About 20 percent of the federation's 13.1 million members call themselves Republicans.

And 80 percent of the union's nearly 2,000 members could not vote, because they live outside Hartford.

In 1992, they never got more than 83 percent of their members to vote with the party on a budget or tax measure.

"I'd be surprised if more than one or two percent of our members have been women."

Last year, 54 percent of our new members were under 35.

About 90 percent of the group's members are in the party, just slightly less than the figure for the Congress as a whole.

Three percent of the department's approximately 11,500 members are black.

"About 25 percent of our members are women, but the number is growing every year," he said.

Ten percent of the organization's 500 members, she observed, are men.

And now about 25 percent of our members are women.