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4 days ago · Spurred by Hill’s testimony in 1991 (and by the treatment she received from male Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee), an unprecedented number of Democratic women ran for Congress, which led to the election of 28 new congresswomen (4 to the Senate and 24 to the House of Representatives) in 1992, consequently dubbed “the Year of the ...
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2 days ago · In 1934, Rush D. Holt Sr. was elected to the Senate at the age of 29; he waited until he turned 30 (on the next June 19) to take the oath of office. In November 1972, Joe Biden was elected to the Senate at the age of 29, but he reached his 30th birthday before the swearing-in ceremony for incoming senators in January 1973.
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4 days ago · Recent News. United States Senate, one of the two houses of the legislature ( Congress) of the United States, established in 1789 under the Constitution. Each state elects two senators for six-year terms. The terms of about one-third of the Senate membership expire every two years, earning the chamber the nickname “the house that never dies.”.
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5 days ago · 9 MIN READ. May 23, 2024. In 2018, in the first midterm elections after Donald Trump won the presidency, the United States experienced a surge in women running for and winning elected office. It wasn’t a fluke. The phenomenon continued with the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, and today the number of women in Congress is at an all-time high ...
6 days ago · Jorgensen is currently the female candidate with the second-most votes in a general election, having received nearly 1.9 million votes in 2020. Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president and the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history.
2 days ago · George H. W. Bush. Republican. Elected President. Bill Clinton. Democratic. The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot ...
3 days ago · Women casting their votes in New York City, c. 1920s. Nineteenth Amendment, amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States that officially extended the right to vote to women. Opposition to woman suffrage in the United States predated the Constitutional Convention (1787), which drafted and adopted the Constitution.
