Women make up 28% of voting members in the 119th Congress – on par with their share in the last Congress, but a considerable ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Former Rep. Beverly Byron posed for a ...

Beverly Byron, who represented Western Maryland ... the House Armed Services Committee, she was also a trailblazer for other women in the national security arena.” In 1984, she married former ...

As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

Kaylene Smikle scored 23 points and Saylor Poffenbarger added 16 to lead No. 21 Maryland women’s basketball ... State GOP House members call Democrats ‘reactionary’ in response to DOGE ...

Arriving in Congress in 1979, Mrs. Byron was one of 16 women then serving ... political campaigns in Maryland. Mrs. Byron was married in 1986 to B. Kirk Walsh, a former assistant secretary of ...

Many sitting members of Congress ... women who come to work every day, and these are not Democratic jobs or Republican jobs. These are American jobs," said U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Maryland.

WASHINGTON—During his first term, Republican President Donald Trump often boasted about the outsized number of conservative ...

But it’s the elected Black members, particularly Black ... activism and leadership of elected Black women in Congress at this moment, as the loss of former Vice President Kamala Harris to ...

Michael Missal, the former Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs who was dismissed by Trump (along with 16 ...