WaltUU seeded the article 'House GOP committee chairs named, all white men - Political Eye - CBS News". I found, on Wikipedia, that there are 17 Republican women in the House of Representatives for the 113th Congress of the United States. I also noted their committee assignments, with the exception of the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen & the Honorable Michele Bachmann, most are on subcommittee's which is more like the bottom of the totem pole. Tho, I can understand some being that they are 'Freshman', but the longer term members, well one would think that they would have gotten assignments a bit higher up the ladder.
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1) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (born Ileana Ros y Adato; July 15, 1952) is the U.S. Representative for Florida's 18th congressional district, serving since 1989.
Committee assignments
- Committee on Foreign Affairs (Chairwoman)
2)Jo Ann Emerson (born September 16, 1950) is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district, serving since 1996
Committee assignments
3)Kay Granger (born January 18, 1943), a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas, currently represents the 12th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Republican woman to represent Texas in the House.
Congressional committee assignments
4)Shelley Moore Capito (born Shelley Wellons Moore; November 26, 1953) is the U.S. Representative for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district, serving since 2001
Committee assignments
5)Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn[1] (born June 6, 1952) is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district, serving since 2003
Committee assignments
- Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade (Vice Chair)
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Health
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Vice Chair - Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade)
- Republican Study Committee (former Communications Chair)
- National Republican Congressional Committee (Communications Chair)
6)Candice S. Miller (born May 7, 1954) is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 10th congressional district, serving since 2003.
Committee assignments
- Committee on Homeland Security
- Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security (Chairwoman)
- Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
7)Virginia Ann Foxx (née Palmieri;[2][3] born June 29, 1943) is the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 5th congressional district,
Committee assignments
- Committee on Education and the Workforce
- Committee on Rules
- Italian American Congressional Delegation
8)Cathy McMorris Rodgers (born May 22, 1969) is the U.S. Representative for Washington's 5th congressional district, serving since 2005.
Committee assignments
9)Michele Marie Bachmann (/ˈbɑːkmən/;[3] née Amble; born April 6, 1956)[4] is an American Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Minnesota's 6th congressional district, a post she has held since 2007
Committee assignments
10)Lynn Jenkins (born June 10, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district, serving since 2009.
Committee assignments
She was assigned to the Committee on Financial Services including the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises and the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Jenkins was named to the Ways and Means Committee when the Republicans gained control of the House for the 112th Congress.
She is a member of the Republican Study Committee, Republican Main Street Partnership, and the Tea Party Caucus.
11)Cynthia Marie Lummis Wiederspahn (born September 10, 1954) is the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's At-large congressional district, serving since 2009.
Committee assignments
12)Diane Lynn Black[1] (born January 16, 1951) is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district.
Committee assignments
13)Renee Jacisin Ellmers (born February 9, 1964)[3] is the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district.
Committee assignments
14)Vicky Jo Hartzler[1] (born Vicky Jo Zellmer on October 13, 1960) is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 4th congressional district.
Committee assignments
15)Jaime Herrera Beutler ( /ˈbʌtlər/ BUT-lər;[2] born Jaime Lynn Herrera; November 3, 1978) is the U.S. Representative for Washington's 3rd congressional district. She is a member of the Republican Party, and is the youngest female U. S. Representative
Committee assignments
16)Kristi Noem (born November 30, 1971) is the U.S. Representative for South Dakota's At-large congressional district, serving since January 2011
Committee assignments
17)Martha Dubina Roby[1] (born July 26, 1976) is the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 2nd congressional district.
Committee assignments
They follow in the footsteps of some great Women Republican Legislators though not in the same way: There are more but they also as Congressional persons represented All of the American Public. Something that not only the Ladies of Congress but the Gentlemen need to be reminded of on occasion. :)
Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who was one of the first women to serve in the United States Congress.
Rogers was regarded as capable by her male peers, and became a model for younger Congresswomen. Her trademark was an orchid or a gardenia on her shoulder. She was also an active legislator and sponsored more than 1,200 bills, over half on veteran or military issues. She voted for a permanent nurse corps in the Department of Veteran's Affairs, and benefits for disabled veterans and veterans of the Korean War.
In 1937 she sponsored a bill to fund the maintenance of the neglected Congressional Cemetery, even though her husband was placed at rest in their hometown. She opposed child labor, and fought for "equal pay for equal work" and a 48 hour work week for women, though she believed a woman's first priority was home and family. She supported local economic autonomy; on April 19, 1934 she read a petition against the expanded business regulations of the New Deal, and all 1,200 signatures, into the Congressional Record.
Rogers was an advocate for the textile and leather industries in Massachusetts. She acquired funding for flood control measures in the Merrimack River basin, helped Camp Devens become Fort Devens, Massachusetts in 1931, and was responsible for many other jobs and grants in the state.
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Frances Payne Bolton (March 29, 1885 – March 9, 1977), born Frances P. Bingham, was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio.[1] She was also the oldest woman to date to serve in the House of Representatives.
In 1955, she became the first American woman member of Congress to head an international delegation, using her own resources to fund it. As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's subcommittee on Africa, she felt it was her responsibility to visit as much of Africa as possible.
In addition to influencing US relations with Africa, another of Bolton's most lasting achievements was sponsoring legislation to purchase property across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.[8] This prevented commercialization of the area and preserved its appearance as it was when Washington lived there. Bolton had a phenomenal relationship with her constituents of Italian-American heritage and was known for mailing government child-care pamphlets to homes where new children were born. The nursing school at Case Western Reserve University is named in her honor for her accomplishments and generosity in the field of public nursing.[9]
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Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative (1940-1949) and a U.S. Senator (1949-1973) from Maine.[1] She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either.[2]
During her tenure in the House, Smith developed a strong interest in issues concerning the military and national security. After being appointed to the House Naval Affairs Committee in 1943, she was assigned to the investigation of destroyer production, and made a 25,000-mile tour of bases in the South Pacific during the winter of 1944.[5] She also became the first and only civilian woman to sail on a Navy ship during World War II.[14] She became known as "Mother of the WAVES" after introducing legislation to create that organization.[15] A supporter of President Harry S. Truman's foreign policies, she was mentioned as a possible candidate for Under Secretary of the Navy in 1945 and for Assistant Secretary of State in 1947.[5] Smith became a member of the House Armed Services Committee in 1946, also serving as chair of its Subcommittee on Hospitalization and Medicine.[9] In this position, she sponsored and ensured the passage of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, a bill to regularize the status of women in the armed forces that was signed into law by President Truman in June 1948.[9]
Smith was sworn into the Senate on January 3, 1949.[1] Less than a year in office, she gained national attention when she became the first member of Congress to condemn the anti-Communist witch hunt led by her fellow Republican Senator, Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.[14
Smith was the first (and as yet only) woman to serve as chair of the Senate Republican Conference, serving from 1967 to 1972.[1] She voted against President Nixon's unsuccessful nominees to the Supreme Court, Clement Haynsworth in 1969 and G. Harrold Carswell in 1970.[17] She was a strong supporter of the space program and served as a charter member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Committee.[17] NASA administrator James E. Webb once commented that the United States never would have placed a man on the Moon if it were not for Smith.[23] She supported increased educational funding, civil rights, and Medicare.[9] She held an all-time voting record in the Senate until 1981 with 2,941 consecutive roll call votes.[23]
