Cherokee Nation is looking to make good on an over 200-year-old promise from the United States government. In the 18th and 19th centuries there were treaties signed between the two parties promising Cherokee Nation a seat at the table—with its own delegate in the House of Representatives. Earlier this month, Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. made…
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In the weeks leading up to the swearing-in ceremony of the 116th United States Congress, Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) shared a teaser of what her constituents could expect to see on that first day on Capitol Hill. “Sneak peek: This is what I am wearing when I am sworn into Congress,” she wrote on Instagram,…
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Rashida Tlaib has her new commute timed: It takes about an hour and a half to fly from Washington, D.C., to her hometown of Detroit. The pomp and polished marble of the U.S. Capitol might seem a world away from Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, one of the poorest in the nation. Yet when Tlaib—who won…
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The end of 2013 government shutdown started with pizza, wine, and 20-ish frustrated female senators. It was Aaron Sorkin–esque, except zero men were present. By the first week of October, the partisan battle had dragged Washington to a halt. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D–N.H.) invited the women to her office to discuss a plan to reopen…
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Bust out those record books again: As of this week, more women have now won nominations for the House of Representatives than any other time in U.S. history. There’s also a new record for female governor nominees in a single year, and a progressive lawyer from Michigan could become the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress.…
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A snippet of video on Twitter suggests Liuba Grechen Shirley’s kids had a pretty good time at Thursday’s Federal Election Commission hearing. Their mom, though, may just have had a better one: In a groundbreaking unanimous decision, the commissioners of the FEC ruled Grechen Shirley can use campaign funds to defray the costs of child…
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