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Pelosi stresses the importance of electing women, love of children at POLITICO summit
There are currently 20 women serving in the U.S. Senate and 78 in the House. Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House. …
Nancy Pelosi opens front on women’s economic issues
Insisting that the conference table set with flowers was incomplete without bowls of San Francisco’s Ghirardelli chocolates, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi laid out her new “When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families” Thursday to a room of female reporters, promising that she would rather have Republicans “join us in …
Rep. Jackie Speier outs obscene Marine Facebook page
Amid the sudden uproar over sexual assaults in the military following a Pentagon report Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were assaulted last year, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, released portions of a Facebook page, “F’N Wook,” denigrating women in the Marine Corps. In a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Marine Corps Commandant …
Diversity in action: Straight white men are a minority among House Democrats
For the first time in history, there will be a minority of straight white men in the House Democratic caucus. …
It’s the year of the woman again, at least in Congress
In January, Washington will welcome a record number of women to Congress exceeding the storied Year of the Woman of 1992 when five women were elected to join two other women serving on Capitol Hill. The opportunity to elect female legislators arrives every 10 years with redistricting when new seats open up. A record 20 […] …
Big night for women; rape comments hurt GOP
What a night for female candidates. And that extends beyond the most widely known woman who was running for office Tuesday, Massachusetts Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren. As Kathryn Schulz, a book reviewer for New York Magazine, tweeted: “Elected to the Senate today: the first disabled woman, first openly lesbian woman, first Asian woman. Binder full of […] …