According to the Pew Research Center, 28% of the members of the 118th Congress are women — the most ever.
, 28% of the incoming lawmakers in Congress are women, which is the most ever. Those 153 members, which include some non-voting roles, compare to 96 in the Congress that ended in 2013.Among those lawmakers is Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, who is now the longest-serving woman in Congress' history. She was first elected in 1983 -- 40 years ago.In the Senate on Tuesday, another woman broke a barrier when Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
after being sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first woman, first Black person and first person of Asian descent in her role.Before Tuesday, the last time a vote for House speaker took multiple rounds and multiple days was 1923, when Frederick Huntington Gillett was elected in late December of that year.has been stymied so farMost GOP members support him, but some hardliners have alternatively backed Reps.
Meanwhile California and Oregon saw or will soon see the swearing-in of their first Latino and Latina lawmakers elected in Congress: Democratic Sen. Alex Padillo and Reps. Andrea Salinas, a Democrat, and Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer, respectively.
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