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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]
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the highest-ranking GOP woman in the House, is leading a charge to break the record for Republican women serving in the chamber, just six years after a blue wave wiped out ...
The reason the House GOP campaign arm sees veterans, women and minorities as key to the party’s success is because they tend to outperform the top of the ticket in suburban swing districts ...
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 117th United States Congress began on January 3, 2021. There were six new senators (two Democrats, four Republicans) and 60 new representatives (15 Democrats, 45 Republicans) at the start of the first session. Additionally, three senators (all Democrats) and 16 representatives (six Democrats, ten Republicans) took office on various dates in order to fill vacancies during the 117th Congress ...
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is focusing on women candidates to boost her party’s efforts to retake control of the House, predicting that the number of Republican women in the House will jump ...
Herrell has marked many firsts: she is the first Republican Native woman elected to Congress, the first Cherokee woman, [7] the third Native American woman, and the second Native woman from New Mexico elected to the House. [8] She was the only Republican member of New Mexico's congressional delegation during the 117th Congress and the last ...
More Republican women than ever are running for the House in 2020. "My grandmother was the first woman ever elected to Dallas City Council and that was in 1957, so I have been around trailblazing ...