Women make up more than a quarter (28%) of all members of the 118th Congress – the highest percentage in U.S. history and a considerable increase from where things stood even a decade ago. Counting ...

Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as its new speaker, and the 118th Congress was sworn in. But the demographic makeup of the new House and Senate may raise some questions about how truly “representative ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Now that the U.S. House finally has a speaker, the 118 th Congress can get ...

This analysis is part of Pew Research Center’s work to analyze the demographic makeup of the U.S. Congress. To determine the number of LGBTQ lawmakers in the 118th Congress, we used data from the ...

The 118th session of Congress was one of the most chaotic and partisan-plagued sessions of Congress in recent political history, particularly among Republicans in the lower chamber. The House ...