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Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. . The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torra
The “Conga” and “Rhythm is Gonna Get You” singer, a spokesperson for the National Women’s Shelter Network (NWSN), is pushing Congress to pass the Women’s and Family Protection Act ...
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (/ ˌ ɪ l i ˈ ɑː n ə r ɒ s ˈ l eɪ t ən ə n / Il-ee-AH-nə ross LAY-tən-ən; née Ileana Carmen Ros y Adato; born July 15, 1952) is an American politician and lobbyist from Miami, Florida, who represented Florida's 27th congressional district from 1989 to 2019.
Cathy Anne McMorris Rodgers (born May 22, 1969) is an American politician who served from 2005 to 2025 as the United States representative for Washington's 5th congressional district, which encompasses the eastern third of the state and includes Spokane, the state's second-largest city.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. and other top Republican leaders met with Trump his second day in office to map out their plan. It will be a challenge ...
The number of women who will serve in Congress and governorships mostly held steady, though a slight decline in women elected to the House was the unsurprising outcome of a lackluster showing by ...
The five new women were Democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Republican Deb Fischer of Nebraska. Hirono was the first Asian-American woman and first Buddhist in the Senate, and Baldwin was the first openly gay person in the Senate.
Jan.26 -- Christopher Barry, professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, discusses the gender gap in U.S. politics. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu on ...