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"A house divided against itself cannot stand.", opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's famous 1858 "A House Divided" speech, addressing the division between slave states and free states in the United States at the time. "Four score and seven years ago...", opening of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. [3]
The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023. There were seven new senators (two Democrats, five Republicans) and 74 new representatives (34 Democrats, 40 Republicans), as well as one new delegate (a Republican), at the start of its first session. Additionally, three senators (two Democrats, one Republican) and nine representatives ...
War on women – phrase used to describe certain Republican policies and legislation that restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights including abortion; We are the 99% – slogan coined and widely used during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street; the slogan refers to income and wealth inequality in the United States
House of Representatives: Republican/NPL: January 3, 1933: January 8, 1935: 2 years, 5 days Consuelo N. Bailey Vermont: House of Representatives: Republican: January 8, 1953: January 6, 1955: 1 year, 363 days Marion West Higgins New Jersey: House of Representatives: Republican: January 12, 1965: January 11, 1966: 364 days Edness Kimball Wilkins ...
This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of November 13, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
In 1917, Montana was the first state to send a woman to the House of Representatives and to Congress; in 2023, Vermont became the most recent state to send its first woman to the House, and in 2025, North Dakota will do the same to Congress. Women have also been sent to Congress from five of the six territories of the United States; the final ...
After Roe. v Wade was overturned, former Miss America Cara Mund is running to become North Dakota's first woman in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In January 2023, at the beginning of the 118th Congress, she was one of 20 far-right Republican members who prevented the election of Kevin McCarthy to the House speakership on the first 14 ballots. [113] In February 2023, Boebert co-sponsored a bill to designate the "AR-15-style rifle" the National Gun of the United States. [114] [115]