After days of false starts, the House voted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the 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” of the nation those bodies are. The figures around gender, race and religion are notably different from the broader American population.
Let’s start with the most obvious difference, gender. Women make up about half of the employed workforce in the United States and they make up more than half of the U.S. population overall, but they still lag in representation in Congress. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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