Meet the New Congress - Page 4

December 28, 2020

Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz, raised in Soviet country, says it's 'crazy' for Americans to want socialism here

Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz grew up in Soviet-controlled Ukraine and saw the "misery" that occurs when socialism fails. So the incoming GOP representative is alarmed by how the left, especially young people, have embraced socialism here in America as a solution. 

December 26, 2020

Georgia gun store owner elected to Congress takes aim at IRS, firearm laws

Georgia Rep.-elect Andrew Clyde arrived in the nation's capital with the unique distinction of already having federal legislation named after him.

December 25, 2020

Rep.-elect Blake Moore sees 'aspirational, pro-growth and inclusive' GOP 'bursting' with diversity for future

Rep.-elect Blake Moore, R-Utah, said he is "excited to be a part" of where the GOP is headed and lauded the caliber of the other members of his freshman class of Republican representatives. 

December 24, 2020

Democratic Rep.-elect Kai Kahele, combat veteran, says Trump supporters are 'a force to be reckoned with'

As a progressive Democrat who supports the Green New Deal and "Medicare-for-all," Rep.-elect Kai Kahele, D-Hawaii, has had to temper his aspirations for the new Congress. 

December 23, 2020

How do you change the government? Rep.-elect Matt Rosendale, playing the long game, says 'one bite at a time'

Rep.-elect Matt Rosendale, a former state legislator and state auditor who ran for Senate in 2018, compares solving complex policy issues to "a Rubik's cube" and says "I really, really enjoy digging down into the details."

December 22, 2020

Alabama Rep.-elect Jerry Carl wants Americans back at work, in churches: People shouldn't be 'splintered up'

Rep.-elect Jerry Carl says he's a "people person." That's why Carl, a Republican from Alabama, loved "serving the people" in his old job as a county commissioner. It's also why he is so worried about the mental and spiritual health effects of the coronavirus lockdowns.

December 20, 2020

Rep.-elect Nancy Mace still recovering from June coronavirus bout: 'I was really, really sick'

Rep.-elect Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college, still suffers lingering effects from a serious bout of coronavirus this summer and cautions others to take the disease seriously.

December 18, 2020

Kansas Rep.-elect Tracey Mann says US must hold China, others to trade deals for good of farmers

Mann, a Republican, will represent Kansas' expansive 1st Congressional District, known as the "Big First," which has a heavily agricultural economy. The former Kansas lieutenant governor was comfortably elected in November after prevailing in a Republican primary where farm issues took center stage among a field of pro-Trump Republicans. 

December 17, 2020

Rep.-elect Yvette Herrell relates to Trump's voter fraud claims: 'I know exactly what he's going through'

Rep.-elect Yvette Herrell understands the joy of leading on election night and then the sinking feeling of having that advantage slowly erased as mail-in ballots are counted.

December 16, 2020

Wisconsin Rep.-elect Fitzgerald, longtime state legislator, says thin Democrat majority 'game-changer' for GOP

Rep.-elect Scott Fitzgerald, a veteran state legislator from Wisconsin who spent eight years as the Republican leader in the state Senate, is "excited" about what the House Republican minority can do in the next Congress.