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A More Diverse Congress
Faces of Congress: (from left) Tammy Duckworth (Senate), Will Hurd (House), and Kamala Harris (Senate)
The 115th Congress, which began this month, is the most diverse in U.S. history, with a record number of Hispanics, blacks, and Asian-Americans serving. Does anything surprise you about the makeup of Congress in 2017? Why?