
3. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman
Fetterman revealed to NBC that, as of 2022, he had nine tattoos on his right forearm alone.
“Each one is a day that someone died violently in Braddock, Pennsylvania, while I was mayor,” he wrote.
One of his first tattoos reads 01.06.06, the date ‘Christopher Williams was shot and killed while delivering pizza.’
“He was a man my age at the time. He had a 12-year-old daughter. I couldn’t get over the fact that I was never going to come home to her,” she said.
Fetterman also has Braddock’s ZIP code, 15104, tattooed on his right arm.
4. Former Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims
Sims, a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, has a tattoo running along the inside of his arm that spells out a Ben Franklin quote: “Be civil to all; congenial to many; familiar to few; friend to one; enemy to none.”
“I represented a good part of Ben Franklin’s first district when he was the first Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,” he wrote in X. “Here are some of his first words as Speaker (in the New Farmer’s Almanac source).”
5. Former Governor Sarah Palin
The former Alaska governor has a small tattoo on the inside of her right forearm, which has been captured in her Instagram posts. It is not clear what it says.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate also reportedly has a tattoo of the Big Dipper on her ankle.
6. Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn
7. Virginia Senator Danica Roem
Roem has an equal rights amendment tattooed on his arm, According to the Washington Post.
The former journalist said she “always wanted to get a tattoo at some point” and that it was a “very special moment” for her to get the tattoo the day before the final vote.
Roem, a transgender woman, said her “core belief is equality for all” and that it is “genuinely and literally a part of me.”
8. Former California Representative Duncan Hunter
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