The 116th Congress will be the most diverse in U.S. history: 126 women will take office, including 43 women of color. Yet, as many have noted, this new diversity is confined to one side of the aisle. The number of Republican women in Congress is actually dropping from 23 to 13. Only one out of 36 fr...
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