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The package also establishes new House offices: the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which will help House members recruit, develop and retain a diverse workforce; and the Office of the Whistleblower
House Democrats pointed to the VAWA expiration as an argument against the government shutdown on Twitter.
-elect Ilhan Omar was elected CPC whip. Pocan currently co-chairs the CPC with Arizona Rep. Raúl M.
Members of the CBC are expected to chair five House committees and 28 subcommittees in the next Congress. Bass was first elected to her Los Angeles-area seat in 2010.
The California Democrat is running unopposed for speaker, the top leadership post in the House.
Hats have been banned from the House chamber of the Capitol for nearly two centuries — 181 years, to be exact.Â
The incoming class of Democratic women also increased the diversity of the House.
At least 96 women running for the House have won their races, shattering the previous record of 84 women in the House. Eighty-three of the women who won were Democrats.
. | Now that she’s helped Democrats win the House majority, Nancy Pelosi’s bid to reclaim the speaker’s gavel is officially underway.Â
The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Tlaib becomes the first Muslim-American won elected to Congress — along with Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar — after she faced only token opposition in Michigan’s heavily
Those include New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Massachusetts’ Ayanna Pressley, Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar and Connecticut’s Jahana Hayes.Â
So far this cycle, four House incumbents have lost primaries. In addition to Crowley and Capuano, Republicans Mark Sanford and Robert Pittenger also got booted this year.
Tuesday’s primary action in the Upper Midwest and New England set the fall matchups in a handful of key House races and one competitive Senate contest.Â
wrote that he discovered a video on his mother’s computer that showed Ellison “dragging my mama off the bed by her feet, screaming and calling her a ‘f—ing bitch’ and telling her to get the f— out of his house
The most interesting contests are in Wisconsin and Minnesota, which both hold primaries for Senate and for several competitive House seats.
Ilhan Omar, a first-term state representative, is the party-endorsed candidate and a crowd-rousing progressive firebrand.
Ilhan Omar, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party-endorsed candidate and a freshman Minnesota state representative, did not comment directly on the allegations Monday, saying she was reserving her opinions
Ilhan Omar, who earned the state party’s endorsement for Minnesota’s 5th District in June, paid $2,250 in legal fees in 2016 to Kjellberg Law Office, a firm specializing in family and divorce law
Ilhan Omar at a special convention Sunday in her bid to succeed Rep. Keith Ellison.
Former state House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, state Sens. Patricia Torres Ray and Bobby Joe Champion, and state Rep.