The History of Women in Public Office
By Madison Troyer, Stacker News
On 2/28/21 at 7:00 AM EST
On Jan. 20, 2021, a new chapter in American history began when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the country s first female vice president, were sworn into office. Harris role in the position is certainly monumental, but her nomination, while significant, was not a first. That honor, of being the first woman nominated by the Democratic party for the role of vice president, belongs to Geraldine A. Ferraro. In 1984, Ferraro, a congresswoman from Queens, strode on stage alongside Walter F. Mondale to accept the nomination, telling attendees at the Democratic National Convention, If we can do this, we can do anything. While the duo lost to Reagan, the
Weeks before the 1980 census officially began, the Federation for American Immigration Reform launched its campaign to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that, according to the Constitution, must include the whole number of persons in each state. Image: Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Even before taking office, former President Donald Trump s administration obsessed over the U.S. census.
From a failed bid for a citizenship question to a presidential memo about unauthorized immigrants that was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, its moves over the past four years followed a playbook first drawn up more than four decades ago by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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When House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz’s final term ended Jan. 6, he quickly landed a big-time lobbying job and joined a parade across the decades of former speakers and other ex-leaders, who’ve capitalized on their contacts and knowledge of government operations to make lots of money influencing legislative and executive-branch decisions.
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