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In a June 2016 primary election, as a result of California's recent establishment of the top-two primary, Attorney General of California Kamala Harris and U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez became the first women of the same party to advance to a Senate general election. In November 2016, Harris became the first woman to defeat a woman of the ...
This is the list of women who have served as speakers and leaders of federal, state and territorial legislatures in the United States. ... 2016: January 13, 2020:
Women comprised 20.1% of the membership in the 115th Congress, which had 109 women and 326 men. ... 2016 United States Senate elections; 2016 United States House of ...
The number of GOP women is decreasing in the House and Congress overall but staying the same in the Senate. ... candidates motivated by Trump’s 2016 victory sent 36 non-incumbent women to the ...
2016 United States Senate elections ← 2014 November 8, 2016 December 10 (Louisiana runoff) 2018 → 2017 (AL) → 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate 51 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader Mitch McConnell Harry Reid (retired) Party Republican Democratic Leader since January 3, 2007 January 3, 2005 Leader's seat Kentucky Nevada Seats before 54 44 Seats ...
The first Black woman elected to the Senate, Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1992, served a single term. Harris was the second. ... But unlike 2016, when Hillary Clinton ran for ...
Morning, readers—election results are in with a record for Black women in the Senate, voter support for abortion rights, and the election of Donald Trump over Kamala Harris. Thanks for being ...
President-elect Trump announced the selection of John F. Kelly, retired four-star Marine general as Secretary of Homeland Security on December 7, 2016. [217] He was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 88–11 and sworn in on the evening of January 20. Kelly's term ended on July 28, 2017, following his appointment as White House Chief of Staff ...