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- DictionaryChair·wom·an/ˈCHerˌwo͝omən/
noun
- 1. a woman chosen to preside over a meeting.
- 2. a woman who is the administrative head of a department of instruction at a college or university. US
4 days ago · Elise Marie Stefanik ( / stəˈfɑːnɪk / stə-FAH-nick; born July 2, 1984) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district. As chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, she is the fourth-ranking House Republican.
1 day ago · The indictment charges the named defendants with nine counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery for claiming to be the legitimate presidential electors from Arizona, pledged to Trump, in place of the 11 Biden electors who were chosen by voters. Biden beat Trump by less than 11,000 votes out of almost 3.4 million cast in Arizona in 2020.
3 days ago · Women have served in the United States House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the United States Congress, since 1917 following the election of Republican Jeannette Rankin from Montana, the first woman in Congress. [1] In total, 376 women have been U.S. representatives and seven more have been non-voting delegates.
1 day ago · 0. The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while ...
1 day ago · The subject of the various definitions of the term “awe” (and its overuse or perhaps misuse in dialogue today) will be the subject of a future column. But the events of April 8 perhaps define the term and allow it to be absorbed directly into consciousness.
2 days ago · Rosenworcel issued her Net Neutrality draft rules on April 4 – a massive, 435-page document with 2,642 footnotes that triggered a lobbying frenzy designed to get the agency to modify the document in ways that could result in billions of dollars shifting from one segment of the industry to another. During the past three weeks, the FCC has been ...
5 days ago · With the recent leaked files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and the newly-published report from the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (commonly referred to as the Cass Review - named after Dr. Hilary Cass, chairwoman of the review board), 2024 looks to be the year where ...
