A team of congressional women played members of the press in a softball game Wednesday night in an annual event that seeks to ...

Unlike their male counterparts, whose annual baseball game pits Republicans against Democrats, the congressional women play ...

Team Congress didn’t let a fourth-inning rain cancellation dampen their excitement about a 5-3 lead over the Bad News Babes ...

When the 118th Congress convenes on Jan. 3, 2023, the number of women among its 535 members will inch up by just two – increasing from 147 in 2022 to 149 in 2023. Even though more women than men ...

Becca Balint, a Democrat, is also the first openly gay member of Congress from the state. "Women are not represented to the extent they exist in the population and to the extent they have entered ...

All five out cisgender queer women currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives helped lead Team Congress to ...

The new Congress includes 144 women, a total that surpasses the previous record of 127 women set in 2019, according to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP).. There are 106 Democratic ...

When the 119th U.S. Congress is sworn in on Friday, some of the newly elected women members will be making history. Emily Randall, from Washington’s 6th Congressional District, will be its first ...

Republican women elected as members of the 117th Congress pose on the House floor after taking their oath of office in Washington on Jan. 3. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) ...

The 116th class of Congress broke barriers before its members even set foot in Washington. One example: Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat and the first Somali-American member of Congress ...

Despite holding 29 percent of the seats in today's Congress, women have only 17 percent of committee leadership positions (both chairs and ranking members.) U.S. World ...

Women ran for office before they were given the right to vote, and Jeannette Rankin made history when she was sworn in 106 years ago. ... Prior to Rankin becoming a member of Congress, ...