Stephen Johnson — Here's How Various The 116Th Congress Is Laid Upwards To Become

• In Total, Almost Half of the Newly Elected Congressional Representatives Are Not White Men.
• Those Changes Come Almost Entirely From Democrats; Republican Members-Elect Are All White Men Except for One Woman.

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• LGBT breakthroughs include Democrat members-elect Sharice Davids (D.-Kan.), the offset LGBT Kansan elected to Congress, together with Kyrsten Sinema (D.-Ariz.), the offset openly bisexual soul e'er elected to the U.S. of America Senate.
• The offset Muslim women were elected to the House: Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.), a Somali-American, together with Rashida Tlaib (D.-Mich.), a Palestinian-American.
• Two novel Native American women were elected to the House: Deb Haaland (D.-N.M.) together with Sharice Davids (D.-Kan.).
• Ayanna Pressley (D.-Mass.) is the offset dark adult woman elected to Congress inward Massachusetts.
• Sylvia Garcia (D.-Tex.) is the offset Latina to stand upwardly for Texas inward the House.

The Democratic Party is starting to genuinely similar America. The GOP, non together with then much — inward fact, non at all.

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Here's how various the 116th Congress is laid upwardly to become

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