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Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party. [6]
Feb 2, 2023 · The Republican-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass a resolution to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Jul 2, 2024 · WASHINGTON—Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) led a letter urging President Joe Biden and Attorney General Garland to establish an Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address alarming disparities in violence.
Rep. Omar is the Vice-Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee. She also serves on the House Education and Workforce Committee, where she is a member of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, Pensions (HELP).
Apr 13, 2021 · Who Is Ilhan Omar? Ilhan Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and spent four years in a refugee camp before her family received asylum in the United States.
Jul 2, 2024 · Ilhan Omar is an American policy analyst, organizer, public speaker, advocate, and politician who began representing Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, which includes Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, in 2019. Upon her inauguration to the U.S. House of Representatives, she became the first.
Aug 15, 2018 · Most coverage of Ilhan Omar, the thirty-five-year-old state legislator who won the Democratic primary in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District last night, has focussed on her identity.
Jun 10, 2021 · A US congresswoman has hit back after a rare rebuke from Democratic colleagues over her remarks seeming to liken the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. A dozen Jewish lawmakers called on ...
Nov 9, 2022 · Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress, easily won a third term Tuesday to represent the Fifth Congressional District that includes all of...
Aug 30, 2023 · A slew of party leaders officially endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) reelection bid in statements obtained by POLITICO Wednesday. “Rep. Omar has been elected by her constituents three times ...
