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Additionally, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donna Shalala became, respectively, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and the oldest woman to be elected to Congress for the first time. [36] [37] Also in 2018, Jacky Rosen became the first sitting female House one-termer to be elected to the Senate. [38]
The Blue Dog Coalition, commonly known as the Blue Dogs or Blue Dog Democrats, is a caucus of moderate members from the Democratic Party in the United States House of Representatives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The caucus was founded as a group of conservative Democrats in 1995 in response to defeats in the 1994 elections .
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.
The number of women in Congress is decreasing but not by much. Overall, 150 women will serve on Capitol Hill in the new Congress, down from the record of 152 set in 2024. ... Democratic women in ...
As of January 2025, 64 women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress, of which 26 (16 Democrats and 10 Republicans) are currently serving (out of 100 possible seats). Nancy Kassebaum (born July 29, 1932) is the oldest living former female member of the Senate at the age of 92.
Duckworth is the first Thai American woman elected to Congress, ... in the 116th Congress and the most effective Democratic senator ... that moderate Republicans, who ...
Gluesenkamp Perez holds a town hall in Stevenson. Gluesenkamp Perez campaigned as a moderate Democrat, supporting both abortion rights and Second Amendment rights.She emphasized her focus on small businesses, job training, local issues such as the timber industry, and expressed opposition to political extremism.
According to CAWP, in 2022 the number of Democratic women who ran in congressional primaries was 1.2 times greater than the number of Republican women who ran (354 Democratic women and 299 ...