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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of January 20, 2025, the 119th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
A record-breaking 103 women were elected or reelected to the House, causing many to call it the "Year of the Woman" in a reference to the first such year, the 1992 Senate elections. [31] [32] [33] Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland became the first Native American women ever elected to either house of Congress. [34]
House Yes 12.6* 41 Mike Kelly: Republican Pennsylvania: House Yes 12.4* 42 Mike Conaway: Republican Texas House No 12.4* 43 Ralph Abraham: Republican Louisiana: House No 12.4* 44 Markwayne Mullin: Republican Oklahoma Senate [a] Yes 11.4* 45 Ann Wagner: Republican Missouri: House Yes 11.1* 46 Jackie Speier: Democratic California House No 11.0 ...
The number of women who will serve in Congress and governorships mostly held steady, though a slight decline in women elected to the House was the unsurprising outcome of a lackluster showing by ...
Two women wielded House gavels in the 118th Congress. But the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Cathy McMorris Rodgers is retiring, while the Education Committee’s Virginia Foxx is term-limited ...
Frank came out as gay in 1987 and in 2012 became the first member of Congress in a same-sex marriage. [4] [22] [23] Steve Gunderson: Republican: Wisconsin: January 3, 1981: January 3, 1997: 16 years, 0 days Gunderson was outed as gay on the floor of the House in 1994, Gunderson was the first openly gay Republican to be reelected after being ...
No women will lead a House committee for the first time in two decades after House Republicans revealed their list of committee leaders for the 119th Congress on Thursday. The 17 standing ...
This is a list of Muslim members of the United States Congress. As of 2025, only six Muslim Americans have ever been elected to Congress, the first being Keith Ellison in 2006. [1] Five Muslims currently serve in Congress, all in the House of Representatives. All but one are members of the Democratic Party.