The Black Texas Congresswoman Who Took On Nixon

It’s still considered one of the great American political speeches. “My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total,” Barbara Jordan thundered. “‘We, the people.’ I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.” Jordan, a Black congresswoman […]

GOP congresswoman Martha McSally beats back challengers in Arizona primary, but her embrace of Trump’s agenda could be risky

Nicole Neri/Reuters Republican Rep. Martha McSally beat back conservative challengers for her party’s nomination in a crucial Senate race in Arizona. She will face Kyrsten Sinema, a well-funded moderate Democratic congresswoman. McSally embraced Trump and his agenda, despite his hard-line immigration policies that could alienate an evolving voter base in the state. Arizona voted for Trump […]

Could She Be the First Native American Congresswoman?

OZY first published this profile in September 2017. On Tuesday, June 5, Haaland won her Democratic primary election — putting her in prime position to make history this fall in the mostly blue seat. Deb Haaland seems most at ease when she’s pacing the hallways of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Striving to […]

Suspicious packages sent to military facilities, congresswoman

Police are investigating a “suspicious brown substance” found in an envelope sent to the office of a congresswoman in New Hampshire. Separately, the FBI is examining suspicious packages delivered to US military facilities. The package arrived at the office of Democratic Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter in Dover on Monday afternoon. Staff alerted the police as soon […]

United Apologizes to Passenger Who Says Seat Was Given to Congresswoman

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Vulnerable Republican congresswoman from the state where the GOP just got clobbered says she isn’t changing her game plan for 2018

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democrats dominated the counties in Virginia’s 10th congressional district during the election Tuesday night. Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock, who represents Virginia’s 10th district, has several challengers looking to unseat her in 2018. But she is not looking at a change in strategy, focusing on the Republican tax reform effort and other economic […]

How Trump’s wild 8-day feud involving Gold Star families and a Florida congresswoman unfolded

Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images It’s been a wild eight days as President Donald Trump has feuded with a Florida congresswoman and a Gold Star family. And the controversy, which has yet to dwindle, began when Trump was asked a week ago why he hadn’t mentioned anything about an early-October ambush in Niger that led to the […]

A Congresswoman Is “Livid” With How Trump Spoke To A Military Widow

“It’s so insensitive. He should have not have said that. He shouldn’t have said it,” the congresswoman told Local 10. Wilson told CNN the president’s call to Myeshia Johnson was held on speakerphone as the family and Wilson were driving to the airport to recover Johnson’s remains. “I asked them to give me the phone […]

Twitter removes tweet by Republican congresswoman who boasts of stopping ‘the sale of baby body parts’ in Senate campaign video

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Senate campaign announcement ad has been blocked by Twitter over a statement the abortion rights opponent makes about the sale of fetal tissue for medical research. Blackburn, who is running for the seat being opened by the retirement of Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, boasts in […]

Could She Be the First Native American Congresswoman?

Deb Haaland seems most at ease when she’s pacing the hallways of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Striving to become the first native U.S. congresswoman in America, the 56-year-old’s eyes grow wide when she sees a traditional Pueblo kitchen, the kind she peeked into as a child, watching her mother and grandmother cook […]