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5 days ago · Recent News. Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968, Bangkok, Thailand) American politician who was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 2016 and began representing Illinois the following year. She previously was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (2013–17).
2 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.
4 days ago · Upon her inauguration to the U.S. House of Representatives, she became the first African refugee and one of the first two Muslim American women to be elected to Congress and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota. Early life and education. Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, the youngest of seven children. Her mother died when Omar ...
1 day ago · Barbara Jean Lee (née Tutt; born July 16, 1946) is an American politician and social worker who has served as a U.S. representative from California since 1998. A member of the Democratic Party, Lee represents California's 12th congressional district (numbered as the 9th district from 1998 to 2013 and as the 13th district from 2013 to 2023), which is based in Oakland and covers most of the ...
2 days ago · The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton, represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway, was elected from Arkansas in 1932. Sixty women have served in the upper house of the United States Congress since its establishment in 1789.
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1 day ago · The House of Representatives originally comprised 59 members. The number rose following the ratification of the Constitution by North Carolina and Rhode Island in 1790; the first Congress (1789–91) adjourned with 65 representatives. By 1912 membership had reached 435.
3 days ago · Jiawei (Joyce) Zhang. New York City is the location of a new food festival and it will be the first ever one centered on Thai cuisine. The inaugural Thai Fest will take place on Saturday, April 20 ...
