In the wake of the three-week internal GOP battle to choose a speaker, a scholar of Congress says that what looks like dysfunction is actually something else.
The U.S. Capitol, where on May 31, 2023, the House passed a debt limit deal on a bipartisan vote.
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The news media spent a lot of time reporting on how much progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans didn’t like the debt ceiling deal. But centrists had enough votes to pass it in the House.
Jahana Hayes (left) and Lauren Underwood were reelected to the House of Representatives.
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Women made gains in Congress this election cycle, but they are still underrepresented compared to their share of the population.
This now iconic picture shows representatives Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They react at a press conference after Trump’s xenophobic remarks.
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In the US, women politicians from minority communities have become the leading faces of a new generation of politicians – one that will drive the 2020 elections.
President Trump told four Democratic Congresswomen of color to ‘go back’ to the ‘corrupt’ countries they came from.
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John M. Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Difficult to pronounce, synecdoche is the form of rhetoric used by President Trump when he told four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “corrupt” countries they came from.
Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at the president’s tweets.
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