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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]
Jul 25, 2024 · WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05) introduced the Shrinkflation Reduction Act, aimed at enhancing pricing transparency for consumers and combating the deceptive practice of shrinkflation.
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.
Aug 21, 2024 · Ilhan Omar (born October 4, 1982, Mogadishu, Somalia) 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.
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).
Aug 13, 2024 · Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, the progressive lightning rod whose unabated criticism of Israel has deepened the fissures in the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza, won her primary on...
Aug 14, 2024 · Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., fended off several primary challengers on Tuesday, a victory for progressives after two of her fellow members of the “squad” suffered defeats this summer.
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.
Aug 13, 2024 · AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference, May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the progressive ...
Feb 2, 2023 · House Republicans voted for Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota to be removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee over past comments about Israel that were widely condemned as antisemitic.